Dinner’s on Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson - Welcome to How We Made Your Mother Season 2!

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

It’s been 20 years since How I Met Your Mother premiered, and just over 10 years since the finale. 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. You can listen to all episodes of season 1 now, and join Josh and Craig as they dive into season 2! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Dinner's On Me listeners. It's Jesse. I have something today for you that I'm really excited to share with you. I think you're going to like this. You might remember that I recently had the pleasure of having my buddy Josh Radner on the show. He was a guest on this podcast. If you missed that episode, go back and listen. It's such a great one. Josh is so smart, so intelligent, has such great takes on life. But we also got to chat about his time on how I met your mother and how he's become a genuine fan of the show and also how much of it still resonates with its millions of viewers. He has a podcast called How We Made Your Mother that he has created with the How I Met Your Brother co-creator, Craig Thomas, and they take you on an episode by episode journey through that show and how they made it and how the show changed them, how it changed its fans, how much it changed culture, and you know, just what makes that show so special to them and all the people people who love it. You can hear all the episodes of season one now and also join Josh and Craig as they dive into season two. Stay right here for more from Josh and Craig and join them for all

episodes of How We Made Your Mother wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everyone, I'm Josh Radner and I am so excited to tell you about how we made your mother a rewatch podcast looking back episode by episode at the hit TV show, How I Met Your Mother. played Ted Mosby the I in How I Met Your Mother for all nine seasons. And I'm here with Craig Thomas, 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. And we are thrilled to announce that we have

now joined the Office Ladies Network and are just beyond excited to be working with Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey. Well, thank you, Josh. We are thrilled to have you and Craig be part of the Office Ladies' family and something we love about how we made your mother is the amazing community of this show. The fans and people that write in, we think you guys are awesome. And I love when Josh and Craig get philosophical. I mean, I love all the behind-the-scenes stories, but my favorite is when Josh suddenly starts quoting Einstein or some ancient philosopher, and then he and Craig basically break down the meaning of love or the power of friendship or forgiveness or you name it. In season one of our podcast, we had a great time looking back at the 22 episodes of Himium's

Season 1. I was so into him being with Robin when he goes up in the suit. And it's really quite sexy for prime time just in terms of like the way they're looking at each other. Yeah. But the moment he says he's been in love with you, I almost was like, what? Ashley Williams? Every time Josh and I had to kiss on the show, I was very careful to have like boundaries, right? Like every time we kissed I would go like, oh.

Like I had like hard. The only way I can describe it possibly is like hard lips. Hard lips. One time Josh was like, you kind of like, are like pushing me away with your mouth every time we get. But I think what I was saying was, and it was very delicate what I was trying to do, which was to say... 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 Smalders. 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. And it feels very, like, relatable. And then I'll meet somebody who's like 15. I'm like, you were not alive.

And now we are launching season two. And while it wouldn't be Himium if we didn't keep a few secrets, we can tell you that we'll be talking with Joe Mangonello. People make me do that line to them a lot. B2DW, which is also another a breeze. And the amazing Brian Cranston. Whether it's how we met your mother, whether it's Breaking Bad. The thing, the question we always.

we skip asked is, did you know it was going to be a hit? And I go, no one ever knows. But what you do know and what I knew about how I met your mother is that it was good. So check out our website, How We Made Your Mother.com, where you can send in voice messages and emails. We love hearing from the fans. It's a huge part of the show, some of which we play and read on almost every episode. My name is Brianna, and I'm from Naples, Florida.

Hi, I'm Harrison. And I'm from the United Kingdom. I'm from Brazil. And I'm from Colombia. Hi, I'm Marika, from the Netherlands. And I'm from Iowa. Rhode Island, Connecticut. I'm Dallas, Texas.

Portland, Oregon. I am from Bulgaria. India. I'm from Chile, and I'm from Estonia. This is Selma from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Thank you all so much for the show. Thank you for doing this podcast. I love it.

It has meant so much to me. And learn about how you make a difference, our permanent campaign supporting congenital heart disease research for kids. Follow and listen to How We Made Your Mother, wherever you get your podcasts. You can hear all episodes of Season 1 now, and join Josh and Craig as they do. dive into season two. Stay right here for more from Josh and Craig and join them for all episodes of How We Made Your Mother wherever you get your podcasts.