The Queen of England had her jubilee. With Father’s Day this Sunday, it’s time for dad to have his. Get listeners to agree to treat their fathers as wonderfully as they do their mothers in May in something you can call The King’s Jubilee.
With Father’s Day a few weeks away, find out the one story your listeners have that happened when they were kids that was so edgy or embarrassing they never told their fathers. Then get dear old dad on the other line so the kid can tell him the story and come clean after all these years.
Father’s Day is just a few weeks away. Just for fun that week, find a couple of listeners and conference them with their dads on the other line. The purpose of the call? To tell their proud papa that they’re in jail. See how the dads react, then tell them it’s a total goof with a Happy Father’s Day message from all.
May and June are the months for high school graduations. Do some character development by finding the high school yearbooks of all the cast members on your show. Get your boss to read something written in one of them and then the caller must guess whose yearbook it’s from. Then you can reminisce about that person who wrote it and have some fun.
With graduations happening in the month of May, let’s get caught up on whatever happened to the person in your graduating class who was valedictorian. Using the internet, try to find them and invite them on your show. As the smartest person in your class, did they grow to become the most successful person they were expected to be?
If you can swing pulling off a promotion with Sunday being Mother’s Day, consider Being a Mom Sometimes Is a Drag. Everyone celebrates Mother’s Day the same way. Qualify moms all week long and honor them in a way no other program would: by taking them to a local drag show.
Go get a bunch of $5 Starbucks gift cards, or if you can wrestle it from your brand manager, actual cash for a new feature called The $5 Story. Open the phones, take three callers. Each tells you a story. After you hear each, the team votes on the best and the winner gets the five dollars.
Flex On Your Ex is a new feature where you take calls from people divorced or those who just broke up with someone and compel them to say something nice about the other person (hence “flex on your ex”). That tension in the bit is a fun thesis, but it really gives you an opening to explore the relationship and why it ended, which is the win.
Lent ends this Thursday, April 14. Gather a bunch of people who gave up something and let them break Lent live on your show. They can utter their first curse word, snack on a delicious piece of chocolate or eat a potato chip, pop the top on a Diet Coke or sip a delicious cup of coffee for the first time in forty days on your program.
Tell listeners a story about something a celebrity did that is in the news. But leave the name of the celebrity out to engage them. Then give three celebrity names and open the phones. If the caller guesses the correct celebrity for the story, they win. Thanks to The Ed Lover Show with Jen BT, 104.3 JAMS, Chicago for this idea.