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Project for Awesome 2026 part 3!

2026-02-14 · other · John, Hank, Stan Muller, Phil Plait · 9 h 17 min · watch on YouTube

Topic: Global development (also: Nerdfighteria, Philosophy & meaning, Science & nature, Sports, Books & writing, Art & visual culture) · mode: Announcements · tags: calendar ritual, fundraising ask, civic or action cta, self promotion, community lore, guest or collab

In the third part of the 2026 Project for Awesome livestream, John hosts the morning of February 14 with Stan Muller, playing Fortnite as pacifists while AFC Wimbledon draw 3-3 at Barnsley from 2-0 down, as the total passes $2 million; Phil Plait joins as his meteorite perks sell out; Hank hosts the afternoon with Alexis Nikole, Tom Lum and Drawfee, and at $2.5 million eats burrata like a soup dumpling and shows fan-made flags of Earth.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:09:12 — Pacifist Fortnite with Stan Muller; the Zombicorns audiobook, signed books, trivia nights and fish prints

  • ★★ John says Stan Muller narrates the Zombicorns audiobook, available only as a Project for Awesome perk, and that a $10 donation counts as $25 thanks to matching donors. — 00:09:38 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John says the 2026 Project for Awesome is now $28,000 away from $2 million. — 00:10:07 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John offers as a perk a trivia night with him and Stan Muller on Zoom on April 13 or 14, something they do every year. — 00:11:07
  • ★ John plays pub trivia with Stan Muller, whom he calls a dominant force in the trivia world. — 00:11:07
  • ★★ John says he and Stan play Fortnite as pacifists because that is the proper way to play Fortnite. (playful) — 00:12:35

00:14:54 — AFC Wimbledon at Barnsley, devaluing John's signature, pub trivia with Stan, friendship bubbles and Epic's battle royale

  • ★★ John says the other players should ask why they let Epic put them in a battle royale: they have no beef with each other and have just been told to hate each other. (playful) — 00:22:23

00:23:32 — $2 million passed as Barnsley go 2-0 up; the dream of $30 million; second place thanks to a fern

  • ★★★ John announces that the 2026 Project for Awesome has raised $2 million. — 00:23:54 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John says that if the 2026 Project for Awesome raises $3 million, his dream number, the P4A will have raised about $30 million in its history. (hedged) — 00:23:54 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John reports that AFC Wimbledon are 2-0 down at Barnsley after 13 minutes. — 00:24:35 · AFC Wimbledon

00:28:43 — The Tiltify and the matching fund, donors, relegation worries

  • ★★ John says the Tiltify stands near $750,000, but with matching donations every dollar donated counts as $2.50. — 00:29:07 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John thanks the matching funders, who have made the 2026 Project for Awesome two and a half times more lucrative than it would otherwise be. — 00:29:31 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John says AFC Wimbledon are about six points clear of relegation and probably need to win four or five of their last 18 games to stay up. (hedged) — 00:32:20 · AFC Wimbledon

00:32:44 — The 19th annual P4A and voting; the 'we lose every week' chant; trivia night

  • ★★ John says the P4A has run every year since 2007 except one year off to move from December to February, which is why 2026 is the 19th annual edition, not the 20th. — 00:32:44 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John says P4A 2026 videos have had over 40,000 votes, and half the money raised goes to charities chosen by those votes. — 00:33:09 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John tells viewers that even if they cannot donate they are a huge part of the P4A, because their votes decide where the money goes. — 00:33:09 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John says that when AFC Wimbledon are losing and playing poorly their fans sometimes sing 'we lose every week, you're nothing special', which he calls a great chant. — 00:35:00 · AFC Wimbledon

00:36:30 — 2-2 and hope; This Star Won't Go Out and Esther Earl; where the money goes

  • ★★ John says the current featured P4A video is from This Star Won't Go Out. — 00:36:58 · This Star Won't Go Out (charity), Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John says Esther Earl, part of the group Catitude, was in some ways a co-founder of the Project for Awesome, and that its current director, Lindsay Ballantyne, was also in Catitude. — 00:37:32 · Esther Earl, Project for Awesome

  • ★★★ As AFC Wimbledon draw level, John says life is full of surprises and hope is always the correct response to consciousness: not always rewarded, but always justified. — 00:37:55 · hope, AFC Wimbledon

    “Hope is not always rewarded, but it is always justified.”

  • ★★ John says AFC Wimbledon have come back from 2-0 down to 2-2 with a goal from Omar Bugiel, whom he calls a Lebanese superhero. — 00:37:55 · AFC Wimbledon

  • ★★ John dedicated The Fault in Our Stars to Esther Earl, a Nerdfighter who lived with cancer and in whose memory This Star Won't Go Out was founded; she and her family were and are good friends. — 00:38:42 · Esther Earl, The Fault in Our Stars, This Star Won't Go Out (charity)
  • ★★ John says Esther Earl's family runs This Star Won't Go Out, which gives families of sick children the financial support they lacked: for bills, hospital travel and time off work. — 00:39:08 · This Star Won't Go Out (charity), Esther Earl
  • ★★ John says the P4A usually gives money to a couple dozen organizations, and for small ones a $50,000 or $60,000 grant is a huge amount. — 00:39:47 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John says the money the P4A is raising hires community health workers in Lesotho and responds to refugee crises around the world. — 00:39:47 · Project for Awesome

00:41:24 — A second round of pacifist Fortnite; the Bigfoot headshot; The Anthropocene Reviewed on the Galápagos

  • ★★ John says he has never finished first playing pacifist Fortnite, but it is going to happen for him: today is the day. (playful) — 00:44:39
  • ★★ John says the Project for Awesome is not only about how fast it can raise money but how long, doing a good job over the long term. — 00:45:45 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★★ As a P4A perk, John is bringing back The Anthropocene Reviewed with reviews of the Galápagos Islands and of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Galápagos. — 00:46:40 · The Anthropocene Reviewed (podcast), Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John finds Galápagos interesting for being less pro-humanity than most of Kurt Vonnegut's work. — 00:47:26

00:50:06 — Pacifism and self-defense, Epic Games, Rumi's sword, living forever and health-care injustice

  • ★★ John says Epic Games, which he loves, is a longtime supporter of the Project for Awesome. — 00:52:16 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John thinks people who want to live forever are confused about what it would mean: with health-care injustice already so bad, some living forever while others die at 80 would be far worse. — 00:55:27 · health equity

00:56:07 — Fourth place; a pacifist Fortnite stream as a new perk

  • ★★★ Asked by a viewer for a perk video of him and Stan, John commits to a special exclusive livestream of them playing Fortnite together, for $15 or in the digital download bundle. — 01:00:51
  • ★★ John says the pacifist Fortnite perk is now available, alongside the Zombicorns audiobook narrated by Stan Muller. — 01:01:56

01:02:25 — Perks: Hank's chapters, the signed mystery book, the last pressed pennies; babies; Owen Goodman

  • ★★ John says two chapters of Hank's new book come with the $75 digital download bundle. — 01:02:25 · Hank Green
  • ★★ Offering signed mystery books, John says he has a tier list of his own books in his mind, but thinks each of them has something to love. — 01:02:51 · tier list
  • ★★ John says this is the last year the Project for Awesome offers pressed pennies as a perk. — 01:02:51 · Project for Awesome
  • ★ John is always telling Henry how much he loves babies, because he misses when Henry was a baby. — 01:04:56 · Henry Green
  • ★★ John notes that Barnsley's goalkeeper is Owen Goodman, AFC Wimbledon's goalkeeper last season, whom he loved. — 01:05:27 · AFC Wimbledon

01:06:46 — Committed people pointing attention the same way; toward $30 million; health workers rather than yachts

  • ★★★ John repeats Joia Mukherjee's point that change needs not a majority but enough really committed, organized people pointing their attention and love in the same direction. — 01:06:46 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John says they are trying to reach $1 million on the Tiltify, which would mean over $2.5 million raised for the 2026 Project for Awesome. — 01:07:34 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John says not all the Project for Awesome's money has come from Nerdfighteria, but the vast majority has, and that makes him really proud. — 01:08:02 · Nerdfighteria, Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John says using the money the Project for Awesome has raised to hire community health workers and midwives in Lesotho and Sierra Leone makes a lot more sense than spending $30 million on a yacht or a private plane. — 01:09:15 · Sierra Leone, Project for Awesome

01:10:37 — Trivia prizes and the pet parade; Potato and Stan; Greg Silver; the matching fund

  • ★★ John says trivia night prizes go to the winner, second place and second to last, and the night ends with a pet parade. — 01:10:37
  • ★★ John says his dog Potato is very afraid of Stan Muller, out of fear rather than malice: he doesn't like men, and the taller they are the less he likes them. — 01:11:54
  • ★★ John asks viewers to donate to this year's (2026) Project for Awesome at projectforawesome.com/donate. — 01:12:23 · Project for Awesome · also in: Project for Awesome 2026 part 4!
  • ★★ John says his friend Greg Silver, father-in-law of his friend Craig, died a couple of days ago; a poet, he sent John his poems and talked with him about the news. — 01:12:51
  • ★★ John says that thanks to the matching donors a $200 donation means $500 raised for the Project for Awesome. — 01:14:41 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John says the 2026 matching fund raised over $1.5 million, because his dad and his colleague Amy are too good at raising money for it. — 01:15:11 · Mike Green, Project for Awesome

01:15:59 — Good numbers, a pixelated stream, getting Phil Plait on

01:18:41 — Featured video about We Are TB

  • ★★ John introduces a featured video about We Are TB, a civil society organization that supports TB survivors. — 01:18:41

01:25:58 — With Phil Plait: why study space; his meteorite perks sell out

  • ★★ John says Phil Plait writes one of his favorite weekly newsletters, which helps him understand the magic and size of the universe and tells him when to look at the stars. — 01:25:58
  • ★★★ John says he hopes we continue to investigate space, though it is not at all clear that we will. — 01:25:58
  • ★★★ John thinks one of the main reasons we are here is to understand, as the part of the universe that observes it; what we have learned in the last couple hundred years shows what shared attention at scale can do. — 01:28:24
  • ★★ John says Phil Plait's donated meteorite perks are all gone, raising something like $7,500 within a minute. (hedged) — 01:31:55

01:38:53 — Phil Plait signs off: Andromeda and $2.5 million; the newsletters

  • ★★ John says the 2026 Project for Awesome has raised over $2.1 million with some 24 hours and 30 minutes left. — 01:39:12 · Project for Awesome

01:40:29 — Totals, 'humane', long-time donors, Marcus Browne's goal for 3-2

  • ★★★ Thanking a donor, John calls 'humane' his favorite word because it implies his fundamental belief: he is not sure humans are good news, but sure they might be, and have the opportunity to be. — 01:41:31

    “I'm not sure we are good news, but I'm sure we might be.”

  • ★★★ John says people giving the community such significance in their lives for years is the coolest thing that ever happened to him, far better than anything from his books, and unimaginable when he and Hank started making videos. — 01:42:22 · Nerdfighteria, Hank Green

  • ★★ After Marcus Browne scores to put AFC Wimbledon 3-2 up from 2-0 down, John says he doesn't think they have come from two goals down to win since seven or eight years ago. (hedged) — 01:43:08 · AFC Wimbledon

01:44:29 — Introducing the Climate Ed featured video

  • ★★ John introduces a featured video about Climate Ed, a UK-based organization teaching elementary-school children climate science through the Do One Thing method, and invites votes at projectforawesome.com. — 01:44:29 · Project for Awesome

01:50:26 — FIFA with Stan against Manchester United while AFC Wimbledon hold 3-2 at Barnsley; Ludwig; superstition; dishwashers

  • ★★ John says he and Stan Muller play FIFA on stream most weeks on John's channel, whose community raised enough money to pay for Marcus Browne. — 01:52:07
  • ★★ John says that when he was a chaplain he was consumed by superstition, which was ironic because his Christianity was supposed to be against superstition. — 01:56:59
  • ★★ John says the overall 2026 Project for Awesome total is $2,129,464.96, and he hopes to hand over to Hank at over $2.15 million. — 01:59:06 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John says Technology Connections' videos about dishwashers changed his life: he now loads his dishwasher differently. — 01:59:56
  • ★★ John reports that AFC Wimbledon's game at Barnsley has ended in a 3-3 draw, a pretty good result, though a win would have been better. — 02:02:02 · AFC Wimbledon

02:02:24 — A 3-3 draw at Barnsley; donor thanks, trivia spots, Zombicorns, Like Letters, personalized book recommendations, $800,000

  • ★★ John says 18 spots are left for the trivia night with him and Stan on April 13 and 34 on April 14. — 02:02:50
  • ★★ John had not read Zombicorns for years until it showed up in his Tumblr feed, and discovered, to his huge surprise, that he likes his work. — 02:03:49 · Tumblr
  • ★★ John plugs Like Letters, the podcast he makes every year with Sarah, reading the letters they wrote each other before they started dating. — 02:04:12 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★ After the 3-3 draw at Barnsley, John says AFC Wimbledon probably only need four more wins to stay up. (hedged) — 02:05:27 · AFC Wimbledon
  • ★★ John launches three personalized book recommendation perks: for a very significant donation, a 10-minute Zoom call in which he recommends books, a perk he loves for meeting Nerdfighters. — 02:07:05 · Project for Awesome, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ John says his favorite thing is the communities within the community, like the Nerdcraftaria Minecraft server: the stuff within the stuff. — 02:09:41 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ John celebrates reaching $800,000 raised at the Tiltify before Hank comes on. — 02:11:08 · Project for Awesome

02:12:28 — Hank takes over with Orin; perks and the giant squid shirt; John drops by: British accents, fish prints, Jared's turn to AI

  • ★★ Hank: Taking over at $800,000, Hank says he is confident the 2026 Project for Awesome will hit a million dollars raised at the Tiltify. — 02:13:16 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says 396 of 675 mystery perks are left: random sets of three or four perks from past P4As. — 02:14:02 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says that for the Hank's confetti perk he will scoop up his stream's confetti and put it in envelopes he found on the side of the road. — 02:14:29
  • ★★ Hank calls the 2026 Project for Awesome shirt, a giant squid that came to save us, his favorite shirt ever; it is a P4A exclusive. — 02:15:23 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank: Pushing back on the claim that he has only one British accent, Hank says he has every British accent, which is why his British accent is so bad. (playful) — 02:17:02
  • ★★ John tells Hank that AFC Wimbledon drew thanks to two goals from Omar Bugiel and one from Marcus Browne, and should have won but gave up a bad late goal. — 02:17:52 · AFC Wimbledon
  • ★★ John says signed fish prints by him and by Hank are available, and asks donors not to hurt his feelings by choosing Hank's. — 02:18:21 · Hank Green
  • ★★ John lists P4A perks: a glow-in-the-dark commemorative coin for a $40 donation and a Hanklerfish enamel pin for $30. — 02:18:47 · Hanklerfish, Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says Jared cashed out of crypto at the top and is now in AI, vibe coding a pretzel factory. (playful) — 02:19:36

02:20:50 — Donations, John's book recommendations sold, the balloon tasks so far, steady viewers, Katherine's watching

  • ★★ Hank says John's $3,000 personalized book recommendation perks have sold and been taken down, and the total is now $820,000. — 02:23:38 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank: For a balloon task, Hank had to call a random person in his phone and wish them a happy year; he had to do it twice because the first person's voicemail was full. — 02:25:12
  • ★★ Hank: For a balloon task's opposite of a silent, stern-faced Macarena, Hank played the Macarena backwards while doing an Irish step dance with a happy face. — 02:26:00
  • ★★ Hank: For a balloon task, Hank ordered a none pizza with left beef and ate the half that had beef on it. — 02:26:00 · None pizza with left beef
  • ★★ Hank: With 3,269 people watching, Hank says P4A viewership stays fairly consistent, barely ever dropping by over half even late at night. — 02:28:52 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says Katherine watches the whole Project for Awesome stream, sometimes with it playing while she is asleep in bed. — 02:29:29 · Katherine Green, Project for Awesome

02:29:50 — With Alexis Nikole: her first book, Hank's book cover, slow publishing, tycoon games

  • ★★ Hank: Greeting Alexis Nikole, Hank says everyone at the Project for Awesome knows it is actually 2027 and everything has been fixed in the last 12 months. (playful) — 02:30:37 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says the first cover for his book looked like a John Green book cover, an aesthetic set by The Fault in Our Stars' success, and he told them they could not do that. — 02:34:42 · The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
  • ★★ Hank feels something is kind of broken in the publishing industry: only political nonfiction gets out faster, to be published while its topic is still relevant. — 02:36:14
  • ★★ Hank: As a kid Hank played Dino Park Tycoon and failed over and over until he built a bigger parking lot, which the game never told him was too small. — 02:39:32

02:43:09 — Poison or Snack with Alexis Nikole; Hank's woodland berry; her song poll and book

  • ★★ Hank says that at about 38 he ate an unidentified berry in the woods that looked like a blueberry, reasoning it was probably fine. — 02:53:30
  • ★★ Hank says Alexis Nikole's poll deciding which plant song viewers get is still up, with cow parsnip winning. (hedged) — 03:05:19
  • ★★ Hank promises that when Alexis Nikole's book comes out he will have her on Hank's channel, or whatever else he is doing, to promote it. — 03:09:40 · hankschannel

03:15:32 — With Tom Lum: mouth coils, the Banana Loca, Magic cards, eggplant

  • ★★ Hank recalls Tom Lum confiding to him at a Mexican restaurant that in college he charmed people by doing mouth coils. — 03:15:33
  • ★★ Hank explains to Tom Lum that the Banana Loca is a device that stuffs bananas with filling. — 03:16:45
  • ★★ Hank: Asked about stuffing an aubergine with a Banana Loca, Hank says eating eggplant was understandable before we had better foods, but now we have so many other things. (playful) — 03:22:21

05:25:20 — Katherine's little art perks

  • ★★ Hank says Katherine has been making beautiful little artworks as P4A perks, which sell so fast they need no marketing. — 05:26:01 · Katherine Green, Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says that once he has made something halfway decent, he moves on. — 05:28:24

05:30:22 — Drawfee draw the party worm sticker; worms as a shape; $900,000

  • ★★ Hank says there is not enough straight delight on the internet, and thanks Drawfee for bringing it. — 05:31:27
  • ★★ Hank says worms are not an actual group of animals but a shape: any tube without a backbone is a worm, so many worms have no relationship to each other. — 05:34:34
  • ★★ Hank announces that the 2026 Project for Awesome has hit $900,000 raised at the Tiltify, and fires a confetti popper. — 05:35:16 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says he made a whole video on how earthworms have sex, but cannot remember it now. — 05:37:37
  • ★★ Hank says he got very little sleep on Thursday night, so he was very loopy on Friday, which made for an amazing evening on the stream. — 05:45:11
  • ★★ Hank: At $906,000, Hank says the 2026 Project for Awesome is going to get to a million dollars today, though he doesn't know how. (hedged) — 05:45:53 · Project for Awesome

05:47:50 — The fern sticker; ferns on the P4A logo; can plants see?

  • ★★ Hank tells Drawfee that early in the stream he called the P4A 2027: a year was skipped and everyone now lives underwater. (playful) — 05:48:21 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says the Project for Awesome logo on the website is covered in ferns, which confused him when he woke up. — 05:49:27 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank: Reading a news report, Hank says a tiny pilot study found chameleon vines mimicked plastic leaves, but experts say poor design and conflicts of interest undermine it. — 05:53:20

06:03:18 — The none pizza sticker; Domino's; the dolphin-head wizard; featured video

  • ★★ Hank says he ordered his none pizza by calling Domino's, warning that the order would be weird, and saying no to sauce and cheese. — 06:05:16 · None pizza with left beef
  • ★★ Hank recommends the $25 Drawfee sticker perk, designed live from the weekend's oddness, and asks viewers to subscribe to Drawfee on YouTube. — 06:17:35
  • ★★ Hank explains that the Project for Awesome raises money and the community then votes on some of the charities that receive it. — 06:19:37 · Project for Awesome

06:28:32 — The countdown to $2.5 million and the confetti cannon; 46,000 votes; texting John; focusing on what is good

  • ★★★ Hank announces that the 2026 Project for Awesome has raised $2.5 million in total, fires a confetti cannon and thanks the staff. — 06:32:28 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says the 2026 Project for Awesome is more than halfway through, at $2.5 million and not far from $1 million raised during the stream alone, with 46,000 votes cast. — 06:33:11 · Project for Awesome
  • ★ Hank is texting John, who tells him he is doing a good job hosting. — 06:33:44 · John Green
  • ★★ Hank: Answering a viewer's email about the amount of bad in the world, Hank says he doesn't know what to do except focus on the things he can feel and know are good, which are strong, real and in his community. — 06:34:32

06:35:40 — Balloon task: burrata eaten like a soup dumpling; the yearly graph; mozzarella for the Banana Loca

  • ★★ Hank: A balloon popped at $2.5 million tells Hank to eat a piece of burrata like a soup dumpling, which he does. — 06:36:02
  • ★★ Hank: Looking at the yearly fundraising graph, Hank says the 2026 Project for Awesome has recently pulled ahead of 2023. — 06:36:51 · Project for Awesome
  • ★ Hank: Opening the burrata, Hank discovers it is one big cheese ball, much bigger than he thought. — 06:38:28
  • ★ Hank notes a mozzarella tube or ball, for future reference, as something to stuff with the Banana Loca. — 06:41:47

06:43:13 — Flags of Earth made from Alexei Leonov's art from space; the 99% Invisible flags episode

  • ★★ Hank says that on Dear Hank and John they looked at the first art ever made in space, a colored-pencil drawing by cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, and John or Hank said it would make a great flag of Earth. (hedged) — 06:43:48 · Dear Hank and John
  • ★★ Hank says Dear Hank and John listeners offered to make a flag from Alexei Leonov's drawing, and one of them made six different options, which he shows on the stream. — 06:44:28 · Dear Hank and John
  • ★★ Hank wants to make a video, and talk to Roman about it, on how the 99% Invisible episode about flags has been both good and bad for the world. — 06:45:42
  • ★ Hank: Of the fan-made Earth flags, Hank's favorite is the middle right one, for its opposing colors rather than black on both sides. — 06:46:48

06:47:40 — John drops in sick: art in 2027 and why we make art, Save the Children's match, shared perks, flags and ferns

  • ★ Dropping in on Hank's shift, John says he is sick with an earache and a throat ache. — 06:48:20
  • ★★ John says he found out about Alexei Leonov's art through an Art Assignment video called Art in Space, and that The Art Assignment remains maybe his all-time favorite YouTube channel. (hedged) — 06:48:20 · The Art Assignment
  • ★★ Asked by Hank what the Renaissance after the current disaster looks like, John says that in 2027 things are great, with a lot more art making. (playful) — 06:49:02 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★★ John says that over the last nine years he has struggled with what art, especially storytelling, is for, and concluded that we have always done it: even when half our children died and we died at 30 of infected teeth, we told stories about the stars; it is essential to who we are. — 06:49:33
  • ★★ John says making art is part of why we are here, a phrase he says Hank hates. — 06:50:02
  • ★ Hank says he doesn't hate John's phrase 'part of why we're here'; he just hears it differently than John does. — 06:50:02
  • ★★ John says the P4A is close to $950,000 at the Tiltify and to maxing out Save the Children's donation: Save the Children found a matching donor for $500,000 of donations to it. — 06:50:02 · Save the Children, Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John says each donated dollar now counts as $2.50, but after a million dollars it will count as $2. — 06:50:02 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says the exclusive Dear Hank and John episode, in the digital download bundle or on its own, answers questions only from people who got that perk. — 06:50:51 · Dear Hank and John
  • ★ John says he kind of wants one of the fan-made Earth flags. — 06:52:27
  • ★ Hank asks whether they can make the fan-made Earth designs into actual flags, saying they have to figure out how to work with the artist. — 06:52:27
  • ★★ On the fern viewers loved earlier, John says touching grass is super important and underrated, and in a battle royale where everyone is trying to kill you, you just want to get inside a fern and be safe. (playful) — 06:52:51
  • ★ John leaves Hank to host the Project for Awesome, saying he will be back in a couple of hours. — 06:53:28 · Project for Awesome

06:53:42 — Nerdfighter art, Kathleen DeVere's tabletop perk, responsible financial decisions, the flags again

  • ★★ Hank explains the Nerdfighter art perk: people send in art they make, maybe 10 or 20 pieces each, which is pooled and sent out as a collection, so a donor can get two. — 06:53:56 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says the production of the Nerdfighter art perks is all volunteer time, a way people can contribute without spending money. — 06:54:36 · Project for Awesome
  • ★ Hank says the digital download bundle and the Drawfee sticker pack together come to exactly $100, the way to give a hundred. — 06:55:05
  • ★★ Hank announces a one-off perk: a digital copy of the Pizzamas one-shot D&D game and a custom four-to-five-hour tabletop session run by its author Kathleen DeVere, online or in person in Victoria, British Columbia. — 06:56:07
  • ★★ Hank thanks everybody for donating responsibly, because during the Project for Awesome we make responsible financial decisions. (playful) — 06:56:36 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says the stream has raised $951,000, with ten minutes left in his shift. — 06:59:18 · Project for Awesome

06:59:50 — The schedule, woodblock Hanklerfish, $2.55 million and the yearly graph

  • ★★ Hank reads the schedule: Animal Wonders with Jessi Knudsen Castañeda next, John from seven o'clock, then John and Charlotte McDonnell, Hank and Destin, Taylor and Miriam, and Hank again for the late-night shift from 12 o'clock Eastern. — 06:59:50 · Animal Wonders
  • ★★ Hank says half the money donated to the 2026 Project for Awesome goes to Partners In Health and Save the Children, and the other half to charities voted on by viewers. — 07:03:13 · Partners In Health, Save the Children, Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says he keeps trying different formats for his Hanklerfish art perks, and likes this year's (2026) woodblock because it is harder to break in the mail and feels substantial. — 07:03:54 · Hanklerfish
  • ★★ Hank says the 2026 Project for Awesome has now raised $2.55 million in total. — 07:04:25 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says the 2026 Project for Awesome has definitely passed 2023 and is trying to get toward 2024, while 2022 is above every other year because it was a weird year. — 07:04:46 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank explains that 2022 was the P4A's best year because there was suddenly more disposable income in the economy. — 07:04:46 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says the P4A is currently raising around $4,000 to $6,000 every 10 minutes. — 07:05:16 · Project for Awesome

07:05:45 — Roll for Loca twice deferred; tasting a Nintendo Switch cartridge

  • ★★ Hank: Two balloons both tell Hank to roll for Loca, which he has no time for, so he commits to doing two Banana Loca rolls when he gets back to the stream. — 07:06:32
  • ★★ Hank: For the remaining balloon task, Hank sets out to taste a Nintendo Switch cartridge, which he says is apparently made bad tasting because it is small. (hedged) — 07:06:57
  • ★★ Hank licks his Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild cartridge and says it tastes of pure bitterness, like plastic times a hundred. — 07:09:06
  • ★ Hank learns that he has taste buds on the roof of his mouth. — 07:09:06

Humor (significant)

  • A donor gives to support the devaluation of John's signature — 00:15:45

    “one of the my main goals in life to devalue that signature as much as possible”

  • John's favorite AFC Wimbledon chant, sung when the team are losing — 00:35:00

    “we lose every week we lose every week you're nothing special we lose every week”

  • Omar Bugiel said he wanted to play for AFC Wimbledon until his legs ran out, and a teammate answered — 00:40:35

    “buddy your legs have run out”

  • John's P4A headshot shows him meeting Bigfoot at the Indiana State Museum — 00:46:08

    “Yes, there's two schools of thought. But I choose to believe.”

  • After mocking Barnsley all game, John changes his tune as AFC Wimbledon recover — 00:49:38

    “I was so mean about Barnsley, and now I realize that I love Barnsley.”

  • Phil Plait says $2.5 million matches the light years to the Andromeda galaxy, which will one day merge with ours — 01:39:37

    “Boy, let's crash right into that 2.5 million dollars.”

  • Hank reviews the fan-made Earth flags at length — 06:46:26

    “people used to call me flaggy in school”

  • John drops in while Hank is talking about flags — 06:47:24

    “And I thought that the chat might be flagging.”

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Mentioned

Central: AFC Wimbledon · Alexei Leonov's spacewalk drawing · Alexis Nikole · Drawfee · Fortnite · pacifism · Phil Plait · Project for Awesome · Stan Muller · This Star Won't Go Out (charity)

Also: People: Alexei Leonov · Brennan Lee Mulligan · Ceri · Charlotte McDonnell · Craig · Danielle Bainbridge · Demi Adejuyigbe · Esther Earl · Greg Silver · Henry Green · Jessi Knudsen Castañeda · Joia Mukherjee · Katherine Green · Kathleen DeVere · Kurt Vonnegut · Lindsay Ballantyne · Ludwig Ahgren · Marcus Browne · Mike Green · Omar Bugiel · Orin Green · Owen Goodman · Roman Mars · Rumi · Sarah Urist Green · Tessa Violet · Tom Lum

Projects: Animal Wonders · Dear Hank and John · hankschannel · John's Channel · Nerdcrafteria · The Anthropocene Reviewed (podcast) · The Art Assignment · We're Here newsletter

Works: "Hope" is the thing with feathers · 99% Invisible · Dino Park Tycoon · Galápagos · Hank's book about cancer and cancer biology (untitled here) · Hanklerfish · Happy Snacking, Don't Die · Like Letters · Macarena · Magic: The Gathering · Minecraft · Never Gonna Give You Up · Pizzamas one-shot · The Fault in Our Stars · The Legend of Zelda · Zombicorns

Organizations: Barnsley F.C. · Climate Ed · Domino's · Emmy Award · Epic Games · Indiana State Museum · Manchester United F.C. · Partners In Health · Save the Children · Technology Connections · Tiltify · Union of Concerned Scientists · Uplift · We Are TB · Wigs for Kids

Concepts: community health worker · earthworm · giant squid · health equity · hope · life extension · pub quiz · superstition

Places: British Columbia · Galápagos Islands · Lesotho · Sierra Leone

Characters: Jarrod · Old Trashwater

Products: Banana Loca · Nerds Gummy Clusters · Nintendo Switch

Policies: Abolish the US penny

Myths: Bigfoot

Memes: None pizza with left beef · tier list

animal: Potato (animal)

Also centred on Alexei Leonov's spacewalk drawing: Orbital Sunrise: The First Art Made in Space

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