No doubt with Memorial Day next week, many listeners will try to get Friday off, too. Open the phones looking to find out what time people are getting off at work and then get one boss on who’s keep their employees until late afternoon and bribe him or her to let them go at noon that day.
With the Royal Wedding this Saturday, how about getting some drag queens to hold up signs on the overpasses of busy highways asking those driving to work to listen to you? Call them the Queens of England.
With high school and college graduations coming this month, invite area valedictorians in to play whatever daily Hollywood-based trivia game you play to see if their book smarts also mean Hollywood smarts. You might have to do some work to find the valedictorians to invite them in but this might be a fun thing to do if you have that feature.
With Cinco de Mayo this coming Saturday, time for the Hot Pepper Challenge where one cast member tests the Cinco de Mayo knowledge of the rest of the cast. Get a trivia question right and you’re safe, but get it wrong and you must eat a hot pepper. Get hot peppers from mild to flame-burning and dole them out in that order to increase the tension as the trivia questions are asked.
A gravy boat? New throw pillows for the sofa? A subscription to a jelly-of-the-month club? With Prince Harry and Meghan Markle marrying in less than a month, you will certainly want to have your listeners help you figure out an appropriate wedding gift so you can get it off to Buckingham Palace, right?
We keep hearing in the news that Michael Cohen is Trump’s “fixer”. Who’s yours? Who do you know who has sway and did a major favor for you? Like a neighbor who got you a great deal on new gutters. Or the cop/friend who got you out of a ticket? Closer’s names remain anonymous, but let’s hear what happened. Time to open the phones for stories.
Be honest, is there someone at work you think is an idiot? That co-worker who always seems to get in the way, who makes meetings longer, who clicks “reply all” on every email? Mark and NeanderPaul, KSLX, Phoenix developed a feature called The Work Jerk where listeners come on and out that person in their office on the show. We’re careful because all we really want is the story and the raw emotion of what the person does because it’s so relatable. So we only allow callers to give the initials of the person before launching into their tirade!
Many shows bank audio of them making on-air mistakes. With March Madness wrapping up, their annual tradition is to put video highlights of the tournament over the song “One Shining Moment”. It might be fun to place audio screw-ups of the cast from your show over the song to create some humor.
I recently battled my bank to get a refund on a BS $5 service fee and realized that this brought me immense joy when I succeeded. So here’s a new occasional feature for the show called Little Victories. Let the audience call to tell you about the small victory they recently had in life just like that (doesn’t need to be money based). You’ll need to offer up an example before opening the phones so they get what this is all about.
Today’s Free Idea comes compliments of Chubbs and Tara, KHITS, Tulsa who do a feature called Accordion to Chubbs (play on words) where he plays a hit song on the accordion and the listener must guess the song to win.