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All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up. close up. Super Secret Studio. Hello, this is Washington for beautiful people on Deep State Radio, and I'm your host

Emily Brandwin, CIA Spy Girl on Twitter.

We're broadcasting from the West Left Coast and today I am

beyond thrilled and excited to be joined by the co-creative creator and executive producer

of the nine season CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. He's a seven-time Emmy nominee. He wrote for little shows like The Late Show with

David Letterman and American Dad and he's calling from New York City and it's Craig Thomas hey Craig

Hey there. Thanks for

12 years, like two or three years before how I met your mother.

Yeah, we lived there for 12 years, like two or three years before how I met your

mother and then we did nine seasons of the show.

So yeah, just about 12 years total.

Then I've been back in New York for like five years, better part of five years.

I'm going to tell you something you're going to appreciate this having lived here.

We're having a thunderstorm right now in LA.

That's crazy.

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