No doubt a kid of a listener is in a middle or elementary school play in the spring. Find one and then create a narrative where the most theatrical person on your show gets a part in the show – then make a very big deal over it, loading the audience with listeners – and treat it like a Broadway premiere.
Because her kids do nothing but play Fortnight when at home. Because her kids never pick up their room. Because her son failed math at school. Dana and Jayson, ALT 94.9, San Diego do a humorous weekly feature around Dana’s life called “Why Mommy Drinks.” It’s silly fun that positions Dana as the mom on the show, with Dana recording these as she encounters them in the home then presenting them to the audience in a produced feature each week.
In his opening statement to Congress last week, Michael Cohen said that he sent threatening letters to the schools President Trump went to so they did not release his transcripts and grades to the public. Here’s some character development for you – get your transcripts and grades and release yours the public!
Have you seen the pictures of Shawn Mendes modeling the Calvin Klein underwear? Have the least in shape member of the team recreate the pictures for your social media feeds to generate some digital content and possibly get it to go viral!
Listeners want to be brought inside stories – and the best people to do this are those actually in the story. What happens when a celebrity in the audience at the Oscars (Sunday, February 24) has to use the bathroom? The show has “seat fillers” who occupy the seat until the star returns. Using the power of the internet, find people who’ve done this to hear what it’s like.
With Valentine’s Day this week, call your parents and ask them where you were conceived! Then, flip the script and see if listeners will call their parents on the show to ask the same question (remember to keep things legal with all calls). Thanks to The Josie Dye Show, Indie 88, Toronto for this idea.
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”.
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.
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.
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!