Hello there, I am here with the cast, crew, creators of Wayward Nation. Hi guys.

Hey.

Well, hello.

Thanks for having a picnic with me here in Texas.

Thank you.

We're very hungry.

There's no food. This is all prop. And you're like, you're five guys. I feel really I'm sorry. I don't cook. So you said before we started rolling, we each have a prototype. On the show that's typically what happens is each person has their own little So let's go down the line.

Oh, are we going to start with me?

Of course. Guys first. Come on.

And it's with the shades. I, uh, I enjoy hanging out and partying quite a bit. So I, I'm the mountain man.

Hold on, can you pull the mic up?

Oh yeah, sorry. I'm the mountain man. I'm I'm the I'm the quieter one of the group, but I can tell 'cause you haven't spoken yet.

You are the all American.

You said it, man. No, I'll let you do it. I'll let you do the honors.

Uh, I'm the handsome one.

Oh, and, uh, I'm the director and they pretty much all think I was trying to kill them the entire time.

Um, I guess they called me the activist, but so I was working for an environmental nonprofit before we came in here.

Here it is. So guys, tell me a little bit about you three sort of created the concept of Wayward Nation. And how did it sort of how did it come about and how did it become a show?

Well, it all started really. This Mikey and I just went on these wonderful awesome travel adventures, where we would just drive out of town and we had no idea where we were going.

Say out again?

Uh, we were going out of town.

Are you from Canada?

I'm from Scotsdale.

Okay, keep going.

All right. All right. So we left town. And then, uh, it turned out that everywhere we went, we just found awesome people, awesome stories that we hung out with and partied with. And it sort of just started from there.

Okay, so what was the mission? Like when you when you, you know, you're traveling and you got together and you go, okay. How did you how did the mission sort of come into play? Because you really have a great, I mean, the purpose of the whole thing is really.

Yeah, I mean, I think I like I worked in reality, Eric worked at an ad agency. You know, we just, we wanted to have a project that we believed in. And if we were going to make something ourselves, uh, it had to be something that we cared about and, um, you know, it's it's a sort of altruistic goal and it's a sort of really idealistic project. Um, but, you know, we're idealistic people and, uh, we really truly do believe that there's a lot of good out there and, uh, you know, this world needs changing and there are a lot of cool people who are doing it. And so The mission is kinda like this generation.

Yeah, you know, it started for us as as we sort of thought, you know, we wanted to try to start a movement. So we we sort of talked about it in the early stages and the one thing we really learned on the road is a lot of humility and the fact that we are not anywhere close to starting a movement and the fact that that, you know, there is a movement going on. I think that, you know, a lot of young people are changing how they live and and how they view, you know, the American dream. Um, but we are not close to starting it. It it's been happening for a long time.

We gave you guys questions to ask each other before, if you want to pull out your questions. And you're going to just sort of ask you can choose whoever you want to ask the question to. It was sort of given to you at random.

Okay, this one's good. Uh, Yeah, who should I ask that? Ethan.

Ethan? No. Actually, that's a question for me too. I feel like I need to answer this because I'm the cuz I'm gonna be the Yeah. What's the What's the best food you've had while on the road?

Yeah, so I was the first three weeks when we had Janice. Candy was the show. But I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to boil it down to later when we just got really out of it. So, four months on the road, you start eating really weird things. We had a Fluffernutter sandwich with sriracha. And pickles.

Okay, pickles. I don't want to interrupt, but Ethan, you've got to tell the best thing that we actually ate on the road, what's something that Ethan actually didn't write for once was created a burger.

Yeah, tell tell us about that.

Okay, yeah. So we were in Cleveland, Ohio, and, uh, we were out to eat and it was right around lunchtime. Um, but we all wanted breakfast. So everyone orders, I'm the last one to order, and they came out with a burger. And I wanted French toast. It just looks so good. So I pulled her to the side and just asked her if she could make a hamburger just like that but with French toast as a bun. It was awesome. And everyone changed their order.

That's like chicken and waffles in Texas. That's kinda the same.

Yeah.

Holland, French toast, bacon. Incredible. Incredible. A real a real brunch.

What's the weirdest thing you've learned about each other? Let's go rapid fire down the line.

Wow. Propicia?

I don't take Propicia anymore.

Oh yeah. Pin's balding. Pin's actually has a gigantic bald.

Um, Pin's is losing his hair, but he's having a hairvolution. Actually.

Um, I would say that we're actually way more comfortable with our nudity than what I thought we would be.

All right, that's a good answer.

Hm.

Hm. We smell. We smell very bad. We had a we have an RV. We have an RV here. We've been in it for less than 24 hours, and we're already airing it out because we just can't stand it.

Five boys, I can imagine.

Um, we can literally punch each other in the face. Uh, we're friends. Pretty much. And five minutes later. Be friends again.

Um, I would say the weirdest thing for me would be that we're all okay sleeping on laundromat floors.

Oh yeah. Um, yeah, I'm going to go off of sleep as well. When we first started, Eric can sleep anywhere. Eric can fall asleep right now holding the mic, just like he is. By the end of four months, we could all copy that move. We have that one down pat now.

What would happen to you guys if I actually gave you a bed at the Four Seasons? Would you spontaneously combust?

I don't think we would know what to do.

You you would be like, what is that strange thing in the middle of the room? What is that thing for?

I feel like that'd be really bad for the four seasons.

I could I could pretty much guarantee step one is make a blanket for it.

All right guys, thank you so much. This was a lot of fun. Congratulations on the show. You look shocked that it's over. Are you sad?

Well, we were having a good time.

Hey. Now we're just getting started.