Cultural Translator App

Idea: An app to help you communicate better with other cultures, including translating what other people are saying to you, translating what you want to say (with settings for emotions i.e. calm/passive-aggressive/aggressive, whether you want to appear "cool" or professional, etc.), and listening to what you're saying and warning you in real-time if you're starting to say something stupid or offensive. Also: you could type or speak into the translator; the app would take your identity (race, gender, age, geographic region, etc.) into account when deciding what you should say; a walkthrough of a culturally-translated scenario

Stefanie Ann (Podcast: Sanctioned by Stefanie Podcast: MILF and the Millennial Vidcast: Knuckleheads Comedy (YouTube) Open Mic: Fireside Inn Dive Bar Instagram: @thedownriverdiva Facebook: @stefanie.brewer1)
JD The Smile Hustler (Twitter: @smilehustler01 Instagram: @smilehustler01 Facebook: JD The Smile Hustler)
Aaron Sorrels (theunemployedalcoholic.com Podcasts: Well Metaversed and Clean Comedy Time Soapstone Comedy Club on Horizon Worlds)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Casual Dating vs Violent Family Opposition

A bizarre scenario where a casual relationship with someone who's incredibly attractive has a strange, violent downside, which is that their brother periodically beats you up. Also: questioning whether you'd be willing to endure this scenario, and for how long; brainstorming about whether this scenario can be monetized, such as by substituting the brother with a violent contractor for hire or by selling T-shirts with padding to help you endure the violence (i.e. the opposite of a "wife beater" T-shirt); questioning whether the scenario is real and whether Blaine (the guy who brought up this topic) is in immediate danger

Blaine Drews (Instagram: @blainedrews)
Stefanie Ann (Podcast: Sanctioned by Stefanie Podcast: MILF and the Millennial Vidcast: Knuckleheads Comedy (YouTube) Open Mic: Fireside Inn Dive Bar Instagram: @thedownriverdiva Facebook: @stefanie.brewer1)
JD The Smile Hustler (Twitter: @smilehustler01 Instagram: @smilehustler01 Facebook: JD The Smile Hustler)
Aaron Sorrels (theunemployedalcoholic.com Podcasts: Well Metaversed and Clean Comedy Time Soapstone Comedy Club on Horizon Worlds)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Outdoor Concert Survival Bunkers

Idea: An outdoor concert venue where each set of 4 or so seats has a bunker underneath, where you can use the restroom, take a shower, sleep, etc. People would own the bunkers, and they could rent them out during concerts to help pay for them, and also use them as survival bunkers during nuclear wars, floods, hurricanes, etc. Also: you could go down into the bunker for peace and quiet and to check your phone during the boring parts of a concert; bums might want to live in the bunkers full time; there might be chaos if a disaster occurs during a concert and both the people who own the bunker and the people to whom they rented it out for the concert want to use it

Evan Sasiela (Twitter: @SalsaEvan Instagram: @salsaevan)
Connie Ettinger (Facebook: @connie.ettinger)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Robot Sports Companion

Idea: A robot to play sports with, to shoot hoops or play catch if you're alone, to help you practice or train better, or to fill an empty spot on a team. Also: the robot could help a non-athletic kid advance to a skill level where the other kids would want to play with them; using a robot to teach you to dance; the robot could be hollow to allow you to wear it like an exoskeleton and violate the non-violent robotic software rules

Evan Sasiela (Twitter: @SalsaEvan Instagram: @salsaevan)
Connie Ettinger (Facebook: @connie.ettinger)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Junk Drawers of the Rich and Famous

Idea: A TV show where celebrities and rich people show their junk drawers, so you can see things about them that you don't normally see, such as whether they're messy, whether they own interesting rich people stuff or a larger quantity of normal people stuff, whether they pay people to keep their stuff organized, etc. Also: the TV show could also show stuff that celebs keep in other places (attics, pantries, purses, pill drawers, etc.) and other things from celebrities private lives (hobbies and collectibles, diaries and childhood artifacts, unflattering body parts, grown-up children, etc.); the risk of getting robbed after showing your stuff on TV

Evan Sasiela (Twitter: @SalsaEvan Instagram: @salsaevan)
Connie Ettinger (Facebook: @connie.ettinger)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Baby Monitor Wristwatch

Idea: A wristwatch with a dedicated baby monitor with audio, video with zoom/scroll, and possibly other sensors, because if you're in bed or sitting on the couch, you don't want to have to get up or roll over to reach a baby monitor. Also: questioning whether baby monitors are really necessary (but still feeling compelled to use one); Apple brainwashing you into accepting electronics which don't allow you to replace the battery; using a temperature-detecting camera to detect if a baby needs a diaper change

Diego Attanasio (diegoattanasio.com Twitter: @DiegoComedy Newlydad Podcast)
Evan Sasiela (Twitter: @SalsaEvan Instagram: @salsaevan)
Connie Ettinger (Facebook: @connie.ettinger)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Wind-Powered Tractors

Idea: Tractors powered by sailboat-style sails instead of fossil fuels. Also: calculations of the power generated by sails vs. the power needs of different types of tractors; using a battery-powered tractor and charging it via a stationary windmill (or a windmill on top of the tractor); Tesla tractor conversion kits; questioning whether people would volunteer to farm your field for free if the tractor was fun like a sailboat, and questioning whether that notion (ie trying to get people to farm for free) is dangerously close to slavery

Jared Hibbs (Facebook: Laughter Layover Twitter: @Hibbzilla)
Cam Honeyager (Instagram: @camhoneyager Twitter: @phatboicam TikTok: @camhoneyager)
Nolan Johncock (Intagram: @kzquarantineking)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Dip Pants

Idea: Pants to wear when you eat dip (bean dip, french onion dip, etc.) which repel dip if you spill it on them. Also: spraying PFOS/teflon on pants to make them "non-stick"; putting fleece on the inside of the pants to make them more comfortable but possibly so warm that they overheat your groin and make you infertile; a (fictional) traumatic childhood story about spilling dip on pants

Jared Hibbs (Facebook: Laughter Layover Twitter: @Hibbzilla)
Cam Honeyager (Instagram: @camhoneyager Twitter: @phatboicam TikTok: @camhoneyager)
Nolan Johncock (Intagram: @kzquarantineking)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Next Intelligent Species (Comedic Debate)

A comedic debate about which of four existing animal species (rat, raccoon, octopus, or crow) would be the first to develop human-level intelligence if humanity got wiped out. Also, if they all developed intelligence at about the same time, a debate about which would win in a mechanized inter-species world war. Also: raccoons have thumbs which they could use to wield tools; several nations have recognized octopi as sentient beings; modern-day crows can form pair bonds and work with wolves like our human ancestors did, and so, in the future, dogs could be effectively enslaved.... again; The Great Australian Emu War of 1932

Jared Hibbs (Facebook: Laughter Layover Twitter: @Hibbzilla)
Cam Honeyager (Instagram: @camhoneyager Twitter: @phatboicam TikTok: @camhoneyager)
Nolan Johncock (Intagram: @kzquarantineking)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Breakfast Soup

Idea: A breakfast soup or stew, because there's no breakfast soup that we're aware of, and it sounds delicious. Also: a spicy breakfast that causes you to shit fire at 1:00 pm; "soupifying" a traditional breakfast; chicken waffle breakfast nachos; the absurd identity politics of drinking milk

Jared Hibbs (Facebook: Laughter Layover Twitter: @Hibbzilla)
Cam Honeyager (Instagram: @camhoneyager Twitter: @phatboicam TikTok: @camhoneyager)
Nolan Johncock (Intagram: @kzquarantineking)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Karma Peacock NFTs

Idea: An NFT-based social media application where each person has a peacock avatar, and people (or charities) give them a "feather" as a reward for doing a good deed, and so the more good deeds they do, the more elaborate their peacock becomes, allowing them to show off (aka "to peacock") their good karma to their friends. Also: each feather would include information about the good deed so other people can see why you earned it; people could give you cryptocurrency as a reward for a good deed; human auditors could verify that the highly-rewarded good deeds actually happened; discussing whether the possibility of a financial reward ruins the "purity" of good deeds; maybe people have always wanted to give like $5 as a reward to people they see on the local news who saved a puppy or something but there was never a convenient way to do so

Chris Karpinski (Facebook: @christopher.j.karpinski Mead Me at Valhalla Comedy Show)
Mike Szar (Twitter: @MikeSzar_ Instagram: @mikeszar_ Facebook: @Mikeszarcomedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Super Citizens

Idea: A special citizenship status with fun privileges which allow you act like an action movie hero and commandeer another person's car, and also maybe take people's food, swap clothing with them, cut in front of them in a line, etc. Also: you'd have to do a brave heroic act to become a Super Citizen; "Improving Citizens" who have to "clean up the messes" of the Super Citizens, i.e. return the cars taken by Super Citizens to their owners; discussing our own successful and unsuccessful acts of heroic bravery

Chris Karpinski (Facebook: @christopher.j.karpinski Mead Me at Valhalla Comedy Show)
Mike Szar (Twitter: @MikeSzar_ Instagram: @mikeszar_ Facebook: @Mikeszarcomedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

"Determinator" Vocal Intelligence Analyzer App

Idea: An app that you run when somebody's talking to you which listens to them and judges their intelligence level in order to help you determine whether or how to interact with them. Also: detecting personality traits such as abusiveness; questioning whether you'd run the app on yourself to determine your own intelligence level; using the app to identify a person from their voice if you forgot their name; creating a giant "big brother" online database of people's vocal intelligence assessments; tricking the app to appear more intelligent

Chris Karpinski (Facebook: @christopher.j.karpinski Mead Me at Valhalla Comedy Show)
Mike Szar (Twitter: @MikeSzar_ Instagram: @mikeszar_ Facebook: @Mikeszarcomedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Self-Playing Musical Instruments

Idea: Musical instruments such as drums, guitars, and saxophones which play themselves like a "self-playing piano" aka "player piano", and where you can't see the mechanism which is playing the instrument. Also: playing musical instruments using stick-and-gear contraptions, humanoid robots, metal balls falling in rhythm onto drums, etc.; replacing a deceased band member with a self-playing musical instrument; self-playing musical instruments on the street which wouldn't make you feel obligated to donate to them (unlike street musicians); discussing performing standup comedy on the street

Chris Karpinski (Facebook: @christopher.j.karpinski Mead Me at Valhalla Comedy Show)
Mike Szar (Twitter: @MikeSzar_ Instagram: @mikeszar_ Facebook: @Mikeszarcomedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

"Domestic Exchange" Student Exchange Program

Idea: A high school student exchange program where both kids being exchanged live in the US but in different situations (city vs. country, rich vs. poor, etc.). Also: meeting and living with different types of people would make kids more emotionally intelligent and less likely to be jerks; "prison in the pines"; boarding schools for misbehaving exchange students so you don't have to send them (and the corresponding exchange student) home early

Chris Karpinski (Facebook: @christopher.j.karpinski Mead Me at Valhalla Comedy Show)
Mike Szar (Twitter: @MikeSzar_ Instagram: @mikeszar_ Facebook: @Mikeszarcomedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Smart Ladder

Idea: To put electronics into ladders to tell you if it's safe to climb them and to call an ambulance if you fall off. Also: a built-in breathalyzer; rungs that fold down to prevent you from climbing up too high if the ladder determines it's unsafe; ladder add-on/extension devices such as stakes to stick into the dirt or "snake arms" on the top of the ladder to wrap around a tree branch or other support-providing object; speakers to warn you if the ladder is starting to become unstable and to play the song "It's Raining Men" if you fall off; discussing the scariness of using a ladder

Stu McCallister (Twitter: @StuMcCallister Podcast: LmnoPodcast)
Kevin C (Planet Ant Farm Team)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Note: Justin Siekierka does not appear on this idea/episode due to technical issues

"U Get What U Get" Restaurant

Idea: A restaurant which intentionally serves you a different meal than what you ordered. The food you receive will be in the same general category/family as what you ordered (i.e. if you order a soup, they bring you a different soup; if you order a vegan dish, they bring you a different vegan dish). The food will be high quality and will not be pre-cooked. Also: after they've served you, they'll tell you what food it actually is (you won't be left wondering what you're looking at on your plate); they may expand upon the theme by giving you wrongly-sized eating utensils, having a different waiter/waitress come to your table each time, randomizing the dinner reservation waitlist, etc.; why people who work in restaurants hate DoorDash, Uber Eats, GrubHub, and Postmates

Stu McCallister (Twitter: @StuMcCallister Podcast: LmnoPodcast)
Kevin C (Planet Ant Farm Team)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Note: Justin Siekierka does not appear on this idea/episode due to technical issues

Troll Finder App

Idea: A (satirical) app or web service to identify Internet trolls and help you *legally* commit acts of vengeance upon them, such as legalized "swatting" and leaving flaming bags of poo at their door. Also: debating whether responding to a troll with anger and hate makes you a troll, or whether only the person who "threw the first punch" should be considered a troll; an alternative "troll finder" web service which finds the other social media accounts of a troll and allows you to send messages to those other accounts but doesn't reveal ("dox") those other accounts to you; using Wile E Coyote fake doors to prevent "swatting"; wanting to be trolled because it would be fun to use a "Troll Finder App" against a troll; a few examples of Internet comments on the border of trolling and constructive criticism, and deciding whether they'd warrant a vengeful response

Justin Siekierka (Comedy Shows: Bearded Lamb Brewing Co Rusted Crow)
Stu McCallister (Twitter: @StuMcCallister Podcast: LmnoPodcast)
Kevin C (Planet Ant Farm Team)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

1980s-Style Sitcoms of Serial Killers

Idea: To make sitcoms in the style of the 1980s or 1990s (containing audience cheers, laugh tracks, etc.) in which the main character(s) are serial killers. Examples could be "Manson Family Matters", "Perfect Stranglers", "HH Holmes Improvement", and "Buried With Children". Also: a show about murderous pets or puppets; a show which uses CGI to allow grown-up child stars to go back into their old shows and murder their past selves (example: Neil Patrick Harris murdering Doogie Howser); a "Dating Game"-style show to pick a serial killer's next victim or where the losing contestants are "eliminated"

Justin Siekierka (Comedy Shows: Bearded Lamb Brewing Co Rusted Crow)
Stu McCallister (Twitter: @StuMcCallister Podcast: LmnoPodcast)
Kevin C (Planet Ant Farm Team)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Recycling Balls and Trash Balls

Idea: To put recyclables and/or trash in reusable balls which would roll down a chute into an outdoor trash bin to be collected automatically. Also: you wouldn't need to "take out the trash"; third-world slums could put their trash in the trash balls and then throw them into the river to be caught by Boyan Slot's famous plastic pollution-catching machines (i.e. instead of just collecting "pollution", these machines would function as the official municipal trash service)

Sara Young (Facebook: @CallMeGracie Web: sys-etching.com)
Nick Kelley (Podcast: Ride AALong Instagram: @nickkelleyyy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)