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 and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters and this is the business.

I go, oh my God, I've just read one of the great books of our time, you know, that really

kind of sums up what's going on.

She goes, well, you have to make it.

I go, I'm a comedy guy.

No one's going to let me do this.

Adam McKay is the very successful writer-director of Will Ferrell hits, including Anchorman

and Talladega Nights.

But he needed a push from his wife before he let himself imagine he could do the movie version

of The Big Short, Michael Lewis's book about the collapse of the housing market.

Now, McKay and his film are nominated for Oscar.

He talks about why he broke one of the basic rules of movie making with the big short.

But first on the news banter, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences makes dramatic and sure-to-be-controversial changes to address Oscars So White.

Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by a special guest partner in banter, Scott Feinberg.

He is the awards analyst for the Hollywood reporter.

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