CPR Promotional Check-Up - Jan 25, 2019

Ain't Never Been Done

I don't think anyone has ever melded Halloween and Valentines. With that in mind...

...when I was at Kiss 102 in Charlotte, Mrs. Paige and I double-dated with Jo Jo Wright and the psycho record rep he was seeing, and went to see "Ghost" when it hit the dollar theater. It had been out for awhile, we'd heard it was good and finally it was in a venue that was in our price range.

We were standing in the lobby when the doors opened up and the people from the previous screening started streaming out. Most were women and they were sobbing. Balling. Dabbing their eyes with Kleenex. I looked over at Jo Jo and said something like "Uh oh."

What if...and this is very very out there, but it would also push a zillion buttons with your listeners, you found a listener whose sweetheart passed away. You brought in a psychic, and you married the two across the great beyond.

Obviously it's not legally binding. Obviously you would need to do this with respect and good taste. (At least as much respect and good taste as you can have marrying a listener and a ghost.)

It was like eight years years ago when 97 Rock in Buffalo surprised a listener by flying her boyfriend back from Afghanistan and he proposed to her in the studio. John Hager said that you could hear women across upstate New York spontaneously burst into tears. Every woman at Citadel in that market was sobbing.

This bit would do that.

Very Close

Dave Ryan at KDWB did a version of this by using psychic Gary Spivey to help a listener say goodbye to his dead fiancée.