#158: HQ Trivia's Scott Rogowsky

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2017

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Today on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, Day 9 of the #12DaysOfPodcasts, we welcome the host of the user-successful and addicting smartphone quiz game HQ Trivia, Scott Rogowsky to the Upper West Side! Scott shares stories growing up in Eric and Jeff's hometown of Harrison, NY, collecting baseball cards, playing Little League, finding suburban mischief, getting by in private school in NYC, and eventually winning the student body presidency. Scott talks about approaching stand-up comedy at straight-laced Johns Hopkins University, bodying his first set in front of students, tanking his follow-up at a coffee bar in town, and his mindset in rebounding. We discuss moving to Brooklyn, meeting his comedic heroes Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Joe Mande, Noah Garfinkel and more, performing around NYC, and figuring out that while being in front of audiences was what he wanted, standing up wasn't the move. Scott gets into his live talk shows ("12 Angry Mascots" and "Running Late with Scott Rogowsky"), his time on network television, his viral videos and pictures ("Fake Book Covers on the Subway"), and when he was feeling he was done with NYC and ready to move to Los Angeles, how HQ Trivia came into his life and became an absolute whirlwind. PS: Be sure to check out JeezyShop.com for all things Jeezy: his tour, his merch and his new album, Pressure, available now! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 12 days of podcast. We are on day nine. This series of 12 perfect episodes is brought to you by the good people at Def Jam. GZ's new album pressure is everywhere. It's on Spotify. It's on GZ Shop.com. It's in your dreams and it's there when you wake up. It can be overwhelming. So in these precious moments, when you're listening to our podcast with Scott from HQ between
0:23.2	repeated listens of GZ's new album pressure, why don't you breathe in?
0:27.4	Take a moment to yourself.
0:29.3	What's going on in your life?
0:31.2	What's making you happy?
0:33.0	What would make you happier than going to gZ shop.com today and getting yourself an
0:37.3	autographed copy of GZ's pressure?
0:39.9	Now breathe out. Hey, Jeff. Hey, Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well, thank you. Day number nine of the 12 days of podcast, Jeff, why do we do this to ourselves? We do this to us because we do it for you. If you've got a long holiday season ahead of you, maybe your family's
0:54.8	driving you crazy. Maybe you're on a plane ride and it keeps getting delayed and you're stuck in the
0:59.5	airport. Maybe you're on a car ride and the kids throwing up in the back and you just need a place to
1:04.1	escape. We are here for you with 12 perfect episodes from a whole range of people that we know.
1:10.0	Yeah. So we're talking people maybe you guys aren't familiar with, like a fafu, people you might be aware of but don't know their whole story like upscale vandal. Or T. Grizzly? Or maybe there are people that you know so well, like Sheikin-Stiles, but you don't know what they would watch on Netflix. Well, we have a whole episode for you called
1:28.6	Two Jews and Two Black Dudes Review the Movies. And that episode, Jeff, has taken the fuck off.
1:34.9	And if you love any of the 12 days of podcasts, or if you love any of the prior 150 episodes
1:42.1	that we've done of a waste of time with It, It's the Real, you are going to love
1:45.6	our live show happening on January 10th, 2018, right here in New York City at SOBs.
1:51.8	Yes, we will be there. We will be on stage doing what we do best, being there.
1:56.6	We are going to be telling stories, there's going to be music, there's going to be comedy,
2:00.2	it's going to be an unforgettable evening, guys. Make sure that you will be there by getting tickets right now at It's the Real.com before they sell out. On today's episode, we have HQ's Scott Ruggowski. Now, HQ is a game that 500,000 people play twice a day, including me. I stop everything I'm doing to play this game.
2:19.4	I have delayed dinners. I have been walking into traffic on the street. I have not gone out
2:27.4	because I've been playing this game. And it happens to be hosted by a kid I went to nursery school
2:31.8	with. Scott Raghowsky. And Scott, you know,
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