{"podcast":{"title":"How We Made Your Mother","slug":"how-we-made-your-mother-7198017","podcast_index_feed_id":7198017,"rss_url":"https://rss.amperwave.net/v2/feed/audacynetwork/hwmym","website_url":"https://www.howwemadeyourmother.com/","image_url":"https://images.castfire.com/image/661/0/0/0/0-8382931.jpg","author":"Audacy & Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas","episode_count":100,"summary":"HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, a groundbreaking sitcom that ran for 208 episodes on CBS from 2005-2014, unfolds entirely as a flashback, using a time-bending narrative structure that spotlights the lives of five friends navigating love, friendship, dating, careers, failure, and success in New York City. The show has remained vibrantly alive in our collective pop culture memory, with fans around the world still sharing stories of how HIMYM is not just a hilarious comedy but also medicine for the soul in hard times. Now, JOSH RADNOR (who played “Ted Mosby”) has teamed up with series co-creator CRAIG THOMAS to explore, episode-by-episode, the mystery at the heart of what has made this show so durable and beloved. It’s time – much like the older, wiser narrator Ted does in the show – to look back on this adventure that occupied a pivotal decade of their lives: how the show changed them, how it changed its fans, and how it changed the culture. With plenty of special guests joining us along the way, this podcast will use HIMYM’s trenchant themes as jumping-off points for larger discussions about life, loss, and love. This is HOW WE MADE YOUR MOTHER: A flashback podcast for a flashback show.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-02T16:17:19.694198+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-we-made-your-mother-7198017"},"episode":{"title":"\"That's Not How it Happened\" | Instagram Live 1/11/26","slug":"that-s-not-how-it-happened-instagram-live-1-11-26","published_at":"2026-04-27T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-we-made-your-mother-7198017/that-s-not-how-it-happened-instagram-live-1-11-26","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-we-made-your-mother-7198017","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/prfx.byspotify.com/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/serve.castfire.com/audio/8238949/8238949_2026-04-14-010849.192.mp3?rssID=6399","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/prfx.byspotify.com/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/serve.castfire.com/audio/8238949/8238949_2026-04-14-010849.192.mp3?rssID=6399","summary":"This special How We Made Your Mother Instagram Live episode features producer Alek Lev in conversation with Craig Thomas, co-creator of How I Met Your Mother, centered on Craig’s novel That’s Not How It Happened . Over an intimate, wide-ranging 54-minute discussion, Craig unpacks the personal origins of the book—drawing from his experience parenting a son with a disability—while exploring language, representation, and the loneliness parents often feel navigating disability without a shared vocabulary or community. The conversation traces how those lived experiences intersected with his time on HIMYM, why he ultimately chose not to mirror his real life directly through Marshall and Lily, and how years of frustration trying to tell disability-centered stories in Hollywood led him to write a novel instead. Craig dives into the book’s multi-perspective, non-linear structure (very much in the HIMYM storytelling DNA), his commitment to avoiding both “inspiration porn” and tragedy narratives, and his goal of making a story about disability that is genuinely funny, human, and messy. Along the way, audience questions spark candid reflections on friendship, guilt, advocacy, inclusion, creative responsibility, and the idea that every character—and every person—is standing on some kind of life “cliff.” The live concludes with gratitude to the disability community, readers who felt seen by the book, and the shared hope that telling these stories helps people stay connected instead of pulling away. CONNECT WITH THE SHOW: Official Website (Send us your audio and written messages) Instagram READ JOSH’S MUSELETTERS ON SUBSTACK: Subscribe HERE . CRAIG’S BOOK IS AVAILABLE! Head over to CRAIG’S WEBSITE to order your copy of THAT’S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED. 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