Go grab two nights at the sleaziest motel in your city. Then take calls from listeners hosting family this Thanksgiving. Give the nights at the motel to the listener who best convinces you that they will need to leave their home at some point because certain family members will become intolerable.
If a few cast members have kids and you think you’ll get a great reaction, quietly record what they do when you have a meeting to inform them of a family gathering they did not attend where it was voted that after the Thanksgiving meal, they were chosen to clean up the entire dining room and kitchen and won’t be getting help from anyone else.
Dumb, silly, fun bits are always remembered. Here’s a new feature for the show you can do on occasion called “We Know Your Dog’s Name”. Listeners call, give you the breed, age, and gender of their dog and you guess its name. The running joke is that you walk in hyper-confident with each caller and never, ever guess one correctly.
With Halloween and the opening of the Queen movie next week, it might be fun to bring a few kids in the studio and make them up as Freddie Mercury for the holiday.
What might be fun is to find a few creatives in the audience and give them the task of carving a very famous celebrity into a pumpkin. Then closer to Halloween, they bring the pumpkins in and let listeners decide on social media who carved it best (for this idea, have every carver do the same celebrity).
For a narrative arc close to Halloween, why not help a kid in the audience put together and execute a marketing plan directed at his or her neighborhood trying to convince those who live close by to give out full-sized candy bars this year? Then come back on November 1st and see how good the marketing plan was!
Do you wonder at all what Bill Cosby’s first week in prison has been like? Great stories happen on the fringe so it might be interesting to find a listener or two who’ve done time and get them to tell you what Cosby’s life is like now.
Koz and Jen, The MIX (WTMX), Chicago offer up this week’s free idea called The Spousal Sports Bet. This is where one half of the marriage supports one team in a sports rivalry match-up and the other half is rooting for the other team (i.e. he wants the Bears to win, she wants the Packers). The bet is that the loser must do the least favorite household chore of the other for the number of days equal to the points scored by the winning team.
Do you know any kid heavily into Fortnite? Find a few senior citizens who have never played video games and get the kid to teach how to play the game to the seniors. You’ll get great audio for the show and a video package for social media.
Go grab a bunch of interesting questions about the Emmys online and have a few older women record them for a feature called My Grammy Has a Question About the Emmys you can use leading up to the show. Then find someone to answer them.