With everyone shedding their masks, go get yourself a pet casket on Amazon and have a burial service for all the masks we are no longer required to wear. Put them in the coffin and bury them out back, with someone playing Taps. Call it The Masket Casket.
As people head back to work, find listeners who work in interesting professions and invite one on each Friday to explore it. To force more occasions through the week, each day at the time of the Friday interview, ask listeners to submit questions that can be asked using social media. Gather them through the week and call the feature Five Question Friday.
There seems to be a hiring issue in every area of the country. Lots of jobs, but no workers. Feature local clients and area businesses who have open positions on the show. Let them come on to tell your audience what’s available and how they can apply. Call it Jobs After Jabs.
Betcha there were people in your life who told you that you’d never make it. We call them The Haters. Here’s a great spot to root for the audience with a new feature called Hi to the Haters. Let listeners come on, give the first name of someone who told them they’d never amount to anything, then celebrate their win. Thanks to Karson and Kennedy, MIX 104.1, Boston for this idea.
If you’re looking for a new, occasional feature for your show, how about What Did You Have For Breakfast? Get a quirky jingle, then open the phones and ask listeners as they’re driving to work what they had for breakfast that morning. You’ll get everything from two eggs and bacon to a bag of potato chips.
Have you ever been behind a truck that has a sign on its back, “Not Responsible For Broken Windshields”? I’ve long wondered if a rock falls from that truck and breaks your windshield, if the sign is enough to absolve them of actual responsibility. Find a lawyer and ask them on-the-air if that’s true!
With everything opening up, talk to one listener each week through the summer who’s going on vacation with their family. Ask them to bring you back something from the gift shop where they’re going as a gift and that you will reimburse them. Then tell them you have a weekly $5 budget and they cannot go over it. Collect the gift when they return and then, at the end of the summer, give out all the gifts you received to another listener.
Go grab some play-by-play audio from YouTube of a sporting event for a new game called He Shoots, He Scores. You play the audio just until the ball is released. The caller then has to guess if the player scored. Then go back to the audio to finish the play-by-play to see if they guessed right.
Ask mothers to call the show. Then have one male cast member tell them that, for Mother’s Day, his instincts are to buy his mom a kitchen appliance. Ask the callers (all moms) to tell him why he’s wrong!
Need a new feature? How about Today’s Big Decision? Ask listeners to call to tell you the biggest decision they will need to make that day. It could be anything from whether or not to take a new job to deciding what to have for lunch. Every call will be different and the best part is on the more consequential decisions, you can do a follow-up the next day to see how things turned out.