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: 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: @MarkTSweetman, Ann Arbor Tonight)
Doug Glidden (Facebook: @doug.glidden.7)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @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: @MarkTSweetman, Ann Arbor Tonight)
Doug Glidden (Facebook: @doug.glidden.7)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Idea: To use ancient/low-tech building techniques and (well-paid) manual labor to build a giant pyramid in Detroit out of the waste material of torn down buildings. Also: Flint Stonehenge, watching people move the 10+ ton blocks is more entertaining than viewing a completed pyramid, building a pyramid for exercise
Note: This episode was recorded in a Subway restaurant (because our recording venue was unexpectedly closed when we arrived)
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 17
Mark Sweetman (Twitter: @MarkTSweetman, Ann Arbor Tonight)
Doug Glidden (Facebook: @doug.glidden.7)
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 (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
Darnell Anderson (Twitter: @darnell_IRL)
Zachary Burcar (Twitter: @burcarz)
Nicki Wright (Twitter: @ohthatnicki)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @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: @darnell_IRL)
Zachary Burcar (Twitter: @burcarz)
Nicki Wright (Twitter: @ohthatnicki)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
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: @darnell_IRL)
Zachary Burcar (Twitter: @burcarz)
Nicki Wright (Twitter: @ohthatnicki)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @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: @itsjimeliot)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @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: @itsjimeliot)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @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: @itsjimeliot)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
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)
Diego Attanasio (Twitter: @DiegoComedy)
Kevin Key (Instagram: @kevinjokeskey)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)
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 from Creativity Wasted episode 14
Erich Laux (Twitter: @ErichJLaux)
Scott Wilding (Twitter: @Wilding138)
Michael Dinkelis (Twitter: @MichaelDinkelis)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
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: @ErichJLaux)
Scott Wilding (Twitter: @Wilding138)
Michael Dinkelis (Twitter: @MichaelDinkelis)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
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: @ErichJLaux)
Scott Wilding (Twitter: @Wilding138)
Michael Dinkelis (Twitter: @MichaelDinkelis)
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: 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, PTSD, staging a heroic escape (as a couple) from fake kidnappers and then never telling your girl/boyfriend that it was fake
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 13
Alex Bozinovic (Twitter: @truheroism)
Jeff Ford
Dan Turco (Twitter: @Dansplaining)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
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: @DanTComedy)
Khurum Sheikh (Facebook: @khurum.sheikh)
Andrew Magryta (Twitter: @AndrewMagryta)
Loyd Digg (Twitter: @LoydDigg)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Idea: A fictional movie about the trials and tribulations of open-mic comedians
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 13
Daniel Thomas (Twitter: @DanTComedy)
Khurum Sheikh (Facebook: @khurum.sheikh)
Andrew Magryta (Twitter: @AndrewMagryta)
Loyd Digg (Twitter: @LoydDigg)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @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, sex robots, hypocrisy and repressed sexuality in Pakistan vs. the US
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 12
Daniel Thomas (Twitter: @DanTComedy)
Khurum Sheikh (Facebook: @khurum.sheikh)
Andrew Magryta (Twitter: @AndrewMagryta)
Loyd Digg (Twitter: @LoydDigg)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)