How We Met A (Mini) HIMYM Reunion
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What is the special‑edition HIMYM reunion audiobook and who narrates it?
Hey everybody, Craig Thomas here. Um, I just wanted to introduce this very special bonus episode. I'm very excited about it. This is chapter one of the novel I wrote called That's Not How It Happened. You may have heard us talk about it on the podcast, because there is a very big hymn yum tie-in. The audiobook has four characters. There are four voice narrators in it. Two of them are none other than Josh Radner and Kobe Smoke. Called for applause. There is also a wonderful actor named Kevin Ayanucci. He plays the character of Emmett, who has Down syndrome. Kevin was amazing in this movie Champions with Woody Harrelson, if you've seen that. He's just a fantastic actor. He's so good as Emmett in this book. And there's also a wonderful young actress named Marley Watson, who does the voice of Darcy, who is Emmett's younger sister.
So it's all It's the four members of this family all sharing where they are all at in these inflection points in their life. I'm so proud of this audiobook. It's done great. A Book of the Month Club selected it as one of the featured audiobooks the month the book came out in the fall. It got a prize for an exceptional audiobook, called an earphones award from Kirkus Reviews. I'm just so proud of how this. Audiobook came out. This cast is amazing. I hope you will love it as much as I do. And if you do, please go find the book. Find the audiobook. It's everywhere you would buy audiobooks, and we will also post a link, a HarperCollins link, I think, that can take you to a bunch of different ways to buy the book or the audiobook.
And I think Josh and Kobe hit it out of the park in this thing. It was it's such it's so cool that there's a hymn yum mini reunion in this. uh in this audiobook and we got special permission from HarperCollins and Hanover Square Press. I want to say thank you to them. They are allowing us to share this with you guys for free. This is copyrighted material that they own and they give us special permission to share this with the Howie Major Mother fans. I could not be more excited and happy to share it with you. And I hope you'll enjoy it and give it a lesson.
Chapter one Intellectual property Page. I am a special needs parent. Or at least that was the now somewhat problematic terminology when my son was born twenty four years ago. You see, some wonderful human beings out there took special and weaponized it into an insult meaning stupid, and that is why we can't have nice things. Then again, maybe special was always a bit condescending. Nowadays I think the preferred term would be the parent of a child with a developmental disability. Which is just super catchy and rolls right off the tongue. Put it this way, I am the proud mom of a boy, well, adult now, still struggling to wrap my head around that one, named Emmet, who has Down syndrome. He was our first. So my husband Rob and I were thrown into the deep end of the parenting pool before we knew how to doggy paddle.
Conveniently this all happened three thousand miles away from any friend or family support, which we'd left behind in our native New York after moving to Los Angeles for Rob's screenwriting career. And then we had a baby. And that baby turned out to be Emmet, who turned out to be a full time job. Raising Emmet, who is wonderful, and and challenging, I became an involuntary stay at home mom, struggling to support his numerous developmental and medical needs, which included an open heart surgery when he was just under a year old. Rob worked to support the family writing movies in Hollywood and became quite successful. Which was lucky because a more accurate term than special needs might have been fucking expensive needs.
Endless doctor visits, specialists, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy. My job as an investigative journalist, I'd carved out a niche exposing healthcare injustices against marginalized communities. A fire I now channeled into making sure Emmett got all the support and services he was entitled to generated far less money than Rob's, so my career was put on hold temporarily.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the special‑edition HIMYM reunion audiobook and who narrates it?
0:01–6:13
2
How does Craig Thomas describe the award‑winning production of *That’s Not How It Happened*?
6:13–13:19
3
Why does the narrator call herself a “special‑needs parent” and how does she explain the term’s evolution?
13:19–19:51
4
What challenges did the family face when raising Emmett, their son with Down syndrome?
19:51–24:43
5
How does Darcy’s perspective reveal the sibling experience in a family with a disabled child?
24:43–30:08
6
In what ways did Rob’s Hollywood career both help and strain the family’s dynamics?
30:08–34:29
7
Why did the mother create Café Everyone and a group home for young adults with disabilities?
34:29–39:27
8
What final reflections does the family share about love, responsibility, and the future?
39:27–44:50
Speakers
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