Idea: An app for bartering/swapping house chores with strangers in your neighborhood, with a Tinder-style approval process for bartering partners, so you don't end up with a creep who might do weird things with your dirty laundry. Also: How the NextDoor app devolves into gossip and negativity
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 56
Jacqui Marpa (Twitter: @JacquiMarpa)
Amanda Brewington (Facebook: @amanda.brewington)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
Idea: A celebrity cooking competition between Anthony Bourdain, Gordon Ramsay, and Bobby Flay. Jacqui wants Bourdain or Ramsay to humiliate Bobby Flay, and maybe also beat him up physically, because she doesn't like Bobby Flay's smug condescending smile and pedestrian dishes
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 56
Jacqui Marpa (Twitter: @JacquiMarpa)
Amanda Brewington (Facebook: @amanda.brewington)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
Idea: A social media network where you don't have to scroll, you just view your wall like a YouTube slideshow. When you post, if the post is longer than 30 seconds, you'd have to make a preview for the post. The slideshow of your wall would show just the previews, and if you decide you want to watch the longer clip, you'd be able to immediately watch the longer clip or queue the longer clip. When watching the long clips, you could break them up with the 30-second previews from your wall, like how TV breaks up a show with commercials. Also: post tags; Facebook showing you the same post an hour later; Netflix not getting the hint that you don't want to watch a particular movie
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 55
Justin McLeod (Twitter: @jibtron_zero)
Jeff Ford (Twitter: @Comicjeff10)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
Idea: A TV show about a TV writer who secretly manipulates events in his daughter's life in a criminal and psychopathic way, to give her a happy and emotionally-heightened life, like the sitcoms or family dramas that he writes. The criminal and/or immoral acts (slashing tires, faking social media posts, murder, etc.) he does to other people to manipulate them to give his daughter a better life are a precarious house of cards that's always threatening to come tumbling down. The show is an exaggeration of how dads in real life are often overprotective over their daughters to a degree which is creepy
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 55
Justin McLeod (Twitter: @jibtron_zero)
Jeff Ford (Twitter: @Comicjeff10)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
Idea: An app to give you ideas for excuses for missing work or being late for work. It could help you physically harm yourself or provide other fake evidence to make your chosen excuse more believable. It could keep track of the excuses you've already given, and also track the overall success rate of each excuse. It could tally the total loss to the economy from people getting away with missing work because of the app. It could blackmail people who used the app by threatening to rat them out to their bosses
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 55
Justin McLeod (Twitter: @jibtron_zero)
Jeff Ford (Twitter: @Comicjeff10)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
Idea: An app that somehow determines where your boss or supervisor is, and vibrates or otherwise alerts you if he/she is approaching, so you can pretend to be busy working
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 55
Justin McLeod (Twitter: @jibtron_zero)
Jeff Ford (Twitter: @Comicjeff10)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
Idea: A grill built into the tailgate of a truck, for the purposes of tailgating (partying before a college sporting event). After leaving the game, if a driver is tailgating you (driving too close behind you), you could release the meat grease and ash onto the hood of their car. Also: Maybe the combination of rain and the wind from the moving truck could clean the grill
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 55
Justin McLeod (Twitter: @jibtron_zero)
Jeff Ford (Twitter: @Comicjeff10)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
Idea: Toilet paper which is temporarily waterproof on one side, so you don't have to wad up or fold the toilet paper to keep from getting gross butt water on your hands while wiping, and it eventually dissolves after you flush it down the toilet
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 55
Justin McLeod (Twitter: @jibtron_zero)
Jeff Ford (Twitter: @Comicjeff10)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
Idea: To sell hi-tech Japanese toilets in America. Also: to help Americanize them, they should come with audio of a physical trainer telling you to "push it", and should be sturdier, so the toilet seats don't crack when fat Americans sit on them
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 54
Gwen Hope (Twitter: @gwenhopecomedy)
Ron Rigby (Twitter: @RonRigby)
Joe Williams (Twitter: @JoeDoubleYou)
Seiko Yomogita (Instagram: @best_japanese_comedian)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
Idea: An app to analyze your social media posts after you press the post button, and if the app determines that a post might be passive-aggressive, angry, or harmful to your reputation, it puts the post in "post jail" for a day to force you re-think the post, and then you must confirm that you really want to post it before anyone can see it. Also: friends could review your posts before allowing you to post them; the app would also be useful for interrupting awkward politically-charged in-person conversations
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 54
Gwen Hope (Twitter: @gwenhopecomedy)
Ron Rigby (Twitter: @RonRigby)
Joe Williams (Twitter: @JoeDoubleYou)
Seiko Yomogita (Instagram: @best_japanese_comedian)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
Ideas for gaming the Domino's Pizza "pizza insurance" to get free pizza. Also: carrying a pizza recklessly because you know that it's insured; destroying a pizza by putting soy sauce on it; do they offer insurance against them laughing at you when you come back covered in pizza and blood?
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 54
Gwen Hope (Twitter: @gwenhopecomedy)
Ron Rigby (Twitter: @RonRigby)
Joe Williams (Twitter: @JoeDoubleYou)
Seiko Yomogita (Instagram: @best_japanese_comedian)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
Idea: Furniture designed to be placed in front of a radiator so you can feel the warmth from the radiator. Also: the risk of steampunk dominating the radiator furniture movement; the danger of burning yourself when sitting in front of a radiator makes it sexy, and if you're using hairspray, the danger of your hair erupting into flames makes it even sexier; a furry cat who sells rats
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 54
Gwen Hope (Twitter: @gwenhopecomedy)
Ron Rigby (Twitter: @RonRigby)
Joe Williams (Twitter: @JoeDoubleYou)
Seiko Yomogita (Instagram: @best_japanese_comedian)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
Idea: A diet where you'd still eat like a pig, but you'd go on a cycle of cocaine, bulimia, Fen-Phen, and other unhealthy (but effective) ways to lose weight, and an expert would manage your diet cycle to ensure that you don't do any one unhealthy thing for a long enough continuous period of time to get addicted or to cause permanent health problems
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 53
David Otis Van (Twitter: @davidotisvan)
Dan Turco (Twitter: @Dansplaining)
Chris Lazar
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Idea: If cameras continuously record what one side of your body sees, and then flexible, clothing-like screens on the other side of your body display the recorded video in real-time (or if you were inside a cylinder of solid, curved monitors), you'd look invisible. But you don't have to just display what was captured by the cameras. You could display the image of another (smaller) person walking and moving in the same way you are, with that person's image surrounded by the video captured by the cameras, so the remainder of your body which is not displaying the other person's image would appear invisible
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 53
Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News)
"Spruce Rice" (Twitter: @LordBluntsWorth)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
Idea: After you go shopping, you'll leave in a self-driving one-person car which has human safety features, and your purchased items would go into a self-driving delivery car which is cheap because it doesn't need airbags or safety features required for transporting people. The self-driving delivery car might combine multiple deliveries in one trip like Uber carpooling, and might not arrive at your house as quickly as you do
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 53
Mark Sweetman (Twitter: @MarkTSweetman, @A2Tonight)
Doug Glidden (Facebook: @doug.glidden.7)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Idea: A gym where people exercise by slamming each other around in a mosh pit. It's like Crossfit, only instead of throwing around a truck tire, you're throwing around an a**hole in a Guns 'N Roses T-shirt (which is about the same workout)
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 53
David Otis Van (Twitter: @davidotisvan)
Dan Turco (Twitter: @Dansplaining)
Chris Lazar
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Idea: Snow skiing on an oval racetrack where a metal bar goes across the track about 8 feet above the ground, and several tow-ropes hang down from it and push skiers around the track. The track can contain little bouncy hills and ramps and such. This allows skiing to be done in small parks in cities
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 52
Nolan Reilly (Instagram: @kzquarantineking)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
Idea: A movie where angels and devils participate in the American Revolutionary War, just for sport. The devils are on the side of the Americans, and win because the devils are good at deception and other war-like activities. Or maybe there were no angels and devils, but the Native-Americans used ergot poisoning to get the white people to hallucinate and start killing each other so that they'd go away
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 52
Nolan Reilly (Instagram: @kzquarantineking)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
Idea: Tom thinks his futuristic (and cheap) tiny house idea is a better idea than having a "universal basic income", and his futuristic tiny houses would also eliminate house chores, allow you to move instantly without packing your stuff, give you time to pursue your dreams, and even solve infrastructure problems like the Flint Water Crisis. He sees them as giving you true freedom (as opposed to the current system of wage slavery), but his podcast guests see them as a sterile prison
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 52
Nolan Reilly (Instagram: @kzquarantineking)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit
Idea: A coworker saying goodbye on his last day before quitting a job is a perfect opportunity to share a couple minutes of blunt or awkward advice (which I call "trench advice"), because 1) they know you really well, 2) you'll probably never see them again so you don't have awkward social interactions with them in the future, and 3) they have no incentive to say mean things to you to mess with your head
Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 51
Gimmy Cipriano (Twitter: @theRealGimmyC, @aBitTooMuch1)
Ricarlo Winston (Twitter: @thewolfspider23)
Markus Olind (Twitter: @BeardVonMarkus)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit