What Keeps Jeff Swartz Up at Night

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What Keeps Jeff Swartz Up at Night
Jeff Swartz
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Question: What keeps you up at night?

Jeff Swartz: A clear sense of mortality and a deep sense of fear that for all the rhetoric I have very little to show for it.

Recorded on September 21, 2009

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