Twitter Theater

Idea: A performance venue where you vote on Twitter (or some other social media platform) for who will perform that night. It would encourage friendly competition between performers, and would encourage famous people who are in town for other reasons to "drop in" spontaneously Also: purchasing the ticket as part of the vote and getting refunded if the performer you voted for loses; checking the candidates every day at lunch would keep people interested in the venue; it would be a step towards freeing humanity from the prison of constant time commitments

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 41

Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News)
DC Bradley (Instagram: @dcbradleyonig)
Steven G Sullivan
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Cracking Up (Movie)

Idea: A deeply personal dark comedy movie (loosely based on a real person) about a young female comic's struggles with schizophrenia Also: living with a person with mental illness, family secrets of mental illness repeating themselves

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 41

Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News)
DC Bradley (Instagram: @dcbradleyonig)
Steven G Sullivan
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Monitoring of Pedophiles with Drones

Idea (NSFW): To pay a bunch of people to follow pedophiles and suspected pedophiles with drones to make sure they don't do horrible things Also: being followed by a drone might cause little boys to think you're cool, the creepiness of drones, R Kelly's alleged cult of young aspiring female singers

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 41

Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News)
DC Bradley (Instagram: @dcbradleyonig)
Steven G Sullivan
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Mind-Sharing Clones

Idea (NSFW): Sci-fi clones which share both your memories and your current thoughts and feelings. Also: dividing work between clones; making sure at least one clone is doing something pleasurable at all times; accumulating all of the fear and sadness of all of your clones and developing PTSD; if you share thoughts with your clone, what happens if your clone goes to hell?

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 41

Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News)
DC Bradley (Instagram: @dcbradleyonig)
Steven G Sullivan
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

MegaHighways to Russia and South America

Idea: To build super-high-speed highways from the US to Russia and to South America, to compete with China's "new silk road" in Europe/Asia/Africa. Also: transporting oil using self-driving electric trucks instead of pipelines; since there's already a device called a "salmon cannon" to allow salmon to go upstream past dams, we could create a "bear cannon" to shoot bears across highways

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 40

Lauren Uchalik (Twitter: @loyooch)
Misho Shakur (Twitter: @mishoshakur)
Tony Vasek (Facebook: @tony.vacek.33)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

FartLogger

Idea: A bed that counts and analyzes your farts for health purposes. Also: comparing your fart count to the foods you ate to figure out which foods cause you to fart; taffy-induced stomach gurgling masking the sounds of a potential burglary; keeping drugs on hand so if you accidentally shart in your girlfriend's bed you can lie and say that you muled the drugs so you can party

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 40

Lauren Uchalik (Twitter: @loyooch)
Misho Shakur (Twitter: @mishoshakur)
Tony Vasek (Facebook: @tony.vacek.33)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Fidget Spinners With Age Detection (So Adults Can't Use Them)

Idea: To put an age detection device onto fidget spinners so people over the age of 10 can't use them. Also: adults using fidget spinners on Twitter; social media algorithms exaggerating fads; using a fidget spinner to generate electricity to charge your phone

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 40

Lauren Uchalik (Twitter: @loyooch)
Misho Shakur (Twitter: @mishoshakur)
Tony Vasek (Facebook: @tony.vacek.33)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Electricity-Generating Adult Toys

Idea (NSFW): A flashlight-shaped adult toy which generates electricity while its being used. Also: giving it to your dad to charge it up; harnessing shame for electricity; giving people drugs to prevent climax so they generate more electricity; a vibrating bicycle seat for women

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 40

Lauren Uchalik (Twitter: @loyooch)
Misho Shakur (Twitter: @mishoshakur)
Tony Vasek (Facebook: @tony.vacek.33)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

ExTracker

Idea: A location-based app to show you where your exes are so you can avoid them, especially when out in public. Also: using notifications and maps; using smoke bombs to help you evade them if they get too close; hiring a sniper to shoot your ex with a dart containing a tracking chip

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 40

Lauren Uchalik (Twitter: @loyooch)
Misho Shakur (Twitter: @mishoshakur)
Tony Vasek (Facebook: @tony.vacek.33)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Neverending Virtual Open Mic

Idea: To have a never-ending (24 hours a day) virtual open mic for standup comedy. It would use a proprietary system of filtering out background noises of the audience, and would incorporate the emcee, phone screeners, and "bouncers" (who can mute audience members). Also: a few other ideas for movie theaters and live comedy venues; where to locate the emcees around the world for the 24-hour virtual open mic so they all work an evening/night shift; combining a virtual comedy show with a live in-person comedy show

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 39

Myles De Leeuw (Twitter: @mylesdeloser)
Jon Mullinix (Instagram: @mullinixjon)
JR Williams (Twitter: @jrstandsup)
John Sopkowicz (Twitter: @sopkowits)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Baby Name Review Board

Idea: A baby name review board to prevent lame, misspelled, and offensive baby names. But people could still use the rejected name as a nickname, like "JR" (not his real initials). Also: names that sound dirty in other languages; a possible correlation between bad baby names and parents with tattoos; names that switch gender over time

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 39

Myles De Leeuw (Twitter: @mylesdeloser)
Jon Mullinix (Instagram: @mullinixjon)
JR Williams (Twitter: @jrstandsup)
John Sopkowicz (Twitter: @sopkowits)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Dogpocalypse

Idea (NSFW): An absurdist futuristic sci-fi movie where a genetically modified half-human half-cat villain tries to destroy all dogs, and a hero has to genetically modify himself to be half-human half-dog in order to breed with the last living dog. Also: the possible cruelty of shooting movies using animals

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 39

Myles De Leeuw (Twitter: @mylesdeloser)
Jon Mullinix (Instagram: @mullinixjon)
JR Williams (Twitter: @jrstandsup)
John Sopkowicz (Twitter: @sopkowits)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Replacement for Blue Jeans

Idea: Pants made out of nanobots which can also go inside your body and help you, by curing diseases or whatever. Also: yoga pants; if some of the pants go inside of you, they must be capris

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 39

Myles De Leeuw (Twitter: @mylesdeloser)
Jon Mullinix (Instagram: @mullinixjon)
JR Williams (Twitter: @jrstandsup)
John Sopkowicz (Twitter: @sopkowits)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Chill Pill for Women (By A Woman)

Idea (NSFW): A medication for women to allow them to "chill out". Also: how difficult this idea is for men to talk about; would it be immoral to give it to someone without their knowledge; behavior changes in elderly men and elderly women

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 39

Myles De Leeuw (Twitter: @mylesdeloser)
Jon Mullinix (Instagram: @mullinixjon)
JR Williams (Twitter: @jrstandsup)
John Sopkowicz (Twitter: @sopkowits)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Mind-Controlled Yoga Ropes

Idea: Yoga ropes that you control with your mind so you can stretch your body without using your muscles to push your bones around (because using muscle ruins the relaxation of stretching and yawning). Also: enabling stretches which aren't possible using muscles; accidentally getting stuck in a Jigsaw trap from the Saw movies; using a combination of a mind-controlled hammock or bed and a mind-controlled toilet so you don't have to get up to use the bathroom

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 38

Garri Madera (Twitter: @garcom)
Gerrit Elzinga (Twitter: @GerritElzinga, Podcast: This Better Be Good)
Shane Dials (Twitter: @ShaneDials)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Movie Premiere Comedy Showcase

Idea: A show which consists of live standup comedy followed by a movie premiere (such as a Marvel movie). The show is located in a movie theater, and the comedians sometimes do comedy which is loosely related to the movie. Also: how to run shows in movie theaters, falling asleep as an emcee of a midnight show

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 38

Garri Madera (Twitter: @garcom)
Gerrit Elzinga (Twitter: @GerritElzinga, Podcast: This Better Be Good)
Shane Dials (Twitter: @ShaneDials)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Retractable Suitcase Wheels

Idea: Suitcases with retractable wheels so they don't get torn off in the baggage claim. Also: could maybe use the same mechanism as "heely" shoes; could maybe remove them and use them as "fidget spinners"

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 38

Garri Madera (Twitter: @garcom)
Gerrit Elzinga (Twitter: @GerritElzinga, Podcast: This Better Be Good)
Shane Dials (Twitter: @ShaneDials)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

IMJB

Idea: An online database of jokes (like IMDB is for movies), so comedians who think of a joke can easily check to see if it's been done before. Also: Has every joke you've ever told been done before? Should only headliners' jokes or only jokes told on comedy specials on television be eligible? Shane's story of getting called out on stage for stealing a joke... from himself

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 38

Garri Madera (Twitter: @garcom)
Gerrit Elzinga (Twitter: @GerritElzinga, Podcast: This Better Be Good)
Shane Dials (Twitter: @ShaneDials)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Jurassic Park Theme Bar

Idea: A bar themed after the movie Jurassic Park. The bar tap would be amber with a mosquito in it. There'd be themed drink names, such as "Clever Girl" and "Hold On To Your Butts". Behind the bar, there 'd be a mural of a shirtless Jeff Goldblum. In the parking lot, there'd be an upside-down car, and a toilet sitting nearby with a bunch of broken boards on the ground next to it

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 38

Garri Madera (Twitter: @garcom)
Gerrit Elzinga (Twitter: @GerritElzinga, Podcast: This Better Be Good)
Shane Dials (Twitter: @ShaneDials)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

StarYukYuks

Idea: To open a coffee shop where the employees are comedians. The coffee might get served with lewd images in the foam. If the customer orders a roast, they get roasted. Or if it's a dark roast, they might get jokes about 9-11.

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 38

Garri Madera (Twitter: @garcom)
Gerrit Elzinga (Twitter: @GerritElzinga, Podcast: This Better Be Good)
Shane Dials (Twitter: @ShaneDials)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit