His choice for 2017's TCR Troll of the Year (Ajit Pai) is a particularly touchy subject. You can expect the voters to have different opinions on the matter. In the Ghostie award shows, Ghost tends to choose the winner regardless of the votes.Nobody took the award from him, the Shorty Awards didn't even show the Radio category. For about a month or two, the fans tried to get Ghost to win the Shorty Award in the Radio category. 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).
Notably, Ghost and The Engineer never speak at the same time.Ghost usually tells the caller off or The Engineer babbles from his faraway position and makes no attempt to get closer to clarify things. 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.This was further backed up by Ghost's claims in a Paltalk chat session claiming the voice he uses online is not his real voice.This is further Jossed when the call-in numbers switched a handful of times in 2016, 2017 and again in 2018. However, all call-in numbers on BlogTalkRadio originate from New York City area codes, so that might take it out of the question.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). Of course, bringing up any of this to Ghost triggers the usual response. 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 from 2008 to 2012 was 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.