Josh Radnor, an American actor, is set to be a part of a new podcast with How I Met Your Mother creator Craig Thomas.
Called How We Made Your Mother, it will "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," according to the synopsis.
It continues, "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."
Thomas revealed that the idea for the podcast came from Radnor’s wife, Jordana Jacobs, who is a clinical psychologist.
"She has never seen one episode of How I Met Your Mother in her entire life, not one. He loves this because he loved the idea of meeting somebody and falling in love with them, who didn't have preconceived notions about Josh, who hadn't spent nine seasons watching Ted Mosby on How I Met Your Mother, and the blur and confusion between, 'Is Josh like that? Is Josh not like that?,’” he explained.
The creator continued, "Of course, some of Josh is like Ted, and other things of Josh are not like Ted. Josh is a really good actor who inhabited that character wonderfully, but Josh is also his own person. So I think Josh was really happy to meet, and fall in love with and marry somebody who didn't come in with 208 episodes of How I Met Your Mother memorized."