Josh Radnor is having a very Ted Mosby moment in real life: he says it feels “wild” to realize he’s now basically the same age as “Future Ted,” the older narrator version of his How I Met Your Mother character.
Why the timing suddenly feels so meta
On the show, Ted narrates the story from the year 2030. Based on Ted Mosby’s stated birth date (April 25, 1978), that puts “Future Ted” at about 52 during the narration.
Radnor, born July 29, 1974, is now in the same age neighborhood—close enough that the show’s framing device has effectively “caught up” to him.
What Radnor said
Radnor discussed the full-circle feeling while appearing on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s Dinner’s on Me podcast, describing the realization as “wild” and reflecting on how strange it is to look back at the show from the same perspective as its older storyteller.
The rewatch era makes it hit harder
The timing also overlaps with Radnor revisiting the series publicly via a rewatch podcast he’s doing with How I Met Your Mother co-creator Craig Thomas, where they break down the show season by season.
A reminder of the show’s built-in nostalgia
Part of why this “Future Ted” benchmark resonates is that the series was always about memory—older Ted (voiced by Bob Saget) filtering youth through hindsight. The show ran from 2005 to 2014, which means a lot of viewers have aged into a similar reflection point, too.
