Tom Walma

Silliness

Wild Animal Home Renovation Show

Animal Rights / Vegan, Pets, Silliness, TV ShowJoe BatesComment

Idea: A home renovation 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 emailing a nature conservatory asking for funny chimp videos

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Joe Bates (Twitter: @JoeBatesComedy Comedy Album: Joe Bates Joe Bates Joe Bates by Joe Bates)
Jason Alt (Twitter: @JasonEAlt)
Joseph Johnson (Twitter: @JJohnsonComedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Poo-pourri Air Horn Prank

Prank, Silliness, NSFWGimmy CiprianoComment

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

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Gimmy Cipriano (Twitter: @theRealGimmyC, @aBitTooMuch1)
Ricarlo Winston (Twitter: @thewolfspider23)
Markus Olind (Twitter: @BeardVonMarkus)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

High-Stakes "Rock, Paper, Scissors"

Silliness, Event or ActivityTom WalmaComment

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)

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James Couture (Instagram: @secretbeefcake)
Justin Siekierka (Liberty Street Brewing Co Comedy Show)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Scare-eolas

Silliness, Tech, NSFWJustin SiekierkaComment

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

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James Couture (Instagram: @secretbeefcake)
Justin Siekierka (Liberty Street Brewing Co Comedy Show)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Wearing An Object Around Your Neck

Clothing, SillinessSai-DComment

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

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Joel Fragomeni (Podcast Joel Radio)
Sai-D (Twitter: @saidee27)
Matti Yaari (Facebook: @myaari)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Rabid Fandom Extraction Service

Health, SillinessPat SievertComment

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

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Seth Addison (Instagram: @sexaddictson)
Pat Sievert (Twitter: @patsievert)
Josh Courtnay (Twitter: @JoshCourtnay)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Office Privacy Chair

Silliness, InventionTom WalmaComment

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

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Nick Pizzuti (Facebook: @nick.pizzuti.73)
Kyle Forsyth (Twitter: @IAmKyleForsyth)
Ashley Stommen (Instagram: @ashleystommen)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Everybody Must Run For President

Politics and Social Issue, Silliness, Event or ActivityTom WalmaComment

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

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Joel Fragomeni (Podcast Joel Radio)
Sai-D (Twitter: @saidee27)
Matti Yaari (Facebook: @myaari)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Renaissance Festival Astronaut Prank

Silliness, PrankNoah ChappComment

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

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Sam Silverstein (Twitter: @samsilverstein7)
Noah Chapp (YouTube)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

OCD Thief Comedy Sketch

Silliness, TV ShowSam SilversteinComment

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

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Sam Silverstein (Twitter: @samsilverstein7)
Noah Chapp (YouTube)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Dementia Debates

Politics and Social Issue, SillinessKhurum SheikhComment

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

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Khurum Sheikh (Facebook: @khurum.sheikh)
Ellie Snyder (Twitter: @EllieIsnt)
Charles Fricker (Facebook: @charlie.fricker.9)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Stoned Yetis in Space

TV Show, SillinessPerry MenkenComment

Idea: An absurdist cartoon where stoner Yetis find a crashed alien spaceship and use it to go on adventures trying to find their homeworld 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

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Louie Michael (Twitter: @LouTheSurgeon, Podcast: Free Consultation)
Shelly Smith (Podcast: Reads And Weeds)
Nick "Martin"
Perry Menken (Twitter: @perry_menken)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Garbage Tubes to Space

Silliness, SciFi, FuturisticTim ReaburnComment

Idea: Tubes that shoot garbage into space. The Venturi principle and the surface tension of water would theoretically cause the liquefied 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

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Eric Fadie (Twitter: @bigedetroitcast)
Tim Reaburn (Twitter: @timrebrn)
John Eric Ballinger (Twitter: @Glubchuck44)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Poorly Performing Gigolo

NSFW, SillinessEric FadieComment

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 gigolo 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

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Eric Fadie (Twitter: @bigedetroitcast)
Tim Reaburn (Twitter: @timrebrn)
John Eric Ballinger (Twitter: @Glubchuck44)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Mind-Sharing Clones

NSFW, SciFi, SillinessAvery SommerfeldComment

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

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Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News)
DC Bradley (Instagram: @dcbradleyonig)
Steven G Sullivan
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

FartLogger

Tech, Health, Invention, App, SillinessTony VasekComment

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

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Lauren Uchalik (Twitter: @loyooch)
Misho Shakur (Twitter: @mishoshakur)
Tony Vasek (Facebook: @tony.vacek.33)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Fidget Spinners With Age Detection (So Adults Can't Use Them)

SillinessTony VasekComment

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

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Lauren Uchalik (Twitter: @loyooch)
Misho Shakur (Twitter: @mishoshakur)
Tony Vasek (Facebook: @tony.vacek.33)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Electricity-Generating Adult Toys

NSFW, Silliness, EnvironmentalismMisho ShakurComment

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

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Lauren Uchalik (Twitter: @loyooch)
Misho Shakur (Twitter: @mishoshakur)
Tony Vasek (Facebook: @tony.vacek.33)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

ExTracker

App, Silliness, TechLauren UchalikComment

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

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Lauren Uchalik (Twitter: @loyooch)
Misho Shakur (Twitter: @mishoshakur)
Tony Vasek (Facebook: @tony.vacek.33)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Dogpocalypse

SciFi, Silliness, Pets, NSFW, MovieJon MullinixComment

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

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Myles De Leeuw (Twitter: @mylesdeloser)
Jon Mullinix (Instagram: @mullinixjon)
JR Williams (Twitter: @jrstandsup)
John Sopkowicz (Twitter: @sopkowits)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit