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Episode 197: Carter Bays and Craig Thomas Interview
This is the After Show for New York Mythological, featuring Andrew’s conversation with Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, creators of How I Met Your Mother.
As part of this MaxFunDrive run, Dead Pilots Society is featuring two pilots from Carter and Craig. In a few days, the second one, Gimme Five, will be released, followed by part two of Andrew’s interview with them.
The conversation gets into the real origins of How I Met Your Mother, the experiences, influences, and unexpected ingredients that eventually became the show. Carter and Craig also talk about the years before that success, and the many turns a writing career can take along the way.
It’s a funny, candid conversation about writing, setbacks, success, and the odd resilience it takes to keep making things.
Here is a link to "The Future is Now”, Oliver Beene theme song by Carter and Craig’s band “The Solids”
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