Creativity Wasted

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 (...

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

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

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

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

Idea: Scientists predict that a landslide on a tiny island off the coast of Africa could create a mega-tsunami across the entire East Coast of the US. Since such a small thing (a landslide on a tiny island) can create a tsunami, it should also be possible to design a giant machine to create a tsunami. Also: maybe a tsunami machine could create a tsunami to cancel out another tsunami Originally fro...

Idea: A parody sci-fi sequal to the movie Forrest Gump, where Forrest Gump lives as artificial intelligence in a computer, plays Pong instead of Ping Pong, takes over Skynet, and blows up the world in order to destroy all pornographic digital pictures of Jenny Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 14 Erich Laux (twitter.com/ErichJLaux) Scott Wilding (twitter.com/Wilding138) Michael Dinkelis (t...

Idea: A campy sitcom where the devil loses Hell in foreclosure, goes to Earth, and tries to buy enough souls through telemarketing to buy back Hell. Also: the devil's Napoleon complex, annoying and possibly illegal guerilla marketing tactics for the show Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 14 Erich Laux (twitter.com/ErichJLaux) Scott Wilding (twitter.com/Wilding138) Michael Dinkelis (twitter...

Idea: An app which detects that you've thrown your phone and simulates an old school angry phone slam to the person on the other end of the call. Also: maybe automatically delete the person on the other end of the call from your contacts, maybe use a custom angry hangup message instead of a "phone slam" sound Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 14 Erich Laux (twitter.com/ErichJLaux) Scott Wi...

Idea: A recreational fake kidnapping service (as inspired by "escape rooms") where you have to solve puzzles to escape. Also: a fake kidnapping "promposal" and how it could go wrong, staging a heroic escape (as a couple) from fake kidnappers and then never telling your girl/boyfriend that it was fake, PTSD Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 13 Dan Turco (twitter.com/Dansplaining) Alex Bozin...

Idea: To write and record fantasy/sci-fi audio stories, and release them either as audiobooks or a podcast. Also: standup comedy, how the "Dungeons & Dragons" game works and how being a "dungeon master" is great training for being a fantasy/sci-fi author, Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 13 Daniel Thomas ( twitter.com/DanTComedy ) Khurum Sheikh ( facebook.com/khurum.sheikh ) Andrew Ma...

Idea: A fictional movie about the trials and tribulations of open-mic comedians Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 13 Daniel Thomas (twitter.com/DanTComedy) Khurum Sheikh (facebook.com/khurum.sheikh) Andrew Magryta (twitter.com/AndrewMagryta) Loyd Digg (twitter.com/LoydDigg) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Idea: To legalize prostitution (as recommended by a retired police officer). Also: legalizing it for "medicinal purposes", a possible Christian-right feminist reaction, 30 minute marriages, hypocrisy and repressed sexuality in Pakistan vs. the US, sex robots Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 12 Daniel Thomas (twitter.com/DanTComedy) Khurum Sheikh (facebook.com/khurum.sheikh) Andrew Magryta...

A rant about a pregnant woman on Tinder. Also: pregnancy fetish, what if her water breaks on the first date, swiping right and being rejected by the pregnant woman Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 12 Daniel Thomas (twitter.com/DanTComedy) Khurum Sheikh (facebook.com/khurum.sheikh) Andrew Magryta (twitter.com/AndrewMagryta) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)