Jacoby Podcast/IF-53.494

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Hot Mic

Jacoby Podcast was a suspected stage name for a pirate radio personality in Baltimore. During the absence of the Crabs, Baltimore's standing within the local theography was called into question, and it was made clear that the municipal organizations in charge of preparedness against divine crisis had been relying far more on the blaseball team than was publicly reported. Investigations into corruption and embezzlement at the local and county level were largely fruitless on the surface, but a hard-to-pinpoint radio host broadcasting on the Wild Low Frequency (WLF) radio band gained infamy at this time for getting deeper into the case than any of the established media organizations; something that honestly didn't surprise anyone because nearly all of Baltimore's media sphere was sensationalist tabloids existing merely as vessels for bad splorts puns.

As tensions grew between the people, the city, and the surrounding godscape, the tone of Jacoby's show shifted into a platform for activist organizations, networking on the behalf of protest cells, unions, civil orgs, irreverent militias, personalities and regular people alike, across the city's social landscape. It became apparent to activist leaders that the show was operating independently, the information the host was receiving was not coming from any particular individual; however, the information and direction on the show was unnaturally accurate, and its greater strategy effective, if a little dramatized in its pacing.

Across the seething streets, in the hideaways and coves, in the homes of the tired and the angry alike, listeners tuned in daily. When the first of many gods crossed the threshold of Baltimore, people were ready. When the municipal staff tried to shred the infrastructure accounts papers, people were ready. When city councilmembers sought to make underhanded deals with the divine in their desperation, the people were there to meet them too.

Live Wire

Once control of the city tilted in favor of grassroots organizers, Podcast changed gears into juggling several smaller radio projects. They included, but are not limited to:

• Updates and accountability on the now reinvigorated construction projects in the Crabitat, projects in the case of divine retribution that allowed for the corpse stadium to hold the whole city under siege.
• Arthropods of Baltimore, a human interest block (or whatever you would call it for nonhumans) that touched on stories from residents across the Oldest Bay.
• A music and poetry slot dedicated to hyperlocal artists. Many people featured on the slot have no idea how Jacoby got their hands on their work in the first place, and a handful hadn't successfully presented or published their features to begin with.
• A godswatch scanner broadcast which informed what residents were calling the 'New Crabs' or the 'Shadow Crabs' of any divine activity at the borders of the Baltimore domain. While the city got its anti-god infrastructure situated, many credited Jacoby with maintaining the city's hold on the domain by directing those more capable of handling their own against the probing divine.

On the return of the Crabs to the Immaterial Plane, the team was relieved to see the city still standing, better than they left it, even. Seeing how essential Jacoby's directives were to that, how similarly they carried themselves and the Shadow Crabs to the Crabs during the city's last great crisis, the team sought out Podcast in hopes of looping them into the team directly. However, every time the signal was triangulated, the pursuants would arrive at an empty live room, still on air, the seat by the mic still swinging slowly as if the host had left seconds before, always just a moment too late.

Parker Parra hypothesized that Jacoby Podcast was never themselves a person. The voice on the radio was all that there ever was. Following that thread, the Crabs finally got a hold of the figure by calling out for them over Parra's ham radio kit (one of their many abandoned projects), and convinced them to come on-board, followed by a gripping interview that told us all about exactly what happened to the team in the Up and you surely have already heard it by now so the details will not be repeated here.

Pitch Perfect

How does Jacoby play a game? Well, the answer is very simple.