Spencer Bailey

See what happens.

And I did.

And two days later, I got called to lunch with the CEO and then publisher.

And they both said, we think you should be the editor.

And yeah, that was my holy shit moment of like,

This is an amazing opportunity.

But I also didn't have the hubris to think I was at all ready for that job.

You know, I was still kind of learning the ropes, but I had spent a lot of time thinking about storytelling, magazine making.

I mean, it wasn't coming out of nowhere.

And I had an eye.

Like, I feel like... And maybe this is something interesting to get into on the podcast today, is that my mom was an artist.

And my dad decidedly was not.

He's more of an engineer mind.

He studied civil engineering and...

We didn't grow up in a house that was like the most aesthetic thing.

There was an Alessi tea kettle.

My dad had a Montblanc pen that stood out to me as something that was nicer than most of the other things in the house.

My mom was an artist and had us painting.

There's photos of her with us at an easel.

Trent's on one side, I'm on the other.