How Dare You Mess with Claudia | S1E12 "The Wedding"
How We Made Your Mother
Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas
4.8 • 922 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas revisit “The Wedding,” Season 1, Episode 12 of How I Met Your Mother, focusing on how Ted’s belief in love and planning clashes with reality, nearly derailing someone else’s wedding. They explore themes of memory, self-sabotage, and how the show captures both heartbreak and hope. The conversation covers Ted’s romantic logic, the reveal that he didn’t actually check “plus one,” and how this episode sets up the next with the introduction of Victoria. They also highlight Sue Fetterman’s editing, the odd sudden closeness of Stuart and Claudia, and how weddings stir up emotions and expectations. The episode ends with a listener letter about watching HIMYM during labor and a thoughtful question about what parts of love should be easy and what kinds of difficulty are normal.
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| 0:16.6 | Hi, I'm Jack. I'm from the great city of Norwich in the UK, that I'm actually talking from the middle of Tokyo in the early hours. |
| 0:27.0 | What, How I Know Your Mother means to me. It's the emphasis on hindsight, the benefit of hindsight, and the fact that as bleak and as negative as things may seem in the moment, actually |
| 0:42.0 | it may be building to something better. |
| 0:44.6 | It may be setting you on a course in your life which ultimately leads something better. |
| 0:50.4 | That means a lot. |
| 0:51.6 | Simply because I, about eight months ago, I had a nervous breakdown. I wasn't very happy with my life. And here I am, eight months now, I'm much happier where I am. I'm in Tokyo for the first time. And I might be in a position to tell the girl that I love that I love her. |
| 1:11.6 | So actually seriously, thank you for that. It's really helped thinking about it and watching the program. |
| 1:21.6 | I don't think you can de-emphasize just how much it means to people and how much it means to me. I don't know how to thank you |
| 1:31.7 | for that, except for this message. Thank you. I'm alone. What a pity. I won't be soon in New York City. |
| 1:47.0 | When I see you. Please permit me to tell you everything in New York City. |
| 1:54.0 | Well, hello there. I'm Josh Ratner. |
| 1:58.0 | I am joined by my friend Craig Thomas for another episode of How We Made Your Mother. Hi, Craig. |
| 2:03.9 | Hey, Josh. Hey. Boy, I don't, maybe one of these openings won't, I won't get choked up as it's |
| 2:10.0 | happening, but I'm 0 for 12 or whatever it is now. And not getting choked up. It's always an amazing |
| 2:15.3 | way to start the show because this is our first time hearing them. |
| 2:19.3 | So it kind of puts you on your back foot in a good way, right? |
| 2:22.7 | Like, I don't come on knowing what we're going to hear, how I'm going to respond to it. |
| 2:27.2 | What Jack was saying so beautifully and I think the thing about, I think the medicine, if you could distill what, how I met your |
| 2:38.2 | mother, the special medicine that it has within it, that people keep going back to it as if it's |
| 2:43.4 | some kind of like well or alter, some sort of like nourishing, life-giving thing is it doesn't |
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