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hello humans of planet Earth welcome back CNET's live coverage of CES 2018 I'm Ashley ask Ewa you may have heard of our next guest and the hit online game HQ trivia we have here with us quiz EEMA guire himself the host with the most Scott Rogowski hey hi so it's no good if you're on c-span see so yeah yeah you have so many fans uh I have noticed you you have been sort of stopped every about 10 feet here at the show it's been a lot of fan and girling and Boeing and it's nice to be appreciated and take taking photos of like this lovely lady here taking a photo that's good how exactly does it feel to have killed the productivity of most of America with HQ trivia yeah I feel like I'm like the anti Henry Ford he increased productivity and he was an anti-semite so I'm like I can be an anti Henry Ford right back it's good so I talked to you a little bit earlier this week and we get this week we did I know that there was alcohol involved but I believe you said that you have been doing stand-up comedy for 12 years 12 years yes January 2000 actually spent 13 years will be the anniversary in a couple weeks lucky for my first time on stage you're like mega famous now you're like one of those overnight successes that took over a decade to happen people think overnight successes are overnight there in fact 1012 years in the making sometimes longer so so how did this even come about like you did you just answer a Craigslist ad and not get murdered it was a monsters monster Inc what is that monster website just monster jobs no no it wasn't that submitting your resume on monster yeah yeah LinkedIn no no it was an audition it was an audition okay and I got the call you know my friend Nick Gallo who I met 10 years earlier when I was starting out I started out interning for the onion you can trust him because he has been your friend since before you were successful exactly and he well he's the reason why I am successful because he I met him interning at the onion when I wasn't out of college 2008 and we kept in touch of her Facebook Facebook I would say is the biggest networking as you do for me yeah and Nick said hey we're doing this thing which I think you'd be a good host would you want to come out and audition for it I said all right sure what did you think when you started like when they say okay here's what it is it's a game show and it's literally just you like what there's no like stage you're not gonna you know live studio audience like what was the what was the reactor well I I didn't really know what it was gonna be at the beginning I mean it and no one really did we just they had the the format for the live the technology appointment viewing we're gonna go live at the beginning was once a day five days a week now it's twice a day during the week twelve shows a week really popular really popular we're doing UK shows now we got Sheeran hosting UK shows and it's when I first got the idea I thought alright well this could be something I mean I was gunning for taxi TV I want to be the back of taxicabs okay an elevator TV was also high in my list a few ever why we do some of that so you can come do some videos for CNN and then we'll put you on the back of the taxi during CES but now I'm I was tell my friends I'm gonna be on an app I'm an app you're an app now by and at the time it would seem silly but now oh now like I'm sure we're gonna see a lot more of these happening I I think so I think it's like really interesting that this has kind of blossomed into a completely different vertical for apps this sort of like you said appointment apps point app is point mint it's like a pop-up shop but for you can win money right instead of spending you can get yeah if you guys maybe people here don't know HQ we should explain what it is yeah if anybody I'm sure a lot of people are playing buddy please why are you think that we all know so HQ is a live daily trivia show on your phone 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time we go live with it download it if you haven't just go to HQ it's in the I store iTunes you seem really into technology really into technology yeah very tech-heavy iTunes store and then also yeah it just launched and just recently I think we're still in beta but and you recently had over a green you're free and it's free and you read over a million people currently playing a game like right around new years all right just this past Sunday night we cracked a million player mark for the first time that is pretty writing 1.2 million concurrent users at you know we asked 12 questions the way works when you download it and you get a push notification when we go live and when we do go live you open the phone and you yell quiz daddy and then you and then it's you you say quiz daddy three times and I appear it's like floating married but even better and I ask twelve questions ranging from easy to hard trapped Trebek you have ten seconds to answer the question and it goes fast too fast ten seconds if you get it right you tap through the three multiple-choice answers that pop up on your screen yeah tap the right one you move on in the next round make it to the end answering all 12 questions correctly you win or split the cash prize we keep out real money every day actual money hundreds of thousands of dollars have been given out already can you explain why you screwed me on The Canterbury Tales when you accidentally round that question early I'm very upset and I think our people out there do you remember the Canterbury Tales I'm very nice very good quality about it it is Canterbury Gate that was I mean look we've done it over 200 shows now things happen the humans run this thing it's five it's not AI and that was a glitch and we we restarted it but look the good news is if you got the question eight that day you already had the answer so some people benefited but I get tripped up at like four things start getting tough yeah uh are you able to say at all like how many like what is the process of like put who researches the questions like who's who's looking this up was there a really big team now like or do you have us we've got a really big like oh my god I gotta look up all these questions yeah it's it's a team a team of writers I'm sort of the last eyes on it okay be ready we got fact-checkers there's the director creative director and then ultimately before it goes on-air I look at them all and make sure you know I know what I'm talking about have you ever vetoed a question we're like we can't we can't is it because it's like offensive or is it because it's just equal it's just wrong it's just like like this like what and I mean if I don't there was a queue three maybe they ran I don't know if it was about this and someone heard of the book called the runaway children no the runaway children you've heard of it he's like now this was a q3 it was it was scheduled for q3 and they this author wrote the even if Nesbitt wrote this popular book they don't know I said I've never heard of Edith Nesbit or the Rhine much so I made it a winnie-the-pooh question is dead that's thousands of people got it wrong what percentage of the time would you say you are not wearing pants when the show goes live I wear five pairs of pants every time very cold they won't know if I wear mascara I don't never have I don't believe I don't need to you I have naturally maybe I'm blinded maybe it's Maybelline but no it's I'm born with it it's not Maybelline it's not mikowski yes I'll regale rillette spectacular time do you get up in the morning to do this do you get to sleep in question in a time thinking about questions all night I don't sleep anymore there's a lot of bags into my eyes that Phyllis was trying to help fill in back there the makeup lady but no I pay her the big bucks you know I'm a pipe to commute from you know the burbs right now I'm not living in the city and then but I'd like to wake up and I do my research that morning look at the questions that morning yeah I'm up around 9:00 I would say running a 39 that sounds pretty good yeah it feels like you get to sleep in a little bit but then I'm getting in late and then you know a lot of commuting lot of train just sit there for you are you just sitting just in front of that camera just waiting for it to go live like a like a little robot some people tried to plug you in know it's USB see now so you can charge faster got to eat my lunch got a goat get salads all right so we have a we have a we have a gift for you we have through this beautiful CNET way to earn this gift you have to earn it because I I have some quiz questions for you I thought it would be fun to turn the tables so we'll have some they get easier as they they get they get harder as they they go along okay um but very similar format that is a similar format age I'm very familiar format to you okay and you also only get 10 seconds I I might actually like three two one oh my god that heard the queried you guys okay first question q1 what city to CES take place in is it a New York be in Los Angeles or C long Las Vegas baby what's easy yeah okay big face on it second I know second question what is I bow a a robot Butler be a robot dog or speed a robot vacuum you already lost me robot dog you got you go by instinct don't my instinct I love it okay question three this is a tough one we're starting at this q3 now approximately how many people attend to CES is it a over 180,000 B over 240,000 or C over 460 thousand this is where I'm gonna flag you as vague questioning because I'm gonna take I'll take one Hey because everything is over okay next next question is how many total square feet of exhibit space does CES take up is it a around 1.7 million be around 2.6 million or see around 3.7 million can I get a lifeline audience no one knows B I can say 2.6 that is correct in the game right now the game I was gonna give you an extra life oh yeah okay how good of friends would you consider us a okay friends be good friends or C best friends based on our texting there's a correct answer here best friends that is correct we are best friends yes you want you get this five times five times well that makes us best friends in the world of technology I feel so loved because obviously everybody here is super excited to see you um so I'd like I know you can't talk about like oh if HQ is gonna launch a third show or anything like that and they didn't announce anything specifically for CES but you want scoops right I would love a scooper and exclusive but I will take there's one your show president want a scoop sure when I get back on HQ on Saturday I might have had a haircut ooh you're gonna want to tune in for that everybody actually I probably won't have time to get the haircut till Sunday so Sunday night haircut you're gonna keep pushing that off it's gonna get played like everything else here at CES that gets an out yeah or sometimes HQ games yeah like I'm sorry we have to delay this guy uh do you think last I'll give you this last question and then and then we'll wrap it up okay do you think that we will see more and more of this sort of pop up style of appointment app or appointment sort of technology because of the success of HQ trivia and what you guys are doing over there yeah I think everyone who's in you know in this space who's creating shows making apps they want a capture live audience yes I think we're already seeing some imitators accept no imitations HQ is the OG and there are I'm not gonna name the other ones but they're out there but yeah I think we're gonna see this year this quarter maybe by Fat March even will sees big players coming into the space maybe they'll have you know Jamie Foxx hosting a show I don't know well would you rather watch TV Fox would you rather watch the trap Trebek that's the question you have to ask yourself I mean I can't say no to quiz II McGuire quiz acquire quiz requires my favorite Lizzie McGuire could be hosting one that would be amazing a question I think we'll see a lot more but I think HQ is gonna be ahead of the curve we know we're doing and we're building and building and I'm gonna pitch you on an idea yeah live races where people use the steps in their phone to race but so people just randomly start running that's good like pokemons go is it a walk around running at 12 o'clock at noon or 12:30 after your show's over like everyday people just randomly just start sprinting for no reason other than 15 people just watching this or creating this app right now you're already blue your idea so welcome Internet thank you so much for joining us friend thanks bestie bestie you are you're actually our very last interview on the scene at live stage at CSD we're done we're good we're all done thank you so much to everybody at sea nuts for watching there is so so much more of CES to read and watch on Cena's comm so not for too long so long and vegan humans