How We Spent the Summer | S2E1 "Where Were We?"
How We Made Your Mother
Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas
4.8 • 922 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Season two of How We Made Your Mother kicks off with a big announcement: the show has officially joined the Office Ladies Network, thanks to a friendship between Josh Radnor and Jenna Fischer.
Josh and Craig reminisce about filming “Where Were We,” the How I Met Your Mother season two premiere, breaking down the challenge of picking up right after Ted and Robin’s rain-soaked kiss and Marshall’s heartbreak. They dig into the emotional realism of post-breakup depression, the iconic “When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead” line, and behind-the-scenes stories about George Clinton’s cameo, Robin’s gun joke, and Neil Patrick Harris’s precision physical comedy.
The episode also covers the show’s evolution, season-two adjustments (including the brighter red couch), and fan questions about serialization, background actors, and hiatus memories, before closing with a touching letter from a 15-year-old fan in Germany about how HIMYM brings her hope.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey from the Office Ladies podcast in Los Angeles. |
| 0:09.2 | And something we love about how we made your mother is the amazing community of this show. |
| 0:14.4 | The fans and people that write in, we think you guys are awesome. |
| 0:18.7 | And I love when Josh and Craig get philosophical. I mean, I love all the |
| 0:23.9 | behind-the-scenes stories, but my favorite is when Josh suddenly starts quoting Einstein or some |
| 0:30.8 | ancient philosopher, and then he and Craig basically break down the meaning of love or the power of |
| 0:36.9 | friendship or forgiveness or you |
| 0:38.9 | name it. But I often find myself feeling a little lighter, a little more hopeful after listening. |
| 0:45.8 | And that's a pretty special thing to be able to do. And that's why we're thrilled to be adding the |
| 0:50.6 | show to our Office Ladies Network. Welcome guys. Welcome. Oh, and you better have us as guests real soon. Uh-huh. Get on it. |
| 0:58.6 | 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. |
| 1:18.9 | Well, here we are. Welcome to the first episode of Season 2 of How We Made Your Mother. |
| 1:25.5 | I am Josh Radner. I played Ted Mosby on the TV show called How I Met Your |
| 1:30.5 | Mother, which ran on CBS from 2005 to 2014. I am here with the co-creator of that show, Craig Thomas. |
| 1:37.7 | Hello, Craig. It's great to see you. Hello, Josh. Very excited to be back here with you and the fans |
| 1:43.0 | and our new wonderful friends over at the Office Ladies Network. |
| 1:47.2 | O-L-N, we sometimes call it, which is just to save us the energy of saying all those syllables. |
| 1:53.1 | We don't have that kind of time. We're very busy people. |
| 1:56.3 | Yeah, we got to get on with it. |
| 1:58.0 | Tell this story. Yeah, tell the story. How did this happen? |
| 2:00.7 | Yeah, we're delighted to be working with Jenna and Angela and their team. |
| 2:05.5 | So the way this came about was, you know, we were a kind of lean and mean operation first season. |
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