Lots of listeners celebrated Father’s Day this weekend. But a handful committed a major sin. They forgot to call their father. Here’s where Father’s Day 911 comes in. Find one or two, conference call their dad on the other line, and facilitate the apology on-the-air.
With Father’s Day just around the corner, time to convince your mayor (or another fun elected official) to come on the show to sign and read a proclamation pronouncing that in your town, fathers must be paid the same attention as mothers are on Mother’s Day. And that ties and cologne as gifts are now illegal.
With American Pharaoh winning the Triple Crown over the weekend, an appropriate game to play with the audience this week is the Triple Crown of Trivia. Gather several dozen intriguing trivia questions. Then open the phones. The first listener to answer three correctly in a row wins. Miss one and they’re done.
With high school graduations just wrapping up, find your transcripts and share them with the audience, revealing your graduating GPA. Then ask the audience to call with theirs and match it against what they ended up doing for a living. Are all the 4.0’s the people who have the best jobs? Here’s the test.
With all of the country entering high school graduation season, time to test the show’s ability to deliver a short, highly inspirational, fun commencement speech. Each cast member writes a 60-second speech for graduating seniors. Take a break or two to read them to the audience. Then place them all online for the audience to vote who did the best job with those results the very next day on the show.
Character development is always critical for a show. The audience getting to know those parts of you they can relate to makes you real and human. On occasion, play a saved voicemail from the phone of a cast member. Bleep out the cast member’s name in the message (if there) and play it for the audience, who has to guess who it was left for.
The topic of Mother’s Day is as viable the day after as it is the day before. Invite kids to come on the show and ask them to do their imitation of their mother when she’s angry. If you start with your kids, you’ll do some character development to launch the idea before opening the phones.
With Mother’s Day next weekend, find someone with musical talents and get them to write a custom song for a mother from her husband/kids chosen from the audience as a gift. Put the family on with the musician on Thursday morning and ask personal questions about the mom. The musician then goes to write a short, fun song based on what was gleaned about the mom and comes back the next day to perform it for her in the studio.
The TJ Show, AMP 103.3, Boston has a very novel way to offer prizes to a listener once they win one of their quirky games. You can choose either what’s in TJ’s sack or Loren’s box. It sounds dirty (but isn’t), has an edge, and is always the same prize regardless once the listener chooses. It’s naughty without being naughty due to the play on words. But also adds an interesting spice to games to capture listeners’ attention.
With Game of Thrones, a big buzz TV show back on HBO, “The Game of Thrones” is a fun, quirky game you can play with listeners. Describe a different throne or something someone would sit on (i.e. toilet, electric chair, airplane seat). If the listener guesses the description of the throne you’re describing, they win.