 Good morning, John. It's been a couple of years now since you called me up and you pitched an idea to me and usually I'm the one pitching ideas to you and it was big and it was uncomfortable and it was really good. When it comes down to it, this world is unfair and in many ways that are like unacceptable and yet I must accept them, right? Because like I can't change everything about the world. To access to food and water and healthcare and housing and education, it just seems like these things should be fair and they are not. I grew up, and you likely did too, knowing that the water that comes out of the tap is safe and if it's not something is very very wrong. But for many people, that isn't the case. Like for many people, there isn't even a place in their home that water comes out of. The important part of this is that this lack of access to clean water or to healthcare or whatever isn't news. And because this seems unacceptable and also because we probably don't have that many resources to take care of it ourselves and also we've got like our own stuff we're dealing with, our brains make excuses and they do that a few different ways. And here are three of them. Some people think, oh these people have done something wrong. You don't even really need to come up with what the thing is. I don't think many people watching this right now have that thought or if you do, you don't believe it. It's just like a thing that occurs to us and that's part of this. That it's okay to have these thoughts because our brains are trying to explain an unexplainable world. Here's a thought that my brain does surface. Like when I'm interfacing with this, this will arise. My brain will say, okay, these people never had those things though. So it's not as bad if they don't have them because they weren't reliant on them. And that's a terrible thought, right? Like it doesn't matter if your child is well because you've always known that that might be more likely to- It's a nasty thought, but our brains are trying to solve a puzzle. And the third one, which is the most accurate of the three, is these systems are really complicated. They're really broken. I don't know what I can do and I don't have a lot of power in this world. And this is true. There's different cultures, different NGOs, different governments, healthcare companies. There's all these stakeholders and the communities themselves. And so it is really hard to interface with the problem of global health, right? Like just that phrase, global health, I am intimidated. But there are people who saw these problems and these systems and they said, you know, that's not good enough. People who have been working for decades to develop the best systems for interfacing with complicated problems in ways that really make them better and sustainably better and better in a way that builds on top of itself. So John, when you asked me a few years ago to take a significant portion of the money that I currently had and also promise a lot of the money that I would make in the future, which is a commitment, to some of the people who look at this problem and don't just try to explain it away, but actually say what are the best ways to solve this problem, I swallowed hard and I said yes. John, the Project for Awesome starts today, Friday the 12th at noon and then goes through the 14th. And during the first half of the Project for Awesome, we're raising money for two organizations, Save the Children and Partners in Health, that don't just try to explain this problem away, they try to fix it. The live stream will be going 48 hours here on the Vlogbrothers channel on YouTube. We're raising money at projectforawesome.com slash donate. There's a ton of great perks including this Hanklerfish art that my friends and I made together that's already selling out. There's Project for Awesome shirts and coins and socks and posters and lots of weird stuff that John and I have come up with. I've got a short story about April May going to VidCon. I'm going to host a trivia night, it's $100, but the prizes will be very good. If you want to vote on charities that might get some of the money from the Project for Awesome, you can do that at projectforawesome.com. And if you want to donate and get amazing perks, projectforawesome.com slash donate is the place to go. We're using Tiltify this year, which is specifically designed for charity live streams. So there's a product just for that now. It's maybe a tiny bit harder to go through all the perks, but it is way easier for our team. I'm so excited about this weekend John, I'm really looking forward to it and I will see you, all tomorrow and today, today.