Hey, Bolo Buddies, thanks for watching. Amazing, right? All right, let's get started. Hey, Bolo Buddies, thanks for watching. All right, this is what I like to call a Bolo category video. What is that? That is where I talk about a category and I teach about Bolo items in that category. This category video is about puppets. Puppets. Did you know that some puppets can go for crazy big money?  Let me know down in the comments where your socks landed at the end of the video, okay? Because they're going to land somewhere because these are crazy. All right, let's start with the first one here. When I do my Bolo category videos, I like to try to verify them either by going in and looking at feedback or seeing if the item was relisted and we'll talk about that more as we go along. I'm also going to show you a way to research what the item actually sold for if a best offer was accepted. All right? I'm also going to show you a way to see what the item sold for if a best offer was accepted. So, stay tuned for that as well. This first item, one puppet brand that I always look for is Folk Monus. Now, Folk Monus ranges from bread and butter to big money, but if I see Folk Monus right here, I pick it up no matter what as long as it's not like priced too crazy. This is what the tag looks like. Tags are going to vary. This one is a Folk Tales by Folk Monus. I've never seen one of these. It is a Venus Flytrap. How funny is that? Sold for $80 plus shipping. This is a Folk Monus and this video is not all Folk Monus. I actually did the other ones first and then went back and pulled Folk Monus for you guys because I love finding Folk Monus. This is also a Folk Tales. It's a 20-inch plush puppet. It's really big. And this guy sold for $127.50 plus shipping on auction, eBay auction. This guy, oh my goodness, Folk Monus, Disney Goofy Puppet, three-foot tall, discontinued, sold for $550. Look at him sitting in the chair. He's just hanging out. How cool is that? Now there is also Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy that all sell for big money that are Folk Monus. So be on the lookout for those Disney Folk Monus characters. This is a vintage Mimic Dally Hand Puppet Stifed Dog. If you guys are not familiar with Stifed, you definitely want to get familiar with it. It will typically have a tag in its ear that says Stifed. I've never seen this little hand puppet, but it sold for $168 plus shipping. This is a vintage Elephant Pink Elephant Puppet from 1993. It is Polar Puff 24K Special Effects Play Talking. I'm not sure what all that means. That's what it says on the tag. I think all of them say special effects. I've actually listed a couple of these 24K plush. So far, none of mine have sold, but this one is a puppet. So I think that's why it sold. I could not verify that with any feedback or anything like that, but I did look and it had not been re-listed. $169.99 on this one plus shipping. Check out these Power Rangers. These are little puppets. It says 118. Oh, look. Wow. That's a lot of puppets. $190 for these. Have you guys ever seen these before? I'm definitely going to be on the lookout. Now, I don't know if they sell like if some of them are more rare than others. Definitely look them up if you see them. Maybe smaller lots. They could have gotten more money, but $190 with free shipping on those. This is a Pizza Time Theater Chuck E Cheese. This is another one that I kept seeing over and over and over again. The Pizza Time Puppets. If you see them, look them up. This is what the tag looks like. So these are Chuck E Cheese toys. It sounds like. And this one sold for $199.95 plus shipping. This is a 1970s Remco Dr. Blinky HR Puffin Stuff TV Show Hand Puppet. Check that out. I think that might be vinyl on the bottom. Kind of looks like it. Here's the tag. $224.88. Sid and Marty Croft Productions made in Japan. I'll tell you what, I would have picked that up in a second. That is super cool. And you can see right here that it sold for $210. So that was a good sale. This is a 1987 MyPetMonster Yipplett Hand Puppet Stuffed Animal with Hand Cuffs. MyPetMonster is a Bolo in general. There are other MyPetMonsters that go for big money. I didn't even know that they had a puppet. So this one is new to me.  But did you know they made a puppet? This is by Amtoy. It sold for $249.99 plus shipping.  So this one is not a stuffed animal. This one's a little different. But I thought it was pretty cool and I wanted to share it with you guys. $274 free shipping. Vintage 1976 Sesame Street Betty Lou Girl Vicma Spain Puppet. Henson Muppets. $355 for her. And look at the condition. She is in fantastic condition. Wow. $355 plus shipping. The next item is this Vintage Grizzly Poodle Puppet. It is Mohair. Mohair is usually a Bolo. If you find a toy that's plush that is Mohair, definitely look it up. And probably you should probably pick it up. This sold for $129.50 plus shipping. This is another rare Stife Snakey Snake Hand Puppet. Vintage made in Germany with the tag. Let me just show you here. This is where I think a white background would come in handy. But it's still sold for $175. And there is your Stife tag right there on the inside. So you might have missed that if you didn't look. So definitely a good tip right there. This is a Vintage Hannah Barbara. Nope. I always want to say Hannah Barbara. Is it Barbara? Oh, I can't remember. Hannah Barbara. I always said Barbara Hannah Barbara. I always thought I was right. I wasn't. I'm still saying it wrong probably. It's the Jetsons.  These are the Sesame Street set of six hand puppets from the 70s selling as a set only. And it's got this with it. How cool is that? That is a cool Bolo. I probably would have listed that higher. $200 plus shipping. This is a Vintage 1966 Green Hornet vinyl hand puppet. So again, it's got the head that is, I don't know, rubber or plastic. And then the bottom is vinyl. Very, very cool Bolo. If you see these, pick them up.  Here's a fun one. 1968 Osbro Kooky Spooky Ghost Finger Puppet Glow in the Dark. Toy Tina Terror. You guys, if you see these, pick them up.  They are harder to find and they don't have to be in perfect condition to still go for big bucks. This one right here sold for $330 plus shipping. This is a Vintage 1994 Hammerhead Shark Hand Puppet Streetwise Designs used. It says pictures three plus. I don't know why they put that, but here it is $375 plus shipping. Here is a Vintage Mohair Dog Puppet. So again, another item that is Mohair. Would you look at this and think that it was big money? You probably wouldn't. This guy sold for $488 plus shipping with 10 bids on auction. And you can see right here it was a good sale. Let's look at this one. This is a Stife Mohair Wolf. It sold for $39.99, which is pretty low. Auction may not have been the best idea for this one because some of those other Mohair and Stife, oh, this should have went for over $100, I would think. My goodness. So I think that one, the tag is missing the yellow part there, but still, wow. Yeah, I start my auctions high for this reason. So I could be wrong. I didn't look up comps on it. So Vintage 1966 Kermit the Fanciful Frog. Puppet by Ideal Toys. $1,027 with six bids. Are you kidding me? Check it out. Can you believe it? Let's see what they started the auction at. $499.99. So they knew it was good, but it sold for over $1,000. Here's another one. This is the, is it Pokey or Pookie? Pokey? Pokey? I don't know. Little Puppy Plush Hand Puppet. Golden Story Books by Gund. $85 for this little cutie. Look how cute it is. Oh my goodness. $85 right there. Incredible, right? And you can see right here, oh, I'm sorry. Looks like they took a best offer of $75. Pizza time. Here's another pizza time guy. All right. So it says 500 and it's slashed through, says Mr. Munch. So let me tell you here, if you see a line and it is marked through, you should probably take this title and copy and paste it over on Terapeak and put it in the title, hit research. They took a best offer of a hundred bucks on this. So you're seeing this and thinking, oh, I bet it sold for like 400. Nope. They took a hundred bucks on that. So be careful when you're searching solds. Here's another vintage 1966 Green Hornet Vinyl Hand Puppet with the original box sold for $1,325 plus shipping, 27 bids. They started this auction at $99.99 and it went up to $1,325. Seven unique bidders and 27 total bids. This is another one. This one went for $99.99 and it does not have the original box and it is another Green Hornet 1966. And you can see right here that it was also a good sale and it was also the same seller as the one that went for $1,325. So both of these were good sales with feedback. This is a vintage, hard to find, very rare Sesame Street puppet, Harry Child Horizons and that's what the tag looks like. And he's kind of in rough condition if you ask me. This one ended up selling for a best offer of $250. Again, I took the title, I copied and pasted it over on Terapeak and was able to pull up what it sold for. These, I just thought were incredibly interesting. Antique Vintage Hand Puppet Big Nose Set Rare. I'm guessing these are Artisan Made, one of a kind. Would have been probably good keywords to put in the title. It's got a messed up broken finger. They're probably maybe paper mache. Not 100% sure, but definitely some good keywords missing from the title. Sure looks like paper mache to me. So that would have been good to have in the title. One of a kind, O-O-A-K, handmade artisan, different things you can put. These ended up selling for a best offer of $200. So even though the keywords were not amazing, they still got found. I absolutely love this. These are vintage tub buddies, hand puppet dinosaurs, a set of four. They're vintage. They're little hand towels that go in the bathtub. Puppets with condition issues and they sold for $135 plus shipping. All right, you guys, what did you think about that? Oh, pretty crazy, right? Some of these puppets went for over $1,000. Absolutely crazy. Lots that I didn't know about. Again, I always pick up folk modest. That was one I did know about, but many that I didn't. So I hope you guys learned something. Check out my other Bolo category videos. I have a whole playlist. It's basically where I pick a category and I do a deep dive research and I share it with you guys. So thank you so much for being here. Thank you for watching. There's going to be some videos popping up here and here. A subscribe and a video down below. Check out the description of the video for different links of things that I use and how you can find me on Facebook and Instagram and all those things. My link tree is down below. So check that out. All right, you guys, thank you so much and I will see you at the next one. Thanks for watching.


Welcome, thank you for joining us. Another episode of the nonprofit show. This week has been fantastic and we promise to deliver another fantastic next week. Today we have our guest, Ellie Hume, CPA MBA with your part-time controller. And Ellie is here to talk to us about the great resignation and how it impacts the NPO finance. So that's what Ellie's gonna open her brain and knock all that wisdom out. We're really excited to hear. So before we get started, we of course wanna make sure that we recognize Julia Patrick, CEO of the American Nonprofit Academy. I'm Jarrett Ransom, your nonprofit nerd, CEO of the Raven Group. And we are honored to have the continued support and investment from our presenting sponsors. You can see them on the screen, but I'd also like to acknowledge Bloomerang, American Nonprofit Fundraising Academy, non-profit nerd, your part-time controller, the nonprofit Atlas, non-profit thought leader, as well as staffing boutique. And as Julia said in our green room chatter, for those of you that are early birds, we have over 500 episodes and you can catch all of them here on Roku, YouTube, Fire TV, as well as Vimeo. And what I like to say, like the infomercials, but wait, there's more. Because we're now on podcast form. So anywhere you stream your podcast, please make sure that you do queue up the nonprofit show and you get us in that queue because each and every day we are uploading a new episode. So make sure that you do check that out. Whether you're traveling or exercising, you can tune in and listen to our amazing guest, like Ellie that we have here today from your part-time controller to talk to us about the great resignation and the NPO finance world and all of the changes over the last couple of years. Welcome back, Ellie. Thank you so much for having me back. I'm so happy to be here. Oh, you know, you're one of those people that I think has helped me reframe what it means to communicate with a CPA. Okay. And that's really cool because you're fun, you're super smart. You really can pull us in with great stories and examples of things. And it just makes the process a lot less fearful. And I think so many people in the nonprofit sector get a rude awakening when they realize, holy moly, we gotta be looking at the numbers and we've gotta be having a really strong relationship with our financial folks. And so we really wanted to have you come on and talk about this because this is a fearful time. In the Green Room Chatter, Jared was even talking about this with what she's seeing with clients. And so thank you for bringing us into the discussion of the ecosystem because things are a change, aren't they? They absolutely are. And they have to continue to change in order to make it survive. And that's one of the things I wanna talk about too is the pipeline of talent is really, really bad right now for accounting and financial aspects of the operating world in businesses in general and especially in nonprofits. Wow, okay. Well, that's gonna frame up our very first question. So you kind of gave us a little peek through behind the curtains. Yeah. It's not so good.  So in general, the accounting profession has been aging. The people in that profession are reaching retirement age and there is not a whole lot of new young talent entering the accounting profession. It's not a glitzy fun, super exciting profession that people really know a lot about. They think very often about, I don't wanna be a CPA.  And quite honestly, I was one of those people. I didn't want that life and I never went that route. I decided there had to be a better way to be an accountant and not go into the CPA craziness of working in the public sector. So I think it's really, we need to educate young people about the profession more, really help universities understand the paths that accountants and CPAs can take but they don't have to go to CPA firms because I do think that does scare some young people away. And I've been having a conversation with the New York State Society of CPAs. I'm on one of the committees and they've been talking about how do we get more young talent interested because we have to feed the pipeline as the previous generations start to age out of the profession and want to retire and move on to play with their grandbabies and go on vacations and all of these wonderful things. So just in terms of this topic, pre-pandemic it was an aging, it was already an aging profession and people wanted to start to plan for retirement and they hadn't really thought about succession planning in the CFO role or the finance department. And I think that's been certainly something that has come out of this situation now is like, oh, we really have to be serious about succession planning across the whole organization not just planning for the CEO succession but as an organization, every position has to have a succession plan. Kelly, I love your story. Thank you for sharing it. I did not know that. What a great role model you are to so many people. And I similarly am passionate about how our universities and higher education teach about the nonprofit sector. Like we have so many business courses and it really focuses on my side, on the for-profit and not the nonprofit. And like we look at our accounting, YPTC is a national leader for nonprofit accounting. So that is a whole separate track. And I love that you're telling that story. So let our passion unite, Ellie and let's just kick these universities in a high gear to say, hey, let's talk about the nonprofit sector because we talk about business and we talk about accounting because it's a sub-sector but it's making up a huge workforce into that. So I love what you shared. Let's talk and move into this great resignation and really what our financial teams are looking like, how they're taking shape. What are we seeing right now? Because as you said, it's a little grim and I was like, thanks Debbie Downer. This is, you know, but what are our financial teams looking like? Like what is the makeup? What is the need? Talk to us about this. Well, I can tell you the need is great because the talent pool is small and we are seeing a ton of turnover right now at organizations because of people who don't wanna return to the office and employers who are talking about, oh, we want everybody to start coming back, you know, three days a week or five days a week. And they say, you know, I've done my job pretty well from home. Why do I have to come in? And they're saying, well, that's just the policy of the organization.  So people are really starting to think more about those intangible benefits they hadn't really thought about before because they were just like, you know, trudging along the way it always was before. And then all of a sudden these new ideas and opportunities came about that organizations just weren't as open to before when somebody said, oh, you know, I really like to work from home one day a week. And then the organizations say, no, we don't like that idea. I mean, I have clients that still to this day their board members think if you're not at your office, you're not working.  You know, do I think that there are people in my profession and in all professions that do take advantage of the situation and may be slacking off a little bit? Yeah, but work is getting done. And a lot of work is getting done at home. And I think it's short-sighted to really be thinking that that's, you know, you have to do that. And it's leading people into the direction of looking for other opportunities that maybe they can move away from an expensive city like New York and have a better, you know, life experience with the same salary or a little bit less salary because they get the trade off. We've seen that in our community where we live in Arizona. It has been a destination for so many individuals to relocate over the last couple of years. So we have seen a spike, you know, in individuals relocating here with their families, within our school districts, the economy. So you're right, there's a lot going on. I was talking to my parents and they're not in accounting, but they are baby boomers, right? And so they're retired. And I said, hey, if you're bored and you want to work, now is a great time to get back into the workforce. Are you seeing some kind of reentry, you know, candidates because I know YPTC only hires the best and these are not, you know, green, fresh out of college. These are really experienced. Absolutely. CPAs are really expert level accounting. Are you seeing that trending? I absolutely see that trending. We have had a significant spike in candidate interest from, you know, folks that are in the 30 and 40 year experience range that they say, you know, I'm not ready to retire, but I am really thinking about this work-life balance and being at the right place with the right culture and serving the nonprofit community. How do I give back after all these years? Like I still want to get paid. I still need a paycheck, but I also want to use my skills for good. And I've had so many amazing conversations with top talent that we're interviewing to come onto our team. And I do think there's a trend there. I've always had some really great talent of folks that are like in their second or third careers as accountants and they're like, I'm not really ready to retire, but let me work part-time or, you know, they come and say I want to work full-time and then transition to part-time work and ease into retirement a little bit more. And so we are lucky enough to be able to provide that kind of flexibility to our staff members. And I think it gives us a great advantage to being, getting access to really amazing talent like that. Well, I was talking to our partner here in Arizona and Dan Tritch. And, you know, Julia, remember the day that Dan stepped foot into Arizona? And this was a couple of years ago. There was like 14 members. I met with him yesterday and he was saying how there's 18. And so the growth, the demand, the need, that's just in one state, right? And YPT certainly, yeah, really is the leading, you know, nationwide.  So glad that this talent and resource is here for the nonprofit sector. It's just, it's so needed. Yeah. You know, it's really an interesting thing. And part of this discussion, I'd love for you to kind of give us an idea for what's the current reality? I mean, I love, and it warms my heart as just a regular citizen of this country. It warms my heart that people would recognize the value of public service to a nonprofit or to their community. I love, love, love that. I think that's super cool. But, you know, these are people at the same time that are moving out of their career. And so you use that word pipeline, which just sent chills to me because what can we do to make sure that we're hiring type top talent and where are we in this trajectory? Sure. I mean, I do think that in the nonprofit space, they need to be really thinking about what can you properly pay top talent?  And one of the things that we offer our staff is being an accountant with a purpose. And it is not something that, you know, has a dollar value tied to it. It has that really amazing feel good thing about every day that you make a difference. And that's what people now are looking for. They're reevaluating, what do I wanna do if I have to work eight, nine, 10 hours a day? What do I wanna do with that time that makes me feel good as a person and not just trudging away at a job for the sake of having a job? And that's happening across the world, I think, in financial management jobs and in any jobs. But for us, it is leading people to us that would not have maybe considered this type of job because they are looking more for that intangible feeling about the job that they're doing. And that's where nonprofits can really play up what they have to offer. And think about like, what benefits can we provide that don't cost us a whole lot but mean a lot to our staff? And that's really where you're gonna start utilizing your efforts to attract more top talent.  And I suspect that we never really did that with our financial teams.  So I really appreciate you, you know, talking about that because I think that's a really powerful thing is understanding that level of commitment that your team can have. Before we move on, we've got some interesting questions that have come in. And one of them is, I'm kind of going back a little bit, but it does talk about going forward. Jim asks, how do we get accounting faculty to steer students into other accounting opportunities? Kind of like what you were talking away, talking about other than public accounting. So that is an excellent question because it's, and it's a hard one to answer. The problem, look, I'm an accountant. I had great professors and I had some not so great professors, but the fact of the matter is, they didn't work in the life that I work in. And so they don't know what that looks like. So if they don't even know about it, then how can they tell their students about it, right? So I am trying to right now have a conversation with one of the top schools in New York that has a great accounting program. And because of my relationship with New York state society, I'm trying to say like, look, let other people that are in industry be adjunct professors. And so that that brings a new perspective instead of the academics who maybe they did a handful of years in the public CPA world before they became a professor or maybe they do a few taxes on the side, but that's all they really know about. They don't know what it's like to work in an industry as an accountant. So to me, I think it's really getting in front of those professors and explaining to them, hey, there are other opportunities for these students, maybe have a career day, bring in other kinds of accountants.  It's just not the reality of accountants. Every business needs accountants at every level, bookkeeping, controllers, CFO, like there's so many jobs out there for accountants that aren't the traditional, you know, public accounting track. You've got me fired up with a letter. I want to call these universities. I want to make sure they're listening to the show. I'm going to blast this out, tweet it. One of the things that I have noticed, and we've talked about this, you know, here on the show, previous Julia, is the nonprofit management schools didn't exist when I went through, right? When I went through college and I'm in my 40s and I'm proud to say it, they didn't exist. And so now we really do have some amazing young talent with nonprofit management degrees. And I feel like if we can start to integrate the trajectory and really start to level up the importance of the nonprofit workforce, we are a large sum of people, right? We make up a large sum. I think that's really important. I'm curious, because we talked about this before we went live with you, Ellie, is some nonprofits have really seen a great infusion of support. And by support, I mean finances, right? This could be CARES Act dollars. It could be other federal funds. And that has really increased the complexity of their financial capacity. And so even if a team, you know, maybe they've increased their budget from, let's say, a 1.5 to a 4.5, right? Like this is happening. I have seen this and that adds, you know, to the systems, the processes, the reporting. How can YPTC come to help us with that? Like how does that work if we say, okay, we've hit our threshold. This is beyond what we know how to do. And we don't have the systems or the expertise. Is YPTC available to join us in partnership for these reasons? Absolutely. But I think the first step is acknowledging that you have reached your capacity and that you need help. Because quite honestly, what happens in all sectors, but particularly in the nonprofit sector is that they forget to think about the capacity of the finance team and the skill set of the finance team. And say when the development team is going out after these federal dollars and they'd never had a conversation with the finance team in advance about, well, what does that mean? If we won this money, what else do we have to be doing? And that's, you know, I experienced that early on in my career at an organization that was starting to think about, like, should we be applying for federal dollars? They were in Washington, DC. It could be available to them.  Like we have to read these regulations and understand it and show you what all we have to add on to the processes in order to even think about accepting this money. And absolutely YPTC can be a support mechanism for that, but it starts at the initial stages of even considering that kind of funding and whether it's appropriate for the organization and the current capacity and then being ready for it when and if it happens. You know, and my old employer, the breaking point was like, oh, we can't possibly ask our staff to do time sheets. So we're not gonna apply for the money. And I'm like, I mean, time sheets is really not that big of a deal. But if that's the culture, you don't wanna do time sheets, then don't apply for federal money because that is an absolute requirement that you have to do. That's a great point. And I just wanna interject and say yes, and where I coach and for everyone listening, what I recommend is that you bring a grants team together and this includes your accounting. You know, this includes someone from accounting, someone from program, someone from leadership to say, okay, is this a viable funding opportunity? Let's look at the requirements. Let's look at the award. If we were awarded, what are the requirements post award? So thank you for bringing that up, Ellie. And I just wanted to interject because we should be looking at these funding opportunities before they even land in our bank account, right? Like we really need to look at the holistic approach, the impact, the systems, the capacity, as you said, even the time sheets. So let me ask the question to both of you then. Given where we are with this huge influx of money and grants that's only growing, it's a larger discussion that's really based on the transference of wealth that's going on in our nation, the economic boom to some sectors, are you seeing the reporting out for these grants getting more in depth or are you seeing it kind of lighten up? Like what does the future look like this so that when we are thinking about these types of commitments that we can be prepared? I personally think it depends on where the money is coming from, right? When it's governmental money, the reporting guidelines are always going to be excessive in my opinion. And whether they need to know that information or not, they're gonna ask for it. But I do think there is some of a trend in funders recognizing that they don't need all the information they're asking for. They are maybe overburdening their grantees on the reporting requirements. I'm literally teaching a session on it next week with a bunch of program officers about not overburdening their grantees with asking for too much information when they don't even use it for anything. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you, I love it. Okay, that's like, I'm show over.  And it needs to be shared. And I love that you can lend your expertise to this conversation to give real value to what the process is. What does it look like sitting on the other side of that desk? I mean, good job. Well, I'm gonna kind of bring it back into the conversation about like the resignation and everything. There's so many capacity limitations in the finance functions at nonprofits. And the more that funders ask for, the more of a burden it puts on the finance team to help deliver those, that information. And it has to be an open conversation across all the parties that are affected at the organization, the development team, the program team who has to then report on like, what did we do with the money? What did we actually accomplish? And then finance to like match the dollars to it. And it's so much of a group effort, but the strain of the great resignation and the talent pool shrinking. And all of that leads to not being able to get back to these funders and say, this is what we did with your money properly because you just can't get around to getting it all done. Yeah, the compliance issue. Well, Allie, I know you have a big day ahead of you. And I am so honored that you've taken this time to share your valuable expertise, experience. I see a children's book with your name on it. Allie, the nonprofit accountant. And that would be so, okay, YPTC, we're gonna partner because I've got it, I've got the storyline in my head. And I would love to see that really, kind of fruition to attract more nonprofit leaders, women, it's women's history month, into the accounting sector. Well, I can tell you as a teenager, 14 years old, accounting class in high school, my teacher just convinced me that this was the life for me, being an accountant. So the younger we start, the better it will be. Well, that goes into the book. And it goes into how teachers play a significant role in shaping our future. So, Allie, CPA, MBA, New York director with your part-time controller, what an honor.  I wish you the best in your busy day ahead. Thank you for your service. Thank you to your entire team across the nation with YPTC. Again, we are so honored and lucky to have you in our sector. And as a partner here with the nonprofit show, thank you. Thank you guys so much. It's always a pleasure to talk to you and I'll see you next month. Yeah, we're gonna have you back on. And I love that you bring to us a lot of information that's strategic, but it's things that is moving forward, moving backward, all directions. We have a lot of questions that came in today. And to so many of you, I'm sorry, we couldn't get to all of them. But here's Allie's information. YPTC has an amazingly robust website with a lot of information where you can reach out to them and hopefully help you in your journey because this is a moving target. And I think Jared and I see this all the time. Those organizations that are more connected to their financial departments are the ones that do better. 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Okay, welcome back everyone. This is Silicon Angles theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, and I'm joined with Stu Miniman at wikibond.org, filling in for Dave Vellante this week. Stu's doing a great job, the lead analyst on cloud and infrastructure for wikibond. And our next guest is Scott Mosin, Vice President of Global Strategic Alliance at Red Hat. Thanks for joining on theCUBE, appreciate it. Oh, fantastic. Glad to be here. Thank you for having me. The ecosystem has always been one of those, I love when we go talk to the big, the ecosystem strategic. You actually have to deal with the ecosystem, Red Hat, business model is based upon a really solid, robust ecosystem over the years, strong foundation, but big names around Red Hat now, around the emerging cloud and the data center transformations that are going on, software to find everything, Cisco first time here, news with SAP today, Dell announcing the news, just a lot of action. So, global alliances, are you busy? You know, the cool thing was, we actually did a advisory board for the first time yesterday with our strategic partners. So, we had about 15 companies represented, about 22 people, we spent five hours, and we asked them, what could we do better to be a partner in the ecosystem? And the great news is they told us. So, we had Jim participating, we had our BU leads, Brian, et cetera, and the reality is, we're doing well in a partnering model, but when you get beyond kind of a one-to-one relationship, it gets a little more complex, and everybody's trying to get better. Yeah, and you know what, the old world co-op competition's been around for years, and in a growing market, you got to play well in the sandbox, so to speak, in these emerging areas. So, I've got to ask you, what is the current state of the Red Hat Alliance, a strategy? Austaly, everyone's building out, you got some disruption going on, so you might have some hurt feelings on one hand, happier partners on the other, people who are neutrals and early adopters, fast followers, what does the landscape look like for you? And give us an update on kind of the report card of, you know, where's the sentiment in the end? Who do we really like and who do we kind of like? Yeah, but give us an update on kind of, because there's some disruption going on, and where are you guys focused, and you know, who's stepping up, and who's knocking it out of the park? Well, if you look traditionally at Red Hat and the partner model, right, it's, we're an, have been historically an infrastructure-centric company, which means Linux tied to servers. And so, kind of, if you look back four or five years, the server vendors were kind of core of our partner strategy. Fast forward, we have a broad portfolio, we're driving solutions into the cloud, and I think to your point, there's some disruption going on. So what we're really doing, we're not abandoning anybody that's been working with us over the past years. All those companies that we work with to really build the rel, and then the JBoss business are all still strategic partners, and as I mentioned, they were in the room yesterday providing feedback. But we have to broaden the aperture and the portfolio to make sure that we're addressing customer needs. And that means adding companies like our system integrator partners, our service provider partners, cloud providers, those become as strategic as the OEM partners were historically. The key for us, though, is we have to kind of build, you mentioned the word ecosystem, but we have to continue to build an ecosystem of partners that can deliver integrated solutions to the market. Now, you mentioned the disruption element. We're pretty comfortable in that kind of co-optition space. So we're gonna continue to partner with companies around given technologies, but we're also gonna look for a few key partners that are willing to stand up and stand behind Red Hat. So you saw some announcements today, like from SAP, you saw some announcements from Dell, Cisco, which you mentioned are here for the first time with a great keynote, I thought. And so we're looking for partners in some of the emerging technologies that are really, really gonna align behind Red Hat and the Red Hat solution staff. And so we're finding those. And then they're asking, and kind of key to the message yesterday is they're asking us to build and help them build an ecosystem to take those to market. So who do you partner with on the service providers?  And then you got a slew of startups like Dockers doing well, some are maybe not getting traction doing some pivoting, as they say. So you got the disruptors and the people being disrupted, okay? That's going to generate some money opportunities for people. So in comes the enterprise-grade conversation. And that's really where the action is. They got developers on one end and you got enterprise-grade. Now really the two major conversation media areas. So let's talk about enterprise-grade first. Those are the all-usual suspects on your list, right? HP, IBM, Dell, et cetera. And then what else is new in that area? Because now OpenStack brings up some fragile conversations around is it enterprise-grade? And that's the main conversation. So what's your take on how do you navigate your alliances map in the enterprise-grade area? Yeah, so great question. But I think if you look at where we're trying to go and us and others in the industry around enterprise-grade capacity in OpenStack and probably the same in OpenShift, we're taking a leading stance there, but we're also partnering pretty closely with others that can help us get there. And it's a couple things. It's technology alignment with companies like, as we talked about Cisco and Dell, who are also trying to not be disrupted and to be a little disrupting in the marketplace. So they're participating in open-source projects and communities that if you look back three or four years ago, you wouldn't have thought Cisco was a contributor in an open-source project, but now they are, right? And so... And by the way, fundamental, we had Padma on yesterday, fundamentally behind it, not just lip service. If you look at the contributors to the new technologies in the open-source community, they're up and rising across the board. You'd expect if they were going to do it, they'd do it in networking, but they're not just doing it in networking. They do it in management. They're doing it in poor infrastructure. So it's fantastic to see. And we kind of feel like, maybe we helped lead them down that path a little bit, and certainly they're helping to drive us into the enterprise gate. Which two and I were talking about the, what attracts people to markets is money, right? Opportunity to make a profit, new entrants come in, and certainly the enterprise grade saying, if we don't get in there, we will be cannibalized. And that's really, we see that driving force, do we? Yeah, so Scott, I'm curious, as you shift from not only being Linux, but you've got virtualization, you've got cloud, how do you work with your partners to incent them to sell the whole solution set? Well, it's interesting, it's more of, I would say it's more of a market response, right? So our strategy is, as you guys know well, we're open source, we don't build IP, but we can innovate with the community. And so we share that process and model with our partners, and those that choose to come along, get to participate. And the market is really demanding today that there's an alternative to the proprietary stacks. I spent eight years at a proprietary software company before I joined Red Hat. And one of the reasons I came over was, this is directionally where the marketplace is heading, right? The customers are demanding it, they're looking for an alternative. And so as that noise gets louder in the marketplace and you see it here by the attendance at Summit, that our customers are demanding that that become an alternative. And so the partners are knocking on our doors, as opposed to us having to go in and send them. I think everybody recognizes that as the market continues to evolve, there's money to be made. And frankly, and you mentioned enterprise grade, but one of the opportunities is in complexity, which surrounds the nascent technologies, there's also opportunity, right? So there's opportunity for services and integration. And so we're seeing the big service integrators and system integrators come to us and engage around how do we drive some of that into the customer space. So it's a fun place to be. Yeah, so if we look back, IBM put a billion dollars into helping drive Linux forward. That's right. Do we need a similar type of investment on the open stack side? I think that's a fair question. My response would be probably not, although if you look at the cumulative investment from this set apart, even the small set of partners that we touched on, my expectations, they're probably spending that and more in this industry today, right? So I think it's not so much that somebody, one large company has to funnel an investment to make it happen, but a set of large companies and ecosystem is already doing it. Yeah, some of the conversations we've been having at the show is, if you talk about the infrastructure with open stack and then the platform layer with open shift, there still isn't kind of consensus over, you know, who do those completely go together? You know, can they just stack on tip with each other? Which platform is going to win? So, you know, can you bring us through some of the conversations you're having with the partners and, you know, how do you come to consensus as to, you know, driving a solution forward to the customers are going to walk?  So there's some kind of clear cut winners that are emerging in that space, and I think you're seeing some alignment behind those companies. Some of our partners have chosen to invest in their own distributions in that space, and that's great, and we'll continue to partner, and frankly, as we grow the market, everybody's tied rises, so that's a benefit at the end. So Jim, the CEO, talked yesterday with us in a great interview that he said, we see the four areas of disruption, and I want to get your take on how you're looking at your alliance plan around that. The physical, virtual, private, and public. So obviously data center, cloud, okay?  The way we segment it as I kind of open really is, when I look at it in Jim's words, and probably should, probably should, right? It pretty much aligns to that space. So if you look at kind of the physical space, that really kind of plays back to our core OEM partners, as well as the storage vendors, like NetApp and I mentioned EMC. If you look at the virtual space, that starts to play with a couple of other additional partners, and then when you get into the stack, or the app piece, right? We're adding strategic partners, and you mentioned them, but they're smaller disruptor type people. So in the last few months, we've added companies like MongoDB, and Hortonworks as part of the strategic portfolio, because we have to be able to offer that disruption on top of the platform that you mentioned. It sounds like you're breaking it down into, because Red Hat's got some legacy, if you don't be careful, you might be disrupted, right? That's what you guys got to worry about. And Jim was talking about being complacent. Actually, Paul Cumber here was like, hey, we're at a deck, and we were on top of the world, and then within years toppled down to nothing. But so you could be disrupted. You're kind of a legacy, you have legacy, you have clients that have stuff. We think about it every day. And you also want to have the new technology come in as well, so you got to balance those. So that's what I think I hear you saying. So how do you succeed? What's your strategy? The ecosystems are a certain formula.  You guys invest dollars in co-marketing. Is it joint code? You guys, it's all about code. How do you? Well, you know, so the joint code piece is kind of an interesting thing, because we don't really write a lot of code. Co-marketing dollars move to code dollars. Exactly, but when we do write IP, we work with our partners on capacity or functionality. So if a partner approaches us and says they need something to help drive an incremental function in the system, we'll do it, but then we put it back into the community because that's part and parcel of what we do. The success really ties back to, I think, investments we make early with our partners by putting resources with them and on them, but from a management perspective, but also from a technology perspective, so we can align, understand their roadmaps, and they can understand directionally where we're heading, and then really helping to define where the market opportunity is. And so we do, we invest in marketing dollars and demand gen. But Red Hat's a different company than, say, like an HP that has channel marketing and it's a groove swing, right? I mean, you get resellers, integrators, and so on, and it's a proven formula. Red Hat's, you've got multiple dimensions. You've got technology contribution, you've got joint engineering, and then maybe some co-marketing things. Is that, did I get that right? Is that kind of the complexity? So we're not structured dissimilarly, and I actually spent some time in my career at HP. We're not so dissimilar in our structure, maybe on a different scale, right? So we have a channel that we leverage, but I think what's different is we actually are partnering with companies like HP and IBM, Dell and Cisco, et cetera, and leveraging their investment in those routes to market, right? So a lot of what we take out, we don't necessarily take out through our direct sales force or HPs, but through HP's channel. You guys can go to market in any different formula. You guys, you can go to market with or have them lead, you lead. And we're happy to have them lead, right? Yeah, exactly, that's value add. If you think about the partners that we work with, it's about a trillion dollars worth of net demand, right? And so they represent and can touch a lot more things than we can touch. What's the biggest goals for you this year in the alliances? Because obviously having the kinds of announcements you guys have at the show here with Dell and SAP, and Dell in particular is very impressive with OpenStack and OpenShift. You know, a nice notch on the belt for Red Hat, but Cisco I think really is a game-changing relationship because they are a critical component of the infrastructure and have been criticized for being a little bit too, you know, Cisco-like, and they're looking more like Intel.  They want to be northbound, southbound, east-west APIs, right and whatnot. So what are your goals for the year as an organization? So I'll give you the kind of the key to, and the good news is I have a review next week when I get back, so they're somewhat fresh. The first is to continue to grow the core business around RHEL and JBoss because that's fundamentally one where we're making our money today. And two, it's the foundation for the new technologies. And that's one of the things that's kind of key to how Red Hat's looking at some of the opportunity around things like OpenStack and OpenShift is they're built on a foundation of RHEL, commercial-grade software that is an OS that companies have leveraged. And so the first one is to make sure that we're continuing to expand our footprint there. We have about two-thirds of the paid Linux market and we're continuing to take share. And so that's number one, and that means continuing to work with the partners that we referenced earlier. The second is to find a few, and I think we've talked about them, a few partners that are going to stand behind the Red Hat in the new technology space. So Cisco has, Dell is, SAP's made some announcements. Docker. Docker obviously is going to be there. So it's not just size of the company, it's relevance. It really is. And if you look at the big data space, right? So, Mortonworks is particularly relevant, that space Mongo's making waves. So we're looking at those partners again that are willing to make a commitment to Red Hat and in reciprocity, we'll make a commitment to them and that's how we invest our go-to-market dollars. Well, you guys do a fantastic job. I got to give you props at Red Hat. I know sometimes it's a bull in a china shop to make things happen in big companies, but you guys have a hard job because you have a lot of constituents to please. And with the JBoss and Linux markets, essentially that's the, those are two communities. You've got essentially Dev and Ops. That's right. That's Dev Ops, right? So you guys are the DevOps company that's out there, that's the most commercial grade that we've found. Sure there's no JS stuff going around it, but like, you know, JBoss and Linux, that's DevOps. That's right, that's in-house. And it's a moneymaker point. And you still have to pay to refine that, right? So we got to get better at pulling those two things together, just like the rest of the marketplace that's trying to solve the DevOps phase. That's the two monster ecosystems. Yeah, it's enormous. And I think even if you talk to the enterprise customers that I know you do, that they're all struggling to make that connection. DevOps is a buzz, but if you look at the instantiation, and I talked to a lot of customers this week, the execution of DevOps is a lot harder than just kind of putting the words together.  We were talking about this yesterday. The technology discussions usually drive everything. Now it's not. It's this combination of the intersection of the business outcomes. And it's the business objectives. We heard on stage yesterday that the SLA is guaranteeing business outcomes in advance of doing things. That's a service. What are you mind blowing? I think about it from tech industry. It's stunning. Right, and frankly, and then you talked about kind of how to immature the emerging technologies. We have to partner to be able to deliver that capacity. We can't do carrier grade SLAs to enterprise customers for banking transactions without having some other companies along with us. You know, Wikibon has done some studies over the years around the whole services angle, the services business being disrupted. You see, you know, CSC buying service mesh for orchestration. You're seeing some of the consulting firms. IBM with software, right? Integrating in these practices that might have their own clouds someday and be a provider. But the integration of disciplines has really been a fundamental shift even at the collegiate level in courseware and computer science to partnering. So I think in DevOps too, on the programming side, this interdisciplinary really forces that partnership is table stakes these days. Oh, it's, if you don't know how to partner well, right? No, you mentioned a couple of companies. No one can deliver it all to the industry. You know, IBM years ago was kind of an island to itself in many ways. They're one of the better partnering companies in the industry. So I totally agree. So what do you say to the folks out there that are watching potentially for, that might be potential partners that are partners? How, what's the best way to partner with Red Hat? Knowing all the nuances of Red Hat, knowing that there's an ecosystem behind it, knowing there's a lot of growth coming, certainly a lot of disruption, horizontal scale, new categories being reshifted, recategorized, and you guys are in the OS business. How do they partner with you? Yeah, so I would say first off, spend a little time and understand the open source model first, before you study Red Hat. We think they're part and parcel, you know, pretty closely linked, but the open source model is a disruptive technology in and of itself, so if you're a company and you don't understand how that works, it's worth your while to spend a little cycle there because I think your customers are going to start to ask about it. That's the first thing. The second thing is then let's look at opportunities with Red Hat, particularly in the new technology space where they can come in, look at how do they leverage the pieces we're bringing together, the communities that we're catalyzing, as Jim would say, and choose where they want to participate, and then we'll figure out a way to find a partnership. Most of the partners of these companies that you're talking about are also partners with ours. They're part of the ecosystem, right? So it's a matter of how do we align them with guys that we're already spending time with? So Scott, you've been with Red Hat less than a year. I'm curious what you've learned since you've joined on board, that you'd want to share with people that potential customers, partners, that you maybe didn't know before you joined. So the reason that I said, study a little open sources, because that was an education for me, right? I mentioned Proprietary Software Company prior to. I would tell you that I think that model is fairly compelling, and so it's made me even more excited for having joined. So that's kind of the first thing that I learned. I would tell you that I think selling free software is probably harder than I thought it was when I got here. So you kind of have to make sure that your value proposition is well-defined and articulated. I would say for a company that's been around a reasonably long time, it still feels like a startup, and some of that is because of these new technologies, these emerging areas are just super exciting, right? And we're small and young and nimble, and so that's really an attractive thing, I think, to spend time around. And frankly, the last thing I'd say is the culture. So Red Hat is a cool place. It's unique. It's very different than other places I spend. It's got a completely different culture than most of our partner communities, but it's cool.  So my final question for you is, as we get ready for the OpenStack Summit coming up in Atlanta where theCUBE will be there for three days, broadcasting live, and our second time covering it live, we've been covering OpenStack for quite some time, but never on theCUBE, second year in a row. I want to ask you, what are you expecting to see there? You talked to some of the partners, you kind of get the inside baseball. You don't have to reveal any secrets, but what are we expecting to see in Atlanta? Cage match, Love Fest, customer testimonials, what are we going to see? So we're all working towards the last, right? And my expectation is, in those technologies, we are absolutely seeing customer adoption pretty rapidly, so that's a great thing. And we will have some customers that start to stand up and say, not only are we trying this out, but we're using it, right? Production grade type stuff. My expectation is that we'll probably see some cool announcements from our partners and from Red Hat and kind of more of the mesh, less of the cage match, more of the Love Fest. But I think some clear- So meet on the bone, meet on the bone with reference accounts and whatnot. And really, how do we take the enterprise-grade knowledge that we've done with Linux and make that enterprise grade for all the new stuff? Scott, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate it. Global Alliance is at Red Hat. You got a tough job. It's a complicated world, but that's the world we live in. Innovation, open source. This is theCUBE, documenting it all right here. Live in San Francisco at the Red Hat Summit. We'll be right back after this short break. Thank you.


Welcome to digital asset news to get top stories and crypto and bring them out of bite size pieces today instead of talking about the news We've already talked about that we're gonna do is we're gonna just gonna do a secret pineapple reveal for the secret pineapple Society in theta and we're gonna talk about first we're gonna talk about what exactly is theta So you can help to understand that we're gonna talk about the secret society and the real world utility it gives and then finally We're actually here to reveal we're gonna open this up and see how much it is because right now these pineapples are going between a 2000 and 2000 a piece and just the pack itself Gives us like five or six so we'll take a look at all those things But first before we get into that I just want to say thank you to Atlas VPN Atlas is the sponsor of the show This is a sponsored video at the very beginning I just want to go over real quick as far as like a VPN like what it is How much money you can save and all the other good things that you can get with it in general So real quick. 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So from there, let's take a look at what exactly is going on with this video As far as what the heck is theta so theta if you're unfamiliar with it it is a Blockchain cryptocurrency service and essentially what it does is if you can if you download software It'll be able to use the unused bandwidth and then use that for streaming services and for them to use your the unused bandwidth They pay you in theta or t-fuel or something like that It's been something that I've been talking about for over a year now and over that time It's grown pretty fast as a new ecosystem 2022 white paper out Definitely want to take a look at that if you want to learn more about why I think this is gonna do very well But it's already a study TV. It's already partnered with world poker tour or con TV fail army Steve Chan was the co-founder YouTube. He's also involved in this and what I like to say is follow the money Here's the validator nodes again Google Sony Samsung CAA Which is has all the a-list stars and sports stars and things like that finance blockchain Gumi DHVC So on and so forth. So when we take a look at what theta is, okay seems like it's a pretty what I would consider now a blue chip Crypto so that essentially is what's theta. So the next question is what's the secret society because it doesn't make much sense. So They'd always has these things called theta drops and this is an NFT of what they came up with They sacred pineapple side and the real question when I first saw this was like, what's the utility? I don't really care about the backstory and all this stuff. I mean, it's cool I suppose but as far as like the story itself I don't get it. But the thing I'm always curious about is what's the utility and Here is the flow. Here is the roadmap. So we've already in phase one October announcement November launch. We've already launched Pineapple poach of all commercial use your pineapple and surprise airdrops. That's pretty big Especially when we see how much one pineapple actually costs phase two Members only stream and chat members only apparel store. All right get me with that But this work gets good phase three member voting entry of the Grove NFT staking for yield farming and game integrations like I talked about I think theta is gonna help power the metaverse Because there's only so much bandwidth we can use especially with virtual reality move around in these decentralized places I think theta has a big use case for that. So that essentially is the secret study and a little bit of of the utility itself now just real quick Let's take a look at the pineapples them You know what they are the theta drop and the containers. So real quick the theta drop I think it's important to know that theta is always doing these theta drops for NFTs and the website I'll link in the description below, but they got I mean some big players. They have The UFC I got, you know, all the different YouTubers out there as dash theta frogs Battle pugs and so on and so forth. So they've got a lot of and then I think Katy Perry was also another one The big ones. So if we take a look at the marketplace itself see right here blow this up so you can see it So these are going I think one that was a drop it was like 200 300 bucks Now you look at the lowest of around the lowest at around 950 and that's just for the pineapple heads now these pineapple containers though they give you multiple ones and those let me lift this up a little bit 2880 it's a lot so if we're the question I had though is are people actually buying these things so if you click on The pineapple itself you can look at recent listed. Let's just go low to high. Let's just see what we have Right here and Okay, that's nine. Okay 965 so we'll take a look at this. Let's take a look at the history But one thing I like about the blockchain you always see what's going on So right here you've got the buyer and the seller and for how much like this one This guy right excuse me buyer seller how much see that secret pineapple the little goofy face right there like okay Who cares well that was sold for $2,400 And that was today at 345 and then just a couple minutes before you had this one Sure, and it sold for $1,300 $1,000 1,050 980 4,000 all depends on rarity and what you get but remember It's not so much like I'm not paying for this face I mean, it's I guess it's interesting But really what I'm what I'm paying for is the utility and the utility is that thing that we talked about as far as like phase three NFT staking game integrations member voting apparel store. I suppose so right members only stream I guess but it's the utility and what you get out of it So that's me. I'm like, okay. Well things are being sold very interesting indeed Before I forget if you want to stay abreast of the situation and see like okay Well, one of these new theta drops coming out. There's a discord group called a theta tech I will link that in the description. Just follow these guys because they're talking all the time about You know, what's dropping what the prices could be how important it can be and so on and so forth That's theta tech for the discord. I'm actually in there. I'm actually right here I said I'm a here again Don't kick me out because initially they thought I was a scammer because I guess I Don't really do too many discords But I get in all honesty I do but they still kicked me because I thought I hear a scammer and I had to like appeal and go I'm not really a scammer. So Yeah, that's what it was and then lastly as I think that's the most important thing. Let's do the reveal Let's take a look at what this what these pineapples are and you know, what it actually looks like So this was the one that I got secret pineapple container number 47 13 wauza And then all I'm gonna do is just click on open pack Congrats, you own the secret panel. Great. Let's open it. Ooh So it looks like I got four nice done so Interesting so right here secret pineapple So this is me something open these up and see what I got. Oh, that's see this is the one and you'll notice that No, bottom left-hand corner. That's the same one that I have But I only knew that I got this one because the team at theta told me. Yeah, this is what you're gonna be I was like, great. Sure enough. So that is me and Get a nice little collection there. Very nice and that's it So that's what we have as far as secret pineapple. So again Look, if you're looking to find out more about it again, follow discord group follow theta and that's it for today So that's it for this one. If you liked the video, give it a thumbs up I was gonna subscribe a lot of things we talked about and the moving fast and furious especially with these months coming up But that's it for today. So thanks so much for watching. I appreciate it and I'll see you in the next one


What's up guys and welcome back to the true finale of the Henry stickman games In the last video you saw me play through the government-supported investigator one and the pure-blooded thief run I am going to go the relentless bounty hunter route now and Yeah, yeah another hour long video for your guys entertainment that Yeah These games are so much fun. Like if you've never played the Henry stickman games go Get it. I highly recommend it. I know I'm playing this in an order. That's probably not meant to be played in but I Think this is the order I played them through What when I like initially played the Number five not sure I know to the right I played the five General Herbert Gale for us John frog pixel Gordon eel banks Amelia turtle. Just what's Two hours before oh cool altitude 20,000 feet wins speed nominal Right hand man Like a drop This is great What movie this is satirizing, but I love it They're specialists Motivator saying It's one of those like Retired dude gets called back in by government movie Henry awesome really kept us waiting, huh? Nice to meet the legend in person. Oh my god. It is. Oh my god Henry glad to see me looking. Let me introduce you to your squad first off is John Pilts Oh 30 years and he excels at it's a solid reference He'll be going by the codename frog Next up is Gordon. Oh my god. It is master when it comes to electronics He knows his way around any interface, and he'll be very helpful Awesome, he'll be going by the codename eel. Lastly. We have Amelia Esteban demolitions expert She's known to tackle problems head-on blow a hole in any problem her codename turtle General What's all this about? Frog I'll run through the briefing again We recently learned of the top that claims plant to launch a space station to orbit around the earth They're able to get the station operational. They'll become unstoppable They'll be able to attack any place around the world easily no way for anyone to counter attack The top I don't know Unfortunately, no They're now being led by the previous right-hand man the right-hand man. I thought he was defeated See if someone's fixed him up giving him cybernetics and hands It'll be quite a handful to deal with Deal with them. We're just cleaning up another mess Well, it is what you do best your mission is to capture or eliminate the right-hand man We'll be launching it all out of salt on the compound at the same time. I'll focus being on preventing the rocket from launching Sounds like a good time. That's why we're sending all you Good luck out there. Yeah Let's go Get in there and find it We need to get past that car. Oh, it was easy last time. You just ask him to stop It's off. It's off. It's off best off Do not oh My god, wait, I have to see it again It was gonna start the whole fortnight scrub dance thing. Oh, man convert Oh Wait stand guard There's no one here. They must be out fighting I've gotten into their security feed looks like the right-hand man is holed up in the warehouse The holes are completely empty. We should be able to get close without getting detected. Oh Wait, am I supposed to do something?  I swear Wait, was that the right one your feet? I'll give you one shot.  Oh, yeah What do we do? He has a cheese hat. He's needing like a new boss man. Oh man. I'll lead us through this No, I will is anyone there. We need to take off immediately Got another group that's rented here Man, I love that it doesn't just became immediately infighting You know downy having really suits you never think about going pro Oh Master bounty hunter hails. Yeah All right, let's see CQB Henry are you all right answer me? Yeah, that's that's yeah, okay stealth seeking piece to foot That's never would have happened at a hundred.  Oh, heck. Yeah dog pal. Oh, heck. Yeah dog. Oh Everyone pile on I have to do it again Okay, I'll get serious. I'm sorry It's not struck.  This is Top Rewire Henry we gotta put a stop to these top beds. Come on The top beds are finished you're not going anywhere. What is happening stand back Henry I'll take care of this. Oh my god. What are you doing?   There's no rewiring that Revealance bounty hunter presumed dead. I really wish I could skip all of this crap So the plan's going through even without the chief. Yes, we have all the goods loaded up on the train Oh I don't want to be on caravan duty. Oh, it's not so bad. You get to sit on the train and hang out Oh, we meant to protect all our stolen valuables all the money all that. Oh, yes I suppose that's true. We have all of our money in one cart.   He's not taking me. Oh god. Oh Shit Item mirror That one is right apparently Siri Beth was defeated Huh sweet I don't we got the back I see if this actually works.   Oh my money there. Nobody gets to have it Convict allies Jesus this game is so long. I love this game You have a tank you said you stole this from the top ads. Yeah, that name sounds familiar I think I heard of them when I was getting locked up at the wall criminal organization, right?  We got to put this bad boy to use. What do you say we hit him again? Hell? Yeah, I know about you, but I'm running pretty low on cash Great. I'll get in touch. Oh, yeah, find out where they're at These tracks should lead us right to the secret top app base. We might even find That's it the transport train. I think they're supposed to be There it is the money card. I'm pretty sure that car contains all the money they've amassed There's our payday. Let's take it to What music is playing Oh hell yeah Hunker Crash to stay on the way the only way to see us by looking at the top No Lost the lead. No way.   Well, that's one way to do it Now, how are we gonna get all this money out of here? Oh Man now what? Oh, this doesn't belong to you.  What are you doing? Damn it What was the point of that the sharpest idea gonna pin the blame for you on that one? Did you really needle that money? All right, that one was a stretch Shell bounce Ouchie ouchie Wombo combo Stick me Seems like we're out of the danger zone That should do the trick. Yeah So I don't see any other time you rock this building this or that whatever. Hell yeah, you have a tank tank capital gain That was a short force lift. You used it last time. Yeah, too strong there Ellie We get it you lift person holding Okay, how world we're not this bounty hunter and ghost inmate launch.   Okay No Wait, I got out. Okay Metal hat. Oh sweet. Oh sweet Henry's escaped. He's on his way towards the main cabin now coming from wing seven Oh, no, I lost He's locked himself in armory seven who left this open left this open I Repair grenade launcher Whoops Yay, oh my god an update on that We're gonna do everything around here. Yes. Hello You should have stayed in your cell Sweep the legs Ah, man Harden is it My hero reference It's not very fat or a Pokemon reference. I'm not sure nanosuit. Okay. Now this I know is Iron Man It's not gonna help you Impressive, but that's not Yeah, no that that's an Iron Man reference to infinity war Max graph boots Lost a solar panel Okay Shit that was the right one. Yeah, okay.  I don't know.   We don't have any power You really get down to earth without it. We're kind of just stuck Who was that guy anyway? Free man hell yeah map Jesus Christ inner strength You can't break those cuffs remote I just merked myself And he was not the There's still a posture here among us damn it map Meltray It melted all right. Well, that's a shitty design for a meltray bomb. Wait, what did we go through this? Wait? Doors open Lockpick there's no lock. Let's use the buster sword Yeah, one shot at a guy. It's a big boy sword for big boys only wait what I missed something So I pick on lock What do you mean? I'm just gonna keep choosing lockpick What? All right, you guys can tell me in the comments what I'm doing wrong.   Oh, no, I just blew up the earth Front to our enemy you try To earth. I just got a burn-up on reentry, aren't I yep? Toast day No, I legit don't understand what I'm doing wrong here. I just got to keep going Okay weird Oh Fine, there we go Should have just moved on to something else Okay, never mind. You don't have to tell me what I'm doing wrong in the comments. I figured it out. I Just did that so I'm actually gonna do the betray the last I'm gonna go ghost inmate first with it bum bum Henry Oh He was locked up at the wall with me.  Oh? I'm Ellie. I heard the guy I helped escape was the leader of the top that clan so I busted myself out Oh, I helped you escape and you just left me. I'm sorry Have you no honor? No? Actions like this tarnished the top at name men hold up. This really what we fought out of a leader He barged in here took control of the top at plan for himself He's not worthy of being our leader. Okay. I say we throw him overboard. Who's with me? Come on. Wow, really? Yeah, you know, this doesn't really take any lawyer this to the break Come on, please get to a thing or I'll make you just get to it. There we go Okay Give me a second. I need to my camera's about to die. Okay Sorry about that my camera died. Luckily. I have a second camera Helicopter hat do-do-do-do Inspector Gadget do-do-do-do Do-do-do Inspector Gadget. We're with you Henry Yeah, mind crystal Shaloo Hahaha Me me You got this Good good teamwork Hell yeah Thanks, Henry. It's not right what they did to you the denouncement ceremony has been completed Henry is no longer the leader of the top of the plan How do you want to proceed boss? I got a few ideas The goods that that was a close call Oh my god, wait, that's okay, they better be nerfing that in the next patch Midnight surprise. Oh my god. We're just gonna blow stuff up Please thank you again for rescuing me from Now Just like old times that was a poorly thought-out plan Deuces Let's make everyone get into this escape pot Wait, why is that your idea? Titan here mission complete. Okay What? What was that? What now boss looks like we're on our own.  Okay.  I love it.  Oh topy. Oh My god, please tell me it's another route What'd you do with Henry? They could tell you don't look like Henry. What do you think all stick figures look the same? Kind of Executive convict allies Actually, I'm a little saddened that I had to switch over to my other camera. I don't think he's bad I think this camera looks amazing I'm just a personally like my new camera Little bit more Shouldn't be able to launch within the hour So this is the top hat clan secret base. Yeah, sign me up. Whoa. What happened in that guy?  I hope you don't mind Hmm. Uh, I'm ellie. Uh, I'm new here What are you guys up to? Well, uh, Henry remember that orbital station idea we were talking about We went ahead with that plan. We've got all of our assets in there already Okay, once the final preparations are complete, we'll be ready to launch into orbit All right, that should keep us far away from any governments trying to bring us down Hey, what did I tell you about calling me that Henry is the chief, remember?  The top heads will orders remember you as a hero. Was that it? Am I here at academia thing? Very accurate targeting system Oh Hey, that was fall out Yeah, grab the hook.  Tread take over when I've gone Mounted gun just you wait till my friend gets here. Yeah Wait, that was right. That was right. Okay Bond has been planted The flute best option That was right Style on not gonna lie. That was pretty stylish. Oh my god. He just ran in Summon All right, summon Bahamut Oh no It's a laser collection joke again I'm starting to wonder if this is the same guy who did laser collection Last week, but no way Dual attack apparently and it seemed too obvious for me to do Trigger it's a chrono trigger reference Holy shit Chrono trigger is a personal favorite at RPG of mine.  G inverter G inverter interference gravity. It's that simple Whoa, pretty sure I had a nightmare like this Abandon tank search for me last time I got you do it You know I could drop you right now. I know don't you dare. No, we did this last time. Why would I do that?  I can't think of a better person to lead us. Awesome. I love it Mission complete Hell's yeah Thanks to Henry's efforts, we were able to establish our orbital station. Oh, man Unfortunately, we lost quite a few members during the raid With the station in orbit. We were able to raid any place on earth with ease Ellie was officially recruited into the top of the clan and given the rank right-hand lady Me and my right-hand man went on to become top operators in the clan performing several successful operations Top that king Yeah, he's with me Oh my god, why is Abandoned him. Just you wait till my friend gets here. Yeah, sure. Yeah, sure We gotta borrow you in bam Damn it. That's kind of way Helio chop just you wait till my friend gets here. Yeah, sure Who do you think you are Charles?  That was awesome. What are you waiting till high new 30 to shoot Don't let him get through man.  Don't let him get through man Shooting from your vehicle is actually really hard, especially when you're supposed to be driving Don't let him get through man. All right. Hey man Hey, hey over shop just a little bit. Is that star wars cloud? Come on. It's the Nimbus Uh His forecast no clouds Presumes dead I think is the next one.  There's we're gonna even show them.  We need to ship out right now.  I love it.  That was too early Abuse physics engine We're the new top bad leaders missing 10 bucks as he shows up and stops our entire operation Yeah, all right, you're gonna lose 10 bucks. Hmm flag switch. Did I get him? Yes Part 65 of my Henry Stickman playthrough today. I'm gonna be doing the part with the tank But uh before I get started I just want to thank my sponsor Remember to rig the bell remember to uh, uh comment if you liked the video Oh, my gosh, there's a lot of fails in it. I'm only like halfway through Now you got three choices here If you click walk through start playing a video this really boring guy Hey guys back to the video again playing uh, Henry Stickman today Comment and um subscribe if you enjoyed the video I'm running up to like 400 a thousand fails in the tent now I'm gonna pick walk through here opens up this video this super boring guy Who just says welcome back to part 65 of my Henry Stickman playthrough walk through Oh, like make sure to follow me on his scram. Follow me on twitter. Follow me on um face Okay, this part. It's kind of a big spoiler. So When you get to this oh my god pick walk through you'll play this video of a guy who This is just talking to meta Oh my god I could have just clicked out of it.  We are picking up minor chaos reasons to engage Uh, do not reveal secret.  Hey, what's this? Come in phantom. You've got the unclear What that's right. Yeah, I've got a Different what's That's not good animations. I nearly can Gee the center for Kansas can be sure has a surplus of nuclear bombs, huh? Seriously do not there's nothing air What?  Is that major's mask?  It's major's mask I don't like that ending at all guys Oh god, they didn't laugh too You should have thought about uh what I am willing to do in order to get the job done Um, yeah, maybe but also Apparently this was the right one.    Oh god. It's one of those goddamn games I could have made it Right. Let's just climb up It's easy.  Wait, this wait. This isn't the original Henry.  You are gone for a bit.  Hell.  Oh my god.  Oh my god.  Oh my god. It's a part five reference. Actually, this might be part six That's the water Tomate Doesn't seem right. I don't know enough about anime to dispute it I'm going to be rewatching this at the very end. Oh my god This is amazing. You have no idea JoJo is one of my favorite anime of all time I've never in the manga.  You do not know how happy I'm.   It might not even be a part. It might be a jojo reference That's easy that that was another reference late for That's mega man, though Maybe Oh my god Man the trade route is my favorite one so far I'm so happy I saved this for last Finish you off Hell yeah Why tight move? Oh man. Was that right? Tell me that was the right one and man defeated hell. Yeah No, we're losing altitude. Yeah, cuz I gotta get out of here.    Oh my god.   Oh cool.  I have to watch the spirit form again Gnae And that's it. That's the game All right All right, so I hope you guys enjoyed that video Um, that's the end of the henry stickman collection Uh, yeah With I have completed all the games um Yeah That was the end of completing the mission This six part series has officially come to a close But I hope that you guys enjoyed it. Uh, I hope you guys enjoyed every episode If you did I seriously go buy the henry stickman collection on steam right now It is amazing if you're a massive fan of the henry stickman games like I am Definitely check it out I 100% gonna be playing this game more because there's just so much more stuff to do but Yeah, that's That's all that I have in this video for you guys but I Yeah, I hope that you all have a fantastic day and as always peace out guys