CPR Promotional Check-Up - Feb 3, 2020

Carpe Diem (Seize The Carp!)

Over the years I’ve sent winners to just about every corner of the globe. Scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef. White water rafting in West Virginia. To Pampolona to get gored. Cities 97 in Minny does these really cool “Wine & Dine” adventures where they send winners to vineyards all over the world. One of their recent winners is off to South Africa for exotic cuisine, wine tasting and mountain biking in the rugged coastal hills. Honestly? How cool does that sound. Especially compared to the (mostly) lame flyaways other stations do.

So, last Spring I was sitting in a Holiday Inn in Oklahoma City (please cue the Sheila E music…now) and at breakfast there were all these people with matching t-shirts on. I strolled by and caught the logo: they were on a tornado chasing tour. And sure enough, in the parking lot of the hotel, were their antenna-bedecked vans, engines running, ready to scout for wall clouds. How cool would that be for a trip this April or May? Google “tornado tours” and you’ll find several companies that do this.

And Yet, Even MORE Valentines Stuff

Brokeback Valentines Q-104 in Halifax celebrated a “Brokeback Valentines Day” that had two guys spending the morning, naked, together in a sleeping bag for Motley Crue tickets. They were asked to change positions repeatedly, always face-to-face and while uttering the line “I don’t know how to quit you” from the film.

There Is Never A Right Answer Also in 2006 Ace & TJ at Kiss 95.1 in Charlotte did the Guess Your Spouses Weight bit for dinner, tickets to Keith Urban and a couples massage.

It’s All Fun Until The Morning Guy Becomes Sterile Todd Chance at WIOG in Saginaw once did the Stupid Cupid Paintball Payback and had listeners bring down mementos from ex’s which he taped to his toga (yes: he was wearing a toga) and listeners could blast away at him with a paintball gun. The thoroughly welted Todd says that this year he’s wearing a cup.

In The Butt, Bob KZIA in Cedar Rapids had a bevy of bits starting on Monday with The Oldywed Game and wrapping up this morning with Heather The Producer serenading a woman (with Scott Schulte on keyboards) and then her boyfriend proposed to her.

The F Word Joey and Heather at Wild 97.9 in Oklahoma City did their second annual “F Valentines Day” party. 400 female P1’s and male strippers. It doesn’t get any better then that. (I hear.) The website graphic featured a dead cupid.