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.

So you know the film The People versus Larry Flint.

You know the film, Big Eyes, because the writers of those films, Larry Kersuski and Scott Alexander have been here talking about their work.

They're now here talking about the biggest project they've done yet, American Crime Story.

The People v. O.J. Simpson, guys, first of all, welcome so much for coming back.

Thank you so much of doing this.

Thank you, Elvis.

It's always a treat. And what's really interesting about this is that you guys, first of all, there's gallows humor and all these kind of really kind of awful events that happen. But so much of these,

this really fits into your wheelhouse, which is to say, opposing sides who are groups of outsiders

or groups of misfits who happen to fall into each other. Does that one of the things that you

sort of found immediately as you were looking at this? I mean, we definitely were drawn instantly

to the characters. I mean, I think, you know, this is a piece that, you know, we wouldn't have done

as a film because there's so much of it. And putting it all into like two hours would have

just been, you know, you

wouldn't have been to get into anything in depth. But for us, we just instantly saw this,

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