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Hillbilly Jim Reveals His Real Relationship With Hulk Hogan: PRIME TIME VAULT

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports News, Sports, News, Wrestling

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

PRIME TIME VAULT: Hillbilly Jim reveals his real relationship with Hulk Hogan in WWE in this exclusive Sean Mooney interview. In this in-depth wrestling history conversation, Hillbilly Jim opens up about backstage stories, locker room politics, and what Hulk Hogan was really like behind the scenes during the height of Hulkamania.

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0:00.0

When I started this podcast, you were right on my list of guests that I wanted to get on.

0:05.5

And it just took me a little while to track you down.

0:08.1

And I finally got a phone number.

0:09.9

I don't know where it ended up coming from.

0:13.6

And it just so happened to be that week I was calling you was when it was announced that you were going to be inducted into the

0:21.4

WWE Hall of Fame and I'm thinking oh great now he's going to think the only reason I

0:25.2

calling him is because he got this great honor but that absolutely wasn't the case and I

0:31.1

think you knew that anyway but the timing of it was was perfect and I can't tell you enough

0:36.5

how awesome I i think that

0:39.7

is that you are now a member of the w w e hall of fame well thank you sir those words coming

0:46.2

from you mean everything and uh your time and any time you call me whenever sean would

0:50.9

have been fine it just happened to be a great week on that deal.

0:57.0

And, you know, I miss talking to you, and I'm glad we reconnected.

1:01.5

And I'm hoping maybe, as we move forward on this primetime show,

1:04.6

maybe I get to come back and do it again with you because, you know,

1:07.2

for your friends out there that don't know,

1:29.0

Sean Mooney was on the fast track to be the announcer in the WWF if he wanted to have been, if he wanted to stay there. And I had the wonderful privilege of kind of being around him when he first come in. He was all bright out and bushy-tailed. And, boy, I tell you what, we had some good times. We shot. Yeah, we absolutely did. Now, we've got a lot of ground to cover because there's a lot I want to talk to you about,

1:36.2

but I want to start with, we'll work our way backwards here because I had the chance to go to New Orleans and spend the week there with my son, and it was just, it was really an awesome

1:42.9

couple of days there. Actually, we really an awesome couple of days.

1:44.5

Actually, we were there for about five days.

1:47.3

But I wanted to first get your take on that whole week.

1:52.6

And, you know, what it really meant to you to be recognized by the WWE?

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