Idea: An app to remind people who are smoking weed or eating edibles not to freak out, i.e. no cops are coming to get them (unless, of course, the cops are coming to get them). Also: friends could alter the app to prank you, the app might backfire and freak you out more if you're on LCD
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 28
Robert Johnson (Twitter: @blackrob2006)
DC Bradley (Instagram: @dcbradleyonig)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)
Idea: A service for wealthy old people to send money to unemployed millennial hipsters and art students to feel young and cool again. Also: taking old people to parties and pretending they fit in, the old person can teach the millennial about money and the young person can teach the old person how to use an iPhone, what to do if the unemployed millennial isn't cool enough to attract wealthy old people
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 27
Felicity Blue (Twitter: @FelFelBlue)
Sai Dharmarajan aka "Sai-D" (Twitter: @saidee27)
Michael Dinkelis (Twitter: @MichaelDinkelis)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)
Idea: An app to hire maternal or paternal figures to give advice, teach you life skills, provide emotional support, help perform errands, etc. Also: your real parent can hire someone to do things for you that they don't want to do, hiring parental figures means they can't give you "tough love" and are thus "parent as slave (unless you choose the "tough love" option in the app), no "adult baby" stuff
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 27
Felicity Blue (Twitter: @FelFelBlue)
Sai Dharmarajan aka "Sai-D" (Twitter: @saidee27)
Michael Dinkelis (Twitter: @MichaelDinkelis)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)
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 free (you can just throw it in your grocery cart and it'll be free when you check out), and other items will have smaller free portions, in which case the app will instruct an employee in the store to prepare a free sample for you, which will be available for you to pick up at the customer service counter by the time you finish shopping. The goal is to motivate people to come to the grocery store instead of shopping online.
Scott Gaughan ("Free Netflix Online" Podcast)
Diego Attanasio (Twitter: @DiegoComedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)
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: @KenWitzgall42)
Scott Fischer (Instagram: @scottimscott)
Justin Mcleod (Twitter: @jibtron_zero)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)
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 Black (Twitter: @alanblah)
Diego Attanasio (Twitter: @DiegoComedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @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: @SethResler)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
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 16
Darnell Anderson (Twitter: @darnell_IRL)
Zachary Burcar (Twitter: @burcarz)
Nicki Wright (Twitter: @ohthatnicki)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
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: @ErichJLaux)
Scott Wilding (Twitter: @Wilding138)
Michael Dinkelis (Twitter: @MichaelDinkelis)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Idea: An app to "peacock" your charitable acts/donations and other good deeds, to peer pressure other people into also doing good things. The app would display a peacock avatar on your social media which would be more or less flamboyant depending on how much good you do
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 8
Alex Bozinovic (Twitter: @truheroism)
Jeff Ford (Twitter: @Comicjeff10)
Dan Turco (Twitter: @Dansplaining)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Idea: A social media app like Tinder but for women to use their physical attractiveness to find male friends
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 7
Mike Flynn (Twitter: @flikemynn)
Christian Royce (Twitter: @ChristianRoyce)
Alan Black (Twitter: @alanblah)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Idea (NSFW): A social media app to connect people with "enablers", who help "enable" an addiction, vice, or anything else (except violence), including mundane things such as collecting flamingo wind chimes
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 7
Mike Flynn (Twitter: @flikemynn)
Christian Royce (Twitter: @ChristianRoyce)
Alan Black (Twitter: @alanblah)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Idea: A dating site which integrates with other websites, so you can see a potential date's Netflix viewing history, song listening history, or political/news interests (if they chose to expose this information). This type of information is likely more accurate than typical dating site questionnaires
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 5
Branden Milsk (Twitter: @BrandenMilsk)
Jeff Johnson
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Idea (NSFW): An online-dating site exclusively for left-handed people (who think they're superior to right-handed people). Also: Jeff's history of forced right-handedness, left-handedness and depth perception
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 5
Branden Milsk (Twitter: @BrandenMilsk)
Jeff Johnson
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Idea: A dating website that allows you to report bad dates who, for example, stole food off your plate, so other people can avoid dating them
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 3
Greg Shur
DC Bradley (Instagram: @dcbradleyonig)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Idea: An electric car charging station consisting of dozens of 2-stall garages, where each car is charged indoors in privacy in it's own 2-stall garage. The car being charged is in one side of a garage, and "something to do" for around 40 minutes is in the other side of the garage. Examples of "stuff to do" include private movie theaters, barbers, dentists, Redbox movie rental machines, restaurant tables, hot tubs, etc. The "things to do" could be wheeled in on demand and ordered using a phone app. These 2-stall garage facilities could basically replace entire cities, and could slow down the transmission of the Coronavirus because they reduce or eliminate person-to-person contact, and they can be modified to implement virus protection measures more easily than normal stores/businesses (for example, an airproof plastic sheet could be placed between the customer's side of the garage and the business/service side of the garage). They could also help small businesses financially survive the Coronavirus because these businesses would no longer need a storefront or fixed location building which would require them to pay rent every month. Also, they could be a place for you to watch a sad movie where other people can't see you cry
Richie McLonis (Instagram: @richiemclonis Podcast: Hunting Rabbits)
Bill Morrison (Bill Morrison Website)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded by Broken Knuckle Studios over Skype
Idea (NSFW): An app to barter or trade chores and menial tasks with people in your neighborhood, because some people might find some tasks more or less annoying than other people. Tasks that can be bartered/traded include walking the dog, helping you when you're sick or drugged out, popping zits on your back, small talk, foreplay, etc. Also: doing a bunch of small tasks in exchange for a big task, bartering for TEACHING how to do a task (for people who didn't learn from dads), Tom being too embarrassed to ask a "big strong man" to do a menial task that he's not strong enough to do
Note: Amanda Brewington proposed a similar chore bartering app in episode 56
Bryan Deuchler (Podcast: Cartoon Tonic)
Matt Hamilton (Podcast: Moist Definitely)
Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: Comedy Comedy, YouTube: Funny News)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studios in Waterford, MI
Idea: A (fictional, satirical) website for connecting terminally ill people who wish to die with serial killers who wish to kill them. The goal would be to solve the problems of unwanted end-of-life suffering, and of healthy people being killed. It would be similar to an online dating website, and would help people find a compatible match based on criteria such as the method of execution, location of execution, physical attractiveness, political party, etc. Also, it would also be a great way to reduce health care costs, and the terminally ill could serve as "test dummies" for new medical devices/procedures which aren't perfected enough to permanently cure them, but could give them a short-term boost in health, in order to make them a more challenging (and therefore satisfying) kill
Sarah Wooley (Facebook: @sarah.s.wooley.7)
Justin Siekierka (Facebook: @justin.siekierka ComedyShow: Comedy at Liberty Street Brewing Company)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI
A small rant about Facebook and a desire to make it easier and more convenient for people to make and view custom personal web pages, instead of using a (possibly evil) corporation as a social middleman
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 87
Chris Young (Twitter: @chrisyoungcomic Comedy Special Video: Chris Young - Buoyant Mon)
Camila Ballario (Twitter: @CamilaBallario Music Album: Camila Ballario - Another Good Mistake)
Dan Thomas (Twitter: @DanTComedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
Idea: An app/service to send social media messages to people on your behalf after you die, so you can get your revenge and/or say constructive things that you don't have the courage to say, and avoid dealing with the consequences. It could make money by charging you if you a) change your mind and don't want to send a message, or b) are on your deathbed and want to see other people's afterlife messages which they targeted to you
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 87
Chris Young (Twitter: @chrisyoungcomic Comedy Special Video: Chris Young - Buoyant Mon)
Camila Ballario (Twitter: @CamilaBallario Music Album: Camila Ballario - Another Good Mistake)
Dan Thomas (Twitter: @DanTComedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit