The cast of How I Met Your Mother was on The Talk just a few minutes ago, and things were humming along charmingly—the hosts shuffling through cards with questions, the cast giving sweet little answers—when suddenly Jason Segel said, "I'll tell you a story that isn't on the cards."

Obviously, as people are wont to be when Segel gets all cute and impish, everyone was all ears. And he didn't disappoint. The group had been discussing the high-stakes casting decision that was filling the Mother role—and about how often they'd all been asked in interviews, over the years, whom they hoped or thought it would be.

"I ran out of answers, cute answers...so I just started saying I'm hoping for Hillary Clinton. I said it in a lot of interviews," Segel told Aisha Tyler.

Then, a year and a half ago, Segel arrived home one day to a very esteemed-looking piece of mail. "A letter arrived at my house...from Hillary Clinton." In it, Clinton said she was "very flattered" but that she was "busy with matters of the nation," which as it happens is the most badass excuse ever. If I could factually say that I was busy with matters of the nation, I'd say it to everyone: the dentist, my dog, robocallers. What a bawse.

As we know, Cristin Milioti ended up stepping in when the former Secretary of State couldn't make it work—and tonight, we get to see her story in the show's 200th episode, "How Your Mother Met Me." Eee!