Introducing How We Made Your Mother
How We Made Your Mother
Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas
4.8 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
It’s been 20 years since How I Met Your Mother premiered, and just over 10 years since the finale. With so many round numbers in the air, it’s time to look back at this groundbreaking show. Josh Radnor, who played “Ted” for nine seasons teams up with series co-creator Craig Thomas for this episode-by-episode rewatch podcast. For the superfans, HWMYM (listen to the trailer to learn how it’s pronounced) will get into all the secrets, theories, and pineapples, but we'll also use HIMYM – and our relationship to it two decades later – to talk about life and love and art and everything in between. How We Made Your Mother… a flashback podcast for a flashback show.
Connect with the Show:
Official Website (Send us your audio and written messages)
Substack (Join the mailing list, get announcements, and read more from Josh and Craig)
And more:
Josh’s “Museletters” on Substack
Craig’s Official Website (with links to his published writing)
Alek’s “Dead Fathers Society” on Substack
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What How I Met Your Mother means to me is that grief is temporary. |
| 0:04.0 | Whether I've had a fantastic day or a fucking terrible day, watching that show is always the right move for the mood. |
| 0:10.0 | And there was this wonderful show. |
| 0:12.0 | That was all about how the randomness of life is what gets you exactly where you need to be. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to How We Made Your Mother, which I think we're calling Whimium. |
| 0:23.5 | Whimium, I say let's commit. |
| 0:24.8 | This is our new podcast, rewatching 208 episodes of How I Met Your Mother. |
| 0:29.7 | I'm Josh Radner, and I played Ted Mosby on the show for nine seasons. |
| 0:33.9 | And I am thrilled to be joined by Craig Thomas, who co-created the show along with Carter Bays. |
| 0:39.3 | Josh, somehow it has been 20 years since our show premiered. That can't be right. Your math is off. It seems wrong. I'm sure it's wrong. Let's check it. But it's also been 10 years since the show went off the air. And while deeply disturbing, it makes it a good time to look back. Well, if you're a super fan, we're going to get into all the secrets, theories, Easter eggs slash pineapples, and general knowledge. |
| 0:57.6 | General knowledge. But we'll also use Himium and our relationship to it these 20 years later to talk about life and love and art and everything in between. And just like the show itself, this podcast doesn't exist without you. Your voices will be a big part of what we do. |
| 1:13.6 | I'm alone. Would a pity, I won't be soon in New York City. Tell the people listening, |
| 1:23.4 | how many times over has your wife, Trana, seen how I met your mother? |
| 1:28.0 | It is zero times. |
| 1:29.5 | But we have a section called Questions and Observations from a clinical psychologist, |
| 1:34.7 | relationship expert, who's never seen how I met your mother, who also happens to be married to Josh. |
| 1:40.1 | Is that title too catchy? |
| 1:41.8 | We are now embarking on this rewatch together, or her first watch, rather. |
| 1:46.2 | A couple of times, you know, when I was looking at Robin in a certain way, she would go, |
| 1:50.6 | I know that look. |
| 1:53.3 | When I see you, please permit me to tell you everything in New York City. |
| 2:01.6 | But this one guy owned the bar, he'd never been off the island of Majorca. |
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