"Try Anything For Free" Grocery Store

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)
Diego Attanasio (Twitter: @DiegoComedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Choose-Your-Adventure Movies

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: @KenWitzgall42)
Scott Fischer (Instagram: @scottimscott)
Justin Mcleod (Twitter: @jibtron_zero)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Gun License Cards

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: @KenWitzgall42)
Scott Fischer (Instagram: @scottimscott)
Justin Mcleod (Twitter: @jibtron_zero)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Ethical Adult Entertainment Certification

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: @KenWitzgall42)
Scott Fischer (Instagram: @scottimscott)
Justin Mcleod (Twitter: @jibtron_zero)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Ethical Shopping Barcode App

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: @KenWitzgall42)
Scott Fischer (Instagram: @scottimscott)
Justin Mcleod (Twitter: @jibtron_zero)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Car Roof Holograms

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: @KenWitzgall42)
Scott Fischer (Instagram: @scottimscott)
Justin Mcleod (Twitter: @jibtron_zero)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Just-In-Time Tiny Houses

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: @SGRager)
Max Sheldrick (Instagram: @maxsheldrick)
Teena Green (Twitter: @TeenaMGreen)
Jeewan Gill (Facebook: @jeewan.gill.5)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

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 (Twitter: @SGRager)
Max Sheldrick (Instagram: @maxsheldrick)
Teena Green (Twitter: @TeenaMGreen)
Jeewan Gill (Facebook: @jeewan.gill.5)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Comedy Guerrilla Marketing Ideas

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: @SGRager)
Max Sheldrick (Instagram: @maxsheldrick)
Teena Green (Twitter: @TeenaMGreen)
Jeewan Gill (Facebook: @jeewan.gill.5)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Brailleoke

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: @SGRager)
Max Sheldrick (Instagram: @maxsheldrick)
Teena Green (Twitter: @TeenaMGreen)
Jeewan Gill (Facebook: @jeewan.gill.5)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

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 (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Ted Moss (Twitter: @TedMossComedy Podcast: TEDTALKS2much Book: Look Out...I'm Parenting Here! A Survival Guide for the Single Parent)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

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 (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Ted Moss (Twitter: @TedMossComedy Podcast: TEDTALKS2much 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

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: @kerryalanmccabe)
Megan Cottington (Instagram: @megtasticmeg)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Steve Gay (Twitter: @sgaytwo)
Recorded at Hard Knocks Grill in Jackson, MI

Modular Skyscraper City Part 2

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: @kerryalanmccabe)
Megan Cottington (Instagram: @megtasticmeg)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Steve Gay (Twitter: @sgaytwo)
Recorded at Hard Knocks Grill in Jackson, MI

Shoplifting-Based Economy

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)
Diego Attanasio (Twitter: @DiegoComedy)
Kevin Key (Instagram: @kevinjokeskey)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Trump and Drake Are The Same Person

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

Drake photo by The Come Up Show license CC BY (photo has been modified)

Trump photo by Gage Skidmore license CC BY-SA 2.0 (photo has been modified)

Scott Gaughan ("Free Netflix Online" Podcast)
Diego Attanasio (Twitter: @DiegoComedy)
Kevin Key (Instagram: @kevinjokeskey)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Teach or Die

Idea: A teaching system which involves firing all of the teachers and replacing them with cheap unskilled classroom monitors, multimedia lessons, and tutors. Multiple companies develop competing lessons for the same small topic (ranging from 1 to 10 classroom hours long). The more successful lessons (based on standardized test results for that topic) will "survive" and be taught to a greater percentage of future students, causing the company to be paid accordingly. Strong competition, continued and rapid lesson improvement, unbiased statistical feedback, and equal opportunity are all built into the system, none of which can be said about the current educational system.

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 21

Contains 3 minutes of additional bonus audio from Tom’s appearance on the horrifically-named "Moist Definitely" podcast

Mike Geeter (Twitter: @OhMikeGeeter, Kevin Hart's "Hart in the City")
Gus N.
Maria (a teacher)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded live at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Crucifixion Advertising

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)
Diego Attanasio (Twitter: @DiegoComedy)
Kevin Key (Instagram: @kevinjokeskey)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Modular Skyscraper City

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

Perks of Being Ghosted Movie

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