Creativity Wasted

Idea: A museum based on the ideas that were brainstormed on this podcast, including a "Wes Wing" for Wes's ideas. Also: a few new ideas to put in the Wes Wing, including a toaster that stamps designs on your toast, a chainsaw whose speed is dependent on the volume of your screams, an alarm that wakes you up by insulting you, Bluetooth underwear, etc.; a museum/store for both silly patents/inventions and prototype inventions (so you can provide helpful feedback to the inventors); companies that blatantly steal the ideas/patents of other companies; Tom thinks a camera on a toothbrush is actually a good idea; in 50 years, the podcast will provide a unique perspective into the zeitgeist of the time

Erik Bauer (facebook.com/erikbauer)

Chris Young (https://chrisyoungcomic.com instagram.com/chrisyoungcomic)

Wes Allen (facebook.com/wes.allen.264240 instagram.com/wesallencomedy Email: [email protected])

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Idea: Swim goggles to wear while exercising that use VR or augmented reality to make it look like you're being chased by a shark (or zombie or clown or whatever) to scare you to make you run or swim faster. Also: unlike a VR headset, you won't sweat in them and they won't break if you fall down; if you wore them in the ocean, you might misinterpret a real shark as a fake shark and get eaten, or they could augment your view of a dead coral reef to make it look prettier; Erik's "bacon-by-the-foot" patent

Erik Bauer (facebook.com/erikbauer)

Chris Young (https://chrisyoungcomic.com instagram.com/chrisyoungcomic)

Wes Allen (facebook.com/wes.allen.264240 instagram.com/wesallencomedy Email: [email protected])

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Idea: To see how many clowns fit in a school bus and/or for clown cars/busses to be used for public transportation. Also: lots of dark humor about clowns; environmentally-friendly clown mass transit where you replace your carbon footprint with a giant clown shoe footprint; that time a group of clowns came to a local standup comedy open mic

Sherry Hoenicke (instagram.com/hobcomedy facebook.com/sherry.hoenickebarnes)

Donovan Tesin (instagram.com/donovantesin facebook.com/DonovanTesin)

James River (instagram.com/jamesrivercomedy facebook.com/jamesrivercomedy Cash App: jamesrivercomedy)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Idea: A horn for bicycles which is less rude than a normal bike horn but also louder than a normal bike horn to get drivers to better notice the bicyclist for safety reasons. Also: maybe you need a quiet "excuse me" horn and a loud "oh, crap" horn; tricking out a bicycle with weapons like a James Bond car; poor sidewalks, traffic, and the danger of bicycling in the city; questioning whether you can you get a DUI on a bicycle (BUI?), the impossibility of being intensely drunk while riding a bicycle or motorcycle, and a bike horn that "sounds drunk" when the bicyclist is drunk

Sherry Hoenicke (instagram.com/hobcomedy facebook.com/sherry.hoenickebarnes)

Donovan Tesin (instagram.com/donovantesin facebook.com/DonovanTesin)

James River (instagram.com/jamesrivercomedy facebook.com/jamesrivercomedy Cash App: jamesrivercomedy)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Idea: A cell phone that is used exactly like an old-fashioned cordless phone or rotary phone so boomers who don't understand cell phones can still use the phone in nursing homes without land lines. Also: it would be better than kludging together Magic Jack with WiFi or a cell phone paired with a Bluetooth cordless phone; hipsters and recovering cell phone addicts might also want to use it; nursing homes might not supply phones to every room because their tenants would run up adult phone line bills or fall prey to scams; in the future we'll communicate directly with our minds and elderly Millennials/GenYs/GenZs in nursing homes who can't figure out the mind phones will have to buy special old-timey cell phones

Sherry Hoenicke (instagram.com/hobcomedy facebook.com/sherry.hoenickebarnes)

Donovan Tesin (instagram.com/donovantesin facebook.com/DonovanTesin)

James River (instagram.com/jamesrivercomedy facebook.com/jamesrivercomedy Cash App: jamesrivercomedy)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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An episode where the idea was a short story about a woman with a unibrow, but we mostly forgot to talk about the story and instead comedically riffed about unibrows the entire time. Also: the character with the unibrow could be the unwanted person who holds people together (just like the hair connecting their eyebrows); nose hair that sticks out and becomes part of a mustache; having a unibrow is a conscious choice; a hairstylist being unable to talk people out of unibrows and bald spot mullets and other bad hair decisions

Lucky Lee (instagram.com/luckyleecomedy chelsealuckyleewoudstra.weebly.com)

David Carson (Email Newsletter: david-carson.com Blog: dumbify.beehiiv.com)

Carl Sobel (linktr.ee/Carl_Sobel_Comedy facebook.com/ComedyNightAtRiverCitySaloon)

Krinker (facebook.com/ryan.krinker)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Idea: Mini local surveillance networks where people in a neighborhood share access to their outdoor cameras with each other and use state-of-the-art software to detect gunshots, follow people from camera to camera, etc. The police wouldn't have direct access to the video, but the people could manually send video to the police if they choose to do so. Also: it is meant to be the opposite of "big brother" mass surveillance; people in the neighborhood might provide more humanity and understand the context of a situation better than police doing "big brother"-style mass police surveillance (for example, people in the neighborhood might only report the most dangerous criminals); watching your loved ones from camera-to-camera as they walk to the bus to make sure they're safe

Rishabh Heer (instagram.com/rishheer facebook.com/rish.heer)

Norman Dwayne (instagram.com/normandwaynecomedy facebook.com/norman.dwayne.365305)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Brainstorming ideas to slow lawn growth so you don't have to mow the lawn as often, such as pouring coffee on it, having weedwackers that come out of the ground, shocking the grass with freezing cold water, etc. Also: people in the past and people in the future will be shocked that we spent so much time and labor on our lawns; using humanoid robots to do Flintstones-like manual labor (like using "washing boards" to wash clothes by hand) instead of using machines like dishwashers, washing machines, and even weedwackers; the risk of ruining the ground and creating a sinkhole that destroys your house while trying crazy things to try to slow down the lawn growth

Rishabh Heer (instagram.com/rishheer facebook.com/rish.heer)

Norman Dwayne (instagram.com/normandwaynecomedy facebook.com/norman.dwayne.365305)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Idea: An app in which you electronically connect with (or match with) nearby strangers when you're in a public social venue (like a bar) so then you can more easily physically approach them to chat, make friends, flirt, etc. Also: there could be a feature to pay the stranger to talk to you (instead of buying them a beer); the app could have venue-specific features such as to join a group at a "board game bar" or join a team or find an opponent at a sports complex; the app could have you list favorite conversation topics and/or the type of people you want to talk to (such as women who only want to talk to other women); possible downsides of the app, such as coming off as desperate and how paying for conversations could encourage fake non-sincere social interactions

Rishabh Heer (instagram.com/rishheer facebook.com/rish.heer)

Norman Dwayne (instagram.com/normandwaynecomedy facebook.com/norman.dwayne.365305)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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Idea: A text editor that enables exact language translation of text by only allowing you to type words contained in a series of small language translation databases (basic words, words related to a particular business, etc.) Also: there would be no need for AI to make guesses regarding language translations; it'd take longer to write because if you wanted to use a word that wasn't in one of the translation databases you'd have to figure out a different way to say what you want to say; the translation databases could be transmitted as an attachment with the email or text file

Tyler Beans (facebook.com/tyler.warmbein.3)

Emeka Nriagu (facebook.com/emeka.nriagu instagram.com/emurkadurk)

Ben Champion (instagram.com/_champ_is.here facebook.com/ben.champion.39)

Tom Walma (https://creativitywasted.com x.com/thomaswalma twitch.tv/gameymcfitness)

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