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Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Hillbilly Jim: PRIME TIME VAULT

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports, Sports News, News, Leisure, Wrestling

4.8761 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2020

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

We open Mooney's Vault to relive another legendary conversation as WWE Hall of Famer, Hillbilly Jim, joins the show! Jim talks about growing up in Kentucky and excelling in basketball. He recounts how he got into wrestling, being discovered by Jerry "The King" Lawler, and his meteoric rise to the top of pro wrestling. Plus, what his relationship was like with Andre the Giant and Hulk Hogan, transitioning away from in-ring competition, Legends House, and more!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right.

0:01.2

Let's get to it.

0:03.1

I was very excited about talking my old pal, Hillbilly, Jim.

0:07.9

But, you know, when we first got back in touch a weeks ago, he had just gotten the call that he was going to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.

0:17.5

And you know how crazy it gets around that period of time.

0:20.8

And on top of that, you know, I it gets around that period of time and on top of that you

0:22.3

know I wanted to know how that experience was going to go so instead of having the conversation

0:27.5

then I said let's wait until after the induction ceremony so that he could tell us all about it

0:33.4

along with of course his other great memories of a very memorable career in professional

0:39.5

wrestling.

0:40.4

And that is exactly what we did.

0:43.6

Ding, ding, ding.

0:49.3

Folks, my guest here on Primetime Sean Mooney was not only a tremendous superstar with the WWF,

0:56.3

WWE, but he was also really an ambassador.

1:00.3

It remains to this day for that company.

1:03.6

And I was fortunate to have an opportunity to spend a lot of time with him when I was working for the WWF.

1:12.3

And Hillbilly Jim, Jim Morris, thank you so much for coming on.

1:16.4

We really did have a good time back in the day.

1:18.6

How are you, my friend?

1:20.2

Sean, it's good to be on this program, and boy, you know you have evoked some memories

1:24.7

in me because I remember both of us many years ago,

1:28.3

we were both considerably younger, man, and it's done me so much good to know you reached out

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