What you'll learn

• 1 (00:00) **Episode Introduction & Host Chat** - Craig Thomas introduces this special bonus episode featuring the first chapter of his novel "That's Not How It Happened," which includes a mini HIMYM reunion with Josh Radnor and Cobie Smulders as narrators.
• 2 (04:56) **Chapter One: Paige's Perspective - The Overwhelmed Mom** - The novel opens with Paige, Emmett's mother, reflecting on the isolating and exhausting reality of raising a child with Down syndrome after moving to Los Angeles.
• 3 (09:45) **The Move and Second Child** - Paige forces a move back east by "kidnapping her own womb," and they have a second child, Darcy, who is neurotypical, solidifying Paige's identity as "mom."
• 4 (12:40) **The Memoir and Its Explosion** - Paige writes a memoir called "Now What?" about raising a child with a disability and opens a business, Cafe Everyone, where Emmett and other young adults with disabilities can work.
• 5 (22:30) **Rob's Perspective - The Meet-Cute** - Rob narrates his version of meeting Paige at a Mets game, where she spilled beer on his head and they bonded by heckling a player named Jeremy Bernitz.
• 6 (24:25) **Rob's Hollywood Career and Emmett's Birth** - Rob sells his baseball rom-com script *Subway Series* for a life-changing amount of money, but Emmett is born around the same time with Down syndrome and needs open heart surgery.
• 7 (29:41) **Paige's Perspective - The Truth About the Movie** - Paige reveals she actually hates *Subway Series*, despite Rob claiming it's a love letter to her, because the character based on her is a Yankees fan (a betrayal to a Mets fan) and is entirely reactive, not a real person.

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