Identity Class

Idea: A high school class where you independently browse video and info of former students to see how they did in college, career, and life, to encourage you to relate that back to you to help you plan your academics, career, and life. Also: the video would include the former student sitting in class, socializing in the lunchroom and at school events, giving MTV-Real World style confessionals about their thoughts on their life/school/career, opinions about the student by their teachers/parents/friends/spouses, etc.; AI would help you quickly jump to interesting/relevant data/video about a student who you're curious about, such as whether they got a job in their chosen career and what they say about it; teachers would make you write reports comparing yourself to former student(s) and (for example) describing what you could do to achieve the same positive outcomes or avoid the negative outcomes; the AI/data could be corrupted by overprotective teachers and/or the browsing history of students in the class could be used to spot and punish future criminals

Jay Eoff (Facebook: @jay.eoff.3)
Nicole Melnyk (Linktree: @nicooldude420 Instagram: @mcfancyvonpants TikTok: @nicolemelnyk)
Tom Walma (X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

A College For Only Rich Kids

Idea (satire): A college to be attended by only rich kids where they won't be annoyed by "poors" complaining about high tuition, and they learn rich people skills like white collar crime, avoiding taxes, condescension, etc. Also: majoring in crypto and minoring in convincing other people to invest their life savings into crypto; owning teams of poors who compete for them in sporting events (because the rich don't wanna get sweaty) and who perform in dog-show-like competitions; it would be located on an artificial island in the sky so they can drop trash down onto the poors; discussing loosely related topics, such as public speaking courses, fat camps for adults, Emma Stone, rich people doing risky things, man-made disasters caused by a single person's mistake, and Zeppelins

Jay Eoff (Facebook: @jay.eoff.3)
Nicole Melnyk (Linktree: @nicooldude420 Instagram: @mcfancyvonpants TikTok: @nicolemelnyk)
Tom Walma (X: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Themed Boy-Girl Scouts

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)

Name-Remembering Glasses

Idea: Augmented-reality glasses with an app which displays the names of people who you're looking at, so you don't have to remember their names. It may also display info about the person and how you know them. Also: the difficulty of teachers to remember student names, especially years later when running into them outside of school; assigning a person a "monster avatar" in the glasses as a memorization aide; discussing problems with high school education

Jason Fylan-Mares (Facebook: @DoomsdayShelterComedy Facebook: @jason.m.fylan)
Michael Cesaro (Facebook: @michael.cesaro.7)
"Jaded" Jaden (Facebook: @JADEDJADENCOMEDY)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Gen Z Cultural Illiteracy Ideas

A conversation on how weird it is that so many young people hadn't heard of Jeffrey Dahmer before the recent Netflix show, and how Gen Z (and sometimes older people as well) don't know hardly anything about the culture or history from the decades before they reached adulthood. This conversation includes some (unsuccessful) brainstorming of ideas on how to solve that problem. Also: are low attention spans, binge watching, social media, and/or an overabundance of non-educational entertainment choices the cause of the problem, or are neglectful parents who don't talk to their kids and/or inspire their kid's intellectual curiosity to blame; an idea for the government replace PSAs with "educational product placement" within popular shows and video games (which would cover much broader educational topics than today's PSAs); an idea for a parental control app that forces kids to consume educational content before being able to continue to use social media, TV, or videogames; TV shows like "The Walking Dead" and sci-fi which aren't educational per-se, but can make you think, such as to speculate on how to survive in fictional scenarios

Jason Fylan-Mares (Facebook: @DoomsdayShelterComedy Facebook: @jason.m.fylan)
Michael Cesaro (Facebook: @michael.cesaro.7)
"Jaded" Jaden (Facebook: @JADEDJADENCOMEDY)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Skool

Idea: A K-12 school system based on the principles of cryptocurrency, such as blockchain and smart contracts, for the purposes of 1) reducing corruption (because things like test scores would be visible on the blockchain and things like grading systems and reward systems would be pre-defined and visible on smart contracts), 2) eliminating unnecessary middlemen (such as school administrators), 3) enabling innovative parent-student-community participation (such as voting on which classes and extra-curricular activities are available), 4) enabling innovative incentives for students to learn (such as skipping class if you did well on a test, teachers blocking access to kid's streaming video games at home until they do their homework), and 5) familiarizing students with the principles of cryptocurrency to help them prepare for the future economy. Also: blockchain and the danger of "big brother" and social currency scores; an example of a school unfairly changing the rules in the middle of a contest (which could have been prevented by "smart contracts")

Thomas Stineman (Facebook: @thomas.z.stineman)
Justin Siekierka (Comedy Shows: Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co Rusted Crow Canton Village Theater)
Tom Walma (Web: creativitywasted.com Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Emotional Strength Bully Defense Training

Idea: Emotional strength training to cope with bullying, and also teaching and practicing tactics for responding to bullying, such as responding with humorous insults. Also: we awkwardly and reluctantly "bully" Nick so he can demonstrate how he would respond; an emotionally-charged debate on how society should deal with bullying

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 48

Nick Pizzuti (Facebook: @nick.pizzuti.73)
Kyle Forsyth (Twitter: @IAmKyleForsyth)
Ashley Stommen (Instagram: @ashleystommen)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Better Recognition of Specialized Talents

Idea: To try harder to recognize people with unique talents instead of ignoring or rejecting them because of their shortcomings (such as in school). Also: using people with photographic memories to comb through crowds like Bruce Willis in the movie Unbreakable; questioning why nobody has given me millions of dollars to create the ideas discussed in this podcast

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 42

Eric Fadie (Twitter: @bigedetroitcast)
Tim Reaburn (Twitter: @timrebrn)
John Eric Ballinger (Twitter: @Glubchuck44)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Tech Ideas for Racial Equality

Idea: Three tech-based ideas for transforming society in a way which would lead to more racial equality, including a new grade-school teaching system ("Teach or Die"), a new low-cost futuristic type of housing ("Stuff-On-Demand Housing"), and a new architectural/city-planning framework ("Garage Cities") which would encourage low-cost and flexible entrepreneurship and would also reduce the spread of COVID-19 and other airborne diseases

Jason Gilleran (Instagram: @hardgcomedy)
Dave Crumbley (Instagram: @davecrumbley)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio

Teach or Die

Idea: A teaching system which involves firing all of the teachers and replacing them with cheap unskilled classroom monitors, multimedia lessons, and tutors. Multiple companies develop competing lessons for the same small topic (ranging from 1 to 10 classroom hours long). The more successful lessons (based on standardized test results for that topic) will "survive" and be taught to a greater percentage of future students, causing the company to be paid accordingly. Strong competition, continued and rapid lesson improvement, unbiased statistical feedback, and equal opportunity are all built into the system, none of which can be said about the current educational system.

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 21

Contains 3 minutes of additional bonus audio from Tom’s appearance on the horrifically-named "Moist Definitely" podcast

Mike Geeter (Twitter: @OhMikeGeeter, Kevin Hart's "Hart in the City")
Gus N.
Maria (a teacher)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded live at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Wide-Tipped Pencil

Idea: A wide-tipped pencil to making it easier to fill in multiple choice circles on scholastic tests. Also: the most boring idea ever on this podcast, using giant novelty pencils to take the SATs, do scantrons still exist?

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 19

Alan Black (Twitter: @alanblah)
Diego Attanasio (Twitter: @DiegoComedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Poop Dollar Experiment

Idea: A science experiment to see which money denominations covered with which amounts of poop people will pick up off the ground. Also discussed: vegan poop, gut flora and/or pheromones in poop, philosophy degrees

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 8

Alex Bozinovic (Twitter: @truheroism)
Jeff Ford (Twitter: @Comicjeff10)
Dan Turco (Twitter: @Dansplaining)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

DUI Experiment

Idea: An experiment to see if experienced drunk drivers can drive as well as a sober person

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 4

Derek Brand (Instagram: @brand9470)
Jon Mullinix (Instagram: @mullinixjon)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Obama Challenge

Idea: A social experiment or contest to see what's memorable. A bunch of contestants would each do something weird or interesting while meeting a famous person (such as President Obama) in public for a 5-10 second handshake or autograph. Then, years later, the famous person is put in a room with each of the contestants, to see which contestants were remembered by the famous person

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 4

Derek Brand (Instagram: @brand9470)
Jon Mullinix (Instagram: @mullinixjon)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Life Guide App

Idea: An app that monitors what you're doing all day and uses artificial intelligence to give you advice, kind of like "an angel on your shoulder that also keeps you from being stupid". It can also go back into it's recorded history of your life, and show you a sequence of decisions that led to a bad outcome, to help you learn from your mistakes

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

PredictionNET

A web site to allow professionals (scientists, engineers, business leaders) or groups of professionals to make and share predictions about the future, including prediction algorithms (which are based on other predictions and where the predicted outcome changes week to week as new information is received). There would be snapshots of the prediction algorithms, so you can see how the prediction has evolved over time. You'd be able to see the past performance of somebody's predictions. Regular "unverified" people would be able to make predictions as well. And psychic abilities would be disproven (or proven)

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 60

Robert Jenkins (Twitter: @RobJComedy)
Brent Von Kalamazoo(Twitter: @brentvonkzoo)
Patrick Fowler (Twitter: @DontCallMePat)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Educational Lifecasting

"Truman Show"-like television shows, each of which follows somebody throughout their entire life without their knowledge, but for educational purposes, such as to show obese people how thin people shop for groceries

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 60

Robert Jenkins (Twitter: @RobJComedy)
Brent Von Kalamazoo(Twitter: @brentvonkzoo)
Patrick Fowler (Twitter: @DontCallMePat)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

School Shooting Prevention Plan

A 3-part plan to prevent school shootings: a) early childhood therapy, b) a "school shooter exchange program" which puts bullied white high-school boys in inner-city schools to "show them what real bullying is like", and c) legalized prostitution. Also: teachers using fake names when doing standup comedy, maybe the only people who should have guns are the people who don't want guns, why the best way to rid the country of guns might be to just do nothing

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 60

Robert Jenkins (Twitter: @RobJComedy)
Brent Von Kalamazoo(Twitter: @brentvonkzoo)
Patrick Fowler (Twitter: @DontCallMePat)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit