October 9, 2025 • 38 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Bruisers podcast bout Beer, Coffee, Booze and Bruisers.
(00:23):
I am your host, Rody John and today we talked
to Atomic Jason Exile. We talked about his journey into wrestling,
mystery wrestling itself, and so much more. You were not
gonna want to miss this episode. Jason is absolutely doing
fantastic things up in Canada and you definitely want to.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Check it out.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
So, without further ado, here is Atomic Jason Exile.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I would like to welcome the show Atomic Jason Exile.
How are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Very well, very well. Thank you for having me, Thank
you for being here.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So for those listen, kind of painis a word picture.
Where are you at? What's going on around you?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm in kind of the media slash music area of
my place. I've got my two guitars behind me. I've
gotten back into playing music after some time away. I've
got a print of Princess Mononoke up on the wall,
(01:27):
which is my favorite animated film of all time. And
then just next to it, assigned eight by ten of
Big Papa Pump Scott Steiner.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
WHA tell us your Scott Steiner story.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I don't really have any stories. As far as like
crossing paths or anything like that. I just saw the
Steiner math promo when I was in I think high school,
and something about it just always stuck in the back
of my mind. I've never forgotten it.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I don't think anybody who has seen it should ever
forget it. And if you have forgotten it, I hope
that you know your recovery from your brain trauma is
getting better. No way that anybody could forget that. I
used to have this this shirt that barbershop window put out.
It was like literally the math equation and it was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Well, let's go over the chance there's a kinetic typography
video of somebody typing it out on like a keyboard
and like a chalk font. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I will have to look that up after this. That
sounds awesome. Well, let's go all the way back in time.
What is your earliest memory of pro wrestling.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I'm not exactly sure. A lot of members of my
family were wrestling fans growing up. My mom and both
of my grandmothers used to trade tapes constantly. Wow, I
remember around the time that the nWo was a thing. Okay,
(03:04):
I used to watch like a lot of like the
episodes of Nitro that my mom had taped because I
wasn't allowed to watch the WWF growing up, so I
missed like the entire Attitude era all that, but I
watched a lot of like Nitro. I watched a lot
of the Cruiserweight matches, and seeing stuff like that was incredible.
(03:30):
I was always like a fan of superheroes as a kid,
and watching these guys do all these crazy like dives
to the outside and Hurricane Rona's off the top rope
and stuff like that, it was like watching superheroes in
real time.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You're not wrong, And so many of them were obviously
inspired by superheroes as well. We saw what ray Masterio
did later with it. I think it was WrestleMania series
of him always being a different superhero, and so they
obviously very much inspired as well. So I mean it
made sense that you were inspired by them by the
fact that they were just real life superheroes. Sorry, no,
(04:11):
you're fine. When did you realize that there was more
wrestling out there? So hold on your Your parents wouldn't
let you watch WWF at the time, but then they
were tape trading just WCW or were they tape trading
other things as well?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Those were the ones that I was mostly exposed to. Okay,
I'm sure other like tape trading went on. My mom
had like a huge collection of like Saturday Night's main
events and like older WWF and my grandmother on her
side of the family was like a big Awa fan.
(04:49):
I'm not sure whatever happened to those tapes, but I
know she was like a big Edward Carpontier fan. But
a lot of that stuff kind of before or my era,
I wasn't really exposed to as much.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Right, Well, when did you realize that there was other
wrestling out there that you were actively trying to consume.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I would say that was probably around high school. I
stopped watching wrestling after WCW went under because I still
was not really we weren't a WWF household, so like
that that was right out. But somewhere in high school,
maybe like grade ten, grade eleven, I saw like an
(05:35):
ad for WrestleMania and decided to like watch that year's edition.
I think it was like WrestleMania twenty four or five,
and that was kind of what sparked, or I guess
reignited like my interest in wrestling because after that I
(05:57):
started consuming like as much as I could find on YouTube.
I just watched like all these different clips, all these
different matches from like Ring of Honor and Chikara and
a bunch of like indies that were just kind of
popping up on YouTube a lot, and.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
It it It was different because it wasn't the same
as like what I saw on TV, but at the
same time, it had.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Its own sort of aesthetic and style that I just
really fell in love with. It wasn't just like the
Hulk Hogans and the Rocks and Rock Lessner's and John
Cena's doing stuff. It was it was you know, ice
cream men and guys with no shoes on and like
(06:52):
crazy hair stapling people and stuff like that, and it
just introduced me to this whole wild world that I
never knew existed, and I've just been obsessed with it
ever since.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
That is wild that you basically missed it. I mean,
there was that little bit of a loll period of
wrestling because of the fact that you know, WWF did
buy WCW and then obviously ECW as well, and then
TNA starts and the Ring of Honor starts, and then
they got to get their footing underneath them. But then
by the time you got back into it, Ring of
(07:29):
Honor was you know, kicking off like on high gear.
TNA was doing well, and like you said, your car
was around. So that's interesting that you missed that entire
a little bit of a loll period and then once
you did get back in, it was just like, you know,
a full blaze. Yeah, that's that's fun because it, yeah,
you got it on the end that it was starting
(07:50):
to really be good. I mean, plus WrestleMania twenty four
that's the one with Sean and Flair, or unless it
was twenty five, which was in Houston, which was my
first WrestleMania and I've been to i think sixteen now yeah,
minus twenty twenty. But yeah, so that's crazy. Yeah, I
love what the whole you know, just the WrestleMania weekend
(08:12):
basically because we have so much of the independent wrestling
and so much of the you know, wrestlers from around
the world coming in and working these shows. It's just
a Again, if you are a fan of wrestling and
you don't want to go to WrestleMania because again it's
very expensive.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Absolutely all of there's.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
So many shows that you could go to that you
are going to love wrestling no matter what, and obviously
the conventions and you'll probably run into at least ten
to fifteen wrestlers on the minimum just walking around in general.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Absolutely, absolutely, there's there's all kinds of stuff every Maybia
weekend like, and it's worth taking a chance on. You'll
you'll find something that will catch your interest. I I'm
certain of it.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yes, Well, when did you realize that this is what
you wanted to try to do as well?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I think I think it was going to my first
indie show. I watched a lot of like indie stuff
through like the Internet and YouTube and stuff like that,
but the very first indie show I went to was
Smash Wrestling in twenty sixteen. Okay, and seeing it on
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like a screen is one thing, but seeing it happen
in front of you close up is an entirely different thing.
And I remember watching the matches and just thinking like
I have to find some way to do this, Like
I gotta get involved somehow. I'd been to like tapings
(09:47):
of like Raw and SmackDown in the intervening years between
going to this show and like being a kid and stuff,
But it's not the same thing. It's a completely different vibe.
It's a completely different experience, and I just knew like
I had to get involved somehow. It wasn't something that
(10:11):
that happened right away from me, but I think that
was sort of the spark or like the beginning of
my involvement with wrestling.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, once, once you go to a live show, it's
very easy to get bit by that bug of like,
oh yeah, I got to come back to these Well,
when you actually got in, who were some of the
veterans that kind of helped you along the.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Way as far as like wrestling is concerned, or like training?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Well, I mean, yeah, we'll start with training. Where did
you get trained at?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So? I trained at the Keep, which is run by
Evil you know, and Stu Grayson. We also have James Stone,
Michael Vaughan, Payton, and Cecil Nicks as instructors there. It's
a really great school. I had a very good experience
training there. I still train there. It's just a really
(11:04):
positive environment, a really great team, and I can't say
enough good things about it.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Well, once you actually did start wrestling, who were some
veterans that you kind of shared a locker room? With
and you were able to pick their brains.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I would say the dark Horse, Dexter Doom. He's a
wrestler local to Ottawa. He is somebody that I look
up to a lot, somebody that I'm always kind of
bouncing ideas off of and trying to see, like just
(11:39):
just what he thinks. And I think that I think
that I've learned a lot from him in the time
that I've known him, and I look up to him
a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I love that well. When it comes to being a
wrestler and putting moves together and you know, getting a
mooseet together, when you get to try some things to
take things out, put things in. When you came up
with your move set, I mean obviously it's still evolving.
What were some things that you tried initially that you're like,
I don't know about that, but now it's part of
your repertoire. And then what were some things that you're like, oh,
(12:15):
never mind, I'm not doing that one again.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I'm still constantly tweaking my move set. I try really
hard to find stuff that fits with my gimmick. Some
moves while really cool and really technically like and aesthetically pleasing, right,
I don't really think fit with a guy who lives
(12:43):
in like a post apocalyptic wasteland. So I have to
be like a little bit, I guess pickier about what
I do. I'd say right now, something that I've found
that's kind of stuck is I do a lot of
like head butts, like like a battering ram style to
(13:03):
the stomach, and I use that to set up a
lot of moves, and I think that just kind of
fits as far as like stuff that I've tried that
hasn't really worked out for a long time. When I
was training, I really wanted to try a moon salt,
and I ended up just starting from the ground on
(13:24):
a crash pad without like going to the top rope
or anything like that. And I tried a couple of
times and I landed like kind of on the back
of my neck and head. I was fine, but I
was like this, this is not for me. I'm not
a moon salt guy.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, And like you said, if your post apocatalyptic, they're
not exactly doing a lot of moon salts.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
No, probably not.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah, Well, how did the idea come up? You know,
being a with the gimmick and everything. For those who
haven't seen kind of walk us through what Atomic Jason
Exile is.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
So when I was first training and trying to figure
out a gimmick, I wasn't really sure what to do.
And people always say, like, the best gimmicks are the
gimmicks that are just you, like dialed up to eleven.
So it's not even really like a gimmick at all,
it's just you at like a million percent, right. I
(14:31):
really like a lot of post apocalyptic media, like the
Fallout games and like the Mad Max films. And before
I had made my debut, maybe a couple months beforehand,
I was rewatching Mad Max Fury Road and I see
that scene where the guy's on top of the truck
(14:53):
during like the chase during the storm, and he jumps
off the truck and shouts. Witnessed me and I knew, like,
I've got it, you know what I mean. Being somebody
who is like a little bit smaller and also bald,
I was like, this is it. I know what I
(15:16):
have to do. So there's definitely a lot of inspiration
that I take, especially from like those films, but I've
tried to tweak it and make it a little bit
more my own. As time has gone on.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I love it too, because no one else is doing
that kind of gimmick.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Right now at all, not really no, Like.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, so the fact that you are doing it is
even better. Have you gotten in contact.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
With Brian Clark at all, Brian Clark, Adam Baum, Adam
Bam No, I have not cross paths with him as
of yet. I hope that he is okay with me.
Maybe maybe stealing a little bit of the homework with
the goggles.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Well, I mean, he's not using it, so I feel like, yeah, Plus,
I think that would be fun just to bring him
in as like either a feud or even maybe as
your father.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
That'd be a fun little thing that would be incredible. Yeah,
I would love that.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
We're gonna We're gonna put out in the universe. Brian Clark,
if you're listening, first off on the podcast, second off,
please make this happen to where you are the father
of Atomic Jason Xel.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
We need this to app manifesting.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yes, we're manifesting it now. Speaking of Evil Uno and
everything you wrestle for Mystery Wrestling, I've lost everything I've
been seeing from Mystery Wrestling, and for those who haven't
seen Mystery Wrestling, first off, go follow them on all
your social media's and definitely subscribe on YouTube. But walk
(17:02):
us through what Mystery Wrestling is and then tell us
some of the experiences you've had there.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Mystery Wrestling is unlike any other wrestling promotion in the world.
It's just this crazy multiverse of insane characters and just
like I can't even really explain it, just anything can happen.
(17:30):
You have no idea what will happen. It's it's I've
never seen a show in which a conspiracy theorist and
a sas squatch and a hot dog man and a
(17:51):
hot dog seller have all been in combat together. I've
like how how I was. I was trying to explain
this to a friend recently about what mystery is and
what it's like, and it just it's unlike any other
(18:15):
entertainment I think in the world. It's just it's it's
a crazy cast of characters. It's just a bizarre series
of events unfolding in front of you. And like it's
just a fun atmosphere. It's a fun vibe. Everybody has
a great time the whole show long, and and every
(18:38):
once the show I personally feel once the show is over,
I'm always looking forward to the next one. I'm like,
I can't wait to see what happens. It's just an
incredible experience and I'm really fortunate and blessed to be
involved with it in any capacity.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah. I had Katrina Creed on a couple of months
her last month and she was talking I think, yeah,
she was on the Longest Match or the world's longest match.
Was part of that twenty four hour live stream? Yes,
were you part of that as well?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yes? I was also there. How was that it was?
It was something that I'm really proud to be a
part of. I don't know that I could ever do
a match of that length. Again, I'm really glad for
having done it. It was a really fun experience and
(19:32):
it was a really great crew involved all in that.
But it was it was a very long match. We're
all exhausted by the end.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Well, would you kind of compare it to maybe like
a Shaikhara type situation.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I would definitely say that there are similarities. Yeah, I
think like there's definitely kind of that zaniness that you
Sara had back in the day. As far as like
gimmicks and characters are concerned, I don't I don't know that.
(20:09):
If that, I would say that it's it's uh like
a one and one though, well, no, no, no, no, I
know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
If I guess the same way, you could compare I
guess GCW to ECW with the totally different styles and
then obviously you do have the death matching. But but
I think mystery wrestling is probably closest to what a
Shakar was in the early two thousands, I.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Would say, so, yes, it has a very similar vibe
that way.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, I love it and I can't wait to see
what else happens for mystery wrestling. And again, I think
more people need to be paying attention to it because
it's so much fun and even more fun than prog
wrestling already should be.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I agree wholeheartedly like it, just it's it's unlike anything else.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yes, Well, if people have never seen you wrestle before,
what are three matches they should go out of your
way to see.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I would say the matches that people should watch, and
I guess that I would point them towards would probably
be definitely the twenty four hour love stream at Fighting
Back or four Fighting Back. Rather, there's a lot of
incredible moments with that. There were sword fights, there were
(21:32):
attempted bucket murders, there were swords and card games and
just all kinds of craziness involved with that. If I
could suggest to others, I would say probably my very
(21:54):
first match, which was at C four Wrestling for Fighting Back.
I think it was twelve.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Wow. Okay, that was.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
An incredible experience and it's it's like a match that
I'll always remember. It was really nerve wracking before I
went out, but I had a lot of fun. It
was a great match, and there's nothing like standing on
(22:31):
the top rope shouting witnessed me and then diving off
into a crossbody on somebody like that feeling will stay
with me for the rest of my life. I think
it was incredible. And then lastly I did a match
for Loot zero set inside of a brewery, and I
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guess I was just kind of inspired by Stone Cold
Steve Austin. Maybe is the word that I'll use. Okay, uh,
And I did a stunner, which was a lot of
fun for the first time. I would pour people to
those three I.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Think those are great. Now. Show days give me long days.
What are some standards that you always have in your bag.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
For me. I always got to have an energy drink
of some kind, makes sense. I've started doing a thing
where I'll have like a monster with somebody else and
we'll like cheers and take a picture. I'm not really
sure why. It's just something I started doing and I'm
trying to make it like a thing. But I always
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got to have like a monster, preferably the guava flavor. Okay,
that's that's the best one.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
That's a new one too.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yes, got to have that. Always got to have wrisk tape. Yes,
I'm constantly like running out and and always trying to
not be that person that's like, hey man, can I
borrow some risk tape? Hey?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Brother?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Those are the two big ones I would say, Do
you have a doubles stick tape story? I don't know
if I have one story in particular. I will say
that I do tend to borrow when I'm when I
am that guy who needs some risk tape, I do
(24:30):
tend to get some from my my friend and fellow
wrestler Xander O'Ryan quite a bit. Shout out to Xander O'Ryan.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
For always having the tape.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
He's always got my back, He's he's a great guy,
a great wrestler, and he always has some tape well
as m Well.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Again, like so, the Canadian scene is obviously so different
on one coast to the next, same thing here in America.
For those that aren't tapped into what's happening up in Canada,
can you tell us some people that we should be
looking at for besides obviously.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yourself, people that you should be looking out for. I
would say, number one, you got to keep your eye
on Junior Benito. He's the champion at C four Wrestling.
Incredible guy, incredible wrestler, always super positive. I would also
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say you got to check out his tag team partner
McCray Martin, also somebody I get along with, very well,
incredible wrestler. The way he incorporates like dancing and wrestling
together is unlike anybody that I've ever seen. I'd also
(25:55):
say you have to watch Hattie, who is low cool
to the Ottawa gat No scene. He's an a tag
team with dark Horse Dexter Doom. They're the tag team
champions of like four or five different promotions, and he's
he's the way that he has blended mixed martial arts
(26:17):
and professional wrestling together into like a hybrid style is
really interesting and really cool and and he's one of
my best friends in wrestling, and I think more people
need to know his name.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
That's awesome. I love that. Well, how does it because
we always hear kind of horror stories of Canadians trying
to work in America and it's easier for Americans to
work over in Canada. Have you kind of dealt with
that or how do you kind of or do you
work in America.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I haven't wrestled outside the country as of yet. Future
goals though, right, but I haven't run into any problems
like that. I've mostly wrestled in the Ottawa Gatino region.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Again, we're manifesting and you're just going to be wrestling
all over the place next year. Yes, well, I mean,
speaking of which, twenty twenty six is right around the corner.
Are you somebody that does make list or things that
you obviously want to accomplish or you just you know,
kind of barrel forward and you know, almost hope for
the best.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I think the idea of having like a resolution can
be tricky because so many times people are like, I'm
going to do this, and I'm going to do that,
and then it ends up falling through. So I try
to have sort of abstract goals with not necessarily a
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concrete timeline, because then it's not necessarily something that will
fall through, and it's something that I can still work
towards without having that sort of additional pressure of like
I have to do it by X, Y and Z day,
you know what I mean. Yeah, so I would I
would say I'm more of like a bullet points for
(28:15):
like the next couple of months or like next six
months at a time, is how I look at things.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
That's a really good way of looking at it too,
because like you said, there are so many people that
you know, first of the year, I'm basically going to
be an entirely different person. It's like, well that's not
how that works first off, and so again you are
trying to put too much on your plate and then
so many things to just fall off or you'll just
go back into bad habits or whatever it is. So
I like that you were working, you know, like you said,
(28:43):
bullet points and then all right, we'll do six months
at a time and we'll see where we are there
and we'll go from there.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Exactly. You got to have like the small the small goals,
the small steps that compound into like the bigger distances.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Yes, without a doubt. Now, as much as this is
a physical where it's also a mental one. What kind
of mental workouts do you kind of like to do
with yourself?
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I think getting out of your head can be really beneficial.
It is for me, so like I'll try to like
take a walk outside or like be in nature when
I can. Beyond that. Something that I picked up during
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the pandemic but I found really useful as like an
ongoing thing is like stoic philosophy. I read the meditations
of Marcus Aurelius during the pandemic, and I found that
really beneficial as far as managing like uncertainty and just
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you know, the the way that life can ebb and
flow and change all the time. And I think that
can apply to wrestling to it. Everything is constantly in
a state of flux. You're moving from one thing to
the next, right you never know what's going to happen.
And I think finding a way to manage those concepts,
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especially if you're somebody who deals with like anxiety for instance,
or something like that, can be super beneficial.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Oh I love that too, Yeah, people can spend too
much time in their own brain, and that could be
a lot of a lot of danger for some people.
But if you do are if you are able to
take yourself out of it all, you realize, Okay, we're good,
We're gonna be okay. We just have to get you know,
focused and figure it out.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Well.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I have a segmentary show. I call it the five Count.
It's just five random questions. Okay, what song do you
car karaoke to?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
That's a tough one. It depends on who I'm driving with.
But I will say a lot of the time when
I'm traveling through shows, it's often with Hattie and we
listen to a lot of like early two thousands WWE
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entrance themes fun. Oftentimes it will be John Cena's theme.
Will will end up blasting that. Sometimes also Mark Henry's theme.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Oh the three six Mafia.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yes, yes, it's always like that. That's sort of like
two thousand and two to like two thousand and seven
time frame, and it's just a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I mean, there's a lot of bangers back then, So yeah,
I get that absolutely. Number two, if you owned a
liquor company, brewery, winery, coffee shop or dispensary. Which one
would you own? And what would the name be?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Hmm, I'm not really somebody who drinks alcohol, so it
would probably be some type of like coffee shop or cafe.
I think i'd call it maybe like Exiles Espresso ooh okay.
And it would have to be like suitably wasteland themed,
(32:27):
like instead of like your like Dunkin Donuts or like
Tim Horton's if you're in Canada, cup Like it would
be some kind of stylized cup that looks like a
tin can or or something like that, just just to
keep the theme, to stay on brand, you.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Know, right, and like, yeah, the walls need to be like,
look they've just been burnt or like if there was
a wallpaper it was like half torn or whatever.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Yeah, exactly exactly you see the vision.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah, I'm trying to think this seat situation just because
people get annoyed if the seats aren't full seats, but
like it's true they have like maybe one has one
arm and one doesn't, or like some of the back
is missing but you could still sit in it. I
don't know's there's ways to play with this.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I like that absolutely.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Yeah. Number three, Who is the last person you fan
boyed out on?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Who is the last person I fan boyd out on?
I'd have to say it probably Eddie Kingston.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Oh yeah, I get that.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
He was somebody that I watched a lot during sort
of that earlier phase of my life when I was
first getting into indie wrestling on like Ring of Honor
and Chakara and stuff like that, And it was kind
of surreal going from being a fan and seeing like
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somebody who I enjoyed, like seeing them on and well,
I guess the Internet in this case, but like just
seeing somebody on a screen versus seeing somebody in reality,
you know what I mean. Yeah, from two different phases
of your life and being in the same place at
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the same time was kind of surreal. Yeah, I think
that that is how I would answer that.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
There we go. Number four, Who are what inspireship?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
There's a lot of potential answers I could give to
that one, but I would have to say, without a doubt,
the person who's had the most impact on my life
would be my grandfather. He was always one of my
biggest supporters, and he was just an incredible guy. He
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grew up in the Great depression and worked for like
thirty six years as a nickel minor in northern Ontario,
and he always he always had like this this never
say die attitude. It didn't matter what life threw at him.
He always he always just rolled with the punches. And
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he's not with us anymore, but he always encouraged me
to just keep moving forward. And if I wanted to
do something that in life, there are no dress rehearsals,
and to just go for it. And that kind of
informs how I live my life, both inside the ring
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and out.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
That's perfect.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Well.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Speaking of which number five, what would you tell your
seventeen year old.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Self, I'd say two things. I'd say that you should
trust your instincts because no one person has all the answers.
And don't be afraid to take risks. Just jump in
the worst. That like, you can do anything that you
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want to do if you're willing to put one hundred
percent to it.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Yes, Now, if people want to find out more about you,
follow you online, go see you live, how can they
do all the things?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
I'm on a couple of different social media platforms. I
don't unfortunately, have the same username. A few people have
stolen the handle. You can find me on Instagram at
Atomic Exile all lowercase, all one word. On Blue Sky
you can find me at Atomic Exile all one word,
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dot bsky dot Social. On x or Twitter you can
find me at Atomic Xile p W. And on Twitch
you can find me at Atomic Exile all lower case,
all one word underscore.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
I love it. Thank you so much for your time.
This has been so great. I can't wait to see
what it obviously next year holds for you, and again
I would love to have you back anytime.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Absolutely, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Thank you so much for Jason for being on the
show again. If you're in the Canadian area, or just
check them out online, Atomic Jason Xile absolutely doing fantastic
things now. While you're checking him out, make sure to
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Welcome to Bruisers podcast bout Beer, Coffee, Booze and Bruisers.
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I am your host, Rody John and today we talked
to Atomic Jason Exile. We talked about his journey into wrestling,
mystery wrestling itself, and so much more. You were not
gonna want to miss this episode. Jason is absolutely doing
fantastic things up in Canada and you definitely want to.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Check it out.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
So, without further ado, here is Atomic Jason Exile.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I would like to welcome the show Atomic Jason Exile.
How are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Very well, very well. Thank you for having me, Thank
you for being here.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So for those listen, kind of painis a word picture.
Where are you at? What's going on around you?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm in kind of the media slash music area of
my place. I've got my two guitars behind me. I've
gotten back into playing music after some time away. I've
got a print of Princess Mononoke up on the wall,
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which is my favorite animated film of all time. And
then just next to it, assigned eight by ten of
Big Papa Pump Scott Steiner.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
WHA tell us your Scott Steiner story.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I don't really have any stories. As far as like
crossing paths or anything like that. I just saw the
Steiner math promo when I was in I think high school,
and something about it just always stuck in the back
of my mind. I've never forgotten it.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I don't think anybody who has seen it should ever
forget it. And if you have forgotten it, I hope
that you know your recovery from your brain trauma is
getting better. No way that anybody could forget that. I
used to have this this shirt that barbershop window put out.
It was like literally the math equation and it was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Well, let's go over the chance there's a kinetic typography
video of somebody typing it out on like a keyboard
and like a chalk font. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I will have to look that up after this. That
sounds awesome. Well, let's go all the way back in time.
What is your earliest memory of pro wrestling.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I'm not exactly sure. A lot of members of my
family were wrestling fans growing up. My mom and both
of my grandmothers used to trade tapes constantly. Wow, I
remember around the time that the nWo was a thing. Okay,
(03:04):
I used to watch like a lot of like the
episodes of Nitro that my mom had taped because I
wasn't allowed to watch the WWF growing up, so I
missed like the entire Attitude era all that, but I
watched a lot of like Nitro. I watched a lot
of the Cruiserweight matches, and seeing stuff like that was incredible.
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I was always like a fan of superheroes as a kid,
and watching these guys do all these crazy like dives
to the outside and Hurricane Rona's off the top rope
and stuff like that, it was like watching superheroes in
real time.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You're not wrong, And so many of them were obviously
inspired by superheroes as well. We saw what ray Masterio
did later with it. I think it was WrestleMania series
of him always being a different superhero, and so they
obviously very much inspired as well. So I mean it
made sense that you were inspired by them by the
fact that they were just real life superheroes. Sorry, no,
(04:11):
you're fine. When did you realize that there was more
wrestling out there? So hold on your Your parents wouldn't
let you watch WWF at the time, but then they
were tape trading just WCW or were they tape trading
other things as well?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Those were the ones that I was mostly exposed to. Okay,
I'm sure other like tape trading went on. My mom
had like a huge collection of like Saturday Night's main
events and like older WWF and my grandmother on her
side of the family was like a big Awa fan.
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I'm not sure whatever happened to those tapes, but I
know she was like a big Edward Carpontier fan. But
a lot of that stuff kind of before or my era,
I wasn't really exposed to as much.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Right, Well, when did you realize that there was other
wrestling out there that you were actively trying to consume.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I would say that was probably around high school. I
stopped watching wrestling after WCW went under because I still
was not really we weren't a WWF household, so like
that that was right out. But somewhere in high school,
maybe like grade ten, grade eleven, I saw like an
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ad for WrestleMania and decided to like watch that year's edition.
I think it was like WrestleMania twenty four or five,
and that was kind of what sparked, or I guess
reignited like my interest in wrestling because after that I
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started consuming like as much as I could find on YouTube.
I just watched like all these different clips, all these
different matches from like Ring of Honor and Chikara and
a bunch of like indies that were just kind of
popping up on YouTube a lot, and.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
It it It was different because it wasn't the same
as like what I saw on TV, but at the
same time, it had.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Its own sort of aesthetic and style that I just
really fell in love with. It wasn't just like the
Hulk Hogans and the Rocks and Rock Lessner's and John
Cena's doing stuff. It was it was you know, ice
cream men and guys with no shoes on and like
(06:52):
crazy hair stapling people and stuff like that, and it
just introduced me to this whole wild world that I
never knew existed, and I've just been obsessed with it
ever since.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
That is wild that you basically missed it. I mean,
there was that little bit of a loll period of
wrestling because of the fact that you know, WWF did
buy WCW and then obviously ECW as well, and then
TNA starts and the Ring of Honor starts, and then
they got to get their footing underneath them. But then
by the time you got back into it, Ring of
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Honor was you know, kicking off like on high gear.
TNA was doing well, and like you said, your car
was around. So that's interesting that you missed that entire
a little bit of a loll period and then once
you did get back in, it was just like, you know,
a full blaze. Yeah, that's that's fun because it, yeah,
you got it on the end that it was starting
(07:50):
to really be good. I mean, plus WrestleMania twenty four
that's the one with Sean and Flair, or unless it
was twenty five, which was in Houston, which was my
first WrestleMania and I've been to i think sixteen now yeah,
minus twenty twenty. But yeah, so that's crazy. Yeah, I
love what the whole you know, just the WrestleMania weekend
(08:12):
basically because we have so much of the independent wrestling
and so much of the you know, wrestlers from around
the world coming in and working these shows. It's just
a Again, if you are a fan of wrestling and
you don't want to go to WrestleMania because again it's
very expensive.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Absolutely all of there's.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
So many shows that you could go to that you
are going to love wrestling no matter what, and obviously
the conventions and you'll probably run into at least ten
to fifteen wrestlers on the minimum just walking around in general.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Absolutely, absolutely, there's there's all kinds of stuff every Maybia
weekend like, and it's worth taking a chance on. You'll
you'll find something that will catch your interest. I I'm
certain of it.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yes, Well, when did you realize that this is what
you wanted to try to do as well?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I think I think it was going to my first
indie show. I watched a lot of like indie stuff
through like the Internet and YouTube and stuff like that,
but the very first indie show I went to was
Smash Wrestling in twenty sixteen. Okay, and seeing it on
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like a screen is one thing, but seeing it happen
in front of you close up is an entirely different thing.
And I remember watching the matches and just thinking like
I have to find some way to do this, Like
I gotta get involved somehow. I'd been to like tapings
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of like Raw and SmackDown in the intervening years between
going to this show and like being a kid and stuff,
But it's not the same thing. It's a completely different vibe.
It's a completely different experience, and I just knew like
I had to get involved somehow. It wasn't something that
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that happened right away from me, but I think that
was sort of the spark or like the beginning of
my involvement with wrestling.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, once, once you go to a live show, it's
very easy to get bit by that bug of like,
oh yeah, I got to come back to these Well,
when you actually got in, who were some of the
veterans that kind of helped you along the.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Way as far as like wrestling is concerned, or like training?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Well, I mean, yeah, we'll start with training. Where did
you get trained at?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So? I trained at the Keep, which is run by
Evil you know, and Stu Grayson. We also have James Stone,
Michael Vaughan, Payton, and Cecil Nicks as instructors there. It's
a really great school. I had a very good experience
training there. I still train there. It's just a really
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positive environment, a really great team, and I can't say
enough good things about it.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Well, once you actually did start wrestling, who were some
veterans that you kind of shared a locker room? With
and you were able to pick their brains.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I would say the dark Horse, Dexter Doom. He's a
wrestler local to Ottawa. He is somebody that I look
up to a lot, somebody that I'm always kind of
bouncing ideas off of and trying to see, like just
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just what he thinks. And I think that I think
that I've learned a lot from him in the time
that I've known him, and I look up to him
a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I love that well. When it comes to being a
wrestler and putting moves together and you know, getting a
mooseet together, when you get to try some things to
take things out, put things in. When you came up
with your move set, I mean obviously it's still evolving.
What were some things that you tried initially that you're like,
I don't know about that, but now it's part of
your repertoire. And then what were some things that you're like, oh,
(12:15):
never mind, I'm not doing that one again.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I'm still constantly tweaking my move set. I try really
hard to find stuff that fits with my gimmick. Some
moves while really cool and really technically like and aesthetically pleasing, right,
I don't really think fit with a guy who lives
(12:43):
in like a post apocalyptic wasteland. So I have to
be like a little bit, I guess pickier about what
I do. I'd say right now, something that I've found
that's kind of stuck is I do a lot of
like head butts, like like a battering ram style to
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the stomach, and I use that to set up a
lot of moves, and I think that just kind of
fits as far as like stuff that I've tried that
hasn't really worked out for a long time. When I
was training, I really wanted to try a moon salt,
and I ended up just starting from the ground on
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a crash pad without like going to the top rope
or anything like that. And I tried a couple of
times and I landed like kind of on the back
of my neck and head. I was fine, but I
was like this, this is not for me. I'm not
a moon salt guy.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, And like you said, if your post apocatalyptic, they're
not exactly doing a lot of moon salts.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
No, probably not.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah, Well, how did the idea come up? You know,
being a with the gimmick and everything. For those who
haven't seen kind of walk us through what Atomic Jason
Exile is.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
So when I was first training and trying to figure
out a gimmick, I wasn't really sure what to do.
And people always say, like, the best gimmicks are the
gimmicks that are just you, like dialed up to eleven.
So it's not even really like a gimmick at all,
it's just you at like a million percent, right. I
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really like a lot of post apocalyptic media, like the
Fallout games and like the Mad Max films. And before
I had made my debut, maybe a couple months beforehand,
I was rewatching Mad Max Fury Road and I see
that scene where the guy's on top of the truck
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during like the chase during the storm, and he jumps
off the truck and shouts. Witnessed me and I knew, like,
I've got it, you know what I mean. Being somebody
who is like a little bit smaller and also bald,
I was like, this is it. I know what I
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have to do. So there's definitely a lot of inspiration
that I take, especially from like those films, but I've
tried to tweak it and make it a little bit
more my own. As time has gone on.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I love it too, because no one else is doing
that kind of gimmick.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Right now at all, not really no, Like.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, so the fact that you are doing it is
even better. Have you gotten in contact.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
With Brian Clark at all, Brian Clark, Adam Baum, Adam
Bam No, I have not cross paths with him as
of yet. I hope that he is okay with me.
Maybe maybe stealing a little bit of the homework with
the goggles.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Well, I mean, he's not using it, so I feel like, yeah, Plus,
I think that would be fun just to bring him
in as like either a feud or even maybe as
your father.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
That'd be a fun little thing that would be incredible. Yeah,
I would love that.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
We're gonna We're gonna put out in the universe. Brian Clark,
if you're listening, first off on the podcast, second off,
please make this happen to where you are the father
of Atomic Jason Xel.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
We need this to app manifesting.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yes, we're manifesting it now. Speaking of Evil Uno and
everything you wrestle for Mystery Wrestling, I've lost everything I've
been seeing from Mystery Wrestling, and for those who haven't
seen Mystery Wrestling, first off, go follow them on all
your social media's and definitely subscribe on YouTube. But walk
(17:02):
us through what Mystery Wrestling is and then tell us
some of the experiences you've had there.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Mystery Wrestling is unlike any other wrestling promotion in the world.
It's just this crazy multiverse of insane characters and just
like I can't even really explain it, just anything can happen.
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You have no idea what will happen. It's it's I've
never seen a show in which a conspiracy theorist and
a sas squatch and a hot dog man and a
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hot dog seller have all been in combat together. I've
like how how I was. I was trying to explain
this to a friend recently about what mystery is and
what it's like, and it just it's unlike any other
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entertainment I think in the world. It's just it's it's
a crazy cast of characters. It's just a bizarre series
of events unfolding in front of you. And like it's
just a fun atmosphere. It's a fun vibe. Everybody has
a great time the whole show long, and and every
(18:38):
once the show I personally feel once the show is over,
I'm always looking forward to the next one. I'm like,
I can't wait to see what happens. It's just an
incredible experience and I'm really fortunate and blessed to be
involved with it in any capacity.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah. I had Katrina Creed on a couple of months
her last month and she was talking I think, yeah,
she was on the Longest Match or the world's longest match.
Was part of that twenty four hour live stream? Yes,
were you part of that as well?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yes? I was also there. How was that it was?
It was something that I'm really proud to be a
part of. I don't know that I could ever do
a match of that length. Again, I'm really glad for
having done it. It was a really fun experience and
(19:32):
it was a really great crew involved all in that.
But it was it was a very long match. We're
all exhausted by the end.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Well, would you kind of compare it to maybe like
a Shaikhara type situation.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I would definitely say that there are similarities. Yeah, I
think like there's definitely kind of that zaniness that you
Sara had back in the day. As far as like
gimmicks and characters are concerned, I don't I don't know that.
(20:09):
If that, I would say that it's it's uh like
a one and one though, well, no, no, no, no, I
know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
If I guess the same way, you could compare I
guess GCW to ECW with the totally different styles and
then obviously you do have the death matching. But but
I think mystery wrestling is probably closest to what a
Shakar was in the early two thousands, I.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Would say, so, yes, it has a very similar vibe
that way.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, I love it and I can't wait to see
what else happens for mystery wrestling. And again, I think
more people need to be paying attention to it because
it's so much fun and even more fun than prog
wrestling already should be.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I agree wholeheartedly like it, just it's it's unlike anything else.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yes, Well, if people have never seen you wrestle before,
what are three matches they should go out of your
way to see.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I would say the matches that people should watch, and
I guess that I would point them towards would probably
be definitely the twenty four hour love stream at Fighting
Back or four Fighting Back. Rather, there's a lot of
incredible moments with that. There were sword fights, there were
(21:32):
attempted bucket murders, there were swords and card games and
just all kinds of craziness involved with that. If I
could suggest to others, I would say probably my very
(21:54):
first match, which was at C four Wrestling for Fighting Back.
I think it was twelve.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Wow. Okay, that was.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
An incredible experience and it's it's like a match that
I'll always remember. It was really nerve wracking before I
went out, but I had a lot of fun. It
was a great match, and there's nothing like standing on
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the top rope shouting witnessed me and then diving off
into a crossbody on somebody like that feeling will stay
with me for the rest of my life. I think
it was incredible. And then lastly I did a match
for Loot zero set inside of a brewery, and I
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guess I was just kind of inspired by Stone Cold
Steve Austin. Maybe is the word that I'll use. Okay, uh,
And I did a stunner, which was a lot of
fun for the first time. I would pour people to
those three I.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Think those are great. Now. Show days give me long days.
What are some standards that you always have in your bag.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
For me. I always got to have an energy drink
of some kind, makes sense. I've started doing a thing
where I'll have like a monster with somebody else and
we'll like cheers and take a picture. I'm not really
sure why. It's just something I started doing and I'm
trying to make it like a thing. But I always
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got to have like a monster, preferably the guava flavor. Okay,
that's that's the best one.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
That's a new one too.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yes, got to have that. Always got to have wrisk tape. Yes,
I'm constantly like running out and and always trying to
not be that person that's like, hey man, can I
borrow some risk tape? Hey?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Brother?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Those are the two big ones I would say, Do
you have a doubles stick tape story? I don't know
if I have one story in particular. I will say
that I do tend to borrow when I'm when I
am that guy who needs some risk tape, I do
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tend to get some from my my friend and fellow
wrestler Xander O'Ryan quite a bit. Shout out to Xander O'Ryan.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
For always having the tape.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
He's always got my back, He's he's a great guy,
a great wrestler, and he always has some tape well
as m Well.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Again, like so, the Canadian scene is obviously so different
on one coast to the next, same thing here in America.
For those that aren't tapped into what's happening up in Canada,
can you tell us some people that we should be
looking at for besides obviously.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yourself, people that you should be looking out for. I
would say, number one, you got to keep your eye
on Junior Benito. He's the champion at C four Wrestling.
Incredible guy, incredible wrestler, always super positive. I would also
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say you got to check out his tag team partner
McCray Martin, also somebody I get along with, very well,
incredible wrestler. The way he incorporates like dancing and wrestling
together is unlike anybody that I've ever seen. I'd also
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say you have to watch Hattie, who is low cool
to the Ottawa gat No scene. He's an a tag
team with dark Horse Dexter Doom. They're the tag team
champions of like four or five different promotions, and he's
he's the way that he has blended mixed martial arts
(26:17):
and professional wrestling together into like a hybrid style is
really interesting and really cool and and he's one of
my best friends in wrestling, and I think more people
need to know his name.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
That's awesome. I love that. Well, how does it because
we always hear kind of horror stories of Canadians trying
to work in America and it's easier for Americans to
work over in Canada. Have you kind of dealt with
that or how do you kind of or do you
work in America.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I haven't wrestled outside the country as of yet. Future
goals though, right, but I haven't run into any problems
like that. I've mostly wrestled in the Ottawa Gatino region.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Again, we're manifesting and you're just going to be wrestling
all over the place next year. Yes, well, I mean,
speaking of which, twenty twenty six is right around the corner.
Are you somebody that does make list or things that
you obviously want to accomplish or you just you know,
kind of barrel forward and you know, almost hope for
the best.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I think the idea of having like a resolution can
be tricky because so many times people are like, I'm
going to do this, and I'm going to do that,
and then it ends up falling through. So I try
to have sort of abstract goals with not necessarily a
(27:52):
concrete timeline, because then it's not necessarily something that will
fall through, and it's something that I can still work
towards without having that sort of additional pressure of like
I have to do it by X, Y and Z day,
you know what I mean. Yeah, so I would I
would say I'm more of like a bullet points for
(28:15):
like the next couple of months or like next six
months at a time, is how I look at things.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
That's a really good way of looking at it too,
because like you said, there are so many people that
you know, first of the year, I'm basically going to
be an entirely different person. It's like, well that's not
how that works first off, and so again you are
trying to put too much on your plate and then
so many things to just fall off or you'll just
go back into bad habits or whatever it is. So
I like that you were working, you know, like you said,
(28:43):
bullet points and then all right, we'll do six months
at a time and we'll see where we are there
and we'll go from there.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Exactly. You got to have like the small the small goals,
the small steps that compound into like the bigger distances.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Yes, without a doubt. Now, as much as this is
a physical where it's also a mental one. What kind
of mental workouts do you kind of like to do
with yourself?
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I think getting out of your head can be really beneficial.
It is for me, so like I'll try to like
take a walk outside or like be in nature when
I can. Beyond that. Something that I picked up during
(29:29):
the pandemic but I found really useful as like an
ongoing thing is like stoic philosophy. I read the meditations
of Marcus Aurelius during the pandemic, and I found that
really beneficial as far as managing like uncertainty and just
(29:53):
you know, the the way that life can ebb and
flow and change all the time. And I think that
can apply to wrestling to it. Everything is constantly in
a state of flux. You're moving from one thing to
the next, right you never know what's going to happen.
And I think finding a way to manage those concepts,
(30:19):
especially if you're somebody who deals with like anxiety for instance,
or something like that, can be super beneficial.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Oh I love that too, Yeah, people can spend too
much time in their own brain, and that could be
a lot of a lot of danger for some people.
But if you do are if you are able to
take yourself out of it all, you realize, Okay, we're good,
We're gonna be okay. We just have to get you know,
focused and figure it out.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Well.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I have a segmentary show. I call it the five Count.
It's just five random questions. Okay, what song do you
car karaoke to?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
That's a tough one. It depends on who I'm driving with.
But I will say a lot of the time when
I'm traveling through shows, it's often with Hattie and we
listen to a lot of like early two thousands WWE
(31:22):
entrance themes fun. Oftentimes it will be John Cena's theme.
Will will end up blasting that. Sometimes also Mark Henry's theme.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Oh the three six Mafia.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yes, yes, it's always like that. That's sort of like
two thousand and two to like two thousand and seven
time frame, and it's just a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I mean, there's a lot of bangers back then, So yeah,
I get that absolutely. Number two, if you owned a
liquor company, brewery, winery, coffee shop or dispensary. Which one
would you own? And what would the name be?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Hmm, I'm not really somebody who drinks alcohol, so it
would probably be some type of like coffee shop or cafe.
I think i'd call it maybe like Exiles Espresso ooh okay.
And it would have to be like suitably wasteland themed,
(32:27):
like instead of like your like Dunkin Donuts or like
Tim Horton's if you're in Canada, cup Like it would
be some kind of stylized cup that looks like a
tin can or or something like that, just just to
keep the theme, to stay on brand, you.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Know, right, and like, yeah, the walls need to be like,
look they've just been burnt or like if there was
a wallpaper it was like half torn or whatever.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Yeah, exactly exactly you see the vision.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah, I'm trying to think this seat situation just because
people get annoyed if the seats aren't full seats, but
like it's true they have like maybe one has one
arm and one doesn't, or like some of the back
is missing but you could still sit in it. I
don't know's there's ways to play with this.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I like that absolutely.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Yeah. Number three, Who is the last person you fan
boyed out on?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Who is the last person I fan boyd out on?
I'd have to say it probably Eddie Kingston.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Oh yeah, I get that.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
He was somebody that I watched a lot during sort
of that earlier phase of my life when I was
first getting into indie wrestling on like Ring of Honor
and Chakara and stuff like that, And it was kind
of surreal going from being a fan and seeing like
(33:56):
somebody who I enjoyed, like seeing them on and well,
I guess the Internet in this case, but like just
seeing somebody on a screen versus seeing somebody in reality,
you know what I mean. Yeah, from two different phases
of your life and being in the same place at
(34:19):
the same time was kind of surreal. Yeah, I think
that that is how I would answer that.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
There we go. Number four, Who are what inspireship?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
There's a lot of potential answers I could give to
that one, but I would have to say, without a doubt,
the person who's had the most impact on my life
would be my grandfather. He was always one of my
biggest supporters, and he was just an incredible guy. He
(34:54):
grew up in the Great depression and worked for like
thirty six years as a nickel minor in northern Ontario,
and he always he always had like this this never
say die attitude. It didn't matter what life threw at him.
He always he always just rolled with the punches. And
(35:23):
he's not with us anymore, but he always encouraged me
to just keep moving forward. And if I wanted to
do something that in life, there are no dress rehearsals,
and to just go for it. And that kind of
informs how I live my life, both inside the ring
(35:48):
and out.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
That's perfect.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Well.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Speaking of which number five, what would you tell your
seventeen year old.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Self, I'd say two things. I'd say that you should
trust your instincts because no one person has all the answers.
And don't be afraid to take risks. Just jump in
the worst. That like, you can do anything that you
(36:18):
want to do if you're willing to put one hundred
percent to it.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Yes, Now, if people want to find out more about you,
follow you online, go see you live, how can they
do all the things?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
I'm on a couple of different social media platforms. I
don't unfortunately, have the same username. A few people have
stolen the handle. You can find me on Instagram at
Atomic Exile all lowercase, all one word. On Blue Sky
you can find me at Atomic Exile all one word,
(36:54):
dot bsky dot Social. On x or Twitter you can
find me at Atomic Xile p W. And on Twitch
you can find me at Atomic Exile all lower case,
all one word underscore.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
I love it. Thank you so much for your time.
This has been so great. I can't wait to see
what it obviously next year holds for you, and again
I would love to have you back anytime.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Absolutely, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Thank you so much for Jason for being on the
show again. If you're in the Canadian area, or just
check them out online, Atomic Jason Xile absolutely doing fantastic
things now. While you're checking him out, make sure to
check us out on social media. It is bruisers Pod.
That is b R E W S E R S
P O D on the Instagram, of the threads and
of the Twitter. If you want to send us an email,
it is bruiserspot at gmail dot com. If you're want
to follow me directly, it is Roady John. That is
(37:54):
our O D I E j O N. Roady John
is the name on the Twitter and untapped in case
you want to find out I'm drinking, maybe have a
beer together. If you want to follow me on the
threads or the Instagram, it is official order John, so
until next time, make sure to enjoy life, drink local
and cheers
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