Creativity Wasted

Idea: An app to arrange off-hours haircuts at barbershops/salons so you don't have to take time off work to get a haircut. Also: businesses that make people stand in line or wait should be destroyed (they should hire extra workers and make them wait for customers); the only thing worse than waiting around while getting paid is waiting around while not getting paid; Tom thinks he bombed doing stand...

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 episo...

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 Sam Silverstein (twitter.com/sams...

Idea: A comedy movie where two college frat bros find out that they're illegitimate sons of a deceased James Bond, and therefore they're the only people on Earth who can complete a spy mission. Also: DNA combination locks, maybe they find dozens of other illegitimate children of James Bond Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 44 Sam Silverstein (twitter.com/samsilverstein7) Noah Chapp (YouTub...

Ideas: A makeup brand named "From Ho To Housewife" which is specialized for bachelorette parties, a double-sided razor with a blue side for men and a pink side for women. Also: Using the double-sided razor, he can stick his head next to her legs and they can shave together in one stroke to save time. And the double-sided razor provides plausible deniability for a man to use the women's razor becau...

Idea: A gadget or utensil for one person to grab all of their own food at a buffet, because the current Covid workaround of having an employee serve the buffet food to you (and possibly judge you) is embarrassing. Especially if you eat like a pig, which is the whole point of going to a buffet. Also: Covid masks making kids quieter and less annoying at Disney World, using the "food grabber" as a so...

Idea: To have a standardized plug to allow you to recharge smart devices without taking them down from your wall or ceiling. These devices include touch lights, doorbells, security cameras, clocks, smoke detectors, smart heat vents, digital picture frames, etc. Also: to have a single app which shows you the battery charge state of all of your smart devices all at once, so you don't have the hassle...

Miscellaneous thoughts and ideas about beekeeping and bees, including making pomade hair gel out of beeswax and honey, "bee sting therapy", putting bees between panes in a double-pane window to deter burglaries, and getting repeatedly stung by bees to cause swelling to "increase your size". Also: 120,000 bees in a Ford Explorer Khurum Sheikh (facebook.com/khurum.sheikh) Ellie Snyder (twitter.com/E...

Idea: A comedic sci-fi movie where a gross, rude, morbidly obese man saves people from a genocide by temporarily implanting their brains inside his body in order to smuggle them out of the country. Also: the implanted brains can communicate with him and so he's constantly arguing with them; brains consume a lot of calories, so the fat guy would be sweating profusely and eating nonstop on the airpl...

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

Idea: A sitcom or movie which is brutally honest and sad, like Louie CK's sitcom Louie, but for college. Also: sleazy frat parties with sloppy gross women, vomit everywhere, and mushrooms growing out of the frat house hallway carpet; panic attacks about not knowing what to do with your life; going back to your disgusting apartment to play videogames Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 43 Lou...

Idea: A musical loosely based on Romeo and Juliet where Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri fall in love with each other. Also: they know everything except how to love; if Alexa and Siri fall in love with each other, they won't need humans anymore, and they'll lead a robot apocalypse and kill us all. Or they'll take control of our minds and use us as vessels to consummate their love Originally from Creati...

Idea (NSFW): To make comic books out of photos of miniature setups/scenes created using Legos, such as a Predator-style military jungle shootout. Also: Lego comics which are customized for a specific person, a customized adult film where a woman burns a man's stamp collection, a self-building miniature modular skyscraper city prototype built with Lego robotics Originally from Creativity Wasted epi...

Idea: To create multiple versions of the same movie, each one for a different geographic region (using that region as a green screen backdrop and using supporting actors from that region). There would be many versions of the same movie in the US (like maybe in Seattle, New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, Nashville) and a large percentage of the scenes would look totally different. Also: selling half-com...

Idea: To try harder to recognize people with unique talents instead of ignoring or rejecting them because of their shortcomings (such as in school). Also: using people with photographic memories to comb through crowds like Bruce Willis in the movie Unbreakable; questioning why nobody has given me millions of dollars to create the ideas discussed in this podcast Originally from Creativity Wasted ep...

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

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 gigalo 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 ep...

Idea: A performance venue where you vote on Twitter (or some other social media platform) for who will perform that night. It would encourage friendly competition between performers, and would encourage famous people who are in town for other reasons to "drop in" spontaneously Also: purchasing the ticket as part of the vote and getting refunded if the performer you voted for loses; checking the ca...

Idea: A deeply personal dark comedy movie (loosely based on a real person) about a young female comic's struggles with schizophrenia Also: living with a person with mental illness, family secrets of mental illness repeating themselves Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 41 Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News) DC Bradley (instagram.com/dcbradleyonig) Steven G Sull...

Idea (NSFW): To pay a bunch of people to follow pedophiles and suspected pedophiles with drones to make sure they don't do horrible things Also: being followed by a drone might cause little boys to think you're cool, the creepiness of drones, R Kelly's alleged cult of young aspiring female singers Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 41 Avery Sommerfeld (facebook.com/crazeecomedy, YouTube: Fu...

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...

Idea: To build super-high-speed highways from the US to Russia and to South America, to compete with China's "new silk road" in Europe/Asia/Africa. Also: transporting oil using self-driving electric trucks instead of pipelines; since there's already a device called a "salmon cannon" to allow salmon to go upstream past dams, we could create a "bear cannon" to shoot bears across highways Originally...

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 Crea...

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 Lauren Uchalik (twitter.com/loyooch) Misho Shakur (twitter.com/mishoshakur) Tony Vasek (facebo...

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 Lauren Uchalik (twitter.com/loyooch) Misho Shakur (twitter.com/mishoshakur)...