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{{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."}}

 

 

...well, if you listen to his [[Troll|fans]], anyway.

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.

 

 

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)

* [[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.

* [[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)

** 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.

"It's me, Asho." ([[Collective Groan|*groan*]])<br />

Note Party/Tri$ha has "Hey Ghost, it's meeee!"<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.

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: "Slanderous lies".

** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYz2lIJUqVE All you remixing jerks are jerks]".

** 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.]]

* [[Five-Man Band]]:

** Early lineup:

* [[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.)

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Jerkass]]: Ghost himself.

** He went off on a rant about members of [[Slipknot]] crying about their bassist's death thus:

* [[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.

* [[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.

'''FBI:''' ...no, this is the FBI.<br />

'''Ghost:''' You cock-eyed Russian. }}

** Ghost misheard Tri$ha saying "what do you have against the [[Transsexual|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]]".

* [[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.

* [[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.

** 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."

* [[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.

* [[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")

*** 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.

** 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.

** 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 />

* [[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.

* [[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.]]

** 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.''

* [[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.

** 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.]

* [[Tantrum Throwing]]: The cans.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: What do we begin with?

* [[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]].

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[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 Mom]]: Sometimes used as a retort.

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