School supplies are already in stores to be bought by parents. Let’s help kids get ready to head back to learning by putting them to work. Find a few fun kids and ask one each night next week and the week after, when the GOP and Democratic Conventions are on, to watch an hour of it each evening and write a 50-word book report on what they saw then come on the show the next morning to read it to the audience.
No doubt that people lose their diets in the summer. Here’s a weekend challenge for every member of the show: keep a food diary of everything you eat over the course of the same weekend. Have a dietician in on Monday to hear each person’s food diary so they can determine who the show’s Poorest Eater is.
With the summer Rio Olympics only weeks away, put together Olympics-like profiles for each cast member of the show for character development. These need to be over-the-top profiles (like they run for the athletes) highlighting some kind of inane adversity you suffered as a kid enroute to your career in broadcasting.
I wonder how a friend of yours would react if you called to check on them and said, at the top of the conversation, “I’m naked and thinking of you so I thought I’d call.” Or if you called your folks and confided in your mother, “I’m not sure you know, but I tinkle when I laugh.” Totally silly, and if you share with the audience what you’ll be telling the person you’re calling, they’ll lean in to hear the reaction.
If you have a prize to give out and are looking for a fun thing to do that keeps listeners paying attention, play “The Short Term Memory Game”. Conduct a break (say, an interview around a topic). At the end of the break, launch the game and ask a question about something that was said. The correct caller with the right answer wins your prize and proves they were listening closely to what you were doing. Thanks to The Big Dave Show, B105, Cincinnati for this idea.
An 82-year old man was singing heavy metal on “America’s Got Talent” last week. Why not have a talent competition amongst the grandparents of your listeners in the last week of the TV show, just as it’s crowning its new champion?
Time to tap into the lifestyle that is neighborhoods and the summer in “The Pool Report”. Find kids at neighborhood pools and get them to contribute to the show (comment on the day’s news stories, talk about the summer and time off from school, gossip about their neighbors, etc.). Kids are always in good moods at pools so you’ll get all that energy and enthusiasm on your show.
Wouldn’t it be fun to have the audience vote for 24-hours on your website and all your social media platforms on which male cast member of the show has to do their version of the Justin Bieber crotch grab picture released on his Instagram (here)?
Put compromising pictures of cast members on your social media sites (i.e. the heaviest guy on your show in a Speedo) with two words: Roast This! Then, in an entertaining way, read what you get. Thanks for Spencer Graves from Spencer’s Neighborhood, 106.5 The Arch, St. Louis for this idea.
We’re about to enter June, the traditional month for lots of weddings. Using social media, find a male listener who’s a best man at an upcoming wedding. The best man has to give the first toast at the reception. Develop a one-week narrative arc where you introduce him to the audience, find out about the happy couple, then get him professional help to write a killer first toast. The payoff is the Monday after the ceremony when you have audio and guest reaction on your show.