The Wayward Podcast, The Pilot: A podcast about a podcast

The Wayward Podcast made its debut this week and it made good on all the hype. Kim Rhodes and Briana Buckmaster touched lightly on a ton of things but most of all, they gave us a foundation to build on.

The Wayward Podcast dropped its debut episode on Monday. After we heard the awesome intro that was composed super-specially for The Wayward Podcast by Billy Moran of Louden Swain, we got some little tidbits and honest, casual conversation between our favorite BFF women. Briana Buckmaster even gave us a super fast lesson about how not to say your name during an audition, and why she’d never like to live on a hill.

Buckmaster and Kim Rhodes talked about the facts of life, and some alternative facts of life. Eventually, the Wayward women we know and love unfolded a fast but complete history of how this podcast came to be the sweet little baby that it is.

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In “The Pilot,” we went all the way back to how Kim and Briana met through Supernatural, and the events that brought us to the present moment. This was a great way to debut because there are many Wayward kindred out there who may happen upon the episodes and not yet know this history.

Hopefully, The Wayward Podcast will spread wildly and be gobbled up by the masses and they may not all have the Supernatural background to know that this simply had to happen. And so it came to pass that this, from their own mouths, was to be “a podcast about why we’re doing a podcast.”

They made this little beauty from the comfort of Kim’s actual closet, where they say they anticipate all the episodes will take place for the foreseeable future. I think that stays right in line with the Wayward life we associate with so well.

https://twitter.com/OfficialBrianaB/status/1056979187771236355

We were walked through the moments as they told us the story of what they experienced when they heard that Wayward Sisters would not be picked up. The news came down shortly after the backdoor pilot aired via an episode of Supernatural. The new story was meant to be a female-led offshoot of the winning series that spawned it.

They gave mention to Riley and Betty, who Kim says were “the first people who created Wayward as a brand.” The ladies talked about how their thoughts immediately went to the pair when they found out. They didn’t want them, or any of us, to take the hit personally.

Alas, although there was interest and there were attempts with The CW, Netflix, and others, even negotiations at times, it just didn’t work out. They wanted us to know there were actual, valid reasons it was passed over and that they understand. And while they got it, and the fans got it, we all thought it completely just sucked.

It was then that they thought there should be something. Briana was the first to think of the podcast idea but says Kim used rational reasoning and Rhodes admits she also was a bit “Eeyore” for a while, sort of bumming out and wanting to just drop it and focus on helping us all move on. She felt kind of “meh” about what it could entail getting a podcast going.

It wasn’t until a teacher approached them and thanked them for the fact that clips of their convention panels were aids for her in class with her girls. That’s when Kim and Briana both excitedly concluded that The Wayward Podcast had to be born. For the children. And the adults. And so Kim wouldn’t end up on a goat farm (at least not right away).

Since they are Wayward AF and they have super husbands, we now have a podcast that I’m already addicted to. One of the main points here is that The Wayward Podcast will not ever be about their thoughts being broadcast upon us. It’s about “The Wayward community” and how we can be afraid, worried, a mess, small, sad, weary, and all of those things from time to time. But what we should never have to feel is silent.

The Wayward Podcast is going to inspire us, teach us, learn from us, and be equal with us. While they have their platforms as known artists, they aren’t coming from that place as authority figures. They are instead, using it as a vehicle to unite us, the unique.

They are artists supporting their families, learning how to make a podcast, sitting in a closet cursing, talking about life and whatever. This project serves as a place of strength, courage, comradery, support, knowledge, and truths. Everyone’s own truths. We are one. We are a wayward family.

While it’s true that The Wayward Podcast is not literally part of Supernatural, it absolutely embraces the SPN Family values. Say the words GISH, Random Acts, Always Keep Fighting, or Wayward AF and you will be talking about separate but equal pieces to the same puzzle.

There are so many others in the universe who don’t know these groups or the many others we share but are still cut from the same cloth. The Wayward Podcast will embody all that these pieces represent and more, a new place for us humans, new and classic, alike.

The first episode was everything I was hoping for and more. I got to find out what I might expect from it as a whole, both through their words and by just listening. The music is awesome, very podcasty and also very rock albumy.

Everything about The Wayward Podcast is sensational in the most human way. They laughed, started over, told little anecdotes, said bad words, and proved out they truly, naturally are Wayward AF, just like me. Carry on, Wayward circle.

Did you listen to the premiere episode of The Wayward Podcast? What was your favorite aspect of how the show is being presented? Tell us your thoughts in a comment or send us a tweet!

New episodes of The Wayward Podcast air on Mondays. Listen on Podbean or iTunes!