I was tickled by your comment that Pauline Kael was the first movie podcaster.
I enjoyed reading about movies for many years before the world wide web. But I never cared at all for 3/4 of the print critics I've read -- critics that focus on, shall we say, high-minded political matters with some relation to the film. There were three critics, though, who wrote about their own personal experience of the film, who managed to convey their human reaction to it. The three were Paul Kael, Richard Corliss, and finally (it took me a long time to find this guy, maybe you've heard of him), Roger Ebert.
What a wonder it was. I was particularly struck that Pauline Kael disagreed with my take on many, many of the movies that were most important to me, and so many movies I thought were lame, and yet her reviews still did a wonderful job of telling me, if I hadn't seen the film, whether I would like it. Pauline Kael got straight to the heart of the human reaction to a film, in a way that was universal.
Finally it got to be 2005 and I found not one but two (!) more critics who had something of Kael's magic touch -- Adam and Sam. And I was surprised again on that sad say when Sam left the show and was replaced by yet a third critic who spent his review time talking about human reactions in a clear way. "Action is character" I learned much about how movies work from Matty.
Fast forward to 2016 and we have an entire Filmspotting family of interesting critics, and other interesting film podcasts too. Yes, Pauline Kael was the first podcaster, or, really better, film podcasters are her children.
Thanks for all the great shows.