All right, buddy. Welcome to the Wednesday live stream. We got a lot of things to go over. So let's just jump right in and get into it So just like the thumbnail and title suggests really it comes down to where you're at in the cycle And of course some people will say that the four-year cycles are defunct and they don't work But I'm still a believer in them because so far it's been 13 years or so and they still hold up So right now I still believe that we are in the little bit of a dip before we get into our having And just so everybody knows my buddy Tom crown just point this out to me today that the having is supposed to be on 420 Who to thunk it so it is coming up fast. It's coming up quick and that's really just where we're at So when we take a look at this I just made this a quick little graphic not to say that this will be perfectly in alignment because Nothing actually works perfectly But so far it's been the same thing over and over again You get a having then you get an all-time high and a dip and a reset happened 2016 2019 2020 we're having all-time high in 2021 also look like a double top in 2022 We took a big massive hit and got kicked in the teeth and from the tip top of where we were at I think it was November 11th 2020 2021 to the bottom which was again in November one year later 20 I do it take it took exactly Exactly one year then 2023 we get a reset which we just lived through and now 20 94 We're going on the upward incline and of course just like Tom said 420 is coming around pretty quick And we have the having and then we jump in so that is just taking a look at it But as everybody has a reminder and I know that there are some people that have been here since 2012 2013 and some of you have been here since 2021 and for those people I want to say thanks for sticking around He did a pretty hard thing to do which was you know essentially get beat up and you stuck around and you listen to some People and maybe you bought some dips here and there and you're like you know what I'm ready to roll and for those people Congratulations, but I have to remind everybody about this that usually when we go into having's It's a little bit of volatility. So I want to I want to take a look at two data points Because in all honesty, we really haven't had numerous data points to really plot a ton of information First having had in 2012 what I want to look at is 2016 and 2020 and the exact dates for the having of 2016 was July 9th 2016 and I want you to notice something that Just like we had the ETF remember the ETF that came out everybody thought it was gonna be the most fantastic thing of all time Well, it wasn't it could still potentially be I'm not gonna you know attack negatively about it. I think it's doing quite well However, it was a real buy the rumor sell the news and that's essentially what it is now on this case We're gonna see the same thing on July 9th 2016 You will have you get April April April you buy the rumor as it's actually it's not a really rumor That's gonna happen anyhow, but people are gonna tell you like this is it You got to get in you got to put everything in and you can do that I'm not here to tell you what to do not a financial advisor But just know that usually what happens is the price starts to spike and it drops off as we go into like the actual having itself And it kind of tapers off and it gets boring it gets very boring actually and you're gonna take a look at this Like what did I sign up for why am I even here? You know, it's because Essentially the having is the catalyst to kick us off to when we get into the bigger numbers Going into 2024 towards the end of 2025 So that's just the first for peace. Let's take a look at May 11th 2020 and again We can kind of see this thing kind of rolling out and doing the exact same things. We come over here Same thing Things are to do pretty well people are all excited about the having it's gonna happen, baby We're gonna it's gonna be the best thing of all time and moon boots and everything else and down it goes Now this was a little bit of different case because if you remember around March 2020 ish, what was the big event that happened? Surveys of sickness exactly so it's a little bit skewed and people went down But I still think that we would still have a big a big drop-off as we head into the having Which was again until May and then it went sideways forever and people were bored and it's just how it's gonna happen I believe again now not to say this is gonna keep happening again and again again But it's like we're kind of lining up to the same thing happening And I for one kind of feel like we're in the right place at the right time However talking about all that this time will be different and I can guarantee it And the reason why I can guarantee it is because there's these things called ordinals This is a great piece that was put out by Bitcoin magazine and it said the Bitcoin having why this time could be different But it really is I'm gonna skip all this stuff cuz boring Let me see if the good stuff Ordinals if you're a Bitcoin maxi you love more hate him most of you guys hate him That's just what it is But I gotta tell you if you're a Bitcoin minor you love an ordinals because the actual Transaction fees are through the roof Congratulations, you've surpassed the theorem gas fees. I think that could actually happen anyhow Here's what it is Ordinals of course that is the the process as you can inscribe and you can embed different applications or gifts images Text onto the the Bitcoin blockchain and it stays hopefully forever so ordinals There's this thing called a Rarity value to specific satoshis or specific sats. I didn't know this each block has a coin base thus producing an ordinal Does anybody know what a coin base is besides a centralized exchange that usually fails us during the peak of the bull runs Just kidding Coinbase on the Bitcoin blockchain all transactions Executed on chain or combined to form one block when a block is formed It will be immediately added to the blockchain each block should contain one or more transactions The first of which is also called a coin base transaction So every 10 minutes when they produce a block, that's your coin base transaction Interesting the things that we forget going forward. So next piece each normal block produce produces an uncommon Sat or an uncommon Satoshi the first block of each difficulty adjustment produces a rare set So, you know that over time as The Bitcoin miners, I'm not a Bitcoin miners Just what they tell me that over time there is a difficulty adjustment depending on how much hash rate is actually going on Depending on how much actually mining processing power is happening. There is a difficulty rate I know some people say we'll probably understand because the Bitcoin's gonna go a business some are that's just how it is But when they do go out of business and this actually will happen I believe in the Bitcoin having like it always does they're gonna shut out those mining rings because it's the same amount of power For half of the amount of the rewards This is gonna happen the difficulty adjustment will adjust down Then the miners that actually can make it and that's the why they're selling off right now So they can make it later.  I had no idea that was a thing The first block of each having cycle produces an epic set. You know what it's gonna happen April 20th Imagine that somebody inscribing on that sat for that ordinal how much that would be worth a dollar $20 1 million dollars. Who knows that's where I think it's gonna get interesting This having will be the first one since the widespread adoption of ordinal theory There has never been the production of an epic sat while there was material market demand for it The fact that a large market segment of Bitcoin space would value that single-coin base Jurastically higher than any other creates an incentive for miners to fight over and it talks about reorganizing blocks I'm not gonna get into it's very kind of drool, but this is one of those instances where that ordinal I Personally believe it's gonna be worth a lot of money, but we'll see how it all works out But this is definitely gonna be different and that's where we come from So let me just think about that in the comment section and then also I I need to do a video on how to do an ordinal inscription if you'd like to see that put that that comment in the section or a second comment down below and I'll make a video about how to actually inscribe in ordinals and I use all that stuff But I won't do it unless somebody or if you guys actually want to see it because somebody really couldn't care So there is that piece Now I'm moving into what I called the Goldilocks zone because right now we talk about the having all that stuff But around the having is when fireworks happen and this was actually shared with me by Lydia crypto and I had not wasn't aware of this, but it's very true This is Goldilocks zone is when we have having said around that time is when if you're a smart Project you know that this is around the time when things start to take off You're not going to launch a bunch of projects in the bear market when no one wants to do anything and they're out of the Out of the system what you want to do is you want to wait around this time when there's a plethora of liquidity or a more liquidity coming into the sector and That's when you can actually maximize your potential and that's where we're going to see a lot of projects come in and start up They're going to be monsters So on this one, I like this one Maddox April 2019 That did okay axi which we're going to talk about a little bit Solana April 2020 Sand August 2020 Shiba Inu August 2020 Avax. We're gonna talk about that as well September 2020 gala August 2020 All this happened around this Goldilocks time frame and you will notice I did not mention one thing and I will Luna Luna also launched on this time and it was a massive hit But it's your job as an investor to figure out which one of these are gonna be the grand Be all everything and the ones that are gonna collapse now. I can't tell you what that is But I can tell you for me personally. That's why I diversify so talking about that Avalanche and a Vax this was a piece that I pulled this just happened in six hours ago And actually it was a there's a video that was posted by the avalanche team and this is here from the salts salt connections there different Is this the meeting that they had for Different powers or titans of industry I guess in the blockchain sector. This is John Haas and You can follow him here link in the description. He's a senior senior vice president at Aval labs anybody who Has a mullet for their profile picture can't be all bad Just listen to what he says because I think it's it's kind of striking about what people believe About the block chains and the ones that are actually gonna win Let me pull this up so you can hear it perfectly. I want you to actually understand what he's saying Take a listen. This is a 45 seconds or so With people building in blockchain crypto I think the biggest misconception is that there will be a single chain that will win outright or a single chain can be Used for all of the digitization and transfer of value across Numerous different kinds of asset classes previous year cycles. We proved out the main chain thesis that was our brawl We launched subnets that was our walk and now we're gonna be start to connect a lot of these subnets together That's gonna be our run moment where you start to see traditional finance applications enterprises gaming and all these different innovative Applications on their own sovereign chains have connection and see that value transfer and really start to see the next stages Of what blockchain? Yeah, well, we'll see so like with that one It makes a lot of sense of what he's talking about and if you're unaware Avalanche actually partnered up with JP Morgan to do their cross-train Transactions for our WA is a real world asset. So when he's talking about these things about, you know It's not just going to be one winner of a blockchain. I happen to believe that look I'm old and that's not surprised anybody but When when I was coming up when we heard about the internet we thought it was I swear to God We thought that there would be one it'd be one website for everything and I would do it Maybe like a couple maybe that was about it and then of course when social media came about we're like, you know what? How many do we really need? I mean just one probably good pretty good Friendster looks like it's gonna be awesome And then of course here we are we have like tons of them So I know when some people say no, no, no, we're only gonna have one There's gonna be one blockchain and one winner and that's pretty much it. I understand the thesis I get it of course if we're talking about Everything that as far like execution layer for the internet Sure, but I still think there's gonna be more winners than just one, but I could be wrong. So having Being playing on that theme itself. I thought it was interesting about what AVAC is actually doing So they are really heavily into of course. He talked about subnets but gaming and gaming I know this is one of the things that I talk about on the channel for quite some time Because I think that the next narrative is going to be three things AI As we all move to that Dexes decentralized exchanges because a centralized exchanges really can't keep up and the dexes that we have right now are vastly an improvement over the originals and the last one is web3 gaming and One of the reasons is because there's a lot of opportunity there I know some people say well, how much money is really really available? Look if you compare the movies to The revenue that's created in gaming. It's not even close I mean, it's over 180 billion that's in 2021. I don't have updated graphic for this one But the movies just in movies 39 billion that was before the big slump off with a coronavirus in 2019 So they're wildly vastly superior and then the question then becomes well Well, how many gamers are there if you take a look at the tista number of gamers in 2015 is 2 billion and 2023 we had 3.22 and I'll probably get 3.3 billion. That's a lot of people how many people on the planet? Like 8 billion 7.8 correct me the comment section but You know roughly there's a lot of people who played games and that could be a multitude of games that could be hypercasual that could be the goofy games in your phone or that could be the crazy games that are out there like the eSports people and this was a post by avalanche gaming They said hey in case you didn't know eSports being pretty big and then right here under Statist that says the video game market is worth an estimated 3.85 billion and eSports players are increasingly contributing to that figure They just signed a deal With TSM's the Blitz the Blitz will host avalanche branded tournaments and create myriad new ways for fans interact with their favorite games All on their own dedicated chain So there is that piece and I gotta tell you we've come a long way in web 3 gaming as opposed to like this Which is what everybody makes fun of axi infinity although it has made a resurgence on the rona network. I'll give it that I Mean these are kind of goofy Let's just be honest to games like this and this is from avalanche have a vax games off the grid Now these are the games that like two years ago. You didn't see this these are games that are actually Available right now. You can play them. They're on PlayStation Xbox and PC and then you got massive people like Dr. Disrespect who I'm I don't follow him, but I'm just saying Obviously not but he's highly entertaining guy and you know four and a half million Swiss drivers big gamer And then of course, he's one of those for Off the grid and he got other games like shrapnel and those are coming out hot and heavy and looks pretty good And shrapnel and like we talked about the goalie lock zone look at this shrapnel has only been out for like 30 40 days So if you're looking at things, you're like, it's not a bad idea Even though it's dead down 40% from it's all-time high these are the things you might want to start to look into like I am as Maybe an opportunity for too diversify, but again can't tell you what to do not your dad I'm not a financial advisor. However, you got somebody who's a lot smarter than me That's Ed Cheng. I invited him on the show and we did a quick interview about what they are doing behind the scenes What's happening right now and what's going to pop off in the future? So this is an eight minutes roughly interview So I want to share this with you real quick and we will go from there after this We'll come back and we'll talk about do the quick little Q&A and go from there. Let me see if I can Pull up Ed Oh, you probably want to see it. All right, take a listen to this Thanks for coming on for the first time. Yeah, it's a pleasure to be here I know we've been talking about this for a while. Happy new year and like I said excited to chat sweet Okay, so everybody so you may hear a Screaming baby in the background. That is not the stakeholders. That is that is just life Stakeholders. Yeah exactly the stakeholders that so so we'll do this real quick. So Ed first of all I got three questions for you. We'll go over those in detail So tell us about Aval Avax and what's been going on at this point the second thing What's your side about as things are rolling out and then what's beyond that what's really gonna happen the next, you know Six months to a year or something like that. So catch us up Tell us what's going about Avax and what's been gone to this point. Yeah, so avalanche We are a layer one protocol, you know, you probably Know us for a variety of different reasons. So I obviously lead our gaming efforts I've been here for just over two years, you know But we are very prominent and prevalent in things like DeFi and NFTs and culture as well as you know, RWAs and institutional capital So it's been a lot of fun working here just because it's we're not just a gaming chain We touch upon a lot of areas and you know, the reasons why avalanche is very attractive as traditionally It's been known as an EVM chain. So obviously very, you know, solidly friendly But you know, we've got a feature first of all We've got our novel avalanche consensus that allows for the fastest time to finality in crypto And you know, it's probably pretty obvious why, you know Having sub second finality for your transactions and purchases on gaming makes a lot of sense But across the board, you don't have to deal with rior. It's like a lot of this stuff Just just very intuitive, right? The second kind of key differentiator is, you know, we've got a Product called subnets, right? So app chains are very hot right now Although we were probably, you know, the first to market with kind of mass adoption For for app chain. So what subnets allow you to do is effectively deploy your own, you know Private block space on top of our public chain, right?  You have low transaction speeds.  You can designate custom validator sets, right? So that could be You know, you can you can choose investors or guilds to be your validators And you can also tap into the over 1,300 validators in our ecosystem today. So We could be permissionless it can be permission. There's a lot of flexibility, right? And that makes a lot of sense and resonates and you can see that with the really cool Companies that we've announced, right? So we've got, you know, Deloitte We announced kind of a POC with JP Morgan and other large banks, you know, SK one of the largest companies in Korea is building on the Subnet we've got, you know, TSM and Blitz who are deploying. We've got really cool games Like shrapnel and Godzilla and the Pegasi team You know merit circle the largest gaming down in web 3 right now is deploying a subnet called beam and publishing over 20 games So It makes a lot of sense. They can once game teams and DAP teams understand like the value prop of avalanche And we're going bigger in the sense that we are known for EVM, but like we're actually VM agnostic, right? So in the very near future, you'll be able to deploy and move or rust or other languages within Within a subnet with our with our novel consensus. And so We're also building kind of the plumbing that allows you to seamlessly, you know Teleport and trans transport assets across different subnet seamlessly And once we can unlock that I think that the sky's the limit there That's crazy. That's a lot of stuff and a little bit of time. Ed. Hey, perfect I mean, that was really great I mean, I've had a lot of people on the show, but very few people can actually Explicitly talk about what it is in such a quick fashion. So we all appreciate it. So let's talk about the next piece What are you excited about because you just gave us a whole handful of things But what do you what's coming up like like relatively soon that you're really excited about getting rolled out? Yeah, you know Because I work in gaming I'm gonna start with that right I think I think the the hard part about games are And this is gonna sound very obvious is that they're very hard to build right? They take a long time and so whenever you're working with really large development teams and these longer timelines and art and app store Approvals and things like that things tend to always take longer than you think they will right? So we announced a lot of really cool projects last year I think we'll start to see those those launch, you know early this year So we've got you know shrapnel and off-the-grid early access coming right You know blitz is gonna go online first with subscriptions on their subnet and then a lot of really cool things in q1 and q2 You know the a lot of merit circle games on that beam subnet are gonna come online, you know mid this year So those are some of the areas there, you know, stay tuned. We've got some other big gaming announcements coming up in the first half of this year We'll be out in full force at a couple conferences this year including GDC So really excited for those things to take off as well as you know Our marketing team has been spending a lot of time kind of building our brand voice and kind of the vision and like Relationships with influencers in the ecosystem. So we think that all that stuff is tied up really nicely I think you know the work that one of my colleagues Dom has been doing on the NFT side has been great too But really building out a narrative and an ecosystem on NFTs and you're seeing some really cool mints And projects in that ecosystem obviously that's very adjacent to the stuff in gaming So you'll see you start to see a lot more crossovers there in terms of what we can tap into as well That's crazy. Yeah, excellent. I didn't know yeah beam in the subnet fantastic So I mean another thing to think about but let's talk about what's beyond all that because that's a little that's a pretty big chunk But there's a lot of things to develop and I know I don't know if you can say tell us but like what's beyond all this What's the what's the the very big end piece? Yeah, I think I think the vision for us is you know, not just to be You know the The layer that benefits the most from bringing all these games on I think when we can show that We can enable large enterprise businesses within gaming and other verticals That's going to be really cool, right? So I think an example of that is what we're doing with merit circle with beam, right? They're building their own version of like a steam like a launcher for web three games They have a massive audience they have a token that supports that they have kind of the shared infrastructure across all that right? And so that's really kind of a one-plus one equals three for us where we can work with you know Up-and-coming mid-core triple-aid game studios that can also publish more games I think you know that the opportunity to enable platforms is one like very few chains can do and I think we're the frontrunner in that so You know as I think a lot of these games and studios get closer to launching right where they are in their like life cycle They realize more and more that the tech and the partnership and who you're working with really matters And that's where you'll start to see you know some big names hopefully come to avalanche very soon So, you know, I'm just excited if you think about Kind of the larger scale and then our ability to also like build out this ecosystem build out like true marketing and user acquisition That's where the team's really been heads down and it's it's a much Less sexy part of building out an ecosystem or doing your job, right? But I think in this we were just talking about like this bear market that lasted for quite a while It felt like it was a good opportunity for us to really spend time and go deep with our teams who were you know Still here and building as well as building out a lot of this plumbing and stuff that you don't normally think about when you're like Oh, let's go. Let's go bring some games to the ecosystem Yeah, exactly and I'll just say like a friend of mine Ken from from meld. He said you know what the great thing about the Bear market is he goes there's not so much noise We can put our head down we actually make things work and we don't have to deal with all the nonsense that's going on So I got to tell you and I think you you you and avalanche made full use your time and thanks for answering all those questions That was fantastic everybody If there's links in the description for everything that we just talked about you can take a look at avalanche the subnet beam and the Different games that are out there, but Ed thanks so much for stopping by. We'll have you back when new things come about Yeah, I'm happy to come back anytime. Thank you so much Yeah, that was it so Ed I gotta say thanks so much first of all for being concise and Well, but your answers that you were giving and then just give us some some great information So again, I appreciate my man Ed coming on and we'll have him back on again when different things happen now Before we get to the Q&A there's a couple of things I have to mention First of all, we talked a lot about a woo-woo stuff and we got very bullish So you have to understand of course I am bullish, but I'm also biased, right? And I'm biased as you can see right here I own Avax I own avalanche I own a heck of a lot more Bitcoin That's why I talk about Bitcoin all the time, but I own a lot of stuff Ethereum Salon and near Cardano avalanche link stacks arbitra mutable injectable cosmos polygon and another like Ronin and stuff that I see in The comments section. I own a lot of stuff that's out there So if you think like, ah, Robert's doing this out the goodness of his heart No, it's because Rob is biased.  It just lost 750 Solana now. This is only for this is like $60,000 In its treasury, but there was a Solana saga Dow like an unofficial Dow on discord And this is the thing that happens when you don't do the right things. So here's what here's what we got So this Solana the money or the Solana itself was supposed to be securely held in a multi-sig wallet Which multiple or multiple parties would need to approve any transfer But no one ever activated that security feature meaning it only took one of 12 signers to move the funds What this is is when you have a multi-sig wallet It's as many people as you can to do a transaction to transfer it to a centralized exchange or transfer to the wallet You need all the actual signers to actually go in there and go, okay I approve this we can all do this if you do not make that actually happen again This is a multi-sig wallet not everybody has these then you can't move the funds and they're stuck there Which is very safe and in this situation. It didn't happen on Wednesday the group the saga Dow sent 700 D insol tokens to an address control by one of its suit it suited to Duminous Dynamos Jesus suck at this founders ZK red devil that was supposed to have the security in place ZK red devil claimed they were the target of a remote hack and of course that could be true But another of the Dow's Sonomas founders goes by Ashen Push back on the narrative Wednesday accusing this guy of pulling the heist himself Fan club started as a discord server or owners of Solana's exclusive saga phone Cacrogated to chat about their phones perks from free airdrops NFTs That's like great you do you you do that you get together You're like this is fun We're just talking and then they get ambitious and they do a Dow Which is there nothing wrong with that and they secured 700 Sol by selling a pre-launch S coin It had received on a lark. So a couple lessons here first of all easy come easy go and Second of all, it's not how much you You make Some what you keep but just remember that as we roll into the bull market. That's it for today So look everybody like today's video give it a thumbs up consider subscribing when we talk about his time sensitive


Hi, welcome to the All Things LGBTQ Interview Show, where we interview LGBTQ guests who are making important contributions to our communities. All Things LGBTQ is taped at Orca Media in Montpelier, Vermont, which we recognize as being unceded indigenous land. It is my great pleasure to welcome Carla Jay to the show. Carla is a scholar, activist, author, renaissance person, pioneer, veteran of Stonewall, which we'll talk about a little in the show, and I'm proud to call her my friend. Welcome Carla. Thanks for having me. We're here to celebrate the release on Audible of Carla's wonderful memoir, Tales of a Lavender Menace. I just had the great pleasure of reading it over the last week, and I loved it. It's funny, it's thoughtful, it's well researched, it's fast paced. You know, Carla and I spent some time at the Modern Language Association, and there was a panel there for several years called I Couldn't Put It Down, and that's the way I feel about this memoir. It's really fabulous, I can't recommend it enough. And I listened to five minutes of the Audible tape, the sample five minutes, and you can get it on Audible by Googling Audible, by Googling Tales of the Lavender Menace on Audible, and another reader is reading. I'm disappointed because as you'll see, Carla has a lovely Brooklyn accent, but you're pleased with the woman who is reading the recording. Yes, I actually had a role in choosing her, they gave me a choice, and I think her name is Hilary Huber, and she was available, she does those Ferrante books. Oh, I love those. Yes, and she does those books, and see, I thought part of the charm was she could be me without the Brooklyn accent, and for many people that might be a plus. Well, it certainly has a lot of appeal with Bernie Sanders. Let's talk about the memoir, if we may, just for a moment. I remember visiting you in New York, and you were kind enough, I was living in New Orleans, and you were kind enough to take some of us around. You took us to Barney's and Ellis Island, and you mentioned writing a memoir at the time. How did you happen to write it? I started writing this memoir, it took me a really long time because even though the book doesn't contain footnotes, every element of the book is researched very carefully. If I said that for a certain March, the weather was sunny and 70 degrees, I went to what was then microfiche and looked it up in the newspaper of that city in that day. Everything really took me a long time to do, and I think the book took me about seven years to write, and I had finished, I guess, a previous project that I was looking for something to do, and I was about to donate my papers to the New York Public Library, and I thought I should write my memoir while I still have these papers, while I still can remember things pretty well. Things weren't on the internet so much in the 90s while I wrote the book, but there was the possibility of doing a lot of research. Now, of course, it's easier with things just being mostly at the tip of one's fingers, although I think some of the things that are in there like court cases and so on, you would still have to go around and dig in courthouses. Yes, you can really see the research. It's very historically accurate, and well researched, and took you about seven years. You were also teaching full-time. Yes. And there was a heavy course load at PACE, if I recall. Yes, PACE is and was a teaching institution. So even though by the 90s I was a distinguished professor, it really, the course load there was pretty heavy, and a lot of the courses contained a lot of writing, so it was difficult to find time in between things to write these things. Did you have a schedule? No. I mean, of course, I wrote more in the summers and during breaks and things like that, and when I could get away to do research. But I just wrote whatever I could. I was very disciplined always about writing, and of course I was writing newspaper and magazine articles, and I wrote for the New York Times book review back then, and I wrote for many publications, many LGBTQ publications at the time. So this was published in 1999 originally. Yes. Is there going to be a sequel? Not that I know of, not anything LGBTQ. You know, sometimes I think that it would be interesting to write about the birth of the queer academic movement. I was one of the original members of the Gay Academic Union, and it was certainly a lively group to put it mildly with some surprising members in there. But I've also thought about writing about, you know, my current life and, you know, having poodle guide dogs, which is, I think, you know, a kind of unique perspective on the world, because they're, even in the guide dog world, they're rather different from other dogs in that poodles like to make their own decisions. You know, they say if you have a lab, for example, you can walk down the same street on your way to work every day, but if you do that with a poodle, the poodle will quit. So they really have their own opinions, and I've had two very artful poodles that they really don't agree with me on what we should see in a theater or what art we should look at.  And when we talked last night, you were in the middle of a guide dog board meeting. Yes. Yes, I'm on, I'm on the board of two guide dog foundations. So I'm very active in this world as well, you know, the, the world of fighting for disability rights. I think that if we don't change in our lives, we might as well be dead anyway. I mean, we have to be open to change and to taking on new perspectives and doing new things. So I, yes, I'm on the board of two of these guide dog user organizations.  And yes, according to the memoir, some of it and correct me if I'm wrong, some of it started when you were an undergraduate at Barnard and part of the 1968 riots at Columbia. And as you talk, I'd like to show you a picture. I'd like to show the audience a picture of you with your flip hairdo, which was very popular at the time, juxtaposed by you in your current incarnation. So you were at Barnard in 1968 and you friends called you and said the riot was occurring. You were involved a little bit in the student uprising, but you found some sexism in the Columbia group of radicals. Yes. Yes. The students had taken over the buildings mostly to protest the war in Vietnam, the draft Columbia's collusion with the military apparatus. And there was also the issue that Columbia was building a gym in a public park that the community would not be allowed into except through a separate but unequal door.  It should seem shocking. It was shocking then. And after about, this started on April 23, 1968, which is kind of easy to remember, you know, it was Shakespeare's birthday.  I wasn't involved in the buildings, but I was there the night that the tactical police force bloodied people on the campus and dragged them out by their hair and kicked people with horses and batons and this overreaction of the police, which many people have seen today happen. It really radicalized me because I think I really did believe as a young and somewhat innocent undergraduate that there was justice in this country. And I also believe that there was a quality among the young but these men in SDS, the students for a Democratic society, they believe that they were the ones who are going to be the leaders. And women who spoke were booed off the stage. Men on some occasion said they should be pulled down and raped. There was that to happen. And we were expected to make sandwiches and throw them into the building to feed the men. There were some women in the buildings, but it was a very unequal situation. And so I became a feminist and joined a radical Marxist group called Red Stockings after I graduated. Yes. And I learned a lot about Red Stockings. They relied on consciousness raising. And I'm four years behind you. So I missed the whole consciousness raising era. And I learned from the memoir that it started with Che Guevara. And there was also Maoist started the idea of consciousness raising. And it was adopted by the Red Stockings. And you in 1969 or so you began to go to Red Stocking. When did you graduate? 68? 68 was at the end of 68 that I became involved because I started Barnard in 69 and had my own political epiphany while I was there at Columbia. So in June 69, you participated. You were involved tangentially in a very noteworthy action involving the Stonewall riots. Another riot. You quit at some point that riots follow you around. Yes. Wherever I went, there was a riot. This, of course, Stonewall had nothing to do with me. The Stonewall Inn was not inhabited by many women. I mean, the regulars were kind of street people, guys, some people who were trans, mostly trans women, we would call them today. But when the riot happened, I heard about it and I went down there the second the second day to see what was happening. I heard about it on the radio. It was briefly in the times and I went down to see what was happening and it was quiet when I went down there during the day. There was a lot of detritus on the streets, but there were a lot of knots of angry people in the village on various corners, not far from the Stonewall talking and saying that they were angry and fed up and that something something had to change. However, in the window of the Stonewall Dick Leach of the Mathershine Society, which was the pre Stonewall gay male group, there might have been a woman in there, had put a big oak tag sign that said to cooperate with the police to go home and cooperate with the police. And I looked at the sign and I said, Oh, too late for that. It's good. You know, if a horse has ever been out of the barn, it's out of the barn. And I didn't know. I mean, I wish I could say, Oh, I knew this was the start of the revolution, but I didn't know. I didn't know whether people would simply go home. It was the end of June, the fourth of July was coming. People were going on vacation. I had no idea that people would really stay angry. There was really no live media coverage of this. There was no reason to believe that, like, otherwise, this wouldn't fade into the background. There were other bar raids before and after Stonewall. People forget that the police continued to raid bars in New York City when politically convenient to them. That Stonewall was either the beginning nor the end. And so I, I kind of took it in. And when I saw a sign, I think, you know, somebody had tacked up somewhere or handed me a leaflet that there was going to be this new group called the Gay Liberation Front. I ran right over there. Let me read to you what you say in the memoir. Are completely uncritical about Stonewall, are completely uncritical glorification of Stonewall as a monumental event, a revolutionary moment. In some ways, the events that night weren't at all sudden or shocking. The Stonewall uprising was not, you just said this, was not so spontaneous. After all, it arose out of the courage and vision of participants and other movements. That's a key point. Yes, yes. Stonewall could not have happened if it hadn't been for the civil rights movement, for the women's movement, for groups like the Yippies, the war resistance. All of these groups had resisted and disrupted society. And there was now a tradition of standing up and the events of Columbia and May 4th after that, 1970, of standing up on campuses all over this country. People were standing up against the war in Vietnam. And you know, that's something, of course, we're lacking today in part because of the demise of the draft. You know, when everyone had a stake in going off to one of America's well-begun wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, you name it, people had more of a stake in going and people resisted more heartily. And people had more of a civic engagement in being a pacifist. It's, you know, and that was perhaps the one upside of the draft, of having an actual draft rather than having registration. In addition to it being more across class and race lines, rather than this volunteer army, which tends to cold people from the working class, whether black or white, or Latina, the Latinx. Another key point is that it wasn't really the actual event of Stonewall so much as the formation afterwards of the political formation afterwards of the gay liberation front and all of those responses that made the difference, really. Because, as you say, I mean, I was living in Buffalo in 68 and raids were occurring there. I mean, they were routine, but it was the activism afterwards that made the difference. Yes, raids were routine all over the country. There was resistance in both flow in the 1940s and 50s and bars to protect that space from the police. And if the gay liberation front hadn't emerged, we would not have the modern movement we have today. And we organized, we, you know, Ellen Broidy of the GLF announced in Philadelphia at a group called Urca, which was a kind of meeting of people from various organizations. She announced this idea of a march on the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. And if there hadn't been a march to commemorate the Stonewall, if the Stonewall had been named something like the Pink Pussycat, we wouldn't have this modern movement. You know, it didn't hurt that the name was strong like the Stonewall. It's the commemoration that makes it different. There were worse bar raids in New Orleans, as you know. There was, there was a fire, you know, at the St. I think it was called where many people died. There was a, you know, there was a fire in 1970 in New Orleans or 73 in New Orleans. There was a police raid in New York in 1970 after which a man jumped out of the police station and paled himself on a fence and was taken with a fence in his stomach to the police station. So those bars aren't remembered. And we remember the Stonewall not because of the Stonewall, but because of the uprising resistance and because of this organization, which formed an annual march. And it pains me sometimes when people celebrate the bar, when we're celebrating the resistance to the bar and to the police. And the oppression of the people in the bar, the oppression of all of those people who went to places like that. Yes, and the bar which collaborated with that by paying off the police by, you know, probably being tipped off to many of the raids, maybe not all of them, but they were certainly tipped off to a lot of them. So the bars were not our friends, they were collaborators with the police. We shouldn't be celebrating places like the Stonewall, which were owned by organized crime. This is kind of quite ironic. So you were also involved continuing to go to see our groups in red stockings. And you talked very informatively about the feminist organizations at the time and how you happened to join red stockings. And that must have drawn you into the action, the memorable action on March 17th of the Ladies' Home Journal. And let me show the audience a picture now of gathering of people. The one man is John Mac Carter and the woman who's, you know, most forceful is Shulamith Firestone. And you're there, it's not a great picture because your eyes are closed, but you're in a headband carrying a purse. So this was memorable. Tell us about it. Well, we were very upset about the way women were being depicted in magazines. They still had these post-war recipes for Jell-O recipes that took 50 minutes. And one of the great columns in Ladies' Home Journal was, can this marriage be saved? Not even should this marriage be saved. We chose the Ladies' Home Journal because it was the only one of these major magazines that was edited by a man. And so we targeted the Ladies' Home Journal. And a hundred of us went into the journal. We had a diagram of the floor. We went in there about 9 a.m., looking, we hoped, like the workers. And we took over their offices. We held consciousness raising with the employees to tell them that they should be having better jobs and be moving up and paid better. And we tried to negotiate with John McCarter about improving conditions at the journal. He was not having any of it. But about 5 o'clock when the cameras started to roll, Julie Firestone, you know, who really was a wonderful genius who wrote The Dialectics of Sex, but she was also a hothead, she jumped up on the desk and was going to push John McCarter out the window. He was standing up and he had his back to the plate glass windows. We were on, we were way up, I think on the, you know, we were on the 19th floor or something.  She didn't hit the floor. It was like landing into a mosh pit. That's how I describe it. And she wasn't hurt. I don't think she ever spoke to me again. But after that, John McCarter and he blanched and he decided to negotiate. I think we all better after that. And he gave us an issue of the magazine, an insert. We were paid $10,000, which was a lot of money in 1970. And we were, you know, we gave that all of that money to a revolving bail fund for women. We didn't, we didn't take any of the money. However, Susan Brown Miller, who is one of the organizers that very weekend, the day before on March 16th, had published an article in the Times Magazine in which he called lesbians a lavender herring, which was in response to Begley Friedan calling us a lavender menace. And some people didn't show up at the ladies home journal action because they were so upset with Susan and some women in the movement. So that also led to the formation of the very famous lavender menace action. Which we'll get to. Yeah. Following up personally, John McCarter approached you afterwards in the last meeting that you had with him and gave you a personal memento. Didn't he say something like, I don't know what you were thinking, but well, he gave me a gold heart, which I still have that is engraved with the motto of the ladies home journal. And it says never underestimate the power of a woman. It's just kind of, it's really kind of hilarious because, you know, so for me to get this, this heart, you know, for a straight man, which I, I still have. I mean, it's a wonderful memento. Well, I think you sort of changed his life. I don't know. I don't, you know, I have no way to judge whether the, how strong the glass was, whether he would have fallen to the floor. You know, I don't know. I just, I was thinking about shooing. I thought that I was thinking there, shoo is going to push the sky out the window and spend the rest of his life in jail and, you know, surely that would be terrible. And I'm a pacifist. I really don't believe in hurting people. Even John Mac Carter.  I mean, that's how I feel about it. Um, these are not death penalty offenses. And I just don't believe in hurting people. Well, Susan Brown Miller talks about it in her memoir against our will. And she said, Carly Jay had the presence of mind to interrupt it. So, you know, let's move on to March 1970. And the ogling, that was another action that you initiated in this instance. And we have a clip now from that wonderful film. She's beautiful when she's angry, which I would also recommend to all the viewers that they haven't seen it. So let's take a look at 55 seconds of the ogling. And then you can tell us a little bit about it, Carla, how you happened to think of it and so forth. They startled Wall Street one day by an exhibition in which roles were reversed. Oh, they're so beautiful. All of them. Ah, those men, those sex objects. It was reported in the newspaper that there was a woman who worked in the Wall Street area. She was very well endowed. And men would wait for her outside the Wall Street train station. And they would pinch her, make sucking noises at her. And I thought, this is pretty disgusting. Oh, wow. Look at the legs on that one. So I organized what I rather grandly called the First National Ogling. Those pants, they just bring out your best. Hey, how do you like that hat over there? Oh, why the shackle? Okay. There was a an article in the New York Times about a woman whose name, as I remember, was Brenda. And she worked on Wall Street. And she was what we would call a well endowed secretary who liked to wear sweaters that were a bit tight on her. And when she emerged from the subway Wall Street, men in pinstripe suits would follow her to work. I mean, dozens of them whistling, catcalling, talking about her body. And they did this days, every day after day after day. And she couldn't go out for lunch.  And I read this article, I thought, was really awful. We did not have a word like sexual harassment in 1970. And I thought, yeah, we should do something about this. And so I organized a group of friends, I called the media, and we went down to Wall Street. And when the men came out of the subway station, we harassed them. We called them names, we made comments on their bodies. And they didn't walk away, they ran. It's really quite hilarious. They just started running for their lives. When we talk about, say, they had a lovely rear end, they would just take off. And it was really quite humorous. And ABC filmed it. And so it got a lot of coverage. And it led to this modern group today called Hollerback, which is all over the world, and which fights street harassment of women, gay men and women and trans people are harassed. And they teach people how not to be bystanders in the street. Yes. And I remember, I was living in Boston in 1979. And I watched a Neil Lehrer news hour in which they had a short segment about sexual harassment in the workplace, in this instance. And I thought, wow, there's finally a name for this. And it was occurring to me at my then job at the Boston Conservatory of Music. I was being sexually harassed. And, you know, this was so prescient, this action, the overland. So you have to be commended as the originator of it. It was fun. You know, people forget we, we had a lot of fun doing these things. We had a lot of laughs.  But I was never arrested. And it is really interesting.  We never hurt anyone. We never threatened anyone. We were very respectful of people who worked in environments. And we never, we never were arrested. We, we, we tried to make these people our friends. Well, let's talk about the National Organization of Women. And the, I have a picture I'd like to show everybody. It's from the memoir called Fighting Homophobia, Take a Lesbian to Lunch. And here's a picture of a group you are among them. Right before the second New York Second Congress to Unite Women in May 1970. This is moments before the zap that I'd like you to talk about. But let me tell you who's in the picture. From left to right, Rita May Brown, you in a hat, Arlene Kisner, Lois Hart, and Martha Shelley. You're all wearing lavender menace t-shirts under your clothes and carrying the woman identified woman manifesto. That was a fabulous manifesto, by the way. When I taught lesbian lit, I always started with that. Tell us about the lavender menace action, which is also featured in She's Beautiful when she's angry. Well, but Betty Friedan, you know, had called us lavender menace that we were going to ruin the women's movement if people felt there were lesbians in the movement that would tarnish the movement. And there were a lot of lesbians in the movement. So she went around firing as many lesbians as she could find who worked. And now she just kind of had a purge. And we decided we had enough, particularly after Susan's article, dismissing us as a lavender herring, you know, a kind of significant false trail. So we got together, about 40 of us, a small organizing committee, maybe of about 10 to 20 wrote the woman identified woman. It really was collectively wrote, written primarily by Artemis March, but we all put our two sense in and wrote parts of this. We got together on East 6th Street and we dyed t-shirts that said lavender menace. And we gathered outside the Chelsea location of the Second Congress to unite women in May of 1970. It was sponsored by now. And there was nothing on their agenda about lesbians or about race or about class. And we were wearing our street clothes, as you point out. And I was planted in the audience, some women filed in, and we had a couple of people backstage and they pulled the lights off. When the Congress started, when the lights came back on, the lesbians had filled the stage, taken off their outer clothing. And the audience was completely surrounded by lesbians holding signs like take a lesbian to lunch. We are your worst nightmare. We are your best fantasy. And we had a lot of these signs that were kind of humorous. And I was planted in the audience. I was wearing a blouse and I stood up and I said, I'm tired of being in the audience. I'm tired of being in the closet. Sisters, I'm going to join you.  We went up on stage and we added things like lesbianism, race and class to the agenda, to the workshops. And they never really came off the agenda again. I mean, it's kind of shocking to think that these things were not being discussed, any of them. It was really shocking. And one thing that needs to be mentioned over and over again is that neither the women's movement or the pre-stone wall lesbian and gay movement, because they really weren't trans people in in Mathershine and those of Blythus, there might have been one, were intersectional. And they really didn't care about issues of race and class. And they didn't care about the war or if they cared about them, they were extraneous. And we people who are more radical in the gay liberation front and radical lesbians and to some degrees more radical feminists, these intersectionalities were at the heart of who we were. And we aligned with groups like the Black Panthers and the young lords who were the Puerto Rican Liberation Group and many other groups. And they were not without controversy. But we wanted to be part of a larger fabric of people who were fighting for social justice. Yes. Let's move on if we could to the demise of some of these groups. And I'd like to read from a passage where you talk about barracuda behavior and the context of this is the accusation that certain feminist leaders were trying to be stars. Members of the movement began to attack one star after another. This kind of barracuda behavior, fighting anything that shines, continues to this day, which is one reason no unifying leader has ever emerged in the gay lesbian or women's movement. Do you think that's true today? I think to a certain degree, we could say if there is a leader, maybe Gloria Steinem, she wouldn't want that title. But she may be the most widely recognized national figure, I think. But in the LGBT movement, we really still sometimes rather viciously tear down people who dare to rise above. And we can be quite cruel to people who are exhibiting star power. And it's really a shame because the message is to go someplace else. We used to call these people star trippers. But what we do really is we've driven many people and countless talent and brain power people out of all these people out of our movement. We only defeat ourselves in that regard. It really is a difficult situation. On the other hand, we have to acknowledge that as queers, to use that all-encompassing moniker, we don't really have that much in common. We are a very broad spectrum of people. And the only thing that we might have in common is the disapproval of the patriarchy, especially of the right wing, which would like to legislate us and otherwise get us out of existence. And that's the only thing we have in common. But because people hate us in the same way doesn't mean that we are actually the same or that we have the same issues. And so it's a difficult situation to be in. Unlike women who are raised as women, or if you're Italian American or Jewish American or African American, we don't have a cultural heritage that we were brought up in that might unify us from the moment of our birth. And so we are in a difficult situation in terms of thinking like a people. And that's why people like the Stonewall story because every group of people likes an origin myth. And whether this story fits or not, the Stonewall uprising is probably going to be our epic of Gilgamesh, whether or not it's actually true or whether or not it's actually appropriate. Those biblical and worldwide epics aren't true either, probably, and yet they exist. Although you've mentioned in the memoir that even Gloria Steinem was vilified and accused of being a CIA agent, but she was able to weather that storm and was disproved. These charges were disproved by her biographer Carolyn Heilbrunn and others. So she survived to the barracuda behavior. She did admit that the organization she was working for was funded by the CIA. And the CIA back in probably the 50s when this happened was not the same as the CIA today. I mean she has explained this that many, many organizations were funded by them. That's not the same as saying that she was an undercover agent on their payroll. They were slipping organization's money. I think that when we deal with people, whether it's Gloria Steinem or we're dealing with someone like Roberta Kaplan who you know recently got caught up in the Cuomo scandal, we need to look at the totality of what people have done for us and not say, oh look, she made a mistake. Let's just throw her overboard. We really have to stop this kind of behavior and look at one thing that a person said in his, her, their past and have that tip the scale totally overboard against everything else. We're being totally without any kind of sense. We allow Biden, for example, to evolve in quotes even after what he did to Anita Hill. We allowed him to evolve. He became our candidate. You know, many people including myself somewhat reluctantly backed him. I worked for him because look what the alternative was.  Why are we like that? We don't need the right sometimes. We're just eating each other up without them. Very true. After many of these groups disbanded, you became an academic and you know, some of it overlapped. And as a lesbian scholar, I can't tell you how important your work was to me. Particularly, you know, I'm very interested in women in print always have been. I'd like you to talk if you would about the cutting edge lesbian life and literature series. You published 24 volumes. Half of them are on my bookshelf. Some of them I was able to review. So that made a huge difference to me as a scholar and tell me how you happened to start it and how long did it last? Joanne Glasgow and I edited a book called Lesbian Texts and Contexts, which was a post-structuralist look at lesbian studies. And it was actually the first lesbian studies anthology that came out from a university press. And it came out in around 1989 or so. And it was very popular. So I looked around and there were no lesbian studies series at any university presses around 1990. So I spoke to my editor at NYU, Nico Fund, who was, he's at Oxford now. He's a darling and incredibly smart man. And I said, what if I do a lesbian study series?  Because unfortunately, I have to say we as lesbians, we make less money. You know, a household of two lesbians do not make as much as a heterosexual couple or as two gay men. You know, the only group that will make less than two white lesbians would be two black lesbians, right? So, you know, lesbians really, as women, are still down there on the economic scale. So it's really, and we're women in academia. And then we're lesbians in academia as a percentage of the graduate school population of the professorship. But be there as in May, we, they took a risk. We tried to market some of these books to a more general readership, especially I wanted to bring back some of these forgotten classics that were out of print, into print again, books like Lady's Almanac, which was then out of print. And to bring into print for the first time, books that had never been translated, books by Natalie Barney were translated, Lucy De La Rue, Marjous were translated. And I also, the book I'm kind of proudest of was I met up with Helena Whitbread, who had found the diaries of Anne Lister in a library in Yorkshire. And Helena is not a scholar. She was just a person who came across these and she liked a puzzle. And the diaries were written in code. It took her many, many years to break this code and to put the diaries together and to edit them and cut them down. And I published those in the United States. They became the TV series Gentleman Jack. But at first when they came out, in the, they came around maybe 1994, they were mocked by other scholars. You know, other scholars mocked me.  They accused her of having made these diaries up. Why? Because they were social constructions, the scholars, that is. And they said there were no lesbians prior to 1869. And of course, the diaries are from the early 1830s. And therefore, you know, this is kind of the conclusion, Anne Lister could not have been a lesbian. She could not have said this. The diaries were fake.  It's not in the public library in Yorkshire.  Don't leave it to the public library for everybody and his brother and sister to look at. Put it up in the attic for somebody to break into. So I believed it was true. I met with Helena. I believe she was genuine. It was a bit of a risk. It was a risk to my reputation. But I think that Helena is having the last laugh, I hope, all the way to the bank. Exactly. Believe it or not, we're drawing to the end. So let me ask you for your last words to the audience before we leave. I think my last words are that people should get involved or remain involved with something in the movement. And we should also, in this time of COVID, people say to me, shouldn't the pandemic be over? Well, this is the after. We have to live our lives in a way that makes us feel safe. But that should involve other people who haven't had the benefits we've had in getting through this pandemic. Those of us who are listening to this show are the survivors up until this point. And we need to help people who are worse off even than they were before. Certainly people in our movement. But we need also to get out there more and think of people in our communities. And let them know that we're here and that we're part of them, that we are their neighbors and their relatives, and that we care about people around them. And we're not just there for ourselves. We also need to get out there on those marches. If choice goes for women. And I recently heard a horrifying podcast in which now fetuses are being relabeled, the pre-born, as if like cars are now pre-owned. These are the pre-born. If our rights go as women, then trans people are not going to have rights over their bodies. And then marriage rights are going to go. So we all need to get out there for women's reproductive rights. You don't have to have anything done if you don't want. And get out there, everyone, to fight for the rights of trans youth to live the lives they want. What they do, like women's rights, it's between them and their doctors. And it's none of your business. It's none of my business. And we all need to get behind this. And those are my last words. And I'm still out there, my legs work. I'm still out there marching. Do what you can, even if it's 30 minutes a week. Spoken as a true scholar, activist. Carla Jay, thank you for joining us. Okay. And remember, in the meantime, to resist.


Proudly, we hail. Hello from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. This is C.P. McGregor speaking, and welcoming you to another performance of Proudly, We Hail, a program presented by your War Department. Through the courtesy of the Hollywood Coordinating Committee, we welcome Mr. Alan Jocelyn. As the star of our play, authors are such dopes, written by Tom Petty with music by Eddie Skravanik. Hugh Settit's first novel is selling like hotcakes. But so far as the public's concerned, the book is by Don Torrance, the pen name chosen by Hugh's publisher, Mr. Feingold. And here he is. All right, take a memo, Miss Clotch. Sit here. Okay. Comfortable? Okay. Quote, I want every employee of the Planet Publishing Company to put their shoulders to the wheel and do a lot of constructive thinking about bitter tears by Don Torrance.  Take the bit in your teeth and put your nose to the grindstone. With a lot of sincere promotion ideas for bitter tears, I've just ordered another 500,000 copies printed. Unquote. Now, you see that every department head gets a copy of that. That's all, Miss Clotch. You can get off my lap now. Okay. All right. Oh, I'll see that author now if he's still out there. Oh, come right in, Mr. Torrance. Have a seat. You have to keep on calling me Torrance. Oh, now, now, my boy, let's don't have any more arguments about that silly name of yours. You know, I've spent a lot of time finding a sincere pen name for you. Okay. Don Torrance wrote bitter tears. But remember to make out the royalty checks to Hugh Settit, H-U-G-H-S-E-D-D-I-T. Hmm. You said it. Now, you got me saying it. No, my boy, you better have your name legally changed. You know, a friend of mine named Smelt had his name changed to Lincoln, Washington, Jr. and got rid of two generations of Smelt's at the same time. All right. I'll think it over. After all, a herring by any other name would smell as sweet. Oh, never mind about that.  But I'm busy on another book. I want to do something serious this time, something worthy of the name of Settit. Oh, please, don't joke with me. I'm a busy man working day and night to make you rich. But I'm not joking. Well, neither am I. Now, it's in your contract that you speak to these women's clubs and you help sell the book. All right, Sam. I agree. When do I start? Wisecracks all the time. Wisecracks. Tonight you take the train to Hill City. You will be the guest of Mrs. J. Stanley Updike and you will speak to her club. And I'm to speak about bitter tears. Certainly. Now, everything is arranged. Next week you will speak in another city. And the next and the next. I'll go, but sometimes for crying out loud, I wonder why I ever wrote bitter tears. It doesn't look like what I expected, but he's the only stranger to get off the train at Hill City. I'll take a chance. Oh, pardon me. Were you expecting someone to meet you? Well, yes. I rather expected to encounter Mrs. J. Stanley Updike. Well, you came pretty close. You're now encountering Miss Sally Updike. I hope you're a good driver. As a matter of fact, I am. I took first honors in my class in college for one-arm driving. How did you? I don't believe they told Mother she was getting a college man. I'm afraid Mr. Feingold's slipping.  Wow. You move in fast. Don't you think we should decide about you first? Possibly. Is this your car? Yes, but you'll be driving Mother's most of the time. It's a bit more sedate. All right, let's go. Handle's pretty well. Keep an eye open for speed cuffs, will you? I'm going to let her out a bit. You'll do nothing of the sort. Do I just call you James or do you have a name? What? You mean you don't know my name? Of course I don't know your name, but I'm sure you must have one. Well, certainly I have a name. You said it. I said what? You said it. That's my name. Oh, no. It couldn't be. I'm afraid it is. I guess I'm stuck with it. You said it. Never mind. Mother will give you a new one. What is this? A conspiracy? Everyone trying to change my name? I'll... Sure. I know what you'll do. You'll pull into that driveway on the left. This is where you work, you said it.  Oh, we're glad you like it. You can put the car in the garage. I think I'll leave it parked right here. I never did like bossy women. Well, I've never known a chauffeur with worse manners. You think I'm a chauffeur? Me, a chauffeur? I'm beginning to wonder. Is that you, Stanley? Oh, yes, Mother. I have your new chauffeur here, but I think we'd better send him back to the agency. No, since we need him. The agency recommended him very highly. Madam. Madam, will you please quit circling around me like an Indian in a war dance? Mm-hmm. You'll do. I'll have to order new uniforms. You're far too large to wear Henry's old ones. All right, all right. Get the limousine out. I want you to drive me to the station. Mother, did you hear from Don Torrance? Yes, the telegram said he'd be in this morning. I suppose I'll have to meet every train. What is your name, young man? What? Oh, uh, just call me James. We pause briefly from our story. Authors are such dopes, starring Alan Jocelyn to bring you an important message from your ward apartment. Imagine that you're at your local airport watching a nearby army jet-propelled plane. Suddenly, with incredible speed, the plane takes off and in an instant disappears. Then you hear the roar the engine made as the plane left the ground, out of sight before you even heard a take-off. That's speed. Is this just a tall story, some fantastic machine of a distant future? No, indeed. Already, the army has planes that fly faster than the speed of sound. Already, the army has developed radio-controlled rockets that can fly seven times as fast. Aviation is just one of many fields in which our new, regular army is daily making new discoveries. Army technicians are doing research and development in such fields as photography, engineering, medicine, radar, and others of a scientific nature. If you're a physically fit young man between 17 and 34, there's a worthwhile career waiting for you in the army. Your local army recruiting station will be glad to tell you about it today. Act two of Authors Are Such Dopes, starring Alan Jocelyn as Hugh Settit. Well, it's almost time for Mrs. Updike's club meeting, and the famous Mr. Don Torrance is still among the missing. But here comes Hugh. Maybe he'll admit his identity. Sorry to disturb you again, madam, but I've been to every hotel in Hill City. Your author must have taken a powder. Taken a powder? You mean he's ill? He means Mr. Torrance has run away, mother. Or if that word slingers in town, he's traveling if I may coin a phrase in cog. Say, you sound like a character out of bitter tears, Hugh Settit. Darling, I wish you wouldn't use those awful slang expressions. Oh, dear me, and I did so want Don Torrance as my guest. I've told everyone he would be with me and they're dying with envy. Now they laugh right in my face. Perhaps I'd better take another look around town. Perhaps you had. I have an idea I can find this fellow Torrance, but you'll have to help me. Go with him, Sally. I don't know how I'm ever going to face Lina Klotzmeier. She had a poet as her guest last week. Well, you just walk right in and tell all of them that Don Torrance has been delayed, but he's expected at any minute. Well, suppose he doesn't come. What if you can't find him? Don't worry, Mrs. Updike. Don Torrance will be there. Or I'll produce a reasonable facsimile thereof. That'll be all, waiter. Thank you, sir. All right. Tell us, Hotel, having tea with my chauffeur. I think you'd better start explaining, Mr. Torrance. Oh, so you do know who I am. I've known ever since you parked my car in front of the house. Then why did you introduce me to your mother as the new chauffeur? I wanted to teach you a lesson for trying to fool me at the station with that corny name. But my name is Hugh Sellett. Don Torrance is a pen name selected by my publisher. I never can remember to use it at the right time. Why didn't you tell mother who you really are? Oh, I don't know. Hadn't I dare, it might be fun playing chauffeur with you around. Oh, you did? Yes, and it has been. Only your mother takes this club thing pretty seriously. I think it would break her heart to say nothing of her pride to show up at the club empty-handed. Oh, I'm not going to disappoint her. I'm going over there right now. But she won't accept you as Don Torrance. Have you forgotten? You're her new chauffeur. Well, you'll go with me. We'll break right in. You'll introduce me as the author of Bitter Tears, and I'll take over from there. All right, Don. But this one's on you. Do you have to call me Don? If I don't, you'll probably forget who you are. Maybe you're right. Anyhow, I kind of like the way you say Don. Here we are. It's your move, Don. Go ahead, Sally. I'm right behind you. You better be. Quickly tell them who I am. Ladies, I bring you Don Torrance, the author of Bitter Tears. He's all yours, mother. Hello, Mrs. Updike. What, you? Good afternoon, ladies. I'm so sorry. I'm afraid I don't understand. I'll get right into my lecture, Mrs. Updike. After all, I am unpardonably late. You said it. Mother! Such language! I was never so glad to get home in my life. My chauffeur walking right into the club meeting and impersonating Don Torrance. I won't permit him to accept all those invitations from my friends. Mother, will you please calm down and listen? He is Don Torrance. He did write Bitter Tears. He's my chauffeur, and I invited my friends to a dinner party for my chauffeur. How are we going to convince her? Well, I'll have a talk with her later. Let her go to her room and rest. Maybe she'd rather have a good chauffeur than an author around. Why can't she have both? Why not? I'm in love with the job. Is it the job, Don? The job and, of course, my employers. Employers? You sort of like to narrow things down, don't you? What do you think? I'll show you what I think. You and I are going to have to do a lot of thinking. Right now I could write a book about this sort of thinking. And I could help. But there's one thing you're going to have to do. I know. I'm going to have to persuade you to change your name. That's good son thinking. But you're going to have to change yours first. You set it. We'll do it together. This is C.P. McGregor speaking. I hope you've enjoyed our proudly we hailed story starring Alan Jocelyn. Before leaving you, Don Forbes has an important message for all of us. The atomic bomb has proved that atomic power can be used in small quantities to do large amounts of work. This new power is a development of the United States Army. Although first employed for a military purpose, this new form of energy has unlimited possibilities for civilian use. Skilled men are needed to handle the new apparatuses and equipment of this age. The regular army is composed of such men. They are educated to a special mechanical trader job for their part in the Army's program. Atomic energy is but one phase of this program of scientific experimentation. Others are supersonics, the complex problems of speeds faster than that of sound. Radar, the location of material objects through the reflection of radio waves. Jet propulsion, medicine, engineering, communication, photography. These are some of the fields in which Army technicians are making scientific advances. Over a six-week period concluded by the AAF conference, June 3rd through 5th, Air Force technicians set 20 new world records in aviation. This is a result of Army research and development in the field. Besides providing for national defense, our Army has an important part in further scientific progress. A soldier is more than just a man in uniform. He is specially trained and educated in one or more fields of knowledge. He is an expert in his line and a part of an organization engaged in scientific work. In peace as in war, the Army serves mankind. There are few careers of such a beneficial nature open to intelligent young men between 17 and 34. You are urged to go to your nearest Army recruiting station now and find out about the unusual opportunities in a regular Army career. Thank you, Alan Jocelyn, for your wonderful performance on our program. Proudly we hail will come to you again over this station next week. Listen in.


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This lecture is part of an online mathematics course on group theory, and in this lecture we're going to be explaining why we're not going to try and classify p-groups. So in previous lectures we've more or less classified all groups of order less than 32, so we can ask what about groups of order 32? And we're not going to classify them because there are 51, and it's really not terribly exciting to look through them all. So what do you do if you want to understand groups of order 32? Well, what you can do is you can look them up in the big red book of groups of order 32, and there really is a big red book of groups of order 32. I have a copy here, and if you look at the little picture of me on the right of the video I'm trying to hold it up so you can read it, and if you look carefully you might be able to see it's by Marshall Hall and James Sienian. It says the groups of order 2 to the n for n less than or equal to 6, and this book is huge. It doesn't actually fit on my bookshelf. So let me show you what's inside it. So what is inside it is they have these amazing diagrams of all the groups of order 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64. So this is a diagram of equivalence classes of subgroups of one of the 267 groups of order 64, and some of these diagrams get really spectacular. For instance there's one here, I can't really, it's so big I have trouble fitting it underneath the document camera, you can probably see most of it there. As I said, this is one of 267 diagrams, although I must admit that's one of the most complicated ones. It gets even worse if you look at two groups of higher order. For instance groups of order 2 to the 10, how many are there? Well the answer turns out to be<PHONE_NUMBER>2, I guess these were classified by computer rather than classified by hand. So classifying groups of order 2 to the n or for that matter groups of order p to the n for n large is rather like trying to classify all the individual grains of sand on a beach. There are just ridiculously large numbers of them and most of them kind of look pretty similar and it's, they're sort of rather difficult to distinguish. Many of them look much the same. So what I'm going to do this lecture is show why there are so many groups of order of p to the n. So we're going to study groups of order p to the n for n large and try and get some sort of rough idea of why there are so many. And in general we know these groups are nilpotent, so it means they have the following structure. We start with the group G and we take G modulo center and let's call this group G1 and then we take G1 modulo the center and that's going to be G2 and eventually Gn is the trivial group. So in general groups of prime power order may have a long series like this and the longer the series is the more complicated they are. So you may think we're going to construct large numbers of groups by taking a very long complicated series like this but we're not. We're going to look at groups of almost the simplest possible structures. So we're going to take G has a center of the form Z modulo pz to the m. So let's call this the center of G and as I said Z is used for both the center of G and for the integers and I'm sorry about that I can't do anything much about it. It's standard notation for both. So and we're going to take G modulo the center of G to be another group Z over pz to the power of let's not use this letter n let's call this m prime. So both of these are going to be elementary abelian groups that are just going to be product of p groups and the length of this series is just two. So we have one contained in the center of G contained in G and this is an elementary abelian p group and if we quotient it out by it we get a group that's actually a billion of the simplest possible type it's just elementary abelian. So we're going to restrict these very easy groups. So G is an extension Z modulo pz to the m times Z modulo pz the m prime and we can think of this as being a vector space of dimension m prime over the field of p elements and we can pick a sort of basis for this so we have a basis a one up to a m prime and we can look at what is all the elements a i a j a i to the minus one a j to the minus one. So we take the commutator and since this is abelian the commutator must lie in the center so this is in fp to the m for some m and turns out that if you take a basis and choose all these commutators it's not very difficult you can get a group such if you just choose an element here to be that commutator you can define at least one group with these commutator relations in fact you can define others because we haven't actually specified what the pth powers of the a i's are but we won't worry too much about that. So how many ways can we choose that? Well there are about p minus p times p minus one times so p times p minus one over two ways of choosing pairs i j because if we swap i and j we're only going to take the inverse of this so we can really only choose this for i not equal to j. So for each of these sorry that's not a p times p minus one over two it's m prime by m prime minus one over two and for each of these we have an m dimensional vector space of things we can choose so the dimension of all the bilinear maps from z over pz to the m prime times z over pz to the m prime to z over pz to the m is about m prime squared over two times m. So altogether the vector space of all these maps has size about p to the m prime squared times m over two here we're not worrying about this m prime minus one we're just giving very rough estimates for the size of everything. So now we have m plus m prime is equal to n where the order of the group is p to the n so we want to maximize this given that m plus m prime equals n and that's an easy calculus problem we find it's given by m prime is about two-thirds n and m is about a third of n. So altogether we seem to be getting about p to the two-thirds n squared times a third of n over two different groups which is about p to the two over 27 n cubed well in fact we get fewer groups than this because we haven't accounted for symmetries for instance we could have chosen a different basis of the ai's and this might give us two of these this collection of p to the two over 27 n cubed groups that are actually the same well let's sort of estimate roughly how many ways we can do that well if you look at all the ways in which things might be the same they sort of depend on automorphisms of this vector space and this vector space and maybe automorphisms of the whole lot and the automorphism of vector space forms a group gl of m prime and its number of elements is about p to the m prime squared that's the number of matrices of size m prime by m prime each of whose elements isn't the finite field of order p and this is going to be at most quadratic in n so we should really take p to the two 27 n cubed minus something quadratic in n so to account for the the fact that we've constructed many of these groups several times well this quadratic term in n is maybe quite large for n small but it's eventually going to be dominated by this so what we see is the number of groups of order p to the n grows like p to the two over 27 n cubed i don't mean it's asymptotic to this because this this term here means it's actually less than that but this is the sort of main main term driving the growth is roughly this size in fact we see the number of groups of order two to the 10 that we had doesn't really even that doesn't give us an idea of just how vast this number is because if we take p to the n equals two to the 10 we find this number here is about two times 10 to 22 which is much bigger than the number of groups that actually are of order two to the 10 so it's saying see that even for groups of order two to the 10 this quadratic term here is still keeping this cubic term under control but as n gets larger and larger this cubic term starts to dominate and the number of groups grows even more rapidly than um and this number here suggests so there's just no great incentive to classify groups of order p to the n for n large there are just too many of them okay well i'm going to stop going through orders of groups because from after about 32 um the not that the orders where something interesting happens for groups of that order become increasingly rare and what i'm going to do is just jump to the next most interesting group so next lecture we're going to be looking at groups of order 48 and groups of order 60


Now, most of the time when he's got chin hand, he's going to go away from his chin hand. So he's got right hand on my chin and he's going to circle left. So the first thing I'm going to do is step my outside foot up. Okay? I like bringing my elbow back and posting it close because he wants to pull it away and stretch it out because that's my post. So I like putting my elbow back and getting close. Now my free hand fingers are going to point towards my stomach and I'm going to grab his fingers.  All right? That way I'm grabbing fingers, palm up, towards me, right here, right elbow out. Now I'm grabbing all of his fingers just like this and I'm going to rotate it down. Now as I rotate it down, I'm going to start circling on my knee and circle up to my feet. As I circle up to my feet, I'm taking his hand down and away and I'm starting to climb his arm. Right here, outside hand on top, inside hand on bottom and I'm circling away trying to get up to two on one. If I can put my ear on his belly button, that's great. Okay? But again, I'm working up in a circle, not too tall, not staying too low so he can snap me back down. Because the minute I start circling, he's going to circle and snap.  See where I'm at right here? Fingers, towards me. Grabbing his fingers, ripping it down. If I grab his wrist, it'll never come down. Okay? I'll never win here. Fingers, twist them. He can't stop. Elbow tight. Now, if I just do this, we're right back to what we just talked about, right? Coming up too tall. So it's tight circle. It's peeling off the chin, tacking the hand, circling, circling, circling back out in front. As much work as you need to do to clear it, all right? I saw a bunch of matches this weekend, not us, not just us, where the guy was almost out of the front headlock and he relaxed, and he was right back in the front headlock where he relaxed and this guy shot in on a leg attack. Okay? So wait on my hand. Notice, he's not on his knees. Chin and tricep. Chin and armpit. Tack the fingers. He's going to circle. I'm going to circle. Pull it up, pull it up, pull it up. If you can hear as you're circling and you want to start circling, you want to start circling. I'm going to circle. I'm going to circle. Pull it up, pull it up, pull it up. If you can hear as you're circling and you want to circle and loop your head out, even better. Start getting to my attacks. Questions? What's up? Here, I'm going to do it without him on top of me. Foot away from the side he's circling. He's circling to my right. Fingers, tack. Peel down, circling. Coming across to the wrist, outside, and I'm looping out.