Creativity Wasted

Idea: A sci-fi movie, where, in the near future, an eccentric billionaire adventurer like Elon Musk leads the first mission to colonize a planet of a nearby star. They've figured out how to slow down aging via drugs and hibernation, so they age like 1/10 as fast as usual. So they can survive the entire 200-year journey, and still be young enough to have kids when they get there. But they can only hibernate for 90 days at a time. So every 90 days, they wake up, do a day of work, have an intense drug-fueled party, and then go back into hibernation before the hangover kicks in. So instead of space travel being logical and business-like and boring, it's the exact opposite, overflowing with fun and emotion and intense experiences. But will the people who signed up for a party be able to cope when things start to go wrong? Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 64 Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy) Paul Pipitone (Facebook: @paul.pipitone.5) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Idea: Time machines that allow people to go back in time and prevent horrible crimes which would've occurred by peacefully interfering and preventing the crimes. But there might be some unexpected downsides... (Note: NSFW) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 64 Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy) Paul Pipitone (Facebook: @paul.pipitone.5) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Idea: A belt or suit that you can wear to allow yourself to temporarily change into any shape you want, like another person, an animal, an animated company logo, or a literal "fly on the wall". Also: a discussion on "invisibility cloaks" (Note: NSFW) Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 64 Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy) Paul Pipitone (Facebook: @paul.pipitone.5) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Exercising in a gym is selfishly controlling machines (i.e. exercise equipment) in a way that benefits nobody else, and therefore provides you no contentment. And even the selfish benefits aren't perceptible enough to motivate you to do it. Why not instead have a charity where you build tiny houses for exercise? You could make it convenient and build the tiny houses indoors in a gym-like building on your own schedule. And you could either donate them to charity, or work towards earning your own tiny house, which might allow you to quit your day job and pursue your hipster creative dreams Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 63 Jason Alt (Twitter: @JasonEAlt) Nick Earl (Twitter: @fakenickearl) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Because health/fitness fads and cults both have extremely loyal followings, why not combine them together and create a fitness cult? Plus, if you're gonna be a sleazy cult leader who seduces all of his followers (like they tend to do), this is a great theme for the cult, because your followers would be fit and wouldn't be sexually repressed religious zealots Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 63 Jason Alt (Twitter: @JasonEAlt) Nick Earl (Twitter: @fakenickearl) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

The three things men need to carry are phone, wallet, and keys. A sub-dermal microchip could eliminate 2 of those 3 things, and could also do other cool stuff, like store your customized settings for smart appliances. And security issues don't really matter because you're always carrying a cell phone anyway. The biggest downside is that somebody might cut it out of your body to steal it Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 63 Jason Alt (Twitter: @JasonEAlt) Nick Earl (Twitter: @fakenickearl) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

A standup comedy contest where comics compete one-on-one in a tournament bracket. Each night, 8 comics compete in 3 rounds, until a winner for the night is declared. After 8 shows, the 8 past winners compete in the same fashion to declare an ultimate winner. The first two rounds of the night are decided by overall audience applause immediately after the two competing comics perform. The last round of the night is decided by 7 pseudo-random audience members, who are chosen to be voters because they do not appear to be brought to the show by either of the two comics who made it to the final round, thus ensuring a more honest vote Adam Walsh (Knuckleheads Comedy: IG: @khcomedy313 Twitter: @KnuckleheadsC) Steve Kaz (IG: @kazthecomic) Brandon Ponke (IG: @bponke Twitter: @BPonke) Dale Murdock (IG: @dalelerious) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Broken Knuckle Studio in Waterford, MI

Idea: Fortune cookies which give you a bad fortune (for the sake of humor), such as "someone you love is gonna die soon", "you'll meet the woman of your dreams, but nightmares are also dreams", or a creepy picture of Bill Cosby's smiling face Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 62 Trebuchet (Twitter: @trebuchetlol YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCyvskJfWUhftv_pa7gREiRg) Scott Wilding (Twitter: @Wilding138) Ian James (Twitter: @dinosaurianjam) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Idea: A standup comedy show on the Internet using the standup comedy videogame "Comedy Night" and the videogame livestreaming website Twitch. The show (which will probably be called "Nerdy and Dirty") will have a lineup of real standup comics. The comics will appear as avatars in the "Comedy Night" videogame. On Twitch, they'll also appear as avatars, possibly with additional video of their real faces as a picture-in-picture, and possibly with an additional pre-show interview. The audience will be real people, either the audience from the "Comedy Night" videogame (who can heckle), or, if the comics are performing in a real comedy venue in real life, the audience from that venue Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 62 Trebuchet (Twitter: @trebuchetlol YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCyvskJfWUhftv_pa7gREiRg) Scott Wilding (Twitter: @Wilding138) Ian James (Twitter: @dinosaurianjam) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Idea: 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: www.youtube.com/channel/UCyvskJfWUhftv_pa7gREiRg) Scott Wilding (Twitter: @Wilding138) Ian James (Twitter: @dinosaurianjam) Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma) Recorded at Podcast Detroit