Show Rundown: July 24, 2017
Show Rundown: July 24, 2017
Medicated Pete visits the studio with Wayne Siegel
Good Morning Everybody!
Wack Packer and former Stern Show intern Medicated Pete did the honors of announcing himself as Monday’s guest at the top of show. “This is Medicated Pete. Today on the Howard Stern Show, Medicated Pete!” he proudly declared.
Howard reminded listeners that the 42-year-old with Tourette’s syndrome has been associated with the show since 2009 when he was invited to work at the office for a semester under the tutelage of Scott “the Engineer” Salem.
“Pete’s biggest job when he worked with Scott was he was supposed to come in after the show and turn down the headphone volumes and clean the headphones,” Stern Show Executive Producer Gary Dell’Abate recalled. “But he couldn’t seem to pull that off.”
Pete also took a liking to Jon Hein and would frequently sit directly next to him (at the behest of fellow Stern Show staffers Jason Kaplan and Will Murray).
“He would hold a piece of paper and he couldn’t keep still, so it would be constant tapping on the paper nonstop as I was trying to work,” Jon remembered.
Howard wondered why Pete was unable to complete his task of cleaning the headphones and Pete explained it “must’ve been the O.C.D. thing or something,” which at times caused Scott to become “a little testy.”
Despite his O.C.D. and tics, Pete told Howard that he refrains from using too much medication as the side effects can oftentimes become worse than his actual symptoms … like when he began having hallucinations.
“I had a tripping episode,” Pete told Howard. “I would see trees like running after me and stuff … so fuck that,” he added.
Pete said that this went on for an entire year whenever he would leave the house causing him to both talk to the trees and to run away. “It wasn’t pleasant,” he said. Luckily the experience has not caused him any lasting fears of forests or the outdoors.
PHOTOS: Medicated Pete Sells Cars for a Day at Legend Auto Group With Wayne Siegel
AUDIO: John Stamos Calls Medicated Pete to Talk About ‘Chillaxing’
AUDIO: John Stamos Calls Medicated Pete to Talk About ‘Chillaxing’
Wack Packer asks the Hollywood actor “what’s up?” several times but never asks why he’s calling or how he got his number
On Monday morning, Howard talked to Medicated Pete about his new dance song and about his successful day as a car salesman. But perhaps the most impressive thing to happen to Pete recently was receiving a phone call from “Full House” actor and longtime Stern Show guest John Stamos.
“Pete had nothing to say,” Howard told Robin with a laugh before playing their taped telephone conversation where the Wack Packer continuously asked John “what’s up?”
Stamos told Pete he’s looking forward to “chillaxing” and Pete agreed that’s what he’ll be doing too.
“You gotta go?” Stamos asked Pete, sensing he needed to hang up the phone. Pete proceeded to tell John he did indeed need to leave but didn’t say why, nor did he end the call. Instead he just repeatedly said goodbye to John.
“You didn’t have one question for him,” Howard told Pete, explaining he could have asked him what he was working on or, at the very least, how Stamos got his number.
“I just got awestruck,” Pete explained.
John Stamos also recently rang up Tan Mom and attempted to ask the Wack Packer out on a date. Click here to hear that phone call.