KCHAT

KCHAT is a fictional talk radio station in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002). Amy Sheckenhausen (voiced by Leyna Weber) is the host. Of the nine radio stations in the game, KCHAT is one of the two stations not represented in the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City soundtrack.

Interviewees

KCHAT runs live interviews with both local and national celebrities, along with listener call-in participation. During the broadcast played in the game, Amy talks with seven interviewees, some of whom appear elsewhere in the game.

One of the characters that appears elsewhere in the game is Jez Torrent, of the fictional band Love Fist. After this segment is an interview with professor and exaggerated feminist Michelle Carapadis, who discusses her recent published thesis describing an undercover experience on a construction site. Following that is an interview with Pat "Mr. Zoo" Flannerty, a Steve Irwin parody with an unconventional love for animals.

After Mr. Zoo is removed from the studio, Amy interviews a New Age priestess by the name of Gethsemanee Starhawk Moonmaker. During this interview, a caller makes lewd comments to Gethsemanee, asking her for punishment in a BDSM manner; this same caller calls the host, Lazlow, on Chatterbox, the talk radio station in Grand Theft Auto III, asking to be spanked by a nanny. The next interviewee is BJ Smith, an aggressive and overzealous American football legend and probable parody of O. J. Simpson. (Late in the game, Tommy Vercetti, through the player's choice, is able to buy a used car dealership from Smith.)

The final two interviewees appear in commercials on other radio stations in the game. The first is Claude Maginot, a classically-trained actor who is ashamed at his recent forced career change, a successful audition for the part of the father in Just the Five of Us, a fictional sitcom with a ridiculous premise involving a "mixup at the adoption agency" and "three zany new house guests". Both this sitcom and his successful interpretive dance performance, In the Future, There Will Be Robots, are advertised on other stations. Finally, Norse deity Thor (or a reincarnation, impersonator or channeler of him — it is not explained which in the game) appears to further explain and sell his series of self-help tapes, which give very ancient (and often violent) answers to common personal problems.

External links

• GameFAQs entry for GTA: Vice City, with scripts of KCHAT dialogue as well as other stations