In this short video, the Videofreex sit in on, and record part of, a lecture given by Jesse Ritter to undergraduate students at Princeton University in 1969. In the snippet of the lecture recorded, Ritter discusses Richard “Lord” Buckley, a 20th century American stage performer, recording artist, monologist, and hip poet/comic, whose contributions in the 1940s and 50s anticipated the aesthetic sensibilities of the Beat Generation. Ritter analyzes Buckley’s The Hip Gahn, one of Buckley’s monologues of the 1950s, in which he punctuated a retelling of historical or legendary events with scat singing. In this case, The Hip Gahn referred to Gandhi and his quest.