This is KZSU, Stanford.

Welcome to Entitled Opinions.

My name is Robert Harrison, and we're coming to you from the Stanford campus. Familiar notes from that glass wave album you've come to love or hate over the years.

A thumping beat to announce the start of a new season of Gaudium and Festa here on Entitled Opinions,

where we give you the best of what we can rest from the minds of our motley guests,

and where winds from the west touch the headdress of that tribal chief

who presides over our infinite jest and turns our disbelief

into an unlikely treasure hoard.

Welcome back to our Mindfest, friends.

Welcome to our Reader's Digest, our Pilgrim's Progress, and to that inquest of ideas that comes to you

from a recess of the Stanford campus called KZSU, where thinking takes shelter from the bellows

of angry wind that swirl all around us, all around this threshing floor, as Dante called our planet,

looking down on it from afar, from the sparkling sphere of the fixed stars.

Prime real estate indeed.

All because of you.

Thank you. We start off the spring season of 2016 with something special.

This past February, I conducted a public conversation with filmmaker Werner Herzog,

director of legendary movies like Aguirre, The Wrath of God, Fitzcaraldo, Nosferatu,

as well as documentaries like Grizzly Man, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, and into the abyss.

That conversation didn't take place in the intimate environment of KZSU, but in a big auditorium on the Stanford campus with over 600 people in attendance.

It took place under the aegis of a book club called Another Look, sponsored by Stanford's Continuing Studies

Program. Another Look was started four years ago by novelist Tobias Wolf, who was my guest

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