Favorite Cold Opens with the Office Ladies
How We Made Your Mother
Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas
4.8 • 922 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Josh and Craig joined Jenna and Angela on The Office Ladies podcast to talk about their favorite cold opens from How I Met Your Mother and The Office. And so, (as we smash to credits), here we go!
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| 0:00.0 | So for our second season of how we made your mother, we united forces with the office ladies who are just the best, Jenna. |
| 0:09.2 | The best. |
| 0:10.1 | And Angela over at OLN, the Office Ladies Network. |
| 0:14.1 | And they loved our show. |
| 0:16.3 | And they said, come on over. |
| 0:17.9 | Come on to the umbrella that we have so lovingly created. And so we just |
| 0:24.0 | huddled up next to them. And we've been working with them for a while now. And they're just |
| 0:30.0 | unbelievable, Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey and all the folks over there. So every once in a while, |
| 0:36.4 | we'll drop into their podcast and they'll come |
| 0:38.9 | on to ours. And we've done that before. And we just did a really fun one. Craig, tell us, |
| 0:43.7 | tell the audience what we did. Yeah, I love they had this really focused idea of let's all |
| 0:49.0 | talk about our favorite cold opens. Cold opens are in a TV show are the funny little mini vignette, the mini |
| 0:55.0 | little story that kind of opens and kind of smash cuts into the main titles, launches the |
| 0:59.4 | episode. And so the two of them chose their all-time two favorite office cold opens, |
| 1:05.6 | and we chose our two favorite How I Met Your Mother Cold Opins. And we had this great discussion |
| 1:09.8 | about them. We play all the clips from them, we talk about them, we dissect them. |
| 1:13.6 | And we talked about how the cold opens of those two shows were often quite different and what was brilliant about them. |
| 1:19.6 | And it was an awesome chat. |
| 1:21.6 | So we're really excited to share it here. |
| 1:23.6 | So enjoy our chat with Jenna and Angela about cold opens on the office and how I met |
| 1:30.5 | your mother. This is a cold open about cold open. Hey, I'm Anderson Cooper. Grief can feel so lonely. But talking |
| 1:40.6 | about it and listening to others share their experiences helps. It's probably the only thing that's really helped me. |
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