Idea: To combine Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts and then divide it into themes, such as apocalypse survival scouts, videogame/music/art/sport scouts, space scouts, mechanic scouts, etc. Also: an embarrassing childhood scout-related incident; teaching things in school vs. in scouts; laundering money and/or unloading counterfeit money by buying Girl Scout cookies
Jason Thompson (Instagram: @jason_thompson_comedy YouTube: @TAMMpON)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Idea: An app to help you find loopholes to bypass rules, save money, commit crimes and avoid going to prison, etc. Also: you could either actively search for loopholes, or it could always run and use AI to be like a "devil on your shoulder" and suggest loopholes as you go about your day; letting you know if a loophole has been "closed" i.e. will no longer work; using loopholes to obtain medicinal THC for Crohn's disease; preparing to perform in possibly the worst idea for a standup comedy show of all time
Jason Thompson (Instagram: @jason_thompson_comedy YouTube: @TAMMpON)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Idea: An augmented-reality app that develops a personality model of your partner and constantly listens to and watches them, and uses AI to predict how to you should respond to their questions and to their emotional needs in order to keep them happy. Also: displaying a list of options of what you should do, along with percentage certainties of each option, and reasons why; your partner's AR glasses could be measuring their vitals (heart rate, hormones, etc.) all day and transmitting it to your AR glasses for them to show you a gauge of their estimated level of anger before you interact with them; parents and teenagers using the AR relationship assistant app, and why it might not work; if you get used to the peace and understanding that the AR relationship assistant provides and then the software crashes, you might immediately go at each other in chaotic rage like two rabid squirrels trapped in a sack
Sarah Marchi (Instagram: @smartimarchi)
Jason Thompson (Instagram: @jason_thompson_comedy YouTube: @TAMMpON)
Calvin G Baker (Instagram: @calvinbakercomedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Idea: An app for gambling on the weather. Also: a racing-themed gambling game on when a storm will arrive and a dart-themed gambling game on where lightning will strike; the mob corrupting the weatherman and causingg him to lie during the weather forecast; predicting rainbows and a PSA warning people of the dangers of car accidents from watching rainbows while driving; elderly women dominating weather gambling by using weather-predicting birds and/or sensing the weather with their achy joints
Sarah Marchi (Instagram: @smartimarchi)
Jason Thompson (Instagram: @jason_thompson_comedy YouTube: @TAMMpON)
Calvin G Baker (Instagram: @calvinbakercomedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Idea: A buffet where you order your food by watching a live video feed (while you're at a drive-thru or using an app) and telling a worker who's at the buffet what foods to grab. Also: using robots to scoop the food and/or deliver the food; having it count calories as they scoop, and using the remote buffet for all of your meals to ensure portion control to lose weight; drive-thru liquor stores using "growlers" and other refillable containers to buy the exact quantity of alcohol that you want; an embarrassing childhood buffet incident at Ponderosa Steakhouse
Lisa Green (Instagram: @lisagreencomedy Facebook: @depottowncomedy)
Todd Garvey (Facebook: @todd.garvey.716)
Rio Riojas (Beacons.ai (similar to Linktree): @drdecide Podcast: Cornbread and Beans)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
A brainstorming session on how to clean up a specific adult-themed bit/joke, and a discussion on whether it's even possible. Also: dirty metaphors/innuendo such as "the grand finale" and "the product of the interaction"; "seagulling" and dirty urban legends being made real; using Adam Sandler movies as a barometer of acceptable PG-13 dirtiness
Brainstorming how to clean up a specific adult bit/joke (if it's possible); dirty innuendo such as "the grand finale" and "the product of the interaction"; "seagulling" and dirty urban legends being made real; using Adam Sandler movies as a barometer of acceptable PG-13 dirtiness pic.twitter.com/GXAD6xZSPc
— Creativity Wasted Podcast (@creativitywaste) October 26, 2023
Lisa Green (Instagram: @lisagreencomedy Facebook: @depottowncomedy)
Todd Garvey (Facebook: @todd.garvey.716)
Rio Riojas (Beacons.ai (similar to Linktree): @drdecide Podcast: Cornbread and Beans)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Idea: An app for comedians/performers to coordinate with bookers to schedule gigs, where the performers list their avails in the app, and a set of show bookers (similar to those on "MCN" aka "Michigan Comics Network" on Facebook) browse through and select available performers to book them for their shows. Also: multiple bookers could see that you're available to perform on a given day, and the first one to choose you gets you, so performers don't have to, for exmaple, apply to two weekly Monday shows on alternating Mondays; allowing performers to set availability criteria using custom macros/scripts, such as that they don't want to drive a long distance for a small amount of performance time or pay; info in the app about the performers (clips, bios, warnings from other bookers, etc.) and the venue (free drink tickets, stage props available for improv acts, etc.); the weirdness of standup comedy venues not wanting comedians to wear shorts
Lisa Green (Instagram: @lisagreencomedy Facebook: @depottowncomedy)
Todd Garvey (Facebook: @todd.garvey.716)
Rio Riojas (Beacons.ai (similar to Linktree): @drdecide Podcast: Cornbread and Beans)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Idea: An app which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assist (not replace) the dungeon master and possibly other players in "Dungeons & Dragons" (D&D) and other similar tabletop games. Also: helping the dungeon master by generating maps, NPCs, rooms, quests, etc. before the game and/or on-the-fly during the game, using configured settings, randomization, and the current state of the game (which the AI would know by listening to the game); explaining D&D to newbies (both in this podcast and in the proposed app); using AI to generate a visual display of the current state of the game for all of the players, including the floor plan of the current room, info of the NPCs you're interacting with, etc.; drinking while playing D&D and other tabletop games
Lisa Green (Instagram: @lisagreencomedy Facebook: @depottowncomedy)
Todd Garvey (Facebook: @todd.garvey.716)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Idea: A commercialized bathroom that contains different types of toilets from around the world (bidets, pit toilets, etc.), so you can try them out before traveling or before buying one, and to allow foreigners to use a familiar type of toilet. Also: extra clothes for the case of mishaps, such as a knee snapping and causing you to fall into a pit toilet; an "assport" as a souvenir with stamps indicating which nation's toilets you've successfully used; the World War 2 challenge; a "gravy enema" to "put one in the chamber" to try out the toilet; Tom didn't know how an enema works
Sean Francis (Facebook: @seanfrancisco27 Linktree: @comedyoutletmondays)
Rachel Santos (Facebook: @comedian.rachel.santos Instagram: @rachelskindafunny)
Johnny Santos (Linktree: @johnnyskindafunny)
James River (Instagram: @jamesrivercomedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Idea: A drive-thru buffet where your car sits on a moving track inside a building (like an automatic car wash), you stick your arm out the car window and grab food as your car slowly moves by the buffet tables, and your car (with you and the food inside) is weighed to see how much food you grabbed to determine how much to charge you. Also: backing up and crashing if you missed a food that you want; "coal rolling" to pepper the food with exhaust; tweaks to make the idea a little more practical, like standing next to the car as it moves through the buffet to better reach the food, or a redesign where the car is parked next to a round rotating buffet
Sean Francis (Facebook: @seanfrancisco27 Linktree: @comedyoutletmondays)
Rachel Santos (Facebook: @comedian.rachel.santos Instagram: @rachelskindafunny)
Johnny Santos (Linktree: @johnnyskindafunny)
James River (Instagram: @jamesrivercomedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Idea: An app for comedians which uses AI to analyze recordings of their sets and split it into separate jokes, rate the audience reaction to each joke, and create tags (hashtags, not "joke tags") to organize the jokes into broad categories, such as "parenting" or "dating". Also: creating a profile for a comedy venue of how well different types of jokes (by tag) do there, to help comics tweak their sets to accomodate the venue before ever performing there; using AI-based profiles of comics to choose who to book, and possibly causing venues to segregate into comedy niches; using AI to detect if a joke is too common, hacky, or stolen; tricking the AI
Sean Francis (Facebook: @seanfrancisco27 Linktree: @comedyoutletmondays)
Rachel Santos (Facebook: @comedian.rachel.santos Instagram: @rachelskindafunny)
Johnny Santos (Linktree: @johnnyskindafunny)
James River (Instagram: @jamesrivercomedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Idea: A dating app that only shows you people who share the same kinks/fetishes or at least would tolerate your kinks/fetishes. Also: admitting other embarrassing things in dating profiles, like STDs or financial debt; a kink tolerance sliding scale in the app, like to tolerate their extreme kink, they have to make lots of money; setting chores or qualifications for your partner to "unlock" their kink like in a videogame; ruining the fun of the idea by comparing dating sites to tax prep sites
Idea: A dating app that only shows people who share (or tolerate) your kinks
— Creativity Wasted Podcast (@creativitywaste) September 13, 2023
Also: kink tolerance levels, like to tolerate an extreme kink, they must make more $$$; chores to "unlock" a kink like a videogame; ruining the fun of the idea by comparing dating sites to tax prep sites pic.twitter.com/X2dkxjyd9C
Rachel Santos (Facebook: @comedian.rachel.santos Instagram: @rachelskindafunny)
Johnny Santos (Linktree: @johnnyskindafunny)
James River (Instagram: @jamesrivercomedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Idea: To put human-targeting gun turrets in nature areas (and possibly also arm the animals themselves) to protect them from people and possibly also invasive species. Also: lazy panda bears as picky Roman dictators; giving bees BB guns or hiding machine guns inside beehives; showing jungle animals Andrew Tate videos and then giving them guns just to watch the world burn; inheriting the family business of creating dragons and watering it down to giving bees pocket knives
Sean Francis (Facebook: @seanfrancisco27 Linktree: @comedyoutletmondays)
Rachel Santos (Facebook: @comedian.rachel.santos Instagram: @rachelskindafunny)
Johnny Santos (Linktree: @johnnyskindafunny)
James River (Instagram: @jamesrivercomedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Idea: A nationwide grid of volunteer drone enthusiasts who set up their homes as "drone charging stations", so cellular/satellite-controlled hobby drones can hop across the country from house to house, while the person piloting the drone is doing so from the convenience of their own house. Also: kits for setting up your house as a drone charging station, either in your garage or your attic; shipping the drones across areas without any charging stations, or swapping control of drones with other people in different regions; having volunteers fix drones and get them out of trees, possibly with the aid of falcons; using the drones and drone stations to sightsee, do scavenger hunts, consensually peek in windows via an OnlyFans-style service, receive Amazon packages inside your house, and transfer data of a non-Internet-based social network
Chris Young (Web: crhisyoungcomic Comedy Special Video: Buoyant Mon on Dry Bar Comedy)
David Lesneiski (Instagram: @themexican734 Facebook: @ComedyByDavid)
Jon King (Facebook: @Kinetikai Instagram: @kinetikai)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Idea: An app that can quickly get a list of foods in your house and find recipes that can be made using those foods, including serious recipes, recipes that are a fusion of different types of cuisine, and even weird life-hack-style recipes. Also: using your phone to scan your cupboards to get the available ingredient list, including estimates of how much of the ingredient you have left and expiration dates; finding recipes where you need one or two additional ingredients before you go grocery shopping and putting them on your shopping list; fake meats and the "deepfaking of food"; futuristic food printers and how they could replicate the annoyances of modern-day inkjet printers
Chris Young (Web: crhisyoungcomic Comedy Special Video: Buoyant Mon on Dry Bar Comedy)
David Lesneiski (Instagram: @themexican734 Facebook: @ComedyByDavid)
Jon King (Facebook: @Kinetikai Instagram: @kinetikai)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Idea: A service to hire entertainers (celebs, magicians, etc.) for your funeral or a funeral of a loved one, so the funeral is less sad and has more of the feel of a social gathering that celebrates the life of the deceased. Also: secretly hiring celebrity actors to pretend that they were your friend; inappropriate laughter at a funeral; funeral pranks, such as hiring the "Weekend at Bernie's" actors or having the Publisher's Clearing House barge into the funeral and then say that they can't give away the money because the person is deceased
Chris Young (Web: crhisyoungcomic Comedy Special Video: Buoyant Mon on Dry Bar Comedy)
David Lesneiski (Instagram: @themexican734 Facebook: @ComedyByDavid)
Jon King (Facebook: @Kinetikai Instagram: @kinetikai)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Idea: An app that each member of a group who're gonna eat together have on their phone, which collects everyone's food preferences, dietary restrictions, restaurant ratings, recent food orders, etc. and uses AI, randomization, info from restaurants (possibly even real-time info, like how busy they are), etc. to pick a restaurant to eat at or order from. Also: avoiding the age-old stalemate of "where do you wanna go", "I don't know, where do you wanna go"; having the app pick the restaurant could prevent people from assigning toxic blame to each other if the restaurant sucks, because it's not their fault, it's the app's fault; keeping track of how often a restaurant which is more preferred by one person than another is picked, to balance things out; showing bullet points of the reasons why a particular restaurant is picked (maybe one out of a group of ten is a vegan), and allowing you to choose to exclude a particular reason and retry picking a restaurant; including custom criteria like time, cost, etc.
Chris Young (Web: crhisyoungcomic Comedy Special Video: Buoyant Mon on Dry Bar Comedy)
David Lesneiski (Instagram: @themexican734 Facebook: @ComedyByDavid)
Jon King (Facebook: @Kinetikai Instagram: @kinetikai)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Idea: A dark comedy movie where a young couple who are both improv actors pull a series of increasingly complex pranks on each other, until one gets the other to help commit a murder by tricking them into thinking it's just a prank. Also: how North Korea hired pranksters and tricked them into murdering Kim Jong Un's brother; whether or not to leave the audience guessing; eating cereal-like baby food snacks because they're half the calories of Cheerios and the other "healthy" cereals
Niles Nowak (Instagram: @nilestheriver Instagram: @dogcomicproductions)
Nicole Melnyk (Instagram: @mcfancyvonpants TikTok: @nicolemelnyk Facebook: @DogComicProductions)
Allison Armstrong (Instagram: @allison.alarmstro Facebook: @Alarmstro)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Idea: Short cartoons based on mostly-autobiographical weird, funny, or interesting things that happened in Allison's life, such as her and a friend getting hissed at by a goth after almost running her over with their car and then saying "Oh my God, there would've been paint everywhere!!!", and her getting picked up like a baby and carried out of a mosh pit by a guardian angel skinhead. Also: making cartoons out of stories that don't work as standup comedy; goths, emo concerts, vampires, and Buffy, a non-ideological reason to appreciate "cancel culture"
Niles Nowak (Instagram: @nilestheriver Instagram: @dogcomicproductions)
Nicole Melnyk (Instagram: @mcfancyvonpants TikTok: @nicolemelnyk Facebook: @DogComicProductions)
Allison Armstrong (Instagram: @allison.alarmstro Facebook: @Alarmstro)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)
Idea: An app or setting for your smart phone to detect whether you're wearing glasses and adjust the text size accordingly, so you don't have to manually go to settings to increase the text size to read the phone in bed at night after taking off your glasses. Also: automatically changing the font type (not just the font size) when you take off your glasses so you can see it better (or to be funner and less formal); fake spoiler pranks, and reading plots of books and movies on Wikipedia so you can lie and say you've read or seen it; reading while drunk or high, and possibly dumbing down the content of what you're reading if you're drunk; Hollywood teeth
Niles Nowak (Instagram: @nilestheriver Instagram: @dogcomicproductions)
Nicole Melnyk (Instagram: @mcfancyvonpants TikTok: @nicolemelnyk Facebook: @DogComicProductions)
Allison Armstrong (Instagram: @allison.alarmstro Facebook: @Alarmstro)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)