glitch: the rise and fall of hq trivia starts right now. see ya. it s time to meet the clock. are you tired of linear and non-interactive television. if you ve won this game, you now have a chance to answer the jackpot question. don t even know what linear non-interactive television means? you re right for $32,000. are you tired of the sort of television that just happens at you. well, let s see what you ve won. it s a honeymoon trip to hawaii on your 50th anniversary. that you just sit in front of like a couch potato. hello? what s this? something wrong? come on, interact with me. this is hq, baby, the trivia game show on your phone, where you answer questions to win cash. so $11.30 i was just excited to win. you re our winners, baby! so many people, they re dropping everything to play this game. we are talking about hq trivia. joining us no are the co-founders, tom crowell and russ. these guys in charge are smart. we grew up watchin
interacting with folks. there is that sense the host is aware that you re there. it s friday night. the feeling is right. there s a party going down on the west side. and scott rogowsky was incredibly charismatic. it wasn t like, oh, i m going to go play hq trivia. it was also like, oh, i got to watch scott. we ve gathered a bunch of leftover questions, threw them together in the microwave for you. jk, we got a fresh batch, piping hot, ready to serve. every weird synapse in my brain that would fire off. freddie mercury is in retrograde. whether it was a simpsons reference or a phish lyric, the band phish, you know, things that i love, seinfeld, baseball, all these things i just kind of like put out there. say what up. give me some of those. a lot of it was just improvised. and when you re rolling, you re rolling. i m your host with the crab toast, scott rogowsky, aka the woke woolery. walt quizney. the semitic sajak. the quizzard of oz. the great and powerful
of like put out there. a lot of it was just improvised, and when you re rolling, you re rolling. the quizard of oz. the trap trebek. edward quizzerhands. quiz daddy. quiz daddy. that s what you called him. you re like, 9:00 p.m., time to spend time with quiz daddy. shake em up, shake em up, shake em up, shake em. it became pretty obvious to me fairly quickly that there was some professional jealous seeping into this dynamic between rus and myself. i honestly think rus had some scars from the vine days. and i mean, he created a platform that allowed all of these viners to become megastars. and rus was still fairly anonymous behind the scenes. and here he was seeing another guy get famous off another one of his products, and it wasn t sitting too well on him.