Tag: WGON in Philadelphia

St. Remedius Medical College: Baking Through the Apocalypse 2026

Remembering St. Remedius’s Pre-Spring Break Decompression Celebration (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) (And it’s time to note that this week is St. Remedius Radio Pledge Drive Week! We know things are tight for everybody, so we’re not going to spend all week nagging and nuhdzing you to toss money that you desperately need, but if you can, consider buying a St. Remedius T-shirt! Put Mandatory Parker stickers all over your…

St. Remedius Medical College: “The Dream of the 1970s”

A 1970s television station control booth

The Enduring Universality of WGON in Philadelphia (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Because of a quirk in evolutionary development, Earth at the end of the 20th Century was isolated from the rest of the galactic community for multiple reasons. Had humanity and its cousins evolved a mere 10 million years earlier, the entire solar system would have been bombarded with radio, laser, and gravity-wave confirmations…