Creativity Wasted

Idea: An app named "Contact Buy" for performers to sell digital music/comedy and digital photos and autographs to fans at their shows. That way, the fans don't have to deal with annoying physical things like CDs or "download cards", and they can use the digital autograph and photo taken with the musician/artist as "album art" when the song is played on their phones. And since the artist sells dire...

Seeing a hungry dog try to eat it's leash led to the idea of actually making an edible dog leash out of beef, which led to the idea of making adult toys out of beef and other foods. Also, Ella saved a frog from a toilet Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 67 Bart Dangus (Twitter: @BartDangus Podcast: bigtimegarbage.libsyn.com) Ella H Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detr...

Idea: Since mouthwash has alcohol in it, why not serve it as a drink in bars? You could use the lid of the mouthwash bottle as a shot glass, and maybe serve it as a drink named "Winter Gut". Also, it might be the only recreational drug that make your teeth healthier Bart Dangus (Twitter: @BartDangus Podcast: bigtimegarbage.libsyn.com) Ella H Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast De...

Idea: A psychic or spiritual way to control your house with your mind, to make blood seep through the walls to scare away burglars, and to do mundane things like run the coffee maker and detect leaky pipes. Also: Neuralink brain implants which only work for a specific company and have themes such as "goth" Dale Murdock (IG: @dalelerious) Brandon Ponke (IG: @bponke Twitter: @BPonke) Adam Walsh (Knu...

Tom has a sweaty butt. If he's sitting down, sometimes ONLY his butt sweats, and he's afraid if he stands up and his butt is drenched in sweat, it'll look like he peed his pants. He tried Gold Bond powder without success, so he came up with some better ideas, such as harnesses to allow you to dangle in the air instead of sitting, pants and underwear made of silver which can act like a computer pro...

Idea: Virtual or in-person community where (mostly amateur) creative people of different disciplines (sketch comedy, standup comedy, acting, film-making, animation, etc.) meet each other and collaborate on projects Matt Hamilton (moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Dave Crumbley (Twitter: @cavedrumbley) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Idea: Ban fast food because it's too much of a temptation for people with food addiction. Also, we propose other weirder ways to fight obesity Matt Hamilton (moistdefinitelypodcast.com) Dave Crumbley (Twitter: @cavedrumbley) Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Dave wants to retire from Pokemon Go because arranging in-person meetups with other Pokemon players to battle the difficult Pokemon is a hassle: they often show up late, or not at all, leaving him waiting outside and sweating in the sun. Also, he's a gray-haired anti-social Pokemon player who thinks he's a superior person when compared to the other Pokemon players. Especially the children Matt Ham...

Idea: Everyone agrees to stop having kids for twenty years to allow us to focus on building bullet trains and making other improvements to society. But it might lead to unintended problems, such as women who're desperate to become mothers kidnapping the last children, and the death of all birds (because many people who would've had children would have cats instead) Matt Hamilton (moistdefinitelypo...

If someone is at fault in a car accident, almost causes an accident, or is just being a jerk on the road, their car's AI computer (which all cars will be required to have installed) will detect that this occurred, and then, when they park, the car will release knockout gas. Then the person will be put in a lottery with like 100 other bad drivers, and the person whose name gets drawn will be punish...

A weird futuristic idea to save pets from embarrassing accidental deaths, inspired from an incident of accidentally sleeping on the floor on top of tiny ants Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 88 StuMcCallister (Twitter: @StuMcCallister Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/lmnopodcast) Sal Demilio (Twitter: @SALLYD08 Podcast: https://salandbobshow.libsyn.com) Simon Carlson (Twitter: @shmimoncarl...

Idea: An enhancement to monthly-donation websites such as Patreon to allow you to temporarily adjust your donation to penalize (or reward) the content creator, and also give them a comment explaining why you're penalizing or rewarding them. You could also cap your overall total monthly donation, so if you reward one content creator with a bonus one month, it would automatically slightly reduce you...

Idea: An app which allows parents to remotely shut off a tail-light on their teenage kid's car if the kid stays out too late. That way, if the kid's gonna be out too late, he better stay sober, because he's at a high risk of getting pulled over Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 65 Dustin "Lee" (not real name, by request) Scott Fischer (Instagram: @scottimscott) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomasw...

In the winter, a fridge takes warm air from inside the house which has been warmed by your heater, and cools it off again. In the summer, a fridge vents hot air into a house which you're trying to cool down with air conditioning. Why not position your fridge next to an outside wall, and use a vent/duct leading outdoors to either take in or vent out air (depending on the season) to save electricity...

Idea: A sci-fi movie, where, in the near future, an eccentric billionaire adventurer like Elon Musk leads the first mission to colonize a planet of a nearby star. They've figured out how to slow down aging via drugs and hibernation, so they age like 1/10 as fast as usual. So they can survive the entire 200-year journey, and still be young enough to have kids when they get there. But they can only...

Idea: Time machines that allow people to go back in time and prevent horrible crimes which would've occurred by peacefully interfering and preventing the crimes. But there might be some unexpected downsides... (Note: NSFW) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 64 Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy) Paul Pipitone (Facebook: @paul.pipitone.5) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at...

Idea: A belt or suit that you can wear to allow yourself to temporarily change into any shape you want, like another person, an animal, an animated company logo, or a literal "fly on the wall". Also: a discussion on "invisibility cloaks" (Note: NSFW) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 64 Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy) Paul Pipitone (Facebook: @paul.pipitone.5) Tom Walma (Twitter...

Exercising in a gym is selfishly controlling machines (i.e. exercise equipment) in a way that benefits nobody else, and therefore provides you no contentment. And even the selfish benefits aren't perceptible enough to motivate you to do it. Why not instead have a charity where you build tiny houses for exercise? You could make it convenient and build the tiny houses indoors in a gym-like building...

Because health/fitness fads and cults both have extremely loyal followings, why not combine them together and create a fitness cult? Plus, if you're gonna be a sleazy cult leader who seduces all of his followers (like they tend to do), this is a great theme for the cult, because your followers would be fit and wouldn't be sexually repressed religious zealots Originally from Creativity Wasted episo...

The three things men need to carry are phone, wallet, and keys. A sub-dermal microchip could eliminate 2 of those 3 things, and could also do other cool stuff, like store your customized settings for smart appliances. And security issues don't really matter because you're always carrying a cell phone anyway. The biggest downside is that somebody might cut it out of your body to steal it Originally...

A standup comedy contest where comics compete one-on-one in a tournament bracket. Each night, 8 comics compete in 3 rounds, until a winner for the night is declared. After 8 shows, the 8 past winners compete in the same fashion to declare an ultimate winner. The first two rounds of the night are decided by overall audience applause immediately after the two competing comics perform. The last round...

Idea: Fortune cookies which give you a bad fortune (for the sake of humor), such as "someone you love is gonna die soon", "you'll meet the woman of your dreams, but nightmares are also dreams", or a creepy picture of Bill Cosby's smiling face Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 62 Trebuchet (Twitter: @trebuchetlol YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCyvskJfWUhftv_pa7gREiRg) Scott Wilding (Twit...

Idea: A standup comedy show on the Internet using the standup comedy videogame "Comedy Night" and the videogame livestreaming website Twitch. The show (which will probably be called "Nerdy and Dirty") will have a lineup of real standup comics. The comics will appear as avatars in the "Comedy Night" videogame. On Twitch, they'll also appear as avatars, possibly with additional video of their real f...

Idea: A sitcom about a group of young juggalos (fans of the band "Insane Clown Posse", aka "ICP") growing up in the mid to late '90s. It would include things the wild and chaotic "Gathering of the Juggalos" concerts, backyard wrestling, and the political and pop culture context of ICP and the 1990s, such as music censorship, Columbine, and a feud with Eminem Originally from Creativity Wasted episo...

Idea: A pyramid or box-shaped structure that you put over a cat litterbox, which has an opening on the side for the cat to climb through to get to the litterbox. The opening contains a system of brushes to comb loose hairs (and dingleberries) off the cat as it leaves the litterbox. Hopefully the cat doesn't enjoy it so much that it brushes itself until it goes bald, or decides it doesn't need you...