The VD Do-Over
Not everyone’s Valentine’s Day went perfectly last year. Take stories from listeners where things went sideways and then give one of your listeners a “do-over”.
The Best Driver of Them All
With Prince Philip’s car crash still in the news, go out and find an entertaining instructor at a driving school who’ll give the show’s cast members a driving test, then come on the program to rate each of you in driving skills.
Laggards, Braggarts, or Daggers
New feature time! Open the phones and listeners must call with an office story about a co-worker who is either a laggard (lazy), a braggart (boast about themselves all the time), or shoots daggers (is a back stabber). No names keeps you legal, but we all know one of those we work with.
The Mac and Cheese Challenge
Well, the heavens have opened. Costco has announced they are selling a 27-pound tub of mac and cheese (story here), one of the food items you can never get enough of. Let’s test that. As everyone is in gyms trying to lose weight, ask the audience to vote on which cast member and their family has to buy it and eat nothing but mac and cheese (yes, breakfast, lunch, and dinner) until it’s completely gone. Chronicle every meal and let’s see how miserable that cast member and their family get!
Let’s Lose Weight Together
Losing weight is the biggest resolution. Dedicate the first half hour of your show for the next couple of weeks to calling listeners who go to the gym before heading to work to either wake them to get there or assure they are on their way.
Let’s Get It On Layaway
With lots of celebrities paying off fan’s layaway items, Mojo in the Morning, Channel 95.5, Detroit did the same. Without saying so, they asked listeners to call to tell them what they had placed on layaway at a store. With great phone screening, the items they heard about (where the funny happened) were: a Batman blanket, piranha fish, anal bleach (whatever that is), and a bong. They then told each caller they were paying off their layaway. The grand total was about $85 to tie into the topic and own it.
Who Decorated It Best?
Does every cast member of the show have their holiday decorations up in the house? Go grab some digital hits by each person taking a picture of their decorated living room, posting the picture on the website, and asking the audience to try and match the cast member with their photo. Bringing listeners “inside” your home is one reason they will interact with you on social media.
Your Christmas Memory
Any idea what you bought your spouse or significant other last Christmas? Or what they got you? Time to put that to the test by having someone on in each cast member’s life and quizzing to see if they remember, too.
Let’s All Celebrate “Drunksgiving”
There are a ton of stories to mine from the long holiday weekend. This is as easy one – who turned Thanksgiving into “Drunksgiving”? Ask listeners to give you the list of friends and relatives who had too much to drink on the holiday and what happened as a result.
No…More…Politics
With families getting together this week for the Thanksgiving holiday, there’s no doubt politics will enter the conversation by someone with the midterms just over. Which is why you’ll ask what family member will be the first to talk politics over the holiday and get that person to recite your humorous oath to not engage once that happens at the dinner table.