Cans.wav



Cans.wav, also known as beercans.wav, cans.avi and cans.mp3, refers to the sound Ghost makes after he gets exceptionally angry, usually during Radio Graffiti and Shoutouts, and rarely if he is provoked to where he sees a panda. It is made by Ghost throwing his microphone across his office, presumably into "all the crap [he] got around [...]". Causing Ghost to throw his microphone was once considered the epitome of trolling, although that was turned into simply an achievement when Ghost started doing the cans.wav several times per episode.

Causes and Origin
The most common theory for the origin of the sound is that Ghost supposedly has a large pile of empty beer cans laying around his office, which he begins throwing or smacking around when he is upset. Ghost has also been known to spill beer on his desk and lose his microphone in the supposed mountain of cans. After a cans.wav, he can often be heard shouting, "Give me the mic, give me the mic!". In especially large tirades, he may puke and has trouble getting himself together for up to 10 minutes afterwards. On some occasions, Ghost's voice goes out due to him yelling so much.

In some cases, he claims that he needs to get his ironically Mexican maid 'Consuela' to come back to the office to clean the place up after particularly violent tirades, some which often result in a rage quit. Ghost takes a notably long time to end his show when he has finally had enough, and usually goes through a long rant that includes calling out a number of groups he dislikes, most commonly the various portions of Junkyard America and the trolls themselves. However, for the most part, Ghost will pull himself back together and resume from where he left off after raging.

Many listeners question the authenticity of the sound (hence the name "cans.wav", implying it is an audio file that Ghost plays), but there is good reason to believe the sound effect is created live. Each individual cans.wav sounds different from the last, in that you can hear either Ghost screaming, or him shouting curse words, while in other cases occasional bangs and glass noises are made. However, it is not clear that the sound effect actually comes from empty beer cans as is commonly speculated, and Ghost formerly claimed it was not cans, but unspecified "crap on [his] desk".

In the early 2016 episodes, when Ghost was forced to use a smartphone after his dog chewed on the mic wire, he tended to avoid using cans.wav because it was causing severe lag during the calls, sometimes even throwing him off the air for a while.

In Episode 300, Ghost acknowledged (officialized?) the fan term "cans.wav" as well as the belief that the sound effect is created by the rustling of beer cans, as he announced his intention to merchandise a limited number of beer cans consumed and subsequently throw around with his autograph on them, though he quickly started to question this decision after a fruitbowl caller said he wanted to snort all of Ghost's saliva out of the can. Ghost claims he still intends to sell the cans, but has not done so for logistic reasons (the difficulty of shipping the cans) and has so far stuck to autograph postcards.

While the majority of cans.wavs come from Ghost raging at trolls, Ghost also sometimes cans.wav's out of general anger, whether at the news topics he brings up or rarely technical issues with the broadcast. These are sometimes called "self-cans" or "auto-cans". Ghost also sometimes cans.wavs out of laughter and not anger, as in Episode 343, when he cans.wav'd while laughing at Boogie and other YouTubers being demonetized.

Cans Inflation
During True Conservative Radio and early 2011 True Capitalist Radio, cans.wav was a rare occurrence; even a few cans.wav was enough to indicate a show of successful trolling, and "bad" episodes often had no cans at all; the notable exception is 14 cans in Conservative Episode 148 from 2009. At this time, even a single cans.wav was a major achievement and the mark of a good troll.

Over 2011 and 2012, the frequency of cans.wav gradually increased, so that Ghost cans'd virtually every episode, and in larger amounts in each individual episode. The "value" of getting cans.wav subsequently decreased as a form of "cans inflation", so that a good troll was expected to accrue a large number of cans over time. However, the effect was rare enough that trolls were still lauded for achieving it.

After the Return, cans inflation has significantly increased, to the point where news episodes considered bad-to-mediocre still have more cans than all but the highest-cans episodes from before the Return. The Cans High Score reached 36 with the start of the TCR Civil War, and most "good" episodes have cans.wav counts at least in the low teens.

With cans.wav as frequent as it is, it is arguably no longer a significant achievement for trolls, and more useful as a grading system based on their "cans rate". Successful trolls like Tub Guy, the African Booty Scratcher, and (arguably) Twilie Atkins achieve cans with almost every call; on the other hand a troll with a low cans rate risks being perceived as a failtroll.

Highest Record
The current record for most instances of cans.wav in a single episode is 36. This occurred on Episode 358, when Ghost was bombarded with tweets of #TeamEngineer, photos of Ghost's autograph being defaced and ejaculated on, and photoshopped images of people Ghost likes holding Engineer autographs (along with Ghost's autograph juxtaposed with people he hates). He became repeatedly enraged and almost cancelled Radio Graffiti. While this episode was longer than previous post-Return episodes, with the reintroduction of a full third hour, it remains to be seen whether this record will ever be beaten.

Second Highest
The current second place record is 33 cans.wav in Episode 551. Ghost was in a bad mood when he did the broadcast, and the trolls made it worse. During Shoutouts, Ghost was hit with names making fun of Texas and the Texas Martyrs, making him pissed off. While Ghost took a break, the Engineer hijacked the show and played a Calvin Harris song, causing more rage. Ghost also raged at a Gab Question mentioning Vietnam, and a perverted caller during Capitalist Confessions.

Radio Graffiti had plenty of trolls that aggravated Ghost. Some of the most rage-inducing calls included a splice of Ghost driving his car into the White House, one by Thisissparta of Ghost saying that the Alamo was a false flag, and InsaneEnergy playing a splice of Ghost conducting a "fart-in". After much rage, Ghost ended the show on time, and the cans amount was only 3 short of tying with Episode 358.

Third Highest
The third-highest is 30 cans in Episode 469, where Ghost was on a rage-filled tirade during most of the show, mainly because of trolls making butter-related tweets. Earlier, Ghost cans'd after unintentionally upsetting the Arabian Prince.

While talking with RaidenSnake, Ghost ended up vomiting for unknown reasons, possibly due to chest pains caused by raging so hard. And within minutes, people made fanart of this event. Xarahox, TrumpinCapitalist, and Asho then proceeded to troll Ghost on Twitter. During Radio Graffiti, Ghost was hit with butter-related calls. Finally enough, the Arabian Prince called in again with his brother to troll Ghost.

Fourth Highest
Fourth place, at 26 cans, is Episode 548. During Chatroom Shoutouts, Ghost was hit with names related to a recently-occurred car attack on the White House, causing him to rage to the point where he started sweating.

During Radio Graffiti, Ghost was hit with a troll that sounded like KaraszKun saying that Tub Guy convinced him to become Islamic, making him rage. Danny J then pissed off Ghost by making a splice of him getting kicked off of BlogTalkRadio for racism. A splice of Ghost singing Happy Birthday to Chris-Chan also made him upset, as well as two club remixes of Ghost's song, "Hey Poz-Hole, Don't Poz my Neg-Hole". Finally, when Tub Guy called in, Ghost got extra pissed at him for turning KaraszKun into a "kabob".

Other Records
The fastest instance of cans.wav occurring happened in Episode 217, when Ghost expressed his displeasure with Blog Talk Radio's technical difficulties in getting his show live. The total time from the beginning of the show was 1 minute and 35 seconds. The second fastest instance occurred during the third episode of the Saturday Night Troll Show, 2 minutes and 25 seconds in over the standard intro to TCR playing by accident.

The longest lasting single cans.wav rage (non-interrupted) occurred at the end of Radio Graffiti in Episode 534 when RationalRyan played a splice of Ghost contradicting himself on not supporting anyone else but Herman Cain and Donald Trump, yet supported Jeb Bush back in 2011/2012. Resulting in Ghost cans.waving for 25 seconds before ending the show.

The second longest, lasting 22 seconds, occured at the end of Episode 533, when The Pet Mexican played a splice claiming that the Engineer actually writes Ghost's Production Notes, causing Ghost to shout that it's Fruitbowl Wednesday and end the show while going crazy and throwing cans all over the place.

The third longest happened at the end of Radio Graffiti in Episode 435, where after a call by Tub Guy as a priest, a chopper which had been annyoing Ghost all broadcast returned, causing him to freak out and cans.wav for 21 seconds.

The fourth longest occured during Radio Graffiti in Episode 430, where Benito Ghostini played a splice of Uncle Bernie raping Ghost, resulting in Ghost raging hard and cans.waving for 18 seconds.

The fifth longest, with 15 seconds of cans, occurred at the end of Episode 383, when Tub Guy called in and asked Ghost if he wanted to see how many licks it would take to reach the center of his "tootsie pop," and in Episode 407, when someone told Ghost during Radio Graffiti that someone has already made porn of the Ponified Capitalist autograph.

The sixth longest cans.wav occurred during Episode 369, with a collab call of various people declaring that they would boycott Ghost caused 14 seconds of cans.wav. The seventh longest cans.wav, lasting 13 seconds, occurred in 2011 with a splice of Ghost saying, "I am now officially declaring myself the king of ten-year-old boy ass."

The highest amount of chain cans.wav, when multiple calls in a row cause cans.wav, during Radio Graffiti is 5. This occurred on Episode 381, with four sick, saidstic splice being played back-to back by Benito Ghostini, Templeton Sanders, and Doremy Sweet. Their calls all got a cans.wav each, with an additional fifth cans.wav happening when people on Twitter accused Ghost of crying.

This record was tied on Episode 546. With a Tell Me Lies splice of Ghost's opinions on bronies in the past compared with him accusing Alex Jones of trying to take his brony listeners, a troll named SleepWithin played a splice of Ghost shooting Trump, Tyrian played a splice of Alex Jones admitting he played Ghost, causing two cans, and the African Booty Scratcher and J-Man Capitalist played "True Mubuku Radio".

The highest amount of cans.wav caused by a single Shoutout name, as well as the highest chain of cans.wav in the show overall, is 8, when during Shoutouts in Episode 575, Ghost read the name, "True Barnyard Orgy Radio", and raged extremely hard due to a pornographic game known as "Breeding Season" was being paid $40k a month on Patreon, whilst he had gotten practically nothing for 10 years of doing the show, leading to a very lengthy chain of cans.wav.

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