History YMMV / TrueCapitalist

* UnacceptableTargets: On the October 25th, 2016 broadcast, where Teutonic Plague commented that he would slit a dog's throat if it ever attacked him. The trolls got so upset by this that they signed a successful petition [[PutOnABus to sign him off the show]]. While the trolls have no problem making [[BlackComedy dark jokes]] to get a rise out of Ghost, [[EveryoneHasStandards they've clearly shown their contempt for anyone that would sincerely harm an animal]].

* AcceptableTargets: Ghost considers *[[LongList deep breath]]* people with speech impediments, autistic people, people with depression, people with dwarfism ([[InsaneTrollLogic he believes if he killed one, the cops wouldn't care]]), people on welfare, overweight people, poor people, Russians, Canadians, Mexicans, bronies, communists, liberals, people who watch anime, and those he deems 'fruity' to be this. As such, Ghost himself is considered to be an acceptable target by most other people.

* TearJerker:
** The [[https://youtu.be/nB_dHQsWBcE 'Ghost Tells Us What Christmas Is All About']] video is actually kind of sad to listen to.
** Despite all the hateful things he's said, after a while his {{Narm}}y reactions to the prank calls stop being hilarious and start being rather depressing and sad.
** [[https://youtu.be/OAvK-ccWcjU This video seems to qualify]] for many trolls. Especially so when he sounds so nice and sincere in the first episode, practically apologizing every other sentence. Contrasting to the Ghost today, it's rather sad.
** [[https://youtu.be/2BsDKMgJyM8 The March 1, 2017 show]] counts quite a bit; the poor guy was so ecstatic, then he breaks down about how his infamy on Website/YouTube is pretty much all he's known for. He actually sounds like he's on the verge of tears [[JerkassWoobie Somebody give the guy a hug.]]
** At one point near the end of March 2017, Ghost attempted to stop drinking at the behest of his wife. Needless to say, beer jokes have been flooding in. While his reaction was funny at first, it eventually started to become rather disquieting - You can hear genuine cracks in his armor as he keeps flipflopping between wanting and not wanting a drink and wanting to stay on the wagon. [[https://youtu.be/v15yQWQ-vfc?t=1h31m20s It comes to a bit of a head near the end of the March 29, 2017 show]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone where the realization of his alcoholism and how severe it is finally sets in.]] If a listener has ever dealt with any sort of substance dependency (be it themselves or others), this probably strikes some pretty major nerves.
-->Ghost: Oh man, I'm telling ya, you guys are really gonna- y-y-you're gonna drive me to drink, man. You're gonna drive me to dri-[[MoodWhiplash GIMMETHEMIC - *CANS.WAV*]] - ...Look, I got the free will, and I've got the will to do this right now, and-and not drink. But I'm not...you know. I don't know how much longer I can do this, man. I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't know how much longer I can stay sober. This is very, very tough...I-I-I don't want any sympathy, I'm not trying to get people to feel sorry for me, I never thought I had this much of a problem. I-I never realised that, until I tried to stop, and I'm ashamed of myself. I'm gonna be honest with you, I'm ashamed of myself.
** On April 25th, 2017, his wife got involved in a car accident and Ghost had to cancel the 496th episode. In response of the news, many serious callers and trolls sent well wishes to the host himself.
** The end of the show on BTR, and especially the show tags Ghost used on the show page such as #Goodbye. After 10 years being on this site, it's sad to see Ghost go, but at the same time the show will go on somewhere out there.
** [[https://ghost.report/2020/10/20/the-reason-ive-been-gone-rip-templeton/ This article]] on ghost.report, outlining the reason on why Ghost had been gone. His dog Templeton died of cancer.

** Averted by the recurring jokes and splices; it's pretty widely agreed that the FBI and CIA prank calls and the John Conquest/[[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Ghostler]] splices are some of the best to have come out of True Capitalist Radio in a long time.

** Him bringing up the [[DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff woodshed]] has gotten old, and seems to take more time every time it comes up. It doesn't help that he said it was a bad idea after hearing a splice of it before [[WhatAnIdiot almost immediately bringing it up again]].
** On November 30, 2016, after about five minutes of Radio Graffiti, Ghost spent the rest of the broadcast (about twenty minutes) talking about people making fun of Pizzagate, right after thisissparta789789 played an intro splice. See "WhatAnIdiot" below.

* UnacceptableTargets:
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]]; if it upsets Ghost, it's fair game for being mocked. This includes typically off-limits targets such as pets ([[MoralityPet Ghost's dog Templeton]]), the elderly ([[CoolOldLady Ghost's Granny]]), [[SpeakIllOfTheDead the deceased]] (also [[PosthumousCharacter Ghost's Granny]]), the mentally handicapped ([[AmbiguousDisorder Engineer]]), victims of a tragedy ([[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]], various current events), [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Politicians Ghost likes,]] 42 Coin (a type of Cryptocurrency that Ghost and his Inner Circle endorses and claim to be the official spokespeople for), and reverent figures (the [[RememberTheAlamo Texas Martyrs]]).
** Played straight on the October 25th, 2016 broadcast, where Teutonic Plague commented that he would slit a dog's throat if it ever attacked him. The trolls got so upset by this that they signed a successful petition [[PutOnABus to sign him off the show]]. While the trolls have no problem making [[BlackComedy dark jokes]] to get a rise out of Ghost, [[EveryoneHasStandards they've clearly shown their contempt for anyone that would sincerely harm an animal]].

* WhatAnIdiot:
** 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 and area codes 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.
*** In one show he even answered [[RuleOfThree three consecutive calls]] from area code 352, known to most trolls as the primary number for Scarlet Moon's audio splice queues.
** On February 28th, 2012's episode, he said "he'd be taking Skype names from now on." The very next Skype name to be called in played a [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Ghostler]] remix/splice.
** On September 7th, 2011, a caller plays offensive splice of Ghost using the N word, caller hangs up, Ghost calls back expecting him to do something different, caller plays same splice, Ghost uses this as an excuse to violate the caller's personal phone number.
** Radio Graffiti on November 30, 2016 was pretty lame, but luckily thisissparta789789 played a [[NeverLiveItDown True Betrayal Radio]] splice. Instead of reacting [[UnstoppableRage the way you'd expect]], Ghost takes up the rest of the show [[{{Padding}} ranting]] [[FlatWhat about how insensitive people are for making fun of his belief in the Pizza Gate conspiracy theory]].
** As a rule of thumb, any time he tries to show empathy to someone, expect it to backfire spectacularly. This happened with Asho in 2011, when i he faked the whole situation with his family. Then it happened again twice in 2016: when [=MaskedPony=]'s fetish was unveiled, and Teutonic Plague revealed himself to be a closet brony.
** Ghost's words are under constant scrutiny, as people love to take his words and splice them against him.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Ghost to be '''extremely careful''' with the words he says. The trolls are gonna use any little they can, but it would be a much more difficult task and take longer if he avoids saying something stupid.\\
'''Instead:''' He keeps saying stupid things, including accidentally blurting out homophobic slurs and insulting people with sexual related insults.\\
'''The Result:''' Easily made splices of ghost liking things sexually done to him and killing people from the homosexual community that sound legitimate because he actually said most of it in only two or three unrelated instances.
** After some segments of Radio Graffiti, Ghost fails to turn off his conference call, leading to fans leaking his "secret conversations" with the Engineer after the show is over and branding them as the after-show.
** He will claim quotes that he actually said in the past as splices. Even if it's past criticisms of Donald Trump from the 2011-12 era of True Capitalist Radio, any quotes he said in the May-November 2018 era of True Capitalist Radio.

*** Averted for 2019's award show when the choice was given to the forums. Ghost lampshaded this by trolling his listeners during his "Capitalist of the Year" announcement.

* CreatorsPet: [=KaraszKun=] became this in the first run of True Capitalist Radio, but he has stepped away from this label in the return of True Capitalist Radio.
** [=TeutonicPlague=] and G were this during the revival until both got banned from the show in October 2016.
** [=MaskedPony=] was this before his fetish got revealed in June 2016.

* CriticalResearchFailure: While Ghost is very very good at reading the markets and understanding the economics, his knowledge tends to be lacking in other fields to say the least. What's worse he often sticks with his lies and misconceptions rather than admit that someone else is right due to his ego if he is confronted.
** On 10/31/11, Ghost extremely misunderstands the basics of global warming.
** He also repeatedly gets remix sources wrong, apparently prefering to say anything rather than admit he doesn't know it.
** His stereotyping bronies as "Creator/WoodyAllen 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 UnfortunateImplications.
** 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 then-Texas Governor 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 Wrestling/BretHart remix of his voice as "some muscle-bound idiot wearing panties."
** He often gets splices and remixes mixed up.
** He's made several statements over the years that verge into an anti-intellectual distrust of scientists, science, and academics in general, which is exasperated when makes statements that support ''flat earthers''.
** Ghost claimed that Muslims invented biological warfare during the crusades by lobbing people who had died of bubonic plague and tossed them over the walls. Mongols already did this before the Muslims and the practice of biological warfare is known to have been used by Hittites as far back as 1500–1200 BC. When people Tweeted to Ghost that he was wrong [[WhatAnIdiot Ghost went on a tirade about how badly educated and stupid the modern youth are to think that Spartans used biological warfare before Muslims]].
** During Episode 390 Ghost wonders why environmentalists aren't caring about rainforests being cut down.
** During a rant about ska, he cried that it "came from America". Except ska came from Jamaica.

* AcceptableTargets: Ghost considers *[[LongList deep breath]]* people with speech impediments, people with autism, people with depression, people with dwarfism ([[InsaneTrollLogic he believes if he killed one, the cops wouldn't care]]), people on welfare, overweight people, poor people, Russians, Canadians, Mexicans, bronies, communists, liberals, people who watch anime, and those he deems 'fruity' to be this. As such, Ghost himself is considered to be an acceptable target by most other people.

** Johnnie Walker, [[UrineTrouble Second Harvest]]...[[{{Squick}} gross.]] Johnnie Walker, ''Third'' Harvest, [[NauseaFuel really gross.]] Johnnie Walker, '''[[UpToEleven 567th Harvest]]'''...And then it goes [[SerialEscalation even further]] with ''Bernie Sanders'' and ''Donald Trump'' Harvest...

* FoeYay: Deliberately invoked by trolls to enrage Ghost twice:
-->Ghost and Alex Jones, sitting in a tree\\
K-I-S-S-I-N-G\\
-->First comes fearmongering
-->Then comes gay marriage
-->Then comes [[{{Metaphorgotten}} my fruity-ass fruitbowl gay son-]] *cans.wav*
** Many of the characters that want to have some sort of sexual relations with Ghost enforce this trope, notably Tub Guy and the Internet Buttstalker. Some splices even make good on this fact!
-->'''Ghost:''' "I mean hell, I mean in my personal opinion, Tub Guy, believe it or not, is a good piece of ass. Oh my."

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: On January 11, 2012's 4-Year Anniversary chatroom shout outs segment, there was a chatroom name "Don't Make It 5 Years." His show ended up not making it five years.
** From the broadcast itself: "FOUR YEARS, I've been on this internet, FOUR YEARS! And there's going to be many many more years, for Christ's sake, 'cause you wanna know something? I CAN'T DIE! I CAN'T DIE, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!" Exactly 4 months and 4 days later...
** Averted, since Ghost has been back for nearly a year now.
** In 2017 and 2018, Ghost often made an Alex Jones imitation poking fun of his Super Male Vitality vitamin supplements that gives you 'the big ass boners'. Ghost was quite horrified later on after he heard that Alex Jones was accused of sexual harassment in workplace.

* MisaimedFandom: His show is serious business! But wait ... why are even the ''MyLittlePony'' fans listening?!

* CriticalResearchFailure: While Ghost is very very good at reading the markets and understanding the economics, his knowledge tends to be lacking in in other fields to say the least. What's worse he often sticks with his lies and misconceptions rather than admit that someone else is right due to his ego if he is confronted.

** cans.wav[[labelnote:Explanation]]The Unofficial Official Onomonopia for the sound of him throwing around the crap on his desk. Called such since the cacophony sounds like someone dumping an entire trash bag full of beer cans onto the microphone. There is some debate in the fandom over how Ghost produces the sound, whether he physically throws the cans, hits them with his mic, or just plays the recording on a soundboard at varying lengths and volumes.[[/labenote]]

** cans.wav, the Unofficial Official Onomonopia for the sound of him throwing around the crap on his desk.

** The hambone fad kicked off when Ghost said to call the people in hover-rounds hambones. Of course, it launched into [[InsultBackfire people calling Ghost a hambone]] and it created the hambone remixes. [[DeaderThanDisco It quickly wore out its welcome]].

* UnfortunateImplications:
** "It's time to play [[https://youtu.be/6eAm6Mp2nJ4 Guess the Minority!]]" Gee, [[SarcasmMode that doesn't add fuel to the "Ghost is a racist" fire]].
*** [[https://youtu.be/y_lXGaqtIdg "But how is it racist IF I'M ALWAYS RIGHT!? AHA HA HA HA HAA!!!!"]] [[InsaneTrollLogic Charming.]]
** 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 [[https://youtu.be/1-6fguTatR8 Mr. Fortune Cookie]]. Bad eggrulllll, "[[SevenDirtyWords 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 [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign 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 UsefulNotes/BarackObama 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.
** After Ghost endorsed Herman Cain, an African-American, the Engineer promptly played [[https://youtu.be/4wuB_IQVPlg 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 Music/{{Eminem}} if he came to Austin, Texas, 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 proudly taken on the title of "King of the Mexicans." So much for being a "Melting Pot of Friendship".
** "John Conquest" was actually the name of the guy running Third Coast Radio... And also whom Ghost stole his former avatar from...
** Ghost now has a friend he calls his "pet Mexican", which he wanted so he could get someone to clean his house.

*** Speaking of Creator/WoodyAllen, categorizing him as a "butt-loving pedophile" is incorrect as well. Creator/WoodyAllen wasn't gay. Although he did date his former wife's daughter, she was of the legal age, so therefore, not a pedophile either.
*** [[HarsherInHindsight Oops.]]

** [[AvertedTrope Averted]]; if it upsets Ghost, it's fair game for being mocked. This includes typically off-limits targets such as pets ([[MoralityPet Ghost's dog Templeton]]), the elderly ([[CoolOldLady Ghost's Granny]]), [[SpeakIllOfTheDead the deceased]] (also [[PosthumousCharacter Ghost's Granny]]), the mentally handicapped ([[AmbiguousDisorder Engineer]]), victims of a tragedy ([[TheWarOnTerror 9/11]], various current events), [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Politicians Ghost likes,]] 42 Coin (a type of Cryptocurrency that Ghost and his Inner Circle endorses and claim to be the official spokespeople for), and reverent figures (the [[RememberTheAlamo Texas Martyrs]]).

** Many fans and trolls feel this way about the new direction the show has gone since May 2018. With the show's move away from BlogTalkRadio, Ghost's voice came through at a much higher quality, however since he could speak freely without being censored or filtered, Ghost has taken to being much more vulgar in his vernacular. Additionally, many trolls were upset with the demise of Radio Graffiti, however upon its inevitable return, some believed the show would return to its once former glory. These hopes were soon dashed however, when Ghost ended Radio Graffiti and Shoutouts indefinitely, leading to a mass exodus of people who mainly listened for those segments alone.

* JerkassWoobie: 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.

** Ghost came back in 2019, going from ''True Capitalist Radio'' to the [=YouTube=]-hosted ''The Ghost Show''. What seemed like a new age quickly turned into a giant disaster. Ghost opened the option to donate a few dollars for text-to-speech messages to him. This would lead to shows where half of it was people paying to have TTS messages to troll him, and he would rant and rave and never get to the topic he wanted to talk about. It got worse when he opened up an option to donate $12 (later $15) to have him react to a [=YouTube=] video. While some fun can be found there, a lot of it feels forced. The older trolls realized that Ghost is just juicing people for money now and the show isn't as fun. Trolls also started jumping off when Ghost would host the streams later and later into the night and thus their work wouldn't be heard.

** Ghost's explanation for missing the involves [[spoiler:

* WinBackTheCrowd: ''The Ghost Show'', which started during New Years Eve to 2019, in which he appeared far more collected and calm. He promised to dial back on politcal rants and bring back more fun and interactivity to the show.

** He also repeatately gets remix sources wrong, apparently prefering to say anything rather than admit he doesn't know it.

* JustHereForGodzilla: 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.

* EarWorm: [[StupidStatementDanceMix "WHO-IN-THE-HELL-IS-CADOO? WHO-IN-THE-HELL-IS-CADOO? HA HA HA!"]]
** [[https://youtu.be/LtqIxGzwSuw "Melting Pot of Alcohol"]] and [[https://youtu.be/r22PQd-iiiM "Inspector Hambone."]]
*** [[https://youtu.be/qyPhsFxnc_c Boss Nigger.]]

** [=DanTheOracle=] may be the most hated person on The Ghost Show. He spends lots of money contributing a ton of videos to Ghost, and wasting everyone's time. Then he antagonizes Radio Graffiti callers, calling them "poor losers" and comparing them to starving people in India. Even Ghost doesn't like him, but still plays his videos because [[MoneyDearBoy he gets paid to]].

** [=DanTheOracle=] may be the most hated person on The Ghost Show. He wastes time contributing a ton of videos to Ghost, and wasting everyone's time. Then he antagonizes Radio Graffiti callers, calling them "poor losers" and comparing them to starving people in India. Even Ghost doesn't like him, but still plays his videos because [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense he gets paid to]].

* MostAnnoyingSound:
** The cans. Oh those cans. Though... depending on your [[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound perspective]]...
** [[AnnoyingLaugh That laugh of his is pretty obnoxious sometimes]], especially when it follows him saying something that CrossesTheLineTwice or carries UnfortunateImplications.
*** Though once again, this tends to fall into SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound territory when the laugh is spliced with ghost doing something particularly depraved
** Not to mention him singing and that mocking voice. Bonus points go to his snorting sound when he's mocking something.
** The music for 'Guess the Minority' is about thirty years past its sell-by-date.
** "French ''doors'', uh, French ''doors''"
** Money, Success, Fame, Glamour.
** "AWWWWWWWWWW!! Awwwwwwww!"
** "Hey Ghost, Teutonic Plague here!"
** "[[EarWorm Fuck you Texas, and fuck your Lone Star Beer.]]"
*** To say nothing of that guy who keeps singing the song incorrectly. "[[HollywoodToneDeaf Fuck the Lone Star Staaaate!]]"
** "[[Film/BossNigger NIGGA NIGGA]] [[OverlyLongGag NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA-]]"
** "[[Music/FleetwoodMac Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies!]]"
** Thanks to him overdoing the Woodshed segment, the belt whipping and "HYAH!" quickly got annoying after a while.
** Ghost can't go a single episode without replying to a certain name by saying in the weirdest voice "Ah yes, I am the whore master.". Silly the first few times, just makes you wanna gut him by the hundredth.