Presenting: Arts Educators Save the World with Guest Craig Thomas
How We Made Your Mother
Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas
4.8 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to your How We Made Your Mother feed. Today, we are presenting an appearance by our own Craig Thomas on a podcast called Arts Educators Save the World, where successful artist sit in conversation with their mentors to talk about the importance of art, arts education, and mentorship. I produced this podcast with my lifelong friend, Erica. Last week we brought your our episode with Josh Randor and his teacher from NYU. This week, we’ve got Craig and Rob Greenberg, an experienced writer and show runner who helped Craig and Carter in the early years of HIMYM, and beyond.
If you enjoy these episodes, please check out Arts Educators Save World, where guests include Lin-Manuel Miranda, Annaleigh Ashford, Cecily Strong, Bradley Whitford, Jonathan Groff, Billy Eichner, and many, many others. Enjoy!
You can find more Arts Educators Save the World episodes HERE on Apple Podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to your How We Made Your Mother podcast feed. |
| 0:03.5 | Today, we're presenting an appearance by our own Craig Thomas on a podcast called Arts Educators Save the World, |
| 0:09.4 | where successful artists sit in conversation with their mentors to talk about the importance of art, arts education, and mentorship. |
| 0:16.2 | I produced this podcast with my lifelong friend, Erica, and last week we brought you an episode |
| 0:21.5 | with Josh Radner and his teacher from NYU. |
| 0:24.9 | This week, we've got Craig with Rob Greenberg, an experienced writer and showrunner, who |
| 0:30.1 | helped Craig and Carter in the early years of Himmium and Beyond. |
| 0:33.6 | If you enjoy these episodes, please check out Arts Educators Save the World, where guests have included Lynn Manuel Miranda, Annalie Ashford, Cecily Strong, Bradley Whitford, |
| 0:42.0 | Jonathan Groff, Billy Eichner, and many, many more. |
| 0:45.5 | Enjoy. |
| 0:46.4 | Writers often get asked, how do you learn how to do that job, or how do you learn how to be a show miner? |
| 0:50.5 | What's interesting about this podcast in general is exploring the different ways that |
| 0:55.0 | people learn and are mentored. Such a huge part of what Rob did for us and what I try to do to |
| 1:00.3 | younger writers now is just telling them they're not crazy. Just being reassured you're not crazy |
| 1:06.0 | for the weird, unique, specific thing you want to do, that the thing you think is special about the |
| 1:11.6 | thing you've created is worth holding on to. |
| 1:15.2 | This is arts educators save the world, where successful artists and their mentors talk about |
| 1:20.8 | how arts education transformed their lives. |
| 1:47.2 | Hey, hey, Alec, hey everyone. Welcome back to Arts Educators Save the World, a podcast where successful artists and their mentors talk about the impact that arts education has had on both of their lives. I'm really excited to be sharing this with you today. We are going to hear from two folks who do something artistically that I |
| 1:54.8 | know nothing about, which is the art of the showrunner. If you don't know what a showrunner is, be excited to hear |
| 2:05.0 | from two of television's most successful showrunners, Craig Thomas and Rob Greenberg. I got a chance |
| 2:14.6 | to hear about how people learn to do an art form that you don't pick up in formal education. |
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