History Radio / TrueCapitalist

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Despite his feuds with The Ghetto Capitalist, even Ghost admitted that Ghetto Captialist [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv-DfnHyM_c&t=10m35s making his baby cry like T-Pain]] was actually funny.

* IGotBetter: Senator Pooptickler.

* RunningGag: Prank callers, who try to accuse him of being a racist, share their love for ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', etc.
** Which is often followed by Ghost [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech going on and on about them]] for trying to ruin the show, and making suggestions about them being the reason why America is struggling.
** Which too is often accompanied by him throwing beer cans around.

** Implementing "chat room martial law" (a.k.a. moderated mode on the show's chat room), thinking it will stop the troll callers. It never works.
** {{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, [[DudeNotFunny Radiation for Japan,]] etc.)
** Assuming that people with low-quality connections are running 386 computers
** 512/703, also known as "The vibrator guy".
** 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)
** A troll by the name of Xarahox calls in almost every show to play some tune on the piano. Ghost usually applauds his skills (and may sing to it), except when he plays a tune related directly to a troll song.
** During the more intense fits of rage, he tends to lose his microphone and has to look for it (he's still perfectly understandable though).
** Whenever 661/Surgeradio.org guy calls, Ghost suggests that the site needs to be hit with a Denial of Service attack. He unfortunately deserves such ridicule, since Ghost thinks he's a fail troll.

Here in lies the problem. Listeners have unfortunately noticed that he has a [[HairTriggerTemper 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 [[SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness start off serious but then quickly go off course more and more towards the end of the show]], where the [[AudienceParticipation Radio Graffiti]] segment (rapid-fire calls with no real topic) pretty much turns into a [[InternetToughGuy punching match]] between him and the people who persistently try to (and often successfully) test his patience. This has lead to [[Characters/TrueCapitalist a large rogues gallery of trolls and characters]] that call him up and interact with him in various entertaining ways.

** TheBigBad — Ghost
** TheDragon — Senator Pooptickler
** TheEvilGenius — [[ObfuscatingStupidity The Engineer]]
** TheBrute — Goofy Bone; possibly replaced by Gasgara after Goofy Bone's arrest
** TheDarkChick — [=SuspiciousTumbleweed=]
** SixthRangerTraitor — Celtic Brony (briefly), Equestrian Citizen

** According to Ghost he hates Canada because they booed the national anthem the day after 9/11

*** TheSmartGuy — Suck Mah Dick (he's been shown to be surprisingly clever at impersonating other trolls and tricking Ghost into going on long conversations with him before he shouts his catchphrase and reveals himself)

*** TheSmartGuy — Jewish Ghost

*** TheBigGuy — Tub Guy

*** TheSmartGuy — Suck Mah Dick (has been shown to be surprisingly clever at impersonating other trolls and tricking Ghost into going on long conversations with him before he shouts his catchphrase and reveals himself)

** TheHero — Ghetto Capitalist
** TheLancer — Tub Guy
** TheSmartGuy — Tzeki
** TheBigGuy — Equestrian Citizen
** TheChick — Asho
** TheSixthRanger — Xarahox

** TheBrute — Gasgara (?)
** TheDarkChick — SuspiciousTumbleweed (?)

** TheBrute — Goofy Bone
** TheDarkChick — Debi Daly

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Mostly averted, since the site automatically records and archives episodes. However, this doesn't stop people from taking highlights and posting them on YouTube.

* PapaWolf: Don't insult his family.

* SensoryAbuse: Some trolls like to ear-rape Ghost (and the audience) by playing ''very'' loud buzzers or yelling at the mic.[[ItGotWorse They tend to be cluster calls, too.]]

--> "I'M A CAPITALIST! AND I DESERVE RESPECT ACCORDING TO THAT TITLE!"
--> "I'm jaded man. I mean, I'M DEPRESSED!"
--> "I COULD BE ON 6TH STREET!!"

* DespairEventHorizon: The cancellation of the show was this for many trolls.

** Subverted on January 27th's Radio Graffiti segment; someone played a clip of himself allegedly playing a Ghost clip at HowardStern, right at the end of the show. While in reality, he got cut off by [=BlogTalkRadio=] suddenly removing the functionality that let his show overrun, the amount of reaction you heard from him before he got cut off was probably enough to leave you believing that he was having a mega-rage and just decided to cut himself off because he didn't want to go on after that.

Ghost is actually a Texan pundit who broadcasts True Capitalist Radio on blogtalkradio.com. He is an ardent capitalist, 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 viewers.

Here in lies the problem, viewers have unfortunately noticed that he has a [[HairTriggerTemper 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 [[SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness start off serious but then quickly go off course more and more towards the end of the show]], where the [[AudienceParticipation Radio Graffiti]] segment (rapid-fire calls with no real topic) pretty much turns into a [[InternetToughGuy punching match]] between him and the people who persistently try to (and often successfully) test his patience. This has lead to [[Characters/TrueCapitalist a large rogues gallery of trolls and characters]] that call him up and interact with him in various entertaining ways.

So why not [[http://blogtalkradio.com/ghost join him on the show?]] He usually broadcasts from 5 to 8 PM EST Monday-Friday... sometimes. The show's been on hiatus for weeks, but as of March 21st, he's back, baby!

** FailOSuckyname: Many twitter names are this deliberately, so that Ghost will say disgusting things when he's giving shoutouts. Prince of Excrement, the Poopticklers, Sandusky Shower Attendant, Isle of Sandusky, Isle of Russia, Gaydolf Shitler, etc.

** TheLancer — Celtic Brony (at least at the beginning, anyway)
*** Arguably replaced by Navy Huskie.

** {{Twitter}} shoutouts, about 95% of which are filled with usernames intended to make him rage. ("[=PoopTickler=]?! What kind of a name is [=PoopTickler=]?!")

* {{Padding}}: After raging hard over a remix or splice, any time he goes "I'm jaded for Christ's sake, I mean, I'M DEPRESSED!".

Here in lies the problem, viewers have unfortunately noticed that he has a [[HairTriggerTemper 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 [[SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness start off serious but then quickly go off course more and more towards the end of the show]], where the [[AudienceParticipation Radio Graffiti]] segment (rapid-fire calls with no real topic) pretty much turns into a [[InternetToughGuy punching match]] between him and the people who persistently try to (and often successfully) test his patience.