With Cinco de Mayo this week (Friday), do the Hot Pepper Challenge. Get every kind of pepper from your grocery store and set them up most mild to set-your-mouth-on-fire hot. Invite someone to conduct a trivia contest amongst the show cast around Cinco de Mayo or Mexican trivia. Get the question right, and the cast member endures no pepper. Get the question wrong, and they must eat a pepper (start mild, work to hot to build tension).
If your market has not yet gotten to weather nice enough to mow lawns for the first time this season, set every guy on your show in competition with each other to see who has to pull the cord on their mower the most times to get it started. Audio of it helps the bit. Thanks to JJ and Tiny, KFDI, Wichita for this idea.
This new feature is inspired by The Josie Dye Show, Indie 88, Toronto, who shared a story about a friend who had a date made through Tinder with a guy who couldn’t have seemed more perfect,. He was good looking, paid for the meal, they both loved the same music. But she rejected him because she thought there were times during the date where he looked like a serial killer. Which leads to an occasional feature called Tinder Fails, where listeners come on to talk about the dates they made from Tinder swipes that don’t go well.
How is it that women who are best friends refer to each other as “my girlfriend” without it being sexual and can easily go out over the weekend without fear of being judged like they’re in a relationship, but guys cannot use that same verbiage? Here’s a new feature for your show called “The Monday Man Date” where guys call up and admit they went out with their male friends to do things over the weekend (a movie, shopping, to a party) and admit that they had a Man Date.
Let’s run a test to see who’s the most trusted member of the morning show. Each person on the show must approach five different co-workers at the station and ask if they trust them enough to say if they’re getting a refund or owe money to the government for their 2016 taxes and what that amount is. Be recording this. The winner is the person who gets the most of the five people to share that info.
With Easter just a few weeks away, time for your yearly morning show Peep Show. Run a trivia game amongst the cast to find out who knows the most about their fellow show members (this is character development for all). The loser must do the Peep Show where they put twenty of those candied Easter peeps in their mouth and must sing the most popular song on the radio station right now.
Some people will gloat this week that they’re sitting atop their office pools. The next two weeks will give you a shot to celebrate the bottom third. Make stars out of those who have broken brackets, who sit at the bottom of their office March Madness pools!
March Madness will consume the country for the next three weeks. For those (of us) who love basketball, it’s nirvana. Considering it’s happening in every office, it might be fun for you to join an office pool from listeners. Have the person who invites you in their office pool on the show each week to tell you how you’re doing.
An idea you can plan on now is inviting listeners in on the day Lent ends and they break it live on your show. Say a listener gave up chocolate or Diet Coke…they have their first chocolate or Diet Coke live on your program when it’s over on April 13, which should result in a great reaction after not being able to have it for a long time.
The name of this feature might be way too edgy for your show/station. But the concept is brilliant. Colleen and Bradley, myTalk 107.1, Minneapolis, do a weekly feature called Lord and Lady Douche Bag where they highlight the bad behavior of a male and female celebrity, bestowing that honor on them both. If the feature works, but the name doesn’t, simply change it as the frame to do the idea.