Nick Wilder was born in 1987 to a Welsch family living in a cardboard box on the corner of Fifth and Madison. When he turned seventeen he said his first words, leading to much excitement in his family. His mother Millie recalls, "When little Nicky first uttered 'Careful with that axe Eugene' we were terribly proud. To be perfectly honest, I pissed myself in excitement and his father fell into a gutter."