Stryker (disc jockey)

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Stryker

Birth name	Gary Sandorf
Born	June 4, 1971 (1971-06-04) (age 37) Los Angeles, California
Show	Music/Loveline
Station(s)	KROQ
Time slot	4PM-7PM Monday-Friday 10PM-12AM Sunday-Thursday
Style	Music/Talk
Country	United States
Website	KROQ.com

Theodore "Ted" Ramón Stryker, born Gary Sandorf, and known on-air as simply "Stryker" (b. June 4, 1971), is an American radio personality and disc jockey.

Stryker began his career while attending the University of Arizona where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.^[1] During those 6.5 years ^[2], he began working at 92.1 KFMA in Tucson, Arizona. He eventually moved back to Los Angeles, California and worked at KROQ 106.7 FM as a music DJ in the afternoon from 4pm to 7pm (PST). After the departure of its former co-host, Stryker took over on the nationally syndicated talk show Loveline^[1] from 10pm to midnight (PST) with Dr. Drew. On September 4, 2007, he also became the new DJ for the 5th season of The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Stryker voiced the in-game radio disc jockey ("The Voice") in Burnout 3: Takedown as himself. He has also hosted shows on MTV, Fox Sports, VH1, Fuse and Direct TV and has acted in several feature films, including Grandma's Boy, Out Cold and The Sweetest Thing (he played a club-goer who stumbles upon the sight of Christina Applegate being felt-up by two other women in the restroom).^[1]

During the August 2, 2004 episode of Loveline with guest Randy Jackson, it was discussed that he had been hired as one of the original judges on American Idol, a position which he turned down before filming began over image concerns. Jackson related Stryker's position as "It's going to blow my cool."

Stryker has a handful of quirks, such as being able to spell and pronounce people's names backwards on the fly and formulate palindromes, as well as being mildly mysophobic. He revealed during several interviews that he was born with a tail, a benign protrusion of his coccyx (tail bone) from his lower back.^[3]