Old Man Strip Clubs

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: joelradio.net)
Branden Milsk (Twitter: @BrandenMilsk)
Sophia Spagnuolo (Twitter: @SophiaZada)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded live at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Single-Day Presidential Campaigns

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: joelradio.net)
Branden Milsk (Twitter: @BrandenMilsk)
Sophia Spagnuolo (Twitter: @SophiaZada)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded live at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Food Oasis

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: @alanblah)
Diego Attanasio (Twitter: @DiegoComedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Roll-On Butter Stick

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: @alanblah)
Diego Attanasio (Twitter: @DiegoComedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Wide-Tipped Pencil

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: @alanblah)
Diego Attanasio (Twitter: @DiegoComedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Cosmetic Surgery Kickstarter

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: @alanblah)
Diego Attanasio (Twitter: @DiegoComedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Space Soccer

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: @SethResler)
Mike Rich (Facebook: @IAmNumbr4)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Escort Liaison

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: @SethResler)
Mike Rich (Facebook: @IAmNumbr4)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Foodie Scavenger Hunt

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: @SethResler)
Mike Rich (Facebook: @IAmNumbr4)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

MC Squared Song Ratings

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: @SethResler)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Asian Carp Prevention

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: @MarkTSweetman, Ann Arbor Tonight)
Doug Glidden (Facebook: @doug.glidden.7)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

City of the Dead

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: @MarkTSweetman, Ann Arbor Tonight)
Doug Glidden (Facebook: @doug.glidden.7)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Detroit Pyramid

Idea: To use ancient/low-tech building techniques and (well-paid) manual labor to build a giant pyramid in Detroit out of the waste material of torn down buildings. Also: Flint Stonehenge, watching people move the 10+ ton blocks is more entertaining than viewing a completed pyramid, building a pyramid for exercise

Note: This episode was recorded in a Subway restaurant (because our recording venue was unexpectedly closed when we arrived)

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 17

Mark Sweetman (Twitter: @MarkTSweetman, Ann Arbor Tonight)
Doug Glidden (Facebook: @doug.glidden.7)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Gym Truck

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: @darnell_IRL)
Zachary Burcar (Twitter: @burcarz)
Nicki Wright (Twitter: @ohthatnicki)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

50 Shades of Rainbow

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

Darnell Anderson (Twitter: @darnell_IRL)
Zachary Burcar (Twitter: @burcarz)
Nicki Wright (Twitter: @ohthatnicki)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

SlowPokeAlypse

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: @darnell_IRL)
Zachary Burcar (Twitter: @burcarz)
Nicki Wright (Twitter: @ohthatnicki)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Books for Pets

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: @darnell_IRL)
Zachary Burcar (Twitter: @burcarz)
Nicki Wright (Twitter: @ohthatnicki)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

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)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Bringing Back the XFL

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: @itsjimeliot)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Cauliflower Ear Mold

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: @itsjimeliot)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)