"We try to deal in hope, Hank."
The 2024 Project for Awesome livestream began with excitement in the chat, which was spurned on when a hot mic pre-stream declared “HUMMUS.” Just before the stream began, we had already raised $80,264.69 on Tiltify, making the total raised $341,835.69. Unusually, the stream title was “Project for Qawesome 2024 Kickoff!” as a celebration of a typo John made on Twitter earlier. Hank would later tell us that typos are in and that’s how we know it isn’t AI.
Hank and John started the stream with joy, confetti, and decorations!
…and a slight technical difficulty where Hank couldn’t hear John, but it was swiftly resolved.
To celebrate this wonderful event, Hank toasts with a Peepsi (peeps flavored Pepsi) and John toasts with a Dr. Pepper Peep in Bubly Water.
Then, John put on his first, of many, wigs.
Inspired by a donation comment, Hank began to honk!
John was live on TikTok and Hank was not.
At the moment, Hank was enjoying his first soda in months.
Even the P4A website joined in on the love of Qawesome!
Henry was with John and they discussed Hank’s new hair. John liked it. It’s curlier, darker, and redder than before. Henry also liked it but didn’t think it was worth it. Everyone agreed with Henry!
To lighten the mood, John blew party blowers. “Do it with your nose like a brave man!” demanded Hank, and John was happy to oblige.
Just before Hank left, John promised to shave his mustache if we raised $1 million.
John showed us how covered his floor already was (which was a danger to Potato, who likes to eat everything). This is why Potato needed supervision during P4A (and all the time).
Then, John was joined by Dr. Joia Mukherjee, Chief Medical Officer of Partners in Health to discuss the work they are doing and how money raised during P4A is used. Dr. Joia mentioned that she is happy Hank is doing so well and John explains that when Hank found out he had Hodgkin’s, his first response was “93% cure rate in the United States, 5% cure rate if you can’t access treatment” which shows how much they are both thinking about medical care disparities globally, even when facing their own.
Of course, the conversation then shifted to tuberculosis and the projects Nerdfighteria and PiH continue to work on together. John talked about how unique Nerdfighteria is in our ability to jump empathy gaps and care about people who live vastly different lives. Dr. Joia said she is grateful to have Nerdfighteria on her team.
After his conversation with Dr. Joia, John talked a bit about the “Turtles All the Way Down” movie that would be coming out later in 2024. He knew it was going to be released and approximately when, but could not give other information. Then, after less than two hours of streaming, ONE MILLION DOLLARS WERE RAISED!!!
John celebrated by hugging Potato and running outside in the snow.
John read the beginning of the book he is working on, which became Everything is Tuberculosis (available at https://everythingistb.com/ and releasing March 18, 2025).
He then shaved his mustache before Hank returned to the stream.
After John left, Hank was joined by Ettore Rossetti from Save the Children. Ettore reassured the mustache lovers in the chat that, while John shaved his, Ettore’s remains!
As always, Ettore had decorated his background with John and Hank’s books, socks, and the Nerdfighteria crest!
Ettore handed over the call to Save the Children President and CEO, Janti Soeripto, who had recently returned from the border of Egypt and Gaza.
Janti updated Hank on what life is like there. She also updated us on how funds from previous P4A’s enabled responses very quickly after natural disasters like the 2023 earthquake in Türkiye.
Hank mentioned that often world crises make him feel hopeless but seeing the work Save the Children does and how they respond gives him hope. “We try to deal in hope, Hank” Janti responded.
After the interview, Hank started showing some of the P4A-related things he had nearby. Hummus, an onion, and some of his Hanklerfish art, including the mini ones. He justified the high price of his art by explaining, “I make you art, world get better.”
Then it was time for Hank to pop his first balloon! As with some other P4A’s, Hank decided to pop balloons and do the task inside them each time a fundraising goal was reached. This time, the goal was popping a balloon every $15,000. The first balloon was the first of many “roll for banana loca” tasks that we would see. Hank had created lists of “bananas” (foods that could be filled with things, like “hot dog” or “block of cheese”), “carriers” (semi-liquid foods that could move through the banana loca, like “peanut butter” or “pudding”), and “spice” (additional foods to mix in, like “chips” or “beef”). He then rolled dice for each list to see what he would include. Once for banana, once for carrier, and twice for spice.
The first roll for banana loca was a Twinkie filled with pudding, chocolate chips, and BBQ chips. Hank said it was good and he would pay money to eat it at the fair.
Hank continues to honk.
When Hank attempted to pop his next balloon, it did not pop. Instead it just slowly deflated, which made Hank laugh.
This balloon told him to have a 30 second dance party to “the Reddit song,” which we soon learned was CBAT.
After the (thankfully silent) dance party, Crank Green joined us briefly, soon followed by Travis McElroy.
When Travis arrived it was time for another balloon and Hank was tasked with rolling for banana loca again. While Hank cleaned the banana loca in preparation, Travis led the chat in Mad Libs. Then Hank rolled for banana loca and filled bread with jelly, turkey, and nerds.
“Hank, can I tell you what I love about this?” Travis questioned before continuing. “A hot dog bun, maybe more than any other bread, has an area designed to insert stuff into. And you said ‘not for me, Hank the science person. I will not accept the pre-scripted place to insert. I’m going to create my own orifice in the bread, with which to insert.’” As Travis implied, the filling did end up oozing out because of the pre-sliced bread.
After Travis left, it was time for another balloon, this time requiring Hank to drink ketchup milk. That is ketchup mixed with milk. Hank prepared the ketchup milk and then drank it when John joined him on stream.
“It was very ketchupy” was Hank’s review.
John requested one of the balloon tasks so he could complete it if the next amount was reached. Hank gave him “take a bite out of a raw onion.”
John then moved to a new location, asked Alice to bring him an onion, and talked about how this wig made him look like Doc Brown from “Back to the Future.”
John cronched the onion, Alice did his makeup, and then Potato came to visit.
Sarah joined John and tried on his wig.
After chatting with Sarah, John talked with Danielle Bainbridge about writing and other things.
John then set up a Tiltify poll asking what kind of pizza he should order for dinner and danced to an air horn sound.
The poll ended with John needing to order none pizza with left beef, which arrived after he handed hosting over to the next team. He posted about it on Twitter when it was delivered.
After John’s segment, Sabrina Cruz and Tom Lum took over. Sabrina drew frogs (or frogs) for donations, including a milestone frog friend, and Tom hid punishments behind the initialism “Q4A” behind him.
Q4A is Tom’s version of P4Q, and he says the Q stands for quiet because John was accidentally muted while ordering pizza.
Tom zoomed in a few times while hosting.
As Sabrina drew various frogs, Taylor aka ItsRadishTime asked an important question in chat:
This began a fight both in chat and with the hosts. Tom believes frogs are legs, while Sabrina insists frogs are frogs. The conversation then shifted, but returned when someone commented “frog is more leg than butt” because Tom tries to support this idea but Sabrina disagrees. She references many arguments from the Butt Is/Is Not Legs debate.
It was then time for Tom’s first punishment. Chat voted in a poll to determine which punishment would happen first and selected Q, which was improvising a song from chat.
Next, chat chose punishment A: banana fuego. We soon learned that banana fuego is a banana with hot sauce in it. Emotions were mixed as Tom prepared the banana fuego.
Luckily for Tom, their time hosting ended shortly after he ate the banana fuego.
They handed the stream to a team from Nerdcrafteria, Nerdfighteria’s Minecraft server, who showed us around and pointed out many P4A themed builds people had made.
After exploring Nerdcrafteria, Sam Schultz and Ceri Riley from SciShow Tangents took over hosting. They decided to create randomized cursed boba when they hit donation milestones. Sam’s wheel had the options for their “boba” while Ceri’s had the liquids.
We soon learned that both of their milks were expired and had the same expiration date. They both drank it anyway. Here are the cursed bobas they made:
First cursed boba: tea with blueberries!
Second cursed boba: milk with capers!
Third cursed boba: juice with corn!
Fourth cursed boba: milk with gummy bears!
Fifth cursed boba: grape soda with capers!
Sixth cursed boba: broth and blueberries!
Sam tracked the name of each cursed creation and the rating from each of them, on a five star scale.
Then, Hank joined them and made the CapriCorn, a drink Hank made up on SciShow Tangents. Despite the name, CapriCorn is made of Coke and corn. Hank did not have Coke, so he used a Peepsi.
“It’s good,” said Hank, as he took over the stream solo.
He popped a balloon, which told him to do connections and cronch an onion for any wrong guesses. Hank insists that a cronch cannot be peeled, but he did remove the outermost layer of skin, so it wasn’t dirty. Hank didn’t make any mistakes, so he did not need to cronch.
Then, we reached one of those pivotal moments in time that we cannot go back from. Hank popped a balloon. And all it said was “JARROD.”
Hank said it was too early for Jarrod. And yet, we met him.
Lore writer here, I refuse to let Jarrod into the main part of the lore. If you must know, if you REALLY must know, information about Jarrod is contained here. You have been warned.
While he was hosting, Brennan Lee Mulligan joined, expecting to chat with Hank. Brennan was chat’s defender and pushed him away. Hank returned.
Now that Hank was here, he explained “roll for banana loca” to Brennan, which led to a discussion of “beef” as one of Hank’s spices (not to mention other meats including turkey and ham). Then, miraculously, Hank popped a balloon and was tasked with roll for banana loca! This time he filled a hot dog with peanut butter, ham, and doritos. As Hank prepped the ingredients, they discussed how much better the Banana Loca would be with a larger hole.
As Hank ate the core of the hot dog (upsetting Brennan), Brennan shared that he was eating a deep dish pizza, which is a good meal because it is heavy. A belief he had also shared in a variety of media, as seen in this compilation.
Hank and Brennan discussed the food combinations Hank was and was not looking forward to. So far the doritos have been good but he does not want the pickle, especially if it is combined with candy.
Hank does not like that his fingers now smell like hot dog and Jarrod. No one likes it.
Brennan was excited to tell chat about his experience at larp camp, which led to a conversation about how experiencing magic and being a creator of magic are different things and both are special.
Hank popped another balloon, this one making him wear Katherine’s clothes. Everyone agreed that Katherine’s romper was excellent!
This led to Hank’s sudden realization that using the restroom in a romper involves nudity, “even in the stall at the bar.” Chat tried to tell him that bras help because you aren’t fully naked. Hank and Brennan then talked about how you would need to step out of the romper and hang it up on the hook in the stall. Chat tried to tell them that there is no need to step out, but they were too focused on the world they had built for themselves. Eventually they noticed and agreed that chat was right. “WE’RE NEW!” exclaimed Hank. Brennan compared this to the Sally Ride tampon situation.
Brennan used the Zoom effects on his computer while saying goodbye and leaving Hank to host alone.
Hank popped a balloon that told him to write the names of the next 5 people who donate on his face. He chose to use liquid eyeliner and sharpies for this.
Hank called himself “the worst possible Post Malone” as he attempted to write on his face, which led to chat calling him “Pre Malone” and “Wish Malone.”
Hank expanded on the balloon task by writing the names of anyone who donated over $200. One of those people was Beanadict Cumfurbatch, which prompted Hank to show off Beanie Sandfurbs, who had been hanging out the whole time, despite rarely being mentioned.
Hank was struggling with which direction to write names, so chat suggested he write on Jarrod instead, which he enthusiastically chose to do.
Then, Hank sang a few songs and celebrated reaching $2 million raised before going to bed and beginning the first ever down time of a Project for Awesome stream.
The next morning, John started streaming at 10 am eastern in a new wig.
John worked hard to try to help us forget Jarrod. He tried to distract us with wigs and talking about the Q. He watched soccer while talking about perks. “I’m just a 46 year old man, watching a 4th tier English soccer team, wearing a Princess Leah wig, with MF Doom in the background, and balloons that I bought that say P4A, or possibly A4P, depending on your worldview. And that’s a normal thing to be.”
John showed us the none pizza left beef he had ordered the night before. He had not eaten it yet. A poll gave donors options for John to eat “none pizza,” “left beef,” or “don’t eat it John.”
None pizza won the poll and John said “it’s okay” and “it’s better than ketchup milk, that’s for damn sure.”
John was then joined by Phil Plait. They discussed astronomy and making the world better.
After talking with Phil, John was joined by Hank. As they talked, something amazing happened. Hank hinted that someone wanted to make a big donation to come back on P4A. Almost simultaneously, two donations came in:
Jarrod and No Jarrod Please both donated $5,000 and became the top donors so far.
It was decided that Jarrod can only come out after sunset, so he could not come visit now. As Hank took over the stream, he said that he appreciates that people feel Jarrod is a nighttime creature.
A poll was run to decide on “more Jarrod” or “NO JARROD PLEASE.” John donated $1000 but forgot to vote in the poll.
“NO JARROD PLEASE” won the poll. While Jarrod did not come visit, much of his lore was discussed and solidified as a collaboration between Hank and chat.
Hank started talking about available perks, including zines, so he started showing his zine collection. As Hank explored his zine collection, including one he made of things from his high school notebooks, he mentioned that on the way home from a pick-up hockey game in high school he was hit by a car. Chat was concerned. Hank was not. He explained that he thought he could get across the street in time because he was on roller blades but actually he could not, but he wasn’t hurt.
He then explained the other time he was hit by a car, also in high school, when he was walking from the gas pump into the gas station to pay for this gas. In both cases he just rolled onto the hood of the cars and wasn’t hurt, which is a thing you can’t do currently because cars have gotten too big. “It could have gone worse. It was the 90’s.”
Related to his past injuries, the topic changed to poisonings. “I am a chemist. I have been poisoned many times,” Hank said. He then listed the times: the rat poison peanut butter, trying to make Mountain Dew, and the time he took something out of the fume hood that he should not be breathing. He did not mention being poisoned by chemo.
After Hank stressed chat out by talking about being hit by cars and poisoned, it was time for cozy times with Rosianna.
Rosianna gave a tour of the posters behind her and talked about books. Then, she started making art.
Tiltify polls to helped Rosianna decide aspects of her paintings.
Then, Rosianna handed the stream back over to Hank.
Earlier in the stream, Hank had discovered that one of his confetti cannons would not work. He dissected it to try and figure out the issue. Hank repeated multiple times that we never point confetti cannons at ourselves.
Soon Hank realized that he shouldn’t mess with the unexploded one, and that CVS sells similar things that he can get. And tums! And ice cream!
Then, Hank was joined by Tyler Thrasher who underestimated Nerdfighteria by offering to eat a cicada if $800 were raised. While they waited for the funds to come in, Tyler asked Hank some “would you rather” questions.
We learned that Hank would rather:
be the juiciest Hank in the world than the driest
have gummy teeth than noodle fingers
give birth to a slimy snail from his butt than a fluttering moth from any other hole
pull a hangnail going from his fingertip to the nearest nipple than literally cough up his lungs, knowing that the nearest stranger has to shove them back down his throat (guaranteed to survive both situations)
be aware of everything people have googled about him than have all of his google searches be public
experience death in space with his favorite song than experience death in a volcano with his favorite snack (again, surviving both)
only eat pre-chewed food by a stranger than share every drink with every toddler in a 1 block radius
Additionally, Tyler asked Hank what his plan would be if he were shrunk to the size of an ant. Hank did not think he would survive this situation but made a plan:
Eat the nerds he spilled last night
Hide (Katherine would kill an ant she saw)
Keep hiding while police search (continuing to eat because there’s lots of food
Use crumbs to write a message
Tyler also asked Hank what object he would take back to 15th century Europe to inspire the masses but not be accused of witchcraft. Hank selected a pocket watch.
Unsurprisingly to everyone except Tyler, he had to eat the cicada. “It’s a little peppery,” he said.
After chatting with Tyler, Hank helped the Drawfee team understand parts of the stream that they could draw as a sticker pack.
While Julia drew the gummy teeth Hank wanted, Hank taught them about Jarrod and let him visit, which inspired Tom Lum in chat to say “JARROD LOOKS LIKE A JULIA DRAWING”
“I did not expect something this unsettling to happen to me during this stream,” said Jacob. Unfortunately, Jarrod decided to eat a banana. He then left because, as he said, “it’s kind of wet in here.”
After Julia’s drawing, Jacob drew Project 4 Possum.
Then, Nathan drew Honk Green.
Finally, Karina drew Jarrod, always insisting he is “normal.”
John, in chat, was happy with Jarrod’s new title:
Next, Nicole Sweeney and Jessi from Animal Wonders took over hosting, along with Joy the macaw!
Jessi showed us some salamanders before bringing our Wonder the porcupine to paint.
Continuing the cute animal theme, our next hosts were Taylor, Miriam, and their dog Darcy!
As they had done in previous years, for every $2,500 raised, Darcy would be given a carrot to cronch. The first carrot was soon reached.
Additionally, if we reached $1 million on Tiltify during this segment, Darcy would wear a sweater (either whale or dragon) and Taylor and Miriam would drink a cursed boba themed around the sweater. Darcy’s sweater would be chosen via Tiltify poll.
In the background, we could see a can of Gatorade. P4Atorade had all been used, but Detergentn’t was still around.
We succeeded at reaching $1 million on Tiltify, so Darcy put on her dragon sweater while Taylor crafted the cursed boba from Dr. Pepper, sour spaghetti, and hot sauce.
Taylor also decided to make the cursed whale boba from blue gatorade, seaweed, and goldfish.
After enjoying many carrots, Darcy handed the stream over to Potato, who briefly hosted until John took over while drinking champagne in a new wig.
John tried to review some of the key points of the stream so far but perseverated on Jarrod a bit. He decided to do another poll about Jarrod, this one putting him up against possum. This time, John wanted to donate on behalf of Jarrod.
Unfortunately, he again forgot to vote in the poll when he donated.
“That’s the most John Green thing I’ve done in my entire life,” John declared as Jarrod lost the poll. Again.
Henry and Alice then requested to punch John and he agreed. He only let each child punch him once.
Then, Alice tried Dr. Pepper for the first time (even though this also happened last year).
Potato joined again and Henry and Alice got to sharpie John’s face. Even Potato got to help draw.
Sarah joined in for some whole-family P4A time, which included attempts to take a family picture.
Then, the children took Potato upstairs and John and Sarah got to cause their own chaos while hosting.
They handed the stream over to Hank and Alexis Nicole, who tried to find a possum mask but the closest she had was a squirrel.
Hank popped a balloon that told him to put on winged eyeliner. Alexis tries to teach him how, to varying levels of success.
After meeting some of Alexis’ pets, it was time for another balloon: roll for banana loca! This time Hank filled a banana with hummus, skittles, and yogurt raisins. Another balloon had Hank prank call a classic youtuber. He chose Craig WheezyWaiter Benzine and said, “I think the cops know about the thing we did in 2011 with Joe and Trisha” before hanging up.
Crank Green briefly visited the stream before transitioning to the chaos that is Destin and the Dinosaur Space Program.
This year, Destin’s segment worked differently than in the past. Instead of going into the main pot, half of the funds earned during this part of the stream would be donated to Destin’s charity of choice and the rest would be divided amongst the other charities. This change was highly discussed in chat throughout this session.
In addition to the awesome people board, a character, a dino to the Moon, and a dino to Mars, donors could go on a mystery expedition this year. Some of the expeditions involved Martian soil recovery, finding parts of a helicopter, and fixing the helicopter.
Then, hosting was handed back to Hank, who took us into the late night hours.
We then reached $3 million raised! Hank celebrated with confetti and popped a balloon.
The balloon instructed Hank to eat a baked bean ice cream sundae. Hank used Busch’s baked beans and Tollhouse cookie dough ice cream.
“Here’s the situation, we’re all gonna have to accept reality as it approaches us. This isn’t just fine, it’s good.”
He tried to justify it because cookie dough is salty, which is why people like it in ice cream, and baked beans are sweet so they are a dessert. Baked beans are a bean dessert, he said. “It’s like I put chocolate sauce in it, except it’s bean sauce.”
The only reason he won’t do this again is social pressure.
He claimed it is better than regular ice cream because it has protein, but not much. Hank soon realised this was also meat dessert because the beans had bacon in them.
Hank then introduced Beanie Sandfurbs to the baked beans. “Beanie Sandfurbs, I’d like you to meet your people,” said Hank as the exhaustion clearly was setting in.
Hank popped another balloon, his second attempt at dancing to the Reddit song, CBAT. This time, Hank found a way for chat to hear the music, too.
Then, Hank played some songs on his guitar until it was time to pop another balloon. This was another connections cronch! Hank did not make mistakes on connections, so he did not cronch the onion.
Hank told a story about dumpster diving and finding a half full bottle of vodka. He left it on top of his fridge for a year, then GWB was elected and Hank didn’t like that vibe, so he drank it but it was water.
“Ol’ Trash Water, that’s what they call me” Hank said in a southern accent before he decided he needed a hat.
Ole Trash Water stayed with us for a bit before being usurped by him again. Chat was not happy about this.
Hank set a donation goal to get rid of Jarrod but it took a while to get there. By the end, Hank said “Hank also does not love Jarrod. It’s wet in here” and later, “I’m getting a little dizzy you guys, please help!” In the end, Jarrod donated the last $5000 needed for him to leave.
When Hank came back, he popped a balloon that told him to eat a corndog without using his hands. It took some work, but he did it!
Then, we passed 2023’s total!
To end the night, we got a visit from Butfartman. He gave a passionate monologue in his untranslatable language before ending the stream for the night.
Sunday morning of P4A 2024 began with John hosting. It was clear that the sharpie face had persisted, although some seemed to have worn off, probably onto his pillow.
John pushed people to vote, discussed pottery, explored the categories of TikTok that calmed him, and read from Everything is Tuberculosis. As he thanked everyone involved in P4A, John reflected on the past year and how nothing is guaranteed. When Hank was diagnosed, they didn’t know if there would be a Pizzamas or a P4A. They had to take everything as it came.
After a few hours, Hank took over. Shortly after John left the stream, he briefly returned to show his pillow that was, in fact, covered in sharpie.
Hank then announced that Jarrod had left his house and gone to the Yellowstone Club. Chat was relieved to hear it. He ran a final poll to establish the mascot of this year’s P4A: Q, Jarrod, Honk Green, Ol’ Trash Water, or Possum.
Hank started to sing “Look at Hank’s Face” from 2012(?). A cover of it can be found here.
At chat’s request, Hank agreed to do connections. He would not cronch the onion, though. He wasn’t feeling great after all the Peepsis over the previous days.
Many people in the chat were questioning what they missed from the night before and who Ol’ Trash Water is, so Hank read the lore to them. He commented on the inconsistencies within the lore even though they are exactly what Ol’ Trash Water said.
As donations continued to come in, Hank checked on the poll. He claimed that voting for possum was also a vote for Jarrod. “What does that mean?” he questioned, “don’t worry about it.”
When we reached $1.4 million on Tiltify, Ol’ Trash Water returned, to the delight of many.
He admitted to wearing Hank’s clothes because he believes doing a quick costume change with a friend is how you say “I appreciate you.” Ol’ Trash Water needed chat to know that he knows about livestreams. They are streams full of life!
He told us about his time as a radio DJ and a few of his cousins before attempting to use helium as a voice changer.
Then, Hank and Ol’ Trash Water exchanged clothes again. As Hank returned, he gave us a helium honk!
It was then time to pop another balloon: roll for banana loca! Hank filled a block of cheese with a kid’s squeeze pack, mocha peanut butter, takis, and necco wafers.
Mike Green, John and Hank’s dad, texted John, “Hank needs you, he’s rambling” so John returned!
Henry and Alice requested that John eat a spicy gummy bear but John thought he would be hospitalized (which would keep them from the water park later that day) so he did not.
Then, John and Henry played poker in Red Dead Redemption 2. Hank was too distracted by watching them play to promote donations. Hank asked John if he had met Ol’ Trash Water. John replied that he was familiar with his work. Then Hank decided to turn his uncronched onion into Jarrod.
John was impressed with how good it was and that the darkness really captured the blackness or blinding whiteness of the soul (there’s something in the soul that’s a little different for Jarrod than it is for others).
Hank then did a puppet show involving Jarrod and a possum.
After the puppet show, Orin came to visit Hank and Potato visited John. “It’s like a dance party in here!” Orin said.
Then, we raised enough money to make this the biggest P4A ever!
To celebrate, John drank the Dr. Pepper Peep Bubly Water that had been sitting for far too long.
For a brief moment, Orin and Henry hosted the Project for Awesome while their dads stepped away.
John used the combined power of all of the wigs to achieve his “greatest and final form.”
Then, Katherine joined Hank and brought their cats. Potato, Gummybear, and Chester were all on screen!
Soon the Project for Awesome 2024 livestream came to a close.
Unfortunately, as the stream ended, we were left with a gif of him eating a banana.
At the end of the stream, we had raised $1,597,648.51 on Tiltify, which made a total of $3,371,004.61. 72,702 votes were cast for charities to receive the funds.
When the 2024 Project for Awesome ended, Tiltify raised $1,755,541.25 making the final total $3,531,261.25.