With Trump on trial, we’re seeing lots of pictures of him as done by a courtroom sketch artist. Bring in two courtroom sketch artists in your city. During one show, have each draw pictures of you guys. Then the audience votes between the two and the winning rendition is your show picture on all social media platforms through the end of the trial.
With Beyonce’s “Cowboy Carter” a Hot Topic, lots of people are talking about her version of Dolly Parton’s iconic “Jolene”. Hundreds of artists have done that song. Go grab a bunch of versions from artists your audience knows and edit together a mash-up. Then see if any listener can identify all the artists.
With baseball season having just started, is there a baseball team in your town who will let you do the Seat Sit? You sit in every chair in the stadium if listeners pledge to give you so much money, which will be given to the cause the show supports.
Winter is drawing to a close. What comes after that is lots of potholes around town. Find the biggest and bring to it all those pennies you have in that big container in your house. Ask listeners how many pennies it’ll take to fill it up in The Pothole of Pennies.
With Easter on Sunday, Lent ends this week. For those who gave up something, have them in the studio to try what they gave up for the first time on your show. Swore off Diet Cokes or chocolate? Your first one’s on us on-the-air. Gave up cursing? Utter your first in the studio!
With St. Patrick’s Day Sunday (March 17), go grab audio of bagpipe players doing songs in your format. I bet they’re all over YouTube. If not, find a local bagpipe player who’ll come in to have some fun with you!
With prices for everything higher, let listeners on to tell everyone about the big bargain they got or to share a coupon code that works at a website. Call it The Bargain Brag.
Did you ever have a character development story you wanted to tell the audience but felt it was too personal or over the line? Create a feature around it where the cast member hops into The Overshare Chair. That way, the audience will know it’s over the line before you tell it.
Bank this one for when Taylor Swift releases her new album, The Tortured Poets Department (April 19). The cover is somewhat provocative. How about each cast member on the show do their version of her pose in the same outfit and let the audience vote on who did it best?