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Aikshrees Kanduraja

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444 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

And I get there and I'm like, hey, so, you know, I'm a journalist for this fancy glossy magazine.

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

This has all been scheduled.

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

Publicists, editors have been negotiating my arrival.

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

Can I walk around?

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

No, no, no, you can't.

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

I'm like, okay.

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

And they take me to this kind of press room and they tell me Messi will be there in a few minutes.

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

It's super hot.

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

This is like September.

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

I was not given so much as a glass of water and I waited.

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

And I waited and I waited.

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

And then someone came in and told me that I'd be meeting Messi, actually not then, but like before afternoon training.

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

And I was like, okay, so can I watch the training?

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

And they're like, no, absolutely not.

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

You cannot watch the training.

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

And I'm just like, what the hell?

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

I'm like, what is this?

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

So kind of like I'm peeking out the window and I see Messi and the other players arrive.

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

They have super fancy cars.

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This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!

And naturally, Messi did not come up to speak to me before training.

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