General Questions | Instagram Live 2/12/26
How We Made Your Mother
Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas
4.8 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This Instagram Live bonus episode of How We Made Your Mother features Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas answering fan questions and sharing behind-the-scenes stories from How I Met Your Mother. Early in the conversation they pause to remember James Van Der Beek, reflecting on his fearless, against-type performance in “Sandcastles in the Sand” and how generous and grounded he was when guest-starring on the show. The discussion then turns to production details—like how the crew created the show’s big rain scenes on the Fox lot using massive water rigs and blackout tarps to simulate a New York storm in sunny Los Angeles. Craig also talks about how season two intentionally reshuffled the characters—Ted and Robin as a couple, Marshall newly single, and Barney without his wingman—which opened up new stories and dynamics. Along the way they field lighter questions about things like whether someone could open a real-life bar called Puzzles, and they explain how the podcast came together after Josh started rewatching the series with his wife Jordana and decided to turn the experience into a full rewatch show with producer Alek Lev.Â
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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 February 12, |
| 0:08.0 | 2026. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm alone. |
| 0:11.0 | 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. |
| 0:29.5 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome. |
| 0:32.3 | What's today? |
| 0:33.2 | Thursday? |
| 0:34.3 | Something like that. |
| 0:35.1 | Yeah, Thursday. |
| 0:35.9 | We switched these to noon, so we could, our friends from different parts of the world could join |
| 0:42.2 | us. |
| 0:43.2 | So welcome. |
| 0:44.0 | Let us know where you're viewing from. |
| 0:47.6 | We love to hear to get a kind of geographic slate of where people are chiming in from. |
| 1:02.8 | Craig and I cannot see your questions and requests for shout-out for different countries. |
| 1:12.7 | Shout-outs, but Alec is sifting through them for us, and he's going to bring your questions to us. |
| 1:17.7 | So, yeah, so Craig co-created How I Met Your Mother. |
| 1:18.7 | He's my dear friend. |
| 1:22.5 | We, I starred on that show as Ted Mosby. |
| 1:28.9 | We have been working through all the episodes on a podcast, a rewatch podcast called How We Made Your Mother. |
| 1:30.0 | We are done recording season two. |
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