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Lanny Poffo Opens Up on His Brother Randy Savage & Life Behind the WWF Curtain: PRIME TIME VAULT

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports News, Sports, News, Wrestling

4.7797 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

In this exclusive Prime Time Vault episode, Lanny Poffo opens up about his brother “Macho Man” Randy Savage and what life was really like behind the scenes in the WWF. From Randy’s intense dedication and private personality to the realities of locker room politics, creative decisions, and surviving in Vince McMahon’s WWF system, Lanny shares personal stories you won’t hear anywhere else.

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0:00.0

This is a prime time with Sean Mooney production. Now it's time to get to the best part of this podcast, the conversation, as I like to refer to it. Now, when you think of my guest this week, the first word that comes to my mind is unique. There is certainly no one like him back then or to this day among the ranks of superstars in the 80s and the 90s.

0:24.0

It is great to welcome Lanny Pafo to the podcast.

0:27.4

Lanny, thanks for coming on.

0:28.8

It's been a while.

0:30.6

I am the genius full of glory and renown, and this is my chance to live in the past.

0:37.2

I was hoping you would start with a poem or something.

0:40.1

You know, I always wished, Lannie, that somehow I would be included in a poem back then, but I never quite made it.

0:45.9

So, you know, maybe, you know, in the future here, at some point, you can write one up for me,

0:51.5

and then I will be able to put it on the podcast and say that I finally

0:55.0

had a genius, the genius, comprise a poem for me.

1:00.6

So maybe you can do that.

1:01.8

Put that on the list.

1:02.6

I'm going to do such a good interview for you that you're going to demand me to come back and then I'll write you that poem.

1:08.9

Okay.

1:09.4

That's a deal right there

1:11.3

you know lannie you had a few gimmits gimmicks along the way but you know uh you were best

1:17.1

known as leaping lanny popfo and then of course the genius and you know i have to say

1:22.2

watching you work back in the day i know all of that wasn't a work. I mean, I remember you had this

1:29.2

incredible ability, a great memory that you could recite these incredibly long monologues.

1:37.0

I mean, were you, did you have this really high IQ that, you know, that it wasn't just a gimmick,

1:46.6

or have a high, an high IQ, I should say.

1:53.9

Well, when you compare me to guys like, well, I don't want to speak all over the dead,

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