Put compromising pictures of cast members on your social media sites (i.e. the heaviest guy on your show in a Speedo) with two words: Roast This! Then, in an entertaining way, read what you get. Thanks for Spencer Graves from Spencer’s Neighborhood, 106.5 The Arch, St. Louis for this idea.
We’re about to enter June, the traditional month for lots of weddings. Using social media, find a male listener who’s a best man at an upcoming wedding. The best man has to give the first toast at the reception. Develop a one-week narrative arc where you introduce him to the audience, find out about the happy couple, then get him professional help to write a killer first toast. The payoff is the Monday after the ceremony when you have audio and guest reaction on your show.
With graduations ramping up across everyone’s market, have the cast bring their yearbooks in and have someone read to the audience something that was written in it to each by a classmate. The listener must guess which cast member it is.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee in the last week of this month. Let’s have a contest amongst the show cast where they’d need to be blindfolded! It’s called “Smell It Then Spell It”. A cast member smells something (reaction) then has to spell what they smell. First to three points wins. You might want to include listeners on the phone who can help in the spelling part.
With Cinco de Mayo this week, your show needs a decidedly festive feel. How about finding a local mariachi band to do one of two things: Mariachi Wake Ups (the band enters the room of a kid who hasn’t woken up for school yet) or the band plays you into your stop set breaks all morning!
May 5th is right around the corner, which is a great time to do “Know the Show: Cinco de Mayo Edition”. Invite your PD to come in loaded with personal questions about the cast everyone should know. Another member of the show is asked a question. If they get it right, you move on to the next person. If they get it wrong, they must eat one of the really hot peppers you buy at your local grocery store.
Each of us has certain sounds that mean certain things in our life. On our phones, tablets, in our homes and cars. Each person on the show should record some of those sounds. Play one for the audience who then must guess its meaning. Then the cast member shares what that sound signifies for them.
With April 15th right around the corner, I wonder what it’s like to go to jail for not paying your taxes. Find someone who’s had to do that and get a first hand story!
With spring here, lots of people will have weekend weddings. Find a best man who has to toast a bride and groom at an upcoming nuptial. Then build a one-week narrative arc around getting him professional help to write that speech. It all culminates on the Monday-after-the-ceremony show with audio and reaction.
So many people think they can multi-task. How often have you been texting someone when someone else is talking with you and you hear nothing? Put someone on the show to the test. Have them start texting their friends as you play a 60-second portion of an audio book (for all to hear). Once done, ask them about the part of the book you played to see what they retained while texting.