Creativity Wasted

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 the...

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.com/kerryalanmccabe) Megan Cottington-Heath (instagram.com/megtasticmeg) Steve Gay (twitter.com/sgaytwo) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Hard Knocks Grill in Jackson, MI

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.com/kerryalanmccabe) Megan Cottington (instagram.com/megtasticmeg) Tom Walma (twitter...

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: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ar48A2btUjcZZ7Gcox2Ut?si=CnIg4QqlQEebPfPPJ0s_Zw) Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Kevin Key (instagram.com/kevinjokeskey) Tom Walma (...

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 Scott Gaughan ("Free Netflix Online" Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ar48A2btUj...

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: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ar48A2btUjcZZ7Gcox2Ut?si=CnIg4QqlQEebPfPPJ0s_Zw) Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Kevin Key (instagram.com/kevinjokeskey) Tom Walma (twitter.com/...

Idea: To use leather bondage masks for Coronavirus prevention, because leather masks with shiny silver zippers are stronger (and therefore better) than paper masks and cloth masks. Also: whips to encourage social distancing, "breath play", questioning whether Canadians are too polite for BDSM Scott Gaughan ("Free Netflix Online" Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ar48A2btUjcZZ7Gcox2Ut?si=CnIg...

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...

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: https://joelradio.net) Branden Milsk (twitter.com/BrandenMilsk) Sophia Spagnuolo (twitt...

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: https://joelradio.net) Bra...

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: https://joelr...

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 ano...

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.com/alanblah) Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com...

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.com/alanblah) Diego Attanasio (twitter.com/DiegoComedy) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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...

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 t...

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.com/SethResler) Mike Rich (facebook.com/IAmNumbr4) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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.com/SethResler) Mike Rich (facebook.com/IAmNumbr4) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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.com/SethResler ) Tom Walma ( twitter.com/thomaswalma )

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.com/MarkTSweetman, Ann Arbor Tonight: twitter.com/A2Tonight) Doug Glidden (facebook.com/doug.glidden.7) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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.com/MarkTSweetman, Ann Arbor Tonight: twitter.com...

Idea: To use ancient/low-tech building techniques and manual labor to build a giant pyramid in Detroit out of the waste material of torn down buildings. Also: Flint Stonehenge (https://youtu.be/bsoYkGb7p28), watching people move the 10+ ton blocks is more entertaining than viewing a completed pyramid, building a pyramid for exercise Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 17 Mark Sweetman (twitt...

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...

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 Zachary Burcar (twitter.com/burcarz) Nicki Wright (twitter.com/ohthatnicki) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

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.com/darnell_IRL) Zachary Burcar (...