Creativity Wasted

Tom Walma

Brainstorming and sharing ideas is the funnest part of the creative process. We decided to skip the boring part of actually making stuff, and just do the fun part

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688 episodes
Updated July 27
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Oct 4, 2025 · 23 min
Dollar Days Dollar Store Travel Show (Jake Mattes)
Idea: An Anthony Bourdain-style travel show where the host goes to grand openings of dollar stores, reviews them, explores the nearby community, and interviews interesting customers
Sep 27, 2025 · 22 min
Puppers Puppy Rental Service (Alfons Mueller)
Idea (dark humor): A short-term puppy rental service where the puppy is put down and made into soap if the renter doesn't pay a large amount of money to buy it afterwards
Sep 23, 2025 · 18 min
Roaming Cool Air Vendors (Tom Walma)
Idea: Vendors that roam around the stands at a summer baseball game carrying a fan and a large battery that charge people money to cool them down
Sep 13, 2025 · 9 min
Professional Podcast Guest (Steve Pierce)
Idea: To make a career out of being a paid guest on various podcasts
Sep 5, 2025 · 12 min
Punksura Text Translation App (Lisa Green)
Idea: An app to translate/interpet the grammar, slang, and acronyms of text (primarily social media) based on your age
Aug 30, 2025 · 18 min
Prank For Hire Business (Dan Leach)
Idea: A business that you can hire to perform a prank on someone (like in the Norm MacDonald movie "Dirty Work")
Aug 23, 2025 · 15 min
Humiliation Trophies (Tom Walma)
Idea: Trophies to be given as a gag gift to commemorate humiliating (but not traumatic) incidents (falls, saying dumb things, coming in last place in fantasy football, etc.)
Aug 14, 2025 · 14 min
Microwave Heat Map (Scott Fischer)
Idea: A screen that shows a thermal/infrared image of your food in the microwave so you can see how hot it is
Aug 8, 2025 · 16 min
St. Louis Aviation Museum (Tom Brown)
Idea: To have an aviation museum in St. Louis (called "Aviation Under The Arches") to showcase the aviation history of the city
Aug 1, 2025 · 20 min
Rug Tufting and Crafting Machine Rental Service (Emily Clark)
Idea: A rental service for large and/or expensive crafting equipment, such as rug tufting machines
Jul 23, 2025 · 14 min
Rolling On The Floor With Laughter Comedy Dice Game (Ricarlo Winston)
Idea: A standup comedy competition where a pair of dice (one containing a comedy style and the other containing a broad topic) is rolled and then two comics compete to improvise/recall the better joke within those constraints
Jul 13, 2025 · 14 min
Abortion Clinic Game Show (TylerBeans)
Idea: A show where women in an abortion clinic waiting to get an abortion complete in a series of games
Jul 8, 2025 · 16 min
Smug of War Comedic Bragging Contest (Tom Walma)
Idea: A comedy contest where the contestants comedically brag about themselves instead of roasting an opponent
Jun 29, 2025 · 10 min
Microaggression Shock Wristwatch (Jeff Teed)
Idea: A wristwatch that reads your mind and/or predicts your behavior and shocks you to prevent you from doing racist microaggressions
Jun 22, 2025 · 13 min
Skin Pocket (Jack Cuncannan)
Idea: A storage pocket grafted into your body and made out of your skin
Jun 16, 2025 · 7 min
Fat Squirrel Documentary (Lucky Lee)
Idea: A comedic documentary about the growing problem of obese squirrels
Jun 9, 2025 · 27 min
Rapture Horror Story (Tom Walma)
Idea: Tom's long awkwardly dark attempt to write a horror story (with zombies)
Jun 1, 2025 · 20 min
De-Shelled Non-Beaten Eggs Sold in a Bottle (Cheryl Stoner)
Idea: To sell de-shelled (but not beaten) eggs in a small plastic or glass bottle so people don't have to worry about accidentally cracking the shell while making eggs
May 27, 2025 · 15 min
AI-Assisted Phone Call Gatekeeper (Eric Wilson)
Idea: A vocal voicemail-like program that uses AI to determine whether an incoming call (from a phone number that isn't whitelisted) can cause your phone to ring and/or leave a message
May 21, 2025 · 11 min
Coke Vacuum (James River)
Idea: A mini-vacuum that could vacuum up cocaine spilled on the floor and/or cocaine residue off dollar bills and other things, and also maybe filter out the dust/debris and/or test for Fentanyl