Aikshrees Kanduraja

And I think, you know, you know this, but I think it's worth repeating just what a genius is.

Lionel Messi is spoken of in the same breath as Pelé as Maradona and I felt like there are people who watch Lionel Messi play a game and they're like man he's good and there are people like me who understand it or feel like we understand it on a completely different level and I thought that there would be a way that I could express to him that my understanding of what he was accomplishing on the pitch was not like

woohoo, goal.

You know, it was a much more sophisticated understanding.

And I was like, yeah, no doubt me and Leo are going to be friends.

That's totally realistic.

I was imagining us like, you know, hanging out at his house, like playing Xbox or, you know, FIFA or something.

And then like going to eat some like

Argentine barbecue somewhere, the grill in Barcelona somewhere.

And then, you know, riding, riding in his car.

And then at the end of the night, he'd be like, you know what, man, you're so cool.

Normal stuff.

So this is what I was imagining.

Right.

And yeah.

So basically 36 hours after my wedding, I'm on a plane to Barcelona.

I arrived in New York, so I flew from San Francisco to New York.

I checked my email, and that's when I got the first blow, which was that I would no longer have three days with Lionel Messi.

I would have a single day.

Now, I still thought a single day is good, you know?