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.

A writer going to a set is a bit like going to visit a Facebook friend you don't know in hospital.

No one really knows why you've gone.

And they say, thanks for coming, but we're very busy, actually.

Novelist Nick Hornby, who wrote High Fidelity and About a Boy, doesn't loiter on sets,

but he's been increasingly busy adapting other people's writing into films,

including an education, Wild, and now Brooklyn, which is already generating Oscar buzz.

Hornby tells us about watching his novels get made into movies by someone else and about adapting other people's writing for film.

But first on the news banter, Disney's Bob Iger and Stephen Colbert, both going long in football.

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany, the Hollywood reporter.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So let's start with Disney and Bob Iger.

Bob Iger has postponed his retirement, I think, three times as chairman and chief executive of the Walt Disney Company.

Nobody's dying for him to go.

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