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JORDAN ALEXANDER LAMDIN29 - CELEBRITY - RYAN KWANTEN - PRO SOCCER PLAYER is this your first time in ocean coast? "My first time at the ocean? What kind of question is that! No, I go to the beach all the time. Hell, I practically lived there for awhile. I've been to a lot of beaches all over the world. They're all pretty similar with sand, and well, the ocean. It's kind of majestic, you know, with the waves and all that. Kind of ties us all together in a way. What? The coast? Yeah, that's what I was telling you. I've been to the east coast before. I do travel, ya know. Hm? Wait, you mean that wasn't the question? Have I been to this town before? Oh yeah, uh, no I never even heard'a this place before my buddy told me about it. I had some down time for a little while and decided to check it out. It's okay. Not like the other places I've been to, but I mean for a basic beach town it's pretty nice. There's a lot of potential here if you know what I mean."when is your birthday? "My birthday is the second of July, 1983. I was born in the good ole U.S of A down by the golf coast." do you have any tattoos? "Tattoos? Yeah, I have one. It's over my right shoulder blade. Probably doesn't make a lot of sense to people, but it's roman numerals for the number 86. That's the age that my grandfather died, and it hit me a little hard, so I got the tattoo as a reminder of him. Most people think the tattoo is stupid, but it doesn't mean anything to them. But you know what, the way I see it, it doesn't have to. I didn't get it for them."what does your family life look like? "Family life...well...my family's not exactly the picture perfect family they make themselves out to be. My old man, he's sort of a dick. Actually, he is a dick. Basically the only thing he's good for is getting drunk lately. That's probably the reason I was so thrilled to get out of the states. My mom's the best. She the sweetest, nicest, loveliest woman on the earth. Every time I come and visit her she just has this huge smile of her face. I'm pretty sure that she's really proud of me. She doesn't really understand soccer that much, but she watches the games anyway. She's always really excited to talk to me about them. I have to make sure I call her after every game or she gets pretty upset. Most people don't know that she's kind of losing it. Her memory isn't all there. She got diagnosed with M.S when I was in my late teens, and since then it's just sort of been wearing her down. She can still move around fine, but sometimes it's hard to understand her. The words that she says are all jumbled, and it's been pretty rough but she's just so happy about everything that it's hard to be down about it. I'm an only child ever since my younger brother James overdosed. He had a heroin problem, and no matter what we did to try and help him, he just wasn't willing to help himself. Is that what you were looking for?"what would you say is your best trait? and your worst trait? "My best trait would definitely be how great of a person I am. When people are around me they are always laughing and seem to be having fun. The way I see it that has to be a good thing. I like knowing that I can make a person smile even with all the shit that's going on in the world. The small things count more than anything else. If that's not my best trait, well, then I would have to go with my athleticism. When I get out on the pitch it's the only thing that exists. Being able to zone out the crowd and flashing lights can be hard, but I think my ability to be able to do that makes me a great asset to the team. Besides, it helps that I have some of the best stats on the team. As for my worst trait, I think I'd have to go with my smarts. I'm not really the brightest guy around. I say the wrong thing sometimes, and I know people laugh at that. Most of the time it doesn't get to me. Like I said, I like making people laugh. what is your ideal friday night like? "My ideal Friday night would consist of a mellow beach party. There'd be a bonfire setup in the sand, some good music playing, and a few close friends for company. I'd have a cooler full of beer, and some good food that we grilled ourselves. We'd all be relaxing and laughing. I can picture it now. The moon would be high in the sky, and the only light around other than the fire. The party would be secluded and away from the rest of the world. I'd have some girl under my arm, and she'd be the only girl that I was interested in. My friends would all be turning at me to tell them some joke. I'd be the life of the party, and nobody would ever want to leave. Yeah...that would probably be what my ideal night would be."were you spoiled as a child? "I wouldn't say that I saw spoiled. Now, I'm not going to say that my parents didn't get me and my brother the things that we needed. I never wanted for anything, but my family wasn't rich. My first car was this shitty oldsmobile. It was probably 10 years old when it was purchased for me. I didn't care though because it was something that was mine. My parents liked to instill the idea of responsibility, so my brothers and I had to work toward the things that we wanted. We had to earn the things that we received in some way. At the same time, I was probably a lot better off than most. Regardless of that I stand by the fact that I wasn't spoiled growing up. That's probably why having all this money feels the way it does. I'm not used to it. My family never had this kind of money before, and now I'm taking care of them. "what is your biggest regret? "So far I think the biggest regret that I ever made in my life was not trying hard enough to be there for my younger brother. We didn't always see eye to eye. In many ways we were complete opposites. James was so much smarter than me. The guy had a good head on his shoulders. I know that he meant well, even in the end. Just, toward the end of it all he wasn't himself anymore. It was like he lost his way and just couldn't find his way back. I tried helping him, but I didn't try hard enough. He kept thinking that he had to live up to the things that I did, and that was never the case. In many ways I had always wanted to be more like him. I should have told him that more often. Maybe things would have been different if we just spent more time with each other. I don't know, sometimes I just think that there was something more that I could have done. I could have locked him in a room and forced him to get better. I could have gone to the meetings with him, showed more support instead of leaving the state. I made an effort, I tried to keep him included in my life, but I think by then it was too late. The memory that I have of James, and the way that other people are going to remember him are two different things. The person he was when he died wasn't my brother. In my head James is still smiling and happy after beating me in some video game. That's the way that I'm going to keep him."do you have any pets? "My mom thought that I could use some company, so yeah I do have a pet. It's a box turtle that she named Charlie. He's pretty easy going and quite the ladies man. I've had him for almost four years now."can you stick out your tongue and touch your nose? "Yep. My tongue is kind of long, so I mastered this technique back when I was really young. I can't remember exactly, but I think I was like 7 or so."if you could meet any person in history, who would it be? "Alfredo Di Stefano, hands down. The guy was one of the best players to ever play the game. He scored in 5 back to back European Cup finals. Mostly, I think I would like to travel back in time to his prime so that he and I could play against each other. I think that'd probably be one of the greatest moments of my life, but time travel doesn't exist yet."do you have any fears or phobias? "Everyone is afraid of something. Anyone that says otherwise is a liar. I think it's our fear of things that makes us stronger though. Personally my biggest fear is not amounting to anything, and just being forgotten. I want to leave a mark in the world and not just fade away. Leaving a legacy is probably something that everyone aspires toward. It's a form of immortality, and I guess I feel like it I can achieve it then I have a little less to be afraid of."name one thing on your bucket list? "Okay, if I tell you this you can't tell anyone, but I've always had this one wish where I wanted to go and see the monks in Tibet. I just wanted to go somewhere relaxing and peaceful. I used to look up pictures of it all the time, and the place just seems perfect. I've never had the opportunity to go yet, but I think once things wind down a little bit I'm going to book the trip."what is your most embarrassing moment? "When I was in middle school I was pretty uncoordinated, even for being on the soccer team for so many years. I was a bit of a loser, and hadn't really grown into my body just yet, so I was pretty awkward. Well, there was a Sadie Hawkin's dance approaching and I really liked this one girl Alex. We were friends, or at least I thought we were. I mean we talked and stuff, so I worked up the nerve one day to ask her. I got her a flower and everything because my mom told me that it would be the gentleman thing to do. I approached her, and stammered out my question on if she would go with me. Well, once she stopped staring at me, she started laughing at me that there was no way that she would go with me. Apparently she thought I was really weird and then told all the other girls that. It took me until freshman year of high school to get over that. The only reason I did was because I hit puberty and all that and girls started to think I looked good. I can still feel the mortification of it when I think back to it."what kind of car do you drive? "I'm not too big into cars, but it's a black, 2011 Audi. It runs well. Gets me from point A to point B. People seem to like it, so I guess it's a good car. I'm just glad to have one that I was able to buy brand new."did you go to college? what was your major? "Yeah, I went to college. I know that surprises a lot of people, but I actually went to the University of North Carolina on a soccer scholarship. We had one of the best teams in the country back when I played. I majored in Communication, like acting, film and television stuff. It was pretty great. I was even on this show that they aired in the area called General College. That's not something that I usually tell people though."are you currently happy with your life? "I don't have much to complain about. I've got a lot going for me. I'm successful, I'm pretty much a celebrity overseas. I feel like things are going how they should be. Is that happiness? I don't know. I think that I'm pretty happy."where do you see yourself in five years? "In five years, I kind of hope to have a family. I don't know, I'll be 34, so I mean I think by then I'd be ready to have someone in my life. There was someone before, but you know, things just don't always work out for me. I also hope that I'm still playing soccer. Maybe have a World Cup under my belt. I don't actually have a big plan mapped out. I just want to have a bit of something going for me. I want to have settled down a little by that point. I mean, I don't want to be alone forever, ya know?" SAM24 - EASTERN - NONE - CAUTION
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