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[[Image:Chatterbox.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Chatterbox FM logo]] | [[Image:Chatterbox.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Chatterbox FM logo]] | ||
'''Chatterbox FM''' is owned by [[Donald Love]]'s [[Love Media]]. It is hosted and produced by [[Lazlow]] (who also co-wrote the script along with [[Dan Houser]]). Chatterbox FM is the only radio station in the game that does not feature music. Much like the talk radio stations in the real world, Chatterbox features a format in which listeners call in with opinions, concerns, and complaints, and the host responds with their take on the situation. The station also features two long interviews with fictional [[Liberty City]] characters — the pacifist, organic food-eating martial artist | '''Chatterbox FM''' is owned by [[Donald Love]]'s [[Love Media]]. It is hosted and produced by [[Lazlow]] (who also co-wrote the script along with [[Dan Houser]]). Chatterbox FM is the only radio station in the game that does not feature music. Much like the talk radio stations in the real world, Chatterbox features a format in which listeners call in with opinions, concerns, and complaints, and the host responds with their take on the situation. The station also features two long interviews with fictional [[Liberty City]] characters — the pacifist, organic food-eating martial artist [[Reed Tucker]], and the "cheap pimp from upstate", [[Fernando Martinez]] (a future recurring character in the GTA series, with a lot of experience in and out of radio). Chatterbox FM is the [[Triads]] favorite radio station. | ||
This being Grand Theft Auto, the callers and calls are naturally humorous, and include such jokes as a man calling to tell Lazlow that he needs a nanny to spank him (a call so popular it would spawn a version about witches in [[Vice City]] and even its own commercial in [[San Andreas]]), a man calling in regard to taxes (which he pronounces like "Texas"), [[Toni Cipriani]] calling with an embarrassing story about his mother, a man who hates clothes ("Does a lion wear clothes? And the lion is the king of the jungle!"), and [[Maria Latore]] | This being Grand Theft Auto, the callers and calls are naturally humorous, and include such jokes as a man calling to tell Lazlow that he needs a nanny to spank him (a call so popular it would spawn a version about witches in [[Vice City]] and even its own commercial in [[San Andreas]]), a man calling in regard to taxes (which he pronounces like "Texas"), [[Toni Cipriani]] calling with an embarrassing story about his mother, a man who hates clothes ("Does a lion wear clothes? And the lion is the king of the jungle!"), and [[Maria Latore]] calling regarding relationship troubles with her boyfriend, the unnamed main character (in [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|GTA:San Andreas]] he is referred to as [[Claude]] and is also mute) Maria on Claude: "He don't talk much". | ||
One caller calls in to talk about turnips. Lazlow tells this caller that "This isn't 'Gardening with Maurice'." ("Gardening with Maurice" would later be featured on [[WCTR]], a talk radio station in San Andreas.) | One caller calls in to talk about turnips. Lazlow tells this caller that "This isn't 'Gardening with Maurice'." ("Gardening with Maurice" would later be featured on [[WCTR]], a talk radio station in San Andreas.) | ||
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Reed Tucker is a guest on Chatterbox. It is said by both Lazlow and Reed that he has a food market ("Now and Zen") in Trenton, but none exists in the game. After the Reed Tucker conversation a caller yells at the end of the call "free Kevin!", reference to infamous computer hacker Kevin Mitnick. Reed also calls into the radio in San Andreas, making a comment about masticating that the show's host interprets as masturbation due to Reed's lisp. | Reed Tucker is a guest on Chatterbox. It is said by both Lazlow and Reed that he has a food market ("Now and Zen") in Trenton, but none exists in the game. After the Reed Tucker conversation a caller yells at the end of the call "free Kevin!", reference to infamous computer hacker Kevin Mitnick. Reed also calls into the radio in San Andreas, making a comment about masticating that the show's host interprets as masturbation due to Reed's lisp. | ||
The replies Lazlow gives to his callers are usually comically caustic and opinionated. A common reply to nonsense callers is "Well I'm sure that's a lesson to us all." An interesting point is that in this game, Lazlow off-handedly mentions that he is only hosting Chatterbox because he "got kicked off the rock station", | The replies Lazlow gives to his callers are usually comically caustic and opinionated. A common reply to nonsense callers is "Well I'm sure that's a lesson to us all." An interesting point is that in this game, Lazlow off-handedly mentions that he is only hosting Chatterbox because he "got kicked off the rock station", having hosted [[V-Rock]] in [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City|GTA: Vice City]] and [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories|GTA: Vice City Stories]] (with [[Cousin Ed]]. When he first takes the Chatterbox job in 1998, he is referred to as the host "run out of both Vice City and San Andreas." | ||
The many guests on the station were voiced by: Lucien Jones, Karin Bykowski, Hank Stewart, Abbi Davis, Mellowvision.com, Paul Maloney, bernieS, Frank Fava, Kit Halsted, Joe Casalino, Dan Houser, Jay Crutcher, Frank Chavez, DJ Rush, A.M. Watson, Laura Bykowski, Navid Khonsari, Sherry Wohglmuth, Porkchop, Renaud Sebbane, Kyle Maclachlan, Sabby, Kim Schaefer, Debi Mazar, Nick Mandelos, David Connell, Reed Tucker, Jennifer Kolbe, Ami Plasse, Keith Broadus, Cameo Carlson, JD Leeds and Michael Madsen | The many guests on the station were voiced by: Lucien Jones, Karin Bykowski, Hank Stewart, Abbi Davis, Mellowvision.com, Paul Maloney, bernieS, Frank Fava, Kit Halsted, Joe Casalino, Dan Houser, Jay Crutcher, Frank Chavez, DJ Rush, A.M. Watson, Laura Bykowski, Navid Khonsari, Sherry Wohglmuth, Porkchop, Renaud Sebbane, Kyle Maclachlan, Sabby, Kim Schaefer, Debi Mazar, Nick Mandelos, David Connell, Reed Tucker, Jennifer Kolbe, Ami Plasse, Keith Broadus, Cameo Carlson, JD Leeds and Michael Madsen | ||