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We Turned Random Words Into $20K/Month Businesses Ideas⏐Ep. #244

The Koerner Office - Business Ideas and Deep Dives with Chris Koerner

November 7, 2025

━ We used a random word generator to come up with totally random words and then challenged ourselves to turn each one into a real business idea that could make $20K a month. What started as a fun experiment turned into one of the most creative brainstorming sessions I’ve ever done.

Speakers Chris Koerner, Sam Thompson

TopicsEntrepreneurshipBusiness

Chris Koerner (0:03)

All right, I just had Sam on the podcast again. It was a banger, we had a blast, so we turned around and did another one. I actually used a random word generator to generate two to three words so we could come up with business ideas around those words that anyone could start. And we had a lot of fun. Please enjoy. This is going to be so fun. I've always wanted to do this. I've never done this. If MrBeast can do this with video ideas, you and or I can do this with business ideas. All right, random word generator.

Sam Thompson (0:29)

Cool.

Chris Koerner (0:29)

Let's say three words. More words, harder it gets, right? Cool. Word type, all. We're going to use these three random words to come up with a business idea that someone could use to make 20 grand a month of net profit.

Sam Thompson (0:41)

All right, bet, dude. I'm in.

Chris Koerner (0:42)

Okay. You ready?

Sam Thompson (0:43)

Let's go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Chris Koerner (0:44)

This is not edited. Muhammad is not involved.

Sam Thompson (0:47)

No, we're in.

Chris Koerner (0:48)

Here we go. Vague office pawn. Vague. Okay, I got an idea. I got an idea. There it is. There it is. We're going to make a chess set that's themed of the office.

Yeah, that's it.

Sam Thompson (0:59)

That's it.

Chris Koerner (0:59)

You're going to have like the king is Michael Scott. The queen is Jan.

Sam Thompson (1:03)

Oh my gosh.

Chris Koerner (1:04)

I thought I had like a millisecond game. What's vague about it? What's vague about it? Maybe there's like a golden ticket reward in there where you could win like an autograph piece of memorabilia from the set. One in a thousand chess kits.

Sam Thompson (1:17)

Little golden ticket.

Chris Koerner (1:19)

Golden ticket.

Sam Thompson (1:20)

Yeah. Charlie Conner over here, dude.

Chris Koerner (1:22)

Let's go.

Sam Thompson (1:23)

Yeah, sorry.

Chris Koerner (1:24)

I jumped the gun.

Sam Thompson (1:25)

No, that's okay. I'm with it. I like that one the most. I was going chess, but I was going ebook.

Chris Koerner (1:31)

Okay. Oh, chess ebook all day. That's a valuable audience.

Sam Thompson (1:35)

A hundred percent.

Chris Koerner (1:37)

Oh my gosh.

Sam Thompson (1:37)

It's so funny.

Chris Koerner (1:38)

Well, how do we get to 20K a month though? I mean, this is just going to be a Facebook ad.

Sam Thompson (1:42)

Just Facebook ad straight up, dude. And then the thing that I like it, I want a recurring on the back. And so it's like anyone that buys that, it's a very specific group of people. And so it's like, cool, launch a little paid Facebook community for it and be like, yep, these are office lovers that love chess. This is your people. Like come hang out, learn chess, do your thing.

Chris Koerner (2:04)

Oh, dude.

Sam Thompson (2:05)

You have cameos from the people in there. Who's the guy that's on cameo? He does so many of them.

Chris Koerner (2:11)

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sam Thompson (2:12)

Imagine you just pay him to give chess tips. Yeah, you just on cameo.

Chris Koerner (2:20)

Like idiotic chess tips.

Sam Thompson (2:21)

Yeah, dude, he's just like explaining different moves and stuff. That'd be a phenomenal ad. Are you kidding, dude?

Chris Koerner (2:28)

That would be just a media recognition ramp.

Sam Thompson (2:31)

So good. So good.

Chris Koerner (2:33)

Why don't you describe what happened with that for those that haven't seen that?

Sam Thompson (2:36)

Yeah. So ramp. I don't know if they did like a launch or if it was just like a random ad campaign, but they put him in like a glass office box somewhere. And he just like sat there for like eight hours, messing around in the office, all promoting ramp. So cool.

Chris Koerner (2:50)

What do you think he got paid for that? Can't have been that much, right?

Sam Thompson (2:54)

I put it at like a hundred.

Chris Koerner (2:56)

That much? Really?

Sam Thompson (2:57)

Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Like, I don't think he got paid millions. I also don't think he got like 10 grand.

Chris Koerner (3:03)

Okay. I was thinking closer to 10 grand.

Sam Thompson (3:05)

Really? I don't know what his cameos go for. And it's like travel and like, you know, like media rights and you know, like all of that sort of stuff. Like I'd put it closer to a hundred.

Chris Koerner (3:17)

I'm looking up his cameo cost. 195 bucks for personal video.

Sam Thompson (3:22)

For like what? That's like a minute.

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