Mid-Life Themed Pop Songs

Idea: Pop songs for middle-aged people which discuss middle-aged issues, such as erectile dysfunction and health issues, not getting along with your kids, wanting to buy a motorcycle, rigidly-scheduled lovemaking sessions, and partying because your kids finally moved out. Also: the songs could be performed either by middle-aged artists or by popular young artists; questioning whether young adults still listen to FM radio; using AI to tweak songs by popular artists to make them directly apply to your life situation

This episode was released to the podcast feed on Nov 20. Links to the episode will be added to this web page within a few days (probably this weekend, since I’m out of town and can’t edit the podcast video until I get back)

The Seance of Chester Bennington (Movie Musical)

Idea: A movie musical where the deceased lead singer of Linkin Park (Chester Bennington) is contacted via seance by his grieving children. Then, in order to solve their financial woes and to help them emotionally, he performs a new music album from beyond the grave. His voice would be generated for the movie using AI. Also: AI voice replication is getting really, really good; in the movie, he can only communicate from beyond the grave "in song"; it doesn't make sense that AI gets the artsy jobs and we have to pour over numbers; getting plastic surgery to look like a deceased singer and then getting an AI-based vocal implant to sound like them

This is the AI-generated song that I stumbled onto on YouTube which sounded very real and inspired this idea:

Pam Palmieri (Facebook Personal: @pam.palmieri Instagram: @pampalmiericomedy Comedy Shows (Facebook): @Comedy/Productions Pam Palmieri)
Alex Wilson (Facebook: @mralexwilson YouTube: @thedropoutprofessor Web: the-dropout-professor.medium.com)
Bryan Deuchler (Facebook: BryanDeuchler Podcast (Web): cartoontonic.buzzsprout.com)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Karaoke Social Media App

Idea: A social media app to show off and/or request karaoke or lip-syncing videos from your friends or from celebs. Also: paying people to help them overcome their shyness to do karaoke for you; the app could only allow the recipient to see the video once or only allow the singer to attempt the song once; wanting to see other people sing badly but not wanting to do it yourself

Mark Hamilton (Facebook: @mgamarkhamilton Instagram: @markhamilton6352)
Tommy Cook (Instagram: @tommycooklol Web links (like LinkTree): tommycooklol.carrd.co)
Angela Verges (Facebook: @angela.verges Linktree: @HottFlash)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Concert Periscope

Idea: Periscopes for short people to use at concerts and music festivals which are sold at the concert for a premium price. Also: a periscope view of the crowd might help you avoid danger; stories of being injured at concerts; putting the periscope in a fake head and wearing a trenchcoat like an Inspector Gadget or Scooby Doo cartoon; ideas for naming it, including Ecstasee, Shakira-to-Shaq, and Peepers

Haleigh Potter (Instagram:@haleighpotter Music: linktr.ee/haleighpotter)
Andrew McFarland (Facebook: @amacproductions)
Skippy Rose (YouTube: @SkippyRoseComedy Instagram: @skippyrosecomedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Bad Singer Living in a Musical (Movie)

Idea: A movie set in a universe where people sing and dance all of the time (like in a musical or Bollywood movie), and the protagonist is horribly bad at both singing and dancing, which causes his life to be very difficult. Also: Angelyne and the Rockefeller-era woman who couldn't sing but her rich parents tried to make her a famous singer; Bear Grylls struggling to live with the Kardashians, as narrated by David Attenborough

Ace Armstrong (Twitter: @AceSmellsFunny YouTube: @acesmellsfunny)
Deepak "DP" Aggarwal (Twitter: @not8AllFunny)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Self-Playing Musical Instruments

Idea: Musical instruments such as drums, guitars, and saxophones which play themselves like a "self-playing piano" aka "player piano", and where you can't see the mechanism which is playing the instrument. Also: playing musical instruments using stick-and-gear contraptions, humanoid robots, metal balls falling in rhythm onto drums, etc.; replacing a deceased band member with a self-playing musical instrument; self-playing musical instruments on the street which wouldn't make you feel obligated to donate to them (unlike street musicians); discussing performing standup comedy on the street

Chris Karpinski (Facebook: @christopher.j.karpinski Mead Me at Valhalla Comedy Show)
Mike Szar (Twitter: @MikeSzar_ Instagram: @mikeszar_ Facebook: @Mikeszarcomedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Podcast Studio On-The-Go

Idea: To put podcast recording gear in a van and rent out recording time to other podcasters, and to drive the van to where they want to record. Also: the creepiness factor of telling a stranger to step into your van and maybe putting a boot on the tire of the van during the recording so they trust you not to kidnap them; renting out the van for other activities; putting a cheesy logo on the van and then embarrassing your kids by driving them to school in it; the "Chris Farley dream" (to live in a van down by the river)

Nick Pizzuti (Facebook: @nick.pizzuti.73)
Chris Young (Web: chrisyoungcomic.com Comedy Special Video: Buoyant Mon)
Bryan Harrison (Podcast: @MoistDefinitelyPodcast)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Fake Death Metal Band Mockumentary

Idea: Seth looks like a guy who would be in a metal band. He got so sick of trying to convince people he's not in a band, he started telling people he was in a fake band so they'd walk away happy. His idea is a mockumentary about an aspiring metal vocalist with no talent who lies and says that he started a metal band, but, unlike the real Seth, he books gigs and hypes up the band on the Internet and with killer fliers, but then keeps coming up with excuses to cancel the gigs (such as "the room is too dark to play") and never actually performs. Also: blurring the line between yourself and a character like Andrew "Dice" Clay; bands saying they're like nothing you've ever heard before and then immediately following that up with "we sound like band X mixed with band Y"

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 49

Seth Addison (Instagram: @sexaddictson)
Pat Sievert (Twitter: @patsievert)
Josh Courtnay (Twitter: @JoshCourtnay)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Old-Time Radio Storytelling Podcast

Idea: A podcast for telling original short stories (fiction stories told from start to finish in a single episode), like a modern version of old storytelling radio shows from the 1940s. Also: A failed attempt to improvise a story with the aide of a cheap sound-effect machine

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 46

David Shank (Broken Knuckle Podcast Recording Studio Sitting Down WIth Standups Podcast)
Jason Spitsbergen (Twitter: @JSpitsbergen)
Josh Bowab
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (Podcast Detroit)

Siri Alexa Love Story

Idea: A musical loosely based on Romeo and Juliet where Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri fall in love with each other. Also: they know everything except how to love; if Alexa and Siri fall in love with each other, they won't need humans anymore, and they'll lead a robot apocalypse and kill us all. Or they'll take control of our minds and use us as vessels to consummate their love

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 43

Louie Michael (Twitter: @LouTheSurgeon, Podcast: Free Consultation)
Shelly Smith (Podcast: Reads And Weeds)
Nick "Martin"
Perry Menken (Twitter: @perry_menken)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Breakfast Club Musical

Idea: A musical remake of the 1985 teen movie "The Breakfast Club". Also: questioning whether the 80s "goth" and "burnout" stereotypes from the movie are still relevant, casting the burnout kid from the 80s movie as the stuffy principle in the musical remake, making the audience of the musical sit in uncomfortable school desks like they're in detention with the cast

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 30

Bree Pratt formerly Brian Pratt
Joe Morgan (Instagram: @jomoworx4u )
Peggy Beattie (Twitter: @Peggy4859)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Serialized Horror Podcast

Idea: A serialized horror podcast set in a dystopian future where a group of people who are forced to spend their entire lives in a giant haunted skyscraper talk amongst each other and try to figure out what's happening. Also: unraveling a mystery, spooky sound effects, not knowing what's going on in the outside world

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 29

Brett Mercer (Twitter: @brettmercer_)
Corey Rice (Facebook: @coreyrice)
Bryan Harrison (Podcast: moistdefinatelypodcast.com)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Brailleoke

Idea: Karaoke for blind people. Also: human record players, can you drink while doing brailleoke, the blind kid who tried to play football

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 24

Samantha Rager (Twitter: @SGRager)
Max Sheldrick (Instagram: @maxsheldrick)
Teena Green (Twitter: @TeenaMGreen)
Jeewan Gill (Facebook: @jeewan.gill.5)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

MC Squared Song Ratings

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)

Weezer Cover Song App

Idea: An app which generates a computer-generated cover of any song which sounds like it was performed by the band Weezer. Because flooding the world with Weezer covers would make the whole world happy and possibly even lead to world peace, like a real-life version of the future from the movie "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 82

Brent Von Kalamazoo (Twitter: @brentvonkzoo)
Greg Sharp (Twitter: @GregSharp)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Stay-At-Home Vacation Ideas

Rules for defining a "vacation", how travel isn't required for a vacation because (unlike migrating birds) location isn't one of our five senses, five ideas for new types of stay-at-home vacations (ranging from realistic to wildly futuristic)

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 80

Nick Earl (Twitter: @fakenickearl)
Amanda Brewington (Facebook: @amanda.brewington)
Bryan Deuchler (Twitter: @MrDrRobot Podcast: Cartoon Tonic)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Contact Buy App

An app named "Contact Buy" for performers to sell digital music/comedy and digital photos and autographs to fans at their shows. That way, the fans don't have to deal with annoying physical things like CDs or "download cards", and they can use the digital autograph and photo taken with the musician/artist as "album art" when the song is played on their phones. And since the artist sells directly to the fans, they don't have to give a 30-40% cut to an iTunes/Amazon/GooglePlay digital music store

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 67

Bart Dangus (Twitter: @BartDangus Podcast: bigtimegarbage.libsyn.com)
Ella H
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Juggalo Sitcom

A sitcom about a group of young juggalos (fans of the band "Insane Clown Posse", aka "ICP") growing up in the mid to late '90s. It would include things the wild and chaotic "Gathering of the Juggalos" concerts, backyard wrestling, and the political and pop culture context of ICP and the 1990s, such as music censorship, Columbine, and a feud with Eminem

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 62

Trebuchet (Twitter: @trebuchetlol YouTube: TotallyAwesomeTrebuchetAwards)
Scott Wilding (Twitter: @Wilding138)
Ian James (Twitter: @dinosaurianjam)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Boom-B-Gone

A device to cancel out loud, vibrating bass from nearby cars when you're at a stoplight or stuck in a traffic jam. And maybe also wirelessly lock the person's car doors so they don't get out and attack you if they figure out that you silenced their music

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 61

Chris Karpinski (Twitter: @ComedyDadKzoo)
Jay Stapes (Twitter: @jstapes_says)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit