On Monday morning you can roll down the list of winners at the Academy Awards (snoozefest – no one has heard of these movies) or you can play a fun game called “Oscar Impostor” where you give the listener the name of a blockbuster and they must tell you if it won an Oscar when it came out or if it’s an impostor.
Cue the reverb for a new feature: “A Two-Year Old Asks the World!” Know all the non-stop questioning that accompanies every two-year old? How much did they pay for the Death Star in Star Wars? Why is milk white? Where does gas come from? Find an inquisitive two-year old, and tape a slew of these questions. Then play one each time you do this feature, either opening the phones for answers or (better) get an expert on to answer it (like a scientist to tell everyone why milk is white).
Here’s a new Monday feature for the show which highlights the manly things some men do over the weekend. “Climbing Macho Mountain” is a phone-oriented idea soliciting stories from both male and female callers on the manly things guys did over the weekend which proves they have testosterone.
The Grammy Awards are on Monday, February 15. It’s always fun to bring opposites together. Gather the grandmothers of the cast as well as those of some listeners and pit them against each other in a fun contest to see which grammy knows the artists and groups who will be up for The Grammy’s.
Every iconic Super Bowl commercial for the last fifty years can be found online. Grab the biggest, most memorable ones and edit out the name of the product (if in the commercial). Through the week leading up to Sunday’s game, play one and see if your audience can remember what product it was for.
Listeners like to chime in on dilemmas that face the show. A cast member tells the audience that their spouse wants to have a Super Bowl party in a couple of weeks but that they don’t want to. The cast member then says that they told their partner they will but want to tell the invitees that it’ll be a half of a Super Bowl party. Basically telling those who come that they’ll need to leave at (or after) halftime. The audience can share if this is appropriate and you can even find an etiquette expert who can comment on it, too.
Rob and Joss, Froggy 92.9, Santa Rosa, CA, do a weekly feature that’s very strategic to developing the characters of their on-air cast called “Know the Show”. It’s an old feature that’s been done several different ways. They get one listener on and say one sentence that applies to a show member (i.e. this person graduated from Berkley, this person’s parents live in Canada, this character just got a dog). The listener must match up the sentence with the person. Do this feature and you’ll know how much the caller has retained about the personal stories you’ve told on-the-air.
Bet you have no idea what it’s like to win Powerball, right? With no winner this week and the jackpot now at an estimated $1.3-billion, do a Google search for people who’ve won large sums of money in the lottery and get them to tell their story of how their lives changed (good and bad) because of it.
Here’s an easy character development game you can play just back from vacation called “Who Got Them Gifts?” This is a test to see how well the audience knows you. List for the audience several gifts a cast member got for Christmas (make sure to throw in a few odd ones). Listeners must guess which person on the show received that bounty!
Not much time left until Christmas. Many parents are running out of places for the Elf on the Shelf, something they use to keep the kids in line. Simple phone topic – ask listeners to give you new locations as everyone counts down the days to the holiday!