Pete Moyer’s Hula Hoop Star Rises on David Letterman

Within days of learning that his YouTube videos were being picked up for an upcoming episode of Bloopers on WGN-TV Chicago and You Gotta See This on the Nickelodeon network, Pete Moyer got the big phone call a lot of us dream about. Today Pete flew to New York City to make his way to the Ed Sullivan Theatre to hula hoop on The Late Show with David Letterman. While he doesn’t know what night he will be appearing on stage, it is either tonight or tomorrow, one way or the other he’s going to be spinning up the airwaves soon on CBS. “I think they want me to come out on stage and run a lap around Dave while hula hooping and juggling,” Moyer said. If that sounds at all unusual to you, then obviously you don’t know Pete Moyer. Better known in certain circles as Pete The Juggler, Moyer currently holds the world record for hula hooping while juggling.

Moyer has been quietly making a name for himself juggling up a storm while hula hooping and setting a string of world records while doing so. He holds records for the most mills mess juggling patterns while hooping too, the most hula hoop rotations in one minute while juggling, the longest time juggling 3 balls overhead while hooping, the longest time juggling three two-pound balls overhead while hula hooping on his knees, and more. Let’s just say the guy can juggle and he can hula hoop and combining the two is about to make him famous. It’s not all about juggling while hula hooping either though.

Pete is a true king of hula hoop multi-tasking. Did you know he holds the world record for most consecutive grapes tossed and caught in one’s mouth while hula hooping? Yeah, that’s him alright. He’s also got the longest time spent hula hooping while spinning a basketball on one finger, the fastest 400 meter hula hooping dash, not to mention the tallest object balanced on chin while hula hooping. As if that wasn’t enough, he also holds records for the most pull ups while hula hooping, a move that really worked in his fantastic hula hooping tribute to the movie Rocky.

Pete used to hold the record for the fastest time eating a banana while hooping, but somebody else broke that one recently. But don’t feel bad for Pete. He’s got more than enough going on with his David Letterman appearance and his other upcoming stints on television. “Bloopers”, a Dick Clark Production on WGN-TV in Chicago, Illinois, is doing a whole segment about Pete and his antics that will run within the next three weeks. And Nickelodeon’s “You Gotta See This” segment will air sometime in November. In total, Nickelodeon bought the rights to air six of his videos. Bought? “Yeah,” Moyer said. “It was enough to keep me from getting a real job for another month.” Turn on your television tonight – or maybe tomorrow – and see what Pete spins up with Dave. Pete lives in Hillsboro, Illinois, USA.

UPDATE: Here’s Pete on David Letterman!

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