What happened was I knew I was writing it, and I remember that Rob Greenberg was in the room, the writer's room, and we were in there, and we were like, and that'll be great.

She'll write the wrong name, and then everybody will call him that name all throughout the script.

And I either went to the bathroom or went to meet with you guys in your office for like one second, and I came back in and Rob said oh we have a name

that they could have written down I go okay great what is it and he goes swarly and I said

you don't need to tell me anything else I've got this 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.

Well, hello. Welcome to another episode of How We Made Your Mother. I'm Josh Radner. I'm here with my friend Craig Thomas. Hello, Craig.

Hey, Josh. Craig co-created a show with Carter Bays called How I Met Your Mother. I started on that show as Ted Mosby from 2005 to 2014. We did 208 episodes of the show. We're making our way through them one by one.

We also talk a lot about what went into every decision. We're getting pretty granular.

Craig and Carter, of course, were joined by a murderer's row of fantastic writers.

And we have one of the best here with us today.

Craig, say a little more to tee it up.

Oh, yes.

This gentleman joined us in season two with a very intimidating resume,

joining me and Carter, who had never even been on staff on a multi-camera sitcom,

technically speaking, and Greg joined us, and I've already blown the name.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's Greg Malins.

Let's just get right into it.

Greg Malins, who worked on so many great shows, including friends and co-running or running

friends for several years.

I mean, Greg was a name we would see when Alec, I went to college with Alec.

We would watch friends in college and like see Greg's name on there, who was very young

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