Season 2 Trailer
How We Made Your Mother
Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas
4.8 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
We're back! How We Made Your Mother returns for another season of rewatching the hit TV series How I Made Your Mother! Josh Radnor and series co-creator Craig Thomas will discuss all 22 episodes of Season 2, including classic episodes like “Ted Mosby: Architect,” “Swarley,” “Slap Bet,” and “Something Blue.” You like guests? We’ve got guests, including Joe Manganiello and that man who finally proved to the world that he had dramatic acting chops, through his iconic portrayal of Hammond Druthers, Mr. Bryan Cranston.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. I'm Josh Radner, and I am so excited to tell you about how we made your mother, |
| 0:05.4 | a rewatch podcast looking back episode by episode at the hit TV show, How I Met Your Mother. |
| 0:12.1 | I played Ted Mosby the I in How I Met Your Mother for all nine seasons. And I'm here with Craig Thomas, |
| 0:18.3 | who co-created the show along with Carter Bays. Hi, Craig. Hey, Josh. Somehow, it has been 20 years since the show premiered. I'm going to check the math on that. That seems wrong. Ten years since it went off the air, and we thought that made this a perfect time to look back, see what the hell we did and why the show still seems to resonate with fans around the world today. |
| 0:38.7 | In season one of our podcast, we had a great time looking back at the 22 episodes of Himium's |
| 0:44.0 | season one. I was so into him being with Robin when he goes up in the suit. And it's really |
| 0:51.4 | quite sexy for prime time just in terms of like the way they're looking at |
| 0:54.7 | each other. |
| 0:55.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.7 | But the moment he says, I think I'm in love with you, I almost was like, what? |
| 1:03.0 | Ashley Williams? |
| 1:04.1 | Every time Josh and I had to kiss on the show, I was very careful to have like boundaries, |
| 1:09.7 | right? |
| 1:10.7 | Like every time we kissed, I would go like, oh. |
| 1:13.6 | Like I had the hard. |
| 1:14.6 | The only way I can describe it possibly is like hard lips. |
| 1:17.6 | Hard lips. |
| 1:19.6 | One time Josh was like, you kind of like are like pushing me away with your mouth every |
| 1:24.6 | time we get. |
| 1:25.6 | But I think what I was saying was, and it was very delicate what I was trying to do, which was to say... Yeah, how did you say this? I think what I was saying was like, you're kissing me weird, right? I think that's all I was saying. It was like, you're kissing me weird. And our very own, Kobe Smolders. There are people who are our age who are like, I remember being in my 20s watching this show. And you're like, yeah, same, same. |
| 1:46.0 | Like, let, and it feels very, like, relatable. |
| 1:49.0 | And then I'll meet somebody who's like 15. |
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