How We Walked 500 Miles | S2E17 "Arrivederci, Fiero"
How We Made Your Mother
Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas
4.8 • 922 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This episode dives into “Arrivederci, Fiero” as a love letter to friendship, nostalgia, and the messy logic of long-running TV. Craig and Josh unpack fan questions about continuity errors (when did Barney learn to drive?), lean happily on the “unreliable narrator” defense, and explain how the show’s triumphant orchestral version of “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” came together. The heart of the episode comes through two deeply personal listener letters—one from a college student whose real-life Fiero breakdown led to lasting friendships, and another tracing a red Mustang, the Olive Theory, and a marriage back to the emotional roadmap the show provided. Together, the conversation lands on why vulnerability, chosen family, and sincerity are what helped the series—and Ted—age so well.
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| 0:25.6 | Alive in every drop. |
| 0:27.6 | You I'm alone I'm alone |
| 0:52.3 | What a pity I won't be soon |
| 0:57.0 | In New York City |
| 0:59.0 | When I see you |
| 1:02.0 | Please permit me |
| 1:04.0 | To tell you everything |
| 1:07.0 | In New York City Whoa! Whoa! |
| 1:12.6 | It sounds good in my ears. |
| 1:23.6 | We ambushed you with this. |
| 1:26.6 | It's got a little of the white lotus shriek in there. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah, I'm so pleased. This is a remix of my song, NYC, which is the theme song to How We Made Your Mother, which is the show we're on right now. |
| 1:42.3 | And Alec decided to surprise me and drop my buddy Jeremiah Dunlap, one of the producers of my album. That song did these remixes that are incredible. And that's NYC. You know, I was thinking like NYC, as I wrote it, is kind of like the perfect walking around New York music. That's like driving through L.A. |
| 2:19.6 | Don't you think? Yeah, driving through L.A., but thinking of NYC, Longing for New York. Winding Mulholland at dusk. Yes, definitely, definitely. Well, thanks for playing that, Alec. Did you have more to add, okay? No, well, we had a little email volley of we should ambush Josh with this, just one random episode because we both like it so much. |
| 2:20.8 | This came out a few weeks ago. |
| 2:35.0 | It's awesome. Everybody go check that out on John. Yeah, they're called the Skeleton and Spirit Remixes. There's a few of them, right? Well, it's two tracks, Learning and NYC, and he did two of each. They sound great. Bravo. Bravo to Jeremiah. Really well done. |
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