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
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 66
Matt Hamilton (moistdefinitelypodcast.com)
Dave Crumbley (Twitter: @cavedrumbley)
Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
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
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 66
Matt Hamilton (moistdefinitelypodcast.com)
Dave Crumbley (Twitter: @cavedrumbley)
Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
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
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 66
Matt Hamilton (moistdefinitelypodcast.com)
Dave Crumbley (Twitter: @cavedrumbley)
Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
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)
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 66
Matt Hamilton (moistdefinitelypodcast.com)
Dave Crumbley (Twitter: @cavedrumbley)
Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
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
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
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 refrigerator 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
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”
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
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 given drugs that cause them to poop their pants in their car
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
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?
Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy)
Paul Pipitone (Facebook: @paul.pipitone.5)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: TotallyAwesomeTrebuchetAwards)
Scott Wilding (Twitter: @Wilding138)
Ian James (Twitter: @dinosaurianjam)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
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: TotallyAwesomeTrebuchetAwards)
Scott Wilding (Twitter: @Wilding138)
Ian James (Twitter: @dinosaurianjam)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
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: TotallyAwesomeTrebuchetAwards)
Scott Wilding (Twitter: @Wilding138)
Ian James (Twitter: @dinosaurianjam)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
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