May 6, 2026 · 45 min · 17 segments
n this Spark episode, things get a bit looser and a bit more revealing. Katy puts David Airey on the spot with a mix of quick-fire questions, unexpected tangents, and…
David AireyGuest
Katy CowanHost
Uh, like I, again, I'm making a ton of assumptions, but I feel like I know you 'cause we have sort of chatted back and forth over the years and, uh, I get the impression that we can also come to the, you know, David Airey the graphic designer.
Um, and when you kind of go through that moment, you realize you are more than just your job title, and you probably have to work on the other things which are, let's be honest, more important.
And whenever everything was stripped away from him, he couldn't, he couldn't care for his family because he was, you know, months in, in, on a bed, I think he might have said.
... yeah, you ask yourself, you know, what are you really? So I, I, I wouldn't define myself as, um, as a graphic designer.
Um, but yeah, it's, it's, it's always, it's always more than that, and my, my family are really what, what matters most.
It's, um, the sadness of life, and I think, um, we all kind of try and not think about what could happen.
Work can be a very good distraction, can't it? We can sort of get ourselves whisked up in it and it can, it can help us numb the difficulties of life sometimes.
Uh, like I, again, I'm making a ton of assumptions, but I feel like I know you 'cause we have sort of chatted back and forth over the years and, uh, I get the impression that we can also come to the, you know, David Airey the graphic designer.
Um, and when you kind of go through that moment, you realize you are more than just your job title, and you probably have to work on the other things which are, let's be honest, more important.
And whenever everything was stripped away from him, he couldn't, he couldn't care for his family because he was, you know, months in, in, on a bed, I think he might have said.
... yeah, you ask yourself, you know, what are you really? So I, I, I wouldn't define myself as, um, as a graphic designer.
Um, but yeah, it's, it's, it's always, it's always more than that, and my, my family are really what, what matters most.
It's, um, the sadness of life, and I think, um, we all kind of try and not think about what could happen.
Work can be a very good distraction, can't it? We can sort of get ourselves whisked up in it and it can, it can help us numb the difficulties of life sometimes.
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