 Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday October 10th 2017 and I'm sitting on a hotel floor in New York City Which can only mean one thing my new book turtles all the way down is out now at least in the US the UK Ireland Australia New Zealand and several other countries first things first if you've already read the book. Thank you I hope that you liked it. Also, please do not spoil it for other people. Okay, so I've created a spoiler if it's subreddit Hold on. That's the elevator. Oh, man. It's me's all the way down. Can't decide if I should wear a suit Oh, look who I picked up. It's a Hank. Hello, right, but to return to the topic at hand I have created a spoiler if it's subreddit for turtles all the way down where people who have read the book can go and Discuss it with each other and also ask questions of me directly. There's a link in the doobadoobalow We have to go to our rehearsal now. We're about to go on stage before our rehearsal show and I'm super stressed out and Hank's just like chilling I'm looking at how many people in the United States are named Caroline 138,000. Of course, that's what you're doing Hey, thanks for wearing my face on your torso, by the way a couple other things I signed over 200,000 copies of the US edition of Turtles all the way down So hopefully you won't have trouble finding an autographed one unless you live outside of the US or Canada in which case I'm sorry. Hello me from the future here because me from the past forgot to tell you about the second thing Which is that I wanted to share some of the reviews the book has gotten today They've all been really generous the Wall Street Journal called it tender wise and hopeful the New York Times called it a wrenching and Revelatory novel it got starred reviews from book list and SLJ and the Guardian said it might be a new modern classic Which is a bit much, but you know what? I'll take it. All right back to the past which is in your present All right, we just did our first warm-up show Hank. How did it go bad? No, it went all right Okay, you could kind of tell that we'd never rehearsed Well, this was a rehearsal and I was somewhat surprised when I found out they were gonna be 150 people there. They were very nice though. We're very nice Especially Olivia who told me all the words to my songs Hank forgot the words to every single one of his songs But fortunately there was a young woman named Olivia in the front row who had all of Hank songs memorized So everything worked out better than expected. I wouldn't actually say better than expected I would say differently from expected. It worked out just fine. This is the final version of the book It is what does it look like with the dust cover off? Oh, there's a secret. There's a secret There's a secret. Yeah, I'm not gonna show you. It's pretty cool, right? That's great Yeah, that was designed by people in Nerdfighteria. Why didn't you tell me about that? We could have made merch from it Oh my god We have merch from it. It's called turtles all the way down. It's available in bookstores everywhere Okay, Hank, I'm gonna ask you some questions from our audience that we didn't get to answer during the show If 2016 was a giant dumpster fire, what is a visual representation of 2017? Is it just like what's left after a dumpster fire? 2017 the year of burnt garbage. Do you listen to music while you're writing your books? This will surprise you Hank, but I do only the mountain goats. How does it feel to have Hank be a published author? I'm so psyched. I'm so happy. I'm so proud of Hank John. Yes If I was cast in a movie adaptation of your book, who would I play? I mean that seems unlikely on a lot of levels. Can I be the Tuatara? That's actually not a bad call. Show me your best Tuatara. I just got a neck cramp That's one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen I'm gonna put up a real Tuatara. Let's go back to back. Is it a good impression or not? You be the judge But it has to have like some lines. It definitely does not have lines. The whole point of the Tuatara is that it is a cold I'm the Tuatara Hey, oh Man, I'm a living fossil again turtles all the way down is out now and you can go to the subreddit There is a link below if you want to talk about spoilers, please don't talk about them in comments Thank you. Thank you for reading DFT VA Hank. I will continue to see you right now