Josh Radnor Teams Up with “HIMYM” Co-Creator Craig Thomas for Legendary New Rewatch Podcast (Exclusive)

How I Met Your Mother ended its triumphant run nearly 11 years ago after nine seasons.

As fans continue to give the show new life amid the streaming age, series alum Josh Radnor and co-creator Craig Thomas are also ready to revisit the show that started it all — and that's where their new rewatch podcast, How We Made Your Mother, comes into play.

Produced by Alek Lev, How We Made Your Mother, out March 10, will see the duo "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," a synopsis reads.

"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, who co-created the series alongside Carter Bays, tells PEOPLE the idea for the flashback podcast for the flashback series came from Radnor's wife, clinical psychologist Jordana Jacobs.

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"She has never seen one episode of How I Met Your Mother in her entire life, not one," Thomas, 49, says. "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?'"

"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," he continues. "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."

Thomas notes that Radnor's wife "Jordana wisely pointed out, 'At some point, I want to see this thing that you did for 10 years of your life.' And Josh said, 'Yeah, totally!'"

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In the years since How I Met Your Mother wrapped, Radnor tells PEOPLE how he and Thomas have "maintained a really close friendship, and we go out to dinner once or twice a year, and we talk about everything."

Eventually, said conversations often led to reflections on the beloved CBS sitcom where they "just go deep on analyzing the weirdness of this show we made together for so many years and what a long tail it's had in terms of people continuing to discover it, and its relevance seeming to be pretty steady in the culture," the Happythankyoumoreplease director explains.

"There's very few people that had the backstage pass to the whole thing that we did, but we also get to watch it unfold in culture, which is a strange, somewhat disorienting experience," Radnor, 50, continues. "I hadn't seen every episode of How I Met Your Mother. I'm a little bit mystified by the fervor it inspires in its fans, and I think I just wanted to revisit it with Craig all these years later and walk through it again with some older, wiser eyes with my friend and talk to other people and hear from fans."

Radnor hopes that the pair's podcast endeavor is "even interesting to people that aren't obsessed with How I Met Your Mother, or have only seen a couple episodes."

"I think it'll still be a fun listen," he says.

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How I Met Your Mother followed Ted Mosby (Radnor) as he told the story of how he met his wife and the mother of his children (Cristin Milioti) in reverse. Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan, Cobie Smulders and Jason Segel also starred across nine seasons. Bob Saget served as the series narrator, voicing Future Ted Mosby, before his untimely death in 2022.

All these years later, Thomas is aware that the series has "become this thing that's so much bigger than we could have imagined," he says, especially as fans of all ages continue to discover (or, rewatch) the show amid the streaming age.

Yet, amid a rise in nostalgia content and a slew of rewatch podcasts, why is now the right time for How I Met Your Mother to enter the rewatch podcast game?

"There's a couple of round numbers coming up, where we just hit one, and we're coming up on another," says Thomas, referencing the acclaimed comedy's recent 10th anniversary of its series finale airing in March 2014 and the 20th anniversary of its debut episode premiering in September 2005.

"There's something about those round numbers, 10 and 20, that feel like real markers. And the show itself is about time and nostalgia and reflecting and looking back, looking forward," Radnor explains. "So there's a lot of stuff baked into the podcast that parallels the ethos of the show, because Craig and I are approaching the age that older Ted was when he told this story to his kids. So it just felt like the right moment to look back."

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Adding to this, podcast producer Alek Lev says: "How I Met Your Mother seemed like it was going to be a television comedy in the classic sense. There were multiple cameras, there was a living room set and a bar set, and it was about half an hour. But from the very first episode, in style, structure, and substance, it was always different."

"That's what this podcast is going to be," he concludes. "It will seem like a rewatch podcast in the classic sense, with folks from the production talking about the show episode by episode for about an hour. But in style structure and substance, this is going to be different. How We Made Your Mother is the How I Met Your Mother of rewatch podcasts."

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How We Made Your Mother will debut on March 10 everywhere podcasts are streamed. In the meantime, all nine seasons of How I Met Your Mother can be streamed on Hulu and Netflix.

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