General Questions | Instagram Live 1/28/26
How We Made Your Mother
Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas
4.8 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This Instagram Live episode of How We Made Your Mother features Josh Radnor, Craig Thomas, and producer Alek Lev in a relaxed, funny, and reflective conversation about revisiting the first two seasons of How I Met Your Mother nearly 20 years later. They talk about learning to be kinder to their younger selves, favorite memories from set (including cozy breakfast scenes, hair-and-makeup miracles, and moments when the scale of the show suddenly felt magical), the grind behind the joy, and why struggle is part of meaningful creative work. Fan questions spark stories about deleted scenes, bloopers, iconic supporting characters (Ranjit, Sandy Rivers, Stuart, Brad), music’s central role in the show and their lives, tattoos inspired by HIMYM, advice for aspiring actors and writers, and Craig’s journey writing his novel That’s Not How It Happened. The trio also welcome listeners discovering the podcast for the first time, celebrate its global audience, shout out the Office Ladies Network, and invite fans to keep the conversation going through letters, voice notes, and future bonus episodes.
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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 28th, |
| 0:08.0 | 2026. 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. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello, good people of Instagram. |
| 0:34.4 | Welcome, Craig Thomas. I'm here with Craig Thomas my dear friend co-created the show |
| 0:43.6 | how I met your mother with his friend and my friend Carter Bays and we've been doing a |
| 0:51.0 | podcast called How We Made Your Mother where we'd go back through the show, been watching it with my wife, Jordana, who's never seen the show. I haven't seen it in many years, neither. I mean, Craig, it's been a couple years since you've seen it, right? Yeah. So we're having a great time. We just finished watching season two. So we're, what, 44 episodes into the 208? Crazy. Yeah. We made a little dent. It's not a huge dent, but we're what, 44 episodes into the 208? |
| 1:11.6 | Crazy. |
| 1:13.3 | We made a little dent. |
| 1:15.4 | It's not a huge dent, but we're getting there. |
| 1:19.4 | We're looking to find people who aren't who don't know the podcast exists yet. |
| 1:21.6 | We're going fishing for more fans. Yeah. |
| 1:22.4 | If you are watching this podcast or listening rather and you're enjoying it, please recruit your family |
| 1:29.1 | and your friends to join you in the joy of this. And if you're just discovering us now, |
| 1:34.4 | welcome. We're so happy to have you. Start from episode one. It's a great listen. The episodes |
| 1:39.9 | go by just like him and him itself. Go down easy uh but we are going deep into what made the show |
| 1:46.2 | so special what makes it uh so beloved after all these years um and uh Craig now we're 44 episodes in |
| 1:53.9 | like what have what has struck you overall about like the show we made together especially |
| 1:58.5 | the first two seasons like what are your big thoughts right now? I really like it. Yeah. I really like it too. Yeah. I find the best part of it is I feel not judgmental of it. Like I was so analytical and still lost in the weeds and the details and is the sound mix right and we I would watch it with my wife on |
| 2:18.2 | Monday nights when it would air and I'd sit there and go you didn't laugh did you not hear that word |
| 2:22.2 | did we not mix was the music too hot against the dialogue and she'd be like this is the worst |
| 2:26.5 | can I watch this without you from now on yeah and I was so like so intense about every little |
| 2:30.8 | thing and then now it's so great to just let it wash over me. I watch it and I just enjoy it. |
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