With the election over soon, it would be very relatable to find an engaging therapist and talk about repairing relationships that fractured because of politics. That’s happened to all of us, so delving into this relationships topic would be very real.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups have long been my #1 Halloween candy. A close second, though, is the Kit Kat bar. This year, I’m open to dethroning Reese’s. Open the phones and ask listeners to convince you why Kit Kats are better.
What would be really cool and very responsible is if you used the awesome powers of your show to encourage people to vote over the next two weeks. Not to do politics (advocate for a person or issue), but to remind people it’s their civic duty to get involved to get the city and country they want. Get all the info on how to do it locally, even inviting on guests who can add to the conversation.
Halloween is not too far off. Get a cute kid to read the ingredients of a popular Halloween candy. Your listener must guess what candy it is to win a prize. A key to making this sound even cuter is to not let your kid read the ingredients before you record this so they stumble through them! If you want to hear great audio of how this sounds, visit the audio page here.
With sports back in our lives and the weather turning cooler, how about the cast doing Sober October? You guys take an oath that, throughout the month, to not touch one drop of alcohol. Get ten listeners to join with you. Check in with everyone to see who violates the pledge during the month and who, from your original group, is left standing on October 31.
Halloween is a month away. Kids probably can’t trick-of-treat due to Covid. The week of the holiday, get kids on and ask them some candy-oriented trivia questions. If they get them right, do a Candy Drive-By. You guys get the winner’s addresses offline, drive into their neighborhoods, slow down in front of the house, roll your window down, and throw the candy on their front lawns as a prize. That’d make great videos for social media that week.
Features built around the music you play are always a smart move. Mark and NeanderPaul, KSLX, Phoenix do something called Accent Verses Accent where they find two people with different foreign accents reading the same lyrics of a song they play.
There should never be a doubt that you can’t learn something on YouTube. Mark Devine from Mark and NeanderPaul, KSLX, Phoenix bought a bottle of Jack Daniels at the liquor store. When he got home, he realized the clerk forgot to remove the security cap. Driving back to the store would have delayed his drink, so he YouTubed the dilemma and found a ton of videos showing him how to do it. What odd thing did you learn to do on YouTube?
Here’s a new game for the show if you have other employees in the building: send a cast member into the kitchen and the listener on the phone has to guess if a used K-cup was left inside the Keurig. An aside – this is relatable to lots of folks in offices that people are not courteous enough to throw out their used K-cup after making coffee.
This one will take some editing, but be a total goof on the audience. With the USPS in the news, have someone at the station be Zip Code Man (ZCM). Listeners call, tell ZCM their street address, and he tells them their zip code. He’s never wrong. The thing is you record all the calls ahead of time and edit out the space where you are looking it up. So Zip Code Man knows every zip code off the top of his head very quickly. That’s his super power!