How We Sensory Deprivated [with Rob Greenberg] | S2E14 "Monday Night Football"
How We Made Your Mother
Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas
4.8 • 922 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This episode of How We Made Your Mother is a fun, heartfelt hang centered on Monday Night Football (Season 2, Episode 14) of How I Met Your Mother, with director Rob Greenberg joining the guys to reminisce. It kicks off with a surprise listener marriage proposal, then rolls into stories from the early days of the show, Rob being the steady hand during the pilot, and what it was like directing one of the most inventive, fast-moving episodes of the series. They talk Super Bowl timing, visual gags, Barney’s gambling origin story, and why the episode works so well even though no one remembers who won the game—because it was never about that. The conversation stays light, funny, and reflective, wrapping up with a lovely fan letter and an original song inspired by the show, all reinforcing the same idea: it’s the time spent together that really matters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Josh and Craig. My name is Michaela and I have been watching Pimium for nine years because of my beautiful girlfriend, Carmina. |
| 0:12.0 | Before meeting her, I hadn't seen the show at all. I had no idea what it was about. And honestly, at first, I thought it was a little bit difficult to watch mainly with |
| 0:23.1 | the Barney character being so horrifying to women but over the years I've grown to love |
| 0:29.8 | even Barney and the show and it's a regular everyday part of our lives and we watch it quite literally every single day. I really |
| 0:40.5 | resonate with Ted because he blurted out I love you so quickly and I think I blurted out I love |
| 0:46.5 | you to her on our third or fifth date or something. I also wanted to give a little shout out to |
| 0:53.8 | Josh's wife being a therapist. |
| 0:56.0 | She's so cool. |
| 0:57.0 | I love hearing her takes on how I met your mother because they are just so, so interesting, |
| 1:03.0 | and I'm also a therapist, so it's nice to hear that perspective too. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, and I wanted to say to Carmina, you're good looking, you're funny, you're smart, now |
| 1:15.0 | would you frickin' marry me already? |
| 1:17.0 | I'm alone. |
| 1:18.2 | What a pity I won't be soon in New York City When I see you |
| 1:29.2 | Please permit me |
| 1:31.3 | To tell you everything |
| 1:33.3 | In New York City |
| 1:36.1 | Well, hello and welcome to another episode of how we made your mother |
| 1:41.4 | I'm Josh Radner |
| 1:42.1 | I'm joined by my friend Craig Thomas |
| 1:43.9 | Hey Craig Hey Josh We are making our way through how I met of How We Made Your Mother. I'm Josh Radner. I'm joined by my friend Craig Thomas. Hey, Craig. |
| 1:45.1 | Hey, Josh. We are making our way through How I Met Your Mother, a series that we collaborated on for many years. |
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