Consider this...

First, it's not impossible that he has some business, or did, and was running it with his son, possibly naming his son as the agent, at least for the San Antonio part of things. He might have used the business email and thought any doxx would be ignored because of the age difference. This could explain the voice difference on Facebook and the phone calls that twilie mentions, along with the way Jason was seeking a shout-out at some point and posting some early TCR content. Just a son cheering his dad on and possibly running the business day to day...

I was never IC or TCR chartroom and don't know what details, if any, he shared about his son in those places, but I do recall on the show (and perhaps in paltalk) him mentioning things about his son that would put his age in his late thirties:

1. Playing some classic 2 player co-op video games like Contra (even remembering the konami code)

2. Mentioning all kinds of music from the era (and that his son even got into rap for awhile)

3. Random pop culture references that came across to me as the observations of a "cool" parent who took an interest in what his son was interested in....

The reason I bring this up is I'm of that era, being 36 myself, and some of his observations about Snoop and Dre being studio gangsters, and how rap did damage to the black community, along with his anger over the newer gaming systems replacing the SNES and the Genesis are the type of thing a "cool" (but pragmatic) parent would think.

Like... He was on board with the NES, even the SNES, but became jaded by the cost and never ending money grab of later systems... And he was hip to a lot of the music of that time, even some of the less mainstream rap, but when it became really ghettofied and white kids were walking around sagging in jnco jeans and acting black, he saw it for what it was: stupid.

Many of the movies he talks about are of the 80s and 90s too, and while a Gen X'er would be aware of many of them, I don't think most Gen X'ers would pick stuff like Wall Street or Real Genius as recommendations. Real Genius came out in '85, so if ghost is 38, he would have been around 6 years old at the time. A person my age would have memories of stuff like the Goonies or the neverending story, kid's movies, not stuff that was a bit more serious. Of course he could have watched this stuff later growing up, but too much of his tastes are that of somebody who was an adult in that time period, not a kid.

Ghost also used old fashioned terms and idioms way too organically for it to be an act, at least to my ears. When he said things like "shit from shinola" it was exactly how my hick grandpa from the Midwest used to talk, and given the way he used old fashioned expressions like that so fluidly, I just can't buy a Gen X'er passing off those kinds of phrases so authentically.

I admit, Ghost was a radio character, and he had several stock phrases and lists he'd use when talking ("dirty dishrag whore' / "Alabama black snake" / "Woody Allen butt-loving pedophile" etc.), but if you listen to the very early true conservative shows, he doesn't have the polish he did in later true capitalist shows, but many of the "old man" phrases are still there. He just uses a dated vernacular too easily that would be pretty strange coming from somebody in his late 20's (starting in 2008).

Finally, the last two things that lead me to believe he's older than 38 is the way he talks about the early internet and the way he talked about the dotcom bubble. I won't go into the dotcom stuff too much, except to point out it was something I was only barely aware in my late teens, but he had talked all about how everybody was day trading and getting rich and thinking they were geniuses, how he shouldn't have sold Amazon, all things that are true but most many Gen X'ers won't know much about.

The real giveaway that ghost is older is anybody growing up in the early 90's would totally identify with what ghost was saying about how expensive it was to get online and how the learning curve was steep enough that most people online were fairly smart and had enough money to buy the hardware to connect, along with the ongoing cost for connecting, which was often charged by the minute. Kids very rarely had the access to the hardware or funds to mess around online. The nicer hardware was extremely expensive and very hard to configure. Even some of the more basic home systems like a C64 or Amiga weren't cheap. I remember a computer my Uncle bought in the mid 90s that was several thousands of dollars (in today's money, probably $6,000+) and your typical smart watch today probably has better specs. That's not even mentioning that by that point, Windows was robust enough (and there was enough standardization of parts and protocols) that a lot of the "plug and pray" nightmares of hardware and software not working with your system was becoming less of a problem, but still existed.

For a long time, it was largely academics, military, and maybe some business people who were online. I remember in the late 90s one of my friend's had a dad who did stuff for a bank, so he had broadband and got all the hand me down computer equipment from his dad. Him and his brother had several computers, all networked together and I remember being blown away when 4 of us were able to play a LAN match of the original GTA against each other (it was sort of a battle Royale). That broadband speed, access to hardware, and the full night I spent playing the original Diablo on battlenet left me insanely jealous. It was extremely rare for a non adult to have that kind of access to the web.

Before that time period, tere weren't webpages or even browsers initially (a lot of the early exchanges of information were facilitated by text based mailing lists, newsgroups, and message/bulletin board services). The earliest online games were exclusively text based (things like muds and moos) and stuff like the real-time chat of IRC was revolutionary compared to the asynchronous message boards everybody was using. Then Messenger clients like ICQ came along and everything started to change.

When ISPs like AOL became widespread, the internet as we think of it was just emerging. Websites were very basic, many fortune 500 companies didn't even have a website, and things were extremely walled off. People typically bought access based on a block of time, then later a flat fee, and in most cases you used a phone line and modem to connect, so unless you could afford a second phone line (or were okay missing calls), you tied up your phone line when you were online (and parents wouldn't stand for their kids being online all of the time because it meant missed calls and an inability to make calls).

This again is where I really think ghost is older than 38. He talks about this stuff with the specificity that only somebody who lived through it would have, and I'm talking about an adult who lived through it, not a kid or teenager. Paltalk itself is a total giveaway that he's older. Once things moved beyond BBS's and things like IRC and ICQ, one of the big activities online was looking for chatrooms and chatting with people, primarily via text chat. But in the late 90's paltalk emerged and I can't stress enough what an "og" kind of early internet thing paltalk is. It just oozes everything from the mid to late 90s internet, and just the subject matter of those chatrooms and social strata of the internet (even in the late 90s) convinces me ghost was an older adult using paltalk.

The way he used the site, the way he talked about the people on it and his past experiences, and the way he jumped from room to room and used the interface and expected people to "raise their hands" before speaking and what not... It's all totally a thing that some old guy who used that site many times would do. While it's not impossible that a young person could be on paltalk in the early days, just as I was one of the few teens playing Ultima Online, the way Ghost felt familiar with paltalk and its dated interface leads me to believe he was no awkward teen when using it. He felt at home using it and being somebody who was old enough to know that era of the online experience, it just seemed like he was returning to an old haunt where he felt very comfortable, something that is unlikely if he was a teenager when first visiting it amidst a bunch of adults.

I can't stress this enough... When you were young online back then, it was noticeable and you stuck out, even if you only were communicating by text. If you were mature and had manners, most adults would tolerate you and even take you under their wing, but you were an outsider and it was a very different experience than a grown adult would have had.