Creativity Wasted

Idea: A weird way to approximate backwards time travel in video games and possibly the real world. Also: the "Back to the Future" disappearing photo, memory manipulation and trans-cranial direct-current stimulation, delayed remembering of externally-stored memories, the perils of living in the past, the "satanic panic" of the 80s, Wild West bar fights Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 26 S...

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 f...

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.com/KenWitzgall42 suspended) Scott Fischer (instagram.com/scottimscott) Justin Mcleod (twitter.com/jibtron_zero) Tom Walma (twitter.co...

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.com/KenWitzgall42 suspended) Scott Fischer (instagram.com/scottimscott) Justin Mcleod (twitter.com/jibtron_zero) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www. PodcastDet...

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 (twitte...

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.com/KenWitzgall42 suspended) Scott Fischer (instagram.com/scottimscott) Justin Mcleod (twitter.com/jibtron_zero) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recor...

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.com/KenWitzgall42 suspended) Scott Fischer (instagram.com/scottimscott) Justin Mcleod (twitter....

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 h...

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.com/SGRager) Max Sheldrick (instagram.com/maxsheldrick) Teena Green (twitter.com/TeenaMGreen) Jeewan G...

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.com/SGRager) Max Sheldrick (instagram.com/maxsheldrick) Teena Green (twitter.com/TeenaMGreen) Jeewan Gill (facebook.com/jee...

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.com/SGRager) Max Sheldrick (instagram.com/maxsheldrick) Teena Green (twitter.com/TeenaMGreen) Jeewan Gill (facebook.com/jeewan.gill.5) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast D...

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.com/thomaswalma) Ted Moss (twitter.com/TedMossComedy Podcast: https://TEDTALKS2much.com Book: "Look Out...I'm Parenting Here! A Survival Guide for the Single Parent") R...

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...