Creativity Wasted

Tornado Lights (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:19:41 -0000

Idea: To fly swarms of tiny drones with bright lights on them into tornadoes so people can easily see the tornadoes for safety reasons. Also: the tiny drones could be released from self-driving large military drones or self-driving cars; some of the drones could have audio sirens (for rural areas without tornado alarms) and some could make a line in the sky to show the projected future path of the tornado; if the tornado lights were too pretty people would walk outside to see them and get killed (kind of like bugs flying into a bug light)

Melissa Brandt (instagram.com/melissabrandtraps facebook.com/melissa.beaver.94)

Heather VanGheluwe (instagram.com/heathervangiggles tiktok.com/@heathervangiggles facebook.com/comedian.heather.vangheluwe)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Alliance of Lazy Substitute Teachers (Melissa Brandt)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:48:47 -0000

Idea: For substitute teachers to work together to leverage the teacher shortage to pressure schools to let them show videos or do easy teaching instead of having to quickly learn complex lesson plans. Also: a designation after the lazy substitute teacher's name that is "the opposite of a doctorate" (ex: "Melissa Brandt, ZZZ"); getting lost in the school trying to take the students to the gym; trying to teach music when you don't know how to play an instrument

Melissa Brandt (instagram.com/melissabrandtraps facebook.com/melissa.beaver.94)

Heather VanGheluwe (instagram.com/heathervangiggles tiktok.com/@heathervangiggles facebook.com/comedian.heather.vangheluwe)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Nose Ring Prank (Heather VanGheluwe)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:52:34 -0000

A prank idea that Heather is planning for this year's April Fools Day, which is to trick her husband into thinking she got a nose ring. Also: ideas to enhance the prank, such as to make it a septum ring, make her voice sound funny, wear a full goth outfit with it, etc.; the risk of her husband liking it and wanting her to keep it; piercings and their issues, including infection, smelling bad, etc.; previously performed pranks, including a kitchen sink prank and a prank-like surprise trip

Melissa Brandt (instagram.com/melissabrandtraps facebook.com/melissa.beaver.94)

Heather VanGheluwe (instagram.com/heathervangiggles tiktok.com/@heathervangiggles facebook.com/comedian.heather.vangheluwe)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Stadium Cable Cars and Ferris Wheels (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:58:47 -0000

Idea: To build cheap sports stadiums with no upper deck and instead to surround the stadium with machines or rides to lift people up to view the game, such as cable cars, Ferris wheels, swing set swings that go straight up and down, etc. Also: drone vendors to bring food to people sitting in these machines; bussing the machines between stadiums (like a traveling carnival) based on ticket demand; lengthening time between innings or quarters to give people sitting in these machines more time come down and go pee; fun over-the-top ideas such as tour busses that become a row of seats, human pneumatic tubes, and giant balloons; the weird baseball stadium vendor accent vs. the Boston accent and discussing the Midwestern/Michigan accent

Turbulence Tyme (facebook.com/Turbulencetyme instagram.com/turbulencetyme instagram.com/newworldcomedynwc)

Dave Jones (facebook.com/comedian.davejones.5 instagram.com/comediandavejones New World Comedy on FB: facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583085744240)

Kate Doré (facebook.com/katredhatred instagram.com/katredhatred "3 Shots Down" Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0QEQZ8PIP6RaLorT0ZrckG?si=b3969fbb57144034)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Social Media Positivity Filter or App (Kate Doré)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:36:19 -0000

Idea: A social media app or filter which blocks or limits the amount of negative news stories and negative social media posts you can view, for the sake of your mental health and happiness. Also: it could display a hint/preview of a negative story with the sad details hidden behind a cute puppy photo, in which case you'd have to "click to expand" to see the sad details; the desire to still be shown "funny bad news", such as a 100-car pileup where nobody died; our hatred of "vagueposting" when we're trying to limit our exposure to the news; an idea for a social network that is only about pets and animals; the need for more templates (similar to "reported safe from xxx" or "happy birthday" reminders) to coax/help people post different types of good personal news (for example, to remind people to take a "before" picture for their "weight loss journey" and to store that picture for later, i.e. when they want to announce that their weight loss goal was achieved)

Turbulence Tyme (facebook.com/Turbulencetyme instagram.com/turbulencetyme instagram.com/newworldcomedynwc)

Dave Jones (facebook.com/comedian.davejones.5 instagram.com/comediandavejones New World Comedy on FB: facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583085744240)

Kate Doré (facebook.com/katredhatred instagram.com/katredhatred "3 Shots Down" Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0QEQZ8PIP6RaLorT0ZrckG?si=b3969fbb57144034)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Pawn Shop Cartoon (Dave Jones)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:46:00 -0000

Idea: A cartoon series set in a pawn shop where the items in the shop talk to each other, tell stories of their past, and speculate about their former and future owners. Also: showcasing diverse cultures, languages/accents, and time-specific cartoon/art styles based on the origin of the item; story lines such as paired items being separated, fake gold jewelry telling lies (because they're fake), an owner repeating pawning and buying back an item, etc; a mix of weird items such as musical instruments, grandfather clocks, fake jewelry, beekeeping poles, etc.

Turbulence Tyme (facebook.com/Turbulencetyme instagram.com/turbulencetyme instagram.com/newworldcomedynwc)

Dave Jones (facebook.com/comedian.davejones.5 instagram.com/comediandavejones New World Comedy on FB: facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583085744240)

Kate Doré (facebook.com/katredhatred instagram.com/katredhatred "3 Shots Down" Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0QEQZ8PIP6RaLorT0ZrckG?si=b3969fbb57144034)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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New Noah's Ark Livestream TV Show (Turbulence Tyme)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:22:56 -0000

Idea: To try to recreate Noah's Ark on a giant ship and show the 40-day voyage attempt on a continuous livestream and a TV show. Also: it could use a modified cruise ship, a floating biodome, or maybe even a spaceship; using horses and other animals to do work (such as pulling carts full of food or poop) to allow 2 people to run the Ark; the ridiculously large number of species of beetles, the possibility of that being scientific fraud, and skipping similar species for the Ark if little kids can't tell the difference between them; you could record how many species survive the 40 days and try again every year, learning from mistakes and iteratively improving the Ark

Turbulence Tyme (facebook.com/Turbulencetyme instagram.com/turbulencetyme instagram.com/newworldcomedynwc)

Dave Jones (facebook.com/comedian.davejones.5 instagram.com/comediandavejones New World Comedy on FB: facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583085744240)

Kate Doré (facebook.com/katredhatred instagram.com/katredhatred "3 Shots Down" Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0QEQZ8PIP6RaLorT0ZrckG?si=b3969fbb57144034)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Toilet Table (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:27:13 -0000

Idea: A small foldable table to be used while sitting on the toilet and that can be stored on the toilet when not in use. It could replace the toilet seat lid, replace the toilet tank lid (or mount on top of a special toilet tank lid), or be stored in a slot behind the toilet tank. Also: some items such as coffee cups can be placed on a wet bathroom sink, but other items like your phone or a magazine cannot be placed on a wet sink and would be more appropriately placed on a small table; questioning whether you would be socially punished if people found out that you had a table in front of the toilet; giving it an exotic European-sounding name (like "Skorza") and then pretending that toilet tables are common in Europe

Ken Carlson (facebook.com/KenCarlsonCT)

Justin Chupp (facebook.com/justin.chupp.346521 instagram.com/straightwhitemayo facebook.com/spicystandup)

Kevin Kelling (facebook.com/kevin.kelling.52 instagram.com/kevin.kelling.52 instagram.com/comedy.at.boldgr)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Urban Agricultural Pyramids (Justin Chupp)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:17:59 -0000

Idea: To build giant hollow mountain-sized pyramids in large cities and grow food on flat terraces on the outside of the pyramids. Also: foods which require high elevation would be grown on the top of the pyramids; they could cause rain, shade cities, and/or block tornadoes from cities (or cause a deadly veggie tornado); using the pyramids for other stuff such as "pumped storage" power generators, cell phone towers (which might lead to a fear of eating "5G grapes"), tourism, etc.; once we have millions of robots that build everything, the cost of building a giant hollow pyramid could come way down

Ken Carlson (facebook.com/KenCarlsonCT)

Justin Chupp (facebook.com/justin.chupp.346521 instagram.com/straightwhitemayo facebook.com/spicystandup)

Kevin Kelling (facebook.com/kevin.kelling.52 instagram.com/kevin.kelling.52 instagram.com/comedy.at.boldgr)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Survivalist Dual-Use Food Ideas (Ken Carlson)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 03:18:45 -0000

Ideas (both silly and serious) for foods which have additional practical uses during an apocalypse, such as inflatable bagels as flotation devices, sharp-edged foods as weapons, pop tarts as sticky notes, fruit roll-ups as clothing, etc. Also: Tom's apocalypse stash of greenhouse plastic; the problem of accumulating hair on 100 year spaceship journeys; garbage bags full of used toilet paper can be packed against the walls and used as insulation, which is a similar instinct to how birds use poop to hold together the straw or branches in their nests

Ken Carlson (facebook.com/KenCarlsonCT)

Justin Chupp (facebook.com/justin.chupp.346521 instagram.com/straightwhitemayo facebook.com/spicystandup)

Kevin Kelling (facebook.com/kevin.kelling.52 instagram.com/kevin.kelling.52 instagram.com/comedy.at.boldgr)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Burial With Possessions For The Afterlife (Kevin Kelling)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:11:46 -0000

Idea: To convince people (for the sake of the economy) to have their prized possessions put in their coffins with them when they die so they have those possessions in the afterlife (like the ancient Egyptians). Also: avoiding embarrassing items because other people can see them in your open coffin funeral; bringing your live pets or other people with you to the afterlife; boobytrapping your coffin so other people can't steal your stuff or eat/destroy your mummified body; burying collectibles (Pokemon cards, sports memorabilia, Labubus) and denying them from your children in your will; filming a ghost hunting reality show where the fake ghosts carry around the possessions they were buried with

Ken Carlson (facebook.com/KenCarlsonCT)

Justin Chupp (facebook.com/justin.chupp.346521 instagram.com/straightwhitemayo facebook.com/spicystandup)

Kevin Kelling (facebook.com/kevin.kelling.52 instagram.com/kevin.kelling.52 instagram.com/comedy.at.boldgr)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Blender Chopper Sink Attachment (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:05:17 -0000

Idea: A blender/chopper kitchen gadget that conveniently mounts on the side of a kitchen sink (or is built into it) which allows you to blend, chop, or mix food or wash a small dish, is easy to clean, and doesn't need to be stored. Also: Greag's fear of blenders and the risk of cutting yourself or using it wrong; the importance of convenience when trying to get motivated to do healthy things; complaining about large chunks (broccoli, whole mini tomatoes, etc.) in salads, especially restaurant salads

Greag Brown (facebook.com/gbcherub https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-gregs-of-society/id1826617913)

Rye Grae (instagram.com/ryegrae81)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Gun Safety and Gun Control Ideas (Rye Grae)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:25:53 -0000

A few ideas (both silly and serious) to improve gun safety and gun control, such as annual gun safety tests, gun insurance, a mass shooting gun tax, drunk violence propensity tests, etc. Also: the risk of annual gun safety tests making people better and therefore deadlier when shooting; the weird technicalities of gun insurance, such as trying to get shot on purpose for insurance fraud or preferring to get shot by 2 different shooters instead of 1 shooter twice; whether to tax machetes and a YouTube prankster who recently handed out machetes to the homeless; concealed carry and losing your gun at Red Lobster

Greag Brown (facebook.com/gbcherub https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-gregs-of-society/id1826617913)

Rye Grae (instagram.com/ryegrae81)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Meat Gum (Greag Brown)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:26:10 -0000

Idea: Gum that tastes like meat or a savory, meat-based meal, to help you lose weight, eat foods you'd otherwise be allergic to, etc. Also: brainstorming silly flavors and product names, such as "Gum-A-Petit" and "Bluekake"; combining tomato gum, lettuce gum, and beef gum to create a burger taste; the risk of blowing bubbles with your meat gum and getting attacked by a dog or a bear; using toddlers to manufacture the gum because they don't have the teeth to chew (i.e. steal) the gum; you can leave the gum on a park bench and a deer will come take it (and later die) so you don't have to clean the bench

Greag Brown (facebook.com/gbcherub https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-gregs-of-society/id1826617913)

Rye Grae (instagram.com/ryegrae81)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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What Happened Here App (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:54:47 -0000

Idea: An app where you mark your location if you observe (or drive by) a local incident (such as a police incident), and later, when public info is released, it sends you a notification telling you what happened. Also: Tom's anecdote of driving past an unconscious lady laying on the sidewalk shortly before the ambulance arrived and then never finding out what happened; the absurdity of having so much tech and still not being able to conveniently and reliably find out what's going on locally; the possibility of using this feature to "save local news" and/or partially fund the police department

Matt TerBurgh (instagram.com/terburghmatt youtube.com/@mattterburghcomedy facebook.com/mattterburgh)

Eileen Nolton (instagram.com/evnoltoncomedy facebook.com/enolton)

Chris Young (https://chrisyoungcomic.com instagram.com/chrisyoungcomic)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Sappy The Sales Assistant Parrot (Matt TerBurgh)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:41:13 -0000

Idea: An AI-based parrot that would observe communications between a salesperson or customer service person and a client and help "grease the wheels" of communication. For example, by repeating ("parroting") what the salesperson just said but with less jargon, by being a language/culture translator, by interjecting humor if the interaction is becoming toxic, by interpreting body language to detect if someone is confused, etc. Also: it could have a "talk out loud mode" where the salesperson and client can both hear it, and a "whispering mode" where it speaks into an earpiece of the salesman (example: "Psst, I don't think he knows what a car wrap is"); it could learn from sales mistakes and remind you later (if a similar client shows up or a similar situation arises) to not repeat the same mistake, and also pass that learned knowledge onto other salespeople (especially rookies); it could have a "lie offload mode" for situations such as when your boss is encouraging you to up-sell to clients who don't really need it but you're morally opposed to ripping them off yourself (in which case, the parrot would do it instead)

Matt TerBurgh (instagram.com/terburghmatt youtube.com/@mattterburghcomedy facebook.com/mattterburgh)

Eileen Nolton (instagram.com/evnoltoncomedy facebook.com/enolton)

Chris Young (https://chrisyoungcomic.com instagram.com/chrisyoungcomic)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Comedian Talent Show Improv Festival (Eileen Nolton)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:59:45 -0000

Idea: A standup comedy festival where the performers do one normal standup performance and also participate in at least one comedic improv/game/activity which showcases another one of their other talents, such as art, singing, magic, etc. Also: the talent shows wouldn't be competitions, and would often pair together comics with complimentary talents, such as singers, musicians, and dancers, who would have a few hours to collaborate to come up with a group performance; questioning whether puppetry would be allowed

Matt TerBurgh (instagram.com/terburghmatt youtube.com/@mattterburghcomedy facebook.com/mattterburgh)

Eileen Nolton (instagram.com/evnoltoncomedy facebook.com/enolton)

Chris Young (https://chrisyoungcomic.com instagram.com/chrisyoungcomic)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Electronic Teaching Assistant App (Chris Young)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:20:32 -0000

Idea: An app used mostly by teachers (but also other types of public speakers, business presenters, etc.) that observes and understands the flow of information to people and provides (displays on smart glasses, speaks into an earpiece, etc.) on-the fly support for that information flow, such as highlighting/correcting errors, providing links to more detailed info or explanations, etc. Also: it would use AI to be able to follow along what you're reading, you're speaking, or you're listening to (including listening to students asking follow-up questions); it would use a lesson plan that you can quickly load into it (as opposed to using general AI data, which could cause it to go off the rails); it would know the context of the data flow (such as whether you're a person learning something new, a teacher refreshing prior-learned knowledge before giving a lesson, a teacher currently giving a lesson, a teacher listening to a student asking a question, etc.) and it would act differently accordingly to that context (for example, if you're a teacher giving a presentation, it wouldn't overload you with so much info that it'd break the flow of your lecture, or if you're learning something new by yourself for the first time, it might let you stew on an incorrect answer for a while to think it through before correcting you); it could maybe use tricks from scam psychics to feed you information in such a way that your audience can't tell that you're getting help

Matt TerBurgh (instagram.com/terburghmatt youtube.com/@mattterburghcomedy facebook.com/mattterburgh)

Eileen Nolton (instagram.com/evnoltoncomedy facebook.com/enolton)

Chris Young (https://chrisyoungcomic.com instagram.com/chrisyoungcomic)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Cat and Sun Tent aka "Catio" (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:01:01 -0000

Idea: A tent-like semi-portable structure for a suburban yard in which you can sunbathe (especially in the winter) and where you can take your indoor cat who wants to go outside. Also: it'd be designed so you can get into the tent and close it while holding the cat against your chest with one hand and without bending over (because if you bent over the cat could squirm away); it would use thick fabric and thick clear greenhouse plastic to keep heat in; it could be tinted to allow you to sunbathe in privacy (possibly even in the nude) and maybe also be used as an outdoor shower; you could maybe connect a "cat tube" to your house so the cat can come and go as they please

Chris Barnwood (facebook.com/chris.barnwood instagram.com/chrisbarnwood)

Alex Wilson (youtube.com/@thedropoutprofessor instagram.com/thedropoutprofessor Email: alexwilsoncomedy@gmail.com)

Wes Allen (facebook.com/wes.allen.264240 instagram.com/wesallencomedy Email: wesallencomedy@gmail.com)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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S__cide Discouragement AI (Alex Wilson)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 11:57:44 -0000

Idea: Futurama-style "s__cide booths" that don't actually kill you but instead use AI and brain scans to convince you NOT to commit s__cide. Also: it could generate a "It's A Wonderful Life" or "A Christmas Carol" movie on-the-fly which is customized to your life; if it made people feel too good they'd want to stay in the booth forever; you could inject a timed poison in their body which can easily be removed so they have lots of time to back out if they regret their decision; crazy sci-fi future tech could eliminate many of the reasons for s__cide

Chris Barnwood (facebook.com/chris.barnwood instagram.com/chrisbarnwood)

Alex Wilson (youtube.com/@thedropoutprofessor instagram.com/thedropoutprofessor Email: alexwilsoncomedy@gmail.com)

Wes Allen (facebook.com/wes.allen.264240 instagram.com/wesallencomedy Email: wesallencomedy@gmail.com)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Delivery Person Yard Obstacle Course TV Show (Chris Barnwood)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 10:04:06 -0000

Idea: A TV show where ordinary people build obstacle courses in their yards that delivery people have to traverse to get to the porch to drop off the package. If the delivery person succeeds (they don't drop it or give up or exceed a time limit), they get a reward (such as getting to pee in the house instead of into a bottle in the delivery truck), and if they fail, the homeowner who created the obstacle course gets a reward (such as choosing an additional package from the delivery truck). Also: examples of obstacles could include water or foam pits, tennis ball shooters, dogs, snakes, slides, and mousetraps; the employer would need to give the delivery person a break from their strict driving schedule to enable them to do an obstacle course; the obstacle course could double-up as yard decoration for an existing holiday, or "Prime Day" could be made into a new holiday where these obstacle courses are part of the festivities; an obstacle course could serve as a deterrent against package thieves

Chris Barnwood (facebook.com/chris.barnwood instagram.com/chrisbarnwood) Alex Wilson (youtube.com/@thedropoutprofessor instagram.com/thedropoutprofessor Email: alexwilsoncomedy@gmail.com) Wes Allen (facebook.com/wes.allen.264240 instagram.com/wesallencomedy Email: wesallencomedy@gmail.com) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Stoner's Choice Chili (Wes Allen)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 06:08:24 -0000

Idea: Cans of food sold in stores labeled as "Stoner's Choice chili" but actually containing corn or beef stew or other food (but not chili). Also: using trickery to prank your friends and/or profit off of selling unwanted or nearly expired cans; mixing all of the cans of other foods so that it becomes chili; using "Stoner's Choice" as a brand for all sorts of intentionally mislabeled products such as soda, T-shirts, music CDs, pets/pet food, etc; simulating "Stoner's Choice" by wearing a blindfold or augmented reality glasses; discussing weird foods/drinks such as ginger ale, cream soda, and the Jelly Belly "Bean Boozled" game

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Flash Flood At Area 51 Movie (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:12:41 -0000

Idea: A cheesy sci-fi B-movie where Area 51, which is located on a dried lake bed, is hit by a flash flood, and the military and an imprisoned alien have to scramble to escape. Also: brainstorming a plot involving aliens, secret military aircraft, weather manipulation, etc.; incorporating aspects of other movies/TV, like Signs, American Dad, The Shape of Water, Space Force (on Netflix), 1980's dirty teen comedies, etc.; discussing how a lake reformed in the central valley of California a few years ago in real life, and so why couldn't that also happen at the dried lake bed of Area 51, and isn't it kind of dumb it is to keep our military secrets in a place vulnerable to natural disaster

Kristopher Allen Brown (instagram.com/kristopher_allen_brown Prison City Comedy open mic: facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576119950772) Jake Mattes (instagram.com/jake_mattes 4th & Funny Podcast: youtube.com/@Jake14M Barry Good Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Vk4xpFRLvnvya2vnaQiGR?si=fdd1504b500d489a) Alfons Mueller (https://alfonsmueller.com https://linktr.ee/kolossus instagram.com/kolossus) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Escort Subscription Service (Kristopher Allen Brown)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:52:31 -0000

Idea: A monthly subscription service for ordering and paying for escorts. Also: bundling the service (Nutflix? Paramounting? Ho-lu?) with Disney+, having a 7-day free trial, and having an "ad tier" which interrupts you in the middle of the act with commercials; the desire for safety when ordering escorts and Kristopher's story about being shaken down; capping the max appointments per month to prevent a few customers from massively overusing the service; performing comedy in adult venues such as swinger's campgrounds and strip clubs

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Dollar Days Dollar Store Travel Show (Jake Mattes)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 23:57:24 -0000

Idea: An Anthony Bourdain-style travel show where the host goes to grand openings of dollar stores, reviews them, explores the nearby community, and interviews interesting customers. Also: the show could include segments such as taking different types of people (nuns, comedians, etc.) to dollar stores for the first time, comparing generic dollar store brands to name-brand equivalents, taste-testing rare discontinued/experimental foods (such as Monster Energy Cold Brew coffee-flavored energy drink); discussing the major dollar store chains, Buc-ee's, food outlets (which sell nearly expired meats), Wall Drug, Factor meal delivery, grocery pickup/delivery, etc.; YouTuber Andrew Callahan ("All Gas No Brakes" and "Channel 5") and interviewing oddball people

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Puppers Puppy Rental Service (Alfons Mueller)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 01:41:42 -0000

Idea (dark humor): A short-term puppy rental service where the puppy is put down and made into soap (or other things) if the renter doesn't pay a large amount of money to buy it when the rental period expires. Also: calculating how much emotional attachment the renter has with the puppy to determine how much money you can squeeze out of them to save their puppy's life; renting a new puppy each season or to match your outfits; accidentally crushing pets and coming up with inventions to prevent that from happening; when a vegan Buddhist hippie thought this idea was real

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Roaming Cool Air Vendors (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:15:20 -0000

Idea: Vendors that roam around the stands at a summer baseball game (or at other summer events) carrying a fan and a large battery (to power the fan) in a backpack that charge people money to cool them down. Also: brainstorming names for the business (Mr. Blow, etc.), the vendors ("Joe Blow", etc.), and things the vendors say ("get your fan jobs here..."); the risk of accidentally blowing sweat onto nearby people; questioning whether global warming will make summer sports like baseball die off because it's just too hot out

Dan Leach (facebook.com/dan.leach.94) Lisa Green (instagram.com/lisagreencomedy https://linktr.ee/depottowncomedy) Steve Pierce Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Professional Podcast Guest (Steve Pierce)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 01:07:55 -0000

Idea: To make a career out of being a paid guest on various podcasts. Also: faking expertise or ailments (or whatever else) to be a relevant guest for a themed podcast (such as Mormonism, alien abduction, or 18th-century cookery) with or without the podcast hosts knowing that you're a fake; creating a podcast feed out of links to your appearances on other podcasts; becoming a charismatic "character actor" who has fans that watch whatever they do, but in the venue of podcasting; making small appearances in movies as a podcaster, such as being the guy who says "Lex Luther is right, we do need to stop Superman"

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Punksura Text Translation App (Lisa Green)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 03:13:32 -0000

Idea: An app to translate/interpret the grammar, slang, and acronyms of text (primarily social media) based on your age. Also: writing conventions that other generations find annoying such as "boomer ellipses" and excessive "LOLs" or "bruhs"; translating a text message from an old person to a zoomer and having it say "no cap" might not be necessary for understanding but would be hilarious; an in-app purchase to translate to 1800s or early 1900s slang such as "the cat's pajamas"; if a kid sends you a cryptic text full of emojis, you can respond with Egyptian hieroglyphs as a form of revenge

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Prank For Hire Business (Dan Leach)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:31:31 -0000

Idea: A business that you can hire to perform a prank on someone (like in the Norm MacDonald movie "Dirty Work"). Also: prank examples such as fish in cars, "Zoombombing", faking charitable donations on someone's behalf, tricking a public figure like in the movie "Borat", etc.; brainstorming a business name, such as "Leach's Pranks For Hire: For People Who Suck"; using leverage to break the law when pranking people to avoid getting ratted out; the risk of giving overly vague instructions to employees (like "take care of this guy") and accidentally causing a mob-style hit

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Humiliation Trophies (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 03:26:34 -0000

Idea: Trophies to be given as a gag gift to commemorate humiliating (but not traumatic) incidents (falls, saying dumb things, coming in last place in fantasy football, etc.) for which you would get amusement out of being reminded of years later. Also: the risk of them being given out after traumatically humiliating events and pouring salt on the wound; pre-ordering the trophy before a contest so it can be given to the loser immediately as part of the event; brainstorming both good (non-traumatic) and bad scenarios for giving out humiliation trophies

Emily Clark (facebook.com/emily.clark.798 linktr.ee/do.you.know.your.emily) Tom Brown (https://thetombrown.com facebook.com/thetombrown) Ricarlo Winston (facebook.com/Ricarlo.thecomedian Laughter on the Lakeshore Comedy Fest: facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558187071957) Scott Fischer (facebook.com/scott.fischer.980) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Microwave Heat Map (Scott Fischer)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:08:25 -0000

Idea: A screen that shows a thermal/infrared image of your food so you can see how hot it is and whether it's still too cold (or it's too hot). Also: using microwaves, ovens, and fridges to survive a nuclear explosion; maybe the microwave could use the thermal/infrared info to redirect the microwave "rays" toward the cold spots on the food; maybe it could be a phone app or a gadget that connects to your phone instead of building it into the microwave, and then you could use the "heat map" for other purposes, such as to see if your partner laying in bed is cold

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St. Louis Aviation Museum (Tom Brown)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 09:15:49 -0000

Idea: To have an aviation museum in St. Louis (called "Aviation Under The Arches") to showcase the aviation history of the city, such as Charles Lindbergh and WWII fighter planes. Also: they could steal Akron's aviation museum; being too fat to ride in airplane simulators; being afraid of heights in some scenarios (such as skydiving) but not being afraid to ride in an airplane; an odd museum and an oddly-named gay strip club in St. Louis

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Rug Tufting and Crafting Machine Rental Service (Emily Clark)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 04:21:35 -0000

Idea: A rental service for large and/or expensive crafting equipment, such as rug tufting machines, 3D printers, and metalworking machines. Also: dreaming for years about rug tufting or doing out-of-reach crafting projects; joking about rug tufting risks, possible injuries, and whether training and insurance ("Tuft Break") are required; tufting a soft comfy rug onto a T-shirt or the butt of your pants ("Rug Tuft Jeans"); a crafting scandal involving stolen painted rocks

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Rolling On The Floor With Laughter Comedy Dice Game (Ricarlo Winston)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:30:34 -0000

Idea: A standup comedy competition where a pair of dice (one containing a comedy style and the other containing a broad topic) is rolled and then two comics compete to improvise/recall the better joke within those constraints. Also: testing out the game; discussing the comedy styles (such as self-deprecation and observational) and topics (such as "dad joke" and anatomy); discussing the "slapstick" style and whether it will lead to a comedian performing a lewd act upon the stool; suggesting a "wild card" topic on the dice where you draw an audience-suggested topic from a bowl

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Abortion Clinic Game Show (TylerBeans)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:46:07 -0000

Idea: A game show where women in an abortion clinic waiting to get an abortion complete in a series of games, such as silly carnival-style games or American Gladiator/Wipeout-style events (because if they get smacked in the belly and lose the baby, they were going to abort it anyway). Also: they could compete for a free abortion or better painkillers or risk having to carry the baby to term if they lose; a "Real World"-style reality show with 9 pregnant women living together in a house, and questioning whether pregnancy side effects would sync up in a similar way to how women's periods supposedly sync up; questioning whether female comics would participate in this dark humor and what they might say; using pregnancy/abortions to binge on food and use the calories to grow a baby and then abort it to lose weight, or to increase breast size temporarily for an acting role

Tyler Beans (facebook.com/tyler.warmbein.3) Emeka N Ben Champion (instagram.com/_champ_is.here facebook.com/ben.champion.39) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Smug of War Comedic Bragging Contest (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 22:31:53 -0000

Idea: A comedy contest where the contestants comedically brag about themselves instead of roasting an opponent. Also: avoiding downsides of roasts, including deeply hurting someone's feelings and having to do research about an opponent before the show; the two rules of "smug of war"; a concept of a "smug of war" where topics to brag about are provided to the contestants before the show (so the jokes are better and it doesn't feel like an improv game); why AI might be useful for writing jokes specifically for this show

Jeff Teed (instagram.com/jeffteed23 instagram.com/say_what_open_mic_at_hearsay) Jack Cuncannan (instagram.com/jackc_comedy) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Microaggression Shock Wristwatch (Jeff Teed)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 09:22:27 -0000

Idea: A wristwatch that reads your mind and/or predicts your behavior and shocks you to prevent you from doing racist microaggressions. Also: it could also punish you for explicitly racist/sexist/ageist acts (not just microaggressions) and could vary the punishment based on severity; it could be seen as a neutral warning/teaching mechanism for people who aren't familiar with how to behave in certain situations (too old, too dumb, from a different culture, etc.), as opposed to having the vibe of an angry nun smacking you with a ruler

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Skin Pocket (Jack Cuncannan)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 02:24:06 -0000

Idea: A storage pocket grafted into your body and made out of your skin, so you can, for example, store things while in the shower. Also: brainstorming where on your body to put a pocket; it should look more like a pocket and less like a sphincter; women storing things between their breasts; magicians who stab needles through their arms might know good places to put skin pockets; maybe you could graft muscles into the skin pocket so you can hold the pocket closed and also ensnare pickpocketers

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Fat Squirrel Documentary (Lucky Lee)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:46:56 -0000

Idea: A comedic documentary about the growing problem of obese squirrels. Also: Carl's obese pet squirrel; using the documentary to fund squirrel weight loss and longevity research; the impressive athleticism of obese squirrels; the risk of obese squirrels screwing up the ecosystem and leading to obese bald eagles (which would be the most American bald eagles)

Lucky Lee (instagram.com/luckyleecomedy chelsealuckyleewoudstra.weebly.com) David Carson (Email Newsletter: david-carson.com Blog: dumbify.beehiiv.com) Carl Sobel (linktr.ee/Carl_Sobel_Comedy facebook.com/ComedyNightAtRiverCitySaloon) Krinker (facebook.com/ryan.krinker) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Rapture Horror Story (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:25:00 -0000

Idea: Tom's long awkwardly dark attempt to write a horror story (with zombies) like the Creepypastas and amateur horror stories he listens to on YouTube. Also: questioning whether listening to "true crime", dark, and horror stories to help you fall asleep is creepy; listing our favorite dark/horror YouTube channels; the accidental similarities between Tom's horror story and the TV show iZombie

Eric Wilson (facebook.com/eric.wilson.712 instagram.com/ericwilsonlive) James River (facebook.com/jamesrivercomedy instagram.com/cesarspubcomedy) Cheryl Stoner (facebook.com/cheryl.stoner.comedian instagram.com/cherylstonercomedian) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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De-Shelled Non-Beaten Eggs Sold in a Bottle (Cheryl Stoner)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 14:10:10 -0000

Idea: To sell de-shelled (but not beaten) eggs in a small plastic or glass bottle (like a Sunny D or Snapple bottle) so people don't have to worry about accidentally cracking the shell while making eggs. Also: people are lazy enough to buy de-shelled eggs and might even start associating "shelled eggs" with poor people; putting real eggs in toy plastic egg shells and then ruining a kid's Easter; breaking glass bottles containing eggs and recreating the movie "Die Hard" but with eggs; why Cheryl's mind is blown by chickens

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AI-Assisted Phone Call Gatekeeper (Eric Wilson)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 27 May 2025 08:20:02 -0000

Idea: A vocal voicemail-like program that uses AI to determine whether an incoming call (from a phone number that isn't whitelisted) can cause your phone to ring and/or leave a message. Also: using the AI prank a telemarketer or make them do a "Shark Tank"-style pitch; if a friend calls you at 2 AM for no good reason, the AI could block their call and revenge-call them the next night at 2 AM; an AI call interacting with your AI gatekeeper; Eric and Cheryl receiving weird AI/spam voicemails and messages that pretend to be a friend with a fake name

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Coke Vacuum (James River)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 21 May 2025 17:34:52 -0000

Idea: A mini-vacuum that could vacuum up cocaine spilled on the floor and/or cocaine residue off dollar bills and other things, and also maybe filter out the dust/debris and/or test for Fentanyl. Also: disrupting the drug-sniffing dog market; paying carpet cleaners in the cocaine that they obtained from vacuuming the carpet; similar inventions for sifting crack called the "Rock Tumbler" and for psychedelics that filters them out of urine

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Coma Punk Lifestyle (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 11 May 2025 02:49:14 -0000

Idea: A lifestyle where you party on the weekend and go into an intentional coma during the week (or longer if necessary), during which you're weened off drugs, you lose weight (if necessary), basic and cosmetic hygiene (such as getting a tattoo) is performed on you, etc. and you afford the "coma punk" lifestyle by being an influencer, letting scientists experiment on your body, and/or by saving money by not needing an apartment. Also: you could do it temporarily during a flight, to recover from a bachelor party, or to lose weight instead of making it a lifestyle; if you were a "coma punk" during summer break in college, maybe you wouldn't be conscious long enough to forget your studies; the risk of waking up in a bad state hooked up to machines in a drawer, or waking up at the correct time but having floppy weak muscles like in "Kill Bill"; maybe this isn't plausible in real life but it would make a great movie plot

Tyler Beans (facebook.com/tyler.warmbein.3) Emeka Nriagu (facebook.com/emeka.nriagu instagram.com/emurkadurk) Ben Champion (instagram.com/_champ_is.here facebook.com/ben.champion.39) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Chance Social Encounter Avoidance App (Ben Champion)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 02 May 2025 21:40:46 -0000

Idea: An app that warns you if people you know are nearby in a public place (such as a grocery store) so you can avoid bumping into and having unwanted 10+ minute conversations with them. Also: ways to avoid people, such as wearing Mrs. Doubtfire masks, hiding behind bulk toilet paper, and running through the grocery store aisles like Pac-Man; maybe we should invent a hand gesture for "hi but let's not talk very long" (or just use the middle finger); some occupations (dentist, handyman, etc.) cause you to meet so many people in your neighborhood that running errands without getting trapped in unwanted conversations is difficult

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Language Teaching AI Chatbot (Emeka Nriagu)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 18:56:09 -0000

Idea: AI in a chatbot and/or in videogames that teaches you a foreign language. Also: being immersed in a conversation with a chatbot or in a videogame is more effective than learning in a classroom, and also AI could customize the language teaching to you; existing videogames that teach in clever ways such as "Typing of the Dead"; you could learn ancient Sumerian or Egyptian hieroglyphics from language teaching AI in a videogame and then show up at a real-life historical site and outshine the scholars/historians; AI that monitors you while you're watching foreign language TV and shows subtitles and/or replays sentences if you look confused

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Crazy Movie Sequels and Spinoffs (Tyler Beans)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 10:56:30 -0000

A loose conversation about ideas for crazy movie sequels and spinoffs, including an idea for a sequel of the movie "Liar, Liar" where the kid uses his lie-preventing superpower to force mobsters and villains to tell the truth to their peril. Also: under-the-radar superheroes in movies such as the kid from "Liar Liar" and Mary Poppins; dirty (and not dirty) fan fiction and creepypastas; the movie Avatar and getting obsessed with movie worlds; future AI creating a VR world based on a side character in a movie so you can "live with them"

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Last Chance Tourism (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 01:02:22 -0000

Idea: A TV show or web series which highlights tourist places and events that are going to disappear (or are at risk of disappearing), and also explains why and predicts how much time is left for the viewer to go there. Also: reasons for sites to disappear could be environmental, economic, physical deterioration, etc.; last-chance events such as the "Gathering of the Juggalos", "Burning Man", and "Running With the Bulls"; Carl's ironic obsession with the "Tower of History" in Sault St. Marie; highlighting at-risk tourist sites could cause people to rally to save them and thus make the last-chance video obsolete and angering the viewers

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Screwber (Krinker)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 23:57:22 -0000

Idea: A dating/hookup app combined with a food delivery app where one party (usually the male) arrives at their date's house with their date's food order for an at-home dinner date with the expectation of likely hooking up afterwards. Also: a more wholesome version ("Chef's Kiss") where the date brings a home-cooked meal; it would be good for guys who have body odor, because the food smell would mask the B.O.; Carl's app prototype called "Taco Meet" to help friends collect taco orders for a group order; multiple guys competing to deliver "Five Guys" to one woman, which would be "so many guys"

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Haunted Spa-Salon TV Show (Lucky Lee)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 07:44:42 -0000

Idea: A comedy/horror sitcom about a salon and spa which is run by a friendly ghost and markets itself as haunted. Also: a salon mirror showing a customer giving an evil smile instead of their reflection; scared customers jumping and causing the stylist to cut a bald spot in their hair; claiming your ghost boss Ratatouille'd you in order to blame her for screwing up a haircut

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1980s Action Fitness (Carl Sobel)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:53:25 -0000

Idea: A 1980s-themed fitness center/camp, including Rocky/Rambo/Schwarzenegger movies on all of the TVs and inspirational "Eye of the Tiger"-style songs for all of the music, old-school karate and martial-art classes which have been made obsolete by MMA, Footloose-"Dirty Dancing" themed dance classes and dance-offs, etc. Also: a "Point Break"-themed pool, a Deathsport-style underground fighting tournament, breakdancing, instructors wearing blue jeans and smoking cigars, etc.; a real-life roller derby "running of the bulls" bar crawl where the derby girls smack people with pool noodles

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Taxidermied Emotional Support Animals (David Carson)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 07:18:13 -0000

Idea: Taxidermied animals as emotional support animals for situations where you can't have a living emotional support animal, such as if you can't get a doctor's note, you're allergic, or you just can't handle the upkeep of a living pet. Also: it's like the evil "blood diamond" version of a stuffed animal; the horror of seeing someone on a plane having a panic attack while intensely squeezing a dead animal; a Tamagotchi taxidermied animal that you have to care for, or a robotic one which is controlled remotely by a real pet so you can "mute" or disable it on a plane if it's causing trouble; other clever and/or practical uses of taxidermied animals, such as a cup, a fire extinguisher, or a literal drug mule

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Ski Resort Self-Driving Snowmobiles (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:12:16 -0000

Idea: For ski resorts to use self-driving snowmobiles or golf carts (on an enclosed paved path) instead of ski lifts. Also: ski lifts are an unnecessary fear endurance challenge that must be completed before doing the sport of skiing, and how similarly dumb it would be if a baseball stadium made you walk through a hall of spiders before you could play baseball; shooting archery targets while riding on a ski lift; practicing your comedy set verbally while floating in a public sensory deprivation tank

Kim Cook (https://kimcookcomedy.com) Tommy Cook (instagram.com/tommycooklol https://tommycooklol.carrd.co/) Brian Atkinson (https://brianacomedian.com facebook.com/BrianAcomedian) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Reel Love (Kim Cook)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:36:28 -0000

Idea: An app that recommends movies for couples based on their overlapping interests for them to watch together. Also: modes such as "compromise mode" for when you're feeling generous and willing to watch a movie more aligned to your partner's interests; using AI and data from many sources (watch history, you social media, etc) to better understand your movie preferences; using AI to generate, combine, or modify movies (examples: "Kill Bill The Musical"; a war movie with a small romantic subplot where the "happily ever after" seamlessly transitions into a full-on romantic comedy); magnetic helmets that temporarily shut off or amplify parts of your brains to better align your movie preferences

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Recycling Deposit For Electronics (Tommy Cook)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:00:48 -0000

Idea: A deposit (such as $5.00) similar to a bottle deposit which you pay when you buy electronics and you get back when you recycle them. Also: electronics that get up and leave if you're not worthy of their time or they are due to be recycled; 1970s recycling mascots and Kim's hatred of "hatless owls"; Apple has a good recycling program but arguably misleads you about the possibility of a trade-in refund/discount; maybe you could get paid to recycle your electronics if you don't wipe your data off of them and you allow the recycling company to sell your data

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Mouth Vibrator (Dylan Farr The Autistic Spitfire)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:23:50 -0000

Idea: Replacing teeth or part of your jaw with a vibrator to enhance (or automate) your oral pleasuring skills. Also: swapping between normal dentures and softer vibrating teeth or having teeth that can deflate to soft pleasure mode and inflate to hard chewing mode; questioning the need to do oral if you've got a vibrating device; if bone conduction headphones cause headaches, imagine the headaches from a vibrator built into your mouth

Josiah Garcia (instagram.com/the_not_so_good_wrestler linktr.ee/AllendaleComedyOpenMic) Tyler "T-Dog the Unfathomable" Caldwell (instagram.com/thetac32 x.com/TheTAC32) Dylan "The Autistic Spitfire" Farr (instagram.com/autisticspitfirecomedy, facebook.com/dylan.p.farr, Spitfire Comedy at Sticks in Ypsilanti) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Sinkhole Armored Truck Robbery Movie (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 05:47:57 -0000

Idea: A dark comedy heist movie where five nerds decide to rob an armored truck full of cash by driving it into a sinkhole in Florida and then swimming through unmapped underground rivers in scuba gear to make their escape. Also: a documentary where scuba drivers in Florida were swimming in an underground river underneath a Walmart and then come to the surface in what looks like a large puddle in a suburban backyard; nerds trying to commit a real robbery (i.e. not hacking) to increase their "manliness" or "toughness" at the same time they get rich; how the heist which was planned to be nonviolent could go wrong in extremely disturbing ways; the podcast guests hyper-fixating on a small non-essential part of the movie plot to the embarrassment of the host

Abbie Lemke (facebook.com/abbie.lemke facebook.com/garagebaropenmic) Jeffrey Scott (facebook.com/JeffreyScottComedy) The Beaveman (facebook.com/Beavemancomedy facebook.com/slaptail.squad Podcast: https://theslaptailsquad.buzzsprout.com) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Parental Draft Substitution Movie (The Beaveman)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 02:54:02 -0000

Idea: An action movie where an inept Trump-like leader stumbles incompetently into a sci-fi futuristic war and drafts young people into the military, but their ex-military parents strike a deal to go to war in their place. Also: an electromagnetic pulse could render tech obsolete and leave young tech-dependent fighters reliant on older people with more practical skills; questioning the morality of manipulating naive impressionable young men into joining the military; going to war twice for the sake of protecting your adult children could make them feel like it's impossible to earn their parents' respect

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One Dimensional Movies (Jeffrey Scott)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:02:24 -0000

Idea: Movies that are only shown in one physical dimension (1D) e.g. width. Also: instead of watching 3D movies by wearing 3D glasses, you'd watch 1D movies by wearing an eye patch; 3D schlock horror movies from the 1970s where it looks like the axe is flying towards you; storing 1D movies on cylindrical discs; remaking 2D movies in 1D; using wormholes and time travel to show movies in 4D

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Animal Language Interpretation Device (Abbie Lemke)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:39:11 -0000

Idea: A device that allows you to interpret the language/feelings of animals and also maybe speak their languages. Also: the risk of such a device turning people into "crazy cat ladies" who no longer talk to people; our "innocent" pets might actually be disgusting perverts; being bitterly jealous of the main character of the cartoon "The Wild Thornberrys" because she can communicate with animals and you can't

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Ozempikush (Tyler Caldwell)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 04:34:23 -0000

Idea: To mix weed with something (like Ozempic) to keep it from giving you the munchies and causing you to gain weight. Also: obesity from weed is the actual gateway to harder drugs (because the harder drugs don't make you gain weight like weed does); caffeine or stimulants in the weed to get you up and moving to burn calories would ruin the weed; a joint that glues your mouth shut for a couple hours so you can't eat; using "smart devices" such as a timed lockbox that locks your weed or a weed-smelling lockbox that locks your Doritos if you're high and have the munchies (but then a hacker could hold your weed hostage in your lockbox until you send him Google Play gift cards)

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Evil AI Assistant (Josiah Garcia)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 08:06:24 -0000

Idea (satire): An AI assistant that validates everything you think and helps you do anything you want, including evil or unhealthy things. Also: recommending things for you that it determines you'd enjoy but that you're not emotionally ready to accept; validating your crazy thoughts and making your mental illness worse; using the AI as an alibi if you get in trouble with the cops; other scary futuristic tech, such as "drive-by-wire" computerized car steering and RFID chip implants

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Car Heat Vent Accessories (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 02:17:02 -0000

Idea: Two concepts of heat vent accessories that you can add to your car to blow warm air on you in a more satisfying way than the ones built into the dash (which only directly warm your hands and face and dry out your eyeballs). Also: heat vents as a zen meditation spot; Tom didn't realize that "air scarfs" already exist in some luxury car seats; Bluetooth-speaker-sized space heaters (without metal surfaces that could burn you) with rechargeable batteries that can attach to the headrest or a suit hanger; an air blower machine located below the car seat with an air nozzle near your seat belt that you can pull up to blow warm air inside your shirt

Donte Lillard (linktr.ee/dontelillard facebook.com/DogComicProductions) JT Motley (youtube.com/@JTMotley facebook.com/jamie.kidmoten) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Playa Haters Ball Comedy Show (JT Motley)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 05:25:04 -0000

Idea: A roast-like award show where each comic is introduced by giving them an insulting award (such as "the comic with the most hit-with-a-brick mouth"), and their set/"acceptance speech" is a roast of the host, the other comics, and possibly also celebrities and/or random people in the audience. Also: it's loosely based on a "Chappelle's Show" sketch called "Playa Haters' Ball"; it's roast-like humor, but there's no "dais", everyone is the target of the insults, and there's no respectful "I roast you because I love you" backtracking at the end; comics are well-dressed but in an over-the-top pimp-like way (possibly also in a jokey persona like a pirate or a "Silicon Valley pimp") to make it easy for other comics to insult them; the show would also include games, sketches, and other comedic activities

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Diverse Mall Santa Service (Donte Lillard)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 19:05:22 -0000

Idea: A service that provides multiple mall Santas of different races, genders, cultures, etc. Also: unique characteristics of the different flavors of Santa, such as an Irish Santa with a red beard and a thick accent that the kids can't understand; kids choosing a race of Santa that they think will give them the most presents or switching Santas if they didn't get the present they wanted the previous Christmas; a SantaBot controlled remotely by someone of the desired race from a call center; this idea must be implemented quickly before DEI goes away

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The Great Clown Massacre (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 11:48:46 -0000

Idea: A movie based loosely on the viral creepy clown fad of 2016, when, in real life, creepy clowns would wander around outside at night, and in response, mobs of people hunted for (and in a couple cases murdered) creepy clowns. In the movie, a creepy clown is murdered by a teenager who falsely claims self-defense, clowns take him and his family hostage in an attempt to demand he go to trial, and then chaos ensues in a Waco-style police standoff/siege. Also: the corrupt media would portray the clowns only as villains and wouldn't mention that innocent clowns were murdered (just like in real life); the clowns would do clown antics during the standoff/siege, like get shot and then pull a long rainbow handkerchief out of their pocket which then pulls out their intestines; the police/FBI leader, a man whos makeup artist used to do clown makeup and sympathizes with the clowns, is constantly pranked by her, such as having his microphone squeak like a clown nose when he bumps it during a press conference, and secretly putting clown makeup on him underneath his normal makeup so he looks like a clown when he sweats off his normal makeup

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Mid-Life Themed Pop Songs (Josiah Garcia)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:38:22 -0000

Idea: Pop songs for middle-aged people which discuss middle-aged issues, such as erectile dysfunction and health issues, not getting along with your kids, wanting to buy a motorcycle, rigidly-scheduled lovemaking sessions, and partying because your kids finally moved out. Also: the songs could be performed either by middle-aged artists or by popular young artists; questioning whether young adults still listen to FM radio; using AI to tweak songs by popular artists to make them directly apply to your life situation

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Autistic Dating App (Dylan Farr the Autistic Spitfire)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 01:50:51 -0000

Idea: A new dating app for autistic people. Also: planning dates at Lego stores, Comic-Con, or a train station; creating autistic-specific categories of interests, such as Adventure Time, WWE wrestling, Rubic's Cubes, etc. with a spectrum of how interested you are in the topic (because "no posers"); questioning the gender balance of people with autism, and the differences between autistic men and autistic women; using absurd tricks to help autistic men focus on pleasuring their partner; brainstorming names for the app, such as "Rizzm Tism"

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Drunk Driving Lane (Tyler Caldwell)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:01:32 -0000

Idea: A road lane with barriers on both sides (like bumper bowling or a Hot Wheels track or a Boring Company tunnel) where it's legal to drive drunk. Also: instead of trying and failing to use police and strict penalties to prevent drunk driving, maybe it'd be safer (for other people) to allow people to drive drunk if they're a safe distance away; people paying to watch entertaining videos and livestreams of the drunk drivers crashing would help fund the drunk driving lane; maybe we could even "gamify" it like Mario-Kart and let people pay to drop obstacles or give the the drivers inventory (i.e. more beer)

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Car Wind Chimes (Fat Steve)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 00:01:28 -0000

Idea: Wind chimes that hang from the rear-view mirror of your car, which was a business idea his mom had when he was a kid. Also: questioning whether a wind chime clanging every time you use the brakes would be annoying; worrying that your mom's bad business idea will bankrupt the family

Fat Steve (instagram.com/fatstevecomedy) Emmanuel Lechuga (instagram.com/emmanuel_lechuga_comedy) Ryan Brown (https://linktr.ee/brownryancomedy instagram.com/brownryancomedy) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Identity Class (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 06:15:53 -0000

Idea: A high school class where you independently browse video and info of former students to see how they did in college, career, and life, to encourage you to relate that back to you to help you plan your academics, career, and life. Also: the video would include the former student sitting in class, socializing in the lunchroom and at school events, giving MTV-Real World style confessionals about their thoughts on their life/school/career, opinions about the student by their teachers/parents/friends/spouses, etc.; AI would help you quickly jump to interesting/relevant data/video about a student who you're curious about, such as whether they got a job in their chosen career and what they say about it; teachers would make you write reports comparing yourself to former student(s) and (for example) describing what you could do to achieve the same positive outcomes or avoid the negative outcomes; the AI/data could be corrupted by overprotective teachers and/or the browsing history of students in the class could be used to spot and punish future criminals

Jay Eoff (facebook.com/jay.eoff.3) Nicole Melnyk (linktr.ee/nicooldude420 instagram.com/mcfancyvonpants tiktok.com/@nicolemelnyk) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Skin Shirts (Nicole Melnyk)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:54:49 -0000

An absurd brainstorming session on how to create T-shirts that you can wear for a week or more (because you're too lazy to pick out and/or change your clothes), including making T-shirts out of human skin so you can wear them and wash them while you shower. Also: multi-layered T-shirts where you can remove (or dissolve) the innermost layer which collects sweat before it starts to smell bad; tattooing someone else's skin and then grafting it onto your body (as an additional layer of skin) so you can remove it later and so you don't have to experience the pain of getting a tattoo; a failed prediction on what Nicole's podcast idea would be

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A College For Only Rich Kids (Jay Eoff)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 03:23:47 -0000

Idea (satire): A college to be attended by only rich kids where they won't be annoyed by "poors" complaining about high tuition, and they learn rich people skills like white collar crime, avoiding taxes, condescension, etc. Also: majoring in crypto and minoring in convincing other people to invest their life savings into crypto; owning teams of poors who compete for them in sporting events (because the rich don't wanna get sweaty) and who perform in dog-show-like competitions; it would be located on an artificial island in the sky so they can drop trash down onto the poors; discussing loosely related topics, such as public speaking courses, fat camps for adults, Emma Stone, rich people doing risky things, man-made disasters caused by a single person's mistake, and Zeppelins

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Toady Mustard (Shelly Smith)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 08:07:13 -0000

Idea: An improv show format which is an absurdist parody of a rigid agenda-based speech of a Toastmaster public speaking course. The name "toady mustard" is based on a funny autocorrect re-spelling of the word "Toastmaster". Also: the rigid agenda would give the improv performers clear roles and make the longform show feel like a series of distinct shortform games and bits (each agenda topic would be a different bit/game); absurdist agenda items could include dance breaks, giving the audience foot rubs, calling out the jerk of the room, etc.

Lisa Green (facebook.com/lisa.green.8 https://linktr.ee/depottowncomedy) Shelly Smith (facebook.com/shelly.smith.9210 Podcast: https://www.readsandweeds.com) Matthew Ryan (facebook.com/matthew.ryan.911) Mike Geeter (facebook.com/michaelgeeter1969 https://samroseent.com) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Russian Roulette Diet 2 (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:00:52 -0000

Idea: A satirical weight loss program where you strategically jump between (mostly) unhealthy weight loss techniques to ensure you don't do any of them long enough to cause permanent bodily damage. Examples of weight loss techniques included in the program could be fasting, tapeworm, stimulants, medically-induced coma, Fen-Fen (a banned diet pill cocktail), Wim Hof ice hikes, a jug of pre-colonoscopy laxative, Alli (a drug which blocks fat absorption and can give you oily anal leakage), getting flu/Covid on purpose, eating blowfish to fill up your stomach to prevent hunger, etc. Also: a medical professional would monitor you and pull you off an unhealthy weight loss technique early if necessary, and also, for example, make sure you don't do two things that are harmful to your liver in a row; it could be made into a competition show like The Biggest Loser with a spinning wheel for choosing the next technique or a Bride Wars-type show where people try to lose weight before getting married; questioning assumptions and laws concerning the level of harm of drugs

Chris Young (http://www.chrisyoungcomic.com Comedy Special Video: https://www.drybarcomedy.com/chrisy) Jae Gonzalez (instagram.com/comedyxjae) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Forklift Driving Competition Tour (Jae Gonzalez)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:51:46 -0000

Idea: To expand the forklift driving championship into a multi-city touring competition/festival, and also expand it to include a variety of forklift and warehouse-related events. Also: forklift events could include obstacle courses (difficult turns, uneven and wet floors, mannequins or robots in the way, etc.), box stacking (speed, height, perfect box alignment), picking up and moving things without knocking over nearby things (kind of like Jenga or a puzzle), team events, racing against auto-pickers (robotic forklifts), etc.; non-forklift events could involve cranes, semi trucks, Amazon warehouse-style manually gathering of items from shelves, etc.; a tour could involve traveling pros competing against each other, amateur events, and possibly allowing amateurs to compete against the pros (like a pro-am); maybe WWE-ify it with foam boxes that are almost guaranteed to tumble down and forklifts that are modified to safely crash

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Parent Cool Pods (Chris Young)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 05:49:15 -0000

Idea: An AI-based app which runs on nearby people's (primarily teenagers) phones/Airpods and/or augmented reality glasses that filters (in real-time) how they hear and/or see you in order to make them perceive you as "cool". Also: making it appear like you're saying cool Gen Z/Alpha slang, and a list of recent slang words/expressions and whether we think they're funny; it could be customized based on the age of the person wearing the Airpods/glasses to make a middle-aged person seem cool to their elderly parents and vice-versa; it could also translate slang so you can understand what the kids are saying and/or tell you if a song or product is "cool"; if 50 year old celebs like Kenny Chesney and Snoop Dogg can be perceived by kids as cool, why can't their parents and teachers (with the help of this app)?

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Prankulance (Matthew Ryan)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 04:44:16 -0000

A loose conversation and brainstorming session about pranks, many performed by EMTs in an ambulance, and an idea to turn an old ambulance into a prank/flashmob entry/getaway vehicle. Also: a prank involving stealing pizzas and/or spoiling them by putting pineapple on them; using "Oh Danny Boy" from the Chumbawumba song "Tubthumping" as the siren for the prankulance; a heist movie parody with five pranksters and the prankulance, involving stealing extra food from parties and (like Robin Hood) redistributing it to needy broke comedians, and also handing babies live chickens (as a distraction during the food theft, and also because Shelly thinks babies holding chickens are really cute)

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Food History App (Lisa Green)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 22:50:01 -0000

Idea: An app that keeps track of all of your food orders from all apps and allows you to quickly search through them to find a meal to order again. Also: it shouldn't take 300 clicks and a memory puzzle to find a specific dish in food delivery app(s); the hilariousness of kids using apps to order crazy things like 1000 popsicles; combining the food history app with Spotify to recommend foods based on your mood; the creepiness of predictive/AI apps and privacy-violating apps, such as when social media apps figure out women are pregnant before they do; ranting about social media pet peeves

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Chakra Goddess (Shelly Smith)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 22:04:05 -0000

Idea: A comedic performance (either on stage or on TikTok) in an over-the-top costume representing one of the seven chakras which shows both love for and criticism of gurus and the culture of yoga, meditation, and "New Age"/"Eastern" religion/spirituality. Also: Shelly walking through the audience of a comedy club spreading sage and blessing hecklers while dressed as a "root chakra" in a brown root-like skirt with megaphones sticking out of her neck; brainstorming the performance style (Colbert Report-style embodiment of a crazy guru, speaking in deep lingo that the audience won't understand, comedic jumps between deep new-age spiritual concepts and broad topics i.e. "when I'm embodying my highest self I don't eat donuts"), the artistic ideal of focusing exclusively on your artistic vision and not worrying about or even finding out (in the case of social media) what the audience thinks; the risk of failing to live up to that artistic ideal and bombing painfully and becoming the crying girl in a flower costume in the Blind Melon "No Rain" music video

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TeleGeeter (Mike Geeter)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 10:51:06 -0000

Idea: A sci-fi teleportation device built into showers (because "Dr. Who"-style phone booths don't really exist anymore, and therefore the shower is the most common pod-shaped location to use for teleportation). Also: keeping your shower cleaner because people will be teleporting in and out of it; using it to escape from bad dates; always teleporting to remote toilet facilities instead of having a toilet in your house; kids teleporting between bathrooms in their house to confuse their parents (like a chase scene in Scooby Doo); burning yourself with hot water in the shower and then accidentally pressing the teleport knob and getting teleported to a random house

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The Seance of Chester Bennington (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 07:40:06 -0000

Idea: A movie musical where the deceased lead singer of Linkin Park (Chester Bennington) is contacted via seance by his grieving children. Then, in order to solve their financial woes and to help them emotionally, he performs a new music album from beyond the grave. His voice would be generated for the movie using AI. Also: AI voice replication is getting really, really good; in the movie, he can only communicate from beyond the grave "in song"; it doesn't make sense that AI gets the artsy jobs and we have to pour over numbers; getting plastic surgery to look like a deceased singer and then getting an AI-based vocal implant to sound like them

Pam Palmieri (facebook.com/pam.palmieri instagram.com/pampalmiericomedy Comedy Shows: facebook.com/profile.php?id=61561507017993) Alex Wilson (facebook.com/mralexwilson youtube.com/@thedropoutprofessor https://the-dropout-professor.medium.com) Bryan Deuchler (facebook.com/profile.php?id=100084687192997 https://cartoontonic.buzzsprout.com) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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I Wanna K*ll An Engineer TV Show (Pam Palmieri)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 04:37:45 -0000

Idea: A TV show where people air grievances against engineers of bad and/or needlessly difficult to repair products, and the engineer responsible either immediately faces severe consequences (decided by the audience), or they have a chance to repair a broken product, and if they designed it so poorly that they fail to quickly repair it, then they (and possibly even their family) face the severe consequences. Also: debating whether Pam's grievance was actually the fault of an engineer; expanding the idea to punish other people who screw you over (either intentionally or through incompetence), such as mechanics, service workers, and realtors; customer service reps would either be immediately put on the chopping block for angering consumers, or would have immense power in deciding who's fault the problem was to put them on the chopping block instead

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Insult To Injury TV Show (Alex Wilson)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 05:15:37 -0000

Idea: A TV show where real-life disputes are resolved via boxing matches and comedians commentate and then roast the winner (because roasting the loser would be too cruel). Also: providing a healthier outlet for male rage than gun violence; offering the bully free therapy instead of roasting them (because the US will do anything to avoid universal health care); comparing the idea to the TV show "Bully Beatdown" and discussing whether bullies are a fundamental aspect of this show (and deciding that they are not); having themed episodes, such as teachers vs. grown-up disruptive students, IT workers vs. annoying tech-illiterate office workers, Karens, etc.

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Family Tree Rotten Apple Finding Service (Bryan Deuchler)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:46:44 -0000

Idea: A semi-satirical DNA-analyzing and family tree investigation service that only tells you negative aspects of your family tree, such as ancestors who did evil things, parents who aren't actually your biological parents, and inherited diseases that will probably kill you. Also: it could "unite everyone in hating where we come from"; maybe everyone should be forced to use this service in order to "air out everyone's dirty laundry" all at once; it might backfire if teenage boys find it "metal" and exciting to be related to a historical villain; this service could also solve historical crimes "for evil reasons" i.e. to bum out the murderer's descendants

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Lawnmower Weedwacker Combo (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:35:20 -0000

Idea: A mount on a lawnmower for a weedwacker, so you can use the weedwacker while mowing instead of having to walk around the yard twice (once while mowing and once while weedwacking). Also, maybe weedwacker(s) could mount in front of the lawnmower wheels and run while you mow to widen the mowing width. Also: getting rid of the mower blade and just making a lawnmower out of a bunch of weedwackers; robotic Roomba-style lawnmowers exist now; Roombas and how often a house should be vacuumed (and other home/hygiene things); a burner attachment to burn yard waste so you don't have to keep emptying the bag

Jen Frissina (facebook.com/jen.frissina) Steve Smargon (facebook.com/steve.smargon instagram.com/bipolarmarine) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Human Damage Meter (Steve Smargon)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 10:36:35 -0000

Idea: A videogame-style "damage meter" and/or list of worst physical/mental/criminal attributes that nearby people can view about you (and you can view about them) on your phones. Also: it'd be useful during dating because it'd contain the stuff that people leave off their dating profile; it could alert you if someone's damage meter indicates they're a threat; evil people hurting you to see your damage meter increase in real-time; life-threatening health issues causing you to be less patient with other people

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Corgis and Comedy (Jen Frissina)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 02:22:34 -0000

Idea: A standup comedy show in a "corgi cafe" where comedians have to compete with corgis for the audience's attention. The corgi may be on stage and there may be a vote or a penalty (such as reduced stage time) for losing against the corgi. Also: corgi vs. doge; the corgi and the comic must abide by the same rules (ex: if the dog barks, the comic can bark); unusual and nightmare comedy shows, such as a show where they shock the comic, a show in an insane asylum, and a show where a baby threw a diaper at the comic

Jen Frissina (facebook.com/jen.frissina) Steve Smargon (facebook.com/steve.smargon instagram.com/bipolarmarine) Bruce Umpstead (facebook.com/umpstead instagram.com/bruceumpstead) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Lucky Undy (Bruce Umpstead)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:37:34 -0000

Idea: Underwear with sports team logos or colors on them to be worn on game nights for luck. Also: making your friend wear your team's underwear on the outside of his pants as a penalty for losing a bet; giving yourself a wedgie to show your team spirit; complementary undies for couples; questioning whether "undy" is a real word or whether it's always plural, i.e. a "pair of undies"

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Security Exophone (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 05:36:00 -0000

Idea: An "exophone" containing a metal box in which you put your Apple/Android phone to block its WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, and microphone. The metal box has one USB/lightning cable sticking out, through which all data is passed between the Apple/Android phone and the exophone, including screen output, touch screen input, mic input, speaker output, Bluetooth, wired Ethernet (with location info stripped), etc. The exophone would contain it's own screen/mic/speaker/WiFi/cellular whose data is sent through the USB/lightning cable to the Apple/Android phone. There would be several physical switches on the exophone to enable/disable sending different types of data (such as GPS, Bluetooth, microphone) into the Apple/Android phone. That way, you have physical/hardware control over your privacy (because Apple, Google, and software in general cannot be trusted)

Emmanuel Lechuga (instagram.com/emmanuel_lechuga_comedy) Ryan Brown (https://linktr.ee/brownryancomedy instagram.com/brownryancomedy) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Parking Info in Map Apps (Ryan Brown)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 03:52:44 -0000

Idea: For map apps to warn you if there are no available parking spots near your destination, and to give you real-time info to help you park. Also: if pizza places allow you to track a pizza in real-time, why can't map apps keep track of parking in real-time; the app could tell you to hurry up to get the last spot before another car; helping you avoid red lights or cops in real-time

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Motorized Ice Sled (Fat Steve)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 25 May 2024 02:23:24 -0000

Idea: A lightweight motorized sled or an "ice boat" to allow you to go ice fishing when the lake ice isn't thick enough for a full-sized snowmobile. Also: using a hovercraft to drive over weak lake ice; using a snow sled to drag people who pass out drunk to the car

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Dissonance App (Emmanuel Lechuga)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 20 May 2024 05:37:26 -0000

Idea: An app ("Dissonance App", "dissonance" being the opposite of harmony) that connects two people to have a toxic/hateful real-life encounter with each other. The app can filter by what you're angry about (racism, divorce, a petty topic like pineapple on pizza), the action you want to take (dating, arguing, boxing or bare-knuckle brawling), and/or the characteristics of the person to connect with (social class, body part proportions, whether they look like your ex). Also: if you to release your anger using this app you might be less angry in real life and on other dating apps and social apps; the "match found" icon could be a middle finger or a devil emoji; there could be a spectator mode to allow other people to witness the real-life encounters

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Outdoor Dog Distractor (Skippy Rose)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 13 May 2024 07:48:15 -0000

Idea: A device to either keep a dog occupied in your yard or periodically give the dog confirmation that it's okay to keep playing in the yard, so it'll stay outside longer without bugging you. Also: a human-like hologram or a ball-throwing robot that's too good might have the unintended consequence of winning too much of the dog's love from you; a whack-a-mole yard game could make the dog go crazy like Bill Murray in Caddyshack but would improve your sanity; an ominous warning about the desire to not be distracted for long periods of time and having kids

Niko Lukoff (linktr.ee/LaughYourLukoff) Justin Hicks (facebook.com/justin.hicks.92798) Skippy Rose (instagram.com/skippyrosecomedy youtube.com/@SkippyRoseComedy) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Junk Mail Prevention Service (Skippy Rose)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 05 May 2024 05:36:16 -0000

Idea: A service where the post office filters out your junk mail for a monthly fee (either all junk mail or junk mail from specific companies that you specify). Also: maybe a kid could drive through the neighborhood after the mailman, filter out the junk mail, and give it to the homeless, or to someone else to use as insulation or something useful; a trenchcoat or puffy coat that allows you to add padding, such as junk mail or other clothing (to allow you to travel without bringing a suitcase); Skippy is shocked that Tom gets almost no junk mail

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Car Lifting-Parking Valet Machine (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 02:52:28 -0000

Idea: A self-driving car lift that can act as a valet by sliding under your non-self-driving car, parking it for you, and then later returning it to you. Also: it could use the same self-driving tech that Tesla uses, but be limited to slow speeds and have front/rear padding for extra safety; millions of tech bros will soon be able to get out of their Tesla right in front of the entrance of a store (in front of the handicapped spots) and then have their cars park themselves, giving the handicapped an inferior parking experience; this valet machine would make handicapped spots unnecessary, but if there are no handicapped spots, stores might need human valets as backups for when these valet machines break down; the valet machine could drive your car through a car wash while you shop, and also Tom has never washed his car

Pam Krugman (facebook.com/pam.krugman youtube.com/@pamkrugman6858) Yogi Singh (facebook.com/theyogmeister instagram.com/theyogmeister) Brandon Birk Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Comedian Valentine Murder Mystery (Pam Krugman)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 05:29:21 -0000

Idea: A murder mystery movie set at a Valentine's Day standup comedy and karaoke show where a male comic who's the love interest of the two female show-runners is murdered on stage by a cupid's arrow. Also: the physics of killing someone with a cupid's arrow; wondering about the mythological cupid's motivation; making your funeral fun instead of trying to maximizing how much people grieve for you; who in the local comedy scene would be cast in the movie

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DMs Sliders Restaurant (Brandon Birk)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 07:15:50 -0000

Idea: A restaurant that specializes in White Castle style sliders (which Brandon knows how to cook) and is themed around dirty jokes relating to "sliding into someone's DMs" and sexting, such as "DICK PICKles", ketchup packets labelled as "Sup?", and placemats with people's faces on them so you can get sauce all over them. Also: ordering the food via text using dirty talk and emojis; the wait staff could either "play it straight", talk dirty and use dirty jokes and puns, or act super offended; having a separate room behind a video store style beaded doorway for the more explicitly adult-themed jokes and menu, so normal people and maybe even kids can feel comfortable in the main area of the restaurant

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Personalized AI Joke Writer (Yogi Singh)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 06:34:43 -0000

Idea: To train artificial intelligence (AI) based on your jokes (i.e. nobody else's jokes) and have it suggest new jokes for you based on your style. Also: incorporating audience reaction to your jokes in the AI training algorithm; configuring the AI to suggest jokes slightly outside of your usual style (for example, dirtier jokes); bad AI and privacy concerns on Netflix and social media; having AI generate smells based on audio/visual input, including fart smells based on the sound of the fart (FartGPT)

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Reprogrammable Rollercoaster (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 08:59:23 -0000

Idea: A very long rollercoaster divided into 5 track segments, where each segment is it's own ride (with, for example, a jungle theme or a space theme), and the lines for the 5 rides criss-cross and get occasionally switched up, so you don't know which track segment of the rollercoaster you're gonna ride, and therefore you don't know how many hills or loops you'll experience. Also, the audio/visual/effects around the rollercoaster could be reprogrammed to instantly update/change the theme of the ride. The goal is to make a simple rollercoaster always feel fresh and new and unpredictable. Also: customizing the rollercoaster visuals for a wedding proposal; occasionally having an extra-long ride that uses more than one track segment; passing out on rollercoasters (and other places)

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The Skip Pan and Concert Periscope 2 (Skippy Rose)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 04:52:04 -0000

Ideas: A dustpan with a hand-powered pump/suction attachment to suck up the last line of dirt; a periscope for short people to use at concerts to see the stage. Also: preventing people from using the concert periscope upside-down for lewd voyeuristic purposes; sitting on someone's shoulders during a concert is a dick move; the joy of watching animals freak out during an eclipse and the despair of failing to see the Northern Lights in Michigan

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The Silver Tongue TV Series (Niko Lukoff)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 09:47:43 -0000

Idea: A gritty, realistic, HBO-style drama about an amoral social expert/negotiator/facilitator who works on contract to help solve problems for people or organizations, such as facilitating illegal commerce, helping a president avoid a scandal, helping someone get a date, etc. Also: avoiding the hacky network TV "genius protagonist" procedural format ("Lie to Me", "The Pretender", "Numb3rs", etc.) where the main character is too smart/powerful or making the main character's skill(s) relevant to each episode/plotline stretches believability; a backstory in which the main character honed his social skills in the mob but then the mob dissolved and so he went solo; the main character is like James Bond making witty comments at the Baccarat table but then there's no gunfight and everyone just peacefully walks away (like a Bond movie made in a world where movie violence isn't allowed); maybe the main character has almost supernatural social skills but can't get along with his family and repeatedly bombs at standup comedy open mics

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In 5 Hours Energy (Justin Hicks)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 10:23:45 -0000

Idea: A delayed-release pill or drink to give you energy in 5 hours so (for example) you can wake up with full energy instead of having to make coffee and wait for it to kick in. Also: it could also contain instant-release Melatonin to both help you sleep now and help you wake up later; springing up when you wake up like Bruce Willis in "Pulp Fiction" and sending the pet who was sleeping on your chest flying across the room; using it on your shared-custody kids so their energy kicks in shortly after you drop them off; similar products called "In 5 Hours Alcohol" to mellow you out during an early afternoon work meeting and "In 5 Hours Nicotine" to help you cope with the stress of a visit to the in-laws

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AI Robot Probation Supervisor and Caretaker (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 08:30:40 -0000

Idea: To give prisoners the option to get out early if we amputate their arms (or put them in arm-locking exoskeletons) and give them AI robots to monitor them and care for them. Because if these robots of the near-future can do everything, not having arms would no longer be debilitating. Also: robots or exoskeletons with cameras and AI could monitor you while you're on probation, and detect, for example, if a white collar criminal tries to violate the terms of their probation by using a computer; the risk of the family members of armless prisoners on probation taunting them mercilessly because they can no longer fight back; using AI robots to monitor and care for those with mental disabilities; a previous idea on this podcast that offended people on social media (like this idea might do)

Justin Siekierka (instagram.com/random_banana_entertainment_) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Funeral 'Cause of Death' Guessing Games (Justin Siekierka)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 09:21:41 -0000

Idea: To withhold announcing the cause of someone's death until their funeral so people can try to guess the cause of death and win prize(s) (maybe even the inheritance). Also: 'cause of death' reveal presentations; the family could take a percentage of the bets to help pay for the funeral; a back-and-forth discussion on whether this would lead to less or more murder; being peer-pressured into having an interesting death; Tom's guess of Justin's cause of death almost already happened in a close call

Justin Siekierka (instagram.com/random_banana_entertainment_) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Bathroom "Night Light" Footprints and Toilet Light (Mark Hamilton)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 06:47:19 -0000

Idea: "Night lights" to help you go to the bathroom at night without turning on bright lights and fully waking you up, including both glow-in-the-dark footprints leading to the toilet and a glow-in-the-dark ring around the inside of the toilet. Also: questioning whether toilet night lights already exist in some form, possibly as a bidet with a light on it; the risk of an assassin moving the glow-in-the-dark footprints in order to lead someone to their doom

Mark Hamilton (facebook.com/mgamarkhamilton instagram.com/markhamilton6352) Tommy Cook (instagram.com/tommycooklol https://tommycooklol.carrd.co/) Angela Verges (facebook.com/angela.verges https://linktr.ee/HottFlash) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Everything on Hangers (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 22:45:00 -0000

Idea: A tiny house where almost everything in the house (even furniture) is on hangers, and robots move the stuff on hangers across a series of interconnected racks/rods (including power lines that also function as hanger rods), so it can easily be stored in the ceiling or sent to a neighborhood warehouse to be stored and/or cleaned. Also: keeping bugs and pets on the ground from reaching your stuff; transporting stuff on power lines would prevent package thieves from stealing it; since everything is on hangers you could lift up the top of the tiny house and slide in a themed bottom part; curing the modern epidemic of stubbed and mangled toes

Brian Atkinson (https://brianacomedian.com facebook.com/BrianAcomedian) Amanda VK (instagram.com/amandavk_does_comedy) C-Dub (instagram.com/budsfromcdub) Morgan Sterling (facebook.com/morgbot) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Foul-Smelling Scented Candles (Morgan Sterling)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 22:23:56 -0000

Idea: Scented candles with scents that most people would find bad, but which you enjoy, such as gasoline, lawn clippings, Newports (which smell like home), etc. Also: a prank candle that smells like natural gas; using a foul-smelling scented candle to intentionally end a bad Netflix-and-Chill session; a scented candle made from belly button lint that sparkles when the small hairs ignite

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The Sound of Mooses (C-Dub)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 00:16:13 -0000

Idea: A movie about evil mooses (sic), possibly a zombie-moose-infused remake of the movie The Sound of Music. Also: Cocaine Bear but with moose and pot; evil moose attacking a mall during Christmas; using AI to recreate old movies scenes but then having evil moose kill everybody; why Tom thinks that almost every movie made before 1984 sucks

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Sexy Promiscuous 60-Year-Old Woman TV Series (Amanka VK)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 13:38:17 -0000

Idea: A TV show like Californication starring a senior-aged but still attractive and promiscuous protagonist, only in this case, it's a woman. Also: there should more female equivalents of a "silver fox" who's "still in the game" and "all the dudes still drool over"; an awkwardly long conversation about older actresses we find attractive and whether they'd be a good fits for the role, such as Jennifer Coolidge, Emma Thompson, Annette Bening, and Andie MacDowell; brainstorming a plot, such as a sex addiction counselor who has to hide her own sex addition, a show similar to "Poker Face" where a woman uses her attraction to bad men to help her solves crimes, and a show about a conservative female politician's embarrassingly wild mother who's actions repeatedly put her daughter's political career at risk

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Phlegm Flavorizer (Brian Atkinson)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 03:36:18 -0000

Idea: A product (Mucinex pill, nasal spray, etc.) that gives your phlegm a delicious flavor of your choosing when you have a cold. Also: causing Amanda to get more and more grossed out by the idea; romantic partners using complementary flavors before getting intimate; "hocking a loogie" and how dogs would want to lick it up if it was flavored

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Trojan Horse Battering Ram (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 09:44:26 -0000

Idea: A large battering ram for police to use to conduct raids where their body is safely inside the bulletproof battering ram. Also: a dog-like or centipede-like battering ram with robotic legs where one cop lays down inside of it; a multi-person parade-dragon-style battering ram where their upper bodies are inside of it and their lower bodies are protected by bulletproof boots and bulletproof hoop skirts; it could also be used for animal control, firefighters, or for camping inside of it; it's kind of like an above-ground version of that ill-fated deep-water submarine if it was powered by the Flintstones

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Karaoke Social Media App (Tommy Cook)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 06:20:53 -0000

Idea: A social media app to show off and/or request karaoke or lip-syncing videos from your friends or from celebs. Also: paying people to help them overcome their shyness to do karaoke for you; the app could only allow the recipient to see the video once or only allow the singer to attempt the song once; wanting to see other people sing badly but not wanting to do it yourself

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(Meno)Pause Pal (Angela Verges)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 07:08:06 -0000

Idea: A smart watch that monitors a menopausal woman's body and alerts her (and optionally her husband on his "Man-On-Pause" device) if her mood or body temperature is about to change. Also: things that bring on hot flashes; the device could include controls for (or it could automatically adjust) the temperature of a room or mattress, play calming music, etc.; a menopause-themed party game; a horror movie where social media accidentally causes the menstrual cycles of all the women of the world to sync up

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Popcorn Straw (Mark Hamilton)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 07:04:27 -0000

Idea: A straw to use to suck up popcorn so you don't get butter or salt on your hands. Also: A romantic popcorn straw for two, which might accidentally create a competition for the popcorn that harms the relationship; accessories such as a popcorn shovel, a filter so you don't choke on the popcorn when sucking it through the straw, etc.; a popcorn straw helmet, which might cause the people sitting behind you to steal your popcorn

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Abolish The Nickel But Keep The Penny (Scott Sviland)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 06:09:00 -0000

Idea: For the US to save money by no longer making nickels, but to keep making pennies, because prices ending in .99 are cool, and you can just use five pennies instead of a nickel. Also: keeping pennies because Lincoln (who's on the penny) is better than Jefferson (who's on the nickel); getting annoyed by parking meters which require apps or don't take pennies; destroying Scott's pep by not agreeing with him about the nickel thing

Shilpa Rege (facebook.com/shilparege instagram.com/shilparege) Scott Sviland (instagram.com/allergy_probs facebook.com/scott.sviland) Devarron Thomas (facebook.com/devarron instagram.com/skinnyfatdude1) Chase Richard (linktr.ee/imchaserichard youtube.com/@dogcomicproductions) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Themed Boy-Girl Scouts (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 01:26:20 -0000

Idea: To combine Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts and then divide it into themes, such as apocalypse survival scouts, videogame/music/art/sport scouts, space scouts, mechanic scouts, etc. Also: an embarrassing childhood scout-related incident; teaching things in school vs. in scouts; laundering money and/or unloading counterfeit money by buying Girl Scout cookies

Jason Thompson (instagram.com/jason_thompson_comedy youtube.com/@TAMMpON) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Loophole Finder App (Jason Thompson)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 11:57:08 -0000

Idea: An app to help you find loopholes to bypass rules, save money, commit crimes and avoid going to prison, etc. Also: you could either actively search for loopholes, or it could always run and use AI to be like a "devil on your shoulder" and suggest loopholes as you go about your day; letting you know if a loophole has been "closed" i.e. will no longer work; using loopholes to obtain medicinal THC for Crohn's disease; preparing to perform in possibly the worst idea for a standup comedy show of all time

Jason Thompson (instagram.com/jason_thompson_comedy youtube.com/@TAMMpON) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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"I Get It" Augmented Reality Relationship Assistant (Sarah Marchi)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 09:14:16 -0000

Idea: An augmented-reality app that develops a personality model of your partner and constantly listens to and watches them, and uses AI to predict how to you should respond to their questions and to their emotional needs in order to keep them happy. Also: displaying a list of options of what you should do, along with percentage certainties of each option, and reasons why; your partner's AR glasses could be measuring their vitals (heart rate,, hormones, etc.) all day and transmitting it to your AR glasses for them to show you a gauge of their estimated level of anger before you interact with them; parents and teenagers using the AR relationship assistant app, and why it might not work; if you get used to the peace and understanding that the AR relationship assistant provides and then the software crashes, you might immediately go at each other in chaotic rage like two rabid squirrels trapped in a sack

Sarah Marchi (instagram.com/smartimarchi) Jason Thompson (instagram.com/jason_thompson_comedy youtube.com/@TAMMpON) Calvin G Baker (instagram.com/calvinbakercomedy) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Weather Gambling (Calvin G Baker)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 10:51:25 -0000

Idea: An app for gambling on the weather. Also: a racing-themed gambling game on when a storm will arrive and a dart-themed gambling game on where lightning will strike; the mob corrupting the weatherman and causing him to lie during the weather forecast; predicting rainbows and a PSA warning people of the dangers of car accidents from watching rainbows while driving; elderly women dominating weather gambling by using weather-predicting birds and/or sensing the weather with their achy joints

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Remote Buffet (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 10:07:45 -0000

Idea: A buffet where you order your food by watching a live video feed (while you're at a drive-thru or using an app) and telling a worker who's at the buffet what foods to grab. Also: using robots to scoop the food and/or deliver the food; having it count calories as they scoop, and using the remote buffet for all of your meals to ensure portion control to lose weight; drive-thru liquor stores using "growlers" and other refillable containers to buy the exact quantity of alcohol that you want; an embarrassing childhood buffet incident at Ponderosa Steakhouse

Lisa Green (instagram.com/lisagreencomedy facebook.com/depottowncomedy) Todd Garvey (facebook.com/todd.garvey.716) Rio Riojas (beacons.ai/drdecide cornbreadbeans.buzzsprout.com/share) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Brainstorming How To Clean Up A Dirty Joke (Todd Garvey)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 04:13:43 -0000

A brainstorming session on how to clean up a specific adult-themed bit/joke, and a discussion on whether it's even possible. Also: dirty metaphors/innuendo such as "the grand finale" and "the product of the interaction"; "seagulling" and dirty urban legends being made real; using Adam Sandler movies as a barometer of acceptable PG-13 dirtiness

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Performer Availiability-Booking App (Rio Riojas)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 04:44:00 -0000

Idea: An app for comedians/performers to coordinate with bookers to schedule gigs, where the performers list their avails in the app, and a set of show bookers (similar to those on "MCN" aka "Michigan Comics Network" on Facebook) browse through and select available performers to book them for their shows. Also: multiple bookers could see that a performer is available to perform on a given day, and the first one to choose them gets them, instantly removing their availability to other bookers at that time, so performers don't have to, for example, apply to two weekly Monday shows on alternating Mondays; allowing performers to set availability criteria using custom macros/scripts, such as that they don't want to drive a long distance for a small amount of performance time or pay; info in the app about the performers (clips, bios, warnings from other bookers, etc.) and the venue (free drink tickets, a list of stage props available for improv acts, etc.); the weirdness of standup comedy venues not wanting comedians to wear shorts

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Tabletop Game AI Assistant (Lisa Green)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 20:36:01 -0000

Idea: An app which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assist (not replace) the dungeon master and possibly other players in "Dungeons & Dragons" (D&D) and other similar tabletop games. Also: helping the dungeon master by generating maps, NPCs, rooms, quests, etc. before the game and/or on-the-fly during the game, using configured settings, randomization, and the current state of the game (which the AI would know by listening to the game); explaining D&D to newbies (both in this podcast and in the proposed app); using AI to generate a visual display of the current state of the game for all of the players, including the floor plan of the current room, info of the NPCs you're interacting with, etc.; drinking while playing D&D and other tabletop games

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International House of Toilets (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 09:46:13 -0000

Idea: A commercialized bathroom that contains different types of toilets from around the world (bidets, pit toilets, etc.), so you can try them out before traveling or before buying one, and to allow foreigners to use a familiar type of toilet. Also: extra clothes for the case of mishaps, such as a knee snapping and causing you to fall into a pit toilet; an "assport" as a souvenir with stamps indicating which nation's toilets you've successfully used; the World War 2 challenge; a "gravy enema" to "put one in the chamber" to try out the toilet; Tom didn't know how an enema works

Sean Francis (facebook.com/seanfrancisco27 https://linktr.ee/comedyoutletmondays) Rachel Santos (facebook.com/comedian.rachel.santos instagram.com/rachelskindafunny) Johnny Santos (https://linktr.ee/johnnyskindafunny) James River (instagram.com/jamesrivercomedy) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Drive-Thru Buffet (Sean Francis)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 23:19:00 -0000

Idea: A drive-thru buffet where your car sits on a moving track inside a building (like an automatic car wash), you stick your arm out the car window and grab food as your car slowly moves by the buffet tables, and your car (with you and the food inside) is weighed to see how much food you grabbed to determine how much to charge you. Also: backing up and crashing if you missed a food that you want; "coal rolling" to pepper the food with exhaust; tweaks to make the idea a little more practical, like standing next to the car as it moves through the buffet to better reach the food, or a redesign where the car is parked next to a round rotating buffet

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HackGPT (Rachel Santos)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:49:51 -0000

Idea: An app for comedians which uses AI to analyze recordings of their sets and split it into separate jokes, rate the audience reaction to each joke, and create tags (hashtags, not "joke tags") to organize the jokes into broad categories, such as "parenting" or "dating". Also: creating a profile for a comedy venue of how well different types of jokes (by tag) do there, to help comics tweak their sets to accommodate the venue before ever performing there; using AI-based profiles of comics to choose who to book, and possibly causing venues to segregate into comedy niches; using AI to detect if a joke is too common, hacky, or stolen; tricking the AI

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Kink Compatibility Checks in Dating Apps (Johnny Santos)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 06:44:34 -0000

Idea: A dating app that only shows you people who share the same kinks/fetishes or at least would tolerate your kinks/fetishes. Also: admitting other embarrassing things in dating profiles, like STDs or financial debt; a kink tolerance sliding scale in the app, like to tolerate their extreme kink, they have to make lots of money; setting chores or qualifications for your partner to "unlock" their kink like in a videogame; ruining the fun of the idea by comparing dating sites to tax prep sites

Rachel Santos (facebook.com/comedian.rachel.santos instagram.com/rachelskindafunny) Johnny Santos (https://linktr.ee/johnnyskindafunny) James River (instagram.com/jamesrivercomedy) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Weapons For Animals (James River)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:07:37 -0000

Idea: To put smart gun turrets in nature areas (and possibly also arm the animals) to protect the animals from people and from invasive species. Also: lazy panda bears as picky Roman dictators; giving bees BB guns and/or hiding machine guns inside beehives; showing jungle animals Andrew Tate videos and then giving them guns just to watch the world burn; inheriting the family business of creating dragons and watering it down to giving bees pocket knives

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Drone Charging Network 2 (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 18:56:56 -0000

Idea: A nationwide grid of volunteer drone enthusiasts who set up their homes as "drone charging stations", so cellular/satellite-controlled hobby drones can hop across the country from house to house, while the person piloting the drone is doing so from the convenience of their own house. Also: kits for setting up your house as a drone charging station, either in your garage or your attic; shipping the drones across areas without any charging stations, or swapping control of drones with other people in different regions; having volunteers fix drones and get them out of trees, possibly with the aid of falcons; using the drones and drone stations to sightsee, do scavenger hunts, consensually peek in windows via an OnlyFans-style service, receive Amazon packages inside your house, and transfer data of a non-Internet-based social network

Chris Young (http://www.chrisyoungcomic.com Comedy Special Video: https://www.drybarcomedy.com/chrisy) David Lesneiski (instagram.com/themexican734 facebook.com/ComedyByDavid) Jon King (facebook.com/Kinetikai instagram.com/kinetikai) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Fusion (Available Ingredients Recipe App) (David Lesneiski)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 03:31:54 -0000

Idea: An app that can quickly get a list of foods in your house and find recipes that can be made using those foods, including serious recipes, recipes that are a fusion of different types of cuisine, and even weird life-hack-style recipes. Also: using your phone to scan your cupboards to get the available ingredient list, including estimates of how much of the ingredient you have left and expiration dates; finding recipes where you need one or two additional ingredients before you go grocery shopping and putting them on your shopping list; fake meats and the "deepfaking of food"; futuristic food printers and how they could replicate the annoyances of modern-day inkjet printers

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Funeral Brigade (Jon King)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 18:47:23 -0000

Idea: A service to hire entertainers (celebs, magicians, etc.) for your funeral or a funeral of a loved one, so the funeral is less sad and has more of the feel of a social gathering that celebrates the life of the deceased. Also: secretly hiring celebrity actors to pretend that they were your friend; inappropriate laughter at a funeral; funeral pranks, such as hiring the "Weekend at Bernie's" actors or having the Publisher's Clearing House barge into the funeral and then say that they can't give away the money because the person is deceased

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AI Restaurant Picker App (Chris Young)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 13:54:34 -0000

Idea: An app that each member of a group who're gonna eat together have on their phone, which collects everyone's food preferences, dietary restrictions, restaurant ratings, recent food orders, etc. and uses AI, randomization, info from restaurants (possibly even real-time info, like how busy they are), etc. to pick a restaurant to eat at or order from. Also: avoiding the age-old stalemate of "where do you wanna go", "I don't know, where do you wanna go"; having the app pick the restaurant could prevent people from assigning toxic blame to each other if the restaurant sucks, because it's not their fault, it's the app's fault; keeping track of how often a restaurant which is more preferred by one person than another is picked, to balance things out; showing bullet points of the reasons why a particular restaurant is picked (maybe one out of a group of ten is a vegan), and allowing you to choose to exclude a particular reason and retry picking a restaurant; including custom criteria like time, cost, etc.

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Completely Serious Movie (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 05:08:30 -0000

Idea: A dark comedy movie where a young couple who are both improv actors pull a series of increasingly complex pranks on each other until one gets the other to help commit a real murder by tricking them into thinking it's just a prank. Also: how North Korea hired pranksters and tricked them into murdering Kim Jong Un's brother; whether or not to leave the audience guessing; eating cereal-like baby food snacks because they're half the calories of Cheerios and the other "healthy" cereals

Niles Nowak (instagram.com/nilestheriver instagram.com/dogcomicproductions) Nicole Melnyk (instagram.com/mcfancyvonpants tiktok.com/@nicolemelnyk facebook.com/DogComicProductions) Allison Armstrong (instagram.com/allison.alarmstro facebook.com/Alarmstro) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Adventures of Allison Short Cartoons (Allison Armstrong)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 05:14:31 -0000

Idea: Short cartoons based on mostly-autobiographical weird, funny, or interesting things that happened in Allison's life, such as her and a friend getting hissed at by a goth after almost running her over with their car and then saying "Oh my God, there would've been paint everywhere!!!", and her getting picked up like a baby and carried out of a mosh pit by a guardian angel skinhead. Also: making cartoons out of stories that don't work as standup comedy; goths, emo concerts, vampires, and Buffy, a non-ideological reason to appreciate "cancel culture"

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Phone Glasses Detection And Text Size Adjustment 2 (Nicole Melnyk)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 09:09:29 -0000

Idea: An app or setting for your smart phone to detect whether you're wearing glasses and adjust the text size accordingly, so you don't have to manually go to settings to increase the text size to read the phone in bed at night after taking off your glasses. Also: automatically changing the font type (not just the font size) when you take off your glasses so you can see it better (or to be funner and less formal); fake spoiler pranks, and reading plots of books and movies on Wikipedia so you can lie and say you've read or seen it; reading while drunk or high, and possibly dumbing down the content of what you're reading if you're drunk; Hollywood teeth

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City Socks (Niles Nowak)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 06:48:45 -0000

Idea: Vending machines in cities that contain socks and other cheap items that you might occasionally need due to weather or other scenarios when you're out on the town, such as socks (if your feet got wet from stepping in a puddle or something), sticks of deodorant ("City Sticks), hairbrushes and dry shampoo, sunblock, tampons, etc. Also: putting a baby blue silhouette of your city's skyline on the socks; you could re-use the Japanese used-panty vending machines; questioning whether there would be a social stigma to be seen in public wearing "city socks"; this might cause alleys in cities to be strewn with used condoms and soggy socks

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Prison Labor Household Robots (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 12:46:00 -0000

Idea: To have partially-automated robots in your house that can be controlled remotely by prisoners located in a prison, who can supervise the robot doing chores most of the time, and take over when the robot "gets stuck" or has problems. Also: security concerns, such as blocking out addresses on envelopes on the prisoner's video feed, having the robot only work when the homeowner is not home, etc.; kinky homeowner-robot-prisoner scenarios; using the prison labor household robots to help the lower class; comparing AI and prison labor to slavery and possibly inventing "moral slavery"

Dominic Maniscalchi (facebook.com/dominic.maniscalchi instagram.com/domedy_comedy) Tyler Caldwell (instagram.com/thetac32 twitter.com/TheTAC32 facebook.com/garagebaropenmic) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Tinder For Pets (Tyler Caldwell)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 08:55:06 -0000

Idea: An app for pet owners to connect directly (peer-to-peer) for pet meetups, primarily for pet "hookups", but also pet sitting, pet adoption, pet play dates, sharing pet products, and other pet-related activities. Also: ideas for involving the pet in the "date" selection process, including teaching pets to "swipe right", pet tumescence meters, and using smell-o-vision for pheromones; inter-species hookups and catfishing; tech billionaires, the "Zuck spectrum", and dogs in VR; using sci-fi tech to allow neutered pets and pet species which are normally incapable of climax to get off

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Dream Recording Pillow (Dominic Maniscalchi)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 06:08:39 -0000

Idea: A pillow that records your dreams so you can watch them later. Also: using it to steal people's secrets; the chore of sifting through dream recordings; using it to detect that a nightmare is in progress and then having a real world machine grab your feet to scare you; if two heads are on the pillow at the same time, maybe they could they enter each others dreams, in which case if a cockroach is on the pillow, you could enter the cockroach's dream and find mold inside the wall of your house

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90s Land / Historical Concept Societies 2 (Dan Brittain)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 08:35:34 -0000

Idea: A community kind of like the Amish but where technology and culture is based on the 1990s (or some other time period), but they still have up-to-date medical technology. Also: bartering with the Amish; Napster, beepers, and giant "Saved By the Bell" cell phones; dividing the entire world into self-sufficient societies based on different technological eras for robustness in case a major disaster like a super-volcano occurs

Kim Cook (https://kimcookcomedy.com) Dan Brittain (facebook.com/danbrittaincomedy youtube.com/@danbrittaincomedy2301) Jasun Pierpoint (facebook.com/Beerplug Comedy at the Creek: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088536713288) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Dog-Themed Standup Comedy Show (Kim Cook)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 07:52:56 -0000

Idea: A standup comedy show where comics and the audience can bring their dogs, and the topic of most or all of the standup comedy is centered around dogs. Also: the Comedy Castle bringing service dogs to comedy shows to train them to behave in a chaotic environment; adopting dogs to drunk audience members who'd wake up the next morning with a hangover and a surprise of a new pet dog; a service dog barking at a comedian during a comedy contest and causing him to win; other experimental comedy shows where the comics eat hot peppers, get shocked, get eggs thrown at them, or get their head periodically submerged underwater

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Sickness Commercials (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 31 May 2023 02:39:01 -0000

Idea: To use a futuristic Neuralink-style brain implant to make you briefly feel a disease when you watch the corresponding drug commercial on TV, to help you self-diagnose whether or not you have the disease. Also: making you feel worse if you have Covid or a transmittable disease to dissuade you from leaving the house and spreading it; making you feel the pain of a starving person or a relative of a victim of gun violence during a charity commercial or PSA; giving people universal basic income only if they submit to allowing TV commercials, the government, your doctor, etc. to use your brain implant to cause you pain with the goal if making you a good citizen (ie teaching you empathy, reduce spread of viruses, etc.)

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Wearable Airbags (Dan Brittain)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 23 May 2023 20:54:34 -0000

Idea: Airbags embedded into clothing to protect you from getting injured from slipping and falling, and maybe also motorcycle accidents and other scenarios. Also: an airbag for a helmet that puffs out like an afro; the brutality of car airbags; a special helmet or shield to protect your face and teeth; distrust of dentistry and the cost of getting new implantable teeth

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Calorie Counting Device (Kim Cook)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 16 May 2023 10:28:35 -0000

Idea: A wearable device, like an Apple Watch or patch, that is somehow able to count the calories of the food you eat without any effort on your part, because keeping a food diary, even with an app, is annoying and time consuming. Also: using a combination of sensors and devices to estimate your calorie intake, including the Apple Watch to measure your blood sugar, some sort of implantable device in your stomach or nasal cavity, and a smart toilet to weigh and/or analyze your poop; using a "buttprint" or your DNA to automatically figure out who's using the toilet; an embarrassingly lazy way to count calories

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Alcohol Test Probe (Jasun Pierpoint)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 08 May 2023 05:58:56 -0000

Idea: A portable test probe to test alcohol at bars for alcohol percentage, accuracy of ingredients, hygiene, etc. Also: using the test probe for other things, such as to test people for STDs; bars might get rowdier if bartenders can no longer get away with watering down drinks; helping prevent people from accidentally drinking drinks which contain more alcohol than they expected; calculating how much of the drink you can consume and still be sober enough to drive in 3 hours

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Real Estate Buddies (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 02 May 2023 04:08:12 -0000

Idea: An app or web site to help friends or family find and purchase adjacent houses to live next door to each other. Also: does this sound too similar to creating a cult; do you really want to live next to your friends and/or family; ways this could work, including buying an empty lot next to a new house for a friend to build a house on later, notifications for when neighboring properties to friends go up for sale, finding neighboring apartments or tiny houses, etc.

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Get Out of N-Word Free Card (Devarron Thomas)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 18:47:36 -0000

Idea: A physical card available for purchase which allows people who aren't black to say the N-word, such as when singing along with a rap song (but not in anger and not ending with a "hard R"). Also: participation may vary; a shockingly racist slang for a snack food, and whether or not the card will allow you to eat it; paying retroactively; would paying for permission ruin the fun of saying it

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Food Tape (Chase Richard)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 02:59:02 -0000

Idea: An edible flavorless tape that you wrap around messy food (such as a chili dog) and eat with the food so that you don't make a mess. Also: maybe also adding flavors, so you can wrap gross vegetables to make them taste like bacon or enjoy holiday-themed flavors such as candy cane or Santa (?!?); using the tape to make other things edible and delicious, such as food packaging and hair removal strips; risks such as the tape sticking to the inside of your throat or causing flies to stick to your food

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Performance Venue Info and Signup App (Shilpa Rege)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 10:54:02 -0000

Idea: An app to be used by amateur performers (primarily open mic comedians, but also maybe musicians, improv actors, etc.) to sign up to perform and to share info about the venue, including whether performers get a free drink (or have to buy drink(s)), whether it's safe for women, whether the bathrooms are clean, whether performers openly use drugs (and which drugs), etc. Also: how weird it is that everyone still uses Facebook to sign up for open mics; a feature to help you connect with other performers to hang out and/or to feel safe; brainstorming a title, such as Greenroom, Green Book, Mic Rate, etc.; merch for the app, such as a cup which performers could bring to the venue to get discounted drinks and so they don't have to drink out of a gross poorly-washed glass at a dive bar; passing a McDonalds burger backstage from person to person, each person taking a bite

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Netflix Forgetting Device (Scott Sviland)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 10:55:48 -0000

Idea: A mind-erasing device to make you forget a TV show or movie so you can experience it again as if it was your first time seeing it. Also: using a Black Mirror-esque device while watching Black Mirror; the risk of people using it to forget stuff from their real life; if you have to wear it on your head the whole time it's making you forget stuff, and it's big and nerdy, this would dissuade people from using it for their real life; if you watch the same thing over and over in one sitting, it could drug you or knock you out for a few hours between viewings so your dopamine levels aren't depleted for the later viewings

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Floating Reservoir Cities (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 23:41:04 -0000

Idea: To create eco-friendly, solar-powered floating cities on water reservoirs such as Lake Powell or Lake Mead, to shade the water to reduce evaporation and algae growth and also to reduce or eliminate house heating and cooling costs. Also: putting some houses on docks and floating other houses on the water, and what to do about pipes; the risk of jerks dumping trash and sewage into the drinking water; how floating houses would perform in different apocalypse scenarios

Haleigh Potter (instagram.com/haleighpotter Music: linktr.ee/haleighpotter) Andrew McFarland (facebook.com/amacproductions) Skippy Rose Skipton (facebook.com/emily.skipton instagram.com/skipperydooda) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Physical Fitness Challenges in Dating Apps (Dustin Cole)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 01:26:09 -0000

Idea: A dating app like Pokemon Go where you have to walk around and/or perform a fitness-oriented scavenger hunt to find and meet up with your date. Also: questioning the morality of dating apps allowing you to filter potential dates based on physical fitness test results; an online date that turns out to be a surprise competition against 100 other people; an absolutely insane online dating lie

Dustin Cole (facebook.com/dustincolecomedy instagram.com/dustncole) Casey Curran (youtube.com/@Squavipwn facebook.com/casey.curran.54) Darius Walker (facebook.com/darius.t.walker.1 instagram.com/the_dariuswalker) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Chest Freezer Camping (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:02:48 -0000

Idea: To camp in a large insulated and temperature-controlled box which is similar to a chest freezer, because it'd be much cheaper than an RV, and because the only time you really need to be enclosed and comfortable while camping is when trying to sleep. Also: an extra-wide 2-person version; a duel-use chest freezer with a normal chest freezer lid and a special camping lid that allows you to breathe and/or pops up like a tent; a lifting accessory to help you get it into and out of the back of a pickup truck; protection from wolves, bobcats, and possibly even bears; the possibility of being mocked by or creeping out other campers

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Checkmate Fake Date Hiring App (Darius Walker)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 04:27:26 -0000

Idea: An app to help you find, background check, pre-interview, and hire someone to be your partner during social events, possibly pretending to be your significant other so you don't get shamed for being single. Also: using the app to hide the fact that you're dating someone who's "not presentable"; using the app to get the correct number of people for a sporting event or physical activity; things that could go wrong, such as the wrong "mate" showing up or having a personality clash with your "mate"; debating whether more men or women would use the app

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Sanctioned Battles With Landlords For Home Ownership (Casey Curran)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 12:08:50 -0000

A satirical proposal for a society where disgruntled tenants can (legally) challenge their landlords to a physical battle for ownership of the house or apartment, where if the tenant wins, they own the property outright and do not have to pay rent or a mortgage. The purpose is to discourage landlords from being jerks, to discourage people from choosing to become landlords and to instead create a society based on home ownership (and maybe co-ops), and to encourage physical fitness in tenants. Also: televising battles between landlords and tenants; building houses with 5 foot high ceilings to discourage large tenants who might be able to defeat you in battle from moving in; winning your apartment and then moving out when the water heater breaks and floods the place and you don't want to deal with it

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Dark Mario Movie (Dustin Cole)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:15:35 -0000

A brainstorming session about a dark and gritty movie adaptation of the Super Mario Bros videogame. Ideas include a 1950s noir detective movie where Mario is the detective who tries to find the kidnapped princess, a movie where Bowser is a sleazy landlord who keeps a drug-addicted Princess as a "strawberry" who supplies Bowser with adult favors in exchange for drugs and lodging, a movie where the Goombas are zombies, a movie from Bowser's perspective, etc.

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Car Seat Toilet (Haleigh Potter)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 21:10:23 -0000

Idea: A retractable car seat toilet for the driver to use the restroom while driving or in a stopped car. Also: a built-in bidet because it'd be hard to wipe while driving; dumping the waste onto the road and creating an oil slick like in Mario Kart; reusing the waste as windshield wiper fluid; becoming the crazy astronaut diaper lady

Haleigh Potter (instagram.com/haleighpotter Music: linktr.ee/haleighpotter) Andrew McFarland (facebook.com/amacproductions) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Concert Periscope (Skippy Rose)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 22:27:56 -0000

Idea: Periscopes for short people to use at concerts and music festivals. Also: a periscope view of the crowd might help you avoid danger; stories of being injured at concerts; putting the periscope in a fake head and wearing a trench coat like an Inspector Gadget or Scooby Doo cartoon; ideas for naming it, including Ecstasee, Shakira-to-Shaq, and Peepers

Haleigh Potter (instagram.com/haleighpotter Music: linktr.ee/haleighpotter) Andrew McFarland (facebook.com/amacproductions) Skippy Rose (youtube.com/@SkippyRoseComedy instagram.com/skippyrosecomedy) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Ice Cream Headache Machine (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:59:57 -0000

Idea: A machine which is surgically implanted into your nasal cavity that detects the smell of candy or other unhealthy foods and then rapidly cools down to intentionally give you an "ice cream headache" (aka "brain freeze") to punish you and dissuade you from eating the unhealthy food. Also: its battery could be charged by a wind turbine in your nostril; you could put other gadgets up your nose, like an anti-snoring device or a pepper-spray launcher; the humor of watching thin, classy women digging into their noses in public because of this machine

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White Privilege Warning App (Andrew McFarland)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 05:27:04 -0000

Idea: An app that monitors what you're doing and uses AI to determine if you're using white privilege or being racist, in which case it alerts you, shocks you, plays a loud tone so the other person can't hear what you're saying, etc. Also: a "boomer collar" which temporarily paralyzes your vocal cords to prevent you from saying offensive things; being forced to use the app as punishment; over-the-top examples of white privilege and an observed incident of blatant racism

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Lact-Os (Haleigh Potter)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:11:02 -0000

Idea: Soft, bite-sized cheese balls with another gooey-er cheese inside, sold in a pack to be eaten alone as a snack. Also: gas station eggs; a series of related cheese products, such as a carbonated cheese-flavored drink; cheese-based toys for kids, such as a Play-Doh-like Lact-O rolling kit or cheese stick Lincoln Logs

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The Privilege Sacrifices (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 07:21:35 -0000

Idea: A festival where people air grievances about annoying household products and then burn them in a fire. Examples of annoying products include dishes that aren't dishwasher or microwave safe, underwear that doesn't have a fly, fridges with annoying beeps, and men's dress shoes that make clomping noises that sound like high heels. Also: the humiliation of nobody else sympathizing with your annoyance; the risk of being overrun by angry uninvited "Karens"; the one thing not allowed to be sacrificed

Ree Ledbetter (facebook.com/ReeLedbetter) Chris Barrett (instagram.com/pokeyokey1 Video Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@pokeytalktime8238) Cameron Stahl (instagram.com/cscomedian twitter.com/CScomedian) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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All-In-One Home and Body Cleaning Gel (Cameron Stahl)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 16:19:54 -0000

Idea: A cleaning product that can clean almost anything, including your body, hair, teeth, shower and sink, clothes, dishes, carpet, car, etc. Also: castile soap; getting flouride all over your house; using it for purposes other than cleaning, such as lube (for both humans and machinery), killing bugs, unclogging pipes, etc; flavors and scents that would be good for some purposes but gross for other purposes; it might cause cancer in 40 years, but the amount of money you save over the years will be more than the cost of the chemo

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Child Bullying Service (Chris Barrett)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 04:35:48 -0000

Idea: A service to hire bullies to non-aggressively bully your child to help them "build character" if you worry that they're spoiled by social popularity and therefore aren't developing a good personality and/or creative talent. Also: hiring teachers or TikTok social media stars to bully your child; the risk of accidentally creating an out-of-control army of mercenary superbullies; being the "lame dad" on purpose to embarrass your child; another app for children to find out of their parents are hiring bullies; a bad attempt to blackmail a podcast guest

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Cocaine Bear Drugged Animal Movie Sequels (Ree Ledbetter)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:58:30 -0000

Idea: To make sequels to the movie "Cocaine Bear" where other animals get drugged and go crazy in over-the-top comedic scenarios. Also: meth sloth; speed tortoise vs. pothead hare; Ree's story of being chased by a raccoon who tried to open a sliding door to follow her into the house; swarms of frogs jumping on your face to steal your drugs whenever you try to do them and thus forcing everyone to become sober; the "stoned ape" theory causing drugged animals to become intelligent and accidentally creating a "Planet of the Apes" scenario

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Dual-Use Nuclear War Prep Ideas (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 13:43:39 -0000

Ideas on how to prepare to survive a non-direct-hit nuclear blast that you can also use for other purposes, so you're not wasting your money and accumulating junk which will probably never be used, including an extendable roof that can extend all the way down to the ground to cover your windows during a bomb blast and also allow you to have more solar panels on your roof or to sled down it in the winter, a sprinkler system on your roof to protect your house from burning down during a bomb blast or a forest fire, a storage space underneath a waterbed that you can lay in to use the water of the bed to block the radiation that seeps through your walls. Also: levels of sadism at which you can find something funny without feeling guilty about it; pressing a board against the inside of your windows to support them and painting the board to look like the inside of your house from the outside (Wile E. Coyote style) so your neighbors don't judge you; the 3 things we'd want in a bomb shelter

Ace Armstrong (twitter.com/AceSmellsFunny youtube.com/@acesmellsfunny) Deepak "DP" Aggarwal (twitter.com/not8AllFunny) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Bad Singer Living in a Musical (Ace Armstrong)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:49:32 -0000

Idea: A movie set in a universe where people sing and dance all of the time (like in a musical or Bollywood movie), and the protagonist is horribly bad at both singing and dancing, which causes his life to be very difficult. Also: Angelyne and the Rockefeller-era woman who couldn't sing but her rich parents tried to make her a famous singer; Bear Grylls struggling to live with the Kardashians, as narrated by David Attenborough

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Small Talk Mask (Deepak "DP" Aggarwal)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 04:12:19 -0000

Idea: A speaker hidden inside a mask which uses AI to talk for you (pretending to be you) so you don't have to small talk. Also: it could "trash talk" for you if you get tongue-tied in stressful situations; it could help standup comedians by handling heckers, doing your act for you if you lose your spot in your set, or the audience could wear it and it could laugh for them; it could be warn on other parts of your body, such as to be a fart machine

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Jimmy Olsen's Blues (Ace Armstrong)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 09:05:11 -0000

Idea: A movie, based on the song "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" by the "Spin Doctors", starring Jimmy Olsen, a photographer who works with Lois Lane in the Superman universe. In the movie, Jimmy's in love with Lois Lane, and he's jealous and angry that she's in love with Superman, who's incompetent, clumsy, and arrogant, and is only able to defeat villains due to dumb luck and Jimmy's help. And so Jimmy decides to kill Superman. Also: "Mr. Bean" as Superman and other casting ideas; telling somebody they'd make a good villain and then feeling awkward when they ask why; Bollywood movies and sad songs with weirdly upbeat dance numbers

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Chat Availability Indicator In Real Life (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 22:08:30 -0000

Idea: A social-media-style indicator light to indicate whether you're willing to chat (or flirt or otherwise interact) with nearby people in real life. It would either be displayed in the other person's augmented-reality glasses or on your earring. It could either display the same value (such as "green: available to chat" or "red: not available to chat") to everyone, or display different values to different people to indicate which people you want to talk to. Also: the risk of it making people even more antisocial; either using it as feedback to help train people to read body language or using it as a crutch to never bother to understand body language; everybody immediately pulling out their phones to set a green light every time an attractive woman walks into a room

Jason Fylan-Mares (facebook.com/DoomsdayShelterComedy facebook.com/jason.m.fylan) Michael Cesaro (facebook.com/michael.cesaro.7) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Election Trust Issues and Vote Counting Issues (Jason Fylan-Mares)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 06:41:51 -0000

A conversation about elections and how weird it is that the media can call the result of an election with only like 10% of the votes counted. Also: ideas to increase trust in the election results, including a) forcing the media to wait until all of the votes are counted before announcing a result, b) attaching a random number to your ballot so you can enter that number into a web site later to ensure that your vote was counted, and c) forcing politicians to wear logos of their corporate sponsors like NASCAR drivers; hoping for all of the election chaos during the midterm elections (because a Civil War would never be triggered by midterms)

Jason Fylan-Mares (facebook.com/DoomsdayShelterComedy facebook.com/jason.m.fylan) Michael Cesaro (facebook.com/michael.cesaro.7) "Jaded" Jaden (facebook.com/JADEDJADENCOMEDY) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Name-Remembering Glasses (Michael Cesaro)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 08:24:40 -0000

Idea: Augmented-reality glasses with an app which displays the names of people who you're looking at, so you don't have to remember their names. It may also display info about the person and how you know them. Also: the difficulty of teachers to remember student names, especially years later when running into them outside of school; assigning a person a "monster avatar" in the glasses as a memorization aide; discussing problems with high school education

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Gen Z Cultural Illiteracy Ideas (Jaded Jaden)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 07:34:11 -0000

A conversation on how weird it is that so many young people hadn't heard of Jeffrey Dahmer before the recent Netflix show, and how Gen Z (and sometimes older people as well) don't know hardly anything about the culture or history from the decades before they reached adulthood. This conversation includes some (unsuccessful) brainstorming of ideas on how to solve that problem. Also: Are low attention spans, binge watching, social media, and/or an overabundance of non-educational entertainment choices the cause of the problem, or are neglectful parents who don't talk to their kids and/or inspire their kid's intellectual curiosity to blame?; an idea for the government replace PSAs with "educational product placement" within popular shows and video games (which would cover much broader educational topics than today's PSAs); an idea for a parental control app that forces kids to consume educational content before being able to continue to use social media, TV, or videogames; TV shows like "The Walking Dead" and sci-fi which aren't educational per-se, but can make you think, such as to speculate on how to survive in fictional scenarios

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Self-Driving Car Pothole Filling Device (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 09:37:31 -0000

Idea: A device in the "frunk" of a self-driving electric vehicle which drops hot asphalt or other road materials into a pothole as you drive over it (without stopping the car). If you did this (i.e. used your self-driving car to help repair the roads), you wouldn't have to pay EV road taxes. Also: using hovercraft-like cars to float over potholes; the risk of other cars driving into the hot asphalt that you just put in the pothole, and other possible problems with the idea; stories of potholes giving us flat tires

Vivian Burgett (instagram.com/vivianburgettcomedy) Juan Carlos Calvachi (instagram.com/jcalvachi) John Johnson (facebook.com/johnnyrightnow) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Starfish Children's Book (John Johnson)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 07:35:22 -0000

Idea: A children's book about a dumb, barely sentient starfish on land trying to figure out how simple things work, like how to cross a road or navigate in a town. Also: accidentally coming up with ideas that've already been done (SpongeBob, Starro); a cousin who self-published a book on Amazon that pokes fun of a coworker; ending the book how most stars' lives end: in a drug overdose

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Garden De-Worming Birds (Vivian Burgett)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 03:46:12 -0000

Idea: To train birds to eat the worms off of plants in a garden on command. Also: using drones to de-worm plants and then feed the worms to birds, which would then become too fat and lazy to fly; using the same trained birds to eat head lice off of people's heads; an anti-dandelion conspiracy theory

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ThanksKaren Day (Juan Carlos Calvachi)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 08:00:39 -0000

Idea: A holiday where "Karens" who got caught committing an act of rudeness (i.e. being a "Karen") are punished by having to give a gift to a randomized victim of a different "Karen" during that same year. The gift recipients are randomized because the "Karens" might find it difficult to give a non-passive-aggressive gift to their own victim. Also: alternative "Karen" punishments; the "Karen" might make you pay to ship the gift or pepper spray you if you pick it up in person; can young people be Karens ("baby Karens"?) or men can be Karens ("Kevins"?); accidentally providing an incentive to incite "Karens"

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Imaginary Friend Prank (Rheila Grae)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 10:08:55 -0000

Idea: A prank where a group of people at a restaurant pretend to interact with an imaginary friend, including ordering for them, arguing with them, eating the food off their plate (when the wait staff isn't looking), getting the wait staff to sing happy birthday to an empty chair, etc. Also: playing a similar imaginary friend prank at work (with the help of a coworker) for months; fabricating a life story of an imaginary friend, including their dating history, their failed attempts to land a job, etc; creating a Facebook page or GoFundMe for an imaginary friend

Lindsey Boersma (tiktok.com/@60secondswithsatan) Rheila Grae (instagram.com/rheila81) Milan Stromile (Soul of Detroit Bi-weekly Comedy Show in Sterling Heights; facebook.com/milan.stromile.9) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Cooldown Hammock (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 01:14:21 -0000

Idea: A hammock for cooling you down, especially during summer heat emergencies when the power goes out. It would contain a shade with solar panel(s), a fan (which is powered by the solar panels), and hammock ropes which seep out water (like gardening "soaking hoses") which comes from a hose, water bag, or rainwater collection barrel. Also: you could pump icy water through the hammock in plastic tubes instead of dripping out water and getting you wet; a hammock which warms you instead of cools you; silly ideas for reducing body sweat and butt sweat

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Sports Logo Lawn Stencils (Milan Stromile)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 14:49:33 -0000

Idea: Giant stencils which come with special biodegradable spray paint for you to stencil your favorite sports team's logo (or university's logo) on your lawn for the day of the game, and then wash it off afterwards with a hose. Also: ideas to prevent the stencils from being used for graffiti; using the stencils to mark parking spots; stencilling other things, such as anime characters, Christmas decorations, or angry break-up messages on the lawn

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Concrete-Filled Ketchup Bottle Self-Defense Weapon (Rheila Grae)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 05:27:09 -0000

Idea: A ketchup bottle with concrete hidden inside to be used as a blunt-force self-defense weapon, so an attacker wouldn't realize it was a weapon and take it from you. Also: the weirdness of carrying around a ketchup bottle; the risk of people asking you for ketchup (which you don't have); carrying a ketchup bottle could give you an excuse for having someone's blood on you (i.e. you could say that it's just ketchup)

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"The Handler" Hand Movement Replication Robot (Lindsey Boersma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 11:20:16 -0000

Idea: A hand-like robot which repeats hand motions that you program into it, in order to a) control a mouse to do repetitive tasks in videogames (like Runescape or New World), b) perform a musical instrument, c) perform a puppet show or a haunted horror show, d) pleasure a partner (in real-time or later, including possibly after you're dead), etc. Also: whether or not to make the hand look human; accessorizing it with rings and jewelry; childless comedians who're unsure whether little kids use tiny computer mice

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Slideout Front Entry Room (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 06:38:09 -0000

Idea: To replace the typical front door of a house with a "front entry room", for which, leading outside, there are two automatic sliding doors (one that opens side-to-side, and one, like an inch away, that opens upward), and leading inside there is another automatic sliding door. The purpose of this little entry room is to a) allow delivery men to put packages into the room so they don't get stolen off the porch, b) to keep the heat/AC in the house (especially for tiny houses), and c) to eliminate the chance of a swinging door smacking into someone heading through the door in the other direction at the same time. Also: the front entry room could collapse like an accordion or fold up to be flush against the wall when not in use (especially for tiny houses); the risk of it failing or giving someone a claustrophobic panic attack; stories of falling injuries, including Ben's story of falling off a statue at a sports stadium Idea: To replace the typical front door of a house with a "front entry room", for which, leading outside, there are two automatic sliding doors (one that opens side-to-side, and one, like an inch away, that opens upward), and leading inside there is another automatic sliding door. The purpose of this little entry room is to a) allow delivery men to put packages into the room so they don't get stolen off the porch, b) to keep the heat/AC in the house (especially for tiny houses), and c) to eliminate the chance of a swinging door smacking into someone heading through the door in the other direction at the same time. Also: the front entry room could collapse like an accordian or fold up to be flush against the wall when not in use (especially for tiny houses); the risk of it failing or giving someone a claustrophobic panic attack; stories of falling injuries, including Ben's story of falling off a statue at a sports stadium

Amy Jo Ezel (instagram.com/blondiejoezel) Benjamin Cheek (Relentless Comedy facebook.com/benjamin.cheek.14) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Daddy Finder App (Amy Jo Ezel)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 05:32:47 -0000

Idea: An app for submissives to find a dominant "daddy" (or "mommy"), including 1-10 scales of physical dominance and mental dominance or cruelty, personal preferences within a particular fetish, and the desired type of relationship (i.e. one-time daddy, part-time daddy i.e. becoming a couple for whom the fetish stays in the bedroom, or full-time daddy). Also: weird and questionable fetishes; fetishes in virtual reality; a non-sexual Kid Rock cosplay adventure

Mic Gimby (facebook.com/devonaugust.gimby.1) Amy Jo Ezel (instagram.com/blondiejoezel) Benjamin Cheek (Relentless Comedy facebook.com/benjamin.cheek.14) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Standup Comedy Discussion (Benjamin Cheek)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 02:18:41 -0000

A discussion about doing standup comedy and running a comedy room. Also: the pain of rejection when trying to get a venue to host your comedy show and to get people to come to your show; asking the audience of an in-person comedy show or a MeetMe livestream to donate to your CashApp as a joke, as racial reparations, or because they're lonely introverted men; advice for a nervous new comic who's only performed once in a standup comedy class; some ideas for breaking up the monotony of standup comedy shows, such as singing dirty parody songs at a comedy show in a movie theater before showing the movie

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Mental Health Medication IUD (Mic Gimby)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:30:38 -0000

Idea: Mental health meds that can be inserted somewhere in your body like an IUD, so you don't have to take pills or deal with mental illness for long periods of time. Also: worrying that it might have stopped working or trying to dig it out of your body to make it stop working; Neuralink having to wirelessly recharge batteries located in your chest cavity (with wires leading up to your brain) every few weeks; placing the mental health medication "IUD" in your rectum

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Rethinking Traditional Social Events (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 00:04:44 -0000

Ideas to make boring traditional social events better or at least less inconvenient, such as making them shorter, moving them to Sunday morning so they don't interfere with afternoon recreation activities, teleconferencing (for some of them), and some silly ideas like conducting baby/wedding showers and funerals through a drive-thru. Also: high school graduates going on a trip with their friends instead of spending money to host a "graduation party"; getting rid of Thanksgiving but keeping "Thanksgiving Eve"; robots with TVs/monitors for heads to allow both divorced parents to virtually attend the same real-world event without fighting (the screen could go blank if it gets too close to the ex); comedians getting invited to less social events and/or getting pressured to perform at social events

Chris Young (http://www.chrisyoungcomic.com Comedy Special Video: https://www.drybarcomedy.com/videos/s5-e11-chris-young-buoyant-mon) Allie Goodwich (instagram.com/allie.the.goodwich) Alex Plotkowski (twitter.com/ProbsMcGobs facebook.com/TipTopTuesdayComedy) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Magic Trick Explainer App (Chris Young)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 09:35:54 -0000

Idea: An app which explains magic tricks that you just watched, either on TV or in person. Also: discussing whether learning how a magic trick works ruins the excitement and wonder of watching the trick; the app might distract a live audience and cause them to talk or heckle during the show; a story about performing in a standup comedy show where an audience member brought a "clown horn" and used it during the entire show

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Stuffed Mozzarella Sticks (Alex Plotkowski)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 03:13:33 -0000

Idea: To inject various foods into deep-fried mozzarella sticks to give them a custom flavor, such as ground beef, pizza sauce, basil, garlic, or pepperoni. Also: inverting the jalapeno popper; nacho cheese inside of mozzarella cheese; hiding veggies in the mozzarella sticks, like in Jerry Seinfeld's wife's book, which we can't remember whether or not was plagiarized

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Doppelganger Finder App (Allie Goodwich)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 03:43:35 -0000

Idea: An app to help you search for a doppelganger (i.e. someone who looks exactly like you) on the Internet, and if it finds someone (or if you see one, such as in an advertisement), it helps you get in contact with them, so you can meet up and do pranks and other fun stuff together. Also: sharing a job and health insurance with your doppelganger; seeing a doppelganger in a photo and wondering if it was actually you in the photo and that maybe you have undiagnosed amnesia or DID (dissociative identity disorder); Liberace and using plastic surgery to create a doppelganger; a similar app that finds your "psychic soulmate" from a psychic's sketch

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Bug Zapper Earrings (Chris Young)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 03:02:56 -0000

Idea: Earrings which also function as bug zappers, to be worn while camping to keep the bugs away. Also: the risk of electrocuting your head if you dive into a lake; using them as a mini-grill for tiny diet-sized pieces of chicken; shoving your wife's head towards a spider; if her ears start smoking, either she just killed a bug or she's really mad

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Dead Man's Switch App (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 13:28:19 -0000

Idea: An app that you launch before doing a mildly dangerous activity, and if sensors in your electronic devices (phone, Apple Watch, FitBit, AirTags, etc.) indicate that an emergency has occurred (examples: losing Bluetooth contact with an AirTag hidden in the clothes of a kid that you're babysitting might mean that he wandered out of the yard; a sudden downward acceleration detected on an Apple Watch while you're climbing on a ladder might mean that you fell off), or if you fail to confirm that a dangerous activity has safely completed within a certain period of time (example: while walking to your car at night, if you don't press an "I'm safe" button on your phone within 5 minutes, you might have gotten mugged), an emergency protocol (such as contacting the police or a kid's parents) is automatically performed. The app does NOT use AI and therefore you have to tell the app what activity you're doing so that it knows, for example, if a sudden acceleration of an Apple Watch is an emergency. The app would be pre-programmed with a list of common dangerous activities, and, for each one, ways to use sensors in electronic devices (emphasizing the electronic devices that you own) to detect emergencies. Also, you could customize the app by adding new dangerous activities and new ways to detect emergencies. Also: the police might get sick of false alarms from the app; a possible AI extension of the app which monitors what you're doing and interjects before the emergency occurs (by alerting you or shocking you with a shock collar); describing a person as "cookable and lovable"

Stefanie Ann (Podcast: facebook.com/Sanctioned-by-Stefanie-104102588188198 Podcast: podbay.fm/p/the-milf-and-the-millennial Webcast: Knuckleheads Comedy https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0m4whfJvWU3xXFFJSLUMQA Open Mic: facebook.com/FiresideInnDiveBarr instagram.com/thedownriverdiva facebook.com/stefanie.brewer1) JD The Smile Hustler (twitter.com/smilehustler01 instagram.com/smilehustler01 facebook.com/JD-the-smile-hustler-154544487899196) Aaron Sorrels (https://theunemployedalcoholic.com Podcasts: Well Metaversed and Clean Comedy TIme https://cleancomedytime.com/podcast Soapstone Comedy Club on Horizon Worlds) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Anti-Bucket List (Stefanie Ann)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 26 May 2022 08:50:19 -0000

Idea: A "bucket list" of things that you've done and you definitely never want to do again, such as getting married, drinking, embarrassing or unpleasant experiences, etc. Also: a coworker who farts all day; unpleasant public bathrooms; putting an activity on your anti-bucket list while it's still in progress

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Soapstone VR Comedy Club (Aaron Sorrels)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 21 May 2022 04:01:32 -0000

Idea: A comedy club in virtual reality, which Aaron created and runs in Facebook/Meta's Horizon Worlds. The comedy club has scheduled shows and also 24-7 open mic(s) (open mic rooms are dynamically created as existing rooms fill up). Also: if a comic starts telling racist jokes, Aaron might stab their VR avatar with a sword; the synergy of virtual reality and the NBA; the comforting effect of having a force-field that blocks the audience from the stage

Stefanie Ann (Podcast: facebook.com/Sanctioned-by-Stefanie-104102588188198 Podcast: podbay.fm/p/the-milf-and-the-millennial Vidcast: Knuckleheads Comedy https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0m4whfJvWU3xXFFJSLUMQA Open Mic: facebook.com/FiresideInnDiveBarr instagram.com/thedownriverdiva facebook.com/stefanie.brewer1) JD The Smile Hustler (twitter.com/smilehustler01 instagram.com/smilehustler01 facebook.com/JD-the-smile-hustler-154544487899196) Aaron Sorrels (https://theunemployedalcoholic.com Podcasts: Well Metaversed and Clean Comedy TIme https://cleancomedytime.com/podcast Soapstone Comedy Club on Horizon Worlds) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Cultural Translator App (JD The Smile Hustler)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 14 May 2022 03:13:07 -0000

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

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Casual Dating vs Violent Family Opposition (Blaine Drews)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 05 May 2022 22:31:38 -0000

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.com/blainedrews) Stefanie Ann (Podcast: facebook.com/Sanctioned-by-Stefanie-104102588188198 Podcast: podbay.fm/p/the-milf-and-the-millennial Vidcast: Knuckleheads Comedy https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0m4whfJvWU3xXFFJSLUMQA Open Mic: facebook.com/FiresideInnDiveBarr instagram.com/thedownriverdiva facebook.com/stefanie.brewer1) JD The Smile Hustler (twitter.com/smilehustler01 instagram.com/smilehustler01 facebook.com/JD-the-smile-hustler-154544487899196) Aaron Sorrels (https://theunemployedalcoholic.com Podcasts: Well Metaversed and Clean Comedy TIme https://cleancomedytime.com/podcast Soapstone Comedy Club on Horizon Worlds) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Outdoor Concert Survival Bunkers (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:13:05 -0000

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.com/SalsaEvan instagram.com/salsaevan) Connie Ettinger (facebook.com/connie.ettinger) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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Robot Sports Companion (Evan Sasiela)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 10:20:26 -0000

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.com/SalsaEvan instagram.com/salsaevan) Connie Ettinger (facebook.com/connie.ettinger) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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Junk Drawers of the Rich and Famous (Connie Ettinger)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 07:04:36 -0000

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.com/SalsaEvan instagram.com/salsaevan) Connie Ettinger (facebook.com/connie.ettinger) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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Baby Monitor Wristwatch (Diego Attanasio)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 08:01:25 -0000

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 (https://www.diegoattanasio.com twitter.com/DiegoComedy Newlydad Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6VISiW44yibOZaB1HE2VDq?si=b801f6617d014721) Evan Sasiela (twitter.com/SalsaEvan instagram.com/salsaevan) Connie Ettinger (facebook.com/connie.ettinger) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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Wind-Powered Tractors (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 12:20:19 -0000

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.com/laughterlayover twitter.com/Hibbzilla) Cam Honeyager (instagram.com/camhoneyager twitter.com/phatboicam TikTok: @camhoneyager) Nolan Johncock (instagram.com/kzquarantineking) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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Dip Pants (Cam Honeyager)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 09:11:46 -0000

Idea: Pants to wear when you eat dip (bean dip, french onion dip, etc.) which repel the 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

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Next Intelligent Species (Nolan Johncock)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 08:33:40 -0000

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

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Breakfast Soup (Jared Hibbs)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 11:10:15 -0000

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

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Karma Peacock NFTs (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 04:41:21 -0000

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.com/christopher.j.karpinski Mead Me at Valhalla Open Mic: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100073322963170) Mike Szar (twitter.com/MikeSzar_ instagram.com/mikeszar_ facebook.com/Mikeszarcomedy) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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Super Citizens (Mike Szar)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:51:18 -0000

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

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"Determinator" Vocal Intelligence Analyzer App (Chris Karpinski)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:58:31 -0000

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

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Self-Playing Musical Instruments (Mike Szar)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:24:44 -0000

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

Mike Szar (twitter.com/MikeSzar_ instagram.com/mikeszar_ facebook.com/Mikeszarcomedy) Chris Karpinski (facebook.com/christopher.j.karpinski Mead Me at Valhalla Open Mic: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100073322963170) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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Domestic Student Exchange Program (Chris Karpinski)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 11:06:23 -0000

Idea: A high 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

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Smart Ladder (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 22:27:12 -0000

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 (https://twitter.com/StuMcCallister Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/lmnopodcast) Kevin C (https://www.planetant.com/events/dingdongdead https://www.planetant.com/events?category=Planet+Ant+Farm+Team) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com https://twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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"U Get What U Get" Restaurant (Kevin C)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:15:44 -0000

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

Kevin C (https://www.planetant.com/events?category=Planet+Ant+Farm+Team) Stu McCallister (twitter.com/StuMcCallister Podcast: soundcloud.com/lmnopodcast) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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Troll Finder App (Stu McCallister)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 09:04:27 -0000

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

Stu McCallister (https://twitter.com/StuMcCallister Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/lmnopodcast) Kevin C (https://www.planetant.com/events?category=Planet+Ant+Farm+Team) Justin Siekierka (Comedy Shows: https://facebook.com/Bearded-Lamb-Brewing-Co-116123201742619 https://facebook.com/RustedCrowSpirits) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com https://twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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1980s-Style Sitcoms of Serial Killers (Justin Siekierka)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 08:45:40 -0000

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: facebook.com/Bearded-Lamb-Brewing-Co-116123201742619 facebook.com/RustedCrowSpirits) Stu McCallister (twitter.com/StuMcCallister Podcast: soundcloud.com/lmnopodcast) Kevin C (https://www.planetant.com/events?category=Planet+Ant+Farm+Team) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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Recycling Balls and Trash Balls (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 06:38:48 -0000

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.com/CallMeGracie https://www.sys-etching.com) Nick Kelley (Ride AALong Podcast: https://www.planetant.com/ride-aalong instagram.com/nickkelleyyy) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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Animal Fight Club Movie (Nick Kelley)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 16:08:48 -0000

Idea: A movie where evil rich people create a secret gambling ring to bet on fights between species of animals, like a gorilla vs. a grizzly bear. In the movie, the rich people would get their comeuppance and get killed by the animals. Also: debating with friends on who'd win in fights between animals or between animals and people, such as "who'd win: 20 squirrels vs. a guy wearing an acorn suit"; having multiple versions of the movie (like the movie "Clue") so the audience could bet on the (fake CGI) animal fight scenes; casting animal-rights activist celebs to play over-the-top villians who get eaten by the animals

Nick Kelley (Ride AALong Podcast: https://www.planetant.com/ride-aalong instagram.com/nickkelleyyy) Sara Young (facebook.com/CallMeGracie https://www.sys-etching.com) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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Elderly Parent Driving Prevention Ideas (Sara Young)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 12:36:07 -0000

A brainstorming session on how to prevent or dissuade elderly parents who are too old to safely drive from driving, including practical ideas such as grocery delivery and virtual family videoconferencing, and also silly ideas such breaking the heater in their car, surrounding their house with a moat, and having them wear a "life collar" which shocks them if they leave the yard and which also functions as a wearable defibrillator and medication dispenser

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On-Hold Chat Buddy (Carl Sobel)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 07:04:02 -0000

Idea: For a business who places you on hold to connect you to another person who's also waiting on hold, so you can complain about the company together, become friends, and/or figure out each other's tech support problems. Also: you could try to anger the other person on hold to get them to hang up and you move up in the hold queue; lonely old people could volunteer to chat with people who're on hold, which might eventually cause your grandma to learn tech support and become more tech-savvy than you, in which case SHE will have to help YOU when your computer breaks down

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Carl Sobel (https://www.facebook.com/ComedyNightAtRiverCitySaloon twitter.com/carl_sobel) Parker Hammon (https://www.planetant.com/events/toilettime twitter.com/parker_hammon) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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Bed Box (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 10:05:02 -0000

Idea: A box to cover your bed from your neck down (like you're sleeping in a matchbox or in a coffin which is missing the head part of the coffin lid). You'd put a 2nd layer of bed covers on top of the "bed box" and tuck them in around your shoulders to put your body in an airtight cacoon while you sleep. The main purpose is to allow you to let your house cool down to be super cold at night in the winter to reduce your heating bill, without having an extra layer of bed covers press down uncomfortably on your chest while you try to sleep (because the extra layer of bed covers would be on top of the "bed box"). Also: you wouldn't have to make the bed because the bed covers on top of the "bed box" wouldn't get disturbed while you sleep; you could use the "bed box" instead of a mosquito net (with the aid of a "head box" extension); you could make love inside the "bed box" without worrying about your kids walking into the room and catching you; you could make the "bed box" bulletproof and mount weapons on the top of the inside of the box

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Eavesdrop Diner (Carl Sobel)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 17:15:00 -0000

Episode Notes

Idea: A chain of restaurants where every table is live-streamed on the Internet to allow people watching at home to eavesdrop on their conversations, pay for their food and/or drinks, give them likes, chat/gossip with other eavesdroppers who're watching the same table, and (in some cases) send messages to interact with the people eating at the restaurant. Also: watching first dates, anniversary dinners, arguments, and break-ups; acting fake or fetishy for the camera; a coaster or tracker to allow the camera to follow you around while you do activities (like play pool) in the restaurant; an "event wheel" for eavesdroppers to spin to cause events in the restaurant (for example, to cause a waitress to spill the drinks)

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Retail Worker F You Card (Parker Hammon)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 17:57:00 -0000

Episode Notes

Idea: A card given to retail workers once a year, where if the retail worker gives the card to a rude customer, they can insult, yell at, curse at, and/or humiliate the customer for 30 seconds without consequence (i.e. without getting fired). Also: tracking rude customers who receive "F You Cards" in a government database (i.e. the Chinese "social credit score" but made fun); a rude customer repeatedly receiving "F You Cards" who lashes out against society and becomes the Joker; staging extremely elaborate "F You Card" incidents to try to go viral on the Internet; giving your "F You Card" to the same rude customer 15 years in a row

Parker Hammon (https://www.planetant.com/events/toilettime twitter.com/parker_hammon) Carl Sobel (https://www.facebook.com/ComedyNightAtRiverCitySaloon twitter.com/carl_sobel) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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Build-A-Mattress Workshop (Jack Reeves)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 04:34:00 -0000

Episode Notes

Idea: A workshop similar to Build-A-Bear but where you build a mattress. The mattress would be super-customized with different combinations of materials (feathers, springs, memory foam, etc.), different firmness settings, etc. Also: you could test it for comfort as you build it; you could make it a "smart mattress" containing electronics and software, which could get a virus and make it impossible to fall asleep or fold in half and kill you

Jack Reeves (twitter.com/jackreeeeves https://soundcloud.com/noprobcast-noprobcast) Nicole Melnyk (twitter.com/mcfancyvonpants instagram.com/noprobcast) Simon Carlson (twitter.com/its_ah_me_simon) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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Street Light Deer Spotlights (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 10:08:22 -0000

Episode Notes

Idea: For street light poles to have LIDAR sensors and to use AI (artificial intelligence) to detect deer in the dark and then shine a spotlight on the deer to help drivers see them and thus avoid hitting them. The AI would prevent falsely detecting deer and erroneously turning on the spotlight all the time, unlike crappy motion lights for your house which turn on all the time when the wind blows leaves in nearby trees. Also: if it can detect deer and then turn on (and aim) a spotlight, it could also detect cars and pedestrians and only turn on the normal (stationary) street light if someone is there; to get rid of most of the street signs because drivers can use navigation apps instead; to use spotlights (which are either mounted on street light poles or are being flown by drones) to light the area in front of cars so we no longer have to rely on other drivers to dim their "brights" to not be temporarily blinded as they drive by

Nicole Melnyk (twitter.com/mcfancyvonpants instagram.com/noprobcast) Simon Carlson (twitter.com/its_ah_me_simon) Jack Reeves (twitter.com/jackreeeeves https://soundcloud.com/noprobcast-noprobcast) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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Phone Glasses Detection And Text Size Adjustment (Nicole Melnyk)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 11:38:44 -0000

Episode Notes

Idea: An app or setting for your smart phone to detect whether you're wearing glasses and adjust the text size accordingly, so you don't have to manually go to settings to increase the text size to read the phone in bed at night after taking off your glasses, and then manually decrease the text size back to normal in the morning. Also: a screen-magnifying phone-charging stand similar to the Nintendo Game Boy "Light Boy Magnifier"; prescription goggles which won't break if you wear them overnight but might trick you into thinking you're underwater and cause you to pee the bed; taking advantage of your privilege to use an old inactivated phone over WiFi as a "night phone"

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Keyboard Cat Blocker (Simon Carlson)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 23:26:26 -0000

Idea: A device which disables or blocks your keyboard if your cat's gonna sit on it, so it doesn't press random keys and mess up your work or whatever you're doing on the computer. Also: a decoy keyboard; a cat suit made of keyboards to make a keyboard-cat-keyboard sandwich; a keyboard which uses cucumbers or tin foil to scare the cat; if a cat lays on a keyboard, does the cat hair clean the chunks of food out of the keyboard, or does it just make the keyboard dirtier? Simon Carlson (twitter.com/its_ah_me_simon) Jack Reeves (twitter.com/jackreeeeves https://soundcloud.com/noprobcast-noprobcast) Nicole Melnyk (twitter.com/mcfancyvonpants instagram.com/noprobcast) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Talking Golf Ball (Jack Reeves)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:08:48 -0000

Idea: A golf ball with a speaker inside to play programmable messages to help you find the ball if you lose it, to yell "fore" if it's gonna hit someone, to allow your golf buddies to program your ball to taunt you if you shoot a bad shot, to make animal noises to scare other people away from your ball or to get animals to move your ball closer to the hole, etc. Also: a multi-species golf relay; a golf ball that makes you listen to commercials before you tee off and which vibrates to mess up your shot if you try to skip the commercials; a really, really, really long headphone cord for the "hard of hearing" Jack Reeves (twitter.com/jackreeeeves https://soundcloud.com/noprobcast-noprobcast) Nicole Melnyk (twitter.com/mcfancyvonpants instagram.com/noprobcast) Simon Carlson (twitter.com/its_ah_me_simon) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Stairbags (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:18:22 -0000

Idea: A service that uses artificial intelligence to detect if you're falling down the stairs and quickly deploy a safety mechanism to minimize your injuries, such as inflatable bags that shoot forward out of the vertical portion of each stair ("stairbags"), walls that swing out to block your way before you gain momentum, or stairs that turn into a slip-n-slide with a soft landing of some sort at the bottom of the stairwell. Also: using a vat of pudding or food at the bottom of the stairs, so if you're injured and you can't get up, you can survive on the food for days or weeks; safety concerns about using a vat of alcohol at the bottom of the stairs; using slip-n-slide stairs as a security mechanism to keep burglars from going up the stairs and (optionally) to impale them at the bottom of the stairs Lisa Semerad (facebook.com/lisa.semerad.1) Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Possum Pack Rental (Lisa Semerad)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 03:16:33 -0000

Idea: Possums that you can rent to eat all of the ticks in your yard. Also: possums that eat ticks can absorb lyme disease without re-transmitting it; a possum's dead horse smorgasboard; sisterhood of the possum-loving local comics Lisa Semerad (facebook.com/lisa.semerad.1) Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Safety Nunchucks (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 21:19:43 -0000

Idea: To put artificial intelligence inside nunchucks that can detect if the nunchucks are about to (accidentally) hit you in the face, and if so, to inflate a small, "swim floatie"-sized airbag contained in the nunchuck to soften the blow before it hits you in the face. Also: the word "foe"; getting hit in the face with a car's airbag during a car crash; chafed nipples from swimming with inner tubes Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) Lisa Semerad (facebook.com/lisa.semerad.1) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Time-Release Caffeine Pills (Lisa Semerad)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 11:41:26 -0000

Idea: A caffeine pill that you take before going to bed at night which kicks in and wakes you up at a specific time in the morning, so you don't have to fight against your tiredness to get up and make coffee in the morning. Also: are classic sleeping pranks real or myth?; a robot which throws a cold, wet washcloth on your face to wake you up; a revelation that requiring stimulants or gadgets to wake up could be a warning sign that you should lead a healthier lifestyle Lisa Semerad (facebook.com/lisa.semerad.1) Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Evil Genie Dream Machine (Avery Sommerfeld)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 11:55:06 -0000

Idea: A sci-fi machine to allow an external signal (such as a computer program or someone else's mind) to control your dreams. However, the dream machine is buggy, so it causes you to get out of bed and do stuff while you're still asleep which is similar to your dream, but slightly different in an evil or humiliating way. Examples: dreaming of sleeping with Wonder Woman and then waking up with an obese neighbor wearing a Wonder Woman T-shirt; dreaming of eating at a fancy restaurant and then waking up with a full stomach but with the cops at your door to arrest you for stealing silverware from a restaurant and for not paying your bill Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) Lisa Semerad (facebook.com/lisa.semerad.1) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

ANNOUNCEMENT EPISODE SPLIT TeslaBot Household Usage Ideas (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 09:21:22 -0000

ANNOUNCEMENT: I'm splitting up the audio files of the first 88 podcast episodes by idea, so if you subscribe to the podcast using an app which downloads audio files (as opposed to streaming them), you might want to make sure that your podcast app doesn't download all of the new audio files of the first 88 episodes at the same time and fill up your phone Also: Ideas on how to use a TeslaBot in your house, including taking care of your pets when you go on vacation, adjusting your bed covers or turning on/off a fan to help you sleep, doing laundry using a washboard and a bucket, attaching metal bars to your windows every night, doing your makeup in a moving car, gathering water from a hand-pump water well or a stream and emptying your compost toilet (so you don't need plumbing), etc. Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Priority Text (Felicity Bllue)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 10:03:10 -0000

Idea: A service which uses surveillance, state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI), and data from miscellaneous sources such as health trackers to monitor a loved one (usually an elderly parent) and provide you with enough data (via text) for you to know whether or not to worry about them. For example, if they send you a vague or ominous text message (such as "we need to talk"), the AI would figure out if the message is urgent (i.e. high priority), and color-code the message based on how urgent it is and/or delay notifying you that you received a non-urgent message if you're busy. It could also text you periodic health reports and/or risk reports (sorted from highest to lowest priority) and recommend actions to prevent emergencies from happening (for example, if it sees that your mom stumbled on a loose nail on a stair, it can understand that the loose nail is a hazard and recommend that you fix it before she trips and falls) Felicity Bllue (twitter.com/FelFelBlue) Thomas Stineman (facebook.com/thomas.z.stineman) Justin Siekierka (Comedy Shows: facebook.com/Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co-116123201742619 facebook.com/RustedCrowSpirits facebook.com/CantonVillageTheater) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Dino-Sores (Justin Siekierka)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 09:53:13 -0000

Idea: A medication that doesn't cure cold sores, genital herpes sores, or other bodily sores, and instead changes the shape of the sores to look like your favorite dinosaur. Also: this would take away your ability to lie and falsely claim that a cold sore is a pimple; Pokemon-themed sores (you've gotta catch 'em all); the possibility of revenge from the tattoo industry; dino-sore medication side effects during pregnancy and an alternative origin story for Jurassic Park Thomas Stineman (facebook.com/thomas.z.stineman) Justin Siekierka (Comedy Shows: facebook.com/Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co-116123201742619 facebook.com/RustedCrowSpirits facebook.com/CantonVillageTheater) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma) Felicity Bllue (twitter.com/FelFelBlue)

Skool (Thomas Stineman)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 10:32:26 -0000

Idea: A K-12 school system based on the principles of cryptocurrency, such as blockchain and smart contracts, for the purposes of 1) reducing corruption (because things like test scores would be visible on the blockchain and things like grading systems and reward systems would be pre-defined and visible on smart contracts), 2) eliminating unnecessary middlemen (such as school administrators), 3) enabling innovative parent-student-community participation (such as voting on which classes and extra-curricular activities are available), 4) enabling innovative incentives for students to learn (such as skipping class if you did well on a test, teachers blocking access to kid's streaming video games at home until they do their homework), and 5) familiarizing students with the principles of cryptocurrency to help them prepare for the future economy. Also: blockchain and the danger of "big brother" and social credit scores; an example of a school unfairly changing the rules in the middle of a contest (which could have been prevented by "smart contracts") Thomas Stineman (facebook.com/thomas.z.stineman) Justin Siekierka (Comedy Shows: facebook.com/Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co-116123201742619 facebook.com/RustedCrowSpirits facebook.com/CantonVillageTheater) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Diners, Drive-Ins, and Deliveries (Chris Young)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 20:38:58 -0000

Idea: A TV show about food where you can order the food being shown on TV and have it quickly delivered to your door. Also: people feeding you grapes like you're a king; futuristic food delivery ideas such as pneumatic tubes, drones that both deliver and cook the food, military MRE-style self-cooking food packets, and 3D food printing; do you trust computer tacos?; YouTuber Mr. Beast's "Mr. Beast Burger", ghost kitchens, and how he could add a new item to the food menu on the same day that he showcases it on a YouTube video Nick Pizzuti (facebook.com/nick.pizzuti.73) Chris Young (http://www.chrisyoungcomic.com Comedy Special Video: https://www.drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Futuristic Mobile Grocery Storage System (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 05:40:14 -0000

Idea: Large wheelable storage containers which store your groceries while you shop in the grocery store (instead of grocery carts), in your car while you transport the groceries (instead of grocery bags), and in your house (the grocery containers would be embedded within your pantry or kitchen island or fridge/freezer so you don't have to "unpack" groceries when you get home). The grocery storage containers could maybe have some sort of gurney-style lifting mechanism to help you put them in your car. Robots could maybe wheel them out of your house so grocery deliveries could be placed directly into them, instead of the delivered groceries sitting outside in disposable boxes and thermal bags. Futuristic grocery stores which don't have checkouts and that bill you automatically when you exit the store could also detect if your grocery storage containers had food in them when you ENTER the store, so you wouldn't have to empty the grocery storage containers before you go to the store. The grocery stores could allow you to place some foods directly into your personal Tupperware-style containers, thus reducing or eliminating the need for food packaging on the grocery store shelves Nick Pizzuti (facebook.com/nick.pizzuti.73) Chris Young (http://www.chrisyoungcomic.com Comedy Special Video: https://www.drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Bryan Harrison (facebook.com/MoistDefinitelyPodcast) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Podcast Studio On-The-Go (Bryan Harrison)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:53:13 -0000

Idea: To put podcast recording gear in a van and rent out recording time to other podcasters, and to drive the van to where they want to record. Also: the creepiness factor of telling a stranger to step into your van and maybe putting a boot on the tire of the van during the recording so they trust you not to kidnap them; renting out the van for other activities; putting a cheesy logo on the van and then embarrassing your kids by driving them to school in it; the "Chris Farley dream" (to live in a van down by the river) Nick Pizzuti (facebook.com/nick.pizzuti.73) Chris Young (http://www.chrisyoungcomic.com Comedy Special Video: https://www.drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Bryan Harrison (facebook.com/MoistDefinitelyPodcast) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Mosquito-Killing Fireworks (Chris Young)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 10:28:20 -0000

Idea: To put chemicals in the smoke of fireworks to repel or kill mosquitos, similar to the chemicals currently used in mosquito foggers/sprayers. The chemicals in existing fireworks are probably somewhat poisonous, so if you're gonna do poison, you might as well get something out of it. Also: the "come to Jesus" moment for mosquitos; the risk that dead mosquitos falling from the sky could attract bats or spiders; a pro tip for lighting M-80 fireworks Nick Pizzuti (facebook.com/nick.pizzuti.73) Chris Young (http://www.chrisyoungcomic.com Comedy Special Video: https://www.drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Bryan Harrison (facebook.com/MoistDefinitelyPodcast) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Mass Transit Sky Trams (Nick Pizzuti)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 09:30:54 -0000

Idea: To use "sky trams" (aka "aerial tramways" or "cable cars") for mass transit in the US. They could be used in several places, such as in the mountains, between skyscrapers, in the center of split highways, in Miami after Florida sinks underwater due to global warming, and in Alaska after the permasoft melts and turns the ground to mud. Also: self-driving cars syncing together to drive really close to each other at exactly the same speed and designed to be aerodynamic while tailgating each other; commuting via electric bicycle and the theft/vandalization of electric bikes and scooters Nick Pizzuti (facebook.com/nick.pizzuti.73) Chris Young (http://www.chrisyoungcomic.com Comedy Special Video: https://www.drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Bryan Harrison (facebook.com/MoistDefinitelyPodcast) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Brainstorming About Selling A Screenplay (Jeremy Shipley)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 08:54:34 -0000

A brainstorming session for a screenwriter who's losing hope about his nearly impossible quest to sell his screenplay, which is a "Monty Python"-esque absurdist Medieval comedy with undertones about coping with the hopelessness of a nearly impossible quest to kill a dragon. Also: meeting Kevin Smith and Kevin Smith's inspirational story about making the movie "Clerks"; whether to take a traditional route or a more "indie" route to promote your creative work; whether to spend all of your effort on your own creative work or whether to participate in groups and help others in their creative pursuits Jon Houser (https://jonhousercomedy.com twitter.com/JonHouserComedy) Travis Hargan (https://www.mrhahahargan.com) Jeremy Shipley (facebook.com/jeremy.shipley.359) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Physical Skills As Roadside Sobriety Tests (Travis Hargan)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 11:33:57 -0000

Idea: For cops to use tests of physical motor skills as sobriety tests, as opposed to mental sobriety tests with no relation to the physical act of driving, such as saying the alphabet backwards or following a moving pen with your eyes. Physical skill-based sobriety tests could be party games (Dance Dance Revolution, ping-pong), demonstrations of a physical talent (such as juggling), or a driving simulator videogame built into the back seat of the cop car. Also: being exempt from a sobriety test if you just bowled a 288; asking the illiterate to say the alphabet backwards; a reality show in a bar where they make you do physical tests to get your keys to drive home Jon Houser (https://jonhousercomedy.com twitter.com/JonHouserComedy) Travis Hargan (https://www.mrhahahargan.com) Jeremy Shipley (facebook.com/jeremy.shipley.359) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Keg Foot Pedal and Beer Can Football (Jon Houser)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 07:55:23 -0000

Idea: A foot pump for a keg, so you can use both of your hands to dispense the beer without having to also use a hand pump. Also, a Nerf-like football with a "beer bong" or beer can inside of it, so you can toss it to a friend instead of walking all the way over to them. Also: drug dealing by throwing a football with drugs inside of it; something you can throw or launch out of your car (like a balloon or a drone) to dispose of drugs after you get pulled over; cops shooting at balloons Jon Houser (https://jonhousercomedy.com twitter.com/JonHouserComedy) Travis Hargan (https://www.mrhahahargan.com) Jeremy Shipley (facebook.com/jeremy.shipley.359) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Weed Passing Device (Jon Houser)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 05:19:10 -0000

Idea: A device to pass weed across the room to your friends without getting up from the couch. Ideas include a ball with a bong inside which is gyroscopically kept upright ("Ballabong"), an "Inspector Gadget"-style extendable device ("Bong Tongs"), a joint with aerodynamic fins to allow you to throw it like a dart ("Jart") or shoot from a Nerf crossbow ("Crossjoint"), a weed catapult ("Cannapult"), and beach balls filled by a Volcano vaporizor ("99 Luftvapeballons"). Also: weed on Mars; dodgebong or "hot potato" where you smoke the potato; the best-case scenario for being hit in the face Jon Houser (https://jonhousercomedy.com twitter.com/JonHouserComedy) Travis Hargan (https://www.mrhahahargan.com) Jeremy Shipley (facebook.com/jeremy.shipley.359) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Exercise Machine Handle Videogame Controllers (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 00:33:13 -0000

Idea: Handles for an exercise machine (such as a treadmill, bicycle, rowing machine, or even free weights) which contain a game controller for XBox/Playstation/Steam to allow you to play A-list videogames while exercising. The handles could be swapped from exercise machine to exercise machine to allow you to perform a type of exercise which doesn't interfere with your gameplay at any given moment. The actual exercise (the pedaling of a bicycle, for example) wouldn't impact the gameplay, although maybe that feature could be added later as an enhancement. Also: gyms are like medieval torture; almost falling off the back of a treadmill when preparing to jump in a videogame; playing a videogame while exercising to improve your fitness training; nerdy details on Tom's prototype treadmill videogame controller and how exercise equipment manufacturers could incorporate videogames into their devices Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma) Shallis M Gus

Uber Ambulance (Bart Dangus)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 27 May 2021 04:36:06 -0000

Idea: An Uber-like transportation service where the drivers use normal vehicles (i.e. not ambulances) to recklessly speed you to the hospital for much less cost than a traditional ambulance. Also: a cheaper alternative for less life-threatening injuries; strapping the injured person to the hood so the cops know why you're speeding; euthanasia via Miata Jimmy Slims (instagram.com/jimmyslimscomedy twitter.com/jimmy_slims) Bart Dangus (twitter.com/bartdangus Podcast: https://bigtimegarbage.libsyn.com) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Nicotine or Caffeine Infused Tooth Brushing Stick (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 20 May 2021 11:18:17 -0000

Idea: To infuse a miswak stick (a tree stick traditionally used in the Middle East to brush your teeth without toothpaste) with nicotine or caffeine. Also: the miswak stick could replace the "cigarette break" and allow everybody (not just smokers) to stand outside and waste time at work; cleaning your teeth by eating a toothpaste sandwich; shampoo, chap stick, and toothpaste are all scams Dani HaHa (instagram.com/comedian_dani_haha https://danihaha.com) Jimmy Slims (instagram.com/jimmyslimscomedy twitter.com/jimmy_slims) Bart Dangus (twitter.com/bartdangus Podcast: https://bigtimegarbage.libsyn.com) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Cigarette Storage Shiv (Jimmy Slims)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 13 May 2021 08:47:09 -0000

Idea: A small case for storing a cigarette which also functions as a shiv, because it can be dangerous to smoke outside in the dark. It would have a tight seal so you could stab somebody without getting their blood on the cigarette inside. It might also contain a cigarette holder/clasp which holds onto the cigarette when you open the case so you can smoke the cigarette without touching it with your blood-covered hands. Also: other ideas for drug-related items that could double as self-defense weapons, such as a bong dart gun; not getting high from smoking but getting floored by edibles Dani HaHa (instagram.com/comedian_dani_haha https://danihaha.com) Jimmy Slims (instagram.com/jimmyslimscomedy twitter.com/jimmy_slims) Bart Dangus (twitter.com/bartdangus Podcast: https://bigtimegarbage.libsyn.com) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Black GPS (Dani HaHa)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 06 May 2021 08:55:22 -0000

Idea: A GPS system for your car which has special features for Black people and which has a strong voice personality, such as Samuel L. Jackson, who yells at you to ensure you don't ignore important warnings (like to avoid dangerous areas). Also: instead of warning you about speed traps, it'd warn you about "trap houses"; instead of warning you about a "disabled vehicle ahead", if you're approaching a broke ex's house, it'd warn you of a "disabled man ahead"; letting you know if cops are nearby; the GPS system could use a megaphone to yell at potential carjackers outside your car to scare them off Dani HaHa (instagram.com/comedian_dani_haha https://danihaha.com) Jimmy Slims (instagram.com/jimmyslimscomedy twitter.com/jimmy_slims) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Stuff-On-Demand Mini Cruise Ship Clusters (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 01:07:43 -0000

Idea: To have many tiny cruise ships (from family-sized to max size of appx 200 people) that travel in clusters, along with giant supply ships, with drones and rowboat-sized supply boats to move food and other supplies between the giant supply ships and the tiny cruise ships. Also: tiny cruise ships could dock in ports which aren't big enough to dock giant cruise ships; putting people on separate tiny cruise ships instead of one giant cruise ship could dramatically reduce the spread of COVID and other viruses; activities like rock-climbing walls which aren't feasible on tiny cruise ships could be located on the giant supply ships and drones could take people from their tiny cruise ships to the giant supply ships Brandon Ponke (instagram.com/bponke twitter.com/BPonke) Peggy Beattie (instagram.com/peggy4859 Podcast: Go Ahead, Cancel Me https://www.buzzsprout.com/1714682) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Stuff-On-Demand Modular Tiny RVs (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 11:08:37 -0000

Idea: Pickup-truck-sized RVs which have flat truck beds which are divided into four rectangle segments onto which modular "RV cubes" containing your stuff (or stuff that you rent) can be popped on and off on demand at rest stops. Also: "RV cubes" containing beds, tables, jacuzzis, or gear for outdoor activities; ordering stuff from Amazon and shipping it to a rest stop which puts it into an "RV cube" so it's ready to pop onto your vehicle when you arrive; a "bathroom RV cube" with a toilet that's emptied and cleaned at the rest stop; "RV cube" speed dating; designing the future of the world like we're all in the movie "Speed" Brandon Ponke (instagram.com/bponke twitter.com/BPonke) Peggy Beattie (instagram.com/peggy4859 Podcast: Go Ahead, Cancel Me https://www.buzzsprout.com/1714682) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Deathbed Betting Pools (Peggy Beattie)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 01:06:03 -0000

Idea: To make bets with your friends/family on when a loved one on their deathbed will die (as a distraction from the grief and awkwardness of waiting around for long periods of time in a hospital). Also: betting over the will or the leftover drugs; inappropriately celebrating if you won the bet; trying not to die yet to prevent someone from winning the death bet; side bets on whether alcoholism damaged their liver to the point that it's ineligible for organ donation Brandon Ponke (instagram.com/bponke twitter.com/BPonke) Peggy Beattie (instagram.com/peggy4859 Podcast: Go Ahead, Cancel Me https://www.buzzsprout.com/1714682) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Remote-Controlled Fast Food Robots (Brandon Ponke)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 07:18:16 -0000

Idea: To replace fast food workers with robots which are controlled by real people working remotely from home, and also to prepare fast food for delivery via pneumatic tubes in "ghost kitchens" in apartment complexes and dorms. This would give the workers more job flexibility and would allow the restaurants to stay open if there was a more deadly virus outbreak. Also: opinions on "gig jobs" and working from home; controlling robots that cook real food for real people as a "loot grind" task in a video game; remote-controlled robotic cats to catch the rats that eat the food dropped by the food-cooking robots Brandon Ponke (instagram.com/bponke twitter.com/BPonke) Peggy Beattie (instagram.com/peggy4859 Podcast: Go Ahead, Cancel Me https://www.buzzsprout.com/1714682) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Drone Food Delivery To Moving Vehicles (Kara Coraci)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:43:16 -0000

Ideas: To have drones deliver food to people in moving vehicles, such as cars stuck in traffic. Also: how some technology of today would seem insane and/or ridiculous to people in the past; holding out bags of food on hooks which people on trains can grab as the train drives by; having drones swap your normal helmet with a "beer helmet" while you're driving a motorcycle Gimmy Cipriano (YouTube: ABitTooMuch https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk8ueoJ9U1PyJYf3W5Kfhmg) Kara Coraci (twitter.com/@KaraCoraci https://www.crotchie.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Plug-In Liver (James Couture)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 05:58:20 -0000

Idea: An extra liver that you can plug in to your body after drinking heavily to reduce your hangover and/over reduce the long-term harmful effects of the alcohol. Also: crazy medical devices which actually exist (or could exist) but aren't made available because they're only for recreation (i.e. they don't improve your health); why dentistry is a scam; learning how to make illegal drugs while serving as a juror in a trial James Couture (instagram.com/secretbeefcake) Justin Siekierka (Comedy Shows: facebook.com/Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co-116123201742619 facebook.com/RustedCrowSpirits facebook.com/CantonVillageTheater) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

GoZebos and Snap-In Windows (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 04:17:13 -0000

Idea: Gazebos and other structures (yurts, sunbathing pods, dune buggies, pontoon boats) which can be converted between "open-air structures" and "enclosed shelter-providing structures" by snapping in/out modular clear plastic windows. The idea is, instead of living in a "house", to instead live most of your life in the open air, and only enclose yourself "indoors" (i.e. within walls and windows) for brief moments of shelter, such as sleeping, avoiding cold or rainy weather, using the bathroom, etc. Also: robots transporting most of your stuff between the structures and a neighborhood warehouse on-demand; the increased danger of bear attacks; a music festival where people construct small temporary shelters around the stage and live there for days or weeks Dave Wellfare (The AM Mayhem Podcast with Mojo and Dave: buzzsprout.com/1583737) Justin Siekierka (Comedy Shows: facebook.com/Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co-116123201742619 facebook.com/RustedCrowSpirits facebook.com/CantonVillageTheater) Tom Walma (creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

A Taste Of Reality (Justin Siekierka)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 10:40:51 -0000

Idea: Chocolates which (unlike Dove) don't display unrealistically positive messages on the wrapper. Instead, they display realistic messages, such as reminders to perform errands ("make sure you have AA batteries") and comedically dark/demotivational messages ("your spouse probably settled", "you're too old to achieve your dreams"). Also: some of the chocolates could taste bad on purpose to remind you of the harshness of reality; the messages could be tailored to you based on a scan of your social media; positive messages should be reserved for healthy food like vegetables (instead of chocolates) to lure people to better health instead of to obesity and diabetes Dave Wellfare (The AM Mayhem Podcast with Mojo and Dave: buzzsprout.com/1583737) Justin Siekierka (Comedy Shows: facebook.com/Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co-116123201742619 facebook.com/RustedCrowSpirits facebook.com/CantonVillageTheater) Tom Walma (creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Tranq Chair (Dave Wellfare)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 04:58:05 -0000

Idea: A "smart chair" with a tranquilizer device to knock out annoying people at a movie theater. It would vibrate once or twice as a warning before tranqing you, unless you answer your phone and start talking, in which case you'd be tranq'd immediately. Also: Getting tranq'd on purpose if the movie is boring or you want to relax before a job interview; trying to make your friends laugh inappropriately during a sad movie to get them tranq'd; tranqing young kids who freak out at a scary movie Dave Wellfare (The AM Mayhem Podcast with Mojo and Dave: buzzsprout.com/1583737) Justin Siekierka (Comedy Shows: facebook.com/Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co-116123201742619 facebook.com/RustedCrowSpirits facebook.com/CantonVillageTheater) Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Ice Dogs (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:44:40 -0000

Idea: To use Boston Dynamics robotic dogs to save the lives of people whose hearts have stopped by jumping on their chests and rapidly cooling their bodies, thus giving rescuers an extra hour or two to revive them. Also: "ice dogs" roaming the neighborhood looking for medical emergencies and, in the meantime, serving as police dogs and package delivery dogs; the risk of "ice dogs" sticking to your body like a frozen flagpole; robotic "hot dogs" to prevent malfunctioning "ice dogs" from freezing healthy people to death Matt Harper (twitter.com/MattHarperJokes anotherepisodepodcast.podbean.com twitch.tv/mattopoly83) Brett Mercer (twitter.com/brettmercer_ bigtimegarbage.libsyn.com linktr.ee/Brettmercer) Johnny Mocny (twitter.com/JohnnyMocny linktr.ee/wearemoviespod) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Action Dads (Johnny Mocny)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:20:40 -0000

Idea: A reality TV show where a family temporarily replaces the dad with a washed-up action movie star, such as Steven Seagal or Brian Bosworth. The action star would complain that his whole body aches and begrudgingly participate in family-oriented events organized by the reality show. He could be so horrible that he makes the family more appreciative of their real dad, or he could sleep with the mom and destroy the family. Also: action moms; solving every family problem using violence (for example, beating up a hostile neighbor); the family could help the action star more than the action star helps the family; the dad could temporarily live the action star's life and act in a SyFy channel B-movie involving a natural disaster and a random predatory animal Matt Harper (twitter.com/MattHarperJokes anotherepisodepodcast.podbean.com twitch.tv/mattopoly83) Brett Mercer (twitter.com/brettmercer_ bigtimegarbage.libsyn.com linktr.ee/Brettmercer) Johnny Mocny (twitter.com/JohnnyMocny linktr.ee/wearemoviespod) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Good Netflix (Brett Mercer)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 03:22:25 -0000

Idea: A redesign of Netflix which is actually good. It'll be good because a) the shows are better (obviously), and because b) it'll offer a much more immersive experience. It'll support immersion into a particular movie or TV show by including commentaries, Arsenio Hall talk show promotional segments, bloopers, and other bonus content related to the movie or TV show. It'll also support immersion into the time period of the movie or TV show by showing TV commercials from the time period (and allowing you to buy the old-timey products in the commercials), by enabling censorship rules from the time period, by simulating audio/video quality problems of the time period (such as tracking issues), and by simulating other inconveniences from the time period (such as stopping the video stream at 1:00 AM to simulate the local TV broadcast tower shutting down for the night) Matt Harper (twitter.com/MattHarperJokes anotherepisodepodcast.podbean.com twitch.tv/mattopoly83) Brett Mercer (twitter.com/brettmercer_ bigtimegarbage.libsyn.com linktr.ee/Brettmercer) Johnny Mocny (twitter.com/JohnnyMocny linktr.ee/wearemoviespod) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Covid-Era Wedding DJ In A Box (Matt Harper)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 02:55:59 -0000

Idea: A DJ-in-a-box for a Covid-era wedding (or other social event). It'd be extremely cheap because the socially-distanced event would only have around 10 people in attendance and therefore wouldn't justify the cost of a normal DJ. It'd consist of an oscillating fan with some laser pointers taped to it, a pack of three "smart light bulbs" to put around the venue, and a Spotify playlist which you say is customized but is actually the same playlist for every wedding. Also: a self-hating DJ; optional add-ons like a holographic DJ, a celebrity Cameo for a wedding toast, and an entire wedding-in-a-box; a sad single person ordering a DJ-in-a-box to use alone in his apartment Matt Harper (twitter.com/MattHarperJokes anotherepisodepodcast.podbean.com twitch.tv/mattopoly83) Brett Mercer (twitter.com/brettmercer_ bigtimegarbage.libsyn.com linktr.ee/Brettmercer) Johnny Mocny (twitter.com/JohnnyMocny linktr.ee/wearemoviespod) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Table Pet Barrier (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:19:31 -0000

Idea: A barrier that surrounds a table or desk to block pets from jumping onto the table and eating your food. It would have sliding doors on your side of the table to either allow you to access the table, or block the table when you need to leave the table to go get ketchup. It would have a hand crank to allow you to lower it below the surface of the table when its not being used, so you don't have to store it somewhere. Also: Taking the Mark Rober creative engineering online course and trying to convince teenagers not to do dangerous things with motors and knives which might cause them to lose fingers; dogs eating poop and then breathing their stink breath onto you with the intention of making you lose your appetite so you'll give them your food Joe Bates (twitter.com/JoeBatesComedy Comedy Album: https://orcd.co/joe_bates) Jason Alt (twitter.com/JasonEAlt) Joseph Johnson (twitter.com/JJohnsonComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Virtual Commute (Jason Alt)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 01:51:58 -0000

Idea: A virtual-reality simulation of your daily commute to work, to help make you feel like your life has returned to post-Covid normalcy. You'll get the sensation of moving a couple hundred feet every few minutes, just like a real commute. You can simulate driving inconveniences such as stressful traffic jams (by locking the virtual-reality helmet onto your head until you're late logging onto your real work computer), cracked windshields (the crack appears to slowly grow on the VR headset's screen until you pay $65 in real money to get it repaired), and lifespan-reducing smog (by breathing through a pipe which is hooked up to your furnace). There could also be a bus simulation for kids to simulate their daily commute to school, which could include a gadget that throws real spitballs at them to simulate being bullied on a real bus Joe Bates (twitter.com/JoeBatesComedy Comedy Album: https://orcd.co/joe_bates) Jason Alt (twitter.com/JasonEAlt) Joseph Johnson (twitter.com/JJohnsonComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Health Insurance Game Show (Joseph Johnson)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:03:46 -0000

Idea: A dark and exploitative game show where poor or jobless contestants compete for basic human needs, such as health insurance, basic income, or citizenship. Also: eliminating taxes for game show winnings because the poor depend on those winnings; the British game show called "Beat the Crusher" where they crush your car if you lose; an idea for a celebrity game show called "Loan Shark Tank" where celebrities break your legs if you lose and can't pay; a jobless future based on building/crafting competition shows like "Forged in Fire" instead of full-time jobs Joe Bates (twitter.com/JoeBatesComedy Comedy Album: https://orcd.co/joe_bates) Jason Alt (twitter.com/JasonEAlt) Joseph Johnson (twitter.com/JJohnsonComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Wild Animal Home Renovation Show (Joe Bates)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 06:38:13 -0000

Idea: A home renovation TV show for the homes or habitats of wild animals (bears, beavers, birds, etc). Examples of renovations include a recliner for a sloth, "salmon on tap" for a bear, and an even dirtier toilet for a sewer rat. The TV show could show sad back stories (such as a penguin getting covered with oil during an oil spill) and could give the animals special gifts (like a prosthetic leg). The animals could maul the hosts to death if they don't like the renovations. Also: a more humane zoo; famous attempts to build armor to survive animal attacks; PETA bailing out somebody who burned down an animal testing lab at a university and then returning to the university to recruit new members; Tom got chewed out as a child in the 90s for sending an email to a nature conservatory asking for funny chimp videos Joe Bates (twitter.com/JoeBatesComedy Comedy Album: https://orcd.co/joe_bates) Jason Alt (twitter.com/JasonEAlt) Joseph Johnson (twitter.com/JJohnsonComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Food Circus (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 09:09:34 -0000

Idea: Traveling "food circuses"which are each based on a specific genre of food (Ethiopian, Vietnamese, Greek, etc.). Cooks and market vendors from that country would serve/sell food of every class of that food genre (markets, street food, normal everyday restaurants, fancy 4-star restaurants). The food circus would have scheduled activities, like speeches from famous chefs or cooking lessons. It would be designed to allow walking around, but also designed to enable quick entry and exit so people can go during their lunch hour at work Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 57 Melanie Gresham (twitter.com/mel_gresham) Adam West (facebook.com/adam.west.73307) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Drone Charging Network (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 09:06:07 -0000

Idea: A kit for toy drone enthusiasts to convert an attic vent to a "drone doggy-door" and put a grid of wireless drone charging stations in their attic. They could then register their house as a "drone charging station" to create a nationwide "drone charging network", thus allowing people to gradually fly toy drones (which are connected to the cell phone network) across the country Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 57 Melanie Gresham (twitter.com/mel_gresham) Adam West (facebook.com/adam.west.73307) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Drone Sightseeing Tours (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 09:02:40 -0000

Idea: An hourly drone rental service for sightseeing at the Grand Canyon (or some other vacation destination), where you'd control the drone remotely from your computer, tablet, or VR headset. Afterwards, it would send you 4k video recorded by the drone. Also: why sightseeing vacations don't make sense; social drones which have a screen that shows your face Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 57 Melanie Gresham (twitter.com/mel_gresham) Adam West (facebook.com/adam.west.73307) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

License Plate Hate App (Adam West)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 08:58:49 -0000

Idea: An anonymous messaging app to allow disgruntled drivers to send angry text messages to other drivers using their license plate. It would instantly cause a huge spike of deaths from these disgruntled drivers crashing while trying to send angry texts. But these aren't the best people anyway. Also: joyriding in someone else's car to cause them to get woken up by angry messages; an angry message to another driver might somehow lead to a marriage; taunting criminals during televised high-speed car chases Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 57 Melanie Gresham (twitter.com/mel_gresham) Adam West (facebook.com/adam.west.73307) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

What I Should Say App (Melanie Gresham)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 08:54:55 -0000

Idea: An app to listen to people talking to you and come up with responses for you to say, so you don't have to pay attention if you're bored. Although, if people like talking to your app more than talking to you, it might crush your self-esteem. Also: an hour-long Harry Potter play written by a "predictive text" algorithm; the app could steer the conversation in a direction which would capture your interest so you start paying attention again Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 57 Melanie Gresham (twitter.com/mel_gresham) Adam West (facebook.com/adam.west.73307) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Electronic Wedding Ring (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 08:51:10 -0000

Idea: An electronic wedding ring that can log when and where you take it off, to prevent cheaters from taking off their wedding rings. Although, if sunspots knock out the GPS satellites, it'd be like "Cheater Christmas". And in the future, when most people have "augmented reality" glasses, the glasses could augment how other people see the married person, to either make them appear uglier or hide them behind a "digital burka" so people aren't attracted to them Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 56 Jacqui Marpa (twitter.com/JacquiMarpa) Amanda Brewington (facebook.com/amanda.brewington) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Futuristic Chore-Free House (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 08:47:40 -0000

Idea: A nearly empty house where almost everything is wheeled in and out by robots. Things like toilets would be cleaned in a neighborhood warehouse when they're wheeled out. Services such as cooking and laundry would also be offered by the neighborhood so you don't have to do it and also you don't need to own the appliances. Also: The silly self-cleaning house from the TV sitcom Home Improvement Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 56 Jacqui Marpa (twitter.com/JacquiMarpa) Amanda Brewington (facebook.com/amanda.brewington) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Life-Recording Intern (Amanda Brewington)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 08:43:58 -0000

Idea: To have an intern follow you around and record or write down things that happen to you and your thoughts about them (as they happen or shortly thereafter), so you have material available to write a great memoir. Also: the intern could secretly manipulate your life to make it more interesting for the memoir Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 56 Jacqui Marpa (twitter.com/JacquiMarpa) Amanda Brewington (facebook.com/amanda.brewington) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Free Business Districts (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 08:40:44 -0000

Idea: Since we have apps which can distribute information to and amongst customers, we don't really need food safety regulations and other government regulations which suffocate small businesses. We could even have "free-for-all" business districts in extremely poor neighborhoods, where residents of that neighborhood are allowed to run businesses out of their homes without obtaining business licenses. The only regulations would be that they'd have to a) prove residency in the neighborhood, b) sign up for the app (which also helps customers find them), and maybe c) display a warning sign indicating that they are an unregulated business Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 56 Jacqui Marpa (twitter.com/JacquiMarpa) Amanda Brewington (facebook.com/amanda.brewington) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Small Talk Bouncer (Jacqui Marpa)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 08:37:24 -0000

Idea: To use Amanda's chore bartering app to hire someone do "small talk" for you, like a "small talk bouncer" or a "Jacqui replacement" who is wearing a Jacqui mask (Tom's idea). Or maybe, instead of doing small talk for you, they'd help guide you through the small talk, like a "small talk coach". Also: a velvet rope for your body Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 56 Jacqui Marpa (twitter.com/JacquiMarpa) Amanda Brewington (facebook.com/amanda.brewington) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

U Do It Chore Bartering App (Amanda Brewington)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 08:34:42 -0000

Idea: An app for bartering/swapping house chores with strangers in your neighborhood, with a Tinder-style approval process for bartering partners, so you don't end up with a creep who might do weird things with your dirty laundry. Also: How the NextDoor app devolves into gossip and negativity Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 56 Jacqui Marpa (twitter.com/JacquiMarpa) Amanda Brewington (facebook.com/amanda.brewington) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Celebrity Chef Cook-Off (Jacqui Marpa)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 03:16:51 -0000

Idea: A celebrity cooking competition between Anthony Bourdain, Gordon Ramsay, and Bobby Flay. Jacqui wants Bourdain or Ramsay to humiliate Bobby Flay, and maybe also beat him up physically, because she doesn't like Bobby Flay's smug condescending smile and pedestrian dishes Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 56 Jacqui Marpa (twitter.com/JacquiMarpa) Amanda Brewington (facebook.com/amanda.brewington) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Social Media Slideshow (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 02:56:22 -0000

Idea: A social media network where you don't have to scroll, you just view your wall like a YouTube slideshow. When you post, if the post is longer than 30 seconds, you'd have to make a preview for the post. The slideshow of your wall would show just the previews, and if you decide you want to watch the longer clip, you'd be able to immediately watch the longer clip or queue the longer clip. When watching the long clips, you could break them up with the 30-second previews from your wall, like how TV breaks up a show with commercials. Also: post tags; Facebook showing you the same post an hour later; Netflix not getting the hint that you don't want to watch a particular movie Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 55 Justin McLeod (twitter.com/jibtron_zero) Jeff Ford (twitter.com/Comicjeff10) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

"A Storybook Life" TV Show (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 02:53:55 -0000

Idea: A TV show about a TV writer who secretly manipulates events in his daughter's life in a criminal and psychopathic way, to give her a happy and emotionally-heightened life, like the sitcoms or family dramas that he writes. The criminal and/or immoral acts (slashing tires, faking social media posts, murder, etc.) he does to other people to manipulate them to give his daughter a better life are a precarious house of cards that's always threatening to come tumbling down. The show is an exaggeration of how dads in real life are often overprotective over their daughters to a degree which is creepy Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 55 Justin McLeod (twitter.com/jibtron_zero) Jeff Ford (twitter.com/Comicjeff10) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Work Excuses App (Jeff Ford)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 02:50:22 -0000

Idea: An app to give you ideas for excuses for missing work or being late for work. It could help you physically harm yourself or provide other fake evidence to make your chosen excuse more believable. It could keep track of the excuses you've already given, and also track the overall success rate of each excuse. It could tally the total loss to the economy from people getting away with missing work because of the app. It could blackmail people who used the app by threatening to rat them out to their bosses Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 55 Justin McLeod (twitter.com/jibtron_zero) Jeff Ford (twitter.com/Comicjeff10) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Here Comes the Boss App (Jeff Ford)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 02:45:33 -0000

Idea: An app that somehow determines where your boss or supervisor is, and vibrates or otherwise alerts you if he/she is approaching, so you can pretend to be busy working Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 55 Justin McLeod (twitter.com/jibtron_zero) Jeff Ford (twitter.com/Comicjeff10) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Tailgate Grill (Justin McLeod)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 02:43:39 -0000

Idea: A grill built into the tailgate of a truck, for the purposes of tailgating (partying before a college sporting event). After leaving the game, if a driver is tailgating you (driving too close behind you), you could release the meat grease and ash onto the hood of their car. Also: Maybe the combination of rain and the wind from the moving truck could clean the grill Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 55 Justin McLeod (twitter.com/jibtron_zero) Jeff Ford (twitter.com/Comicjeff10) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Temporarily Waterproof Toilet Paper (Justin McLeod)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 02:41:29 -0000

Idea: Toilet paper which is temporarily waterproof on one side, so you don't have to wad up or fold the toilet paper to keep from getting gross butt water on your hands while wiping, and it eventually dissolves after you flush it down the toilet Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 55 Justin McLeod (twitter.com/jibtron_zero) Jeff Ford (twitter.com/Comicjeff10) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Hi-Tech Japanese Toilets for America (Seiko Yomogita)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:55:51 -0000

Idea: To sell hi-tech Japanese toilets in America. Also: to help Americanize them, they should come with audio of a physical trainer telling you to "push it", and should be sturdier, so the toilet seats don't crack when fat Americans sit on them Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 54 Gwen Hope (twitter.com/gwenhopecomedy) Ron Rigby (twitter.com/RonRigby) Joe Williams (twitter.com/JoeDoubleYou) Seiko Yomogita (instagram.com/best_japanese_comedian) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Social Media Post Jail (Joe Williams)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:53:18 -0000

Idea: An app to analyze your social media posts after you press the post button, and if the app determines that a post might be passive-aggressive, angry, or harmful to your reputation, it puts the post in "post jail" for a day to force you re-think the post, and then you must confirm that you really want to post it before anyone can see it. Also: friends could review your posts before allowing you to post them; the app would also be useful for interrupting awkward politically-charged in-person conversations Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 54 Gwen Hope (twitter.com/gwenhopecomedy) Ron Rigby (twitter.com/RonRigby) Joe Williams (twitter.com/JoeDoubleYou) Seiko Yomogita (instagram.com/best_japanese_comedian) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Pizza Insurance Hijinks (Ron Rigby)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:49:54 -0000

Ideas for gaming the Domino's Pizza "pizza insurance" to get free pizza. Also: carrying a pizza recklessly because you know that it's insured; destroying a pizza by putting soy sauce on it; do they offer insurance against them laughing at you when you come back covered in pizza and blood? Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 54 Gwen Hope (twitter.com/gwenhopecomedy) Ron Rigby (twitter.com/RonRigby) Joe Williams (twitter.com/JoeDoubleYou) Seiko Yomogita (instagram.com/best_japanese_comedian) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Radiator Furniture (Gwen Hope)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:44:44 -0000

Idea: Furniture designed to be placed in front of a radiator so you can feel the warmth from the radiator. Also: the risk of steampunk dominating the radiator furniture movement; the danger of burning yourself when sitting in front of a radiator makes it sexy, and if you're using hairspray, the danger of your hair erupting into flames makes it even sexier; a furry cat who sells rats Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 54 Gwen Hope (twitter.com/gwenhopecomedy) Ron Rigby (twitter.com/RonRigby) Joe Williams (twitter.com/JoeDoubleYou) Seiko Yomogita (instagram.com/best_japanese_comedian) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Russian Roulette Diet (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 07:38:57 -0000

Idea: A diet where you'd still eat like a pig, but you'd go on a cycle of cocaine, bulimia, Fen-Phen, and other unhealthy (but effective) ways to lose weight, and an expert would manage your diet cycle to ensure that you don't do any one unhealthy thing for a long enough continuous period of time to get addicted or to cause permanent health problems Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 53 David Otis Van (twitter.com/davidotisvan) Dan Turco (twitter.com/Dansplaining) Chris Lazar Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Invisibility And Avatar Cloak (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 07:34:48 -0000

Idea: If cameras continuously record what one side of your body sees, and then flexible, clothing-like screens on the other side of your body display the recorded video in real-time (or if you were inside a cylinder of solid, curved monitors), you'd look invisible. But you don't have to just display what was captured by the cameras. You could display the image of another (smaller) person walking and moving in the same way you are, with that person's image surrounded by the video captured by the cameras, so the remainder of your body which is not displaying the other person's image would appear invisible Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 53 Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) "Spruce Rice" (twitter.com/LordBluntsWorth) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Self-Driving Delivery Cars Without Human Safety Features (Mark Sweetman)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 07:31:21 -0000

Idea: After you go shopping, you'll leave in a self-driving one-person car which has human safety features, and your purchased items would go into a self-driving delivery car which is cheap because it doesn't need airbags or safety features required for transporting people. The self-driving delivery car might combine multiple deliveries in one trip like Uber carpooling, and might not arrive at your house as quickly as you do Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 53 Mark Sweetman (twitter.com/MarkTSweetman, twitter.com/A2Tonight) Doug Glidden (facebook.com/doug.glidden.7) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Mosh Fit (David Otis Van)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 07:24:15 -0000

Idea: A gym where people exercise by slamming each other around in a mosh pit. It's like Crossfit, only instead of throwing around a truck tire, you're throwing around an a**hole in a Guns 'N Roses T-shirt (which is about the same workout) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 53 David Otis Van (twitter.com/davidotisvan) Dan Turco (twitter.com/Dansplaining) Chris Lazar Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Racetrack Tow-Rope Snow Skiing (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 07:18:25 -0000

Idea: Snow skiing on an oval racetrack where a metal bar goes across the track about 8 feet above the ground, and several tow-ropes hang down from it and push skiers around the track. The track can contain little bouncy hills and ramps and such. This allows skiing to be done in small parks in cities Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 52 Nolan Reilly (instagram.com/kzquarantineking) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

The American Revolution - Angels vs. Demons (Nolan Reilly)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 07:16:04 -0000

Idea: A movie where angels and devils participate in the American Revolutionary War, just for sport. The devils are on the side of the Americans, and win because the devils are good at deception and other war-like activities. Or maybe there were no angels and devils, but the Native-Americans used ergot poisoning to get the white people to hallucinate and start killing each other so that they'd go away Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 52 Nolan Reilly (instagram.com/kzquarantineking) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Futuristic Tiny Houses vs. Universal Basic Income (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 07:07:36 -0000

Idea: Tom thinks his futuristic (and cheap) tiny house idea is a better idea than having a "universal basic income", and his futuristic tiny houses would also eliminate house chores, allow you to move instantly without packing your stuff, give you time to pursue your dreams, and even solve infrastructure problems like the Flint Water Crisis. He sees them as giving you true freedom (as opposed to the current system of wage slavery), but his podcast guests see them as a sterile prison Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 52 Nolan Reilly (instagram.com/kzquarantineking) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Trench Advice (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 06:55:02 -0000

Idea: A coworker saying goodbye on his last day before quitting a job is a perfect opportunity to share a couple minutes of blunt or awkward advice (which I call "trench advice"), because 1) they know you really well, 2) you'll probably never see them again so you don't have awkward social interactions with them in the future, and 3) they have no incentive to say mean things to you to mess with your head Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 51 Gimmy Cipriano (twitter.com/theRealGimmyC, twitter.com/aBitTooMuch1) Ricarlo Winston (twitter.com/thewolfspider23) Markus Olind (twitter.com/BeardVonMarkus) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Boozr (Markus Olind)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 06:52:30 -0000

Idea: An app for buying and delivering booze and other items from a local liquor store to your house (or the nearest corner if you're homeless). Or it could be like an ice cream truck for adults, in which case grown men holding dollar bills would be drunkenly chasing the booze truck through the neighborhood in a zig-zag line. Also: A liquor-shaped vehicle similar to the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 51 Gimmy Cipriano (twitter.com/theRealGimmyC, twitter.com/aBitTooMuch1) Ricarlo Winston (twitter.com/thewolfspider23) Markus Olind (twitter.com/BeardVonMarkus) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Clothing Photo Fit App (Ricarlo Williams-Winston)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 06:49:35 -0000

Idea: A shopping app that uses photo(s) of you (in your underwear) to calculate and show you what the clothes would look like on your body. Also: hackers stealing semi-nude photos from the app; helping the app determine your body dimensions by standing next to a celebrity mannequin (for example, Seth Rogan) in your photos; having to explain to other people why you have a mannequin of Seth Rogan in his tighty-whities in your house Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 51 Gimmy Cipriano (twitter.com/theRealGimmyC, twitter.com/aBitTooMuch1) Ricarlo Winston (twitter.com/thewolfspider23) Markus Olind (twitter.com/BeardVonMarkus) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Poo-pourri Air Horn Prank (Gimmy Cipriano)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 06:46:50 -0000

Idea: A prank where a very loud air horn is disguised as "poo pouri" toilet spray. If someone has to go to the bathroom really badly, and they try to spray the "toilet spray" before pulling down their pants, the shock of the unexpected air horn might cause them to accidentally "let one loose" in their pants next to the toilet. It could also sound like a fart and/or release a bad smell, letting other people know that you're pooping, which is a fact that you were trying to hide by using the "toilet spray". Also: using sound vibrations from the air horn to dislodge kidney stones; keeping a urine sample in the fridge at work Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 51 Gimmy Cipriano (twitter.com/theRealGimmyC, twitter.com/aBitTooMuch1) Ricarlo Winston (twitter.com/thewolfspider23) Markus Olind (twitter.com/BeardVonMarkus) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

"Ice Baby" Winter Car Cover (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 04:09:46 -0000

Idea: A heated car cover for winter so you don't have to scrape snow and ice off your car. When not in use, it would be kept inside a box in one of the car seats. The box would look like a baby, and would be hollow like a Russian nesting doll. The car cover would be permanently attached to the box, and would have a hole for your car door latch, so you could close your car door with part of the car cover still inside the car (and also connected to the cigarette lighter for electricity to heat the car cover in the rare case that ice freezes it to the outside of the car). Also, keeping part of the car cover attached to the box in the car seat ensures that the car cover is always aligned correctly for quickly and easily wrapping it around the car (i.e. you don't have to fumble with finding the front of the car cover, the car cover blowing away, etc). Also: a parking spot which has an electric car charger could also have some sort of electronic device to keep snow and ice off the car which is parked there; using fire to remove a frozen-on car cover James Couture (instagram.com/secretbeefcake) Justin Siekierka (ComedyShow: facebook.com/Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co-116123201742619) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

High Stakes "Rock, Paper, Scissors" (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:07:08 -0000

Idea: A variation of the game "rock, paper, scissors" which involves betting in a way similar to poker and playing in groups instead of 1-on-1, with the intent of being a game of skill like poker. Also: the essence of "rock, paper, scissors"; a game kit which includes 1) sensors to prevent cheaters from changing their choice a split second after the round ends, 2) computerized scorekeeping, and 3) an electronic display of the results of recent rounds of the game to help you formulate a strategy for future rounds; achieving success on Kickstarter by selling a product so stupid that it gains attention (for example, by selling a game that you can play for free) James Couture (instagram.com/secretbeefcake) Justin Siekierka (ComedyShow: facebook.com/Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co-116123201742619) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Scare-eolas (Justin Siekierka)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 13:25:13 -0000

Idea: Holograms of horror movie villains that women can project out of their nipples to scare off creepy guys who stare at their breasts. Also: using the holograms to project clothes to allow you to be nude in public; holograms for men (cree-penis, i.e. "creepiness"); questioning whether "Naked Mile" nude runs still occur at colleges; accidentally training babies to suckle on serial killers' faces James Couture (instagram.com/secretbeefcake) Justin Siekierka (ComedyShow: facebook.com/Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co-116123201742619) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Hollywood Sauce (James Couture)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 06:12:31 -0000

Idea: A late-night-style comedic talk show about movies, including a comedy monologue and segments such as Hollywood news, Parents Popcorn Pick of the Week, reviews of new release movies, and miscellaneous comedy sketches. Also: streaming services and movie watching parties with your friends as a replacement for movie theaters; crying during the Pixar movie Up in front of your friends; you can watch Hollywood Sauce on the Salsa Parlor YouTube channel at youtube.com/channel/UCiltbBbmcMrcuyCBObEr6_A James Couture (instagram.com/secretbeefcake) Justin Siekierka (ComedyShow: facebook.com/Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co-116123201742619) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Vape Lanyard (Gimmy Cipriano)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 21:20:41 -0000

Idea: A lanyard for a vape pen to prevent other people from wondering away with it after borrowing it, and also to allow other people to identify and avoid "vapists" (because the vape lanyard would stick out of their pocket like the chain of a chain wallet). Also: the risk of a vape pen breaking in your pocket; a weird idea to make vaping cooler Gimmy Cipriano (YouTube: ABitTooMuch https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk8ueoJ9U1PyJYf3W5Kfhmg) Kara Coraci (twitter.com/@KaraCoraci https://www.crotchie.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Virtual-Only Experiences With Real Human Guides (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 02:19:40 -0000

A bunch of ideas for virtual (i.e. Zoom/Skype) entertainment experiences with real human guides, where the experiences would be impossible to do in-person in the real world (as opposed to "Amazon Explore", which is virtual versions of real-world experiences). Examples include virtual tours of historical places and historical disasters, virtual tours of real-world places with "inappropriate" tour guides (such as comedians), video-drone tours of real world places which are off-limits to tourists (the moon, parts of the Grand Canyon, etc.), and real world events/games where the person participating virtually plays a role of a team (for example, being a lookout in a heist) Joel Fragomeni (Podcast: https://joelradio.net) Sai-D (twitter.com/saidee27) Matti Yaari (facebook.com/myaari) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Wearing An Object Around Your Neck (Sai-D)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 01:30:49 -0000

Idea: For everybody to wear an object around their neck like the rapper Flavor Flav while they're out in public, such as a calculator (so people know that you can be counted on). The object can be used for self-expression and as a non-offensive conversation starter, or the object can be useful, such as a lanyard containing your keys when you're at the gym, extra carrying capacity at the airport, or a condom when you're at Martis Gras. But be careful not to wear something that could impale your neck if you trip and fall. Also: truck nuts, poor object choices for self-expression Joel Fragomeni (Podcast: https://joelradio.net) Sai-D (twitter.com/saidee27) Matti Yaari (facebook.com/myaari) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Pleasure Chemical Vacation Planning (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 12:20:50 -0000

Idea: To plan vacations around the science of brain chemistry, such as the concept that it takes a few hours or days to fully replenish pleasure-inducing brain chemicals. For example, if it takes a few days to replenish a brain pleasure chemical like dopamine, in the meantime, you could schedule leisure activities which require different brain pleasure chemicals, such as a rollercoaster which requires lots of adrenaline but not much dopamine. Also: varying your schedule so your body can't predict its future state and level you out (i.e. make you bored) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 50 "Spruce Rice" (twitter.com/LordBluntsWorth) Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Happiness Coma (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 12:16:46 -0000

Idea: To periodically go on a pleasure blitz, and then voluntarily go into a coma for a period of time (a few days to a couple weeks) while your dopamine levels recover or while your recreational drug tolerances go back down to base levels. Also: If scientists cure aging, there's no need to worry about wasting your life in a coma; you could lose weight while in the coma; making someone forget a pleasurable experience so they can experience it with the same intensity again; why it's good to have boring dreams Special Guests Avery Sommerfeld and "Spruce Rice" "Spruce Rice" (twitter.com/LordBluntsWorth) Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

CRISPR DNA Editing App (Avery Sommerfeld)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 12:13:51 -0000

Sci-Fi Idea (NSFW): A portable CRISPR DNA-editing device which connects to a cell phone and allows you to design changes to your body using an app, such as growing a tail or becoming taller. Also: you'd be trusting a company like Apple to edit your genes (think about all of the update errors that might happen to your body); using the device to make yourself look exactly like another person; questioning whether you want to change your body so badly that you'd be willing to endure intense pain or eat the body part being improved or replaced Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 50 "Spruce Rice" (twitter.com/LordBluntsWorth) Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Shake and Shock Alarm Clock (Spruce Rice)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 12:10:42 -0000

Idea (NSFW): An alarm to shake your bed or shock you to wake you up. It could also defibrillate you, scare you during horror movies, and pleasure you. But don't use it if you're pregnant (wink wink). Also: it would hurt coffee sales; gradually shaking you more intensely until you wake up; hacking it to strengthen the shock Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 50 "Spruce Rice" (twitter.com/LordBluntsWorth) Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Frankenburger (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 21:21:44 -0000

Idea: A healthy fast food restaurant which proudly proclaims that its food is not natural and its veggie and/or lab-grown meat doesn't taste as good as real meat. But it's the same price, is humane to animals, is half the calories, and (unlike normal fast food) is reheatable. And the taste is constantly improving (multiple times per year), encouraging people to come back and try it again. Also: encouraging people to cook their own food is a poor design for society; healthy food snobs contribute to the obesity crisis by refusing to eat healthy food at fast food restaurants and thus disincentivize fast food restaurants from offering healthy food at all

Government Prostitution Service (Josh Courtnay)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 21:19:18 -0000

Idea (NSFW): A government service to pay for prostitutes for young men to improve their mental health and reduce the amount of sexual assault. Also: On the downside, men might lose ambition and just "live off the government tit"; this service might be politically viable in Alaska because the population is like 70% male Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 49 Seth Addison (instagram.com/sexaddictson) Pat Sievert (twitter.com/patsievert) Josh Courtnay (twitter.com/JoshCourtnay) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Rabid Fandom Extraction Service (Pat Sievert)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 21:15:10 -0000

Idea: A service to help you get rid of an unhealthy or unwanted fandom. In other words, make you hate what you don't want to love anymore. Also: The service is not reversible, but it can make you dislike everything else more, so you're more depressed overall, but you feel like the fandom has returned; using your rabid fandom to annoy less rabid fans out of their fandom and then collecting their fan memorabilia in victory; inducing food allergies to discourage unhealthy eating Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 49 Seth Addison (instagram.com/sexaddictson) Pat Sievert (twitter.com/patsievert) Josh Courtnay (twitter.com/JoshCourtnay) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Fake Death Metal Band Mockumentary (Seth Addison)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 21:12:34 -0000

Idea: Seth looks like a guy who would be in a metal band. He got so sick of trying to convince people he's not in a band, he started telling people he was in a fake band so they'd walk away happy. His idea is a mockumentary about an aspiring metal vocalist with no talent who lies and says that he started a metal band, but, unlike the real Seth, he books gigs and hypes up the band on the Internet and with killer fliers, but then keeps coming up with excuses to cancel the gigs (such as "the room is too dark to play") and never actually performs. Also: blurring the line between yourself and a character like Andrew "Dice" Clay; bands saying they're like nothing you've ever heard before and then immediately following that up with "we sound like band X mixed with band Y" Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 49 Seth Addison (instagram.com/sexaddictson) Pat Sievert (twitter.com/patsievert) Josh Courtnay (twitter.com/JoshCourtnay) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Office Privacy Chair (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 20:52:50 -0000

Idea: An office chair with privacy attachments, such as an umbrella above your head and curtains that loop around the umbrella and possibly also loop around your monitor. Also: low walls in cubicles are torture because tall people lack privacy and can be constantly distracted by movement in the corner of their eyes Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 48 Nick Pizzuti (facebook.com/nick.pizzuti.73) Kyle Forsyth (twitter.com/IAmKyleForsyth) Ashley Stommen (instagram.com/ashleystommen) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Perfect Companions SciFi Movie (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 20:49:26 -0000

Idea: A Black-Mirror-like sci-fi movie where a tech genius with the goal of "ending grief" creates robots for people to use specifically (and only) for replacing loved ones, such as after a death or a divorce. But parents use the robots to replace their living children who are disappointments with idealized versions of their children, neglecting their real children, and then chaos ensues. Also: A Russian robot in real life that tried to escape the lab; humanoid robot parents replace their humaniod robot children who are disappointments with idealized versions of their humanoid robot children Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 48 Nick Pizzuti (facebook.com/nick.pizzuti.73) Kyle Forsyth (twitter.com/IAmKyleForsyth) Ashley Stommen (instagram.com/ashleystommen) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Long Johns & Donut Hos (Ashley Stommen)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 20:46:04 -0000

Idea: A strip club for couples which has both male strippers and female strippers. They could be in different rooms, in the same room but on different stages, or together on the same stage. Also, instead of having gross strip club food, it'd contain a bakery with adult-themed cakes. Also: donut glaze/sprinkles instead of glitter; stripper songs Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 48 Nick Pizzuti (facebook.com/nick.pizzuti.73) Kyle Forsyth (twitter.com/IAmKyleForsyth) Ashley Stommen (instagram.com/ashleystommen) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

XBox Live But Without Kids (Kyle Forsyth)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 20:41:44 -0000

Idea: "XBox Live" without kids, so you don't have to deal with kids screaming into microphones, acting like jerks for no reason, ruining teams by being not good or too good, and otherwise being annoying. Also: longing for the "Children of Men" movie to be real; racist slurs being rampant in online first-person shooter games Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 48 Nick Pizzuti (facebook.com/nick.pizzuti.73) Kyle Forsyth (twitter.com/IAmKyleForsyth) Ashley Stommen (instagram.com/ashleystommen) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Emotional Strength Bully Defense Training (Nick Pizzuti)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:46:51 -0000

Idea: Emotional strength training to cope with bullying, and also teaching and practicing tactics for responding to bullying, such as responding with humorous insults. Also: we awkwardly and reluctantly "bully" Nick so he can demonstrate how he would respond; an emotionally-charged debate on how society should deal with bullying Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 48 Nick Pizzuti (facebook.com/nick.pizzuti.73) Kyle Forsyth (twitter.com/IAmKyleForsyth) Ashley Stommen (instagram.com/ashleystommen) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Social Toy Drones (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:26:47 -0000

Idea (NSFW, dark humor): Flying a toy drone with a videocamera on it is like playing a videogame where nothing fun happens. A videodrone would be much funner if it had a speaker and a screen to show your face, that way you could do social things with real people and other videodrones. Examples include games like hide-and-seek, guided sky tours, drone charging "forts", kids using the drones to play together outside when their parents make them stay inside, playing with animals using apps that make animal noises, etc. Also: controlling a drone with your mind so that you feel like an actual bird Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 47 Kevin Smith (Podcast: Crass&Heartless soundcloud.com/user-66991264) Josh Harmon (twitter.com/harmonjoshua01) Tim Hill (twitter.com/TimHill007) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Island For Criminals (Tim Hill)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:22:32 -0000

Idea (NSFW, dark humor): An island to send criminals for the rest of their life where they'll be left alone to fend for themselves. Also: cannibalism would be common because modern criminals don't know how to fish; weapons companies could airdrop weapons onto the island and sponsor livestream videos of criminals using the weapons; volunteers could enter the island to commit revenge on a criminal but then would not be allowed to leave Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 47 Kevin Smith (Podcast: Crass&Heartless soundcloud.com/user-66991264) Josh Harmon (twitter.com/harmonjoshua01) Tim Hill (twitter.com/TimHill007) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Consent Detector Implantable Device (Kevin Smith)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:06:41 -0000

Idea (NSFW, dark humor): A sci-fi device implanted in women which detects the intense fear and emotions of sexual assault and automatically alerts the authorities. Or a sci-fi device implanted in men which incapacitates them if they attempts sexual assault, thus making sexual assault impossible. Also: questioning whether it would be falsely triggered by nightmares or scary movies; questioning whether whistles stop crime; a female perspective Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 47 Kevin Smith (Podcast: Crass&Heartless soundcloud.com/user-66991264) Josh Harmon (twitter.com/harmonjoshua01) Tim Hill (twitter.com/TimHill007) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Kale for the Homeless (Matti Yaari)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:29:20 -0000

Inspired by a standup comedy premise that kale tastes so bad that hungry/homeless people wouldn't take it, the idea is a charity that gives raw kale (and only kale) to the homeless. It'd supply nutrients that the homeless don't get from handouts on the street (snacks, fast food, food from street vendors), assuming that we can convince the homeless to actually eat it. Also: questioning whether it would be charity or torture; the homeless could pad their coats with the kale or burn it for warmth; homeless people struggling to eat kale without gagging might inspire sympathy from passers-by who might therefore give more donations; could we teach the homeless in the US to grow their own food in community gardens like the homeless do in Vietnam Joel Fragomeni (Podcast: https://joelradio.net) Sai-D (twitter.com/saidee27) Matti Yaari (facebook.com/myaari) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Cam Dogs (Joel Fragomeni)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 06:12:26 -0000

Idea: A web site where you can interact with a real dog virtually via a webcam, and also control robotics to feed the dog, pet the dog, and play with the dog (such as by throwing a ball). Possible customers include lonely elderly people, people in hospitals, people who are allergic to dogs or live in places where dogs aren't allowed, people in public (traveling or at work or school) who need to relax, etc. Also: emotionally blackmailing customers with pictures of sad dogs if they stop using the service; using footage of the dog in a "Black Mirror"-like scenario to create a robot with the same personality as the dog; themes or scenarios, such as a Scooby-Doo robotic ghost adventure Joel Fragomeni (Podcast: https://joelradio.net) Sai-D (twitter.com/saidee27) Matti Yaari (facebook.com/myaari) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

ELECTION BONUS IDEA Everybody Runs For President (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 04:46:47 -0000

Idea: A giant tournament bracket in which everybody in the US runs for president. Each contest in the bracket consists of 8 candidates, and the winner among the 8 candidates advances to the next round. Each voter only votes for one 8-person contest per round. There are 10 rounds in total, and in the final round, everyone votes to determine who of the 8 final candidates becomes president. Also: horrible candidates like Mike Bloomberg might spend a million dollars per voter and still lose in the first round; if more democracy is better democracy, this has to be the best approach Joel Fragomeni (Podcast: https://joelradio.net) Sai-D (twitter.com/saidee27) Matti Yaari (facebook.com/myaari) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Socialburn Foldable Phone (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 02:43:47 -0000

Idea: A device which looks like a smart phone but only contains WiFi for talking directly with your friends' socialburn devices. It is used for slow but secure social networking which can never reach the Internet. Messages and posts bounce from friend to friend when friends are in the same room with each other, eventually reaching all of your friends or a specific friend who is the target of the message. It can also physically attach to a normal smart phone and act as an extended screen for the normal phone, kind of like the recent fad of "foldable phones" which have a foldable screen and thus fold open to have a large screen like a tablet. Gimmy Cipriano (YouTube: ABitTooMuch https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk8ueoJ9U1PyJYf3W5Kfhmg) Kara Coraci (twitter.com/@KaraCoraci https://www.crotchie.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Plan A Party In Paradise (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 07:35:03 -0000

Vacations get boring after a while because they're purely a consumption of experiences. They lack the social satisfaction of helping people or giving joy to people. An idea to help vacationers give joy to other people (and therefore be less bored) is for resorts to organize an activity where vacationers help throw parties for other vacationers. Also: "Airbnb Experiences", why RPG videogames are more well-rounded experiences than real-life vacations Gimmy Cipriano (YouTube: ABitTooMuch https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk8ueoJ9U1PyJYf3W5Kfhmg) Kara Coraci (twitter.com/KaraCoraci https://www.crotchie.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Historical Concept Societies (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 08:46:07 -0000

Idea: To create societies of 100,000+ people who loosely live the lifestyle of a historical era (but with flushing toilets), including both the popular culture and the technology of the era. That way, they can make money on tourism, and if a huge global disaster occurs, and we lose all electricity or all computers or something, we have a large supply of people who know how to do stuff using older technology, who can instantly step in to help the rest of the world and prevent mass starvation. Also: the need for more physical leisure activities; as tech advances, there'll be a need for more and more societies based on different levels of technology, which will create more and more jobs Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 46 David Shank (twitter.com/broken_knuckle_ twitter.com/SDWSU) Jason Spitsbergen (twitter.com/JSpitsbergen) Josh Bowab Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Old-Time Radio Storytelling Podcast (Josh Bowab)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 08:39:28 -0000

Idea: A podcast for telling original short stories (fiction stories told from start to finish in a single episode), like a modern version of old storytelling radio shows from the 1940s. Also: A failed attempt to improvise a story with the aide of a cheap sound-effect machine Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 46 David Shank (twitter.com/broken_knuckle_ twitter.com/SDWSU) Jason Spitsbergen (twitter.com/JSpitsbergen) Josh Bowab Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Generic Gig App With Job Training (Jason Spitsbergen)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 08:37:09 -0000

Idea: Most education and job training is completely unnecessary. You could train almost anybody to do almost any job, like surgery, in under 30 days. So we should reduce training for most jobs by like 90% to allow people to do them as "gigs" using an Uber-like app, with job training built into the app. Also: the "gig economy" might kill drug dealing because now you can do a couple small gigs and spend the rest of the day on the couch playing videogames without the risk of being murdered or sent to prison Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 46 David Shank (twitter.com/broken_knuckle_ twitter.com/SDWSU) Jason Spitsbergen (twitter.com/JSpitsbergen) Josh Bowab Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Superfi Dating App (David Shank)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 08:34:49 -0000

Idea: A dating app which allows you to select potential dates solely by physical characteristics. You select body type, hair color, height, etc. kind of like you're designing a character in a videogame. You can also prioritize and filter out physical characteristics. For example: you prefer blondes over redheads, and want to filter out all of the brunettes. Also: if you're too picky, there's a good chance nobody will want to date you; if everything personality-based in dating profiles is a total lie, selecting dates based only on superficial physical characteristics doesn't seem so bad Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 46 David Shank (twitter.com/broken_knuckle_ twitter.com/SDWSU) Jason Spitsbergen (twitter.com/JSpitsbergen) Josh Bowab Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Hurricane-Proof Housing Ideas (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 08:29:25 -0000

Ideas for hurricane-proof housing by myself and others, including floating houses in water-filled holes, "indoor tiny house(s)" that reside inside a full-sized house or skyscraper or standalone "shell" (like an iPhone case for a house) which can be towed away with your stuff inside if a hurricane comes (leaving the shell behind), houses where most of your stuff is continuously wheeled in and out of your house by robots to and from a neighborhood warehouse which can be hurricane-proof and/or flood-proof, and floating entire cities on ping-pong balls. Also: People seem incapable of seeing beyond natural disasters to design and plan houses and cities to withstand hurricanes and global warming sea rise. They're like the villian who was frozen in fear as Austin Powers drove a steamroller towards him at a snail's pace Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 45 Ondrej Balas (twitter.com/ondrejbalas) Ron Rigby (twitter.com/RonRigby) Bryan Harrison (Podcast: moistdefinatelypodcast.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Rapid-Response Meme Ad Agency (Bryan Harrison)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 08:25:10 -0000

Idea: An ad agency that quickly detects Internet memes and shoots TV commercials using that meme within a couple hours to be aired on TV that same day. Also: An external company could detect these Internet memes and sell that info to ad agencies and other companies; TV commercials based on memes that failed because they didn't air until months after the meme was stale Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 45 Ondrej Balas (twitter.com/ondrejbalas) Ron Rigby (twitter.com/RonRigby) Bryan Harrison (Podcast: moistdefinatelypodcast.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Vigilante Cop and Lawyer TV Show (Ron Rigby)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 08:23:05 -0000

Idea: A TV show where a police chief and defense attorney conspire to cause guilty defendants to be found innocent so they can murder them. They'd use high-tech tools to perform the murders and get away with it. Also: questioning whether PC culture steers people towards darker TV shows to vent their anger Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 45 Ondrej Balas (twitter.com/ondrejbalas) Ron Rigby (twitter.com/RonRigby) Bryan Harrison (Podcast: moistdefinatelypodcast.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Gamify Manual Labor (Ondrej Balas)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 05:48:32 -0000

Idea: The time spent doing repetitive tasks to gather health or money inside a videogame could instead control a real-life robot doing a real job in real life, such as stacking grocery store shelves. Also: If a real-life grocery-stacking robot scared a mother and caused her to drop her baby, you'd lose points in the game; a game like "Rollercoaster Tycoon" where you're controlling a real company but you don't know it; training people to overcome agoraphobia Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 45 Ondrej Balas (twitter.com/ondrejbalas) Ron Rigby (twitter.com/RonRigby) Bryan Harrison (Podcast: moistdefinatelypodcast.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

24-Hour Service Shops with Scheduling App in Grocery Stores (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 05:19:36 -0000

Idea: To put 24-hour service shops (haircuts, banks, cafes, pharmacies, primary care doctors, Japanese vending machines, etc.) in grocery stores and have an app for customers to schedule these services before they come in. Customers will come to the store for the service and buy groceries while they're there. Also: grocery delivery will kill grocery stores unless they transition to being a destination for services; workers could be trained to do multiple services (i.e. be both a hairstylist and a bank teller) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 44 Sam Silverstein (twitter.com/samsilverstein7) Noah Chapp (YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCYfh3-xPXE59bteqcGXYw1g) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Haircut Scheduling App (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 05:16:40 -0000

Idea: An app to arrange off-hours haircuts at barbershops/salons so you don't have to take time off work to get a haircut. Also: businesses that make people stand in line or wait should be destroyed (they should hire extra workers and make them wait for customers); the only thing worse than waiting around while getting paid is waiting around while not getting paid; Tom thinks he bombed doing standup comedy because he was too lazy to get his hair cut and he started to grow bangs that look like a bowl cut Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 44 Sam Silverstein (twitter.com/samsilverstein7) Noah Chapp (YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCYfh3-xPXE59bteqcGXYw1g) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Renaissance Festival Astronaut Prank (Noah Chapp)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 05:13:45 -0000

Idea: To go to a Renaissance festival dressed as an astronaut to screw with people. Also: maybe this isn't the best idea, given that people with questionable sanity are walking around with swords; Renaissance festival cleavage; fighting the impulse to distract a sword swallower while he's swallowing a sword; encouraging a kid to juggle fire instead of knives Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 44 Sam Silverstein (twitter.com/samsilverstein7) Noah Chapp (YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCYfh3-xPXE59bteqcGXYw1g) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

OCD Thief Comedy Sketch (Sam Silverstein)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 05:11:19 -0000

Idea: A comedy sketch where a thief with OCD cleans houses as he robs them. So either the homeowners will be so happy that the house is clean that they forgive him, or they'll blame the maid. Also: a comedy sketch where a gay agoraphobic monster is afraid to come out of the closet... and afraid to come out of the closet Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 44 Sam Silverstein (twitter.com/samsilverstein7) Noah Chapp (YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCYfh3-xPXE59bteqcGXYw1g) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Sons of James Bond Movie (Sam SIlverstein)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 05:09:27 -0000

Idea: A comedy movie where two college frat bros find out that they're illegitimate sons of a deceased James Bond, and therefore they're the only people on Earth who can complete a spy mission. Also: DNA combination locks, maybe they find dozens of other illegitimate children of James Bond Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 44 Sam Silverstein (twitter.com/samsilverstein7) Noah Chapp (YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCYfh3-xPXE59bteqcGXYw1g) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

From Ho To Housewife and Double-Sided Razor (Kara Coraci)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 05:59:06 -0000

Ideas: A makeup brand named "From Ho To Housewife" which is specialized for bachelorette parties, a double-sided razor with a blue side for men and a pink side for women. Also: Using the double-sided razor, he can stick his head next to her legs and they can shave together in one stroke to save time. And the double-sided razor provides plausible deniability for a man to use the women's razor because women's razors are smoother and more comfortable than men's razors. Gimmy Cipriano (YouTube: ABitTooMuch https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk8ueoJ9U1PyJYf3W5Kfhmg) Kara Coraci (twitter.com/KaraCoraci https://www.crotchie.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Covid Buffet Food Grabber (Gimmy Cipriano)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 07:44:02 -0000

Idea: A gadget or utensil for one person to grab all of their own food at a buffet, because the current Covid workaround of having an employee serve the buffet food to you (and possibly judge you) is embarrassing. Especially if you eat like a pig, which is the whole point of going to a buffet. Also: Covid masks making kids quieter and less annoying at Disney World, using the "food grabber" as a socially-distanced "stripper tipper" Gimmy Cipriano (YouTube: ABitTooMuch https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk8ueoJ9U1PyJYf3W5Kfhmg) Kara Coraci (twitter.com/KaraCoraci https://www.crotchie.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Standardized Smart Device Recharge Plug and App (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 02:23:53 -0000

Idea: To have a standardized plug to allow you to recharge smart devices without taking them down from your wall or ceiling. These devices include touch lights, doorbells, security cameras, clocks, smoke detectors, smart heat vents, digital picture frames, etc. Also: to have a single app which shows you the battery charge state of all of your smart devices all at once, so you don't have the hassle of periodically walking around your house physically checking them all or running half a dozen different apps. Also: A futuristic house which isn't hooked up to electricity and all of the electronics in the house use rechargeable batteries which are periodically recharged by robots Khurum Sheikh (facebook.com/khurum.sheikh) Ellie Snyder (twitter.com/EllieIsnt) Charles Fricker (facebook.com/charlie.fricker.9) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Beekeeping Ideas (Charles Fricker)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 03:59:07 -0000

Miscellaneous thoughts and ideas about beekeeping and bees, including making pomade hair gel out of beeswax and honey, "bee sting therapy", putting bees between panes in a double-pane window to deter burglaries, and getting repeatedly stung by bees to cause swelling to "increase your size". Also: 120,000 bees in a Ford Explorer Khurum Sheikh (facebook.com/khurum.sheikh) Ellie Snyder (twitter.com/EllieIsnt) Charles Fricker (facebook.com/charlie.fricker.9) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Brain Smuggler Movie (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 21:12:56 -0000

Idea: A comedic sci-fi movie where a gross, rude, morbidly obese man saves people from a genocide by temporarily implanting their brains inside his body in order to smuggle them out of the country. Also: the implanted brains can communicate with him and so he's constantly arguing with them; brains consume a lot of calories, so the fat guy would be sweating profusely and eating nonstop on the airplane; in the future, we'll be able to put our brains in new bodies, and so, once people start to get fat, rather than trying to lose weight, they'll let themselves go until they can afford a new body. So there'll be a weird mix of fit, young people and shockingly fat people (like Florida) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 43 Louie Michael (twitter.com/LouTheSurgeon, Podcast: https://anchor.fm/free-consultation) Shelly Smith (Podcast: http://readsandweeds.com) Nick "Martin" Perry Menken (twitter.com/perry_menken) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Stoned Yetis in Space (Perry Menken)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 21:08:18 -0000

Idea: An absurdist cartoon where stoner Yetis find a crashed alien spaceship and use it to go on adventures trying to find their home world and make friends, not realizing they're not aliens and they're scaring everyone they're trying to be friends with. Also: the alien who's spaceship they stole is wandering around Earth; a friendly-seeming spaceship that's actually evil and trying to get the Yetis killed Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 43 Louie Michael (twitter.com/LouTheSurgeon, Podcast: https://anchor.fm/free-consultation) Shelly Smith (Podcast: http://readsandweeds.com) Nick "Martin" Perry Menken (twitter.com/perry_menken) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Brutally Honest College Movie or Sitcom (Nick Martin)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 21:04:19 -0000

Idea: A sitcom or movie which is brutally honest and sad, like Louie CK's sitcom Louie, but for college. Also: sleazy frat parties with sloppy gross women, vomit everywhere, and mushrooms growing out of the frat house hallway carpet; panic attacks about not knowing what to do with your life; going back to your disgusting apartment to play videogames Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 43 Louie Michael (twitter.com/LouTheSurgeon, Podcast: https://anchor.fm/free-consultation) Shelly Smith (Podcast: http://readsandweeds.com) Nick "Martin" Perry Menken (twitter.com/perry_menken) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Siri Alexa Love Story (Shelly Smith)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 21:00:07 -0000

Idea: A musical loosely based on Romeo and Juliet where Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri fall in love with each other. Also: they know everything except how to love; if Alexa and Siri fall in love with each other, they won't need humans anymore, and they'll lead a robot apocalypse and kill us all. Or they'll take control of our minds and use us as vessels to consummate their love Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 43 Louie Michael (twitter.com/LouTheSurgeon, Podcast: https://anchor.fm/free-consultation) Shelly Smith (Podcast: http://readsandweeds.com) Nick "Martin" Perry Menken (twitter.com/perry_menken) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Lego Comics (Louie Michael)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:55:29 -0000

Idea (NSFW): To make comic books out of photos of miniature setups/scenes created using Legos, such as a Predator-style military jungle shootout. Also: Lego comics which are customized for a specific person, a customized adult film where a woman burns a man's stamp collection, a self-building miniature modular skyscraper city prototype built with Lego robotics Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 43 Louie Michael (twitter.com/LouTheSurgeon, Podcast: https://anchor.fm/free-consultation) Shelly Smith (Podcast: http://readsandweeds.com) Nick "Martin" Perry Menkin (twitter.com/perry_menken) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Localized Movies (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:47:14 -0000

Idea: To create multiple versions of the same movie, each one for a different geographic region (using that region as a green screen backdrop and using supporting actors from that region). There would be many versions of the same movie in the US (like maybe in Seattle, New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, Nashville) and a large percentage of the scenes would look totally different. Also: selling half-completed movies (with celebrities scenes and big action scenes completed) to other movie studios in other countries to complete making that country's version of the movie using local actors; telling award-winning actors to "act worse" because if their acting is too good it might make the acting of the local supporting actors unwatchable Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 42 Eric Fadie (twitter.com/bigedetroitcast) Tim Reaburn (twitter.com/timrebrn) John Eric Ballinger (twitter.com/Glubchuck44) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Better Recognition of Specialized Talents (John Eric Ballinger)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:39:41 -0000

Idea: To try harder to recognize people with unique talents instead of ignoring or rejecting them because of their shortcomings (such as in school). Also: using people with photographic memories to comb through crowds like Bruce Willis in the movie Unbreakable; questioning why nobody has given me millions of dollars to create the ideas discussed in this podcast Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 42 Eric Fadie (twitter.com/bigedetroitcast) Tim Reaburn (twitter.com/timrebrn) John Eric Ballinger (twitter.com/Glubchuck44) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Garbage Tubes to Space (Tim Reaburn)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:32:18 -0000

Idea: Tubes that shoot garbage into space. The Venturi principle and the surface tension of water would theoretically cause the liquified garbage to climb up the tube (like water in a tree). Also: Earth would look like the villain Pinhead from the Hellraiser movies; maybe Jupiter and Saturn look brown because they're surrounded by trash that got sucked up into orbit by alien garbage tubes; bending the garbage tubes to launch the garbage into nearby cities with rival sports teams; accidentally sucking the Earth's atmosphere into space Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 42 Eric Fadie (twitter.com/bigedetroitcast) Tim Reaburn (twitter.com/timrebrn) John Eric Ballinger (twitter.com/Glubchuck44) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Poorly Performing Gigolo (Eric Fadie)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:29:15 -0000

Idea (NSFW): A poorly performing gigolo that other men can hire for their girlfriends to make them appear better in bed by comparison. Also: questioning how you'd know the gigalo is actually bad in bed, not wanting another man who has issues with finishing prematurely to accidentally impregnate your girlfriend, hiring out a gigolo to do the post coital cuddling Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 42 Eric Fadie (twitter.com/bigedetroitcast) Tim Reaburn (twitter.com/timrebrn) John Eric Ballinger (twitter.com/Glubchuck44) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Twitter Theatre (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:22:41 -0000

Idea: A performance venue where you vote on Twitter (or some other social media platform) for who will perform that night. It would encourage friendly competition between performers, and would encourage famous people who are in town for other reasons to "drop in" spontaneously Also: purchasing the ticket as part of the vote and getting refunded if the performer you voted for loses; checking the candidates every day at lunch would keep people interested in the venue; it would be a step towards freeing humanity from the prison of constant time commitments Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 41 Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News) DC Bradley (instagram.com/dcbradleyonig) Steven G Sullivan Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Cracking Up Movie (Steven G Sullivan)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:17:19 -0000

Idea: A deeply personal dark comedy movie (loosely based on a real person) about a young female comic's struggles with schizophrenia Also: living with a person with mental illness, family secrets of mental illness repeating themselves Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 41 Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News) DC Bradley (instagram.com/dcbradleyonig) Steven G Sullivan Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Monitoring of Pedophiles with Drones (DC Bradley)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:13:40 -0000

Idea (NSFW): To pay a bunch of people to follow pedophiles and suspected pedophiles with drones to make sure they don't do horrible things Also: being followed by a drone might cause little boys to think you're cool, the creepiness of drones, R Kelly's alleged cult of young aspiring female singers Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 41 Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News) DC Bradley (instagram.com/dcbradleyonig) Steven G Sullivan Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Mind-Sharing Clones (Avery Sommerfeld)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:09:55 -0000

Idea (NSFW): Sci-fi clones which share both your memories and your current thoughts and feelings. Also: dividing work between clones; making sure at least one clone is doing something pleasurable at all times; accumulating all of the fear and sadness of all of your clones and developing PTSD; if you share thoughts with your clone, what happens if your clone goes to hell? Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 41 Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News) DC Bradley (instagram.com/dcbradleyonig) Steven G Sullivan Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

MegaHighways to Russia and South America (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 18:57:26 -0000

Idea: To build super-high-speed highways from the US to Russia and to South America, to compete with China's "new silk road" in Europe/Asia/Africa. Also: transporting oil using self-driving electric trucks instead of pipelines; since there's already a device called a "salmon cannon" to allow salmon to go upstream past dams, we could create a "bear cannon" to shoot bears across highways Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 40 Lauren Uchalik (twitter.com/loyooch) Misho Shakur (twitter.com/mishoshakur) Tony Vasek (facebook.com/tony.vacek.33) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

FartLogger (Tony Vasek)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 18:39:18 -0000

Idea: A bed that counts and analyzes your farts for health purposes. Also: comparing your fart count to the foods you ate to figure out which foods cause you to fart; taffy-induced stomach gurgling masking the sounds of a potential burglary; keeping drugs on hand so if you accidentally shart in your girlfriend's bed you can lie and say that you muled the drugs so you can party Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 40 Lauren Uchalik (twitter.com/loyooch) Misho Shakur (twitter.com/mishoshakur) Tony Vasek (facebook.com/tony.vacek.33) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Fidget Spinners With Age Detection (So Adults Can't Use Them) (Tony Vasek)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 18:27:16 -0000

Idea: To put an age detection device onto fidget spinners so people over the age of 10 can't use them. Also: adults using fidget spinners on Twitter; social media algorithms exaggerating fads; using a fidget spinner to generate electricity to charge your phone Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 40 Lauren Uchalik (twitter.com/loyooch) Misho Shakur (twitter.com/mishoshakur) Tony Vasek (facebook.com/tony.vacek.33) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Electricity-Generating Adult Toys (Michael Shakur)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 18:18:42 -0000

Idea (NSFW): A flashlight-shaped adult toy which generates electricity while its being used. Also: giving it to your dad to charge it up; harnessing shame for electricity; giving people drugs to prevent climax so they generate more electricity; a vibrating bicycle seat for women Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 40 Lauren Uchalik (twitter.com/loyooch) Misho Shakur (twitter.com/mishoshakur) Tony Vasek (facebook.com/tony.vacek.33) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

ExTracker (Lauren Uchalik)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 18:09:17 -0000

Idea: A location-based app to show you where your exes are so you can avoid them, especially when out in public. Also: using notifications and maps; using smoke bombs to help you evade them if they get too close; hiring a sniper to shoot your ex with a dart containing a tracking chip Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 40 Lauren Uchalik (twitter.com/loyooch) Misho Shakur (twitter.com/mishoshakur) Tony Vasek (facebook.com/tony.vacek.33) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Neverending Virtual Open Mic (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 01:26:04 -0000

Idea: To have a never-ending (24 hours a day) virtual open mic for standup comedy. It would use a proprietary system of filtering out background noises of the audience, and would incorporate the emcee, phone screeners, and "bouncers" (who can mute audience members). Also: a few other ideas for movie theaters and live comedy venues; where to locate the emcees around the world for the 24-hour virtual open mic so they all work an evening/night shift; combining a virtual comedy show with a live in-person comedy show Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 39 Myles De Leeuw (twitter.com/mylesdeloser) Jon Mullinix (instagram.com/mullinixjon) JR Williams (twitter.com/jrstandsup) John Sopkowicz (twitter.com/sopkowits) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Baby Name Review Board (JR Williams)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 01:08:59 -0000

Idea: A baby name review board to prevent lame, misspelled, and offensive baby names. But people could still use the rejected name as a nickname, like "JR" (not his real initials). Also: names that sound dirty in other languages; a possible correlation between bad baby names and parents with tattoos; names that switch gender over time Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 39 Myles De Leeuw (twitter.com/mylesdeloser) Jon Mullinix (instagram.com/mullinixjon) JR Williams (twitter.com/jrstandsup) John Sopkowicz (twitter.com/sopkowits) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Dogpocalypse (Jon Mullinix)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:52:50 -0000

Idea (NSFW): An absurdist futuristic sci-fi movie where a genetically modified half-human half-cat villain tries to destroy all dogs, and a hero has to genetically modify himself to be half-human half-dog in order to breed with the last living dog. Also: the possible cruelty of shooting movies using animals Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 39 Myles De Leeuw (twitter.com/mylesdeloser) Jon Mullinix (instagram.com/mullinixjon) JR Williams (twitter.com/jrstandsup) John Sopkowicz (twitter.com/sopkowits) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Replacement for Blue Jeans (John Sopkowicz)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:23:01 -0000

Idea: Pants made out of nanobots which can also go inside your body and help you, by curing diseases or whatever. Also: yoga pants; if some of the pants go inside of you, they must be capris Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 39 Myles De Leeuw (twitter.com/mylesdeloser) Jon Mullinix (instagram.com/mullinixjon) JR Williams (twitter.com/jrstandsup) John Sopkowicz (twitter.com/sopkowits) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Chill Pill for Women (By A Woman) (Myles De Leeuw)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:12:29 -0000

Idea (NSFW): A medication for women to allow them to "chill out". Also: how difficult this idea is for men to talk about; would it be immoral to give it to someone without their knowledge; behavior changes in elderly men and elderly women Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 39 Myles De Leeuw (twitter.com/mylesdeloser) Jon Mullinix (instagram.com/mullinixjon) JR Williams (twitter.com/jrstandsup) John Sopkowicz (twitter.com/sopkowits) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Mind-Controlled Yoga Ropes (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 04:19:24 -0000

Idea: Yoga ropes that you control with your mind so you can stretch your body without using your muscles to push your bones around (because using muscle ruins the relaxation of stretching and yawning). Also: enabling stretches which aren't possible using muscles; accidentally getting stuck in a Jigsaw trap from the Saw movies; using a combination of a mind-controlled hammock or bed and a mind-controlled toilet so you don't have to get up to use the bathroom Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 38 Garri Madera (twitter.com/garcom) Gerrit Elzinga (twitter.com/GerritElzinga, Podcast: anchor.fm/thisbetterbegood) Shane Dials (twitter.com/ShaneDials) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Movie Premiere Comedy Showcase (Shane Dials)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 04:01:10 -0000

Idea: A show which consists of live standup comedy followed by a movie premiere (such as a Marvel movie). The show is located in a movie theater, and the comedians sometimes do comedy which is loosely related to the movie. Also: how to run shows in movie theaters, falling asleep as an emcee of a midnight show Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 38 Garri Madera (twitter.com/garcom) Gerrit Elzinga (twitter.com/GerritElzinga, Podcast: anchor.fm/thisbetterbegood) Shane Dials (twitter.com/ShaneDials) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Retractable Suitcase Wheels (Shane Dials)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:59:31 -0000

Idea: Suitcases with retractable wheels so they don't get torn off in the baggage claim. Also: could maybe use the same mechanism as "heely" shoes; could maybe remove them and use them as "fidget spinners" Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 38 Garri Madera (twitter.com/garcom) Gerrit Elzinga (twitter.com/GerritElzinga, Podcast: anchor.fm/thisbetterbegood) Shane Dials (twitter.com/ShaneDials) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

IMJB (Gerrit Elzinga)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 21:13:45 -0000

Idea: An online database of jokes (like IMDB is for movies), so comedians who think of a joke can easily check to see if it's been done before. Also: Has every joke you've ever told been done before? Should only headliners' jokes or only jokes told on comedy specials on television be eligible? Shane's story of getting called out on stage for stealing a joke... from himself Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 38 Garri Madera (twitter.com/garcom) Gerrit Elzinga (twitter.com/GerritElzinga, Podcast: anchor.fm/thisbetterbegood) Shane Dials (twitter.com/ShaneDials) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Jurassic Park Theme Bar (Gerrit Elzinga)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 20:58:18 -0000

Idea: A bar themed after the movie Jurassic Park. The bar tap would be amber with a mosquito in it. There'd be themed drink names, such as "Clever Girl" and "Hold On To Your Butts". Behind the bar, there 'd be a mural of a shirtless Jeff Goldblum. In the parking lot, there'd be an upside-down car, and a toilet sitting nearby with a bunch of broken boards on the ground next to it Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 38 Garri Madera (twitter.com/garcom) Gerrit Elzinga (twitter.com/GerritElzinga, Podcast: anchor.fm/thisbetterbegood) Shane Dials (twitter.com/ShaneDials) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

StarYukYuks (Garri Madera)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 20:45:41 -0000

Idea: To open a coffee shop where the employees are comedians. The coffee might get served with lewd images in the foam. If the customer orders a roast, they get roasted. Or if it's a dark roast, they might get jokes about 9-11. Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 38 Garri Madera (twitter.com/garcom) Gerrit Elzinga (twitter.com/GerritElzinga, Podcast: anchor.fm/thisbetterbegood) Shane Dials (twitter.com/ShaneDials) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Far Out Diet (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 06:25:40 -0000

Idea: To shoot overweight people into space so that they can't cheat on their diet, and therefore scientists can gather better diet data. Also: in the movie "Gravity", Sandra Bullock is risking her life jumping from spaceship to spaceship to avoid space debris. In this case, people would be risking their lives jumping from spaceship to spaceship...for a candy bar; overweight people in space could accidentally serve as appetizers for aliens who might develop a taste for human meat Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 37 Jeff Johnson Mark Bonto (twitter.com/Mark_Bonto) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

InstaCrowd (Mark Bonto)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 06:13:26 -0000

Idea (NSFW): To fill empty seats at a standup comedy show with inflatable audience members. Also: comedians would perform lewd acts on the inflatable audience; disguising yourself as an inflatable audience member and waiting for the comic to perform lewd acts on you; questioning whether to give the inflatable audience a "heckle mode"; an inflatable audience could be a safety feature if you're in a flood zone or on a cruise ship Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 37 Jeff Johnson Mark Bonto (twitter.com/Mark_Bonto) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Lawnmower with Sponges instead of Blades (Mark Bonto)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 06:01:52 -0000

Idea: A lawnmower with sponges instead of blades, so you can't cut your feet with the blades. But how can you cut the grass? Also: avocado hand, questioning where sponges come from Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 37 Jeff Johnson Mark Bonto (twitter.com/Mark_Bonto) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Toilet Fishtank (Mark Bonto)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 05:57:08 -0000

Idea: To use your toilet bowl as an aquarium. The problem is that you'd have to buy new fish three times a day. Also: piranhas would be a bad choice; using your toilet tank as a fishbowl and having a relaxing view of fish while you vomit into the toilet Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 37 Jeff Johnson Mark Bonto (twitter.com/Mark_Bonto) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Remote-Controlled Radio-Powered LEDs (Jeff Johnson)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 05:49:17 -0000

Idea: To use tiny LED lights which can be powered remotely via radio waves (like RFID) for miscellaneous purposes around the house, such as to help you find things or to prank people. Also: putting red LEDs in a squirrel lawn ornament's eyes to scare people walking by at night; using a PC app to find your phone, then using your phone to blink an LED to find your glasses, and then using your glasses to find something else, and then maybe using that thing to find something else, like a never-ending scavenger hunt Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 37 Jeff Johnson Mark Bonto (twitter.com/Mark_Bonto) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Breakups At Bad Restaurants (Ellie Snyder)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 00:02:04 -0000

Idea: To break up from your significant other at a bad unhealthy restaurant, because you don't want to ruin one of your favorite restaurants, they can't take revenge by ordering expensive food, and the other patrons might be too drunk to notice if you're crying. Also: ordering extra food during the break up, getting takeout, and taking it to your next fling's house Khurum Sheikh (facebook.com/khurum.sheikh) Ellie Snyder (twitter.com/EllieIsnt) Charles Fricker (facebook.com/charlie.fricker.9) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Dementia Debates (Khurum Sheikh)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 06:22:34 -0000

Ideas for special considerations for the upcoming US Presidential debates between the very-old Trump and the very-old Biden, including giving them bathroom breaks and not using bells if they go over time (so you don't startle them and give them a heart attack). Also: dementia-based gaffes are the NASCAR car crashes which keep the debates interesting; gambling and drinking games for the debates; questioning whether you prefer a president who's older than you; Michigan cities have more memorable identities than Ohio cities Khurum Sheikh (facebook.com/khurum.sheikh) Ellie Snyder (twitter.com/EllieIsnt) Charles Fricker (facebook.com/charlie.fricker.9) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Covid-Safe Caffeine Intake Ideas (Jason Gilleran)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 04:04:11 -0000

A few silly ideas on how to intake caffeine while wearing a Covid mask, including Covid mask coffee filters, caffeine patches, and special glasses that squirt highly-concentrated droplets of caffeine into your ear Jason Gilleran (instagram.com/hardgcomedy) Dave Crumbley (instagram.com/davecrumbley) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

SpaceX Earth Disaster Rescue Service (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 05:24:55 -0000

Idea: To use SpaceX rockets to quickly transport elite rescue teams who specialize in a particular type of disaster (fire, earthquake, riot, etc.) to anywhere in the world to rescue people. They'd parachute out of the rocket to get to the disaster, and when finished, they'd take a normal commercial airplane flight to get back. Also: they could use special state-of-the-art multi-million-dollar rescue equipment (which they'd bring with them); we could reduce the amount of local cops and rescuers; rocket tips that look like klan masks Christian Royce (twitter.com/ChristianRoyce) David Sutherland (twitter.com/skrtskrtsuther1) Travis Tehlirian (YouTube: BlaspheMass Debate youtube.com/channel/UClsd_pJ1TEjst4C5pva1nzQ) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Line Up Hair Stencil Helmets (Travis Tehlirian)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:29:50 -0000

Idea: Stencils to help people "line up" or "shape up" their own hair using hair clippers. They would wrap around/over your head so you can't misposition them. They'd be designed to precisely fit your specific head by using a scanned 3D image of your head. Also: misunderstanding the word "hairline", the social consequences of messing up your line up, stencils for shaping your beard Christian Royce (twitter.com/ChristianRoyce) David Sutherland (twitter.com/skrtskrtsuther1) Travis Tehlirian (YouTube: BlaspheMass Debate youtube.com/channel/UClsd_pJ1TEjst4C5pva1nzQ) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Deadly Escape Room (Jason Alt)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 05:51:13 -0000

Idea: Escape rooms with real danger, like the movie Saw, which are possibly televised. Also: a more intense corporate team-building exercise or test of character for engaged couples, white-collar criminals tend to be smarter than regular criminals and thus would be funner to watch in a Saw-like escape room, wondering why there aren't any recreational drugs that are taken using acupuncture needles Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 36 Kurt Brown (twitter.com/KurtBrownTown) Jason Alt (twitter.com/JasonEAlt) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Criminal Execution Death Games (Kurt Brown)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 05:42:20 -0000

Idea: To create a TV show where the worst repeat-offender unrehabilitatable criminals (murderers, pedophiles, etc.) either compete for their survival, or are left alone to fend for themselves and try to survive. Also: it might accidentally encourage lesser criminals to commit worse crimes to be on TV, movies with a similar premise (Hunger Games, Death Race, The Running Man, etc.), fencing off states to be massive prison colonies like the George Carlin comedy bit, selling the "prisoner inventions" that the prison colonists invent while trying to survive Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 36 Kurt Brown (twitter.com/KurtBrownTown) Jason Alt (twitter.com/JasonEAlt) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Blocking Cell Phone Signals While Driving (Kurt Brown)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 05:22:00 -0000

Idea: Cars that disable your cell phone while you're driving, so you don't cause a car accident trying to text or use the phone. Also: using a breathalyzer while driving at full speed; if cars blocked cell phones, idiots would try to use their phone by holding it out the window, causing them to lose their arms in car accidents or by hitting tree branches, making the US look like Sierra Leone Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 36 Kurt Brown (twitter.com/KurtBrownTown) Jason Alt (twitter.com/JasonEAlt) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Doorless Fridge with Tech Gadgets (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 05:12:08 -0000

Idea: A doorless refrigerator which consists of several standard-sized drawers which can each be plug-and-play gadgets, such as a drone-compatible can dispenser, an eco-friendly super-insulated drawer, a refrigerator-cooled high-speed computer, a body cooling rubber snuggie inflator, etc. Also: the refrigerator door is an enemy of technological progress, you'd only need to pay for the electricity to cool the subset of refrigerator drawers that you're actually using, mini-fridges with fewer drawers for tiny houses and dorms Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 36 Kurt Brown (twitter.com/KurtBrownTown) Jason Alt (twitter.com/JasonEAlt) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Robot Fish for Scuba and Underwater Theme Parks (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 04:24:57 -0000

Idea: To put fake robot fish in the ocean for scuba-divers and snorkelers to look at to compensate for the real fish that are dying off, and to create underwater theme parks to scuba-dive through such as Atlantis, haunted sunken pirate ship, Little Mermaid, scuba through the human body, etc. Also: mistaking a real shark for a robotic shark, a VR-headset scuba mask in an empty pool, "The best way I can describe the experience of snorkeling is 'a shared unspoken conspiracy of fake positivity' because everybody can see that the ocean is mostly dead" Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 35 Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) Gimmy Cipriano (twitter.com/theRealGimmyC, twitter.com/aBitTooMuch1) Austin Gosnell (twitter.com/AustinSGosnell YouTube: ThemBoyzSkittin https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCecjnYpM7fhNHkiQZEKElFw) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

God Gun (Austin Gosnell)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 04:13:16 -0000

Idea: A radar gun that gives you info about whoever you point it at, such as how smart they are, how honest they are, and how moral they are. And also blow them away if they aren't moral enough for you. Also: "gaydar" and hypocritical anti-gay activists, how to create the "god gun" using facial recognition, EEG machines, mass surveillance databases, and lasers Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 35 Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) Gimmy Cipriano (twitter.com/theRealGimmyC, twitter.com/aBitTooMuch1) Austin Gosnell (twitter.com/AustinSGosnell YouTube: ThemBoyzSkittin https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCecjnYpM7fhNHkiQZEKElFw) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Your Friend's Baby And You (Gimmy Cipriano)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 04:03:44 -0000

Idea: A book of advice for adults who have no idea how to act around babies that their married friends are having. First chapter: don't touch it. Also: "baby-talk" advice, mind-tricks to talk a friend out of giving their baby a horrible name, when it's okay to swear around a baby or young kid, racism and sexism in babies Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 35 Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) Gimmy Cipriano (twitter.com/theRealGimmyC, twitter.com/aBitTooMuch1) Austin Gosnell (twitter.com/AustinSGosnell YouTube: ThemBoyzSkittin https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCecjnYpM7fhNHkiQZEKElFw) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Health Care for Aliens (Avery Sommerfeld)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 03:44:53 -0000

Idea: To provide free health care to space aliens, and also pay them money, so they don't eat us. Also: "It sounds like you're putting a positive spin on us being their slaves", maybe bald aliens travel the universe because hairy aliens' spaceships would fill with hair after 1000s of years of haircuts, maybe people see politicians as "reptilians" because humans never instinctually got used to seeing wrinkly-skinned people (who look like snakes shedding their skin) because we used to die before we could get old enough to have snake-like wrinkly skin Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 35 Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) Gimmy Cipriano (twitter.com/theRealGimmyC, twitter.com/aBitTooMuch1) Austin Gosnell (twitter.com/AustinSGosnell YouTube: ThemBoyzSkittin https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCecjnYpM7fhNHkiQZEKElFw) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Facebook But Without Kids or Parents (Kyle Forsyth)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 22:18:53 -0000

Idea: To split Facebook into two networks: one only for adults where you're not allowed to talk about kids, and another for kids and for talking about kids. Also: adults with child-like hobbies who don't like kids Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 34 Josh Bowab Kyle Forsyth (twitter.com/IAmKyleForsyth) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Tinder But Without Anyone From Your High School (Kyle Forsyth)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 22:12:33 -0000

Idea: A filter for Tinder to allow you to filter out people who went to your high school. Also: using Tinder as a self-esteem boost with no intent to contact anyone Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 34 Josh Bowab Kyle Forsyth (twitter.com/IAmKyleForsyth) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Road Rage Collision Bumpers (Kyle Forsyth)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 22:09:07 -0000

Idea: Bumpers on the front and back of your car to allow you to angrily bump into other cars on the road without damaging them ("I don't want to pay for the damage I do to them, but I want to let them know I hate them") Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 34 Josh Bowab Kyle Forsyth (twitter.com/IAmKyleForsyth) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Drone Tarzan (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 22:01:57 -0000

Idea: To use drones to help you swing through the trees like Tarzan by performing tasks such as helping you build platforms, attaching ropes, transporting piles of leaves to use for padding, resetting the ropes back into swinging position after each stunt, adjusting the position of the ropes as you're flying through the air so you don't miss them and fall to the ground, and filming the stunts for YouTube. Also: other stunts such as ziplines, waterslides, trapeze swings, and catapults; an elaborate Rube-Goldberg machine that results in you breaking your ankle, using a live alligator instead of an inner tube on a waterslide Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 34 Josh Bowab Kyle Forsyth (twitter.com/IAmKyleForsyth) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Truman Show Prank (Josh Bowab)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 21:39:22 -0000

Idea: To prank someone into thinking they're a star of a hidden-camera reality TV show, similar to the Jim Carrey movie "The Truman Show". Also: When you're a weird person, you sometimes think that you're being "Truman Show'd", using VR to "Truman Show" someone, using VR porn as a weapon to get people to injure themselves by kinking their necks trying to see the action Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 34 Josh Bowab Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Drone Hot Dog Stand (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 00:04:21 -0000

Idea: To use drones to deliver food from a single food stand to multiple nearby locations in a place where lots of people are spread out, such as a park containing several small picnic areas. Also: ordering food while in line at an amusement park, ordering different food genres from different nearby food stands at a festival, food-carrying drones getting attacked by birds (and possible countermeasures), eating crickets and giant God cows Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 33 David Wellfare (twitter.com/DaveWellfare) Chris Young (twitter.com/chrisyoungcomic, Comedy Special Video: drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Jon Ruggiero (twitter.com/ComedyRugg) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Phone Numbers as License Plate Numbers (David Wellfare)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 23:51:29 -0000

Idea: To use people's phone numbers as their license plate numbers, so if another driver ticks you off, you can call them in rage. Also: nitpicking a joke, stealing someone's license plate and joyriding to cause their phone to ring incessantly, mistaking a Michigan State "SPARTY" license plate as "SPORTY", car roof holograms Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 33 David Wellfare (twitter.com/DaveWellfare) Chris Young (twitter.com/chrisyoungcomic, Comedy Special Video: drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Jon Ruggiero (twitter.com/ComedyRugg) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Assfa (David Wellfare)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 23:38:24 -0000

Idea: A rigid banana-shaped luffa holder which obese people can stick to the bathroom wall to use to wash their back, so they don't have to reach around their body and risk getting muscle cramps. Also: other possible uses for such a device, the least American thing ever Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 33 David Wellfare (twitter.com/DaveWellfare) Chris Young (twitter.com/chrisyoungcomic, Comedy Special Video: drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Jon Ruggiero (twitter.com/ComedyRugg) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Valet Simulator Videogame (Jon Ruggiero)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 23:33:51 -0000

Idea: A silly, over-the-top "valet simulator" videogame, similar in spirit to Paperboy, where you have to dodge obstacles, fight off dragons, perform reckless driving maneuvers, etc. and still return the car to the owner with minimal damage. Also: the odd trend of videogames based on boring jobs, tipping the hospital valet, tipping driverless cars, accidentally leaving stuff in the car like guns, babies, or both a gun and a baby Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 33 David Wellfare (twitter.com/DaveWellfare) Chris Young (twitter.com/chrisyoungcomic, Comedy Special Video: drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Jon Ruggiero (twitter.com/ComedyRugg) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Work Spouse Ring (Chris Young)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 23:23:48 -0000

Idea: A ring to give to a "work spouse", i.e. a close friend at work who provides emotional support and helps you with your real marriage. Also: work relationships being easier than marriages because they're limited to 8 hours per day Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 33 David Wellfare (twitter.com/DaveWellfare) Chris Young (twitter.com/chrisyoungcomic, Comedy Special Video: drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Jon Ruggiero (twitter.com/ComedyRugg) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Border Wall Taco Holes (Chris Young)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 23:19:32 -0000

Idea: Holes to allow people in the US to get tacos from taco trucks on the other side of the border wall on the US-Mexico border. Also: Fri-Hole-es, pneumatic tubes (like at a bank) through the border wall Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 33 David Wellfare (twitter.com/DaveWellfare) Chris Young (twitter.com/chrisyoungcomic, Comedy Special Video: drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Jon Ruggiero (twitter.com/ComedyRugg) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Beerscreen (Chris Young)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 23:12:50 -0000

Idea: Either something that you add to beer to cause you to gradually sweat out sunscreen, or beer in sunscreen that can be absorbed through the skin. Also: if you smell like beer, alcoholic men might try to lick you, other odd and possibly dangerous ways to ingest alcohol Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 33 David Wellfare (twitter.com/DaveWellfare) Chris Young (twitter.com/chrisyoungcomic, Comedy Special Video: drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Jon Ruggiero (twitter.com/ComedyRugg) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

AI Job Search Assistant (David Sutherland)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 06:43:58 -0000

Idea: An app which uses AI to help you find a job, including creating resumes and cover letters, deciding which job is the best match (good match for your skills, good social groups, not racist), helping you prepare for interviews, etc. Also: budtenders, extremely short resumes, the national food for racism (boiled goose) Christian Royce (twitter.com/ChristianRoyce) David Sutherland (twitter.com/skrtskrtsuther1) Travis Tehlirian (youtube.com/channel/UClsd_pJ1TEjst4C5pva1nzQ) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Elderly Parent Shopping Cart Seats (Chris Young)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 04:17:34 -0000

Idea: Shopping carts which have seats for your elderly parents, a built-in PA system, and a shock collar to keep your elderly parents from wandering too far from the cart. Also: picking up your elderly parents to put them in the cart Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 33 David Wellfare (twitter.com/DaveWellfare) Chris Young (twitter.com/chrisyoungcomic, Comedy Special Video: drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Jon Ruggiero (twitter.com/ComedyRugg) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Upside-Down Cardio (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:10:05 -0000

Idea: Doing cardio upside-down to help you cough up pollutants which are stuck in your lungs (such as tar or asbestos) to reduce your risk of developing lung cancer. Also: "handy", riding rollercoasters to dislodge kidney stones, becoming the special needs section of the Nobel Prize winners Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 32 Mike Ball (twitter.com/IamMikeBall) Markus Olind (twitter.com/BeardVonMarkus) Andrew Yang (instagram.com/ndrw.yang) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Beach Hot Dog Stand (Mike Ball)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 18:55:56 -0000

Idea: A small business selling hot dogs on the beach. Also: pot dogs; if it's a nude beach, would the hot dogs have a bun; picking on the idea a little too much by saying that the hot dogs would get covered by sand, sweat, seagull poop, and flakes of sun-burnt skin Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 32 Mike Ball (twitter.com/IamMikeBall) Markus Olind (twitter.com/BeardVonMarkus) Andrew Yang (instagram.com/ndrw.yang) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Pedophile Brain Scans (Andrew Yang)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 03:40:27 -0000

Idea: Brain scanning of pedophiles and other criminals to check for and remove brain tumors which might be causing their criminal impulses. Also: a supervillain injecting brain tumors to cause criminal impulses, giving kids chemotherapy guns to protect them from the zombie-like brain tumor criminals, fine-tuning the pedophile-causing brain tumors to make everybody attracted to you instead Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 32 Mike Ball (twitter.com/IamMikeBall) Markus Olind (twitter.com/BeardVonMarkus) Andrew Yang (not the presidential candidate) (instagram.com/ndrw.yang) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Bro Sportscasters (Markus Olind)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 03:29:25 -0000

Idea: Sports broadcasters who act like normal sports fans who drink, curse, and scream in excitement. Also: drunk guy "facts" instead of nerdy sports encyclopedia stats, announcers rooting for a specific team if they want to, Joe Rogan's fight companions but for the NFL, using codenames for teams and players if the NFL won't allow you to act as a sportscaster on a livestream on the Internet Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 32 Mike Ball (twitter.com/IamMikeBall) Markus Olind (twitter.com/BeardVonMarkus) Andrew Yang (instagram.com/ndrw.yang) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://PodcastDetroit.com)

Socialburn (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 01:15:59 -0000

Idea: A cheap phone-like device which only communicates using Bluetooth or point-to-point WiFi with friends, primarily for social networking of juicy gossip/media that you don't want on the Internet. Also: a new category of slower but more secure social media posts/messages, posts/messages bouncing from friend-to-friend and acknowledgements bouncing back, having a different "socialburn" device for each of your social cliques, a shockingly evil use of this device Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 31 Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Justin Covington (twitter.com/JCov1 ) Bret Hayden (twitter.com/ComedyRumble) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Lego-izing Every Movie (Bret Hayden)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 01:05:36 -0000

Idea: To make Lego versions of all movies (because the first two Lego movies were so awesome). Also: Lego Citizen Kane, Lego 13 Going on 30, a Lego Instagram filter for all existing movies, Lego standup comedy; a real-life Lego person (a guy in a Lego costume) would be terrifying Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 31 Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Justin Covington (twitter.com/JCov1 ) Bret Hayden (twitter.com/ComedyRumble) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Like For Real Though (Justin Covington)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:56:08 -0000

Idea: a mid-2000's-MTV-style talk show which interviews college kids returning to their dorm building late at night about their night out (or whatever else they decide to talk about). Also: drunk college kids describing crazy parties, sometimes you get Fresh Air and sometimes you get Jerry Springer, an improvised mock interview which might appear on the show Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 31 Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Justin Covington (twitter.com/JCov1 ) Bret Hayden (twitter.com/ComedyRumble) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Mandatory Texting Car (Diego Attanasio)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:42:54 -0000

Idea: A car which requires you to be texting the entire time you drive it. Also: waiting to check your texts until you're driving, questioning whether you'd be allowed to drive if you didn't have friends to text, texting at parties to cope with social anxiety, autonomous cars forcing you to text if you're drunk to keep you from trying to drive Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 31 Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Justin Covington (twitter.com/JCov1 ) Bret Hayden (twitter.com/ComedyRumble) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Social Media Frame (Christian Royce)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 03:05:03 -0000

Idea: An app which runs on "smart glasses" and allows you to view the most recent social media post(s) of whoever you're looking at. The primary purpose is to see if you're compatible with them (or see if they're crazy) before flirting with them. Also: the TV show "You" and questioning whether the app is creepy, altering your flirting strategy based on their social media, we each share our most recent tweet and discuss whether they'd discourage women from flirting with us Christian Royce (twitter.com/ChristianRoyce) David Sutherland (twitter.com/skrtskrtsuther1) Travis Tehlirian (youtube.com/channel/UClsd_pJ1TEjst4C5pva1nzQ) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Car Dealership Murder Mystery (Peggy Beattie)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 02:22:54 -0000

Idea: A comedic murder mystery play similar to the movie "Clue" which takes place in a racially-diverse car dealership during a big car sale. Also: your coworkers at the car dealership are being killed off but you don't run away or call the police because their deaths mean that you'll get more sales commissions, the worst customers at a used car dealership are white women who are retired schoolteachers Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 30 Bree Pratt formerly Brian Pratt Joe Morgan (instagram.com/jomoworx4u ) Peggy Beattie (twitter.com/Peggy4859) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Booze Buffet (Bree Pratt)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 02:12:23 -0000

Idea: A drinking establishment which serves plain alcohol and contains a self-serve buffet of drink mixers, with a guidebook of common drink recipes. Also: beer snobs judgmentally watching you mix your drink, saving money on drinks by not having to pay a bartender, the "bar" is a physical barrier to block drunk people from stealing alcohol, the weirdness of drinking laws Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 30 Bree Pratt formerly Brian Pratt Joe Morgan (instagram.com/jomoworx4u ) Peggy Beattie (twitter.com/Peggy4859) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Breakfast Club Musical (Joe Morgan)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 02:01:20 -0000

Idea: A musical remake of the 1985 teen movie "The Breakfast Club". Also: questioning whether the 80s "goth" and "burnout" stereotypes from the movie are still relevant, casting the burnout kid from the 80s movie as the stuffy principle in the musical remake, making the audience of the musical sit in uncomfortable school desks like they're in detention with the cast Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 30 Bree Pratt formerly Brian Pratt Joe Morgan (instagram.com/jomoworx4u ) Peggy Beattie (twitter.com/Peggy4859) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Manually-Controlled Moonbots (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 01:52:58 -0000

Idea: To build a moon colony using remote-control robots piloted by uneducated factory workers. Also: generational space penis envy, giving uneducated people jobs controlling remote-control moon robots to keep them from revolting and destroying society, Elon Musk's AI-based robot built Mars colony might lead to the AI-based robot apocalypse but a remote-control-based robot built moon colony might help us merge with machines and save us from the AI-based robot apocalypse Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 30 Bree Pratt formerly Brian Pratt Joe Morgan (instagram.com/jomoworx4u ) Peggy Beattie (twitter.com/Peggy4859) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Ballpit Moon Dome (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 22:17:35 -0000

Idea: A colony inside a moon crater where the roof is self-repairing and is made out of small balloons. Also: questioning whether the idea makes sense, a roof collapse where the balloons fall into the crater and everyone suffocates would look like the most horrific birthday party of all time Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 30 Bree Pratt (formerly Brian Pratt) Joe Morgan (instagram.com/jomoworx4u ) Peggy Beattie (twitter.com/Peggy4859) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Squawkbox (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 22:00:50 -0000

Idea: A series of soundproof rooms (called "squawkboxes") along the walls of a movie theater in which small groups of people can talk to each other and use their cell phones while watching the movie. Also: themed squawkboxes such as "hotel room squawkboxes" and "parental lounge squawkboxes" and "singles bar squawkboxes", types of movies that would be best for squawkboxes Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 29 Brett Mercer (twitter.com/brettmercer_) Corey Rice (facebook.com/coreyrice) Bryan Harrison (https://www.moistdefinitelypodcast.com/) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Serialized Horror Podcast (Bryan Harrison)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 21:44:12 -0000

Idea: A serialized horror podcast set in a dystopian future where a group of people who are forced to spend their entire lives in a giant haunted skyscraper talk amongst each other and try to figure out what's happening. Also: unraveling a mystery, spooky sound effects, not knowing what's going on in the outside world Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 29 Brett Mercer (twitter.com/brettmercer_) Corey Rice (facebook.com/coreyrice) Bryan Harrison (https://www.moistdefinitelypodcast.com/) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Social Role App (Corey Rice)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 21:29:33 -0000

Idea: A social media app to share nearby people's "roles" in your life with them, as if life was a movie, such as "clumsy waiter", "creepy security guard", or "hot girl who lives on my floor". Also: gamifying casual relationships, a passive form of dominance, a "tag cloud" of your most common roles/attributes, finding out how people perceive you and then figuring out how to change yourself to improve people's perceptions and/or expectations of you Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 29 Brett Mercer (twitter.com/brettmercer_) Corey Rice (facebook.com/coreyrice) Bryan Harrison (https://www.moistdefinitelypodcast.com/) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Animation Studio Sitcom (Brett Mercer)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 21:09:16 -0000

Idea: A smart, topical, and meta sitcom about workers at an animation studio who never get to finish their movie because real world news keeps necessitating plot changes. Also: not knowing the plot of the movie you're animating, releasing the movie that the animators are creating in the sitcom as an actual movie, manipulating world events to match the movie you're working on Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 29 Brett Mercer (twitter.com/brettmercer_) Corey Rice (facebook.com/coreyrice) Bryan Harrison (https://www.moistdefinitelypodcast.com/) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Tech Ideas for Racial Equality (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 08:50:34 -0000

Three tech-based ideas for transforming society in a way which would lead to more racial equality, including a new grade-school teaching system ("Teach or Die"), a new low-cost futuristic type of housing ("Stuff-On-Demand Housing"), and a new architectural/city-planning framework ("Garage Cities") which would encourage low-cost and flexible entrepreneurship and would also reduce the spread of COVID-19 and other airborne diseases Jason Gilleran (instagram.com/hardgcomedy) Dave Crumbley (instagram.com/davecrumbley) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Raciogastrointestinal Harmony (Dave Crumbley)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 04:18:43 -0000

Idea: To solve racism by forcing everybody to wear augmented-reality race-swapping glasses which cause them to see their family and their favorite celebrities as the race that they hate the most. Also, a theory that the reason it's hard to digest "ethnic food" (or food from other cultures/races) is racism, and therefore that ending racism will cause both racial and gastrointestinal harmony Jason Gilleran (instagram.com/hardgcomedy) Dave Crumbley (instagram.com/davecrumbley) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Innovation Olympics (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 06:51:48 -0000

Idea: A new type of Olympics where each event is designed to promote innovation in human biological enhancement/recovery, sporting equipment technology, or both; events include Human Battering Ram, Vertical Running, Flugtag (human powered flying machines), Artificial Liver Drinking Contest, and Team Pole Vault (where the pole vaulter goes so high they need to parachute down). Also: a moderate amount of danger and serious injury is encouraged because it advances the technology of medicine and physical therapy Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 28 Robert Johnson (twitter.com/blackrob2006) DC Bradley (instagram.com/dcbradleyonig) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Pot Paranoia Reduction App (DC Bradley)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 06:42:03 -0000

Idea: An app to remind people who are smoking weed or eating edibles not to freak out, i.e. no cops are coming to get them (unless, of course, the cops are coming to get them). Also: friends could alter the app to prank you, the app might backfire and freak you out more if you're on LCD Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 28 Robert Johnson (twitter.com/blackrob2006) DC Bradley (instagram.com/dcbradleyonig) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Underage Indicator (Robert Johnson)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 06:32:38 -0000

Idea: A visual indicator that a woman is underage so you don't accidentally hit on her. Also: steroid-filled chickens that might make women grow up quicker and also beat you up, comedians telling dirty jokes when there are kids in the audience, the possibility of using a weird disappearing birthmark as an underage indicator Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 28 Robert Johnson (twitter.com/blackrob2006) DC Bradley (instagram.com/dcbradleyonig) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Bondage Basement (Home Renovation Show) (Jason Gilleran)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 06:00:05 -0000

Idea (NSFW): A home renovation reality show where they build BDSM "dungeons" and deal with drama such as cost trade-offs, the structural support required to mount equipment on the walls or hang it from the ceiling, prudish contractors, etc. The idea is to be a parody of HGTV reality shows. Also: tiger cages, customized equipment for the obese, the "Silence of the Lambs" pit, a room full of dirty glass coffee tables Jason Gilleran (instagram.com/hardgcomedy) Dave Crumbley (twitter.com/cavedrumbley) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Drone-Propelled Rollerskating VR Game (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 04:02:03 -0000

Idea: A virtual reality videogame where the main character uses a handheld helicopter drone to propel himself/herself around on roller skates and chop up enemies. Also: VR for exercise, changing the stereotype of a "gamer", movement in VR that won't make you feel sick like walking or running often does Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 27 Felicity Blue (twitter.com/FelFelBlue) Sai Dharmarajan aka "Sai-D" (twitter.com/dsaihurrish) Michael Dinkelis (twitter.com/MichaelDinkelis) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Sponsor-A-Millennial (Michael Dinkelis)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 03:35:47 -0000

Idea: A service for wealthy old people to send money to unemployed millennial hipsters and art students to feel young and cool again. Also: taking old people to parties and pretending they fit in, the old person can teach the millennial about money and the young person can teach the old person how to use an iPhone, what to do if the unemployed millennial isn't cool enough to attract wealthy old people Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 27 Felicity Blue (twitter.com/FelFelBlue) Sai Dharmarajan aka "Sai-D" (twitter.com/dsaihurrish) Michael Dinkelis (twitter.com/MichaelDinkelis) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Moms & Pops App (Felicity Blue)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 03:22:14 -0000

Idea: An app to hire maternal or paternal figures to give advice, teach you life skills, provide emotional support, help perform errands, etc. Also: your real parent can hire someone to do things for you that they don't want to do, hiring parental figures means they can't give you "tough love" and are thus "parent as slave" (unless you choose the "tough love" option in the app), no "adult baby" stuff Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 27 Felicity Blue (twitter.com/FelFelBlue) Sai Dharmarajan aka "Sai-D" (twitter.com/dsaihurrish) Michael Dinkelis (twitter.com/MichaelDinkelis) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Fart-Catching Underwear (Sai Dharmarajan)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 03:06:10 -0000

Idea: Underwear which captures farts and releases them on demand, which is a silly idea that might help save the world from global warming. Also: getting out of boring work tasks, holding farts to be released later during police pat-downs, catching and bottling fart bubbles when in a bathtub or when wearing fishtank pants Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 27 Felicity Blue (twitter.com/FelFelBlue) Sai Dharmarajan aka "Sai-D" (twitter.com/dsaihurrish) Michael Dinkelis (twitter.com/MichaelDinkelis) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Spheres-Are-Us and Death Contracts (Joey Derderian)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 20:35:03 -0000

Two idea: 1) Two sharp blades connected by a pivot point and used to cut paper, 2) house payment contracts which are meant to be paid until you die. Also: totally-not-invented-before ideas, the origins of the word "mortgage", quitting a job out of moral principle Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 26 Steve Hansen (twitter.com/StevenRHansen) Branden Milsk (twitter.com/BrandenMilsk) Joey Derderian (instagram.com/derderianjoey) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Archimedes Death Mirror (Steve Hansen)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 20:26:25 -0000

Idea: To somehow use your rear-view mirror to blind people who are driving behind you with their brights on. Also: the poetic justice of blinding someone with their own light, intentionally becoming a victim so you can justifiably take delicious revenge Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 26 Steve Hansen (twitter.com/StevenRHansen) Branden Milsk (twitter.com/BrandenMilsk) Joey Derderian (instagram.com/derderianjoey) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Oceanic Voice Cancellation (Branden Milsk)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 20:10:47 -0000

Idea: Voice cancellation where a person's voice is replaced by the soothing sounds of the ocean. Also: it'd make you more likeable if you're an annoying person, the best way to get fired, ruining ocean vacations Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 26 Steve Hansen (twitter.com/StevenRHansen) Branden Milsk (twitter.com/BrandenMilsk) Joey Derderian (instagram.com/derderianjoey) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Backwards Time Travel (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 18:55:39 -0000

Idea: A weird way to approximate backwards time travel in video games and possibly the real world. Also: the "Back to the Future" disappearing photo, memory manipulation and trans-cranial direct-current stimulation, delayed remembering of externally-stored memories, the perils of living in the past, the "satanic panic" of the 80s, Wild West bar fights Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 26 Steve Hansen (twitter.com/StevenRHansen) Branden Milsk (twitter.com/BrandenMilsk) Joey Derderian (instagram.com/derderianjoey) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Try Anything for Free Grocery Store (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 06:01:39 -0000

Idea: A grocery store where, instead of having only a handful of free samples, you can have a free sample of anything you want. You select the item and scan it with a phone app, which will tell you if you've reached your free sample limit for the week, if you've already tried the item (and thus can't have another free sample), or if you're approved for the free sample. Some items will be totally free (you can just throw it in your grocery cart and it'll be free when you check out), and other items will have smaller free portions, in which case the app will instruct an employee in the store to prepare a free sample for you, which will be available for you to pick up at the customer service counter by the time you finish shopping. The goal is to motivate people to come to the grocery store instead of shopping online. Scott Gaughan ("Free Netflix Online" Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ar48A2btUjcZZ7Gcox2Ut?si=CnIg4QqlQEebPfPPJ0s_Zw) Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Choose-Your-Adventure Movies (Scott Fischer)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 03:42:21 -0000

Idea: Choose-your-adventure movies in movie theaters, where the audience votes what happens next. Also: possible fights if the rest of the audience wants to go the same direction you've already seen Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 25 Ken Witzgall (twitter.com/KenWitzgall42 suspended) Scott Fischer (instagram.com/scottimscott) Justin Mcleod (twitter.com/jibtron_zero) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Gun License Cards (Ken Witzgall)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 03:38:30 -0000

Idea: Gun license cards and mandatory long (multi-month) gun safety courses. Also: close call gun stories, a not-so-merry Christmas Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 25 Ken Witzgall (twitter.com/KenWitzgall42 suspended) Scott Fischer (instagram.com/scottimscott) Justin Mcleod (twitter.com/jibtron_zero) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Ethical Adult Entertainment Certification (Ken Witzgall)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 02:50:33 -0000

Idea: An organization that ensures that adult entertainment is produced ethically, i.e. no physical or emotional coercion. Also: female producers on set, "mature" women in porn are less likely to be emotionally broken and exploited if they made it to that age without dying of a drug overdose, video editing software to remove condoms Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 25 Ken Witzgall (twitter.com/KenWitzgall42 suspended) Scott Fischer (instagram.com/scottimscott) Justin Mcleod (twitter.com/jibtron_zero) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Ethical Shopping Barcode App (Justin Mcleod)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 02:29:34 -0000

Idea: An app to scan barcodes while shopping to tell you if the product was produced ethically. It could show emojis of kids crying or forests burning if you scan the wrong thing Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 25 Ken Witzgall (twitter.com/KenWitzgall42 suspended) Scott Fischer (instagram.com/scottimscott) Justin Mcleod (twitter.com/jibtron_zero) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Car Roof Holograms (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 02:14:21 -0000

Idea: Holograms on the roofs of cars for expressing anger to nearby drivers. Also: sparkly ambulances in Japan, the 2Pac hologram, the Pepper's ghost illusion, mistaking the car roof hologram for a soul leaving the body after a car crash Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 25 Ken Witzgall (twitter.com/KenWitzgall42 suspended) Scott Fischer (instagram.com/scottimscott) Justin Mcleod (twitter.com/jibtron_zero) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Just-In-Time Tiny Houses (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 01:11:00 -0000

Idea: Houses where most of the furniture and possessions are wheeled in and out on demand by small Roomba-sized robots. Also: getting rid of the idea of "themed rooms" like "bedroom" and "bathroom", the elimination of house chores, wheelable toilets with privacy snuggies, sharing appliances and select items with neighbors and with strangers on the global shipping grid, moving without packing and how it could lead to civil war Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 24 Samantha Rager (twitter.com/SGRager) Max Sheldrick (instagram.com/maxsheldrick) Teena Green (twitter.com/TeenaMGreen) Jeewan Gill (facebook.com/jeewan.gill.5) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Family Leasing (Teena Green)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 00:30:49 -0000

Idea: A service for leasing or "time-sharing" spouses and/or children. Also: time-sharing pregnancies (what's an ovary amongst friends?), trading husbands to obtain the currently-needed carpentry skills, the three-husband theory Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 24 Samantha Rager (twitter.com/SGRager) Max Sheldrick (instagram.com/maxsheldrick) Teena Green (twitter.com/TeenaMGreen) Jeewan Gill (facebook.com/jeewan.gill.5) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Comedy Guerrilla Marketing Ideas (Max Sheldrick)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 05:57:45 -0000

Idea: A brainstorming session for guerrilla marketing/promotion techniques for standup comedians, including skywriting, business cards exploding out of fake corpses, etc. Also: the famous bum of a small town Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 24 Samantha Rager (twitter.com/SGRager) Max Sheldrick (instagram.com/maxsheldrick) Teena Green (twitter.com/TeenaMGreen) Jeewan Gill (facebook.com/jeewan.gill.5) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Brailleoke (Samantha Rager)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 05:07:55 -0000

Idea: Karaoke for blind people. Also: human record players, can you drink while doing brailleoke, the blind kid who tried to play football Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 24 Samantha Rager (twitter.com/SGRager) Max Sheldrick (instagram.com/maxsheldrick) Teena Green (twitter.com/TeenaMGreen) Jeewan Gill (facebook.com/jeewan.gill.5) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Child Talkback Machine (Dustin Lee)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 03:51:11 -0000

Idea: An electronic device to listen to and respond verbally to small children when parents are unable or unwilling to devote their full attention to them Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 23 Dustin "Lee" Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Ted Moss (twitter.com/TedMossComedy Podcast: https://TEDTALKS2much.com Book: "Look Out...I'm Parenting Here! A Survival Guide for the Single Parent") Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Baby Boarding Houses (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 03:36:42 -0000

Idea: Boarding houses to provide around-the-clock care to babies until they're around 2.5 years old (and potty trained). Also: accidentally creepy parenting book titles, Puritanical diaper penance, is all postpartum depression hormonal or does changing diapers and not sleeping just suck, the biggest jobs program for uneducated people of all time, giving unprepared parents time (3 years) to get their life on track before they have to be parents Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 23 Dustin "Lee" Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Ted Moss (twitter.com/TedMossComedy Podcast: https://TEDTALKS2much.com Book: "Look Out...I'm Parenting Here! A Survival Guide for the Single Parent") Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Monkey and Pomeranian Buddy Sitcom (Kerry McCabe)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 02:30:46 -0000

Idea: A comedy sitcom where a stoner has a Pomeranian dog and a spider monkey, which may or may not talk, depending on whether he's hallucinating. Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 22 Kerry McCabe (facebook.com/kerryalanmccabe) Megan Cottington-Heath (instagram.com/megtasticmeg) Steve Gay (twitter.com/sgaytwo) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Hard Knocks Grill in Jackson, MI

Modular Skyscraper City Part 2 (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 02:20:41 -0000

Idea: A futuristic city made out of movable cubes which can be made to be ultra-lightweight using a vacuum in the upper stories, allowing the buildings to be up to 3 miles high, to fly, and to control the weather (make it rain and stop tornadoes) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 22 Kerry McCabe (facebook.com/kerryalanmccabe) Megan Cottington (instagram.com/megtasticmeg) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Steve Gay (twitter.com/sgaytwo) Recorded at Hard Knocks Grill in Jackson, MI

Shoplifting-Based Economy (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 00:04:06 -0000

Idea: A weird and possibly accidentally evil idea for a futuristic economy where shoplifting is not only no longer a crime, it's actually a completely acceptable method of commerce Scott Gaughan ("Free Netflix Online" Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ar48A2btUjcZZ7Gcox2Ut?si=CnIg4QqlQEebPfPPJ0s_Zw) Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Kevin Key (instagram.com/kevinjokeskey) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Trump and Drake Are The Same Person (Kevin Key)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 03:22:18 -0000

Idea: A conspiracy theory that Donald Trump and Drake are the same person, because Drake songs sound kind of like Trump speeches. Also: an impression of Trump singing a Drake song, questioning whether Trump is a reptilian, questioning whether successful draft-dodging makes you smart and if you'd dodge the draft Scott Gaughan ("Free Netflix Online" Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ar48A2btUjcZZ7Gcox2Ut?si=CnIg4QqlQEebPfPPJ0s_Zw) Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Kevin Key (instagram.com/kevinjokeskey) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Crucifixion Advertising Comedy Sketch (Diego Attanasio)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 02:11:44 -0000

Idea: A satirical comedy sketch where the story of Jesus's crucifixion is used in TV commercials to sell products like GPS, sports drinks, pickup trucks, and ab rollers Scott Gaughan ("Free Netflix Online" Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ar48A2btUjcZZ7Gcox2Ut?si=CnIg4QqlQEebPfPPJ0s_Zw) Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Kevin Key (instagram.com/kevinjokeskey) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Bondage Gear for Coronavirus Prevention (Scott Gaughan)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 05:04:51 -0000

Idea: To use leather bondage masks for Coronavirus prevention, because leather masks with shiny silver zippers are stronger (and therefore better) than paper masks and cloth masks. Also: whips to encourage social distancing, "breath play", questioning whether Canadians are too polite for BDSM Scott Gaughan ("Free Netflix Online" Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ar48A2btUjcZZ7Gcox2Ut?si=CnIg4QqlQEebPfPPJ0s_Zw) Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Kevin Key (instagram.com/kevinjokeskey) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Modular Skyscraper City (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 07:40:01 -0000

Idea: A futuristic city which is a single large building made out of a 3D grid of cubes of living/working space which can be added, removed, and shuffled around on demand. Also: eliminating the concept of "landlord" (and Trump's source of income), moving without having to pack, elevators are vertical roads that can be maintained by the city, Wile E. Coyote walls and steampunk themed neighborhoods Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 20 Joel Fragomeni (Podcast: https://joelradio.net) Branden Milsk (twitter.com/BrandenMilsk) Sophia Spagnuolo (twitter.com/SophiaZada) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded live at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Perks of Being Ghosted Movie (Sophia Spagnuolo)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 07:28:29 -0000

Idea: A romantic comedy movie where a woman dates a ghost and then, when the relationship fails, she "ghosts him". Also: Ouija board Tinder, murder as ghost marriage, passive-aggressive relationship fights between humans and ghosts, Ghost Dad Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 20 Joel Fragomeni (Podcast: https://joelradio.net) Branden Milsk (twitter.com/BrandenMilsk) Sophia Spagnuolo (twitter.com/SophiaZada) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded live at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Old Man Strip Clubs (Branden Milsk)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 07:13:18 -0000

Idea: Strip clubs which keep prices low by using old men wearing sweaters as strippers. Also: "lemon party", the smell of incontinent old men wearing sweaters and profusely sweating, giving the old men poor tips as revenge because they don't understand money and only gave you 25 cents to mow their lawn Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 20 Joel Fragomeni (Podcast: https://joelradio.net) Branden Milsk (twitter.com/BrandenMilsk) Sophia Spagnuolo (twitter.com/SophiaZada) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded live at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Single-Day Presidential Campaigns (Joel Fragomeni)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 07:07:34 -0000

Idea: A presidential election where the candidates aren't announced until the day before the election. Also: debates don't matter because they aren't really debates anyway. Alternate idea: giving voters drugs that temporarily impair their memories on election day to force them to take a fresh look at the candidates Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 20 Joel Fragomeni (Podcast: https://joelradio.net) Branden Milsk (twitter.com/BrandenMilsk) Sophia Spagnuolo (twitter.com/SophiaZada) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded live at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Food Oasis (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:55:39 -0000

Idea: A service for ordering and purchasing healthy fresh foods in convenience stores and gas stations where there are no nearby grocery stores (i.e. in "food deserts"). Customers pre-ordering via a phone app, intelligent predictive demand algorithms, and order sniping would allow this to be financially plausible. Also: solving a major world problem as a form of revenge to steal the glory from another person trying to solve the same problem Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 19 Alan Black (twitter.com/alanblah) Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Roll-On Butter Stick (Diego Attanasio)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:44:06 -0000

Idea: A roll-on butter stick which looks like a stick of deodorant for buttering food without a knife. Also: confusing a roll-on butter stick with deodorant, accidentally putting bleach in the dishwasher instead of dishwasher detergent, squishing the bread Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 19 Alan Black (twitter.com/alanblah) Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Wide-Tipped Pencil (Diego Attanasio)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:39:29 -0000

Idea: A wide-tipped pencil to making it easier to fill in multiple choice circles on scholastic tests. Also: the most boring idea ever on this podcast, using giant novelty pencils to take the SATs, do scantrons still exist? Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 19 Alan Black (twitter.com/alanblah) Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Cosmetic Surgery Kickstarter (Alan Black)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:34:22 -0000

Idea (NSFW): A web site or app for crowdfunding cosmetic surgeries (primarily breast implants) in exchange for adult pictures and paraphernalia. Also: men not donating because "she's not hot yet", using post-surgery or botched surgery photos to gross out your friends, getting breast cancer on purpose to get insurance to pay for your breast implants Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 19 Alan Black (twitter.com/alanblah) Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Space Soccer (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:21:52 -0000

Idea: A soccer-like sport played in a cylindrical court in the weightlessness of space (inside a spacecraft). The goals would be on each side of the cylindrical court, and players would bounce off the walls like pinballs and try to push a heavy medicine ball into the goal. A team would consist of a diverse group of people, including big strong people and tiny gymnastic people which can be easily tossed around by their teammates. Also: early NFL team purchase prices vs. current value, it could maybe be played in the "vomit comet" airplanes Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 18 Seth Resler (twitter.com/SethResler) Mike Rich (facebook.com/IAmNumbr4) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Escort Liaison (Mike Rich)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:12:25 -0000

Idea: A person to set you up with an escort, and whose name shows up in the escort service's "books". Also: escort services calling your employer to verify your identity to help ensure the escort's safety Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 18 Seth Resler (twitter.com/SethResler) Mike Rich (facebook.com/IAmNumbr4) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Foodie Scavenger Hunt (Seth Resler)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 23:13:59 -0000

Idea: a scavenger hunt for foodies that showcases the signature foods of a city, such as Coney Island Dogs and Slows's BBQ in Detroit and crayfish in New Orleans. Also: cheating in scavenger hunts Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 18 Seth Resler (twitter.com/SethResler) Mike Rich (facebook.com/IAmNumbr4) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

MC Squared Song Ratings (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 22:06:26 -0000

Idea: A song rating system in a music playing app where you rate a song as better or worse than the previous song, i.e. use a relative rating system (relativity -> Einstein -> MC Squared) instead of an absolute rating. Also: song "burn", rating jokes Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 18 Seth Resler (twitter.com/SethResler) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Asian Carp Prevention (Doug Glidden)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 21:43:24 -0000

Idea: A unique (and very silly) solution for preventing the fish species Asian Carp from invading the Great Lakes and damaging the ecosystem and fishing industry Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 17 Mark Sweetman (twitter.com/MarkTSweetman, Ann Arbor Tonight: twitter.com/A2Tonight) Doug Glidden (facebook.com/doug.glidden.7) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

City of the Dead (Mark Sweetman)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 21:40:01 -0000

Idea: To reuse polluted/unusable land in torn down Detroit neighborhoods as cemeteries. Also: to preserve ruins of architecturally impressive buildings in Detroit to use as tourist attractions (like the ruins of ancient Rome), to film apocalyptic movies and zombie movies in Detroit Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 17 Mark Sweetman (twitter.com/MarkTSweetman, Ann Arbor Tonight: twitter.com/A2Tonight) Doug Glidden (facebook.com/doug.glidden.7) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Detroit Pyramid (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 21:32:16 -0000

Idea: To use ancient/low-tech building techniques and manual labor to build a giant pyramid in Detroit out of the waste material of torn down buildings. Also: Flint Stonehenge (https://youtu.be/bsoYkGb7p28), watching people move the 10+ ton blocks is more entertaining than viewing a completed pyramid, building a pyramid for exercise Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 17 Mark Sweetman (twitter.com/MarkTSweetman, Ann Arbor Tonight: twitter.com/A2Tonight) Doug Glidden (facebook.com/doug.glidden.7) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Gym Truck (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:03:17 -0000

Idea: An Uber-like service for delivering parking-space-sized gyms to people's houses for the duration of a workout. Also: could be used for playing VR videogames, could replace strip clubs and sleazy hookup hotels, could incorporate health food delivery and personal trainers (or polar bears), flipping off delivery vehicles of unhealthy foods (i.e. pizza) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 16 Darnell Anderson (twitter.com/darnell_IRL) Zachary Burcar (twitter.com/burcarz) Nicki Wright (twitter.com/ohthatnicki) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

50 Shades of Rainbow (Nicki Wright)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 19:29:28 -0000

Idea (NSFW): a TV show like Reading Rainbow but for fan-fiction. Also: it would drive LeVar Burton insane, maybe the authors of the creepy perverted fan fiction were on Reading Rainbow as kids and it somehow corrupted them Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 16 Zachary Burcar (twitter.com/burcarz) Nicki Wright (twitter.com/ohthatnicki) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

SlowPokeAlypse (Zachary Burcar)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 19:19:12 -0000

Idea: To slow down travel to reduce the stressful fast pace of life. Also: people jumping onto the slower vehicles while they're moving and robbing them (like modern-day wild west train robberies), a crazy plan for world domination which involves human spiders and removing dates from all photos Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 16 Darnell Anderson (twitter.com/darnell_IRL) Zachary Burcar (twitter.com/burcarz) Nicki Wright (twitter.com/ohthatnicki) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Books for Pets (Darnell Anderson)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 19:03:44 -0000

Idea (NSFW): Books to read to your pets. Also: pet feminism and barbed genitalia, pets creating their own books (possibly with the aid of a Ouija board), crazy ways rich people pamper their pets Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 16 Darnell Anderson (twitter.com/darnell_IRL) Zachary Burcar (twitter.com/burcarz) Nicki Wright (twitter.com/ohthatnicki) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Confusing Baby Compliments Prank (James Eliot)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 18:51:37 -0000

Idea: to mess with friends who constantly post baby photos on social media by giving them vague, confusing comments/emojis which could be interpreted as either compliments or insults Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 15 Josh Bowab James Eliot (instagram.com/itsjimeliot) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Bringing Back the XFL (Josh Bowab)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 18:46:30 -0000

Idea: To bring back the XFL (Extreme Football League). Also: the XFL could be the concussion "fall guy" for the NFL, XFL team names. Note that this was recorded in 2016 (before the XFL came back briefly in 2020) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 15 Josh Bowab James Eliot (instagram.com/itsjimeliot) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Cauliflower Ear Mold (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 18:36:20 -0000

Idea: a new form of cosmetic body modification where you intentionally give someone cauliflower ear and then use a cookie cutter mold to permanently shape the ear into an artistic shape Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 15 Josh Bowab James Eliot (instagram.com/itsjimeliot) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Tsunami Machine (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 09:48:53 -0000

Idea: Scientists predict that a landslide on a tiny island off the coast of Africa could create a mega-tsunami across the entire East Coast of the US. Since such a small thing (a landslide on a tiny island) can create a tsunami, it should also be possible to design a giant machine to create a tsunami. Also: maybe a tsunami machine could create a tsunami to cancel out another tsunami Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 14 Erich Laux (twitter.com/ErichJLaux) Scott Wilding (twitter.com/Wilding138) Michael Dinkelis (twitter.com/MichaelDinkelis) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Forrest Gump 2 Still Running (Michael Dinkelis)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 09:33:54 -0000

Idea: A parody sci-fi sequal to the movie Forrest Gump, where Forrest Gump lives as artificial intelligence in a computer, plays Pong instead of Ping Pong, takes over Skynet, and blows up the world in order to destroy all pornographic digital pictures of Jenny Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 14 Erich Laux (twitter.com/ErichJLaux) Scott Wilding (twitter.com/Wilding138) Michael Dinkelis (twitter.com/MichaelDinkelis) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Devil Sitcom (Scott Wilding)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 09:18:34 -0000

Idea: A campy sitcom where the devil loses Hell in foreclosure, goes to Earth, and tries to buy enough souls through telemarketing to buy back Hell. Also: the devil's Napoleon complex, annoying and possibly illegal guerilla marketing tactics for the show Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 14 Erich Laux (twitter.com/ErichJLaux) Scott Wilding (twitter.com/Wilding138) Michael Dinkelis (twitter.com/MichaelDinkelis) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Slamchat (Erich Laux)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 09:06:26 -0000

Idea: An app which detects that you've thrown your phone and simulates an old school angry phone slam to the person on the other end of the call. Also: maybe automatically delete the person on the other end of the call from your contacts, maybe use a custom angry hangup message instead of a "phone slam" sound Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 14 Erich Laux (twitter.com/ErichJLaux) Scott Wilding (twitter.com/Wilding138) Michael Dinkelis (twitter.com/MichaelDinkelis) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Recreational Fake Kidnapping (Dan Turco)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 07:09:23 -0000

Idea: A recreational fake kidnapping service (as inspired by "escape rooms") where you have to solve puzzles to escape. Also: a fake kidnapping "promposal" and how it could go wrong, staging a heroic escape (as a couple) from fake kidnappers and then never telling your girl/boyfriend that it was fake, PTSD Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 13 Dan Turco (twitter.com/Dansplaining) Alex Bozinovic (twitter.com/truheroism) Jeff Ford Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Fantasy Sci-Fi Audio Stories (Loyd Digg)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 07:00:37 -0000

Idea: To write and record fantasy/sci-fi audio stories, and release them either as audiobooks or a podcast. Also: standup comedy, how the "Dungeons & Dragons" game works and how being a "dungeon master" is great training for being a fantasy/sci-fi author, Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 13 Daniel Thomas (twitter.com/DanTComedy) Khurum Sheikh (facebook.com/khurum.sheikh) Andrew Magryta (twitter.com/AndrewMagryta) Loyd Digg (twitter.com/LoydDigg) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Open Mic Comedian Movie (Andrew Magryta)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 06:49:34 -0000

Idea: A fictional movie about the trials and tribulations of open-mic comedians Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 13 Daniel Thomas (twitter.com/DanTComedy) Khurum Sheikh (facebook.com/khurum.sheikh) Andrew Magryta (twitter.com/AndrewMagryta) Loyd Digg (twitter.com/LoydDigg) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Legalized Prostitution (Khurum Sheikh)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 06:45:27 -0000

Idea: To legalize prostitution (as recommended by a retired police officer). Also: legalizing it for "medicinal purposes", a possible Christian-right feminist reaction, 30 minute marriages, hypocrisy and repressed sexuality in Pakistan vs. the US, sex robots Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 12 Daniel Thomas (twitter.com/DanTComedy) Khurum Sheikh (facebook.com/khurum.sheikh) Andrew Magryta (twitter.com/AndrewMagryta) Loyd Digg (twitter.com/LoydDigg) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Tinder Pregnancy Rant (Dan Thomas)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 06:23:52 -0000

A rant about a pregnant woman on Tinder. Also: pregnancy fetish, what if her water breaks on the first date, swiping right and being rejected by the pregnant woman Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 12 Daniel Thomas (twitter.com/DanTComedy) Khurum Sheikh (facebook.com/khurum.sheikh) Andrew Magryta (twitter.com/AndrewMagryta) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Drug Disposal Drones (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 06:15:04 -0000

Idea: a toy-sized drone to be used to fly drugs out of your car window if you get pulled over by the cops. Also: a retired police officer's thoughts on the idea, police falcons to chase the drones Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 12 Daniel Thomas (twitter.com/DanTComedy) Khurum Sheikh (facebook.com/khurum.sheikh) Andrew Magryta (twitter.com/AndrewMagryta) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Restaurant Touchscreen Tables (Chris Lazar)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 06:01:25 -0000

Idea: restaurant tables containing touchscreens for ordering food, so you don't need menus (or waitresses). Also: bumping the touchscreen while eating, accidentally stabbing the touchscreen with a knife if it looks like food, khakis taking over your wardrobe and the khakiness seeping into your soul Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 11 Dan Turco (twitter.com/Dansplaining) Chris Lazar Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Uncooked Chicken Diet (Dan Turco)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 05:52:34 -0000

Idea: To intentionally eat uncooked chicken to get sick in order to lose weight. It would be normal uncooked chicken with cooking instructions on the package that leave it undercooked, and these instructions would justify charging twice the normal price. Also: a few other ridiculously unhealthy ideas for losing weight Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 11 Dan Turco (twitter.com/Dansplaining) Chris Lazar Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Gender Equal Baseball (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 05:43:55 -0000

Idea: A professional baseball league where both men and women are equally represented on each team, and cheerleading counts towards the score of the game. Also: which other sports can women successfully compete against men, T-shirt cannons and mascot races between innings, barnstorming, Slamball and other failed sports leagues Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 11 Dan Turco (twitter.com/Dansplaining) Chris Lazar Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Ten Coronavirus Prevention Ideas (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 08:46:32 -0000

Ten (mostly dumb) ideas to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus, including smelling bad on purpose to encourage social distancing, four ways to block particles being sneezed out or coughed up from spreading, two gadgets that prevent you from touching your face, an app which uses augmented reality glasses to highlight possibly-infected people to help you avoid them, "no-touch" bathrooms where you never have to touch anything (and risk getting Coronavirus on your hands) until you're finished and ready to wash your hands, and a few thoughts about reducing/preventing the spread of Coronavirus in restaurants Markus Olind (twitter.com/BeardVonMarkus, Comedy Special: "Gettin Off Comedy Series" on Amazon Prime) Ahmed Mansour (twitter.com/AMan5our) Tyler Sonnichsen (https://tylersonic.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Just Say You Dont Want To Go Excuse Blog (Tyler Sonnichsen)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 28 May 2020 07:09:28 -0000

Idea: A blog to showcase the ridiculous excuses people give to comics (or other performers) when they don't want to go to their shows. Also: people repeatedly asking when you're performing and then never showing up, catching someone who made a BS excuse in their lie and then exploiting their guilt for free drinks, it probably won't break a performer's heart if you don't want to go to their show Markus Olind (twitter.com/BeardVonMarkus, Comedy Special: "Gettin Off Comedy Series" on Amazon Prime) Ahmed Mansour (twitter.com/AMan5our) Tyler Sonnichsen (https://tylersonic.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Anti-High Pill (Ahmed Mansour)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 20 May 2020 19:55:07 -0000

Idea: A pill to quickly make you un-high if you have something important to do, like a job interview. Also: a failed attempt to counteract a high using other drugs, "Markus YOLO", speculation on futuristic Neuralink-style ways to get high or un-high Markus Olind (twitter.com/BeardVonMarkus, Comedy Special: "Gettin Off Comedy Series" on Amazon Prime) Ahmed Mansour (twitter.com/AMan5our) Tyler Sonnichsen (https://tylersonic.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Washer Dryer Combo (Markus Olind)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 14 May 2020 09:49:22 -0000

Idea: A washer/dryer combo consisting of only one machine, so you don't have to move clothes from the washer to the dryer. Note that these washer/dryer combos exist and are common overseas, but we heard that they don't work very well. Also: the joy of hang drying your clothes outdoors (if the outdoors isn't spoiled by smog), wearing latex so that you can wash and dry your clothes in the dishwasher, a (joke) WWII Coronavirus conspiracy theory Markus Olind (twitter.com/BeardVonMarkus, Comedy Special: "Gettin Off Comedy Series" on Amazon Prime) Ahmed Mansour (twitter.com/AMan5our) Tyler Sonnichsen (https://tylersonic.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Smart Shock Collars for Cats (To Save Birds) (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 07 May 2020 10:18:07 -0000

Idea: Shock collars which shock cats when they're attacking birds, to keep pet cats from killing so many birds that the birds go extinct. The shock collars would use cameras and artificial intelligence to figure out when the cat is attacking a bird. The cameras could also provide fun cat-view video footage. The shock collars could also shock a mountain lion if it's eating the pet cat, to deter it from killing and eating future cats Justin Siekierka (facebook.com/justin.siekierka ComedyShow: facebook.com/Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co-116123201742619) Sarah Wooley (facebook.com/sarah.s.wooley.7) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI

Post-COVID Garage Cities (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:52:41 -0000

Idea: An electric car charging station consisting of dozens of 2-stall garages, where each car is charged indoors in privacy in it's own 2-stall garage. The car being charged is in one side of a garage, and "something to do" for around 40 minutes is in the other side of the garage. Examples of "stuff to do" include private movie theaters, barbers, dentists, Redbox movie rental machines, restaurant tables, hot tubs, etc. The "things to do" could be wheeled in on demand and ordered using a phone app. These 2-stall garage facilities could basically replace entire cities, and could slow down the transmission of the Coronavirus because they reduce or eliminate person-to-person contact, and they can be modified to implement virus protection measures more easily than normal stores/businesses (for example, an airproof plastic sheet could be placed between the customer's side of the garage and the business/service side of the garage). They could also help small businesses financially survive the Coronavirus because these businesses would no longer need a storefront or fixed location building which would require them to pay rent every month. Also, they could be a place for you to watch a sad movie where other people can't see you cry Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Richie McLonis (instagram.com/richiemclonis Podcast: podomatic.com/podcasts/huntingrabbits) Bill Morrison (https://billthecomedian.rocks) Recorded by Broken Knuckle Studios over Skype (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Partial Movie Remakes (Bill Morrison)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 05:54:30 -0000

Idea: If a movie or TV series was ruined by a bad ending or a poor actor, but was otherwise good, they could replace the bad part and re-release it (instead of remaking the entire thing from scratch). There could be a Netflix series for these "fixed" movies. They could also be re-released to theaters and/or re-submitted for awards Bill Morrison (https://billthecomedian.rocks) Richie McLonis (instagram.com/richiemclonis Podcast: podomatic.com/podcasts/huntingrabbits) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded by Broken Knuckle Studios over Skype (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

My Little Satanist Starter Kit (Richie McLonis)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 09:04:42 -0000

It's weird that the Ouija Board, an occult/spiritualist séance communication device, was marketed to kids by a major corporation (Hasbro) as a toy. Idea: why not also sell other witchcraft/satanist/voodoo items to kids as a kit? The kit could include items such as voodoo dolls, a pentagram on a Twister-like sheet, fake blood, about 40 fake candles, etc. Technology could also be used, such as wearable devices to shock you when someone pokes the voodoo doll, or a GPS tracker that alerts someone when you're using the kit, so they can come scare you Richie McLonis (instagram.com/richiemclonis Podcast: podomatic.com/podcasts/huntingrabbits) Bill Morrison (https://billthecomedian.rocks) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded by Broken Knuckle Studios over Skype (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Kid Powered Theme Park (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 05:56:07 -0000

Idea: An amusement park containing carnival-sized rides and small roller-coasters which are all powered by kids, either while they're riding the ride or while they're in line for the ride. They'd power the rides by pedaling, pulling on a rope, spinning a giant wheel, etc. The fact that they'd be contributing to the fun of other kids would provide a deeper level of contentment than just passively experiencing the rides. Also, it'd wear them out, and therefore give their parents some private time later in the evening. Bryan Deuchler (Podcast: https://cartoontonic.buzzsprout.com) Matt Hamilton (Podcast: https://moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

"Not Again" Comedic Zombie Movie (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 21:19:44 -0000

Idea: A comedic zombie movie where the dead come back to life, in the order of the most recently dead (or most well preserved) first. The zombies act exactly like normal people (i.e. they don't eat brains), but they hold their old prejudices (racism, Puritanism, etc.), poor hygiene habits, etc. In the end, people slay hoards of zombies just because they're so annoying Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 10 Steve Hansen (twitter.com/StevenRHansen) Cory B. Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Tech Rant (Cory B)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 21:11:25 -0000

A rant about poorly designed and/or pointless technology, such as voice recognition and smart homes. Also: smart light switches which fail to turn off the light, the smartest people in our society are working on dumb tech instead of important life-saving tech, an anecdote about a strobe light at a poker game Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 10 Steve Hansen (twitter.com/StevenRHansen) Cory B. Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Reverse Pacemaker (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 20:58:58 -0000

Idea: An implantable medical device that detects when your heart stops, alerts a hospital, and then, instead of restarting your heart like a defibrillator/pacemaker, creates a cooling reaction in a cooling pad inside your body to cool nearby blood, and then the cooled blood is pumped through the body. This cooling slows cell death and gives you a few hours to be revived (like people who've drowned in Arctic ice water and then were revived a few hours later) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 10 Steve Hansen (twitter.com/StevenRHansen) Cory B. Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Daily Affirmation Mirror (Steve Hansen)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 20:42:07 -0000

Idea: A daily affirmation mirror, which, when you look at yourself, makes you feel better about your disappointing appearance by saying "it's not your fault" (because hearing someone else say it is more convincing than just saying it to yourself). Also discussed: hacking the mirror to play mind games on a spouse, massage devices as "plausible deniability adult toys" Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 10 Steve Hansen (twitter.com/StevenRHansen) Cory B. Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Brain Altering Helmet TV Show (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 20:31:38 -0000

Idea: A TV show where people wear a brain altering helmet (as covered on the Radiolab episode "Nine-Volt Nirvana") which can temporarily induce terror, relaxation, enhanced learning ability, disabled morality, etc. Then, they'd be put in a scenario, such as putting someone in a haunted house and modifying their brain to induce terror, or testing a religious person by putting them in a stressful situation and shutting off their sense of morality, just to see what will happen Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 9 Jeff Johnson Tom Stoner (facebook.com/zomgftw) Paul Pipitone (facebook.com/paul.pipitone.5) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Body Enhancement (Paul Pipitone)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 18:07:23 -0000

Idea (NSFW): To use robotic prosthetics and other human enhancements to be better at sports, look good, have fun, and live longer. Also discussed: robotic genitals, cutting off your feet because your shoes always stink, how body enhancement tech will mean that you'll never have to give up on stupid dreams Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 9 Jeff Johnson Tom Stoner (facebook.com/zomgftw) Paul Pipitone (facebook.com/paul.pipitone.5) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

UScan (Tom Stoner)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 17:50:37 -0000

Idea: To replace all retail workers with UScans, RFID scanners, or other technology. Also discussed: using headphones in the grocery store, the small store "a**hole tax" for rude customers, break-dancing Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 9 Jeff Johnson Tom Stoner (facebook.com/zomgftw) Paul Pipitone (facebook.com/paul.pipitone.5) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Cosplay 3D Printing (Jeff Johnson)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 17:39:53 -0000

Idea: Software for using a 3d-printer to make cosplay costumes, including software algorithms for specific comic book characters and for correct sizing of the costumes for obese people (and everybody else) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 9 Jeff Johnson Tom Stoner (facebook.com/zomgftw) Paul Pipitone (facebook.com/paul.pipitone.5) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Karma Peacock (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 17:20:57 -0000

Idea: An app to "peacock" your charitable acts/donations and other good deeds, to peer pressure other people into also doing good things. The app would display a peacock avatar on your social media which would be more or less flamboyant depending on how much good you do Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 8 Alex Bozinovic (twitter.com/truheroism) Jeff Ford Dan Turco (twitter.com/Dansplaining) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Poop Dollar Experiment (Dan Turco)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 17:14:07 -0000

Idea: A science experiment to see which money denominations covered with which amounts of poop people will pick up off the ground. Also discussed: vegan poop, gut flora and/or pheromones in poop, philosophy degrees Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 8 Alex Bozinovic (twitter.com/truheroism) Jeff Ford Dan Turco (twitter.com/Dansplaining) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Muscle Building Suit (Jeff Ford)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 17:03:43 -0000

Idea: A futuristic/sci-fi suit that gives your body muscles without exercising. Possibilities for how the suit would work include weighted clothing, electric shocks, and covering your body with shakeweights Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 8 Alex Bozinovic (twitter.com/truheroism) Jeff Ford Dan Turco (twitter.com/Dansplaining) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Dehydrated Water Pill (Alex Bozinovic)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 16:54:26 -0000

Idea: A pill containing "dehydrated water" (oxygen?) to help you survive a Mad Max style desert apocalypse Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 8 Alex Bozinovic (twitter.com/truheroism) Jeff Ford Dan Turco (twitter.com/Dansplaining) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Chore Bartering App 2 (Bryan Deuchler)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 07:43:38 -0000

Idea (NSFW): An app to barter or trade chores and menial tasks with people in your neighborhood, because some people might find some tasks more or less annoying than other people. Tasks that can be bartered/traded include walking the dog, helping you when you're sick or drugged out, popping zits on your back, small talk, foreplay, etc. Also: doing a bunch of small tasks in exchange for a big task, bartering for TEACHING how to do a task (for people who didn't learn from dads), Tom being too embarrassed to ask a "big strong man" to do a menial task that he's not strong enough to do Note: Amanda Brewington proposed a similar chore bartering app in episode 56 Bryan Deuchler (Podcast: https://cartoontonic.buzzsprout.com) Matt Hamilton (Podcast: https://moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Animal-Plant Hybrids (Avery Sommerfeld)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 05:56:05 -0000

Idea (NSFW): To use genetic engineering to combine plants with animals or people, so they can be your pets/friends/partners, can let you know if they need water or nutrients to grow better, or can be easily cloned and made into a plant army to take over the world. Also: plant fetishes, coconut trees killing more people than sharks, the machismo of plants taking pain without screaming Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) Bryan Deuchler (Podcast: https://cartoontonic.buzzsprout.com) Matt Hamilton (Podcast: https://moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Terminator Bees Movie (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 21:51:01 -0000

Idea: A low budget sci-fi movie where bees are genetically modified to attack people and explode. The bees only attack people if they 1) talk, 2) walk, or 3) use tools i.e. use their hands to do stuff. So people have to find silly and weird ways to survive without doing these three things Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 7 Mike Flynn (twitter.com/flikemynn) Christian Royce (twitter.com/ChristianRoyce) Alan Black (twitter.com/alanblah) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Friendzone App (Christian Royce)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 21:43:20 -0000

Idea: A social media app like Tinder but for women to use their physical attractiveness to find male friends Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 7 Mike Flynn (twitter.com/flikemynn) Christian Royce (twitter.com/ChristianRoyce) Alan Black (twitter.com/alanblah) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Anal Tube (Alan Black)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 21:39:14 -0000

Idea (NSFW): A dishwasher-friendly tube that you poop through, so the poop comes out clean and you don't have to wipe. Available in multiple sizes. Bag and fun Play-Doh-like shape attachments also available Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 7 Mike Flynn (twitter.com/flikemynn) Christian Royce (twitter.com/ChristianRoyce) Alan Black (twitter.com/alanblah) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Enabler App (Mike Flynn)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 21:24:08 -0000

Idea (NSFW): A social media app to connect people with "enablers", who help "enable" an addiction, vice, or anything else (except violence), including mundane things such as collecting flamingo wind chimes Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 7 Mike Flynn (twitter.com/flikemynn) Christian Royce (twitter.com/ChristianRoyce) Alan Black (twitter.com/alanblah) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Human Landscapes Golf (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 05:30:36 -0000

Idea (NSFW): A golf course filled with nature that looks like human anatomy (cactuses that looks like dicks, trees with lumps that look like butts, sand dunes shaped like the female body, etc.). The caddies would use a bunch of silly adult golf puns ("if you hook your shaft you could get lost in the bush", "there's a ball washer available after you complete the back 9", etc.) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 6 Amy Probst (instagram.com/amydetroitrockcity) Ted Moss (twitter.com/TedMossComedy Podcast: https://TEDTALKS2much.com) Anthony Slanda (twitter.com/Runfromcheney) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Mechanic Sitcom (Anthony Slanda)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 05:18:38 -0000

Idea: A sitcom about a mechanic, featuring all of the weird things about being a mechanic in a car dealership, such as people leaving weird things in their car (guns, soiled undies, drugs, etc.), people's dumb failed attempts to fix their own cars, and how it's somehow still allowed for them to display pictures of nude women in the workspace Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 6 Amy Probst (instagram.com/amydetroitrockcity) Ted Moss (twitter.com/TedMossComedy Podcast: https://TEDTALKS2much.com) Anthony Slanda (twitter.com/Runfromcheney) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

"Honky" Custom Car Horn Sound Device (Ted Moss)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 05:09:12 -0000

Idea: A device (the "honky") that makes different car horn sounds to communicate different things, like "look out", "excuse me", "screw you", or "my bad". Also, maybe configurable text on the front/rear or your car that says "move over" Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 6 Amy Probst (instagram.com/amydetroitrockcity) Ted Moss (twitter.com/TedMossComedy Podcast: https://TEDTALKS2much.com) Anthony Slanda (twitter.com/Runfromcheney) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Elevated Roads (Amy Probst)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:59:44 -0000

Idea: All roads/driveways/parking should be elevated, to allow animals to roam free, and for people to live in harmony with nature on the ground. Although it might ruin the fun of rollercoasters Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 6 Amy Probst (instagram.com/amydetroitrockcity) Ted Moss (twitter.com/TedMossComedy Podcast: https://TEDTALKS2much.com) Anthony Slanda (twitter.com/Runfromcheney) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Laff Tracks comedy club

Staircase House (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 03:04:52 -0000

Idea: A house where the entire floor of every room consists of stairs. It would be cleverly designed to eliminate the need for hallways and to utilize vertical space, i.e. the ceiling of the entire room (i.e. over the toilet, kitchen sink, bed, etc) doesn't need to be 8 foot high, and instead the rooms above can be lowered, possibly allowing 4 stories worth of rooms to be contained in the space of 3 stories. Some of the stairwells can contain drawers for storage or fold-out bleacher/theater seats, etc. Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 5 Branden Milsk (twitter.com/BrandenMilsk) Jeff Johnson Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Dating Site Public Data Integration (Jeff Johnson)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 02:54:29 -0000

Idea: A dating site which integrates with other websites, so you can see a potential date's Netflix viewing history, song listening history, or political/news interests (if they chose to expose this information). This type of information is likely more accurate than typical dating site questionnaires Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 5 Branden Milsk (twitter.com/BrandenMilsk) Jeff Johnson Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Left-Handed Dating (Branden MIlsk)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 02:47:09 -0000

Idea (NSFW): An online-dating site exclusively for left-handed people (who think they're superior to right-handed people). Also: Jeff's history of forced right-handedness, left-handedness and depth perception Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 5 Branden Milsk (twitter.com/BrandenMilsk) Jeff Johnson Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Old Person Tech Assistant (Jon Mullinix)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 02:33:54 -0000

Idea: A special tech support employee specifically for helping old people do very basic tech tasks, such as use a mouse or do anything more advanced than making a phone call on a smart phone Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 4 Derek Brand (instagram.com/brand9470) Jon Mullinix (instagram.com/mullinixjon) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

DUI Experiment (Derek Brand)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 02:26:36 -0000

Idea: An experiment to see if experienced drunk drivers can drive as well as a sober person Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 4 Derek Brand (instagram.com/brand9470) Jon Mullinix (instagram.com/mullinixjon) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Obama Challenge (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 02:22:25 -0000

Idea: A social experiment or contest to see what's memorable. A bunch of contestants would each do something weird or interesting while meeting a famous person (such as President Obama) in public for a 5-10 second handshake or autograph. Then, years later, the famous person is put in a room with each of the contestants, to see which contestants were remembered by the famous person Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 4 Derek Brand (instagram.com/brand9470) Jon Mullinix (instagram.com/mullinixjon) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Bad Date Warning System (Greg Shur)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 02:11:12 -0000

Idea: A dating website that allows you to report bad dates who, for example, stole food off your plate, so other people can avoid dating them Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 3 Greg Shur DC Bradley (instagram.com/dcbradleyonig) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Laff Tracks

Dirty Time Machine Prank (DC Bradley)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 02:01:16 -0000

(NSFW) A small improvised idea for a dirty prank you could do using a time machine Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 3 Greg Shur DC Bradley (instagram.com/dcbradleyonig) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Laff Tracks

Replacement Body & Replacement Brain (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 06:07:45 -0000

Idea: In the 1950s, a Russian scientist was able to attach a dog's head onto another dog's body, and it survived for a few weeks. We should be able to do much better now. So if a person is terminally ill, we should attach their brain/head to a machine (i.e. replacement body) to get maybe a few months of extra life, and attach the body to a machine (i.e. replacement brain). The head/brain can live a little longer and have fun in virtual reality games, and the body can be used for medical testing, without worrying about causing suffering. Over time, as the technology gets better, the head can live longer and longer, to the point where maybe everyone who is old and/or has minor health problems will choose to do it, even if not terminally ill Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 3 Greg Shur DC Bradley (instagram.com/dcbradleyonig) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Laff Tracks in Novi, MI

Childhood Obesity Cure (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 02:10:30 -0000

Idea: To give obese kids/teenagers HGH (human growth hormone), so they become taller and less obese. Maybe also give kids/teenagers who are likely to become obese drugs to stunt their growth, so that later when they start to become obese, they can be given higher doses of HGH to fight harder against obesity. Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 2 Shallis Mask Frank A Marty R Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at a poker game (apologies for the poor audio quality)

Animal Kingdom Movie (Shallis M)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 01:59:44 -0000

Idea: A sci-fi movie kind of like Planet of the Apes, except that multiple species of animals, such as lab rats/mice and dogs, become more intelligent than humans. Some types of animals, such as dogs, side with humans, and others side against humans. A giant civil war between intelligent animals occurs (which humans are not aware of), where one side wants to take over the world and destroy/enslave humans, and the other side wants to leave humans alone and escape to outer space Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 2 Shallis M Frank A Marty R Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at a poker game (apologies for the poor audio quality)

Gas Mask (Josh Bowab)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 01:40:01 -0000

Idea: A spray that masks the smell of farts. Or maybe a pill containing electronics which detect whether smell-cancelling chemicals need to be released while it passes through your body. Also: fart-filtering underwear, the professional fart performer (flatulist) at the Moulin Rouge Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 1 Ted Moss (twitter.com/TedMossComedy Podcast: https://TEDTALKS2much.com) Josh Bowab Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Joey's Comedy Club

Hole-y Day Holiday (Ted Moss)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 01:10:04 -0000

Idea: An atheist holiday named "Hole-y Day" where you put a hole in your yard, such as a giant tire, to signify both the vast emptiness of the universe and your desire to participate in a Holey Day free love session with someone you've never been with. Also involves throwing things into holes, monkeys, and a symbolic deity who wears yoga pants. Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 1 Ted Moss (twitter.com/TedMossComedy Podcast: https://TEDTALKS2much.com) Josh Bowab Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Joey's Comedy Club

Remote Control for In-Person Conversations (Matt Hamilton)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:52:54 -0000

Idea: A sci-fi device that allows you to use controls currently found on a television remote control (pause, fast-forward, volume up/down, closed captioning, etc.) to control conversations in real life. The primary purpose would be to skip boring small talk when you wish someone would hurry up and get to the point, but you could also pause/rewind if you need to hear something again, etc. Matt Hamilton (Podcast: https://moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Deuchler (Podcast: https://cartoontonic.buzzsprout.com) Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Butt-Chugging Water To Avoid Dehydration When Sick (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 08:31:17 -0000

Idea: If you're too sick to drink water without vomiting it back up, and you cannot get to the hospital, maybe you can avoid dehydration and save your life by butt-chugging water. Also, Matt shares his butt-chugging expertise (Note: not based on medical expertise, please consult a doctor instead) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma, https://creativitywasted.com) Matt Hamilton (Podcast: https://moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Deuchler (Podcast: https://cartoontonic.buzzsprout.com) Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6nBbMFIE03wqFz5PwAA3w) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Future Car (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 06:27:57 -0000

Idea: A single-person electric car/vehicle that's skinny enough to drive through a door into a house or building (so you no longer need a garage, and you can go fast down hallways at work). It can orient itself both horizontally like a motorcycle and vertically like a Segway, and travel up and down elevator shafts instead of using elevators. Also, the privacy of having your own transportation vehicle is important, because at least one day of your life you'll probably shart your pants, and you don't want to prolong your humiliation by taking public transportation back to your house Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 1 Ted Moss (twitter.com/TedMossComedy Podcast: https://TEDTALKS2much.com) Josh Bowab Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Joey's Comedy Club

eHomicide (Justin Siekierka)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 14:10:23 -0000

Idea: A (fictional, satirical) website for connecting terminally ill people who wish to die with serial killers who wish to kill them. The goal would be to solve the problems of unwanted end-of-life suffering, and of healthy people being killed. It would be similar to an online dating website, and would help people find a compatible match based on criteria such as the method of execution, location of execution, physical attractiveness, political party, etc. Also, it would also be a great way to reduce health care costs, and the terminally ill could serve as "test dummies" for new medical devices/procedures which aren't perfected enough to permanently cure them, but could give them a short-term boost in health, in order to make them a more challenging (and therefore satisfying) kill Justin Siekierka (facebook.com/justin.siekierka ComedyShow: facebook.com/Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co-116123201742619) Sarah Wooley (facebook.com/sarah.s.wooley.7) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI

Public Bathroom Cleanliness Inventions (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 10:48:45 -0000

Two ideas to help make public restrooms cleaner: 1) A camera inside a bathroom stall door which is mechanically connected to the door lock. It would slide completely inside the door (so it can't see anything) when the door is locked, and align with a hole in the door to view the stall when the door is unlocked, so it can see who made a mess in the stall as they leave the stall, and 2) half-globe-shaped devices which fold down over the two halves of a horseshoe-shaped toilet seat when the toilet seat is up (kind of like those half-globe things in hair salons that fold down over people's heads). The half-globe devices would clean the toilet seat by spraying it with water and then drying it off with an air blower Sarah Wooley (facebook.com/sarah.s.wooley.7) Justin Siekierka (facebook.com/justin.siekierka ComedyShow: facebook.com/Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co-116123201742619) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI

Poop Sponge (Sarah Wooley)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 07:39:30 -0000

Idea: A sponge or tampon that you insert into your butt to absorb poop, so you can conveniently remove the poop without sitting on the toilet or making any noise. Also: the "dirty tulip", hospital bedpans and how you quickly become incontinent if you don't use your rectal/bowel muscles Sarah Wooley (facebook.com/sarah.s.wooley.7) Justin Siekierka (facebook.com/justin.siekierka ComedyShow: facebook.com/Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co-116123201742619) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI

Apple Tree Nets (Simon Carlson)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:34:29 -0000

Idea: Nets to catch apples which fall out of apple trees, so they don't land on the ground, in which case they can't legally be sold in stores. The nets could also be used to catch deer who wander into the apple orchard trying to eat the apples Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 88 Stu McCallister (twitter.com/StuMcCallister Podcast: soundcloud.com/lmnopodcast) Sal Demilio (twitter.com/SALLYD08 Podcast: https://salandbobshow.libsyn.com) Simon Carlson (twitter.com/shmimoncarlson) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Breakfast Brick (Simon Carlson)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:32:25 -0000

Idea: A "fast casual" Chipotle-like restaurant for breakfast food (like a breakfast buffet, but with someone standing between you and the food, making you late for work). Or a drive-thru where the breakfast food as squeezed into a portable "breakfast brick" that you can eat in your car Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 88 Stu McCallister (twitter.com/StuMcCallister Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/lmnopodcast) Sal Demilio (twitter.com/SALLYD08 Podcast: https://salandbobshow.libsyn.com) Simon Carlson (twitter.com/shmimoncarlson) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

At-Home Fan Referees (Sal Demilio)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:30:26 -0000

Idea: A random sports fan watching a live game in their house is contacted via webcam or smart TV, and given the task of being the referee and making a call in the game. This'll make watching the game exciting because people get a chance to affect the game, but it might destroy your Nana's life if Nana makes a bad call and angers everyone in the community Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 88 Stu McCallister (twitter.com/StuMcCallister Podcast: soundcloud.com/lmnopodcast) Sal Demilio (twitter.com/SALLYD08 Podcast: https://salandbobshow.libsyn.com) Simon Carlson (twitter.com/shmimoncarlson) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Conversations with God (Stu McCallister)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:28:00 -0000

Idea: A book detailing the author's conversations with God, where the author plays the character of a naive simpleton, and God gives him simple advise on life and how the world works. It'll have an irreverent and humorous bent, despite the misleading title, so people dying of cancer will buy the book seeking emotional comfort and instead find dick jokes Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 88 Stu McCallister (twitter.com/StuMcCallister Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/lmnopodcast) Sal Demilio (twitter.com/SALLYD08 Podcast: https://salandbobshow.libsyn.com) Simon Carlson (twitter.com/shmimoncarlson) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Helper Faires (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:25:20 -0000

Idea: Community events based on a theme (such as clothes, electronics, baby stuff, food, etc.) where people in the community get together to sell, donate, recycle, make, repair, customize, mentor/teach, etc., all based on that particular theme. Kind of like a flea market, recycling center, repair/customization shop, etc. all in one. The goals are to make charity and recycling more convenient and efficient, and to bring people in a community together (including people of different income levels, for example: rich people getting clothing repaired/resized at the same place that poor people receive clothing donations) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 87 Chris Young (twitter.com/chrisyoungcomic Comedy Special Video: drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Camila Ballario (twitter.com/CamilaBallario Music Album: camilaballario.com/store) Dan Thomas (twitter.com/DanTComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Social Media Without A Middleman (Dan Thomas)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:22:43 -0000

A rant about Facebook and a desire to make it easier and more convenient for people to make and view custom personal web pages, instead of using a (possibly evil) corporation as a social middleman Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 87 Chris Young (twitter.com/chrisyoungcomic Comedy Special Video: drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Camila Ballario (twitter.com/CamilaBallario Music Album: camilaballario.com/store) Dan Thomas (twitter.com/DanTComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Immediate Movie Remakes (Dan Thomas)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:20:04 -0000

Idea: To Release multiple versions of the same movie idea at about the same time, using different visionary directors (Quentin Tarantino, Alfonso Cuarón, Wes Anderson, etc.), and giving them creative control to make their own versions of the movie Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 87 Chris Young (twitter.com/chrisyoungcomic Comedy Special Video: drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Camila Ballario (twitter.com/CamilaBallario Music Album: camilaballario.com/store) Dan Thomas (twitter.com/DanTComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Afterlife Message App (Camila Ballario)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:16:33 -0000

Idea: An app/service to send social media messages to people on your behalf after you die, so you can get your revenge and/or say constructive things that you don't have the courage to say, and avoid dealing with the consequences. It could make money by charging you if you a) change your mind and don't want to send a message, or b) are on your deathbed and want to see other people's afterlife messages which they targeted to you Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 87 Chris Young (twitter.com/chrisyoungcomic Comedy Special Video: drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Camila Ballario (twitter.com/CamilaBallario Music Album: camilaballario.com/store) Dan Thomas (twitter.com/DanTComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Shazam for Birds (Camila Ballario)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:11:00 -0000

Idea: A Shazam-like app to identify bird species by listening to them. It could give you info about the birds, including the species name, interesting trivia, how rare they are, whether it is legal to shoot them, and recipes for eating them Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 87 Chris Young (twitter.com/chrisyoungcomic Comedy Special Video: drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Camila Ballario (twitter.com/CamilaBallario Music Album: camilaballario.com/store) Dan Thomas (twitter.com/DanTComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

House Wraps (Chris Young)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:07:00 -0000

Idea: "House wraps", which are kind of like car wraps, which would be much cheaper than expensive new siding, and could even look like siding, in which case you could also wear yoga pants that look like jeans and live a total lie Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 87 Chris Young (twitter.com/chrisyoungcomic Comedy Special Video: drybarcomedy.com/specials/chris-young-buoyant-mon) Camila Ballario (twitter.com/CamilaBallario Music Album: camilaballario.com/store) Dan Thomas (twitter.com/DanTComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Apocalypse Tiny Houses (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:03:25 -0000

Tom's obsession with "black balls" (author Nick Bostrom's metaphor for future technologies that could end humanity)gives him the idea for tiny houses which are built to withstand apocalyptic disasters, such as virus outbreaks or nuclear/meteor firestorms. Since they're mobile, you can drive them into apocalypse testing facilities, such as a "car wash that uses fire instead of water", to make sure they actually work Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 86 Kurt Brown (twitter.com/KurtBrownTown) Justin Siekierka (facebook.com/justin.siekierka) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

JurWrestle Park (Justin Siekierka)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:56:33 -0000

Idea: A Jurassic Park parody, where instead of the eccentric billionaire cloning dinosaurs (who run amok in a park and kill people), he clones dead professional wrestlers from the 1980s (who also run amok in a park and start killing people). Yokozuna stomps on the ground and causes the water in the cup to shake, The Ultimate Warrior shakes the fence and breaks loose, Macho Man is the dilophosaurus who spreads his colorful wings, the raptors are a tag team, and the main characters escape when the murderous wrestlers are attacked by an even larger murderous wrestler Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 86 Kurt Brown (twitter.com/KurtBrownTown) Justin Siekierka (facebook.com/justin.siekierka) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Chicken Wing Sauce Containers (Kurt Brown)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:53:28 -0000

Idea: Canoe-shaped sauce/condiment containers which are wide enough for dipping chicken wings. Also, Tom is mocked for not knowing the color of ranch dressing Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 86 Kurt Brown (twitter.com/KurtBrownTown) Justin Siekierka (facebook.com/justin.siekierka) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Cat Repellent Spray (Kurt Brown)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:51:14 -0000

Idea: A repellent spray to keep neighborhood cats out of your yard, so that they don't defecate in your flower pots. Environmentally-friendly alternative solutions are also discussed, such as dogs, and helping the "cat ladies" get dates so they don't try to fill the gaping holes in their souls with cats Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 86 Kurt Brown (twitter.com/KurtBrownTown) Justin Siekierka (facebook.com/justin.siekierka) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Bed Invention Ideas (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:48:06 -0000

A bunch of ideas to make beds better, such as * Side-walls to lean against to support your midsection so you don't have to stuff a pillow in front of your stomach to hold in your gut fat * Split-bed tents which mimic the gradual light and temperature reduction of night-time and hold in the sounds of snoring and smells of night-time flatulence so you don't annoy your spouse * A mini under-bed panic area with a bulletproof mattress and sniper holes to shoot at the intruder's feet * Etc. Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 85 Mark Sweetman (twitter.com/MarkTSweetman) Nick Leydorf (twitter.com/NickLeydorf Podcast: anchor.fm/free-consultation) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Funeral Attendance Stand-Ins (Nick Leydorf)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:42:23 -0000

Idea: An app to hire a stand-in if you don't want to go to a funeral, but you feel socially obligated to attend. They could sign your name in the funeral guest book, pretend to be you (except when talking to the handful of other people at the funeral who know you), listen to and/or record other people's conversations to give you info to use in future social situations, etc. Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 85 Mark Sweetman (twitter.com/MarkTSweetman) Nick Leydorf (twitter.com/NickLeydorf Podcast: anchor.fm/free-consultation) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Privatized Roads (Mark Sweetman)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:39:02 -0000

Idea/prediction: If a company like Tesla or Uber owns all of the cars instead of people owning cars, they will have a financial incentive to own the roads and keep the roads in good shape, because they would have to pay for damage to their massive fleet of cars due to potholes, etc. Also, they could remove "redundant roads" to save costs, because if it takes longer to deliver stuff to a place because the road on the most direct route no longer exists, that extra time doesn't cost much if the cars are all electric and self-driving Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 85 Mark Sweetman (twitter.com/MarkTSweetman) Nick Leydorf (twitter.com/NickLeydorf Podcast: anchor.fm/free-consultation) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Merged Local Governments (Mark Sweetman)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:34:56 -0000

Idea: There are too many tiny communities (Grosse Pointe Farms, Grosse Point Shores, Gross Pointe Woods, City of Gross Pointe) which each have to pay for their own local government services, like libraries, fire departments, etc. which could easily be shared between neighboring communities. Perhaps there could be a softball game between two neighboring local governments, where the loser's government is dissolved and taken over by the winner Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 85 Mark Sweetman (twitter.com/MarkTSweetman) Nick Leydorf (twitter.com/NickLeydorf Podcast: anchor.fm/free-consultation) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

DoTube (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:29:29 -0000

Idea: A way to "fix the internet" by putting blogs, animations, and all of the miscellaneous stuff of the Internet inside a YouTube-like window, because nobody wants to go to wwww.someguyswebsite.com, and because YouTube's recommendations, subscriptions, top videos of the day list, view counts, etc. allow discovery of new content and for content to "go viral", and because a YouTube-like ad system allows content creators to make money Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 84 David Steves (twitter.com/dsteves79) Leighton Ward (twitter.com/LeightonMI Podcast: leightonward.com/category/podcast-episodes) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

ShameMe App (Leighton Ward)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:25:14 -0000

Idea: An app to fat-shame you, or shame you in some other way, to motivate you to lose weight or improve yourself. It could also provide motivational/instructional advice, such as "Today's diet plan: don't eat". It could be location-aware and insult you if you walk into a fast food restaurant. You could anonymously hire childhood bullies, family members, or celebrities to send audio of customized insults to incorporate into the app Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 84 David Steves (twitter.com/dsteves79) Leighton Ward (twitter.com/LeightonMI Podcast: leightonward.com/category/podcast-episodes) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Biggest Loser Online Dating (David Steves)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:21:49 -0000

Idea: An online dating site for people trying to lose weight, because "The Biggest Loser" is the most successful TV reality show for creating real-life married couples, and because "the couples who lose weight together stay together". The site could match local people like Tinder, and get them to work out together in the same gym, because the military shows that shared perseverance through a hardship often creates strong, lifelong social bonds Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 84 David Steves (twitter.com/dsteves79) Leighton Ward (twitter.com/LeightonMI Podcast: leightonward.com/category/podcast-episodes) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Modular Airplanes and Airplane Boarding Speedup Ideas (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:14:44 -0000

Ideas to speed up airplane boarding, including: * Robots to lift bags straight up/down into the overhead bins of an airplane, so people don't stand in the aisle and block the line of other people who are boarding while they try to shove their bags into the overhead bins * A modular airplane, where the top half (cockpit and cabin) can be removed, and i) replace the waiting area of the airport to eliminate the need for "boarding", and ii) when the plane lands and slams on it's brakes, slide off the front of the plane, land on wheels, and drive away (like a bus) onto the highway without slowing down * Use high-tech transportation like modular airplanes and drones to create a more diverse transportation system, instead of repairing old roads and bridges Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 83 Naz Neen Mike Geeter (twitter.com/OhMikeGeeter, Kevin Hart's "Hart in the City") Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Black Niche Dating Sites (Mike Geeter)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:10:43 -0000

Idea: Niche dating sites for African-Americans, such as black farmers only, black lumberjacks aka "lumberblacks", and black bears. But not "black furries", because that's "white people sh**". Also, odd niche dating sites which already exist, such as a dating site for sea captains Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 83 Naz Neen Mike Geeter (twitter.com/OhMikeGeeter, Kevin Hart's "Hart in the City") Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

British X-Rated Game Shows in US (Naz Neen)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:07:09 -0000

Idea: American versions of adult-themed British game shows, including i) "Spring Break with Grandad", where college kids and their granddads compete as a team in party and beach-themed events, ii) "Naked Attraction", where people compete for dates by showing off their naked body in three rounds: genitals, midsection, and face, and iii) "Sex Box", where strangers are instructed to perform a specific sex act in a small room (where the audience can't see), and then afterwards, they talk about it in front of an audience Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 83 Naz Neen Mike Geeter (twitter.com/OhMikeGeeter, Kevin Hart's "Hart in the City") Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Moral Selection (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:01:28 -0000

Idea: Environmental activism/engineering, where instead of trying to return nature to an arbitrary past before humans arrived, we use genetic engineering, technology, etc. to engineer the environment and the DNA of animals to make them experience more pleasure and less fear and suffering ("moral selection" as opposed to "natural selection" aka Darwinism). It's a way for humans to become "the best thing that ever happened to the universe". And it's the best option for finding meaning in life, because it's such a big task that it won't be solved/automated in many lifetimes, leaving everybody with nothing to do with the rest of their lives. Also, there are plenty of tasks for everybody (even dumb people) to do, like saving animals from freezing to death, gathering DNA samples of animals, etc. Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 82 Brent Von Kalamazoo (twitter.com/brentvonkzoo) Greg Sharp (twitter.com/gregsharp) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Weezer Cover Song App (Greg Sharp)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:56:30 -0000

Idea: An app which generates a computer-generated cover of any song which sounds like it was performed by the band Weezer. Because flooding the world with Weezer covers would make the whole world happy and possibly even lead to world peace, like a real-life version of the future from the movie "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 82 Brent Von Kalamazoo (twitter.com/brentvonkzoo) Greg Sharp (twitter.com/gregsharp) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Global Warming Apocalypse Party (Brent Von Kalamazoo)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:53:49 -0000

Idea: Set a deadline to fix global warming emissions, and if we fail to meet the deadline, "calling it quits for civilization", and conducting a worldwide party for a couple years, or until the food runs out. That way, everybody gets a couple years of the highest quality living, instead of slow miserable decline towards a Mad Max hell Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 82 Brent Von Kalamazoo (twitter.com/brentvonkzoo) Greg Sharp (twitter.com/gregsharp) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Late-Night History (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 08:13:46 -0000

Idea: A TV show where people learn about history by watching jokes, primarily obtained from late-night talk show monologues from the relevant time period. Each half-hour episode would be a series of jokes, all about the same historical event, such as the Iran-Contra scandal. Blurbs and graphics would display pieces of information required to understand the event and "get" the jokes, even if you knew nothing about the historical event before watching the episode Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 81 Gerrit Elzinga (twitter.com/GerritElzinga Podcast: facebook.com/thisbetterbegoodpodcast) David Sutherland (twitter.com/skrtskrtsuther1) Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Glasses That Make Cats Look Like Dogs (Diego Attanasio)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 08:11:29 -0000

Idea: "Augmented reality" glasses that make dogs look like cats, or vice versa. Also maybe headphones, so the person who sees the cat as a dog can say a dog's name, and other people (and the cat) hear them say the cat's name. This technology would also allow everyone to live a lie, causing other people to see and hear them in a way that isn't real Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 81 Gerrit Elzinga (twitter.com/GerritElzinga Podcast: facebook.com/thisbetterbegoodpodcast) David Sutherland (twitter.com/skrtskrtsuther1) Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Last Addict Standing Competition TV Show (David Sutherland)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 08:09:28 -0000

Idea: A competition-based reality show, like Survivor, where each team member is addicted to a different recreational drug. The teams compete in both physical and mental events, and the drug addition may help or hinder their performance in the event, possibly in hilarious ways. The members of the winning team are rewarded either with a large supply of their drug, or rehab (their choice) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 81 Gerrit Elzinga (twitter.com/GerritElzinga Podcast: facebook.com/thisbetterbegoodpodcast) David Sutherland (twitter.com/skrtskrtsuther1) Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Self-Doubt Removal Pill (Gerrit Elzinga)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 08:06:57 -0000

Idea: A pill to remove self-doubt and shame, but without causing you to lose self-awareness and/or becoming arrogant (like alcohol). Because good people feel self-doubt and shame when they shouldn't, and bad people already don't feel shame Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 81 Gerrit Elzinga (twitter.com/GerritElzinga Podcast: facebook.com/thisbetterbegoodpodcast) David Sutherland (twitter.com/skrtskrtsuther1) Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (Https://podcastdetroit.com)

Life Guide App (Bryan Deuchler)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 08:03:08 -0000

Idea: An app that monitors what you're doing all day and uses artificial intelligence to give you advice, kind of like "an angel on your shoulder that also keeps you from being stupid". It can also go back into it's recorded history of your life, and show you a sequence of decisions that led to a bad outcome, to help you learn from your mistakes Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 80 Nick Earl (twitter.com/fakenickearl) Amanda Brewington (facebook.com/amanda.brewington) Bryan Deuchler (twitter.com/MrDrRobot Podcast: https://cartoontonic.buzzsprout.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Can I Get A Witness App (Amanda Brewington)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 08:00:52 -0000

Idea: A social media app/feature which requires other people to be "witnesses" of a post (i.e. confirm that they were there and saw what happened), so it's harder to lie about yourself on social media. Also, other people can post (possibly bad) things about you, along with corroborating witnesses, which will hopefully pressure people to not be jerks Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 80 Nick Earl (twitter.com/fakenickearl) Amanda Brewington (facebook.com/amanda.brewington) Bryan Deuchler (twitter.com/MrDrRobot Podcast: https://cartoontonic.buzzsprout.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Bro Ties - Hair Ties for Men (Nick Earl)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 07:01:25 -0000

Idea: Hair ties marketed to men who have long hair and are too macho or "bro"-like to buy hair ties marketed primarily to women Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 80 Nick Earl (twitter.com/fakenickearl) Amanda Brewington (facebook.com/amanda.brewington) Bryan Deuchler (twitter.com/MrDrRobot Podcast: https://cartoontonic.buzzsprout.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Stay-At-Home Vacation Ideas (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 06:10:11 -0000

Rules for defining a "vacation", how travel isn't required for a vacation because (unlike migrating birds) location isn't one of our five senses, five ideas for new types of stay-at-home vacations (ranging from realistic to wildly futuristic) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 80 Nick Earl (twitter.com/fakenickearl) Amanda Brewington (facebook.com/amanda.brewington) Bryan Deuchler (twitter.com/MrDrRobot Podcast: https://cartoontonic.buzzsprout.com) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Poop Roomba (Teena Green)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 05:24:17 -0000

Idea: A robotic, Roomba-like device to clean up dog poop in your yard, so you don't have to pick it up. We also discuss women using poop in acts of revenge, "code brown", simulated pregnancy in adult robots, and shooting dog poop into tiny pieces with high-powered water jets built into sprinkler systems Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 79 Chris Miller (twitter.com/ImChrisMiller) Tom Swan (twitter.com/GreatLksComedy https://greatlakescomedy.com) Teena Green Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Sober Pill (Tom Swan)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 05:22:00 -0000

Idea: A pill to instantly (or within a few minutes) absorb the alcohol in a drunk person's body and make them sober, so they can drive home (or go back into the bar for round 2), and won't have a hangover the next morning Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 79 Chris Miller (twitter.com/ImChrisMiller) Tom Swan (twitter.com/GreatLksComedy https://greatlakescomedy.com) Teena Green Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Red Light Districts (Chris Miller)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 05:19:33 -0000

Idea: Government bills to create "red light districts" in major US cities, where drugs and prostitution would be legal, to lure the seedy people into one area, so the rest of the city can be family-friendly and safe. Possibly even put the "red light district" indoors in abandoned factories or shopping malls, so people can't accidentally wander into them, and they can't be spied on using drones Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 79 Chris Miller (twitter.com/ImChrisMiller) Tom Swan (twitter.com/GreatLksComedy https://greatlakescomedy.com) Teena Green Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Christian Apocalypse Cartoon (Connor Meade)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:08:09 -0000

Idea: An "Adult Swim"-like cartoon about life after the Christian apocalypse, including biblical characters like God and demons, and also humorous discussions about STDs in bomb shelters Connor Meade (twitter.com/connormeadian ComedyShow: https://planetant.com/theindy) Sarah Wooley (facebook.com/sarah.s.wooley.7) Justin Siekierka (facebook.com/justin.siekierka ComedyShow: facebook.com/Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co-116123201742619) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI

New Low-Carb Eating Utensils (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 06:17:07 -0000

Idea: New eating utensils for low carb meals, because Tom thinks that low-carb bowls (like burrito bowls) and salads take too long to chew. He has 3 ideas of new utensils: burger scoop, half-lemon on a stick, and doughless pizza pan/plate with pizza wiper Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 77 Alan Black (twitter.com/alanblah) Jenson Strock (twitter.com/J_Strock) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Retired Housewives of Lucas County (Jenson Strock)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 06:13:53 -0000

Idea: A reality show showcasing the mystery, intrigue, and drama of cliquey elderly women in a senior living community, who refuse to let a strict, almost totalitarian condominium association destroy their individuality. The elderly women drink, gossip, and call each other out, such as for not cleaning up dog poop in the middle of winter (which caused quite a storm) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 77 Alan Black (twitter.com/alanblah) Jenson Strock (twitter.com/J_Strock) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Home Stink Home (Alan Black)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 06:10:20 -0000

Idea: A business where a "smell expert" goes to your house and lets you know, for a small fee, if your house smells bad (because sometimes people who live there get used to the smell and don't notice it) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 77 Alan Black (twitter.com/alanblah) Jenson Strock (twitter.com/J_Strock) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://podcastdetroit.com)

Modular IndoorOutdoor Electric Flying Car (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 06:07:21 -0000

Idea (NSFW): A single-person electric car whose chassis can switch between horizontal mode (like a motorcycle) and vertical mode (like a Segway). When in vertical mode, it would be thin enough to fit through an ordinary door, so you could drive it inside buildings and up and down elevators. Modular attachments would be available, such as an SUV-like "family compartment" or a quadcopter flying car attachment Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 76 Matt Hamilton (Podcast moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Harrison (Podcast moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Loyd Digg (Twitter: @LoydDigg) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Human Fossilization (Loyd Digg)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 05:59:39 -0000

Idea (NSFW): A service to fossilize beloved relatives who pass away, instead of burying or cremating them. It's purpose (and ONLY purpose) is to help loved ones remember and reminisce about them Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 76 Matt Hamilton (Podcast moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Harrison (Podcast moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Loyd Digg (Twitter: @LoydDigg) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Johnny Appleweed (Bryan Deuchler)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 05:23:21 -0000

Idea: A service where a guide, midwife, shaman, or whatever conveniently introduces stressed-out straight-edge people to newly-legalized recreational drugs Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 76 Matt Hamilton (Podcast moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Harrison (Podcast moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Loyd Digg (Twitter: @LoydDigg) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Smoking for Happiness (Bryan Harrison)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 05:19:59 -0000

Bryan was happiest in his life when he was smoking cigarettes. His plan to become happy again is to start smoking again (no wonder he's depressed) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 76 Matt Hamilton (Podcast moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Harrison (Podcast moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Loyd Digg (Twitter: @LoydDigg) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Audio Parasite (Matt Hamilton)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 05:17:55 -0000

Idea: An electronic device that digs into your ear like a parasite and broadcasts Matt's voice into your brain. Most people would prefer to READ people's minds, but Matt is a narcissist who wants the exact opposite. And he wants to do it to the entire world. The way to defeat him would be to broadcast his voice back to him with a slight delay, like a "speech jammer" Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 76 Matt Hamilton (Podcast moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Harrison (Podcast moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Loyd Digg (Twitter: @LoydDigg) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Fitbit Reward Mystery Box Service (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 07:22:42 -0000

Idea: A service that delivers you customized candy/rewards inside clear locked boxes which you can't open until you meet your exercise goals, as determined by your Fitbit (or fitness tracker). Or you can choose for the rewards to be "mystery boxes", including possible cash prizes, but if you don't exercise enough to unlock the box within a few weeks, you have to ship it back, not knowing if you would've been a millionaire Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 75 Ken Witzgall (Twitter: @KenWitzgall42) Scott Gaughan (Facebook: @scott.gone) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

At-Home Sitcom Reenactments (Scott Gaughan)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 07:16:22 -0000

Idea (NSFW): A service where the entire cast of a sitcom come to your house and perform the sitcom for you, either as dinner party entertainment, or in your bedroom while you lay in bed and try to sleep Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 75 Ken Witzgall (Twitter: @KenWitzgall42) Scott Gaughan (Facebook: @scott.gone) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Chivalry Device (Scott Gaughan)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 07:10:27 -0000

Idea: A device called the "Chivalry Device" which holds open your car door and "locks" it in one place, so elderly or disabled people can use the car door to help them stand up, and also hold open the door if you're parked on a hill. Hopefully it doesn't fail so that the car door is stuck open, because you might get pulled over for that Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 75 Ken Witzgall (Twitter: @KenWitzgall42) Scott Gaughan (Facebook: @scott.gone) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Apple Tree Buddy (Ken Witzgall)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 07:06:26 -0000

Idea: Carrying around a small apple tree could help you relieve stress, and build up your arm muscles. But don't mess with the guy with the Avocado Buddy, because avocados are better throwing weapons Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 75 Ken Witzgall (Twitter: @KenWitzgall42) Scott Gaughan (Facebook: @scott.gone) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Interracial Bodyswap to End Racism (Robert Schneider)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 07:04:07 -0000

A Freaky-Friday-type bodyswap scenario to help combat racism, and how Tom's futuristic head-in-a-jar scenario could actually make it possible Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 74 Robert Schneider (Facebook: @thecommanderawesome Comedy Show: facebook.com/comedyatthecomicshop) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Creepy Inflatable Clown Prank (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 07:01:07 -0000

Idea: An inflatable clown which can be slid either through a mail slot in a front door, or slid under the door, and once inside, inflates like an auto-inflatable raft, to be nearly human-sized, to scare people Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 74 Robert Schneider (Facebook: @thecommanderawesome Comedy Show: facebook.com/comedyatthecomicshop) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Nuclear Powered Snow Machines (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 06:59:01 -0000

Idea: Launching steam created by nuclear power plants straight up into the air in cold areas such as Alaska or Antarctica, to make it snow onto land, to counteract sea rise due to glaciers melting and falling into the ocean Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 74 Robert Schneider (Facebook: @thecommanderawesome Comedy Show: facebook.com/comedyatthecomicshop) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Telemarketer Punching App (Robert Schneider)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 06:55:43 -0000

Idea: An app with the supernatural, comic-book-like ability to punch telemarketers through the phone as revenge for annoying you. Since most of them are located overseas and outside the jurisdiction of US criminal courts, there probably wouldn't be any legal ramifications Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 74 Robert Schneider (Facebook: @thecommanderawesome Comedy Show: facebook.com/comedyatthecomicshop) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Futuristic Tiny Houses (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 06:52:18 -0000

Tom's idea for a futuristic tiny house where most (or all) of your stuff is wheeled in and out by robots. The idea also solves gerrymandering, makes "universal basic income" feasible, solves the Flint Water Crisis, and gives people the freedom to escape their miserable 9-to-5 office jobs and live nomadic lives of leisure. But everyone opposes it because it involves sharing toilets Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 73 Louis Michael (Twitter: @LouTheSurgeon) Nick Leydorf (Podcast: anchor.fm/free-consultation) Matt Hamilton (Podcast: moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Tom Walma (Podcast: @thomaswalma) Recorded live at Crossroads Comedy Festival in Indianapolis

Quantum Leaping Into Movies (Matt Hamilton)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 06:48:30 -0000

Matt wants to "quantum leap" into movies and experience the events of the movie as one of the characters. He also accidentally re-imagines several other plot points of the book "Ready Player One", which he'd never read because he considers it too nerdy. Tom proposes a gruesome, "mad science" way to approximate this idea in the real world Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 73 Louis Michael (Twitter: @LouTheSurgeon) Nick Leydorf (Podcast: anchor.fm/free-consultation) Matt Hamilton (Podcast: moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Tom Walma (Podcast: @thomaswalma) Recorded live at Crossroads Comedy Festival in Indianapolis

AirBnBnBnE (Louis Michael)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 06:45:32 -0000

Louis accidentally locked himself out of his AirBnB. He then used YouTube lockpicking tutorials to break into his AirBnB, which was so easy, he succeeded on his first try. This incident inspired his idea, which is an app to help you find wealthy people in nearby AirBnBs to burglarize Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 73 Louis Michael (Twitter: @LouTheSurgeon) Nick Leydorf (Podcast: anchor.fm/free-consultation) Matt Hamilton (Podcast: moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Tom Walma (Podcast: @thomaswalma) Recorded live at Crossroads Comedy Festival in Indianapolis

Second Chance Cafe (Justin Siekierka)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 08:03:11 -0000

Idea: A restaurant which would serve ordinary people's leftovers to pretentious rich people. The fact that they serve leftovers is not a secret, it is it's selling point Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 72 Alwin Sheriff (Twitter: @AlwinTheSheriff YouTube: @jerk4eternity) Ted Moss (Twitter: @TedMossComedy) Justin Siekierka (Facebook: @justin.siekierka) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Flint Water Crisis Solution (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 07:58:59 -0000

An idea for a type of futuristic house which would inadvertently solve the Flint Water Crisis Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 72 Alwin Sheriff (Twitter: @AlwinTheSheriff YouTube: @jerk4eternity) Ted Moss (Twitter: @TedMossComedy) Justin Siekierka (Facebook: @justin.siekierka) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Personality Bracelet (Ted Moss)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 07:55:57 -0000

Idea: A bracelet (or a hologram of a bracelet projected by a smart watch) which, when you shake someone's hand, (optionally) shows them your personality quiz results, and (mandatory, by law) shows them your criminal record. That way, when you meet new people, they instantly know if you're a good person or a bad person Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 72 Alwin Sheriff (Twitter: @AlwinTheSheriff YouTube: @jerk4eternity) Ted Moss (Twitter: @TedMossComedy) Justin Siekierka (Facebook: @justin.siekierka) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Club Ugly (Alwin Sheriff)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 07:51:28 -0000

Idea: A dating app where people who previously dated someone provide feedback and rating(s) that you can see in the dating app before you date them. The app will match people up based on these ratings provided by their previous dates Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 72 Alwin Sheriff (Twitter: @AlwinTheSheriff YouTube: @jerk4eternity) Ted Moss (Twitter: @TedMossComedy) Justin Siekierka (Facebook: @justin.siekierka) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Willpower Free Communities (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 07:48:47 -0000

A simple community-based technological innovation to help people lose weight, stop drinking, or resist other temptations that they don't otherwise have enough willpower to resist Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 71 Kevin Smith (Twitter: @CrassHeart Podcast: soundcloud.com/user-66991264) Jason Patterson (Facebook: @jason.patterson.77964) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Just-In-Case Pillowcase (Jason Patterson)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 07:43:33 -0000

Idea: A special pillowcase which contains a pouch to hold a condom, to use as a backup if you forgot to carry one in your wallet or keep one elsewhere in your house. Also, a great gift to awkwardly give your child on the day they move out of the house when starting college Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 71 Kevin Smith (Twitter: @CrassHeart Podcast: soundcloud.com/user-66991264) Jason Patterson (Facebook: @jason.patterson.77964) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Time Tube (Kevin Smith)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 07:40:43 -0000

Idea: A sci-fi device and Netflix-like video streaming service to allow you to watch video of the past, anywhere and any time throughout history. Although, maybe it should be limited to stuff that happened more than 200 years ago, so you don't need to live in Stepford-like tyrannical politeness because people could catch you lying and/or watching pornography Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 71 Kevin Smith (Twitter: @CrassHeart Podcast: soundcloud.com/user-66991264) Jason Patterson (Facebook: @jason.patterson.77964) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Individually Adjustable Window Blinds (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 08:45:04 -0000

Window blinds are designed wrong, because when they are half open, they expose your groin to your neighbors and block your eyes from seeing out the window. There should be individually-adjustable window blinds controlled by an app, that way you can choose what you can see (and which body parts to expose) Brandon Ponke (IG: @bponke Twitter: @BPonke) Adam Walsh (Knuckleheads Comedy: IG: @khcomedy313 Twitter: @KnuckleheadsC) Steve Kaz (IG: @kazthecomic) Dale Murdock (IG: @dalelerious) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Cars Without Batteries (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 06:25:26 -0000

Idea: Cars don't need batteries. Brakelights can be LED lights with batteries built into the bulb. The speedometer and console (except the fuel gauge) can be a phone app. The electricity needed to start the car (i.e. ignition) can be obtained by electric car charging stations which are being added to parking spots. Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 70 Derek Brand (Instagram: @brand9470) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

No Hot Shower Water Until You Floss (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 06:21:13 -0000

Tom didn't floss. He bought a water pik, and he still didn't floss. He bought a water pik to go into his shower, and he still doesn't floss. So he thinks there should be an app to detect that you use the shower water pik, and if you don't use it, it blocks you from having hot water in the shower. That way, maybe he'll finally floss Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 70 Derek Brand (Instagram: @brand9470) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Twinkie Defense Offensive (Derek Brand)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 06:16:16 -0000

Idea: A change is needed to the criminal justice system to prevent the "Twinkie Defense" and other ridiculous criminal defenses, because sometimes they succeed. Or maybe it's a good thing that criminals try to use dumb excuses Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 70 Derek Brand (Instagram: @brand9470) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Air Hoses For Oscillating Fans (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 06:14:40 -0000

Idea: A baseball-width air hose to attach to the back of an oscillating fan, where the air hose leads to a cool basement or to cool night-time outdoor air (possibly using the same hole on the side of your house as the "bug disposal hole" from the previous idea) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 69 Daniel Kumapayi (Twitter: @Kumapayidk) Bryan Harrison (Twitter: @DonnchaRedbeard Podcast: moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

House Bug Disposal Hole (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 06:08:45 -0000

Idea: A small hole in the side of your house or in a window to use to conveniently and humanely eject bugs from your house which you catch using a handheld "bug sucker" device Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 69 Daniel Kumapayi (Twitter: @Kumapayidk) Bryan Harrison (Twitter: @DonnchaRedbeard Podcast: moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Comedian Vigilantes (Bryan Deuchler)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 06:05:42 -0000

Idea: Comedian-vigilante service where comedians perform acts of revenge at night, possibly while wearing superhero costumes, between open-mic nights (of course) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 69 Daniel Kumapayi (Twitter: @Kumapayidk) Bryan Harrison (Twitter: @DonnchaRedbeard Podcast: moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Community-Organized Public Shaming (Bryan Deuchler)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 06:02:34 -0000

Brian wants community-run public shaming of people who do minor (legal) bad things like cutting someone off in public or insulting someone. Tom hates the idea, gets on his soapbox, and makes it awkward Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 69 Daniel Kumapayi (Twitter: @Kumapayidk) Bryan Harrison (Twitter: @DonnchaRedbeard Podcast: moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Baby Translator (Bryan Harrison)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 05:59:45 -0000

Idea: A "baby translator" should be possible by now. Or at least a giant mother-scaring helmet that can analyze the baby's brain waves and figure out why it's crying, including where on its body a pain signal is coming from. Although this would lead to social pressure to use the brain-scanning helmet whenever out with the baby in public, such as on an airplane Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 69 Daniel Kumapayi (Twitter: @Kumapayidk) Bryan Harrison (Twitter: @DonnchaRedbeard Podcast: moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Open Mic Franchising (Daniel Kumapayi)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 05:54:26 -0000

Idea: Franchising of standup comedy open mics (and possibly other types of shows, like burlesque) by selling promotional templates, merch, and maybe even audio equipment as a package to people who want to run shows in other towns Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 69 Daniel Kumapayi (Twitter: @Kumapayidk) Bryan Harrison (Twitter: @DonnchaRedbeard Podcast: moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Shock Collars for People (Steve Kaz)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 08:15:29 -0000

Idea: Shock collars or "shock ankle bracelets" for unruly children, comedians who're bombing on stage, or people who're trying to quit smoking. Also, if in public, is it more humane (or less in-humane) to discretely shock someone's ankle or visibly spray them in the face with a spray bottle? Steve Kaz (IG: @kazthecomic) Brandon Ponke (IG: @bponke Twitter: @BPonke) Adam Walsh (Knuckleheads Comedy: IG: @khcomedy313 Twitter: @KnuckleheadsC) Dale Murdock (IG: @dalelerious) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Pet Talking Device (Jacob Barr)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 09:13:03 -0000

If they invented a device to allow dogs and cats to talk, they'd be better pets. Or they'd use their cuteness to steal jobs from beautiful people, and vote Republican Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 68 Jeff Horste (Twitter: @jeffhorste Comedy Special: cc.com/episodes/hc6col/kevin-hart-presents--the-next-level-jeff-horste-season-2-ep-204) Gimmy Cipriano (Twitter: @theRealGimmyC) Jacob Barr (Twitter: @kidwiththehands) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Pet Ownership Choice (Jeff Horste)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 09:10:43 -0000

Idea: You should be able to steal pets if they like you more than their current owners Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 68 Jeff Horste (Twitter: @jeffhorste Comedy Special: cc.com/episodes/hc6col/kevin-hart-presents--the-next-level-jeff-horste-season-2-ep-204) Gimmy Cipriano (Twitter: @theRealGimmyC) Jacob Barr (Twitter: @kidwiththehands) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Wrong Number Scamming Rights (Jacob Barr)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 09:09:06 -0000

Idea: If a you get a call from a telemarketer or a wrong number, you should be allowed to scam them, and they should be legally required to give you whatever you manage to scam from them, including money, a kidney, or a small child Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 68 Jeff Horste (Twitter: @jeffhorste Comedy Special: cc.com/episodes/hc6col/kevin-hart-presents--the-next-level-jeff-horste-season-2-ep-204) Gimmy Cipriano (Twitter: @theRealGimmyC) Jacob Barr (Twitter: @kidwiththehands) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Street Justice (Gimmy Cipriano)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 09:06:51 -0000

Idea: An app or electronic device (Street Justice) to help you humiliate or take revenge upon rude or reckless drivers. Also, should we have different car horns for different emotions, and/or eliminate the car horn? Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 68 Jeff Horste (Twitter: @jeffhorste Comedy Special: cc.com/episodes/hc6col/kevin-hart-presents--the-next-level-jeff-horste-season-2-ep-204) Gimmy Cipriano (Twitter: @theRealGimmyC) Jacob Barr (Twitter: @kidwiththehands) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Litbit (Gimmy Cipriano)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 09:04:05 -0000

Idea: An electronic device (LitBit) to help you keep track of your alcohol consumption. Not for health reasons. Just for bragging rights Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 68 Jeff Horste (Twitter: @jeffhorste Comedy Special: cc.com/episodes/hc6col/kevin-hart-presents--the-next-level-jeff-horste-season-2-ep-204) Gimmy Cipriano (Twitter: @theRealGimmyC) Jacob Barr (Twitter: @kidwiththehands) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Globe Fan (Jeff Horste)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 09:01:22 -0000

Idea: A fan which is curved to always hit the entire room with air, instead of oscillating and annoying/teasing you with intermittent comfort Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 68 Jeff Horste (Twitter: @jeffhorste Comedy Special: cc.com/episodes/hc6col/kevin-hart-presents--the-next-level-jeff-horste-season-2-ep-204) Gimmy Cipriano (Twitter: @theRealGimmyC) Jacob Barr (Twitter: @kidwiththehands) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Car Hookup Spot App (Jeff Horste)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:58:59 -0000

Idea; An app to tell you the best places (private, safe from cops and criminals) to hook up in your car, which you might want to do because you don't want to show your partner how gross your apartment is. Plus, a beneficial role for perverts in society Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 68 Jeff Horste (Twitter: @jeffhorste Comedy Special: cc.com/episodes/hc6col/kevin-hart-presents--the-next-level-jeff-horste-season-2-ep-204) Gimmy Cipriano (Twitter: @theRealGimmyC) Jacob Barr (Twitter: @kidwiththehands) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Contact Buy (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:48:46 -0000

Idea: An app named "Contact Buy" for performers to sell digital music/comedy and digital photos and autographs to fans at their shows. That way, the fans don't have to deal with annoying physical things like CDs or "download cards", and they can use the digital autograph and photo taken with the musician/artist as "album art" when the song is played on their phones. And since the artist sells directly to the fans, they don't have to give a 30-40% cut to an iTunes/Amazon/GooglePlay digital music store Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 67 Bart Dangus (Twitter: @BartDangus Podcast: bigtimegarbage.libsyn.com) Ella H Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Beef Leash (Ella H)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:46:00 -0000

Seeing a hungry dog try to eat it's leash led to the idea of actually making an edible dog leash out of beef, which led to the idea of making adult toys out of beef and other foods. Also, Ella saved a frog from a toilet Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 67 Bart Dangus (Twitter: @BartDangus Podcast: bigtimegarbage.libsyn.com) Ella H Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Mouthwash Served in Bars (Bart Dangus)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:42:40 -0000

Idea: Since mouthwash has alcohol in it, why not serve it as a drink in bars? You could use the lid of the mouthwash bottle as a shot glass, and maybe serve it as a drink named "Winter Gut". Also, it might be the only recreational drug that make your teeth healthier Bart Dangus (Twitter: @BartDangus Podcast: bigtimegarbage.libsyn.com) Ella H Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Mind-Control Haunted House Security (Dale Murdock)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 03:03:55 -0000

Idea: A psychic or spiritual way to control your house with your mind, to make blood seep through the walls to scare away burglars, and to do mundane things like run the coffee maker and detect leaky pipes. Also: Neuralink brain implants which only work for a specific company and have themes such as "goth" Dale Murdock (IG: @dalelerious) Brandon Ponke (IG: @bponke Twitter: @BPonke) Adam Walsh (Knuckleheads Comedy: IG: @khcomedy313 Twitter: @KnuckleheadsC) Steve Kaz (IG: @kazthecomic) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studios (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Butt Sweat Reduction Ideas (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:35:24 -0000

Tom has a sweaty butt. If he's sitting down, sometimes ONLY his butt sweats, and he's afraid if he stands up and his butt is drenched in sweat, it'll look like he peed his pants. He tried Gold Bond powder without success, so he came up with some better ideas, such as harnesses to allow you to dangle in the air instead of sitting, pants and underwear made of silver which can act like a computer processor heat sink for your body, and slow release ice pills/suppositories Matt Hamilton (moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Dave Crumbley (Twitter: @cavedrumbley) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Cross-Discipline Comedy Creator Community (Bryan Deuchler)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:30:58 -0000

Idea: Virtual or in-person community where (mostly amateur) creative people of different disciplines (sketch comedy, standup comedy, acting, film-making, animation, etc.) meet each other and collaborate on projects Matt Hamilton (moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Dave Crumbley (Twitter: @cavedrumbley) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Fast Food Ban (Dave Crumbley)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:27:06 -0000

Idea: Ban fast food because it's too much of a temptation for people with food addiction. Also, we propose other weirder ways to fight obesity Matt Hamilton (moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Dave Crumbley (Twitter: @cavedrumbley) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Retire from Pokemon Go (Dave Crumbley)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:24:20 -0000

Dave wants to retire from Pokemon Go because arranging in-person meetups with other Pokemon players to battle the difficult Pokemon is a hassle: they often show up late, or not at all, leaving him waiting outside and sweating in the sun. Also, he's a gray-haired anti-social Pokemon player who thinks he's a superior person when compared to the other Pokemon players. Especially the children Matt Hamilton (moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Dave Crumbley (Twitter: @cavedrumbley) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Twenty Years Of No New Kids (Matt Hamilton)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:22:01 -0000

Idea: Everyone agrees to stop having kids for twenty years to allow us to focus on building bullet trains and making other improvements to society. But it might lead to unintended problems, such as women who're desperate to become mothers kidnapping the last children, and the death of all birds (because many people who would've had children would have cats instead) Matt Hamilton (moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Dave Crumbley (Twitter: @cavedrumbley) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Bad Driver Hunger Games Lottery (Brandon Ponke)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 07:59:13 -0000

If someone is at fault in a car accident, almost causes an accident, or is just being a jerk on the road, their car's AI computer (which all cars will be required to have installed) will detect that this occurred, and then, when they park, the car will release knockout gas. Then the person will be put in a lottery with like 100 other bad drivers, and the person whose name gets drawn will be punished. The punishment will be that they'll be killed, or they'll be forced to poop their pants in their car Brandon Ponke (IG: @bponke Twitter: @BPonke) Adam Walsh (Knuckleheads Comedy: IG: @khcomedy313 Twitter: @KnuckleheadsC) Steve Kaz (IG: @kazthecomic) Dale Murdock (IG: @dalelerious) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio

Love Has Blind Spots (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:17:22 -0000

A weird futuristic idea to save pets from embarrassing accidental deaths, inspired from an incident of accidentally sleeping on the floor on top of tiny ants Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 88 StuMcCallister (Twitter: @StuMcCallister Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/lmnopodcast) Sal Demilio (Twitter: @SALLYD08 Podcast: https://salandbobshow.libsyn.com) Simon Carlson (Twitter: @shmimoncarlson) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Reverse Patreon (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:47:44 -0000

Idea: An enhancement to monthly-donation websites such as Patreon to allow you to temporarily adjust your donation to penalize (or reward) the content creator, and also give them a comment explaining why you're penalizing or rewarding them. You could also cap your overall total monthly donation, so if you reward one content creator with a bonus one month, it would automatically slightly reduce your donations to other content creators that month, so you can quickly give out a bonus without worrying about accidentally spending too much money Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 65 Dustin "Lee" (not real name, by request) Scott Fischer (Instagram: @scottimscott) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Cinderella App (Scott Fischer)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:43:11 -0000

Idea: An app which allows parents to remotely shut off a tail-light on their teenage kid's car if the kid stays out too late. That way, if the kid's gonna be out too late, he better stay sober, because he's at a high risk of getting pulled over Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 65 Dustin "Lee" (not real name, by request) Scott Fischer (Instagram: @scottimscott) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Refridgerator Outdoor Exhaust Vent (Dustin Lee)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:37:36 -0000

In the winter, a fridge takes warm air from inside the house which has been warmed by your heater, and cools it off again. In the summer, a fridge vents hot air into a house which you're trying to cool down with air conditioning. Why not position your fridge next to an outside wall, and use a vent/duct leading outdoors to either take in or vent out air (depending on the season) to save electricity? Or you could have a 2nd, tiny refridgerator door which leads outside, so Amazon grocery delivery can place food directly into the fridge. This could also allow you to sit in the fridge with the tiny door open to cool yourself off Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 65 Dustin "Lee" (not real name, by request) Scott Fischer (Instagram: @scottimscott) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

The Party Ship Sci-Fi Movie (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:03:13 -0000

Idea: A sci-fi movie, where, in the near future, an eccentric billionaire adventurer like Elon Musk leads the first mission to colonize a planet of a nearby star. They've figured out how to slow down aging via drugs and hibernation, so they age like 1/10 as fast as usual. So they can survive the entire 200-year journey, and still be young enough to have kids when they get there. But they can only hibernate for 90 days at a time. So every 90 days, they wake up, do a day of work, have an intense drug-fueled party, and then go back into hibernation before the hangover kicks in. So instead of space travel being logical and business-like and boring, it's the exact opposite, overflowing with fun and emotion and intense experiences. But will the people who signed up for a party be able to cope when things start to go wrong? Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 64 Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy) Paul Pipitone (Facebook: @paul.pipitone.5) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Crime-Erasing Time Machine (Paul Pipitone)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 23:56:55 -0000

Idea: Time machines that allow people to go back in time and prevent horrible crimes which would've occurred by peacefully interfering and preventing the crimes. But there might be some unexpected downsides... (Note: NSFW) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 64 Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy) Paul Pipitone (Facebook: @paul.pipitone.5) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Shapeshifting Tech (Avery Sommerfeld)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 23:52:06 -0000

Idea: A belt or suit that you can wear to allow yourself to temporarily change into any shape you want, like another person, an animal, an animated company logo, or a literal "fly on the wall". Also: a discussion on "invisibility cloaks" (Note: NSFW) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 64 Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy) Paul Pipitone (Facebook: @paul.pipitone.5) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Habitat for Hipsterity (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 04:46:12 -0000

Exercising in a gym is selfishly controlling machines (i.e. exercise equipment) in a way that benefits nobody else, and therefore provides you no contentment. And even the selfish benefits aren't perceptible enough to motivate you to do it. Why not instead have a charity where you build tiny houses for exercise? You could make it convenient and build the tiny houses indoors in a gym-like building on your own schedule. And you could either donate them to charity, or work towards earning your own tiny house, which might allow you to quit your day job and pursue your hipster creative dreams Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 63 Jason Alt (Twitter: @JasonEAlt) Nick Earl (Twitter: @fakenickearl) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Fitness Cult (Nick Earl)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 04:42:50 -0000

Because health/fitness fads and cults both have extremely loyal followings, why not combine them together and create a fitness cult? Plus, if you're gonna be a sleazy cult leader who seduces all of his followers (like they tend to do), this is a great theme for the cult, because your followers would be fit and wouldn't be sexually repressed religious zealots Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 63 Jason Alt (Twitter: @JasonEAlt) Nick Earl (Twitter: @fakenickearl) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Benefits of Implantable Microchips (Jason Alt)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 04:39:53 -0000

The three things men need to carry are phone, wallet, and keys. A sub-dermal microchip could eliminate 2 of those 3 things, and could also do other cool stuff, like store your customized settings for smart appliances. And security issues don't really matter because you're always carrying a cell phone anyway. The biggest downside is that somebody might cut it out of your body to steal it Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 63 Jason Alt (Twitter: @JasonEAlt) Nick Earl (Twitter: @fakenickearl) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Comedy Bracket Challenge (Adam Walsh)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:11:20 -0000

A standup comedy contest where comics compete one-on-one in a tournament bracket. Each night, 8 comics compete in 3 rounds, until a winner for the night is declared. After 8 shows, the 8 past winners compete in the same fashion to declare an ultimate winner. The first two rounds of the night are decided by overall audience applause immediately after the two competing comics perform. The last round of the night is decided by 7 pseudo-random audience members, who are chosen to be voters because they do not appear to be brought to the show by either of the two comics who made it to the final round, thus ensuring a more honest vote Adam Walsh (Knuckleheads Comedy: IG: @khcomedy313 Twitter: @KnuckleheadsC) Steve Kaz (IG: @kazthecomic) Brandon Ponke (IG: @bponke Twitter: @BPonke) Dale Murdock (IG: @dalelerious) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI

Bad Omen Cookies (Ian James)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 07:10:10 -0000

Idea: Fortune cookies which give you a bad fortune (for the sake of humor), such as "someone you love is gonna die soon", "you'll meet the woman of your dreams, but nightmares are also dreams", or a creepy picture of Bill Cosby's smiling face Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 62 Trebuchet (Twitter: @trebuchetlol YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCyvskJfWUhftv_pa7gREiRg) Scott Wilding (Twitter: @Wilding138) Ian James (Twitter: @dinosaurianjam) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Comedy Night Videogame Livestream (Scott Wilding)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 07:06:02 -0000

Idea: A standup comedy show on the Internet using the standup comedy videogame "Comedy Night" and the videogame livestreaming website Twitch. The show (which will probably be called "Nerdy and Dirty") will have a lineup of real standup comics. The comics will appear as avatars in the "Comedy Night" videogame. On Twitch, they'll also appear as avatars, possibly with additional video of their real faces as a picture-in-picture, and possibly with an additional pre-show interview. The audience will be real people, either the audience from the "Comedy Night" videogame (who can heckle), or, if the comics are performing in a real comedy venue in real life, the audience from that venue Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 62 Trebuchet (Twitter: @trebuchetlol YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCyvskJfWUhftv_pa7gREiRg) Scott Wilding (Twitter: @Wilding138) Ian James (Twitter: @dinosaurianjam) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Juggalo Sitcom (Trebuchet)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 07:02:44 -0000

Idea: A sitcom about a group of young juggalos (fans of the band "Insane Clown Posse", aka "ICP") growing up in the mid to late '90s. It would include things the wild and chaotic "Gathering of the Juggalos" concerts, backyard wrestling, and the political and pop culture context of ICP and the 1990s, such as music censorship, Columbine, and a feud with Eminem Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 62 Trebuchet (Twitter: @trebuchetlol YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCyvskJfWUhftv_pa7gREiRg) Scott Wilding (Twitter: @Wilding138) Ian James (Twitter: @dinosaurianjam) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Cat-A-Comb (Chris Karpinski)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 06:53:36 -0000

Idea: A pyramid or box-shaped structure that you put over a cat litterbox, which has an opening on the side for the cat to climb through to get to the litterbox. The opening contains a system of brushes to comb loose hairs (and dingleberries) off the cat as it leaves the litterbox. Hopefully the cat doesn't enjoy it so much that it brushes itself until it goes bald, or decides it doesn't need you to pet it anymore Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 61 Chris Karpinski (Twitter: @ComedyDadKzoo) Jay Stapes (Twitter: @jstapes_says) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Media Holdup Podcast (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 06:50:55 -0000

Idea: A podcast where a group of people of a variety of ages rate and discuss old movies, music, etc., and only discuss whether it "holds up", i.e. whether they enjoyed it when watching/listening the week before the podcast was recorded. Any discussion which isn't relevant to how much they enjoyed it (such as historical importance, critical accolades, etc.) would be interrupted. Unlike virtually all media review web sites, podcasts, etc., we wouldn't care about how groundbreaking a movie was or other snobby bulls***. The goal would be to help people find movies or other media that they'd enjoy consuming, which would likely be outside of the era where they would've seen it or heard of it based on their age, and therefore probably wouldn't have been recommended to them by software "recommendation engines" such as on Netflix Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 61 Chris Karpinski (Twitter: @ComedyDadKzoo) Jay Stapes (Twitter: @jstapes_says) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Hologram-Projecting Watch (Jay Stapes)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 06:46:34 -0000

Idea: A watch which can project a holographic image above it (like in Star Wars). Attaching a small glass pyramid above the watch can simulate a hologram, but be careful not to forget that it's there and puncture yourself while wiping Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 61 Chris Karpinski (Twitter: @ComedyDadKzoo) Jay Stapes (Twitter: @jstapes_says) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Boom-B-Gone (Chris Karpinski)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 06:42:58 -0000

Idea: A device to cancel out loud, vibrating bass from nearby cars when you're at a stoplight or stuck in a traffic jam. And maybe also wirelessly lock the person's car doors so they don't get out and attack you if they figure out that you silenced their music Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 61 Chris Karpinski (Twitter: @ComedyDadKzoo) Jay Stapes (Twitter: @jstapes_says) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

PredictionNet (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 22:57:18 -0000

Idea: A web site to allow professionals (scientists, engineers, business leaders) or groups of professionals to make and share predictions about the future, including prediction algorithms (which are based on other predictions and where the predicted outcome changes week to week as new information is received). There would be snapshots of the prediction algorithms, so you can see how the prediction has evolved over time. You'd be able to see the past performance of somebody's predictions. Regular "unverified" people would be able to make predictions as well. And psychic abilities would be disproven (or proven) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 60 Robert Jenkins (Twitter: @RobJComedy) Brent Von Kalamazoo(Twitter: @brentvonkzoo) Patrick Fowler (Twitter: @DontCallMePat) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Educational Lifecasting (Patrick Fowler)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 22:52:18 -0000

Idea: "Truman Show"-like television shows, each of which follows somebody throughout their entire life without their knowledge, but for educational purposes, such as to show obese people how thin people shop for groceries Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 60 Robert Jenkins (Twitter: @RobJComedy) Brent Von Kalamazoo(Twitter: @brentvonkzoo) Patrick Fowler (Twitter: @DontCallMePat) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Trump Distraction Parade (Brent Von Kalamazoo)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 22:44:11 -0000

Idea: An epic 3-year-long nationwide military parade led by Trump, who'd be in a luxury, platinum zeppelin, which would occupy Trump's attention until his presidency is over Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 60 Robert Jenkins (Twitter: @RobJComedy) Brent Von Kalamazoo(Twitter: @brentvonkzoo) Patrick Fowler (Twitter: @DontCallMePat) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

School Shooting Prevention Plan (Robert Jenkins)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 22:41:06 -0000

Idea: A 3-part plan to prevent school shootings: a) early childhood therapy, b) a "school shooter exchange program" which puts bullied white high-school boys in inner-city schools to "show them what real bullying is like", and c) legalized prostitution. Also: teachers using fake names when doing standup comedy, maybe the only people who should have guns are the people who don't want guns, why the best way to rid the country of guns might be to just do nothing Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 60 Robert Jenkins (Twitter: @RobJComedy) Brent Von Kalamazoo(Twitter: @brentvonkzoo) Patrick Fowler (Twitter: @DontCallMePat) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Dead Parades (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 11:02:02 -0000

Parades where you create a parade float for a semi-random dead person from your family or your community, intended to be a better way than graveyards to ensure that everyone gets remembered; could either be done yearly, or when removing the graveyard that the person is buried in (because of global warming sea rise, for example). Also: the crazy plot of the movie "How High", flooded graveyard zombies, "Day of the Dead" and "Coco" Aaron White (Facebook and IG: @aaaronwhite) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma IG: @tomwalma Web: creativitywasted.com) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Pontiac, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Mobile Farms (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 21:55:14 -0000

Urban farms in shipping-container sized flower pots which fit in semi-trucks/trains/etc. That way, you can transport them to "farming factories" in both the spring to plant the crops and the fall to harvest them, so you don't have to farm inefficiently with human hands. You could also transport them into buildings to protect them from crop-destroying weather, and put them in suburban yards instead of lawns Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 59 Ryan Allen (Twitter: @ryanallen92) Chris Young (Twitter: @chrisyoungcomic) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Self-Cleaning Dancing House (Chris Young)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 21:47:46 -0000

A house which can tip, spin, or "dance" to collect all of the junk (such as children's toys) in one area to make it easier to clean Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 59 Ryan Allen (Twitter: @ryanallen92) Chris Young (Twitter: @chrisyoungcomic) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Household Item Matching and 3D-Printing Service (Chris Young)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 21:39:11 -0000

A service for homeowners to rent a device which helps match small household items like Tupperware containers and pairs of socks, and also contains a 3-D printer to print or repair missing or broken items. It also can shame you for wanting to create matching items for gross old stuff Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 59 Ryan Allen (Twitter: @ryanallen92) Chris Young (Twitter: @chrisyoungcomic) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Bulls###bot (Ryan Allen)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 21:28:07 -0000

A little Jetsons-style robot which follows you around and loudly reports lies which it detects based on facial expressions, tone of voice, and also Internet data. However, you can't configure it to ignore your lies, and people could hack it to falsely report lies and destroy people's relationships. And psychopaths can use it to improve their lying skills Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 59 Ryan Allen (Twitter: @ryanallen92) Chris Young (Twitter: @chrisyoungcomic) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Smell-O-Vision (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 05:09:18 -0000

The futuristic tiny house idea from previous podcast episodes which uses robots to wheel in and out all of your stuff on demand could also wheel in Glade Plug-in-style scents and release them into the air in sync with your television. That way you could have "Smell-O-Vision" without the nuisance of having to constantly buy and replace dozens of scent plugins/cartridges Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 58 Matt Bach (Twitter: @mattbach) Sai Dharmarajan aka "Sai D" (Twitter: @dsaihurrish) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

WYF (Where You From) App (Sai Dharmarajan)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 04:55:00 -0000

An app for strangers standing near each other to announce to each other where they consider themselves as "being from", to avoid awkward situations, such as accidentally speaking Japanese to a Korean person, or to help spark a conversation with a stranger, who might be from the same US state, for example. Although there's a risk it could get corrupted by seethingly racist trolls Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 58 Matt Bach (Twitter: @mattbach) Sai Dharmarajan aka "Sai D" (Twitter: @dsaihurrish) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Pakistani Superman Twitter Screenplay (Sai Dharmarajan)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 04:44:50 -0000

A “Twitter screenplay” (a screenplay that fits in a single tweet) which is a dark comedy about a naive Pakistani who mistakenly believes that she sees Superman Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 58 Sai Dharmarajan aka "Sai D" (Twitter: @dsaihurrish) Matt Bach (Twitter: @mattbach) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Baby Feeding Shirt (Matt Bach)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 04:21:54 -0000

A smock to wear (over your shirt) when feeding a baby which will absorb vomit if the baby throws up, and has the alphabet printed on it for educational purposes. Also useful for drunk adults who might vomit on themselves or need to recite the alphabet to pass a sobriety test Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 58 Matt Bach (Twitter: @mattbach) Brendan Gay (Twitter: @BrendanGay92) Sai Dharmarajan aka "Sai D" (Twitter: @dsaihurrish) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Revolving Door Electricity Generator (Brendan Gay)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 09:18:58 -0000

A device to generate electricity from pushing a revolving door when entering or exiting a building. Although this might cause companies to encourage their employees to smoke so that they generate electricity walking outside for their cigarette break. And "big oil" might murder people in the revolving door Godfather-style to discourage people from generating clean energy Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 58 Brendan Gay (Twitter: @BrendanGay92) Matt Bach (Twitter: @mattbach) Sai Dharmarajan aka "Sai D" (Twitter: @dsaihurrish) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Bored App (Aaron White)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 21:07:06 -0000

When you're bored, get on board the "bored app", and it'll give you a list of stuff to do (outside your house) near your current location at the current time which is tailored to your interests. Also: "baby on bored" for stuff you can do with your kids, "over bored", opening businesses off-hours on-demand through the app, creepy work bathroom stories Aaron White (Facebook and IG: @aaaronwhite) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma IG: @tomwalma Web: creativitywasted.com) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Pontiac, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Hanging Human Beehive Skyscraper (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 08:54:46 -0000

An extremely lightweight skyscraper shaped like a giant beehive that hangs down from giant "St. Louis Arch"-sized arch(es), above existing skyscrapers, where the people and all of their stuff are flown in and out on drones which look like giant bees. Also: rotating them around a city through a series of arches on a suspended cable, tea-bagging the Trump tower, beehive-dweller bullying, an idea for the biggest business of all time Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma IG: tomwalma Web: creativitywasted.com) Abbie Lemke (IG: abbielemke) Heather Koos (Facebook: Heather Koos Comedy IG: heatherkooscomedy) Marcco Gonzalez (Twitter: @marccogonzalez IG: milenio_the_clown Podcast: sittingdownwithstandups.libsyn.com) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Pontiac, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Humiliation Debt Relief Network (Marcco Gonzalez)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 02:22:16 -0000

A social network (or TV show) which connects an addict with a wealthy person or group, where the wealthy person pays to fix the addict's financial and/or medical problems, and in exchange, the addict must endure a public humiliation. Also: drinking with cops, a boar head fixation, and a disgusting use of a stepdaughter's toothbrush Marcco Gonzalez (Twitter: @marccogonzalez IG: milenio_the_clown Podcast: sittingdownwithstandups.libsyn.com) Abbie Lemke (IG: abbielemke) Heather Koos (Facebook: Heather Koos Comedy IG: heatherkooscomedy) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma IG: tomwalma Web: creativitywasted.com) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Pontiac, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Deplatform Shoes (Abbie Lemke)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 13:38:49 -0000

A sci-fi shoe or a plastic surgery to make a tall person shorter (because it's not fair that short people can wear shoes to make them look taller, but not vice-versa). Also: tall people who aren't good at sports, giant guitar players, silly things we'd do if we were tall Abbie Lemke (IG: abbielemke) Heather Koos (Facebook: Heather Koos Comedy IG: heatherkooscomdy) Marcco Gonzalez (Twitter: @marccogonzalez IG: milenio_the_clown Podcast: sittingdownwithstandups.libsyn.com) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma IG: tomwalma Web: creativitywasted.com) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Pontiac, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Big D#$! Diet Plan (Heather Koos)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 08:24:57 -0000

A plant-based diet that improves male performance (according to a documentary on Netflix), where the performance of a male partner is playfully mocked if they don't stick to the diet. Also: vegan farts, "fart guys", gym peacocking, and obesity's impact on male size Heather Koos (Facebook: Heather Koos Comedy IG: heatherkooscomdy) Abbie Lemke (IG: abbielemke) Marcco Gonzalez (Twitter: @marccogonzalez IG: milenio_the_clown Podcast: sittingdownwithstandups.libsyn.com) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma IG: tomwalma Web: creativitywasted.com) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Pontiac, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

BONUS: Teach or Die Re-Upload (Edited w/Bonus Audio) (Tom Walma)

thomas.walma@gmail.com (Tom Walma) — Sun, 13 May 2018 08:20:31 -0000

BONUS: Episode 21 "Teach or Die" re-upload: edited and w/bonus audio The original episode was unedited. This version is edited, and also with 3 minutes of additional bonus audio from my appearance on Bryan Harrison's horrifically-named "Moist Definitely" podcast. 01:10 Problems with current educational system, music education in US vs. Sweden 06:12 Bad ways to fix schools 10:31 Splitting "teacher" into 3 job roles: "monitoring", "giving lessons", and "tutoring" 15:12 "Teach or Die" idea and the "giving lessons" job role 23:31 Poverty "melting away" from statistics (and an emotionally triggered misunderstanding) 24:51 Is performing the "tutoring" job role only in study halls enough personalized education? Also feat. Mike Geeter's personal story 31:35 "Giving lessons" job role: current teaching system vs. "Teach or Die" system 38:46 The importance of competition and evidence-based feedback, examples of martial arts and YouTube makeup tutorials 43:11 "Teachers Pay Teachers" website and the "Teach or Die" economy 44:26 Is the unskilled "monitoring" job role good enough? 46:21 Summary Featuring Tom Walma (@thomaswalma), Mike Geeter (@OhMikeGeeter, "Hart of the City 2" on Comedy Central), Gus Nassar, and an anonymous teacher Recorded at PodcastDetroit.com