Exclusive Interview: Sean Mooney On Life After WWE, Podcasting, MLW Radio, Conrad Thompson & More

by Darren Paltrowitz

So ultimately is there anything you haven't yet done in your career that you're still hoping to?

Sean Mooney: There's nothing I would like better than if my job was to do two podcasts a week and be able to work out of my home and be able to do shows know centering around the podcast and make appearances here and there. I'd love to be a part of Starrcast forever, those kind of events taking place. But I'm about 60 now... I wouldn't want to travel every week again. I did that and I think that the perfect job for me is that I could do two podcasts that were wildly-successful, I'd be a very happy man and be able to live here in Tucson.

So it sounds like there's not gonna be a tell a tell-all book in your career coming up anytime soon.

Sean Mooney: I don't know. They've approached me several times because not only did I have a really really fun time, interesting life with the WWF, and other things I've done, but you know I had this whole other career. I kind of look at it as when I was with Major League Baseball Productions and I did an interview a few weeks back and the guy was asking questions and all of these memories of the stuff we got to do.

Here I was this 24-year-old kid, I was producing highlight films for the [Los Angeles] Dodgers and and traveling around.I did a show called the Greats Of The Game with Tim McCarver and we went Joe Lavine, who is a documentarian, he was the guy that produced all of the HBO Sports, those unbelievable documentaries on Howard Cosell and Joe Lewis and all those...

Well, he was my producer partner and we literally packed up, we didn't have a cameraman. We took a camera and lights and didn't know what the hell we were doing, and this is back in the old three-quarter inch tapes and you plugged them into the deck. We went around and interviewed all of these Hall Of Famers all over the country. And it was just the stuff that happened when we were there. It just was phenomenal and here we are in these dugouts...

I said I'd love to write a book. I would just call it Boys In The Dugout, because that's what we did. We got to go and travel to all of these different ballparks and we were in the dugout with these guys and interviewing them and doing films. It was just a crazy crazy time and all those memories started coming back. That's a book in itself... I'd love to tell a lot of stories with Ted Williams and I spent a few days over in Dallas with Mickey Mantle and Tim, and it just crazy stories that happened, so maybe one day. Maybe.

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Darren Paltrowitz is a New York resident with over 20 years of entertainment industry experience. He began working around the music business as a teenager, interning for the manager of his then-favorite band Superdrag. In the years following, he has worked with a wide array of artists including OK Go, They Might Be Giants, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Loudness, Rachael Yamagata, and Amanda Palmer. Darren's writing has appeared in dozens of outlets including the New York Daily News, Inquisitr, The Daily Meal, The Hype Magazine, All Music Guide, Guitar World, TheStreet.com, Format Magazine, Businessweek, The Improper, Chicago Tribune, the L.A. Times, and the Jewish Journal. Darren is also the host of the "Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz" podcast, as co-produced with PureGrainAudio. He is also the author of two published books, including 2018's "Pocket Change: Your Happy Money" (Book Web Publishing) and 2019's "Good Advice From Professional Wrestling" (6623 Press).