General Questions | Instagram Live 1/21/26
How We Made Your Mother
Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas
4.8 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This How We Made Your Mother Instagram Live brings together Josh Radnor, Craig Thomas, and producer Alek Lev for a wide-ranging, funny, and unexpectedly heartfelt conversation about the podcast, the enduring legacy of How I Met Your Mother, and why the show continues to resonate with new generations around the world. The trio talk candidly about revisiting the series nearly 20 years later, the joys and challenges of serialized storytelling, favorite episodes, emotional arcs from the first two seasons, iconic props (yes, the Blue French Horn makes an appearance), and unforgettable music moments that helped define the show’s tone. They also reflect on writing lessons learned, trusting the intelligence of the audience, the comfort the series offers younger viewers in uncertain times, and how optimism (“people will dance”) sits at the core of the show’s worldview. Along the way, they answer fan questions live from across the globe, tease future podcast guests, plug Craig’s novel That’s Not How It Happened, celebrate Josh’s upcoming music, and invite listeners to become part of the growing HWMYM community through voice notes, letters, and shared memories.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following episode of How We Made Your Mother was recorded live on Instagram on January 21st, |
| 0:07.8 | 2026. |
| 0:09.0 | It was our first Instagram live, and you'll hear Josh and Craig start out by introducing |
| 0:15.0 | the podcast for first-time listeners. |
| 0:18.0 | And then they took questions from around the world that were coming into us |
| 0:21.4 | right then and there live in the moment. Here we go. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm alone. What a pity. I won't be soon in New York City when I see you. Please permit me to tell you everything in New York City. |
| 0:44.6 | All right, we're doing this. |
| 0:46.6 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:47.6 | Hi. |
| 0:49.1 | Hey. |
| 0:50.0 | Hi, people. |
| 0:51.2 | Hi, humans. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm having to trust that this is really happening, Alec. |
| 0:53.5 | Alec is running tech tonight, so Craig and I are just trusting that you're all seeing us. It's very disconcerting that we're not seeing people writing in things because it feels like nothing's happening. I see them. I think things are happening. It helps me. Well, let's just do some introductions. My name is Josh Radner. I was on a TV show called How I |
| 1:15.5 | Met Your Mother. It ran for nine years on CBS. I played a character named Ted Mosby from, what, |
| 1:23.6 | 2005 to 2014? Those are the years. My Craig Thomas who's with me here either he's |
| 1:30.3 | here uh he co-created this show with his pal uh Carter bays and uh we Craig and I love each other |
| 1:39.8 | have maintained a very strong and deep friendship over the years. I got married a couple years ago. |
| 1:44.8 | My wife, Jordana, had never seen how I met your mother, |
| 1:48.0 | which actually helped a lot in our courtship. |
| 1:51.6 | But she was not in love with Ted. |
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