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[[caption-width-right:182File:CapitolGhost_4186.jpg|frame|[[Catch Phrase|"I am your host, the man they call Ghost."]]<ref>[[Stupid Statement Dance Mix|"I'm a fat fruity bastard, and I'm a nice guy!"]]</ref>]]
{{quote| "I am not a racist, I am a [[Memetic Mutation|melting pot of friendship]], and I want you to amplify that all over the internets."}}
 
{{quote| "I am not a racist, I am a [[Memetic Mutation|melting pot of friendship]], and I want you to amplify that all over the internets."}}
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[[caption-width-right:182:[[Catch Phrase|"I am your host, the man they call Ghost."]]<ref>[[Stupid Statement Dance Mix|"I'm a fat fruity bastard, and I'm a nice guy!"]]</ref>
 
Meet John Conquest, AKA [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname|Ghost,]] [[Authority in Name Only|King of the Mexicans,]] a racist, tiger shrimp-eating, [[Camp Gay|flamboyant,]] [[Fat Bastard|morbidly obese,]] [[Shapeshifting|shapeshifting]] [[Canada, Eh?|Canadian]] [[Informed Judaism|Jewish]] [[The Reptilians|lizard]] who [[Domestic Abuse|abuses his family,]] proclaims his love of ''[[My Little Pony]]'', and takes advantage of the welfare system all the while [[Ho Yay|having a torrid affair with Herman Cain]] and pining after [[Sarah Palin]].
 
...well, if you listen to his [[Troll|fans]], anyway.
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Ghost is actually a Texan pundit who broadcasts True Capitalist Radio on blogtalkradio.com. He is an ardent capitalist (at least he [[You Keep Using That Word|calls himself one on every possible occasion]]; True Materialist Radio might be a more appropriate name for the program), and his show goes through the usual topics, starting with the markets, then on to coverage of recent political headlines. And like all good political talk shows, he also frequently takes calls from listeners.
 
Here in lies the problem (at least for him, anyway). Listeners have noticed that he has a [[Hair-Trigger Temper|short temper]] when it comes to certain topics (check that, he has a short temper towards ''a lot'' of topics), and as such, viewers have discovered that he is very easy to [[Troll|troll]]. Much to his dismay, this makes the show [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness|start off serious but then quickly go off course more and more towards the end of the show]], where the [[Audience Participation|Radio Graffiti]] segment (rapid-fire calls with no real topic) pretty much turns into a [[Internet Tough Guy|punching match]] between him and the people who persistently try to test his patience (often successfully). This has lead to [[True Capitalist (Radio)/Characters|a large rogues gallery of trolls and characters]] that call him up and interact with him in various entertaining ways.
 
Though, when he's ''not'' raging, Ghost ''is'' a relatively good pundit (if you, er, share his views); he knows where the money is, and he knows how his listeners can get in the action themselves (unless they're doing it with welfare checks, of course)
 
All the noteworthy episodes are available on Youtube. If you're an actual capitalist looking to learn something from him, you might want to listen to some of the older ones, which can be found [http://blogtalkradio.com/ghost here.]
 
There has been much speculation regarding whether Ghost is genuine in his antics, or if he's a [[Troll]]. Following the show's (alleged) cancellation on May 23, 2012, it was revealed in a final chat session that {{spoiler|both sides are sort of right. His rages were exaggerated and he is, in fact, friends with the troll Amy Daly, but he was also a Texan capitalist and a genuinely angry man when he started the show- three hours a day of ranting about politics and being trolled helped him get it all out of his system. However, knowing his nature, it is likely all of this is suspect and that this may be a hiatus.}}
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* [[Angrish]]: Sometimes Ghost rages so hard he can't form a simple word. Especially in his earlier, pre-brony broadcasts.
** The Engineer speaks this as his first language.
* [[A Day in Thethe Limelight]]: On 12/6/11, the Engineer hosted the end of the show, and again on 1/09/12. Ghost was not happy.
* [[And Your Little Dog, Too]]: Ghost threatens trolls who really piss him off with tracking them, go to their houses, beat their asses, bang their wife, beat their dog and [[Beyond the Impossible|drown their goldfish.]]
* [[Ascended Meme]]: Ghost is now actually fond of NavyHuskie's "Taco Tuesday" remix, mainly because it declares him the "king of Mexicans", and its about his favorite day (ignoring the parts where he calls himself a hambone and the "king of racist", of course)
** Tara Strong (a ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' voice actor) uses the term "melting pot of friendship." Also, as he ended his show, she tweeted him saying "I don't know u, but the fans love u, so u must be #twilightlicous...& your rant about that lil song made me laugh.."
** And unlike Mike Pollock, even after she found out the significance of the term, she said she'd still very gladly do voice requests for fans, actually finding the meme pretty funny. So Tara Strong.... you ARE a champion!
* [[Artifact Title]]: Apparently, the show used to be called "True ''Conservative'' Radio", boy things have changed.
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* [[Breather Episode]]: The December 24th show can be considered this.
* [[Brick Joke]]: Throughout October, trolls called in wishing Ghost a merry Christmas, causing him to rage that it wasn't even Halloween yet. And then, months later, in the Christmas show...
{{quote| '''Caller:''' Happy Halloween, Ghost!}}
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Ghost is the butt monkey of his own show!
* [[Camp Gay]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZjcSA9luic Caller 111]/The Internet Buttstalker, who calls in a ridiculously effeminate voice while making ''very'' suggestive requests.
* [[Canada, Eh?|Canadia, Eh?]]: Ghost seems to have a thing against Canada for some reason...
{{quote| "Y'know, there's something very ''Canadian'' about you calling me from the tub."}}
** According to Ghost he hates Canada because [[Too Soon|they booed the national anthem a few days after 9/11]].
* [[Catch Phrase]]: There are just ''way'' too many things he says on a regular basis:
{{quote| "Now, I think it's time for everybody's favorite part of the broadcast, AND I'M TALKIN' ABOUT RADIO GRAFFITI!"<br />
"(Area code/Skype name), Radio Graffiti."<br />
And when he's particularly pissed: "Radio god damn/frickin Graffiti"<br />
"I'm a melting pot of friendship!!"<br />
"[[Blatant Lies|I'M A NICE GUYYY]]!"<br />
"You know it and I know it."<br />
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"''x'' ON THE NEXT FREAKIN' [[Geraldo Rivera|GERALDO]]!" }}
** Reactions
{{quote| "...argh Jesus Christ..."<br />
"... GET 'EM OFF!"<br />
"... shove it up your ass!"<br />
"You sorry sacks of crap!"<br />
"You stupid milky-licker."<br />
"You sad/sick/stupid son of a bitch."<br />
"Shut up, ya stupid moron!"<br />
"I never said that!"<br />
"You're takin' too long."<br />
"...Helen Keller deaf-mutes."<br />
"...you're [[Mistaken for Masturbating|playin' with your peter-popper.]]" (or pecker-shaft)<br />
"...Aww, he hung up!"<br />
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"My heart's beatin' like a rabbit!" }}
** Rage mode
{{quote|"Look at this, THEY'RE LAUGHING! THEY'RE LAUGHING!"<br />
"I am taking the necessary steps to get punitive damages, OUTTA YOUR ASS!!!"<br />
"I'M SHOOTIN' GODDAMN PEARLS AT YOU IDIOTS!"<br />
"Gimme the mic. GIMME THE MIC!!"<br />
"Get this mike outta my face. GET OUTTA MY FACE!"<br />
"I WISH THIS WAS YOUR FACE!" *smash smash smash*<br />
"THEY'RE FRUITIN' UP!!"<br />
"YOU'RE TURNIN' IT INTO FRUITBOWL WEDNESDAY!!"<br />
"Their assholes are puckerin'!"<br />
"WHERE'RE THE PARENTS?! WHERE'RE THE PARENTS?!"<br />
"I'M GAGGIN' OVER HERE! I'M GAGGIN'!"<br />
"I'm jaded man. I mean, I'M DEPRESSED!"<br />
"I'M A CAPITALIST! AND I DESERVE RESPECT ACCORDING TO THAT TITLE!"<br />
"I don't have to be here, you know; I COULD BE ON 6TH STREET!!"<br />
"THAT'S IT! STICK A FORK IN ME, I'M DONE!"|"GET ME OUTTA HERE, ENGINEER!"}}
** And the Trolls
{{quote| 213/Ghetto Capitalist has "Ghost baby, what's going on?"<br />
"Geez, what do ''YOU'' want?!"<br />
"STOP CHOKING THAT DAMN KID!"<br />
"We've got our EBT cards, baby!"<br />
347 has "SUCK MY DIIIIICK!"<br />
Tub Guy has "Oh ''my!''"<br />
"It will be totally legit!"<br />
661 has "[[Product Placement|Surgeradio.org]]"<br />
"Yeah, DDoS that, alright."<br />
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"It's me, Asho." ([[Collective Groan|*groan*]])<br />
Note Party/Tri$ha has "Hey Ghost, it's meeee!"<br />
Shut Up Mom has, well, [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|"SHUT UP, MOM!"]]<br />
KaraszKun has "Do you want me to stick around for a while?" }}
* [[The Chessmaster]]: CelticBrony claimed to be this after his doxxing, but few actually believed him until months later, when Ghost's twitter account was hacked and it turned out that he ''wasn't'' lying about having a master plan. Apparently MrTacoz and Ibanezzo were in on it the whole time, and the NCF were involved somehow.
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* [[Corpsing]]: On June 21st, Ghost can be heard trying to stifle a laugh at a Skype troll's name.
** On May 4th 2012, Tub Guy can be heard breaking when telling Ghost he convinced Hasbro to make a Pony based on Ghost.
* [[Crack Pairing]] ([[In -Universe]]): There's a chatroom user called "Asho Banged Tub-Guy."
* [[CowboyMedia BebopResearch At His ComputerFailure]]: Ghost from time to time gets his facts wrong on multiple subjects.
** He thinks [[Touhou]] is an "ani-mee" foot fetish.
* [[Curse Cut Short]]: Sound effect variant. Sometimes when Ghost gets really angry, his swears are cut short by him throwing cans everywhere.
* [[Day of the Week Name]]: Taco Tuesday, Baller Friday.
** However, he does ''not'' want the show to turn into Carpet Munching Monday, Fruitbowl Wednesday, or Bathhouse Thursday.
* [[Deconstruction Fic]]: Predictably, in response to all the pony-hate he propagates "''THROUGHOUT THE WORLD!''", someone got the bright idea to do a complete send-up of Ghost's show, but discussing ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' instead; complete with calling people "carrotbowls" and hating on capitalists. The result? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQJv7tkSOZQ True Equestrian Radio].
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: "Slanderous lies".
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYz2lIJUqVE All you remixing jerks are jerks]".
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** "The idiots from the top are idiots."
** The 'Melting Pot of Racist' splice.
{{quote| I am a racist, I am a melting pot of racist, and I have a whole bunch of slaves that happen to be black!}}
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: The cancellation of the show at the end of February was this for many trolls.
** [[Hope Spot]]: Ghost came back for two Taco Tuesdays in the middle of March, leading listeners to believe he was genuinely back- but it would be toward the end of April that he would actually resume regular shows.
** And then those regular shows would be abruptly cut off by the ''actual'' cancellation of the show on May 24th, making ''them'' into a [[Hope Spot]] as well.
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** Ghost's reaction to CelticBrony trying to dox him was to not only dox him back, but to dox any trolls connected with him and run them off the internet, then encourage Celtic to commit suicide.
* [[Dumb Is Good]]: In the October 18's broadcast, Ghost expresses a love for the mentally retarded.
* [[Early -Bird Cameo]]: KaraszKun was given a twitter shoutout right before the Ghosties awards on December 31st, 2011.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Up until 2010, his show was really a fairly ordinary, if rather extreme, far-right radio show.
* [[Ensemble Cast]]: Oh yes. Even discounting the main crew of trolls and capitalists, there are a massive number of splicers who usually show up on twitter or call in only occasionally (The Harbingerr, Navy Huskie, Alex S, Elfoxoloco, DarkRazorZ, etc.)
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** Even more ironic, is that he dedicated New Year's Eve to ''honoring'' them.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Ghost actually called one of his younger trolls this. [[Crosses the Line Twice|The troll reacted by pretending to have an orgasm.]]
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Equestrian Citizen [[The Reveal|revealed himself]] to be [[Pretty Fly for Aa White Guy|a white guy using a voice changer]] and promptly began sucking up to Ghost.
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
** Early lineup:
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*** [[The Chick]] — The Aborted Fetus
*** [[The Sixth Ranger]] — Celtic Brony
** Modern lineup:
*** [[The Hero]] — Ghetto Capitalist
*** [[The Lancer]] — Tub Guy
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*** [[The Dragon]] — Gasgara
*** [[The Evil Genius]] — [[Obfuscating Stupidity|The Engineer]]
*** [[The Brute]] — Goofy Bone
*** [[The Dark Chick]] — Debi Daly
** Modern lineup:
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*** [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]] — Celtic Brony (briefly), Equestrian Citizen
* [[Forced Meme]]: Ghost tried to advocate the use of the term "hambone" to insult what he considers to be overweight people who contribute nothing to society. The trolls gladly helped it become a popular meme... by splicing clips of Ghost calling ''himself'' a hambone.
{{quote| Ghost, from True Capitalist Radio, is a HAM-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE.}}
* [[Game Mod]]: ''True Capitalist [[Doom]]: Bronies on Earth''. Replacing various weapons and powerups with various happenings on the show, such as a "Can crusher" shotgun, a pearl launcher as the rocket launcher, a hadoken for the [[BFG]] or invulnerability being "Chatroom Martial Law". Although the enemy sprites weren't changed, they did receive some voices and names such as the Fruitbowl (Imp) or FU Texas Beast ([[Cyber Demon]], which of course, plays "Fuck You Texas" when it comes out).
** Ghost himself claimed he actually liked the DOOM mod.
* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: The NCF (or someone claiming to be a member, at least) suddenly hacking Ghost and making him quit True Capitalist Radio on May 23rd.
* [[Godzilla Threshold]]: After [[Despair Event Horizon|Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina primary,]] Ghost was so disgusted with the crop of Republican candidates that he considered supporting Ron Paul.
** He has also considered moving to "Canadia" since, in his words, they're getting more capitalist than America
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* [[I Am the Trope]]: On the 12/06/11 show, Ghost said "I ''am'' Blog Talk Radio!"
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: After True Capitalist Radio stopped being just another show to troll and became basically an online sitcom with characters and an (unwilling) [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]], DarkRazorZ began naming the episodes when he uploaded them onto Youtube. They're usually named after the best troll of the day or a running gag throughout the episode ("12 Year Old Vs Ghost," "RIP Steve Jobs," "Spectator's Spectacular Testicles," etc.)
* [[I Knew It!]]: [[In -Universe]]. [https://twitter.com/#!/ghostpolitics/status/160089343208325121 He guessed right that the Megaupload controversy was a trap].
** He knew the whole situation with Asho in November was all a setup.
* [[I Lied]]: Ghost claimed that his final show would be on March 9th. As it turned out, there was no show on that date, and it was merely an attempt to troll the trolls.
* [[Incoming Ham]]:
{{quote| Well folks, I think it's time for everybody's favorite part of the broadcast, AND I'M TALKIN' ABOUT ''RADIO GRAFFITIIIIII''! Hahahahaaaa!}}
** "Ghost baby what's goin' on?!"
** "SUCK MAH DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK, SUCK MAH DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK-"
* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: "Cause drinking is what I like to do~!"
** Well, there's gotta be an explanation for all those cans! However, he considers himself to be a connoisseur and ''not'' an alcoholic. He has also often used the allure of cheap drinks on 6th Street as an excuse for potentially ending the show when he's angry.
* [[Internet Tough Guy]]: "YOU'RE LUCKY WE'RE NOT IN A GODDAMN BARROOM BECAUSE I'D BEAT THE LIVING BAJEZUS OUT'A YOU!"
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: 9/27/11: A guy says an old [[MeMemetic MeMutation|meme]]. According to Ghost, it's why America is going down the toilet. No, it does not make sense in context.
** He makes fun of ethnic minorities like there is no tomorrow. He's not a racist, though!.
* [[Insult Backfire]]: Any insult Ghost tries to use on the trolls will either be ignored, accepted with glee, used against him, or turned into ''yet another'' remix.
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* [[Intercontinuity Crossover]]: "I GOT MY LITTLE PONY CHARACTERS CALLING ME NOW"
* [[Interrupting Meme]]: "SUCK MAH DIIIIICK!" was used in such a manner on one occasion.
* [[I Read It for Thethe Articles]]: Some people actually listen to Ghost for his political opinions.
* [[It's All About Me]]: "I'M THE TALENT! ME! NOT THE ENGINEER! ME!"
* [[Is This Thing On?]]: How Ghost began his big comeback on April 17th.
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: When accused of being, for example, a "racist, [[Shape Shifter|shapeshifting]] Jew," his response is "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUAsAmhfBIw&feature=related I'm not a Jew!]". Could be considered a running joke.
** A caller sings a parody of "[[Rudolph the Red -Nosed Reindeer]]" where he calls Ghost a racist, a fruitbowl, a hambone, and a reptile. But Ghost doesn't get offended until he says "Hannukah night".
* [[Jerkass]]: Ghost himself.
** He went off on a rant about members of [[Slipknot]] crying about their bassist's death thus:
{{quote| He was a fat idiot! What did they think would happen? ...crying like ''bitches.''}}
* [[Kayfabe]]: No one knows how real some of the more... eccentric... figures on True Capitalist are, but few bother to try and find out, since [[Pass the Popcorn|it's a hell of a lot of fun anyway.]]
* [[Kick the Dog]]: A literal case: Ghost tells one his listeners that he'll respect him if he kicks his dog on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymfbMcBcVF4&feature=related 27th September 2011].
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* [[Kill the Poor]]: Ghost suggested that welfare food cards should be replaced with feeding the poor and unemployed with horse meat from put-down horses and wild boars, and he also suggests killing stray cats and dogs for blankets. However, actually killing the homeless [[I'm a Humanitarian|to use their bodies to feed the poor]], as one troll suggests, is crossing the line.
** Ghost also once called for replacing welfare with putting the unemployed in "labor camps" instead.
* [[Kissing in Aa Tree]]: "Ghost and Alex Jones/sitting in a tree/K-I-S-S-I-N-G/first comes fearmongering/then comes gay marriage/then comes my fruity-ass fruitbowl gay son-"
* [[Large Ham]][[Just for Pun|bone]]: When he starts a rant on something, he can get very hammy.
* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: Senator Pooptickler, who is terrifyingly good at doxing people.
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** There was an instance where a caller callled in multiple times simply repeating "Penispenispenispenispenispenis..."
** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5EsLvSzqGo "Accident-Prone Kids for Ghost."]
{{quote| "Underfed kids, beaten kids, molested kids, lost kids, crying kids, homeless kids, hit and run kids, broken arm kids, broken leg kids!"}}
* [[Manipulative Editing]]: Its frighteningly easy to make him rage. Just take one of the following sentences (or for bonus points find something he said in the previous episode), and change ''x'' (or a key word in another sentence) to the word of your choice.
** "I happen to have a whole bunch of friends who ''x''/who happen to be ''x''"
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* [[Mistaken Identity]]: "Is this Nikolai?!"
** [[Thoroughly Mistaken Identity]]: Someone [[Bullying a Dragon|prank-called]] [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|the FBI]] with splices of Ghost's voice, and as a result he sounds completely, hilariously insane:
{{quote| '''FBI:''' Hello, this is the FBI.<br />
'''Ghost:''' Is this Nikolai?!<br />
'''FBI:''' ...no, this is the FBI.<br />
'''Ghost:''' You cock-eyed Russian. }}
* [[Mondegreen]]: In the November 1 Radio Graffiti segment, a caller, impersonating Twilight Sparkle from [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] says "suck my flank" to imitate the "Suck my dick" guy. Ghost mishears it and says "Are you kidding me?! Suck my BLANK?!"
** Ghost misheard Tri$ha saying "what do you have against the [[TranssexualTranssexualism|third gender]]" as "surf dinner", to which he replied "I ''like'' Surf 'n' Turf, what the hell you talking about?"
** Ghost has misinterpreted the word "[[Touhou]]" as "[[Blind Idiot Translation|toe hoe]]" on several occasions, causing him to rant that the fandom is made up of "[[Foot Focus|sick foot fetish freaks]]".
* [[Motor Mouth]]: Ghost.
** Some of the callers are this, because they have to fit whatever they're trying to enrage Ghost with into a few seconds so he doesn't hang up on him.
* [[National Stereotypes]]: In his "Guess the Minority" game, Ghost tries to identify the race of the caller by asking questions relating to these (i.e. "What is your favorite food?")
* [[No Ending]]: CelticBrony's [[Xanatos Gambit]] paid off and he 'beat' Ghost, but his victory meant pretty much nothing; Ghost is preparing to implement some new capitalistic ideas in Austin and is spending more time with his wife now, and with him out of the picture, the Ghetto Capitalist Revolution can continue unhindered.
{{quote| '''213:''' One less enemy of the Ghetto Capitalist Revolution, baby! Woo!}}
* [[No Except Yes]]: It's not cans, it's "crap on his desk".
** "craponmydesk.wav"?
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: When he's angry, Ghost will raise his voice, a lot.
* [[Non Sequitur]]: Most "troll" calls end up being like this: Host brings up topic. Host asks for opinion on topic. Caller says something completely off-topic. Host makes fun of him and/or rages about off-topic call. That's the circle of life around here.
* [[Older Than They Think]] ([[In -Universe]]): Before it turned into Engineer's running gag, someone played the theme from [[Boss Nigger|that film]] during the June 17th, 2011 raid.
* [[Once an Episode]]: He always starts with the markets, then goes to political news, then Radio Graffiti, a call-in segment where callers get "three to four seconds to say whatever's on your mind"
* [[One-Hit Kill]]: Coodoo has made this into an art, often taking down Ghost with a single remix.
* [[One of Us]]: A truly bizarre example. Ghost, who is basically an old, angry redneck, seems to know just about everything about [[Nerd]] culture. This has been cited as evidence of him being a troll.
** In particular, he's surprising adept at recognizing ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' quotes and songs, and clearly knows things about the show such as how ponies get their cutie marks and the Derpy Hooves fiasco despite claiming that he didn't watch the show and that it's for eight-year-old girls.
** February 28th, 2012: (in response to a caller playing a remix of "Bloody Tears") "Get out of here with your dumbass Mexican music... no, wait a minute, that's ''[[Castlevania]]''. Throw the Holy Water, I love that sound!" Ghost later went on to declare the second game in the series his favorite.
** He also likes Nirvana (specifically, the song "Rape Me") and is a big enough Marilyn Manson fan to know the b-side track "The Hands of Small Children" (and use it in his Woodchipper segment) and "We're From America."
** On 7/13/11, when asked what his favourite video game was, Ghost responded with "the first [[Metal Gear]] off of the original [[Nintendo]]". Also, on 10/19/11, he said [[Mario]] 1, 2, and 3 ''really'' kicked ass, but quit playing entirely when the Super Nintendo came out.
* [[Opening Narration]]: Near the top of the hour, but always to the effect of "This is the (Second/Third and Final) hour of the True Capitalist Radio broadcast, I am your host, the man they call Ghost."
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: On December 14th, when Engineer hijacked the show, [[Awesome McCoolname|Knee Slappington]], aka the Austin Vibrator, called in with his usual "OOOOOOOOOOOOOO" sound effect. Rather than cutting him off, Engineer let it run for several minutes, even trying to sing along at points.
{{quote| '''Knee Slappington:''' OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO<br />
'''Engineer:''' BAP BAP BAP AWWWWWWWW }}
** This ended when Engineer [[Tear Jerker|broke down]] [[The Woobie|and cried.]]
* [[Overused Running Gag]]: Twitter users continuously made-up names referencing the Texas fire, India and Turkey quakes, and Steve Jobs' death for a time.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Don't insult his family, especially his grandmother.
{{quote| '''Ghost:''' DON'T YOU EVER TALK ABOUT MAH FAMILY!}}
** Or KaraszKun.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: On January 6th, 2012, Ghost defends Equestrian Citizen from racial slurs.
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* [[Pound of Flesh Twist]]: Sure, Celtic's gambit might have worked, but Ghost's retirement made the whole thing moot.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: When Ghost is really, ''really'', angry, he will fire one off. The Engineer has been heard to drop them on occasion.
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: Asho has been sent off to rehab.
* [[Rage Quit]]: Ghost seems to be the master at faking going off the air, since usually something will end up happening which turns it into more of an intermission.
** However, on at least '''eleven''' separate occasions, he ''has'' truly ended the show. The first known rage was on August 1, 2011, when people were greatly annoying him on his first day back from a hiatus; the second on August 29, 2011 after an audio splice about him being the king of 10-year olds; the third was two days later on August 31, 2011 (after the "Money, Success, Fame, Bronies" caller); the fourth on September 9, 2011, after massive trolling from Texas wildfires to a Radio Graffiti segment with back-to-back remixes of [[Tetris]] Theme A; the fifth on December 7, 2011 (after he considered the fruitiness level to be way outside his comfort zone); the sixth on January 4th, 2012, after a caller called in and asked Ghost "Who choked harder, the Cowboys or your grandma in the back of a Denny's restaurant?"; the seventh on January 6th, after reading two insults to his grandmother in quick succession in the chatroom shoutouts segment; the eighth on January 25th (after the "Alex Jones as Ghost" graffiti caller), the ninth on February 9th (after the "Tubguy World War 3" graffiti caller); the tenth on February 16th (after two "[[Verbal Tic|trans]]-[[You Keep Using That Word|testicles]]" "fought" over him); and the eleventh on April 30th (after TexasStroll playing a remix of Ghost singing Stevie B's "Spring Love")
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** He also faked it twice in December only for the Engineer to hijack the show until his return.
** It's arguable that it happened on February 20th, although before it cut off, he had mentioned the show was already shot and he was just letting random people call in. (He'd been having microphone problems pretty much the entire second half of the show)
* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]: Ghost certainly thinks he's this, making empty threats to the trolls and how he's a big badass. He also screams for fruitbowls and bronies to have 'testosterone shot up their ass'.
** He also expects his callers to sound manly.
* [[Recurring Riff]]: Well you know what this country is turning into? Junkyard America!
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*** MONEY, SUCCESS, FAME, BRONIES. (YOU MADE A SONG OF THAT?!?!?!)
** "Fuck You Texas" used to be common prank call material, but even Ghost thinks [[Overused Running Gag|it's gotten old already]]. The same may also go for the thousands of callers who still blast "Melting Pot of Alcohol" at him. Something the people who keep overusing the "Hambone" meme need to learn already.
* [[Refrain From Assuming]]: Ghost often gets song titles or genres wrong after hearing remixes. He's referred to Brodyquest as both "[[Beverly Hills Cop|Axel F]]" and the theme to [[Footloose]], the Dr. Mario theme as "circus music", "Entrance of the Gladiators" (a song which ''is'' often circus music) as "hoedown music", both the Driftveil City theme and "She Blinded Me With Science" as "that weird science song", a remix of [[Mega Man 3 (Video Game)|Spark Man's]] theme as [[Contra]], The [[Game Cube]] boot remix as [[Michael Jackson|Wanna Be Startin' Somethin']], [[Dawn of the Dead (Filmfilm)|"The Gonk"]] as "music from [[The Roaring Twenties]]", and [[Beauty and Thethe Beast (Disney)|"Be Our Guest"]] as poetry.
** A frequent Skype caller with the username "[[Tara Strong|TaraStrong]]" often plays spliced quotes from everypony's favorite show, but has also played [[Drawn Together|Princess Clara]] lines, taking advantage of the fact that she shares the same voice actor as Twilight Sparkle. Ghost caught on to the part that mattered, and immediately dismissed them as being Pony-related.
** Averted when someone was playing [[Castlevania|Bloody Tears]] and Ghost thought it was Mexican music, until he heard a little more and realized it was from Castlevania.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The entire show comes off as this. This is the audio adventures of a really [[Large Ham|loud]] Texan and his loyal engineer, and said Texan flips out over prank calls made by the likes of [[Troll|trolls]] playing splices, [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|bronies]], a [[Get Rich Quick Scheme|suburban welfare receiver]], [[Camp Gay|a fabulous man in his tub]], [[Token Minority|an 8 year old Mexican kid]], [[TranssexualTranssexualism|a 'trans-testicle']] and other bizarre characters.
** The twitter shoutouts even more so:
{{quote| '''Ghost:''' Uh, we got "Knot See," uh, "Occupy Equestria," we got "Occupy Ghost's Ass" (GEDDIMOFF), we got "Low Fat Sperm," we got "Minor Crap Boy," we got "Ghostler," we got "Benito Ghostini," we got "Ghostef Stalin," we got [[Overly Long Gag|"Fidel Ghostro"]] (THESE SICK-ASS NAMES, MAN) we got "Kony's Sex Slave" (...you sick fruitbowls), we got "Slimy Gimp Girl," we got "Mug Ranny Saw Tranny-" AAAAAAAAUUGGHHH YOU SICK, SICK BASTARDS, AUUUUUUGHH! THESE SICK PRICKS! LOOK AT 'EM, ENGINEER!<br />
'''Engineer:''' ...guh gaah haaaa? }}
* [[Repurposed Pop Song]]: The ''[[Sanford and Son]]'' theme for the Junkyard America song, and the theme from ''[[The Price Is Right]]'' for Guess the Minority.
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** "Guess the Minority", a segment where Ghost tries to guess the ethnicity of a caller by asking them questions related to stereotypes, or guessing based off their voice alone. He [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mPUJTjmgD4 freakin' loves this game, man!]
** Spontaneously breaking into song (Junkyard America!)
** [[Twitter]] filled with usernames intended to make him rage ("PoopTickler?! What kind of a name is PoopTickler?!").
*** Twitter names taking the form of "_______ for ______" (i.e. Spongies for Ghost, Bronies for Ghost, [[Dude, Not Funny|Radiation for Japan,]] etc.)
*** Twitter names combining Ghost's name with that of communist or fascist dictators (i.e. Ghostler, Benito Ghostini, Ghostef Stalin, Fidel Ghostro, etc.)
** Ghost playing clips from "representatives" from various foreign locales (including "Mr. Fortune Cookie" from Communist China, Machmud, a "representative of the Libyan rebel faction", and "The Guru", a stereotypical Indian)
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** There was a recurring joke throughout the January 20th show that Ghost was every member of the Today Show.
* [[Satan Is Good]]:
{{quote| '''Ghost''': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}8jkQrvwQm-M Satan is good, Satan is my pal]!}}
* [[Say My Name]]: "DAMN YOU NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVYYYYYY HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEE...!"
* [[Schedule Slip]]: Often after an episode with a ''major'' trolling, it'll just go off the air for a period (as little as a day, or as much as a week) and then come back. Although sometimes the show does sometimes doesn't occur for other reasons.
* [[Screwed Byby the Network]]: Arguably, in Ghost's opinion, BlogTalkRadio screwed over his show twice without telling him. On January 27th's episode, they randomly took away his after-show privileges, causing an odd end to the show. On April 17th's episode, he couldn't start the show until fifteen minutes after the show was originally supposed to start. Ghost didn't take that very kindly.
* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: One caller claimed to be Ohsa, the backwards Asho.
* [[Sensory Abuse]]: Some trolls like to ear-rape Ghost (and the audience) by playing ''very'' loud buzzers or yelling at the mic. [[It Got Worse|They tend to be cluster calls, too.]]
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** Even worse, he had introduced Radio Graffiti under the guise of a "game" and did not officially care about what people called in with. Something in between must have gotten to him.
*** It's also supposed to be three to four seconds per call. Most troll calls end up lasting a lot longer.
* [[Shout -Out]]: A lot, mostly by the trolls.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku2G1ljsryg Mmmmmmmagnets, how do they work, magnets, magnets, BAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH BAAAHHHH]
* [[Show Within a Show]]: True Optimist Radio, created in response to a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ie0VxwSFN8 caller] that Ghost declared wanted everything sugar-coded with optimism, turning one of his mocking voices into a new persona, Mr. Optimism, who tries to conduct the show in a [[Lighter and Softer]] manner.
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* [[Some of My Best Friends Are X]]: "I happen to have a whole bunch of friends who happen to be black"
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbP9rm-abOk&feature=related Some of his best friends are] [[Hypocritical Humour|Wops and Camel Jockeys]].
* [[Spin-Off]]: In a way; both Goofy_Bone (most infamously), and most recently, Asho, also have their own shows on BlogTalkRadio.
** In September 2011, the usual trolls started targeting Goofy_Bone's show too. Despite trying to defend himself, he ended up caving in and doing his own version of Radio Graffiti. This continued over a slight hiatus Ghost had, but when he was alerted to this, he, predictably, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgrmf3JlsM4 called Goofy out and went off about it], as usual. He dubbed it a "poor man's Mexican version" and a "[[You Keep Using That Word|bean and cheese]]" version of his own show.
** Then in response, Goofy re-named it [[Take That|Bean and Cheese Graffiti]]
* [[Springtime for Hitler]]: Following another fake [[Rage Quit]], the Engineer takes over the show, playing songs disliked by Ghost and answering calls in his unintelligible gibberish. Ghost eventually 'returns' and proceeds to scold the Engineer. It seems like he did this in an attempt to either chastise the listeners or convince the trolls that the show had effectively ended, but when he got back and started taking calls, people were demanding that the Engineer host the show again. This has turned into a surprisingly effective trolling tactic, causing Ghost to enter fits of envious rage over ''his own character.''
* [[Stay in Thethe Kitchen]]: Whenever a woman comes on who calls him out on his downfalls or trolls him, expect this to be his response.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Whenever Ghost is giving shout outs to people in the chatroom, some would attempt to make Ghost say names such as "AlphaKennyOne" or "IsleOfRussia". Most of the time however, he catches on the wordplay.
* [[Stock Sound Effect]]: A rare live example; whenever Ghost gets especially upset, expect to hear cans being shoved off a table.
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** Four words, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH7lXcUvgwY "Melting Pot of Alcohol"]
*** There are, as of now, quite a few remixes ''of that remix,'' among them [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uctCq1um3Ko one that samples "Giggle at the Ghostie,"] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L_-JG0ENls an 8-bit remix,] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZo26RpSjYU&feature=related a mashup with "Party Rock Anthem,"] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MswCIbjU0Mo a stoner remix.]
* [[Surrounded Byby Idiots|Surrounded By Fruitbowls]]: Ghost.
* [[Tantrum Throwing]]: The cans.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: What do we begin with?
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* [[That Came Out Wrong]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KUUADqj2GA "If anyone came at me trying to be busy badass, you know I always walk around out here in Texas ... with my strap on"]
* [[The Grinch]]: Ghost did state that he hated Christmas, but he also hated being compared to the [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Three Chords and Thethe Truth]]: Brought up in response to a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsmeW-Zgdn0 troll] who played the [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: theThe Abridged Series|"Kill Your Famiily" soundbite]], who he then mistook for a satanic rock band trying to advertise their album with subliminal messages, which then turned into a rant about modern rock music being "three or four-chord crap"
* [[Troll|Trolls]]: They come. They try to make him look like a fool. He fires back by claiming they're wholly responsible for America's bad economy.
** There are also those [[Alternative Character Interpretation|who believe]] Ghost himself is a troll masquerading as a radio host.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Ghost loves delivering one to any caller he doesn't like that he feels he can make a broad, sweeping generalization about based on their voice, namely anyone he thinks sounds even a hair less masculine than he is (which he'll then assume is a fat [[Basement Dweller]] who wastes their time watching ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' and/or effeminate male with [[Your Mom|bad parents]].)
** Ghost gets his fair share of these too, though they're usually in song form. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8lPG5MmPbI&context=C249ebADOEgsToPDskKWvDfS5CXHLPDdKCpxzLgn This one] is probably one of the greatest ones.
** Goofy Bone also received a well deserved one at the hands of Ghetto Capitalist.
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* [[Toilet Humor]]: What kind of a name is PoopTickler?!
** "I happen to have a whole bunch of friends who [[Blatant Lies|group poop]]."
** On Oct 3, 2011, a user named Ray Twilight recorded a sound of what appears to be someone with bad diarrhea, grossing Ghost out. On January 18th, 2012, another user from area code 512 did a splice using that same sound effect making it sound like Ghost had bad diarrhea, causing Ghost to rage.
** And then there was a single call consisted only of the sound of someone peeing into a toilet.
** And then another with the same sound of peeing, but with a Ghost laugh added into it.
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* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: "Johnnie Walkerrrrr, Blue Labeeeeeel!"
** Shrimp, too, judging by his reaction whenever someone brings the "cannibal shrimp" up.
{{quote| Goddamnit I want my shrimp back! *cans*}}
* [[Troperiffic]]
* [[Troubling Unchildlike Behavior]]: Regular caller Asho smoked weed and looks at pornography, knowing that his mom is elsewhere hitting on strangers.
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** In a way, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH7lXcUvgwY Melting Pot of Alcohol] is one.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxurtdJD2eg Angry Racist Jewish Hambone]. Just listen to the lyrics!
{{quote| He's some kind of Jewish grand dragon.<br />
A hambone and a racist and he's green.<br />
When the evil trolls attack<br />
He gives those cans a mighty smack! ''*cans.wav*'' }}
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLv9o4mdjdQ National Socialist Hambone Racist]
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* [[Very Special Episode]]: March 27th, 2012, in which he devoted the entire show to the Trayvon Martin case. This lead to more serious callers than usual, some agreeing with him and some debating him. Everybody else played splices of him urinating on his family.
* Volleying Insults: Tzeki and Goofy Bone once used Radio Graffiti to verbally abuse each other.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: January 30th and 31st, 2012.
** [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: Things got ''serious'' for a show revolving around some gleeful trolls and an over-the-top Texan.
** [[Enemy Mine]]: Ghost's [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]] to Celticbrony was "This is for the bronies you betrayed!"
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** [[The Reveal]]: Celticbrony as [[The Chessmaster]] ([[Villains Never Lie|maybe]])
** [[The Gloves Come Off]]
** [[Wham! Line]]: "The end is near. February will be my last month."
** [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Many of the major trolls were doxed or otherwise put out of commission by Ghost and Celticbrony.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: "I'm implementing CHATROOM MARTIAL LAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! YEAH HA HAAAAAAA~"
* [[Why We're Bummed Communism Fell|Why We're Bummed Capitalism Fell]]: For a community who spent a year deliberately driving him insane, people were pretty upset when Ghost announced he was quitting the show, and rejoiced upon his return.
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [http://truecapitalist.wikia.com True Capitalist Wiki]{{Dead link}} on Wikia.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Tzeki.
{{quote| '''Ghost:''' That was some pretty good lulz!}}
** Ghost's speech while giving Ghetto Capitalist the Troll of the Year Award had hints of this.
* [[You Do NOT Want to Know]]: Gasgara's relationship with Suspicious Tumbleweed. As the [[The Wiki Rule|True Capitalist Radio Wiki]] put it:
{{quote| Gasgara's only friend is a strange Canadian teenager who goes by the username Suspicious Tumbleweed. She seems to have a certain appreciation of Gasgara's "personality". They often conversate over Twitter discussing Skype and Xbox LIVE interactions. This relationship disturbs and confuses each and every True Capitalist Radio listener.}}
* [[Your Approval Fills Me Withwith Shame]]: Trisha, Tub Guy, and Ghetto Capitalist (natch) all approve strongly of Ghost's capitalistic views... but since they're (respectively) a transgender woman, a flamboyant omnisexual, and a welfare abuser, Ghost is absolutely enraged at this hijacking of his philosophy.
* [[Your Mom]]: Sometimes used as a retort.
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