You were saying Pauline Kael didn't like the film we watched for this week's episode.

Yeah, famous story, the editor of the New Yorker William Sean, after reading her review of the film,

which will remain nameless for the time being said, you know, I don't know if it makes any difference to you that Terry is like a son to me.

And she said, tough shit bill when did

pauline kale pass away she died in 2001 but she had been retired for 10 years or so because she

had Parkinson's but so she obviously having passed away in 2001 could never have gotten

Twitter I would love it if she had Twitter I think it would go a little something like this.

No, but how would it have gone?

Would Paul A.L. have been, like, would she have become, like, an insufferable Twitter lib?

Would she have kind of maybe moved culturally to the right in some way?

What do you think?

Well, first of all, I think she would have resisted it.

I mean, she was known for her incredibly long

and dense articles. I think she would have viewed it as the downfall of civilization. But I don't

know if she were a little bit younger, but exactly the same person. Like, if she were one of her

acolytes, if she were one of the Paulettes, as they were called, who is on Twitter now. Yeah, she would be a Russiagate person.

You think so?

Well, I mean, I think James Wolcott, one of her best acolytes,

I think he approvingly shared one of those articles about, like,

the left is as bad as the right these days.

She would have been in like the alt center, you think so.

And I also think like every review, not every review, she obviously had like plenty of good...

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