Legal Name: Joseph Nathan Van Ginkel

Nickname: "Game Show Man"

Date of Birth: 26 September, 1978

Birthplace: King City, CA

Hometown: Anaheim, CA

Education: Bachelor of Arts Degree, Communication-Television/Film, California State University Fullerton

Mission in Life: Help return the television game show to the status of "beloved television genre," and become one of the best broadcasters of my generation.

Personal Motto: "Even a Game Show Man cannot live on game shows alone."

Unusual Afflictions: Autism, asthma and eczema.

Hair: Sandy blonde

Eyes: Blue-green

Height: 5’10" (okay, I miscalculated!)

Weight: Approximately 250 lbs.

Previous Career Experience: Far too long (seven and a half years!!!!) as a Customer Service Representative at Blockbuster Video, and an internship with Fox Sports West (did a lot of Anaheim Angels games). Also a DJ for Titan Internet Radio and for the American Radio Network. These days, I work as a proposals negotiator for Credit Foundation of America, a debt management agency in Irvine, CA.

Top 5 favorite game shows: The Joker’s Wild, Match Game, Password and Pyramid (tie), Card Sharks and $ale of the Century

Top 5 favorite game show hosts: Jack Barry, Dick Clark, Allen Ludden, Jim Perry, Gene Rayburn (sound familiar?)

Top 5 favorite non-game show television programs: Star Trek (original series and Next Generation; starting to get into Enterprise), Babylon 5, Good Eats, Tenchi Muyo! (Japanese animation series), and (almost) anything with Amy Jo Johnson

Stuff to do other than watch television: read, draw, surf the Web, listen to music, play games (especially board games like Frag and role-playing games like Deadlands and the Hero System) and see movies

Six people I’d like to have dinner with: Amy Jo Johnson (my favorite female celebrity in the cosmos), Dick Clark, Todd Newton (new-generation game show host), Randy West (game show announcer trained by the late great Johnny Olsen), Steve Long (game designer) and Alton Brown (host of Good Eats, a new-age cooking show; I have his book, and besides, he’s probably the only one of these characters I could cajole into helping me cook)

Favorite movies: Casablanca, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Wars films, The Usual Suspects, Big Trouble in Little China, Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Quiz Show

Favorite sports: Basketball (Go Lakers!), boxing (which I now participate in; I workout at the Bodies in Motion gym out in Irvine), and a little baseball on the side (Anaheim Angels rule, jack)

Favorite foods: hamburgers, pizza, chicken, chili (especially my own), steak (tri-tip, baby)

Favorite comedians: George Carlin and Denis Leary