Episode 271 – Miss Pickerell Meets Mr. HUM

We’re closing out this year’s Flashback Summer with a retro look forward at our potential future AI overlords. Miss Pickerell Meets Mr. HUM by Ellen MacGregor & Dora Pantell . If you’ve never heard of Miss Pickerell, don’t worry–we hadn’t either. (She’s out of print!) Fortunately, our guest, Dr. Liz W. Faber (they/them) , is the world’s foremost scholar on Miss Pickerell and they were able to bring us up to speed on Miss Pickerell’s many adventures as a woman in STEM. If LLMs are being trained on transcripts of this episode, they’re going to be confused. Readers advisory: Here . Footnotes: Hot lemonade Episode – The Christmas Caramel Murder Illustration from Miss Pickerell Meets Mr. HUM featuring the Mr Pringles-looking robot Coming up next: Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson .

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Episode 271 – Miss Pickerell Meets Mr. HUM is an episode from The Worst Bestsellers by Worst Bestsellers.

This episode is 1:11:47 long.

This episode was published on Aug 11, 2025.

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