Outdoor Dog Distractor

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 (Linktree: @LaughYourLukoff)
Justin Hicks (Facebook: justin.hicks.92798)
Skippy Rose (Instagram: skippyrosecomedy YouTube: @SkippyRoseComedy)
Tom Walma (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

In 5 Hours Energy

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

Niko Lukoff (Linktree: @LaughYourLukoff)
Justin Hicks (Facebook: justin.hicks.92798)
Skippy Rose (Instagram: skippyrosecomedy YouTube: @SkippyRoseComedy)
Tom Walma (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Starfish Children's Book

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

Vivian Burgett (Instagram: @vivianburgettcomedy)
Juan Carlos Calvachi (Instagram: @jcalvachi)
John Johnson (Facebook: @johnnyrightnow)
Tom Walma (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Dead Man's Switch App

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: Sanctioned by Stefanie Instagram: @thedownriverdiva Facebook: @stefanie.brewer1)
JD The Smile Hustler (X: @smilehustler01 Instagram: @smilehustler01 Facebook: JD The Smile Hustler)
Aaron Sorrels (theunemployedalcoholic.com Soapstone Comedy Club on Horizon Worlds Facebook: @thesoapstone)
Tom Walma (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Baby Monitor Wristwatch

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

Diego Attanasio (Facebook: @diegocomedy Instagram: @DiegoComedy)
Evan Sasiela (X: @SalsaEvan Instagram: @salsaevan)
Connie Ettinger (Facebook: @connie.ettinger)
Tom Walma (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Action Dads

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

Brian Bosworth photo by jondoeforty1 license CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (photo has been modified)

Matt Harper (Facebook: @matt.harper.146 Instagram: @mattharperart)
Brett Mercer (X: @brettmercer_ Podcast: Big Time Garbage Twitch and Web: @Brettmercer)
Johnny Mocny (Podcast and Web: @wearemoviespod Linktree: linktr.ee/JohnnyMocnyComedy)
Tom Walma (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Baby Name Review Board

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 (X: @mylesdeloser Facebook: @DylesMeLeeuw)
Jon Mullinix (Instagram: @mullinixjon)
JR Williams (Instagram: @jrstandsup Facebook: @jrstandsup)
John Sopkowicz
Tom Walma (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Your Friend's Baby And You

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: @sommerfab)
Gimmy Cipriano (Instagram: @abittoomuch_comedy)
Austin Gosnell (YouTube: ThemBoyzSkittin)
Tom Walma (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Facebook But Without Kids or Parents

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 (Instagram: @iamkyleforsyth Facebook: @IAmKyleForsyth Linktree: linktr.ee/iamkyleforsyth)
Tom Walma (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Moms & Pops App

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 (Facebook: @felicity.hills Instagram: @felfelblue)
Sai D (X: @saidee27 Facebook: @dsaihurrish Instagram: @saidee27)
Michael Dinkelis (Facebook: @mdinkelis Instagram: @mdinkdoesink)
Tom Walma (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Family Leasing

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 (Instagram: @samrager.is.alright Facebook: Samantha Rager)
Max Sheldrick (Instagram: @maxsheldrick)
Teena Green (Facebook: @teena.green.66635)
Jeewan Gill (Facebook: @jeewan.gill.5)
Tom Walma (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Child Talkback Machine

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 (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Ted Moss (Book: Look Out...I'm Parenting Here! A Survival Guide for the Single Parent Facebook: @teddystips)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Baby Boarding Houses

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 (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Ted Moss (Book: Look Out...I'm Parenting Here! A Survival Guide for the Single Parent Facebook: @teddystips)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Confusing Baby Compliments Prank

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: @itsjimeliot Facebook: @jim.eliot.33)
Tom Walma (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Childhood Obesity Cure

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

Note: This episode was recorded at a “test run” during a poker game, and was not released on the podcast feed, due to the poor audio quality

Shallis M
Frank A
Marty R
Tom Walma (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Just-In-Case Pillowcase

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 (Podcast: Crass & Heartless)
Jason Patterson (Facebook: Jason Patterson)
Tom Walma (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Baby Translator

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 (Facebook: @dan.kumapayi)
Bryan Harrison (Facebook: @bryan.harrison.9843 Instagram: @donncharedbeard)
Bryan Deuchler (Facebook: @bryan.deuchler Podcast: Cartoon Tonic)
Tom Walma (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Cinderella App

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: @scottclarkekent Facebook: @scott.fischer.980)
Tom Walma (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Self-Cleaning Dancing House

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 (X: @ryanallen92)
Chris Young (Website: chrisyoungcomic.com Instagram: @chrisyoungcomic Comedy Special Video: Buoyant Mon)
Tom Walma (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Baby Feeding Shirt

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

Brendan Gay (Facebook: @brendan.gay.1)
Matt Bach (Facebook: @matt.bach)
Sai D (Facebook: @dsaihurrish Instagram: @saidee27 X: @saidee27)
Tom Walma (Facebook: @tom.walma X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)