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The Steve Austin Show

Superstar Bill Dundee - SAS CLASSIC

The Steve Austin Show

PodcastOne

Society & Culture, Comedy, Sports, Wrestling, Talk Radio

4.88.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Bill Dundee is a Memphis wrestling legend and one of the early influential figures in Steve's pro wrestling career. Join Steve and Bill as they talk about Bill's decades-long feud with Jerry Lawler, becoming the "Superstar," the origins of the Thesz Press, having a big house in Memphis, territory stories and the epic Tupelo Concession Stand Brawl of 1979!

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0:00.0

The following program is a podcast one.com production from Hollywood, California by way of the broken skull ranch. This is the Steve Austin show. Give me a hell, yeah.

0:10.0

Yeah. Now, here's Steve Austin.

0:15.0

Hi, I'm sitting here talking to the one and only superstar Bill done me. Hey, Bill.

0:20.0

Hey, man, where are you? Where am I talking to you? Are you right outside of Memphis Tennessee right now?

0:24.0

Yeah, in Germantown.

0:26.0

How did you end up over there? After all these years, all the journeys from Scotland, all Australian and all the time that I met you and worked with the

0:34.0

in Tennessee, did you end up where you're at?

0:36.0

Well, I lived in a Hendersonville with a baby's mom for 49 years before she got tired of me, so that I'm trying to ex-nade that.

0:46.0

Then I gave it to try it again.

0:50.0

So I lived in Lexington, Tennessee, and I didn't work out too good, so then I tried it again and lived in Memphis.

0:59.0

So I thought I didn't work out too good, so I'm trying to turn 4th time and down here in Germantown.

1:04.0

Now, why did they run you out of Lexington? Well, who was it the law or nice wife?

1:10.0

That's right. Well, I mean, I guess they just left, you know, how do you deal with them in your day, right?

1:17.0

Or try the relationships? I think the only difference between being nice and just being together is a piece of paper.

1:23.0

Oh, I kind of agree with you. I tell you what, I certainly had a few go-rounds with the marriage divorce cycle myself.

1:31.0

It's easier said than done, especially when you come from the business that we come and the business to pro-Russell, entertainment, whatever.

1:38.0

You got that much hassle. You have that much travel, that much... God dang, distractions. Let's call it.

1:46.0

Yeah, anything can happen today. It's certainly not making it easy, and the travel is what it is.

1:51.0

You want to buy your family nice things that you have to be gone every day to do it, you know what I mean?

1:56.0

You can't be home and make money too. Not in our business anyway.

1:59.0

Hey, well, what are you doing right now? Because last time I talked to you about a week ago, and I heard you was back with the circus.

2:05.0

Of course, you started in the circus way back in the day. So, are you back with co-brother circus?

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