On To the Point, we try to make sense of the policy debates and the political sideshows on the campaign trail.

Neither party's agenda really aligns with who its coalition is today.

It was the dumbest speech I have ever seen in my life of covering politics.

When people walk into a voting booth, at the end of the day, they do say,

I really should vote for someone smarter than me.

I'm Warren Alney. To the Point has you covered for the 2016 campaign. Find the To the Point

podcast on KCRW's iTunes page. From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's the treatment. It's The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment. The gentleman coughing across from me, his work with directors from Derek Shee in France to, oh my God, to David McKenzie.

Actually, we had Jack O'Donnell in here last year.

Oh, yeah. He was just here for here last year, O'Connell last year.

Oh, yeah.

He was just here for that.

And he is sitting across from me, of course.

He's Ben Mendelsohn.

He had a great year at Sundance this year.

I saw him in two films there,

Slow West, and, of course, Mississippi Grind,

which she's nominated for Best Male Lead

for the Independent Spirit Award. He's also on Netflix and Bloodline.

Ben, thanks so much for being here.

It's my pleasure.

And one of the things I have to say I really like about you as an actor and people talk

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