Mid-Life Themed Pop Songs

Idea: Pop songs for middle-aged people which discuss middle-aged issues, such as erectile dysfunction and health issues, not getting along with your kids, wanting to buy a motorcycle, rigidly-scheduled lovemaking sessions, and partying because your kids finally moved out. Also: the songs could be performed either by middle-aged artists or by popular young artists; questioning whether young adults still listen to FM radio; using AI to tweak songs by popular artists to make them directly apply to your life situation

This episode was released to the podcast feed on Nov 20. Links to the episode will be added to this web page within a few days (probably this weekend, since I’m out of town and can’t edit the podcast video until I get back)

Autistic Dating App

Idea: A new dating app for autistic people. Also: planning dates at Lego stores, Comic-Con, or a train station; creating autistic-specific categories of interests, such as Adventure Time, WWE wrestling, Rubic's Cubes, etc. with a spectrum of how interested you are in the topic (because "no posers"); questioning the gender balance of people with autism, and the differences between autistic men and autistic women; using absurd tricks to help autistic men focus on pleasuring their partner; brainstorming names for the app, such as "Rizzm Tism"

Idea: A new dating app for autistic people
Also: autistic-specific categories of interests, such as Adventure Time, WWE wrestling, etc; using absurd tricks to help autistic men focus on pleasuring their partner; brainstorming names for the app, such as "Rizzm Tism" pic.twitter.com/4AzEq3GegI

— Creativity Wasted Podcast (@creativitywaste) November 14, 2024

Josiah Garcia (Instagram: @the_not_so_good_wrestler Linktree: @AllendaleComedyOpenMic)
Tyler "T-Dog the Unfathomable" Caldwell (Instagram: @thetac32 X: @TheTAC32)
Dylan "The Autistic Spitfire" Farr (Instagram: @autisticspitfirecomedy, Facebook: @dylan.p.farr, Spitfire Comedy at Sticks in Ypsilanti)
Tom Walma (X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Drunk Driving Lane

Idea: A road lane with barriers on both sides (like bumper bowling or a Hot Wheels track or a Boring Company tunnel) where it's legal to drive drunk. Also: instead of trying and failing to use police and strict penalties to prevent drunk driving, maybe it'd be safer (for other people) to allow people to drive drunk if they're a safe distance away; people paying to watch entertaining videos and livestreams of the drunk drivers crashing would help fund the drunk driving lane; maybe we could even "gamify" it like Mario-Kart and let people pay to drop obstacles or give the the drivers inventory (i.e. more beer)

Idea: A road lane w/barriers on both sides (like bumper bowling, Hot Wheels track or Boring tunnel) where it's legal to drive drunk
Instead of trying in vain to use penalties to prevent drunk driving, maybe it'd be safer (for other people) to allow it if it's a safe distance away pic.twitter.com/QKjs3t5H4O

— Creativity Wasted Podcast (@creativitywaste) November 7, 2024

Josiah Garcia (Instagram: @the_not_so_good_wrestler Linktree: @AllendaleComedyOpenMic)
Tyler "T-Dog the Unfathomable" Caldwell (Instagram: @thetac32 X: @TheTAC32)
Dylan "The Autistic Spitfire" Farr (Instagram: @autisticspitfirecomedy, Facebook: @dylan.p.farr, Spitfire Comedy at Sticks in Ypsilanti)
Tom Walma (X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Car Wind Chimes

Idea: Wind chimes that hang from the rear-view mirror of your car, which was a business idea his mom had when he was a kid. Also: questioning whether a wind chime clanging every time you use the brakes would be annoying; worrying that your mom's bad business idea will bankrupt the family

Idea: Wind chimes that hang from the rear-view mirror of your car, which was a business idea Steve's mom had when he was a kid. Also: clanging every time you brake might be annoying; worrying that your mom's bad business idea will bankrupt the family pic.twitter.com/0aCk8c0OQg

— Creativity Wasted Podcast (@creativitywaste) October 29, 2024

Fat Steve (Instagram: @fatstevecomedy)
Emmanuel Lechuga (Instagram: @emmanuel_lechuga_comedy)
Ryan Brown (Linktree: @brownryancomedy Instagram: @brownryancomedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Identity Class

Idea: A high school class where you independently browse video and info of former students to see how they did in college, career, and life, to encourage you to relate that back to you to help you plan your academics, career, and life. Also: the video would include the former student sitting in class, socializing in the lunchroom and at school events, giving MTV-Real World style confessionals about their thoughts on their life/school/career, opinions about the student by their teachers/parents/friends/spouses, etc.; AI would help you quickly jump to interesting/relevant data/video about a student who you're curious about, such as whether they got a job in their chosen career and what they say about it; teachers would make you write reports comparing yourself to former student(s) and (for example) describing what you could do to achieve the same positive outcomes or avoid the negative outcomes; the AI/data could be corrupted by overprotective teachers and/or the browsing history of students in the class could be used to spot and punish future criminals

Jay Eoff (Facebook: @jay.eoff.3)
Nicole Melnyk (Linktree: @nicooldude420 Instagram: @mcfancyvonpants TikTok: @nicolemelnyk)
Tom Walma (X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Skin Shirts

An absurd brainstorming session on how to create T-shirts that you can wear for a week or more (because you're too lazy to pick out and/or change your clothes), including making T-shirts out of human skin so you can wear them and wash them while you shower. Also: multi-layered T-shirts where you can remove (or dissolve) the innermost layer which collects sweat before it starts to smell bad; tattooing someone else's skin and then grafting it onto your body (as an additional layer of skin) so you can remove it later and so you don't have to experience the pain of getting a tattoo; a failed prediction on what Nicole's podcast idea would be

Jay Eoff (Facebook: @jay.eoff.3)
Nicole Melnyk (Linktree: @nicooldude420 Instagram: @mcfancyvonpants TikTok: @nicolemelnyk)
Tom Walma (X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

A College For Only Rich Kids

Idea (satire): A college to be attended by only rich kids where they won't be annoyed by "poors" complaining about high tuition, and they learn rich people skills like white collar crime, avoiding taxes, condescension, etc. Also: majoring in crypto and minoring in convincing other people to invest their life savings into crypto; owning teams of poors who compete for them in sporting events (because the rich don't wanna get sweaty) and who perform in dog-show-like competitions; it would be located on an artificial island in the sky so they can drop trash down onto the poors; discussing loosely related topics, such as public speaking courses, fat camps for adults, Emma Stone, rich people doing risky things, man-made disasters caused by a single person's mistake, and Zeppelins

Jay Eoff (Facebook: @jay.eoff.3)
Nicole Melnyk (Linktree: @nicooldude420 Instagram: @mcfancyvonpants TikTok: @nicolemelnyk)
Tom Walma (X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Toady Mustard (Improv Show Format)

Idea: An improv show format which is an absurdist parody of a rigid agenda-based speech of a Toastmaster public speaking course. The name "toady mustard" is based on a funny autocorrect re-spelling of the word "Toastmaster". Also: the rigid agenda would give the improv performers clear roles and make the longform show feel like a series of distinct shortform games and bits (each agenda topic would be a different bit/game); absurdist agenda items could include dance breaks, giving the audience foot rubs, calling out the jerk of the room, etc.

Lisa Green (Facebook: @lisa.green.8 Linktree: @depottowncomedy)
Shelly Smith (Facebook: @shelly.smith.9210 Podcast Website: readsandweeds.com)
Matthew Ryan (Facebook: @matthew.ryan.911)
Mike Geeter (Facebook: @michaelgeeter1969 Web: samroseent.com)
Tom Walma (X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Russian Roulette Diet 2

Idea: A satirical weight loss program where you strategically jump between (mostly) unhealthy weight loss techniques to ensure you don't do any of them long enough to cause permanent bodily damage. Examples of weight loss techniques included in the program could be fasting, tapeworm, stimulants, medically-induced coma, Fen-Fen (a banned diet pill cocktail), Wim Hof ice hikes, a jug of pre-colonoscopy laxative, Alli (a drug which blocks fat absorption and can give you oily anal leakage), getting flu/Covid on purpose, eating blowfish to fill up your stomach to prevent hunger, etc. Also: a medical professional would monitor you and pull you off an unhealthy weight loss technique early if necessary, and also, for example, make sure you don't do two things that are harmful to your liver in a row; it could be made into a competition show like The Biggest Loser with a spinning wheel for choosing the next technique or a Bride Wars-type show where people try to lose weight before getting married; questioning assumptions and laws concerning the level of harm of drugs

Idea (satire): Russian Roulette Diet: A weight loss program where you strategically jump between unhealthy weight loss techniques quick enough to prevent permanent injury
Techniques include fasting, tapeworm, medically-induced coma, Wim Hof ice hikes, getting flu on purpose pic.twitter.com/9E8GlUBota

— Creativity Wasted Podcast (@creativitywaste) September 24, 2024

Chris Young (Web: chrisyoungcomic.com Comedy Special Video: Buoyant Mon)
Jae Gonzalez (Instagram: @comedyxjae)
Tom Walma (X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Forklift Driving Competition Tour

Idea: To expand the forklift driving championship into a multi-city touring competition/festival, and also expand it to include a variety of forklift and warehouse-related events. Also: forklift events could include obstacle courses (difficult turns, uneven and wet floors, mannequins or robots in the way, etc.), box stacking (speed, height, perfect box alignment), picking up and moving things without knocking over nearby things (kind of like Jenga or a puzzle), team events, racing against auto-pickers (robotic forklifts), etc.; non-forklift events could involve cranes, semi trucks, Amazon warehouse-style manually gathering of items from shelves, etc.; a tour could involve traveling pros competing against each other, amateur events, and possibly allowing amateurs to compete against the pros (like a pro-am); maybe WWE-ify it with foam boxes that are almost guaranteed to tumble down and forklifts that are modified to safely crash

Chris Young (Web: chrisyoungcomic.com Comedy Special Video: Buoyant Mon)
Jae Gonzalez (Instagram: @comedyxjae)
Tom Walma (X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Parent Cool Pods

Idea: An AI-based app which runs on nearby people's (primarily teenagers) phones/Airpods and/or augmented reality glasses that filters (in real-time) how they hear and/or see you in order to make them perceive you as "cool". Also: making it appear like you're saying cool Gen Z/Alpha slang, and a list of recent slang words/expressions and whether we think they're funny; it could be customized based on the age of the person wearing the Airpods/glasses to make a middle-aged person seem cool to their elderly parents and vice-versa; it could also translate slang so you can understand what the kids are saying and/or tell you if a song or product is "cool"; if 50 year old celebs like Kenny Chesney and Snoop Dogg can be perceived by kids as cool, why can't their parents and teachers (with the help of this app)?

Chris Young (Web: chrisyoungcomic.com Comedy Special Video: Buoyant Mon)
Jae Gonzalez (Instagram: @comedyxjae)
Tom Walma (X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Prankulance

A loose conversation and brainstorming session about pranks, many performed by EMTs in an ambulance, and an idea to turn an old ambulance into a prank/flashmob entry/getaway vehicle. Also: a prank involving stealing pizzas and/or spoiling them by putting pineapple on them; using "Oh Danny Boy" from the Chumbawumba song "Tubthumping" as the siren for the prankulance; a heist movie parody with five pranksters and the prankulance, involving stealing extra food from parties and (like Robin Hood) redistributing it to needy broke comedians, and also handing babies live chickens (as a distraction during the food theft, and also because Shelly thinks babies holding chickens are really cute)

Lisa Green (Facebook: @lisa.green.8 Linktree: @depottowncomedy)
Shelly Smith (Facebook: @shelly.smith.9210 Podcast Website: readsandweeds.com)
Matthew Ryan (Facebook: @matthew.ryan.911)
Mike Geeter (Facebook: @michaelgeeter1969 Web: samroseent.com)
Tom Walma (X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Food History App

Idea: An app that keeps track of all of your food orders from all apps and allows you to quickly search through them to find a meal to order again. Also: it shouldn't take 300 clicks and a memory puzzle to find a specific dish in food delivery app(s); the hilariousness of kids using apps to order crazy things like 1000 popsicles; combining the food history app with Spotify to recommend foods based on your mood; the creepiness of predictive/AI apps and privacy-violating apps, such as when social media apps figure out women are pregnant before they do; ranting about social media pet peeves

Lisa Green (Facebook: @lisa.green.8 Linktree: @depottowncomedy)
Shelly Smith (Facebook: @shelly.smith.9210 Podcast Website: readsandweeds.com)
Matthew Ryan (Facebook: @matthew.ryan.911)
Mike Geeter (Facebook: @michaelgeeter1969 Web: samroseent.com)
Tom Walma (X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Chakra Goddess

Idea: A comedic performance (either on stage or on TikTok) in an over-the-top costume representing one of the seven chakras which shows both love for and criticism of gurus and the culture of yoga, meditation, and "New Age"/"Eastern" religion/spirituality. Also: Shelly walking through the audience of a comedy club spreading sage and blessing hecklers while dressed as a "root chakra" in a brown root-like skirt with megaphones sticking out of her neck; brainstorming the performance style (Colbert Report-style embodiment of a crazy guru, speaking in deep lingo that the audience won't understand, comedic jumps between deep new-age spiritual concepts and broad topics i.e. "when I'm embodying my highest self I don't eat donuts"), the artistic ideal of focusing exclusively on your artistic vision and not worrying about or even finding out (in the case of social media) what the audience thinks; the risk of failing to live up to that artistic ideal and bombing painfully and becoming the crying girl in a flower costume in the Blind Melon "No Rain" music video

Lisa Green (Facebook: @lisa.green.8 Linktree: @depottowncomedy)
Shelly Smith (Facebook: @shelly.smith.9210 Podcast Website: readsandweeds.com)
Matthew Ryan (Facebook: @matthew.ryan.911)
Mike Geeter (Facebook: @michaelgeeter1969 Web: samroseent.com)
Tom Walma (X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

TeleGeeter

Idea: A sci-fi teleportation device built into showers (because "Dr. Who"-style phone booths don't really exist anymore, and therefore the shower is the most common pod-shaped location to use for teleportation). Also: keeping your shower cleaner because people will be teleporting in and out of it; using it to escape from bad dates; always teleporting to remote toilet facilities instead of having a toilet in your house; kids teleporting between bathrooms in their house to confuse their parents (like a chase scene in Scooby Doo); burning yourself with hot water in the shower and then accidentally pressing the teleport knob and getting teleported to a random house

Lisa Green (Facebook: @lisa.green.8 Linktree: @depottowncomedy)
Shelly Smith (Facebook: @shelly.smith.9210 Podcast Website: readsandweeds.com)
Matthew Ryan (Facebook: @matthew.ryan.911)
Mike Geeter (Facebook: @michaelgeeter1969 Web: samroseent.com)
Tom Walma (X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

The Seance of Chester Bennington (Movie Musical)

Idea: A movie musical where the deceased lead singer of Linkin Park (Chester Bennington) is contacted via seance by his grieving children. Then, in order to solve their financial woes and to help them emotionally, he performs a new music album from beyond the grave. His voice would be generated for the movie using AI. Also: AI voice replication is getting really, really good; in the movie, he can only communicate from beyond the grave "in song"; it doesn't make sense that AI gets the artsy jobs and we have to pour over numbers; getting plastic surgery to look like a deceased singer and then getting an AI-based vocal implant to sound like them

This is the AI-generated song that I stumbled onto on YouTube which sounded very real and inspired this idea:

Pam Palmieri (Facebook Personal: @pam.palmieri Instagram: @pampalmiericomedy Comedy Shows (Facebook): @Comedy/Productions Pam Palmieri)
Alex Wilson (Facebook: @mralexwilson YouTube: @thedropoutprofessor Web: the-dropout-professor.medium.com)
Bryan Deuchler (Facebook: BryanDeuchler Podcast (Web): cartoontonic.buzzsprout.com)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

I Wanna K*ll An Engineer (TV Show)

Idea: A TV show where people air grievances against engineers of bad and/or needlessly difficult to repair products, and the engineer responsible either immediately faces severe consequences (decided by the audience), or they have a chance to repair a broken product, and if they designed it so poorly that they fail to quickly repair it, then they (and possibly even their family) face the severe consequences. Also: debating whether Pam's grievance was actually the fault of an engineer; expanding the idea to punish other people who screw you over (either intentionally or through incompetence), such as mechanics, service workers, and realtors; customer service reps would either be immediately put on the chopping block for angering consumers, or would have immense power in deciding who's fault the problem was to put them on the chopping block instead

Idea: A TV show where people air grievances against engineers of needlessly difficult to repair products, and the responsible engineer either
a) immediately faces severe consequences, or
b) if they can't quickly repair it (due to bad design), they face the severe consequences pic.twitter.com/Hxwxzen7vx

— Creativity Wasted Podcast (@creativitywaste) July 30, 2024

Pam Palmieri (Facebook Personal: @pam.palmieri Instagram: @pampalmiericomedy Comedy Shows (Facebook): @Comedy/Productions Pam Palmieri)
Alex Wilson (Facebook: @mralexwilson YouTube: @thedropoutprofessor Web: the-dropout-professor.medium.com)
Bryan Deuchler (Facebook: BryanDeuchler Podcast (Web): cartoontonic.buzzsprout.com)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Insult To Injury

Idea: A TV show where real-life disputes are resolved via boxing matches and comedians commentate and then roast the winner (because roasting the loser would be too cruel). Also: providing a healthier outlet for male rage than gun violence; offering the bully free therapy instead of roasting them (because the US will do anything to avoid universal health care); comparing the idea to the TV show "Bully Beatdown" and discussing whether bullies are a fundamental aspect of this show (and deciding that they are not); having themed episodes, such as teachers vs. grown-up disruptive students, IT workers vs. annoying tech-illiterate office workers, Karens, etc.

Pam Palmieri (Facebook Personal: @pam.palmieri Instagram: @pampalmiericomedy Comedy Shows (Facebook): @Comedy/Productions Pam Palmieri)
Alex Wilson (Facebook: @mralexwilson YouTube: @thedropoutprofessor Web: the-dropout-professor.medium.com)
Bryan Deuchler (Facebook: BryanDeuchler Podcast (Web): cartoontonic.buzzsprout.com)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Family Tree Rotten Apple Finding Service

Idea: A semi-satirical DNA-analyzing and family tree investigation service that only tells you negative aspects of your family tree, such as ancestors who did evil things, parents who aren't actually your biological parents, and inherited diseases that will probably kill you. Also: it could "unite everyone in hating where we come from"; maybe everyone should be forced to use this service in order to "air out everyone's dirty laundry" all at once; it might backfire if teenage boys find it "metal" and exciting to be related to a historical villain; this service could also solve historical crimes "for evil reasons" i.e. to bum out the murderer's descendants

Pam Palmieri (Facebook Personal: @pam.palmieri Instagram: @pampalmiericomedy Comedy Shows (Facebook): @Comedy/Productions Pam Palmieri)
Alex Wilson (Facebook: @mralexwilson YouTube: @thedropoutprofessor Web: the-dropout-professor.medium.com)
Bryan Deuchler (Facebook: BryanDeuchler Podcast (Web): cartoontonic.buzzsprout.com)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Lawnmower Weedwacker Combo

Idea: A mount on a lawnmower for a weedwacker, so you can use the weedwacker while mowing instead of having to walk around the yard twice (once while mowing and once while weedwacking). Also, maybe weedwacker(s) could mount in front of the lawnmower wheels and run while you mow to widen the mowing width. Also: getting rid of the mower blade and just making a lawnmower out of a bunch of weedwackers; robotic Roomba-style lawnmowers exist now; Roombas and how often a house should be vacuumed (and other home/hygiene things); a burner attachment to burn yard waste so you don't have to keep emptying the bag

Jen Frissina (Facebook: @jen.frissina)
Steve Smargon (Facebook; @steve.smargon Intagram: @bipolarmarine)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)