Hey, everybody. Make sure to listen after the credits for an exclusive look, listen. I guess it's more of a listen than a look. For the audio book version of my debut novel, that's not how it happened. It's told from four different perspectives, and two of the narrators for the audiobook are none other than Josh Radner and Kobe Smolders. And at the end of today's podcast episode, we're going to play an exclusive clip from the book where you'll hear a little bit of Josh and Kobe, and it's going to be legend.

Wait for it to the end of the credits.

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.

Welcome back to another episode of How We Made Your Mother, where I, Josh Ratner, talk about the TV show, How I Met Your Mother, with series co-creator Craig Thomas. Hello, Craig.

Hey, Josh.

Hey.

That's all I got. I should say more words. There was a pause. I'm excited to be here. I just didn't want to, I didn't know if you were going to keep

talking and let's just, let's just keep, now you talk more. You don't seem that excited to be here. I'm very excited. I love this episode. This is a good one. We got a good one today. Yeah, we're, we're having a great time. We're going back through How I Met Your Mother. We're already up to the second season, episode three. This episode is called brunch. By the way, I start on this show. I played Ted Mosby from 2005 to 2014. Craig co-created the show with Carter Bays. And we're rolling back through it. My wife has never seen the show, Jordana, my wife. So we're watching it. She's a binger. She's frustrated. Both our wives, we learned, are frustrated at the slow pace we're having to go. We were talking about this because we have to record certain episodes out of order. We literally already did that today. And my wife refuses to jump ahead. And I think yours says, too, we just discovered they both feel this way. Mostly I'm watching it with my wife. You're definitely watching it with her because this whole podcast kind of came from her never having seen the show. And so she's like, I'm not jumping ahead. And I do respect that. She would be infuriated if I watched an episode without her. So we're having to watch twice,

you and I. I'll tell you this. They go down easy. They do. They're very watchable. They're

too short. God damn it. I wish it was a full fucking half hour. Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to get

that. I wish we had at least, I wanted to be 25 minutes. Can it just be 25? Can we go back and make it 25 minutes?

So, this is episode three of season two.

The episode is called brunch, Alec.

Give us a little historical context.

I will tell you that it was written by Stephen Lloyd,

and it was released unto the world on October 2nd in the year 2006.

The great Stephen Lloyd, one of the other longest serving, I like that term because it makes it seem like he's a Supreme Court justice.

One of the longest serving, how I met your mother writers. Stephen Lloyd had a lifetime appointment to the writer's serving, how I met your mother writers.

Stephen Lloyd had a lifetime appointment to the writer's room of how I met your mother.

Joined Leaves part way through season one, but then went all the way with us. So besides

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