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Dead Pilots Society

Episode 197: Carter Bays and Craig Thomas Interview

Dead Pilots Society

Ben Blacker and Andrew Reich

Tv & Film, Dead Pilots Society, Tv Pilots, Tv Reviews, Andrew Reich, Documentary, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Ben Blacker, Sitcoms, Society & Culture

4.6563 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This is the After Show for New York Mythological, featuring Andrew’s conversation with Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, creators of How I Met Your Mother.

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0:00.0

You know the thing and no one picked up your thing

0:05.0

And so you buried the thing

0:07.0

That's not the end of the thing

0:10.0

Don't you like eyes yet there's a spooky surprise

0:13.0

And though you cannot revise

0:16.0

And nothing ever really dies. The Dead Pilot Society.

0:36.6

Welcome to Dead Pilot Society, the show that takes comedy pilots from A-list writers that were sold and developed at networks and streamers but never produced and gives them the table reads.

0:45.9

They never got a chance to have.

0:47.4

I'm Andrew Reich, the creator and host of Dead Pilot Society.

0:51.8

We are a week into Max Fun Drive, and it's going well.

0:56.1

But I regret to inform you that the overwhelming majority of folks that are listening right now aren't members.

1:05.9

So let's change that, shall we, by going to maximum fun.org slash join or maximum fun.org

1:13.7

slash join dead pilots and becoming a member for as little as $5 a month.

1:19.3

This is the after show for New York mythological featuring my interview with Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, creators of how I met your mother.

1:27.7

We did two of Carter and Craig's pilots, and in a couple of days we will release the second one,

1:32.6

give me five, and then that'll be followed by part two of my interview with them.

1:37.5

It was so much fun talking to these guys.

1:40.9

And definitely all of you, How I Met Your mother fans, are in for a treat because we're

1:44.4

going to get into the real origin story, the combination of experience and elements from other

1:52.1

shows that they worked on and song titles, all the things that went into the creation of that

1:57.8

show. But we also talk about their career before it. There are some great David Letterman

2:03.0

and Will Forte stories. We also talk about where my path crossed theirs during the season when they

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