Ever think of camping outside a Walmart, BJ’s Wholesale, or Costco and go up to guys leaving and ask them what they’ve purchased? The disparity in items people purchase at places like this run the gamut and would be fun to listen to, especially with the innuendo in the name. You can call it “What’s In Your Sack?”
Did you haul several truckloads of mulch over the weekend? Re-roof the house? Power wash your driveway? Then you’ve committed an “Act of Man-chievement”. A new, occasional feature for the show where guys get to come on and boast about the manly thing they did.
With graduations upon us, walk around the building asking co-workers to give advice to their younger selves. If they knew then what they know now about life, what would they tell their 18-year old self? Record all, edit the best (most touching, weirdest, funniest) lines together. Put “Pomp and Circumstance” under it and play it for your audience!
As we shift into summer content, many of your listeners will have Saturday morning yard sales to get rid of the stuff in their home they no longer use. Most people having these advertise them by tacking a sign on a telephone pole. Set up a regular Friday feature through the summer where listeners having these yard sales can feel the power of your show by promoting them on the program. They give the location, the times, and can highlight the oddest item they’re selling. The marrying of these two items (your big show with the smallness of a yard sale) could create fun lifestyle content.
With Mother’s Day Sunday, tap into the vein of kids and moms by calling the kids of cast members to tell them they’re on their own buying a gift this year. Moms usually get the standard fare: flowers, dinners, jewelry, cards. Tell the kids they must come up with a novel gift suggestion each day until Sunday. Call them back every day this week to see what creative things they’ve come up with. You might have to coach the kids off-line, but it’ll make for fun, very relatable breaks, especially if you target women.
The Kentucky Derby is this Saturday. A fun game to play if you have something to give out is “Kentucky Derby or Prescription Drug”. Gather the names of the horses in the race and some official names of prescription drugs advertised on TV. The listener must guess which is which to win.
What do most mothers get on Mother’s Day? A card, flowers, breakfast put together by the kids, jewelry. Blah, blah blah. What do most mother want on Mother’s Day? To have the day all to themselves, a nice quiet house with no screaming people, blaring TVs, and arguments. Find moms who want exactly that and conference call their husbands/families in on the show so she can publicly tell them to not spend a dime, but to vacate the premises so she can have a Mother’s Day without all the activity.
If you live in a market with a sports team, see if one of the cheerleaders will help with a prom promotion. No doubt there’s a guy who can’t find a date for his prom. Guys put their bid in for The Perfect Prom, which is a date with one of the cheerleaders. Narrow the list down to three guys who each vie for the G-rated company of a cheerleader from the team.
There are two options if you have something to give out. Take caller ten (boring) or play a game listeners in their cars can play along with (fun). Always choose option number two. Here’s a new one: Backwards Then Forwards. Play the hook of a song in your format backwards. The first listener to identify the artist and song title wins. Then play the song forwards.
Easter is Sunday, April 20 this year. A fun thing to do is grab some Easter-related tongue twisters and challenge kids to do them (one site to find them is here). You’ll want visit a school or get kids you know in the neighborhood to do these so you have the audio all that week (instead of doing this over the phone where you don’t know what you’ll get).