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SECRET PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT!

2025-01-10 · announcement · Hank · 5:21 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Projects (also: Books & writing) · mode: Announcements · tags: self promotion, civic or action cta, guest or collab, on location

Hank announces Ask Hank Anything, his new monthly Complexly show in which guests ask him their questions, shows behind-the-scenes and trailer clips, asks viewers to subscribe at youtube.com/complexly, and reads from the starred Kirkus review of John's Everything Is Tuberculosis.

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00:00:00 — Hank in Los Angeles, recording ahead while making a secret new show; outfits and a stylist; behind-the-scenes clips

  • ★★ Hank, in Los Angeles, says he recorded this video long in advance because he is busy making a new show he can't yet talk about. — 00:00:00 · Los Angeles, Ask Hank Anything
  • ★ Making nine episodes, Hank needed nine outfits he didn't have, so a stylist, Lakyn Carlton, took him around LA to vintage shops, indie shops and a big mall. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Los Angeles

00:01:06 — Trailer clips of the new show: guests' questions and Hank's answers

  • ★★ In the new show, people come and ask Hank their questions, he answers as best he can, and they talk about why they want to ask them. — 00:01:06 · Ask Hank Anything

00:02:16 — Ask Hank Anything: name, schedule, how it was made, guests, and the ask to subscribe to Complexly's channel

  • ★★★ Hank announces the show is called Ask Hank Anything, with episodes coming out once a month on youtube.com/complexly. — 00:02:16 · Ask Hank Anything, Complexly
  • ★★ Hank got the guests' questions early and picked the ones he most wanted to answer, from whether weed is bad for you to what if people laid eggs. — 00:02:30 · Ask Hank Anything
  • ★★ Making the show let Hank dive into topics, learn weird things, talk to experts, and even bring in a man with homing pigeons to talk with him and Michelle. — 00:02:44 · Ask Hank Anything
  • ★ Hank says it took some convincing to get him to do the show and thanks everyone at Complexly who convinced him. — 00:03:02 · Complexly
  • ★★ The show's guests include old friends Michelle Khare and Akilah Hughes and people Hank had never met, Vic Michaelis and Jacob Collier. — 00:03:02
  • ★ Hank calls Jacob Collier's questions unhinged; he was still researching some of them on the train from an event in San Diego to LA. (playful) — 00:03:16 · Los Angeles
  • ★★ Hank says you can learn a huge amount about people from the questions they ask; the show turns an interview show backwards on its guests. — 00:03:31 · Ask Hank Anything
  • ★★ Hank says the show will be free on YouTube but not on this channel, and asks viewers to subscribe to youtube.com/complexly now. — 00:03:31 · Complexly, YouTube

00:03:58 — Starred Kirkus review of Everything Is Tuberculosis, the book site and tour tickets; sign-off and a closing clip

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Central: Ask Hank Anything · Everything Is Tuberculosis

Also: Akilah Hughes · Complexly · Jacob Collier · Kirkus Reviews · Los Angeles · Michelle · San Diego · Vic Michaelis

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