Will a player or coach cry during the National Anthem? What color will the Gatorade be that’s poured on the wining coach? The biggest day for betting in America is the day of the Super Bowl. Find the oddest with a Google search, but locate someone from a betting site to come on to run down the full list of the oddest things people are wagering on around the game for a better break.
Two phone topics come up from what Trump’s done that never touches politics. Pitch Your Pardon (he pardoned the January 6 people). What have you done in life (big or small) you would want a pardon for? Then, as a show, pardon them. He’s also signing lots of Executive Orders. The topic: you’re now the boss at work. What Executive Order would you sign to change things there? You can also sign an Executive Order for your family!
No doubt you have a big arena in town. The place for sporting competitions and concerts. Partner with them and, after an event, bring on the person who runs the lost and found department who will go over all the items left behind the night before, found when they were cleaning up. The odder the items the better.
Valentine’s Day is about one month away. How about going old school? Have your listener’s kids write a Valentine’s Day card and mail it to you. In turn, you give them to all the kids in your local children’s hospital. Kids writing Valentine’s Day cards to kids.
Just about everyone will be on a diet this month. If someone on the show is doing it, form a club around them and a few listeners. Ask each to keep a food journal of everything they eat. Then check in with them over the next few weeks to see how they’re doing, what they’ve eaten, and how much weight they’ve lost so you can be supportive. If you can, find an entertaining nutritionist to come on, too, to help in the conversation about weight loss.
With the use of AI, have it replicate a very famous person saying “ho, ho, ho” like Santa. The audience then must guess who’s the celebrity ho? Make sure to also have AI record that identification in the celebrity’s voice once someone guesses it.
Who doesn’t love the Trans Siberian Orchestra? Put together a group of co-workers who play instruments and/or can sing and do Trans (Your State) Orchestra where they come on one day next week and entertain the audience with a Christmas song. Build it through the week so you have a story line that travels for the five days, with the performance on Friday.
Once the entire air staff has their trees up and decorated, put a picture of everyone’s online. The audience has to match the tree with the talent. It’s a simple but effective way to get online engagement from the audience around a relevant topic.
Cyber Monday is days away with zillions of us buying our holiday gifts online. Let’s test the world’s biggest online department store with The Amazon Million. See if you can get a webcam to hover over a cast member (so listeners can watch) who must keep adding things to their Amazon shopping cart until it totals $1,000,000 with of goods. Set a limit of only a quantity of ten of any one item. Can it be done? Let’s see!
With the election now over, plan on doing the No Politics Pledge as Thanksgiving approaches. Write up a silly “repeat after me” pledge and have listeners take it, committing to not talk politics at the Thanksgiving table when the family gathers!