Spencer Bailey

And obviously, being a good hockey player, you need someone to shoot on.

So he put pads on me, and I grew up playing hockey goalie.

That was a huge part of my identity growing up, I think.

Like, as a kid, this idea of...

being in the net, stopping pucks.

It was a place I felt really safe, actually, and in control.

And like, my team is riding on me.

In a certain sense, I'm still kind of doing that now as an entrepreneur and as an editor.

I always, I don't know, I kind of, maybe this is overreach, but

I feel like I've always been drawn to positions that are in the last line of defense.

So like the hockey goalie, the drummer, the editor, the business owner, it all kind of falls on you.

If you get off beat, if you let a puck in, if you take your eye off the ball.

You forget to edit out a word.

You once said that surviving the crash caused you to understand death far earlier than most children do.

Do you have a sense that that might also influence your willingness to be the last line of defense?

Yeah.

I think there's an irrational thing that occurs when you go through an event like I went through.

Like I said, I was reborn.

I feel like I...

While I have no memory of it, I can only base it on sort of what Brandon's told me.