The world is very busy, especially for kids. With school, homework, weekend soccer, and chores around the house, what kid has the time to think about Halloween? Which is why someone on the show should call some kids as The Great Pumpkin the week prior to Halloween to take candy orders to see what they’ll do with this.
Here’s a new weekly feature that will help you connect with moms. Take calls from mothers who’ll tell you stories about bad behavior from their kids. You guys get to ask followup questions to get the details so the story comes to life. Then you each get to guess what the punishment was to the kid for their misdeed. The parent then tells you what they did. This works because it’s story-based and the audience is trying to guess, too.
New game alert to give stuff out!!! The Celebrity Sex Change. Get audio of famous people talking. Slow down the women (so they sound like guys) and speed up the guys (so they sound like women). Play them for listeners and they have to guess who they are.
Anyone think about taking the Zika virus and turning it into a dance song? Much like The Macarena (you can use this melody), write some fun lyrics and turn this Hot Topic into a rhythmic tune to create some humor.
Taking a page from Jimmy Kimmel’s “Mean Tweets”, how fun might it be if you find a real character (i.e. the opinionated custodian at work, the boring chief engineer in the building, a very cute, precious kid) and ask them to read Donald Trump’s tweets every few days?
The TJ Show, AMP 103.3, Boston put a new character development feature on called Quick Questions they developed from a video Vogue put on line with Kendall Jordan (here). TJ goes around the room asking the cast questions so the audience can get to know them (the movie you found the funniest/made you cry the most, what celebrity you were most excited to meet, etc.) then he played the audio of Kendall’s answers. Simple, easy, pop culture, and strategic.
There are a slew of Olympic sports. Some atypical. Find a bunch of kids and ask them what happens in the javelin or archery or boxing or shot put. Cute kids will have funny descriptions and explanations of what they think happens during an Olympic sport and could be fun to listen to.
School is back in session soon and every mom is shopping for their kid. As school supplies are being purchased, we beg the question: What’s so special about the number two lead pencil? If it’s so important to test-taking, why isn’t it the number one lead pencil? These and many other questions can be asked if you track down the maker of the Number Two pencil and ask them – we bet listeners will enjoy the memory and resolution to why that is the only pencil that mattered when we were in school.
Have moms you work with who have kids at home call to see what they’re doing. Then the mother starts giving the kid chores to do that day before she returns from work. Record all of this after the show in the production studio – listen as the kid has a meltdown the longer the list gets.
How about you talk to kids and ask them to put together a platform for a political party they could support. You might have to seed the answers, but I would be looking for: instead of one, there will now be four Halloweens a year so I get more candy. My mother has to legally serve me ice cream after every dinner. It’s a felony for my sister to talk after 6pm. There will be no homework once school starts.