TonyTalk

TonyTalk is a show hosted on BlogTalkRadio since May 2018. The show mostly consists of Tony giving advice to callers, or people who email his show, though often veers off from this direction when various characters and trolls interfere. The show airs every Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10pm EST, with some occasional spontaneous shows throughout the week depending on the situation. Starting off as a niche show, TonyTalk exploded in popularity following an influx of listeners from True Capitalist Radio in June 2018, trolling his show heavily following drama within that show and its community.

History
TonyTalk began in May 2018, focused mostly on wrestling discussion. At this time, Tony had a much deeper voice, which was explained away in late 2018 by Tony as it being another person doing the show instead of him, with the original plan for the show being two people named Tony hosting a show and discussing wrestling. This format was quickly abandoned, and Tony began making his show an advice show, giving advice to people who called in and emailed him. He broadcasted with an original schedule of every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.

In June, following Ghost of True Capitalist Radio removing Radio Graffiti and Shoutouts from his show's format, many trolls migrated to TonyTalk upon videos of the show being uploaded to Youtube by Lightning Note. This caused a massive increase in troll activity and in popularity for the show, resulting in Tony getting more and more frustrated with doing the show. Over the next few months, heavy trolling would continue, with Tony considering ending the show at some points.

In late August 2018, Tony would move his show schedule to once every Sunday due to picking up a job working as a security guard, as well as his mother's declining health. At some point during this timespan, Tony would pick up his first producer, Producer Calvin, to assist him in running the show. In late September, Tony would host a tribute show to a fellow BlogTalkRadio host and caller on his show, Pastor Kenneth Fishman, after being misled by trolls into thinking he had passed away. Tony was later informed this was false.

At the start of November, Tony and Calvin would have a falling out that they would not fully reconcile from, involving Calvin supposedly saying he would rather work for Pastor Ken's show than for him, and additionally forging Tony's name on a contract with Jesco White, Tony's nemesis on the show. This led to Calvin being fired as Tony's producer. Around Early 2019, Calvin would be completely replaced by a personal friend of Tony's, and a fellow East Bostonian, Producer Jaybo.

Later in 2018, Tony's mother's health would begin declining, effecting the show's schedule considerably. During a show on November 18th, Tony's show would end early and abruptly following a phone call from the hospital informing him of his mother's condition. Not long after this, Tony announced on Twitter that the show was cancelled, both due to his mother's passing, and also to do with an individual sending him disgusting pictures by email. However, due to an outpouring of support, Tony returned to the air the next month, confronting the alleged culprit of these emails on the show.

Shortly after this, Tony learned of the TonyTalk Discord room, which he was invited to in December. At this time, many people associated with Ghost and his show were purged from the room, and Tony began using it infrequently to conduct voice chat sessions with the community.

During Tony's first show of 2019, a caller by the name of Benjamin Buford Fontaine would call in, requesting to buy the rights to TonyTalk. Tony would decline this offer, and from then on Fontaine would begin making threats towards Tony and his show, teaming up with enemies of Tony such as Rico to "take down his show". This would culminate in several incidents where Tony's show was hacked and hijacked, with Fontaine and Rico messing with several episodes of the show, be it by simply taking over and taking calls themselves, or playing music at inopportune times for Tony. Eventually, this boiled over when Tony announced on March 10 that he would end the show for good. However, once again, thanks to an outpouring of support, he vowed to continue doing the show, returning later that same month.

During April 2019, BlogTalkRadio changed their chatroom layout, making people's email addresses and IP addresses public. As a result, Tony stopped using BTR for the chatroom, opting instead to use the TonyTalk Discord room in the future. This led to some trolls in the chatroom disappearing, while it marked the start of other trolling tactics.

In June 2019, Tony announced the show would be moving to once every two weeks due to scheduling issues. However, the week following this announcement, Tony would reveal that he was fired from his job due to an unrelated incident, causing him to return to the once per week format, even teasing that the show may go back to being broadcasted more times a week due to his schedule being freed up. Additionally, at Producer Jaybo's request, Tony made his PayPal account public and open for donations, though limiting it to $25 per person, as he says he does not want to "exploit his listeners" like Ghost.

In September 2019, regular caller and troll, Dr Joshua Higgins, passed away. This led to Tony hosting a serious tribute show to him, and even dedicating a song about him. This death led to a short hiatus for Tony, disappearing for roughly two weeks before coming back on the air. On October 13, during a call with a Hong Kong troll who told Tony that his mother was burning in hell, Tony slipped and called the caller a "chink", ending the show shortly thereafter.

In October 2019, Tony would attempt to host an apology show, however it was plagued with technical difficulties. When he did get on the air eventually, Tony would once again mourn the loss of Joshua Higgins, before announcing that, due to there being spinoff shows out there such as Inner Circle Radio, Ashleytalk, and people showing more interest in other BTR shows such as Joseph Gibson, he would cease doing the show. Tony took a break but then someone took his place...

Danger Smooth
During Tony's absence, word around the community was that Tony would emerge under a different persona. Such theories were proven correct on November 10th 2019 when Danger Smooth began a show on TonyTalk. Immediately he was bombarded with singing from Fontaine and Rico. The final straw came from Jesco claiming to have ejaculated in his ex's mouth, causing Mr. Smooth to break character and ragequit the show in record time.

In the next show, DCII and Jaybo confronted Tony over this persona tomfoolery. By comparing the name to a gay superhero and for pleas to just be himself, Tony was convinced (albeit with resistance) to drop the act and return to being classic Tony Gaga.

In early 2020 Tony brought back Danger Smooth, hoping to escape from the stunads with a more serious show. Shenanigans and chicanery descended on him as usual. The highlight of this brief comeback was Jeff asking for love advice concerning Agatha, which was Tony's sweetheart as well. DCII called out Tony again for returning to his "gay superhero" alter ego. Tony's next show was so serious it wasn't a Danger Smooth show or a TonyTalk show.

Tony would return to his Danger Smooth persona in mid-November 2021 following a long hiatus.

Retirement and return
On the 24-01-20 show, Tony revealed that he was being sued by Ken and Ferrar. Despite the summons being fake and denied by the real Ken, Tony was still spooked and ended the show. He gave his BlogTalkRadio account password to Jaybo, who then hosted his own shows, and allowed BBF and Ken host the new and improved God's Rainbow Ministries.

Tony was so enraged by all this he got his account back and returned to BlogTalkRadio. Seeing as he was "dragged" out of retirement, his patience and tolerance for shenanigans and chicanery is severely depleted. He now screams and swears more and is quicker to boot trolls and stunads. He also threatens to retire once more if vexed enough.

In mid-February 2020 Tony cancelled a show as he was allegedly sent death threats from Ken, Ferrar, and God's Rainbow Ministries callers like Dougie and Dr. Ventura. Despite being the same MO as the false court documents, Tony got spooked and cancelled the show. Tony has since returned, and even made a deal with Jaybo: Jaybo doesn't call TonyTalk no more but Jaybo can host an after show. The fans rejoiced... up until Tony rescinded the deal and changed the password.

HotTalk with Tony SeXxX
After Tony's two-year anniversary show in mid-May 2020, he took a break. After discovering his real mother, he moved to Hollywood to live the good life. Forever wanting fame and attention, he returned to BlogTalkRadio, having reinvented the show as HotTalk. He went under the moniker Tony SeXxX. Notice the 'SeXxX'; this version is often used to denote pedophilia or transsexuality.

Tony SeXxX, unlike Danger Smooth, was basically Tony under a new name. He used his same standard voice and default personality. Tony aimed to make the show more about sex and love advice, and got the usual stunads and their shenanigans and chicanery. Tony closed off the BTR chatroom and used Discord for his chat, but as he had no power there he had to put up with mean comments and Ashley's scary pictures.

The first episode of this series had a great start when Tony accidentally leaked Jaybo's home phone number on the air. Jaybo drove over to Tony's place to confront him. Despite Tony's blubbering apologies, he took his time removing the offending episode.

HotTalk only lasted five episodes before he took another break from BTR and returned as TonyTalk as Tony Gaga. Despite deconverting back to default TonyTalk, his BTR page he still had the HotTalk name and artwork for a long while.

Rest of 2020
Since returning to TonyTalk, Tony has vowed to lessen the smut and obscenities on his show. Seeing as his ban list is not really enforced, Tony was in for a rough time.

Throughout July 2020 TonyTalk was hacked by BBF. Ben would play his songs and offensive splices of Tony, as well as unleashed all callers on hold in a cluster call of cacophony. Listeners liked this so the cluster call became a regular thing as of August 2020 onward.

In mid-August 2020 TonyTalk was reported and his subscription cancelled. Tony scheduled an emergency Discord voice chat session but flaked on it due to 'hitting the sides' being more important than his fans. Tony quickly got his show back after an appeal. Ken, Ferrar, and Doug became the prime suspects, despite their adamant protests.

Starting in September 2020, Tony took advertisements for $2 a pop. Pay him via PayPal with the MP3 file and he will play it on the air (provided it is under 2 minutes and not "fresh"). Sal had been the main narrator for these ads. This prompted Tony to end the scheme.

Tony took a two week break from TonyTalk in October 2020 in protest of Ghost callers spamming shitty songs. The show has shifted from Sunday to Wednesday due to work schedule conflict, and hosted an hour later. The new schedule and time slot and only one hour length vexed some fans and trolls for being inconvenient. Tony returned to an alleged battle between two Discord rooms, run by two stunads. As friends turned into foes and rivals became friends, Tony didn't know who to trust.

After a disastrous Halloween 2020 episode, Tony decided on a new system: priority given to trusted callers and those who email/PM him their area code. As expected, he quickly gave up and reverted to the old system.

ToneZone and brief retirement


For the first three weeks of 2021 Tony was on vacation. He returned with a new format: ToneZone. There is literally nothing different between ToneZone and TonyTalk. To start things off, Tony gave everyone except Johnny Longfeather a clean slate, which resulted in everyone quickly tarnishing their clean slates. ToneZone was abandoned after one episode once Tony realized nothing changed.

The next show was the Doug appreciation show. It was meant to be an ironic sarcastic show but some callers took it seriously. As a result, Rico, Alfonso, Jeff, Sal, and Count Cockula boycotted the show.

Valentine's Day was one of Tony's lowest moments on the show. Feeling underappreciated, he drank Amaretto, sang the Blowjob Song, and acted the fool until Jaybo forcibly ended the show. The next show Tony apologized and vowed to start fresh with smut-free content. Sal hacked the show to keep things in line, but also took advantage to play some new music tracks.

Tony took a long break through May and June 2020 due to a blood clot in his leg. There was a rumour that he had a colonoscopy and ejaculated during the procedure, which he loudly denies

In early March 2021 a snitch emailed Tony the link to the Kiwifarms thread as well as screenshots and audio files that lifted the curtain behind the scenes. Enraged, Tony ragequit the show. He tried to nuke his BTR show of all episodes until Jaybo logged into the account to stop him, but six months of archived shows had been lost.

Jaybo acquired the BlogTalkRadio account and made a few episodes of Tough Talk with Sal. The reception was positive but the fans cried for Tony. Jaybo talked to Tony behind the scenes and they came to an agreement: Tony gets the BTR page back and will return, but on that show Jaybo must confess he is the voice actor to various characters and promptly retire them. It was a sacrifice Jaybo was willing to make.

Tony, however, betrayed his friend and the entire fanbase by announcing the end of TonyTalk. It was a stab in the back for everyone. Tony the buzzkill ruined almost three years of a radio show out of spite. What goodwill he garnished was obliterated in an instant. This made Tony the biggest stunad of TonyTalk.

After a month of emails and soul searching, Tony returned to BlogTalkRadio in late March 2021. He claimed that Dewey was misleading Tony and was working with Ken and Ferrar to end TonyTalk. Tony returned with force and called out Dewey for being a limp-wristed prick. The fanbase welcomed Tony with open arms.

2021 and Tony Gangsta
Tony did not have a show on 05-03-21 due his BlogTalkRadio account being suspended. He and the fanbase speculated it was Ken and Ferrar that reported him. Ken did not go on to Discord or answer calls to explain himself..

In July 2021 Tony skipped the Joshua Higgins tribute show to be with his girlfriend and her parents. The relationship soon soured after that. Tony took time off, contemplating quitting the show.

Tony returned in August 2021, reinventing himself as Tony Gangsta, breaker of hearts, giving advice to similar victims of heartbreak. His antagonistic devil-may-care attitude, particularly to Jaybo and DCII, lead to a rift between him and the fanbase. This led to a boycott in protest of TonyTalk.



In his 09-19-21 show, all of Tony's music had been replaced: the titles were the same but every song was replaced a song BBF or Sal performed. Tony was irate at his missing tunes.

In early October 2021 Tony returned to running a clean show, outlawing swearing, sick content, banned callers, and being fresh. This content cleanup is due to him simping for a woman named Tanya who also runs a self-help radio show. This had led to a bizarre state in which Tony still refers to himself as Tony Gangsta but possessed none of the edgy misogyny and devil-my-car apathy that defined this namesake.

In late October Tony visited the Salami Brigade Discord room to thank his supporters. The abuse he got spurned him to quit the show out of spite. This was doubly bad as he had Tonya Todd, famed actress, author, and activist, scheduled as a special guest for the next show. Alfonso took the reins, doing the interview and co-hosting the show. Tony wrestled control back and announced that the show may be his last. The fate of TonyTalk is currently uncertain.

Jaybo and Tony planned to reformat Tony into a Q+A with the two of them hosting. The show would be called ASSk Tony. Tony at first liked Jaybo's idea and went with it until it dawned on him it'll be the same shenanigans and chicanery as usual. Tony cancelled the show, dooming TonyTalk's future yet again for a while.

Return from Hiatus
In mid-November 2021 Tony returned from his hiatus in the worst way possible: he had returned to his persona of TonyTalk. Beyond briefly adopting a suave voice that quickly disappeared, it was business as usual.

Tony proudly declared he had changed his passwords and was hack-free, but Jaybo briefly took over to prove him wrong. Tony has since declined the proposed ASSk Tony Q+A format.

For a brief time Tony had hired Coach Wilson as his life coach. Tony announced that Coach Wilson was to get a segment on the show. This had the fanbase up in arms. Thankfully Wilson was run off before he could take root.

Tony had allegedly retired from TonyTalk and had sought to spend Christmas Eve with Anna. He was guilt-tripped out of retirement to do a show for Terry, a good listener who had recently lost his wife. Tony had a stipulation: every time he swore he must give Johnny Longfeather a compliment. He raked up over 35 compliments during the show. Jaybo pulled back the curtain in this episode to announce his departure of himself and his characters from TonyTalk.

2022 and retirement
The dawn of 2022 saw Tony return with a new format: PillowTalk, a late night love advice show airing Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10pm EST. The name PillowTalk was quickly reverted back to TonyTalk. The late timeslot enables the show to be more risque and R-rated, which the callers have gladly taken advantage of.

In late February 2022 Johnny challenged Tony to a Spelling Bee: first to score ten correct words wins. If Tony wins, Johnny is banned for life, never to call back in. If Big Dickie wins, Johnny is the co-host for the next show. Tony agreed. Unfortunately the game was rigged, with callers feeding Tony ridiculous words, homophones, and words with Canadian spelling. Big Dickie won 10-2. Tony was furious but followed through, albeit warning his audience not to listen. Johnny co-hosted the next show, steering it to greatness, encouraging Tony to hang up on the stunads (read: homosexuals and minorities).

For most of March 2022 TonyTalk was on hiatus. At first it was because Tony caught a computer virus, and then it was Tony needing to work extra shifts to pay his bills. An anonymous fan donated enough to bring the show back. Tony brought back Danger Smooth and imposed restrictions on swearing and smut. His callers did not respect his wishes and shenanigans and chicanery ensued.

Tony's retirement show was held in April 2022. He exclaimed he was getting too old and tired to do the show and wanted to put it behind him. Jaybo drummed plans for a roast show, for Tony to let out all his bottled up feelings towards his trolls. Tony, however, got drunk and no-showed, sending Jaybo some vulgar voice messages as to why he wouldn't attend. Jaybo tried to have a show but a family emergency made it impossible. Tony agreed to take the helm as host but he no-showed again. The show's future is bleak.

Glorious return


In early June 2022 Tony returned after two months of retirement. He claimed to have returned for his fans but Jaybo revealed in Discord that he's paying Tony to do his show. Fans welcome Tony with open arms, but there was treachery afoot: Jaybo had the BTR password and access to the switchboard. This led to shenanigans such as a lewd opening song, callers picked up on randomly, and jacking off noises.

A few weeks later the show screeched to a halt. Tony exclaimed he can't afford his BlogTalkRadio bill so the show is on hiatus. In a subsequent Discord voicechat, Tony admitted that Jaybo had been paying for his BTR account for the past four years and Jaybo finally stopped paying. Such a shocking admission stunned his fans, many of whom have sworn to not financially support such a freeloader, putting the show's future in jeopardy.

Many weeks passed without a show. Sal took matters into his own hands and launched a new series: Smooth Talking With Sal. Sal told a story of the origins of Danger Smooth. Tony joined the show, having been told his alter ego was a superhero, and was horrified to learn that Danger Smooth is just as much of a whiny farting fat slob as he is. Tony angrily declared he would not return for future episodes of Sal's new show.

Format
The show usually runs for anywhere between an hour and a half to two hours, with the show occasionally falling just short of this if interrupted. Tony opens with his intro music, before segwaying into discussing his week, and then getting into what the topic of the show will be for the night. He then begins taking calls, which continues for the rest of the show, with occasional musical breaks in between.

Musical breaks are a segment Tony uses throughout his show to play music that he's created, which can range from covers of other songs to "TonyTalk Originals". At the end of the show, if there is enough time left, Tony will give his final thoughts on the subject, before closing out with a song. Tony has retired from singing due to "jealousy" of his detractors, and has oddly stopped taking musical breaks altogether.

The show usually airs at 9PM EST, though has been known to go later in the evening depending on the situation.

From August 2021 to the end of 2021 TonyTalk was airing fortnightly at 8PM EST. Tony excuses this as him having a 'life', but hinted it involves prowling bars for women to seduce. Later on it went back to being a weekly show.

From January 2021 onward TonyTalk is airing Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10pm EST. He has proposed a Sunday show as well but that has yet to be decided.

Segments
Throughout the ages TonyTalk has been the host of various segments, though many were against Tony's will. Here is a list of the segments that aired on TonyTalkL


 * Music break: when Tony needs to unwind, do something IRL like eat or shit, or to rage out loud, he would launch into the music break. A song would then play, which is usually a song parody or original lyrics imposed over SingSnap karaoke tunes. One of the songs in the setlist is Rico's impressive acoustic cover of "Cry Me a River". Tony likes it, despite the odd mention of dick-suck. A few times Tony has been messed with. After being fired as his producer, Jaybo retaliated by replacing one of Tony's songs with a version that had death metal screams in the background. When BBF hacked TonyTalk in early 2019, his songs were replaced with Fontaine's own songs. When Tony loses his shit and rants, he switches to a music break to mask his screaming. A few occasions he had forgotten to mute the microphone, resulting in a hot mic that captured his insanity (with a musical track). These musical breaks have become rare from mid-2020 onward as Tony is reluctant to share his singing. Tony came out of retirement for Elaine Benes, singing butchering Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror.


 * Jesco White Vegan Reich: Calvin and Jesco made a secret deal behind Tony's back to allow Jesco to have airtime on TonyTalk. This segment debuted on the 10-07-18 show. Jesco provided vegan recipes and health advice, with an impatient Tony seething in the background. Jesco's occasional teasing of Tony's health and weight did not help. The segment was doomed to failed. Tony was forced under contract to play Jesco's theme tune. Once DCII began accusing Tony of giving airtime to white supremacist racists, Tony axed the segment.


 * Sully's Trucking Stories: After the death of Sully's cat, Tony helped him out by giving him airtime for his own show. The segment would start off with a loud horn which would trigger Tony's anxiety. Sully would then dispense sage advice, interspersed with yelling and swearing at fellow motorists. This led to Tony axing the segment and Sully's long hiatus until the New Year's Eve show.


 * The Mormon Minute: Johnny Longfeather converted to Mormonism around the end of 2018. The segment debuted on the 12-30-18 show. He would call into TonyTalk to preach the wisdom and virtues of Mormonism. Tony disliked the topics of child marriage and polygamy, especially since he had condemned Johnny for being a stunad. Johnny stopped the segment himself in lieu of more entertaining trolling.


 * Lovefonso: Alfonso on a few occasions called in with this segment. Much like Thom, Alfonso would give love-making advice to homosexual males. Unlike Thom, who's advice was more about hygiene and sodomy prep, Alfonso gave detailed instructions on doing advanced techniques, such as throat-farting. This was an unofficial segment as Tony did not consent to it beforehand. Tony only let Lovefonso play out as he still had sympathy for Alfonso, who was going through a rough patch with Rico. The sheer depravity of the advice, which bordered on Higgins level of sickening, had Tony axe the segment.


 * New GRM: in early 2020 BBF and (fake) Ken teamed up for the new improved God's Rainbow Ministries. BBF would then pay $100 per show for Tony to play their recorded segment. Tony was gobsmacked at what was played, from learning that fake Ken is actually a clone, to them selling soup (that turned out to be tainted with Tony Ferrar's AIDS and tapeworms). It was silly but Tony didn't mind as he was making bank. This segment was abandoned once Tony deduced that the 'real' Ken was the fake.


 * MuscleTalk: in February 2020 Tony thanked Mike Hunt for helping Jaybo with his fitness and rewarded him with a segment on the show. Mike's segment was off to a bumpy start by suggesting that truckers like Sully Sullivan rape a woman in every town they visit. In predictable Tony fashion, he quickly forgot he gave his blessing for the segment. Mike still occasionally calls in with this segment when he isn't waxing poetically about rape and bodily functions.


 * Doug's Sobriety Checkup: Doug is going through rehab for his alcoholism with the help of Jaybo. Tony wants Doug to call the show weekly to give a status report to ensue he doesn't fall off the wagon. This segment was quickly abandoned when Doug revealed how pathetic and beyond help he is.


 * El Deeko: a new segment starring everyone's favourite superhero is set to debut on TonyTalk. Tony is reluctant to air the segment but it is requested by popular demand. This segment seems to be cancelled as Tony refuses to air any segments.


 * The real GRM: Tony has been so disillusioned and frustrated with Ken and his lies that he will give a 15 minute segment each show to the 'real God's Rainbow Ministry'. This segment has yet to air.

Callers
Tony has who attempt to give him grief. Some of these include, but are not limited to:


 * Jesco White, Tony's arch nemesis and a notorious White Supremacist who claims to be from East Boston.
 * Andy and Anus, a man who often calls masquerading as a serious caller, but eventually segways into introducing his friend Anus before farting in the phone.
 * Rico Ramosito Martini, a Cuban man with a thick accent who often calls in exclaiming the phrase "Dick suck".
 * Benjamin Buford Fontaine III, a wealthy businessman with a thick southern accent who often calls in attempting to mess with or end Tony's show.
 * Alfonso, a gruff-voiced gay man that calls to talk about his recent dates and occasionally make sexual advances on Tony. He's often known for his catchphrase of saying "nom nom nom".

Ban list
In efforts to clean the smut on the show so that even his priest can listen, Tony has at times implemented a ban list. Note that the ban list is symbolic: nothing prevents these banned individuals from calling and Tony usually lets them say their piece.

This list is currently:
 * BBF
 * cobrajeff92
 * Johnny Longfeather
 * Mrs Longfeather
 * Rico and his crime fighting alter ego.
 * Sully Sullivan
 * Tony Ferrar
 * TonysToilet
 * Barry Schwartz
 * Alfonso
 * Elaine Benes
 * Randy Anderson
 * Salvatore Monella
 * Bruce
 * Jaybo
 * DCII
 * TonysToilet
 * talking animals such as Domínguez and Porkchop
 * Nostalgia
 * Mississippi Mike
 * Internet Friend
 * Al Green
 * Al Green

Links
Tony's BlogTalkRadio page

Livestreams and edited Youtube uploads

Full Youtube uploads

Best moments compilations playlist