 Wil Wheaton (qv) got his role as Richard Burns after being  interviewed by Lazlow Jones (qv), the writer of the radio station  dialogue for the Grand Theft Auto video game series. Wheaton  admitted his abundant admiration for Jones work on the games, and  Jones eventually worked out the Richard Burns character specifically  for Wheaton. He recorded the voice work in a Rockstar Games studio  in about two hours.