General Questions | S1E11 "The Limo"
How We Made Your Mother
Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas
4.8 • 922 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus “General Questions” episode of How We Made Your Mother, Josh, Craig, and Alek reflect on gender dynamics in How I Met Your Mother, prompted by a listener who studied “The Limo” episode in an English class on 2000s sitcoms. They explore the show’s gender role reversals, Barney’s objectification of women (and how it was meant to be satirical), and the tension between authorial intent and fan interpretation. They also dive into the legacy and construction of Barney’s iconic Get Psyched mix (including whether a prop list or fan reconstructions are accurate), share their own personal “get psyched” songs and albums (with love for The Joshua Tree and Born in the USA), and talk about how Ted’s idealized New Year’s Eve reflects his need for control—and the broader theme of learning to dance with the universe. Along the way, they reminisce about Wesleyan, Ricky Gervais, Springsteen, and Sam Malone, wrapping with shout-outs to eagle-eyed HIMYM fans and an impromptu Airbnb ad.
Fan Questions Asked:
- What class were you studying “The Limo” in, and why that episode?
- Did you and Carter write the full Get Psyched mix, or was it the props team?
- What songs are on your personal Get Psyched mix?
- Was “The Limo” episode satirizing New Year’s Eve pressure, or about Ted’s need for control?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a very, very special bonus episode of how we made your mother. |
| 0:18.4 | Once we like to call general questions general questions now I feel like everyone's |
| 0:27.2 | causing a little too much is there a lag general questions general questions no no |
| 0:35.0 | it's technology you invented this damn game and you can barely play it. |
| 0:40.4 | Anyway, I'm Josh Radner. |
| 0:42.7 | I am here with my co-host, Craig Thomas. |
| 0:45.3 | We are talking about how, hello, Craig. |
| 0:47.9 | We're talking about how I met your mother, episode, what is this, 10, the limo? |
| 0:54.2 | Episode 11. |
| 0:55.4 | It's 11. |
| 0:56.9 | It's 11. |
| 0:57.7 | It's 11, because, yeah, it's the exact midpoint, right? |
| 0:59.7 | 11 out of 22, boom, midpoint, pivoting into what's to come. |
| 1:03.9 | Episode 11. |
| 1:05.1 | The limo, which we covered pretty in depth in the last regular episode. |
| 1:10.7 | But here, queer, we, we, are we, we are we answering your questions about the limo. |
| 1:19.9 | And we can go a little deeper into the themes here. |
| 1:22.3 | But Alec, what do you got for us? |
| 1:23.5 | What did the people want to know about? |
| 1:26.7 | Sure. |
| 1:27.2 | The first one, a question that we did answer in the regular episode, but then she says something |
| 1:31.8 | very cool that I want to point out, Charlotte 3333. |
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