Star Wars Day is this Thursday (May the Fourth Be With You!). If you need a one-off game, find two listeners in your audience: the one person who knows everything about the Star Wars franchise and one person who’s never even seen a movie. Ask the person who’s never even seen one Star Wars movie the easiest questions you can about the franchise. For every question they get right, the Star Wars freak gets a prize. The hitch? Zero lifelines!
In the next few weeks, the US Supreme Court will start handing down its rulings. Your parody of this could be silly cases decided by five listeners who love Taco Bell’s Nachos Supreme. You can call them your Nacho’s Supreme Court as they render verdict on the dilemmas.
Use moral dilemmas to instigate great phones with story telling. Today’s ethical question? Your house is burning down. Inside is your favorite dog and an ex you can’t stand. You can only save one. Which one do you get?
Spring is here which means that lots of listeners will be doing spring cleaning. You should, too. Cull through your crap at home and bring those items in you don’t know what to do with. Describe an item to the audience and open those phones for listeners to say whether you should Take It (back to the house to keep) or Toss It (in the trash).
Easter chocolate is the lowest form of chocolate around. Go grab an Easter bunny chocolate, a Hershey’s bar, and some Godiva. Invite some co-workers into the station kitchen and do a blind-folded taste test to see if they can choose which is which. You’ll have a great video for social media and, if the people are fun (and they should be if you choose the fun people), terrific audio to use on-air to get listeners to go watch it.
We’re about to the turn the corner and prom season will be here. High school kids will be awkwardly asking for dates and going to the yearly school tradition. Unique character development would be if each person on the show finds the prom date of another cast member and gets them on the program. Learn about the cast member from their high school prom date!
Easter isn’t too far off. The Celebrity Peep is a fun, interactive bit you can do that will engage and intrigue listeners. Find a local celebrity everyone knows. Fill their mouth with peeps. Then have them read something. Play it for the audience. The first listener to guess the “celebrity peep” wins.
Variety is the spice of life! You should always have a ton of fun ideas that can be used on the show to keep the program fresh. Name That Accent is where you invite listeners with accents to call (or better – tape them ahead of time). Each person reads the directions on how to use a common household product and callers have to say where that person is from.
For St. Patrick’s Day, find someone with an Irish accent and have them be your live booth announcer that morning. They’ll talk the show into spots and back to content. They can read sponsorships and do your teases.
With St. Patrick’s Day not far off, do a topical parody of a classic radio bit where two people act out the scene of a movie with listeners guessing the movie. Find two people with Irish brogues, pitch up their voices, and call it Leprechaun Theater.