 Good morning, John, and welcome to the Project for Awesome 2023 meme review! During the Project for Awesome, people make things, and then they submit them to the Project for Awesome art folder, including this music that you're hearing right now from Ikkel. There was a whole album of Techno Vlogbrothers stuff. I'm still pretty hyped from the Project for Awesome and the two cups of black tea that I just add. Five. Count them. Five. Folders on my desktop that I have filled with stuff. I'm relying on the fact that I have two years and a row gotten permission to make extra long videos. I'm gonna do that. Starting, of course, since it's a meme review with the folder-labeled memes. Just like the Project for Awesome, there is no rhyme or reason to this. You just start somewhere in the middle and you put the peeps in the bean can and add the Dr. Pepper. All of these powerful white men are laughing at John Creen because they put the Dr. Pepper on peeps. And at that point, you have to do it. I don't know if I've said this before, but I actually wrapped, like GIF wrapped the peeps and it said, Project for Awesome, day one, open on day one. And then my son thought it was a present for him and he opened it at John's house and just started eating them. Sound financial decisions and me being held back by sending two middle-aged guys to a restaurant. It's $20 and we are gonna make it worth it. Everywhere I go, I see his face. Dickity-D. Look, I'm not necessarily proud. I did buy way too many- Geez, I just spilled pickle juice on myself! It wasn't totally sealed! Well, I do still have my paper towels. Because it's Project for Awesome and the most important thing is paper to- Look at how many paper towels I used. Let's just all take a moment to be grateful for Catherine Green. Anyway, I bought too many pickles, is all I wanted to say. Just putting beans in the bean home. I've got a bean shirt on and a banana loco in one hand and a corn dog in the other. Any cylindrical food is on the table. I did buy hot dogs this year and I didn't end up using them. Next year, Project for Awesome audience just watching me slap in Dr. Pepper baked beans on an unsuspecting pickle. Hank Green's slurping Dr. Pepper beans from a banana loco doesn't exist and can't hurt you. Oh yeah? You think so? I mean, I had to get him out somehow. I don't know! I feel like everyone was having a good time. And I stand by the fact that a Twinkie filled with Dr. Pepper baked beans is better than a Twinkie not filled with Dr. Pepper baked beans. This is in reference to the auction that we had for Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool screen-worn watch. Me and Ray were in a tight battle and then Ben came out of the last second chow! This is great because it does look like he's joking, but he is not joking. Destin was responsible for the largest single hour of the Project for Awesome this year. Support the Project for Awesome by watching the live stream, by voting on videos, by donating, by getting married and moving to North Dakota. That's a deep cut, but that was a fun part of the stream. Guests are ready, signals strong, donations steady, made a donation to the project already. Hank's confetti! If you got the confetti perk, I've ordered some special stickers to close these up with. I'm just waiting on that and then they'll go out to you. Me before Crabulous? Me after I get a premium subscription to have a crab in my inbox every month. I love this because I know the screencap that this video is from because Ornn and I watch it together all the time and we dance. Cat and Crunch. Gotta love any amount of Darcy that gets into the memes. Me and John both crunched a lemon and it was bad, both times. Crunch looking at Darcy crunching a carrot instead of me crunching a lemon and look, I don't know, I feel like I put more into that than Darcy did. You can't defeat me, humans. I know, but she can! That's right, Darcy crunching carrots was responsible for us breaking through the $2 million barrier. This wasn't like the first moments of the project for Rossimore, it was like, I guess it's begun, I'm gonna make a hole in the bottom of a peep that's Dr. Pepper flavor and fill it with beans. We didn't have to hit a goal to get there or anything, I just couldn't stop myself and I don't know that John liked it. For every $10,000 we will reward Darcy with carrots during Friday. Smacks, macks, macks, macks. It's so good. Spaceship is very good. Friendship ended with beans, now hummus is my best friend. That was the first mention of hummus of this whole meme review? I don't know if anybody was happy to see the banana loa could come back. Weirdly, I now have two because I was gifted one by a friend who didn't know I had one who knew that I would want one. So I'm like this in real life. I a little bit like the part where you don't like it. Like you have to know that, right? I tried to crunch a carrot as good as Darcy, I don't actually think I did. I think I did a worse job. So the story behind the hummus is that it turns out one of the stock notification sounds in Slack is just a woman saying hummus. I changed it because people donated for me to change it. And I loved it that way for the entire project for awesome. But I did mute the more active Slack channels and before I did that, there was a lot of hummus happening. It was a little overwhelming. Yeah. Like this. And like that. And like that. Spending $20 on something I need. Spending $20 so two guys can go to a racks. I don't know if you needed that but I think that we all needed that. Yeah. They knew. Ultimately it is a little hard for it not to be a problem tummy time. The project for awesome. But we work through it. I'm going to donate for a perk that is so bean filled. You don't actually get any bean filled perks. That's not, that's not available yet. Maybe next year. Biting a citrus? Cronching a lamin. I don't know if it was supposed to be lemon but it says lamin and that's great. Never ask a woman her age a man whose salary hank where the slip of paper from the balloon went. I never found it. Could maybe it's like in one of these cracks or it like flew into the bookshelf somewhere. I never found it. Someday I will. We had to vote on who the mascot of the 2023 project for awesome was and T-Racks clobbered hummus. Lemon lips man was the other option. It wasn't even close. This is great because the meme is referencing itself. Fantastic work. John cannot be quite about tuberculosis at the moment. God bless him for it. John I love you for who you are. Oh yeah. When I crunched the lemon my lips swelled up and I looked like this guy for monster zinc. Also last year I had to pretend to be a crab. This year I had to pretend to be a cute little house fly and both times it definitely hurt my knees. I did decide that the phone a friend task was too easy so I taped my phone to my foot. Which also might be part of the reason why my knee hurts. This is part of the story of this year's project for awesome. We decide like we had to commit to the bet. We had to make it a priority. It's been too long. We've talked about racks and not been to a racks. We're gonna go to racks. Which might be a problem for our pants. But we're gonna do it anyway. Are we gonna talk about why racks is bad for your pants? It's very deep. It's too deep. It's time to go. Was I a good restaurant? No. You ruined pants. I don't even really know where it came from. This is great because it's Destin on the moon and he's Mr. T which is tuberculosis racks. T racks is as well. Hello. The moon. You can eat here. It's everything. It's got everything. Solid ones. Marked safe from beans on a peeps. You're not. You're never safe. But the Big Jack project for awesome are a little bit contradictory but I think they come together very well. Someone accidentally bid $42,000 for the watch and had to roll it back but luckily we were able to do that. Stay up to date on your raksinations. The internet's hottest club is the P4A livestream. This place has everything. Bean filled pickles. The word hummus. Fast food restaurant chain racks. Honestly that list could have gone on way longer and not gotten any less weird. Big lemon lips. A Furby made of beans and dinosaurs going to the moon! If you don't know about Stefan, this doesn't make sense, but that's okay. Who would win? Famous science educator or a puzzle of electric rat? The puzzle of the electric rat won. I actually found the piece that I couldn't find after the stream ended. You think you're gonna get beans? No, you mostly get slack hummus. And beans, though. Baked beans? No. Lemons? No. Lemon baked beans? I put a little bit of lemon juice in the Dr. Pepper baked beans and it was way, it was so good. It was way better. It needed something to cut that sugar. Is there a world where I could give Paul Hollywood a pickle stuff with baked beans because I feel like that would be an achievement? Destin kept saying Tartaria, which I understand. It looks like Tartaria. Now that I'm looking at it. Tuataria. How it's pronounced. I like that spaceship. That's a nice spaceship. Sorry, you're meming the concept of hummus? And it was a good mascot. Maybe just not the best. They are both the P for A. I cannot disagree. Hey, look, it's the part where I had my phone taped to my foot and I called my friend Joe. Just drowning in hummus. I couldn't make it out. Who would win? One Hank Green or one Lemon Boy? One Lemon Boy would win. No. Wasn't I just whining about my knee the whole time? I'm sure I was. And that's the end. That's the end of the memes, everybody. Time to move on to the next folder. None of them are going to be anywhere as long as the memes, but we do have one folder that's just called hummus. This almost ended up in the art folder because it's beautiful. Oh my God, it's hummus. Hummus. Hank trying to raise money for charity. The train's coming by. It says hummus. Listening for hummus by Hank Green. Special 16th anniversary edition. Number one inside joke for Nerdfighteria of Project for Awesome 2023. Evocative hummus meme. A rax being dipped into hummus. This person knitted a hummus thing? Hummus. We're hummus because we're hummus. And finally, a hummus furby. And not the last one you'll see today. What's our next folder called, you ask? It's called T-Rax, and it's just rax stuff. This is a baby picture of me taking the place of another child who was in a rax commercial, deep cut, well done. Mr. Delicious as a T-Rax on the earth so big he's going to space, he's almost at the moon. Little T-Rax saying hummus, it was well established that T-Rax only eats hummus and is a vegetarian. Hank and John's raxulent adventure ruined your pants. Be raxulent to each other, that is absolutely what I would look like in a crop top. Endless salad bar and hummus. An absolutely rax-travegant trip with Hank and John, the boys are going to rax number one awesome project for Awesome Perk. I think it was the number two project for Awesome Perk, so pretty amazing. T-Rax, Mr. P for A. I will wreck your pants. This guy's on a skateboard because it's time to make rax a priority. We are rebranding rax from the bottom up and it's gonna be amazing. Here I am with a lemon on my mouth riding on Mr. D as a T-Rax. I don't know why I have so many tattoos. Rax, you can eat here. Endless hummus bar. And this folder is just lemon stuff but there's only four things in it. I think I got confused halfway through but here it is. This is a lemon crab saying hummus and I think it's crank green so it's also me. Only it were also a dinosaur. I didn't feel bad for the lemon before but I do a little bit now. You don't have to understand that joke but there it is. And finally this, it's a crab with lemon lips and my glasses and it's got my press on nails on. Turns out impossible to play guitar with the press on nails on your string fingers. And we cap it all off with the last folder on my desktop. This one is just labeled art. It's just art. It's things that were too beautiful for me to just call the memes including me as a house fly. That's a little bit too well done. It's kind of freaking me out. I'm giant. I'm not a cute little fly. I'm a big scary fly. I'm a big scary fly man. I have a lot of little hairs. I would love to get into the carrot business just so we can make organic Darcy crunch carrots. Mmm, good. Be weird. Do good. If that's not the project for awesome, I don't know what is. For at some point I pretended to be a crab while doing Shakespeare. I forgot about that until this moment. This is just my very large face with the word beans super imposed over it because this is becoming my brand. Eternal salad bar. What a beautiful but creepy racks. Very twin peaks. Destin going to the moon in his spaceship car. Five foot nine brown eyes and a sundress. Which is just a deering and John joke. That's nothing to do with the project for awesome. I don't know if many people would buy hummus if this was the branding, but I know that I would. We have to stop saying now we're cooking with gas. We need to stop cooking with gas. And it's not even as good as solar powered induction. I could definitely see this on a t-shirt, but then you'd have to explain it to people. Hummus. Somebody made a bunch of projects for awesome cookies. There's T-Rex. There's crunching. There's a bean pickle. There's crank green. They look delicious. Really lovely. We are here because we are here spiral. I don't know how you do that that well. A little Darciade watercolor. A little crabbulous 2.0 watercolor. A little lemon lips watercolor. A tuberculosis focused endeavor. Project for awesome staple with lemon crunch panic attack. John Green. A rabbit hole. Crunch. It's beautiful. We're hummus because we're hummus. Also a thing that happened. A crab with the longest eyelashes you've ever seen and a feather boa and some big old lips. Beautiful project for awesome mandala. Again, another quite creepy racks image. It's starting to feel kind of threatening with the eternal salad bar. This color pencil T-Rex is so cute. He's got a head of hair, which you just don't see on dinosaurs very often. Many of these things seem like they would have taken more than two days to do, but I don't know. I don't know how I've never made anything like this. I have no idea how hard it is to make, but it seems very difficult. Lemon lips, no hips. That's me, Hank Green. A bean peep. A bunch of dogs. P for A. You can cry here. It's in the founding documents. It's not required, but it is encouraged. I mean, we did the coffee club. We did the sock club. What's next? This is gorgeous and must have taken a very long time. Had to be more than just the project for awesome. A project for awesome vision board. You just keep cramming stuff in because more weird things are gonna happen. This is so cute. He's wonderful. That's art, right? I don't know. Like, what am I supposed to say? T-Rex eaten hummus and destroying pants. We'll Darcy Carrot. Very cute. Tony Orange. I couldn't remember Ted Lasso's name and I knew that his last name was a noun. I thought my brain was telling me. Okay. If you look very closely, Mr. Delicious is inside of this T-Rex. He's wearing the kit like that's his space suit. Nerdfighteria turned 16 this year, so it's got a driver's license, of course. And just so you know, it is an organ donor. Be gay. Move to North Dakota. Self-care is punk rock. Cronch 2 million. Kevin, R.I.P. Kevin's camera. Butt City East and West. So much is happening. What's the hummus? Just going around everything. Oh, that's beautiful. Tony Orange. Believe. Me and John. Pizza Man and, I guess, Bean Boy. I don't know what else to... Oh, no. Don't forget I said it. Destin's given a press conference to, just to notice, a bunch of dinosaurs. I did break an egg over my head. I did immediately regret it. Maybe they were trying to predict that I would write butts on my head, but I didn't Sharpie face it all this. Yes, it's a beautiful self-care bunny. Well, I love you, card. And there's a crank green inside of it, down in the bottom of the heart. He's so cute. Another doodle board of things going on. You are on earth, and no one can take that away from you. Hank Green's Hunky Chalsa, 100% a profit to charity. We're queer because we're queer. Very nice t-shirt design that's lemon. It's not having a good time. I wasn't having a good time. Nobody came out of this interaction happy. Another collage because we're here. P4A 2023. DFTBA crunch. I love this triangle in the middle of the rain, but it's really pretty. I don't know what to say about this. What's up with the giant space dinosaur? I don't know. It's going to the moon, obviously. This is so great. I love this. It's so adorable. That's really nice. Dinosaurs in space. Gumball Mike, of course. John Green getting Sharpie faced into, from like a sort of Sigmund Freud character here all the way to a very punk rock figure. And then there's Hank Green, Lemon Lips No Hips. Again, this is very good, but literally no hips in this situation. And I love that P4A logo you made. You are a dino on the moon and no one can take that away from you. Hank Green and my new book, The Anthropa Bean Refilled. Build Can Addition. My goodness. And then The Beans in My Pickle by Crank Green. I think all these were done by the same person. So I don't know who it was, but thank you. It was genius. Crunch. Tony Orange again, P4A plus. That's basically the digital download bundle is P4A plus. And then of course there's this Hanklerfish crunching a lemon. He's lovely and he's made a mistake. Certainly one of the greatest pieces of Project for Awesome Art this year was these two long furbies. One is a lemon hummus long furby and the other is a bean pickle long furby with the crack in it that the beans are coming out of which did happen to my pickle. It's not really anything more perfect than that. I bought this as a sticker and I'm going to put it on my laptop. Because I love my life. We're hummus because we're a lemon crab with gigantic lips. A lot of people make little compilation images of their whole weekend. I love them. This is a nice one. A nice little lemon lips logo. I had the lemon lips. John Green Watercolor sketch. This little baby meeting its mommy strong sad with a crab playing with them. I can't explain. But it was a nice moment. I really feel like it was. The Road to Racks. Like it's a video game. Level one. We got to fight that giant Dr Pepper peep. Then we got to fight the bean pickle. Then we got to fight the lemon lips and then we got to fight just a bunch of coffee beans. Because at one point I did just eat raw coffee beans and then last you got to fight tyrannosaurus rats. Because it turns out maybe a lot of the beauty aesthetics of that time came from thinking that people with consumption were extra hot. It froze on John's face when he was making that frowny face. It was like that for like a full 30 seconds and it was such a perfect meme face. Absolutely beautiful. So you can just drink out that for any use that you want. We're here because we're here but it spells out hummus. Raising nerdy to the power of awesome. Be weird. Do good. And it's a T-Rex at the racks. New item lemon lips and it's just roaring out hummus. And finally the first piece of art I saw and the last one I will show you today is this 3D art of beans stuffed inside of a Dr Pepper peep. It was a truly magical project for awesome. There were so many ridiculous beautiful memorable moments. There was this. I'll never forget that. It was like I did a magic trick but none of it was on purpose. Not even the confetti stuck to the balloon. There are a lot of ways to find meaning and purpose in this world but the project for awesome is one that we kind of made up from scratch and it is just ever so good. I'm so grateful to all of you who were a part of it in whatever way you were. And of course I'm also very grateful to you John. We had a really good time. It was a good old time and now I have to figure out how to take all my lights down without getting them all tangled up. And John, I will see you on Tuesday.