Creativity Wasted

Idea: A colony inside a moon crater where the roof is self-repairing and is made out of small balloons. Also: questioning whether the idea makes sense, a roof collapse where the balloons fall into the crater and everyone suffocates would look like the most horrific birthday party of all time Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 30 Bree Pratt (formerly Brian Pratt) Joe Morgan (instagram.com/jomoworx4u ) Peggy Beattie (twitter.com/Peggy4859) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma)

Idea: A series of soundproof rooms (called "squawkboxes") along the walls of a movie theater in which small groups of people can talk to each other and use their cell phones while watching the movie. Also: themed squawkboxes such as "hotel room squawkboxes" and "parental lounge squawkboxes" and "singles bar squawkboxes", types of movies that would be best for squawkboxes Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 29 Brett Mercer (twitter.com/brettmercer_) Corey Rice (facebook.com/coreyrice) Bryan Harrison (https://www.moistdefinitelypodcast.com/) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

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.com/brettmercer_) Corey Rice (facebook.com/coreyrice) Bryan Harrison (https://www.moistdefinitelypodcast.com/) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Idea: A social media app to share nearby people's "roles" in your life with them, as if life was a movie, such as "clumsy waiter", "creepy security guard", or "hot girl who lives on my floor". Also: gamifying casual relationships, a passive form of dominance, a "tag cloud" of your most common roles/attributes, finding out how people perceive you and then figuring out how to change yourself to improve people's perceptions and/or expectations of you Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 29 Brett Mercer (twitter.com/brettmercer_) Corey Rice (facebook.com/coreyrice) Bryan Harrison (https://www.moistdefinitelypodcast.com/) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Idea: A smart, topical, and meta sitcom about workers at an animation studio who never get to finish their movie because real world news keeps necessitating plot changes. Also: not knowing the plot of the movie you're animating, releasing the movie that the animators are creating in the sitcom as an actual movie, manipulating world events to match the movie you're working on Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 29 Brett Mercer (twitter.com/brettmercer_) Corey Rice (facebook.com/coreyrice) Bryan Harrison (https://www.moistdefinitelypodcast.com/) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

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.com/hardgcomedy) Dave Crumbley (instagram.com/davecrumbley) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Idea: To solve racism by forcing everybody to wear augmented-reality race-swapping glasses which cause them to see their family and their favorite celebrities as the race that they hate the most. Also, a theory that the reason it's hard to digest "ethnic food" (or food from other cultures/races) is racism, and therefore that ending racism will cause both racial and gastrointestinal harmony Jason Gilleran (instagram.com/hardgcomedy) Dave Crumbley (instagram.com/davecrumbley) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI (Facebook: Broken Knuckle Studios)

Idea: A new type of Olympics where each event is designed to promote innovation in human biological enhancement/recovery, sporting equipment technology, or both; events include Human Battering Ram, Vertical Running, Flugtag (human powered flying machines), Artificial Liver Drinking Contest, and Team Pole Vault (where the pole vaulter goes so high they need to parachute down). Also: a moderate amount of danger and serious injury is encouraged because it advances the technology of medicine and physical therapy Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 28 Robert Johnson (twitter.com/blackrob2006) DC Bradley (instagram.com/dcbradleyonig) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Idea: An app to remind people who are smoking weed or eating edibles not to freak out, i.e. no cops are coming to get them (unless, of course, the cops are coming to get them). Also: friends could alter the app to prank you, the app might backfire and freak you out more if you're on LCD Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 28 Robert Johnson (twitter.com/blackrob2006) DC Bradley (instagram.com/dcbradleyonig) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)

Idea: A visual indicator that a woman is underage so you don't accidentally hit on her. Also: steroid-filled chickens that might make women grow up quicker and also beat you up, comedians telling dirty jokes when there are kids in the audience, the possibility of using a weird disappearing birthmark as an underage indicator Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 28 Robert Johnson (twitter.com/blackrob2006) DC Bradley (instagram.com/dcbradleyonig) Tom Walma (twitter.com/thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit (https://www.PodcastDetroit.com)