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Here is a conversation between Comedian Marc Maron(host of the wildly successful WTF Podcast) and Jason Segal (How I Met Your Mother, The Muppet Movie, Forgetting Sarah Marshall).

Jason Segel was drawn to acting because of a quote from The Muppets. Now that he’s been on a hit TV series, starred in several successful movies, and helped resurrect those very Muppets, what’s next? Jason talks to Marc about the changes in his life, the debt he owes Judd Apatow and the challenge of playing David Foster Wallace.

They discuss career, growing up, and how Jason dealt with being an odd mix of being an awkward kid stuck between Christianity and Judaism. What struck me most however, was his work trying to understand and play David Foster Wallace in the film ‘End of the Tour’ and through that a powerful theme arises about success, how we deal with it, how we consider it, and how it can ultimately control us.

Worth a listen.

Note: The movie, End of the Tour, is a piece built around a Rolling Stone Reporters visit to David Foster Wallace on his tour of Infinite Jest .