< True Capitalist

True Capitalist/YMMV


  • Acceptable Targets: Ghost considers *deep breath* people with speech impediments, people with autism, people with depression, people with dwarfism, people on welfare, overweight people, poor people, Russians, Canadians, Mexicans, bronies, communists, liberals, and those he deems 'fruity' to be this. As such, Ghost himself is considered to be an acceptable target by most other people.
  • Alternate Character Interpretation:
    • Some of the trolls believe/perpetuate the idea that Ghost is simply a character played by a Man of a Thousand Voices from Manhattan (The call-in number is a Manhattan area code, and the one time Ghost was confronted with this he simply told the caller off and angrily claimed that it didn't need an explanation) who likes the attention and/or secretly gets paid depending on how many listeners he has, and his outbursts and abrasive attitude keeps people coming back for more. Of course, bringing up any of this to Ghost triggers the usual response. This isn't helped by the fact that Ghost does seem to have a natural talent with impressions at times, which is best heard when he mocks sensitive/effeminate guys (In one rant to a caller claiming if used a certain tone of voice and attitude the caller could attract any woman, he uses an extremely well-acted sensitive guy voice, with almost no signs of his southern twang slipping through).
    • However to note, since a technology provider for the site is based in New York, all call-in numbers on BlogTalkRadio originate from New York City area codes.
    • There are also claims that The Engineer isn't an actual person and is simply Ghost using some ventriloquism to fool people, mostly because The Engineer's unintelligible babbling sounds suspiciously like one of Ghost's mocking voices, and neither of the two make any attempt to clarify things when asked. Ghost usually tells the caller off or The Engineer babbles from his faraway position and makes no attempt to get closer to clarify things.
    • Not to mention he clearly pretended to be his grandmother once in a similar style, in an attempt to get back at a particularly lame prank call (basically, when he couldn't get anyone on the phone, he made up a story for the voice message, claiming that the pranker had called his grandmother and insulted her so badly that she broke down mentally).
  • Award Snub: An interesting case. For about a month or two, the fans tried to get Ghost to win the Shorty Award in the Radio category. He ended up getting the most votes. Nobody took the award from him, the Shorty Awards didn't even show the Radio category. Fans were not happy.
  • Awesome Music: Due to the massive remix culture, there's been quite a few worthy songs.
    • DJ Alex's "Melting Pot of Alcohol" definitely deserves mention.
    • "Melting Pot of Dr. Mario" for being one of the first remixes.
    • Anything by TheHarbingerr including "Melting Pot of Tetris", "Angry Racist Jewish Hambone", and "Inspector Hambone"
    • NavyHuskie has given us "Taco Tuesday" (the Hambone song) and "Ghost Miser"
    • While not created for the show, "Fuck You Texas" has caught on quite well.
    • Ghost vs. Debi Daly in a rap battle.
    • "MONEY, SUCCESS, FAME, BRONIES!"
  • Base Breaker: A few trolls have been either good or fail, depending on who you ask. "Ash-hole" in particular gets this reaction.
  • Non Sequitur Scene: Ghost has auctioned a cow who he claimed was a caller's mother in middle of a broadcast, and a few days later proclaimed himself the king of mexicans. So much for Serious Business.
    • Whenever he plays "fruitbowl music," the song is played and no mention of it is heard from again.
  • Broken Base:
    • Radio Graffiti has a bunch of divisive bases. Those that think his older radio graffiti segments were better, which ones were good or bad. The "fans" are actually divisive about it.
    • Also, there must have been some listeners that actually enjoyed the show proper before the trolling began.
  • Creator's Pet: KaraszKun seems to be turning into this as of April 20.
  • Critical Research Failure:
    • On 10/31/11, Ghost extremely misunderstands the basics of global warming.
    • He also repeatately gets remix sources wrong, apparently prefering to say anything rather than admit he doesn't know it.
    • His stereotyping bronies as "Woody Allen butt loving paedophiles" (his nickname for child molesters) could possibly be this. As a matter of fact, his whole stereotyping people and cultures in general could be this or Unfortunate Implications.
      • Speaking of Woody Allen, categorizing him as a "butt-loving pedophile" is incorrect as well. Woody Allen wasn't gay. Although he did date his former wife's daughter, she was of the legal age, so therefore, not a pedophile either.
    • On 1/20/12, Ghost has an entire rant about how Hasbro should treat the bronies better. He obviously didn't spend a second looking at how Hasbro treats the bronies, as they generally liked the bronies. They don't try to take any videos online, which is pretty much the opposite of what SOPA-supporting companies would do, and they communicate with the fanbase very often.
    • During the furore over Rick Perry's comments about Social Security being a "Ponzi scheme", Ghost repeatedly asserted that Baby Boomers own 77% of America's wealth. No concrete data backing this up exists, only statistics with no source from websites and articles about selling to Baby Boomers.
    • On March 20, 2012's episode, he fails to identify a Bret Hart remix of his voice as "some muscle-bound idiot wearing panties."
    • He often gets splices and remixes mixed up.
  • Crosses the Line Twice: A lot.
    • The twitter names: Shakin' Like India, What's Shakin' Mexico, Semen Connoisseur, Radiation for Japan, The Whoremaster, Hot Deals in Texas, No Jobs for Apple, the Poopticklers, Colon Tenderizer, Mitt's Barber Shop, Fart Fetish Fiona ("You need help! You need therapy! And I don't even believe in therapy!")... it goes on and on.
    • Many of the splices.

I hate to keep beating on my grandma here, but...

  • Crossover Ship:
    • Ghost x Applejack.
    • Well, they're both ponies, they've both got southern accents going on (although Applejack is more of a Missouri accent, but her entire look gives off the Texas/Farmgirl idea), they are both involved in capitalism (Applejack's family is heavily involved in the apple industry), etc.
    • This suggests otherwise.
  • Crowning Moment of Funny: OH. SO. MUCH!
  • Deader Than Disco: The majority of people (and even Ghost himself, mind you) think that the "Fuck You Texas" song is now a sign of newbies who can't think of anything original to spout off at him.
    • Mr. Ghost got this reaction from the host on January 6's Radio Graffiti segment.
    • He also hates arrow to the knee jokes.
    • The hambone fad easily takes the cake as a gag that even Ghost and the fans are getting sick of hearing.
  • Drinking Game: Just look at how long the Catch Phrase list is on the main page. This would be a bad idea.
  • Ear Worm: "WHO-IN-THE-HELL-IS-CADOO? WHO-IN-THE-HELL-IS-CADOO? HA HA HA!"
  • Ensemble Darkhorse:
    • The Engineer is becoming this, since he "betrayed" Ghost a few times. He's also gotten a lot more shout-outs than Ghost himself.
    • Horny the Clown.
    • The Ghetto Capitalist. Heyyyyyy, Ghost baby!
    • The "Internet Buttstalker", a Camp Gay that makes extremely suggestive comments to Ghost, has quite a sizable fanbase.
    • The Tub Guy/614, another Camp Gay caller that calls in and makes a lot of suggestive comments with a gentlemanly voice. Oh my!
    • The Ban All Bronies Cult is quite popular, considering that they only appeared in one or two shows.
    • Johnny Walker, second/third/fourth harvest...
  • First Avatar Wins: Ghost's first avatar is much more recognised than his new one that debuted in early December 2011.
  • Friendly Fandoms: With the bronies. The True Capitalist fandom we know and love today was originally started by bronies, and it wasn't until DarkRazorZ's immensely popular "Trolling Ghost" video that non-bronies (who now comprise a majority of the fandom today) found it. Bronies and sick fruity-ass milky-licker no-life-having sick fruitbowls are still, for the most part, on quite good terms.
  • Fountain of Memes: The show is endlessly quotable, with "hambone" and "melting pot of friendship" being some of the most popular memes spawned from it. #EngineerIsTheTalent became a minor meme in late 2011 as well.
  • Growing the Beard: Seems to have occurred around the time the show's name was changed from True Conservative Radio to True Capitalist Radio.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • On December 6, 2011, there was a Twitter account that retweeted the broadcast as NavySanhusky and Ghost reacted with disgust. On January 11, 2012, Ghost started calling NavyHusky NavySanhusky.
  • Ho Yay / Foe Yay: Deliberately invoked by trolls to enrage Ghost:

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- *cans.wav*

  • Jerkass Woobie: Some people have genuinely felt sorry for him, specially after his Christmas anecdotes on how he doesn't receive any presents. He also sounded genuinely sick several times.
  • Just Here for Godzilla: As far as the internet is concerned, the only part of the show worth paying attention to is "Radio Grafitti," where trolls can call and upset Ghost.
  • Memetic Mutation:
    • The "Melting Pot of Friendship"
    • When Ghost raged at somebody's Twitter name being Poop Tickler, it sparked an entire "family" of Poop Ticklers.
      • People have also tried to do other memes in a similar style; like Group Poop, Gimps, and Slime Girl. While they were good for a laugh, they didn't catch on quite as well.
    • cans.wav, the Unofficial Official Onomonopia for the sound of him throwing around the crap on his desk.
    • SUCK MAH DIIIIICK!
    • MORE BEER!
    • Hi, I'm John Conquest.
  • Misaimed Fandom: His show is serious business! But wait ... why are even the My Little Pony fans listening?!
    • The hambone fad kicked off when Ghost said to call the people in hover-rounds hambones. Of course, it launched into people calling Ghost a hambone and it created the hambone remixes. It quickly wore out its welcome.
    • Ghost clearly said the only reason why he sings songs is so the fanbase can identify the songs. Instead, people remixed his voice into the songs that he sang.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Just about everyone involved in the dox wars crossed it at some point or another, though special mention goes to those who mocked the apparently suicidal Celtic Brony in the aftermath and told him to kill himself.
  • Most Annoying Sound:
  • Never Live It Down: Recently, Ghost has expressed a desire to break free of the fandom of trolls in favor of purely capitalists. It is unlikely, however, that the internet will ever allow him to break free of the image.
  • Nightmare Fuel: Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. Ban all bronies. BAN ALL BRONIES. BAN ALL BRONIES. BAN ALL BRONIES. BAN ALL BRONIES. BAN ALL BRONIES. BAN ALL BRONIES.
  • Older Than They Think: Most people aren't aware that Ghost has been trolled for nearly three (or four) years.
  • Old Guard Versus New Blood: The summer of 2011 tends to be recognized as the overlap between the two groups. The 'old guard' consists of Ghetto Capitalist, Tub Guy, the Internet Buttstalker (who was one of the first-ever trolls), and the like; the 'new blood' is much less universally liked, with only callers such as the Anti Brony Cult, Nikolai, and Tri$ha spawning running gags and being listener favorites.
    • Averted by the recurring jokes and splices; it's pretty widely agreed that the FBI and CIA prank calls and the John Conquest/Ghostler splices are some of the best to have come out of True Capitalist Radio in a long time.
  • Padding: After raging hard over a remix or splice, he often goes into a long fit of self-pity: "I'm jaded for Christ's sake, I mean, I'M DEPRESSED!"
    • Also, the discussion of the markets at the beginning of the show is only interesting if you're a serious caller; it's padding for everybody else.
  • Periphery Demographic: Although not the kind Ghost wants.
  • The Scrappy:
    • The caller from Area Code 417. He calls to "troll" Ghost and often fails (such as playing "Fuck You Texas" and being obnoxious; i.e. "Happy Baller Friday from San Francisco, butt boy."). He almost had his number announced on air when he was trolling Ghost with racial slurs. Nearly everyone hates this caller. He, thankfully, hasn't been calling lately.
    • For a lot of the long time listeners, Asho (appropriately titled Ash-hole by Ghost) is concerted this.
    • The surgeradio.org guy. Ghost gave him the worst troll award for a good reason.
    • Goofy_Bone. He can't rap to save his life, and his gimmick consists of cursing every other word.
    • Area code 204, the "where's Kira" caller. He (or she's) painfully unfunny and annoying.
    • Kids that call in the show usually get this reaction from both the fans and the Trolls.
    • Karasz Kun is becoming this because of his Creator's Pet status and how boring the show gets during Ghost's "Ask Karasz Kun" segment.
  • Seinfeld Is Unfunny: The Internet Buttstalker was the first troll and the Trope Maker for many popular methods of making Ghost rage. These methods have been used so often now (and have been given so many variations) that the Buttstalker, if he called in now, would appear to be a boring Follow the Leader fail troll. Spermy the Cat qualifies as well.
  • Squick: JOOOOOOOOHNNNNYYY WAAAAAAAAALKEEERRR, SEEEEEECOND HAAAAAARVEST
    • As of May 9: Johnny Walker, Third Harvest.
      • And now as of May 11, Fourth Harvest.
    • Those puking sounds are a bit too realistic at times. Not to mention whatever actually causes such a reaction.
    • One of his lesser used threats also qualifies. "I'D STOMP A MUDHOLE IN YOUR ASS, I'D KICK IT DRY, AND THEN TAKE A DIRTY DIARRHEA CRAP RIGHT IN THERE, AND ALL YOU COULD DO IS LOOK AT ME WITH A BROWN SMILE ABOUT IT!!" Ew...
  • Straw Man Has a Point:
    • Despite being an insane, loud, arrogant, obnoxious asshole, some viewers have found themselves agreeing with some of the things he has to say.
    • Case in point, he actually went on record defending mentally handicapped people as pure beings. Though it's mixed with derogatory terms and the implication that he likes their nature more for the reason that they can do the crappy jobs for cheap.
    • There would probably be few people who would disagree with Ghost on his contempt for the SOPA and PIPA acts, or Jerry Sandusky. Of course, that doesn't mean that the trolls won't use the latter in order to make him rage...
  • Take That, Scrappy!: A rare non-Pandering to the Base example: Tub Guy gave one of these to KaraszKun and Goofy Bone on May 3's episode. He suggested that Ghost, KaraszKun and Goofy Bone have a double blowjob.
  • Tear Jerker:
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Fans (both trolls and actual fans) didn't like Ghost's new avatar change in December 2011.
  • Too Good to Last: TCR as we knew it only lasted for one year, starting with the newbie boom at the beginning of summer 2011 and ending with the show's cancellation at the beginning of summer 2012. Prior to this time period, there were still trolls and the show was still entertaining, but considerably different.
    • Of course, knowing Ghost, this may be just another lengthy hiatus... we hope.
  • Unfortunate Implications:
    • "It's time to play Guess the Minority!" Gee, that doesn't add fuel to the "Ghost is a racist" fire.
    • A "representative" from the communist government of the People's Republic of China provides a rebuttal whenever Ghost bashes that country in particular. But you know something's a little fishy when his name is Mr. Fortune Cookie. Bad eggrulllll, "MATHAFACKA!"
    • And soon followed with "The Guru", who speaks in a stereotypical Indian accent, claims that all of Ghost's trolls have bad karma, and chants foreign sounding gibberish that includes "Hare Krishna" and "ku-reem-o-sum-yung-horr" (enunciate it); Machmud, a "representative of the Libyan rebel faction", who asserts that Barack Obama is going to implement Sharia law, and tells Americans to "pay your taxes for Allah". Machmud also spouts foreign sounding gibberish that sounds remarkably similar to the Guru's chant, as well Ghost's chant for absolution during his infrequent "Capitalist Confessions" segment.
    • He has Westboro Baptist Church-level hatred of LGBT people and Bronies.
    • After Ghost endorsed Herman Cain, an African-American, the Engineer promptly played this diabolical EarWorm. Could the Engineer be the real racist here?
    • Ghost calls Herman Cain "Sugar" Cain, as in sugarcane, something slaves were forced to harvest in the fields.
    • Ghost would beat the living bejeezus out of Eminem if he came to Austin, and would willingly go to prison for it. And he believes that Black people and Mexicans would celebrate him for it.

"I'll become Mr. Black People!"

    • Ghost has recently and proudly taken on the title of "King of the Mexicans." "Melting Pot of Friendship" my ass.
    • "John Conquest" is actually the name of the guy running Third Coast Radio... And also whom Ghost stole his former avatar from...
  • What an Idiot!:
    • When anyone calls, even when they're being serious, and they oppose his views, he doesn't even try to refute their points. He just says how he doesn't like his voice. And he still claims he's a good political commentator.
    • He even berated a caller who agreed with him about the voice.
    • He also keeps taking calls from names that are well known for trolling him, and lets some remixes play a lot longer than it should be taking him to realize they are trolling him.
    • On February 28's episode, he said "he'd be taking Skype names from now on." The very next Skype name to be called in played a Ghostler remix/splice.
  • The Woobie: Engineer can get like this when Ghost gives him particular amounts of grief.
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