Ask lots of moms and dads and they’ll tell you their kids watch the movie “Frozen” over and over and over and over again. And privately, they’re in hell because they have to watch it, too. Create, with an appropriate production value, “Frozen Prison” and invite listeners who are also there to call to tell you. Assign them a prisoner number and place them in a cell, under protective custody.
We’re in summer mode with lots of families headed for vacation in the next ten weeks. Ask the kids of coworkers to leave you a voicemail before they go to sleep while on vacation each night reading you the list of things they did while on break that day. You’ll get everything from the mundane (“went to the pool”) to exciting (“went horseback riding”). Produced right, you’ll have a fun lifestyle feature to play each day for the audience who can relate.
With the World Cup on now, there’s lot of talk of other countries participating. Write up a bunch of sentences, some done with romantic language, intended to seduce someone of the opposite sex. Then write up another group of sentences, intended to insult the person hearing it. Run each through Google Translate from English into the language of a World Cup soccer team. Play each to a contestant who must decide if they’re being seduced or insulted!
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.