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Creativity Wasted is a podcast for sharing and joking about unpursued (wasted) ideas: invention ideas, futuristic sci-fi movie ideas, evil prank ideas, etc

Comedy writers and other creative professionals usually say that brainstorming and pitching ideas is the funnest part of the creative process. I decided to skip the boring parts and just do the fun part.

05/10/2025

Jake Mattes's idea: An Anthony Bourdain-style travel show where the host goes to grand openings of dollar stores and interviews interesting customers. Also: the show could include segments such as taking different types of people (nuns, comedians, etc.) to dollar stores for the first time, comparing generic dollar store brands to name-brand equivalents, taste-testing rare discontinued/experimental foods (such as Monster Energy Cold Brew coffee-flavored energy drink); discussing the major dollar store chains, Buc-ee's, food outlets (which sell nearly expired meats), Wall Drug, Factor meal delivery, grocery pickup/delivery, etc.; YouTuber Andrew Callahan ("All Gas No Brakes" and "Channel 5") and interviewing oddball people

Also featuring Kristopher Allen Brown, Alfons Mueller, and Tom Walma

Listen to or watch the podcast here: https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted/2025/10/4/dollar-days-dollar-store-travel-show
If you'd like to support the podcast or would like to hear the special uncut episodes, go here: https://www.patreon.com/creativitywasted
Creativity Wasted is part of Planet Ant Podcasts and Planet Ant

27/09/2025

Alfons Mueller's idea (dark humor): A short-term puppy rental service where the puppy is put down and made into soap (or other things) if the renter doesn't pay a large amount of money to buy it when the rental period expires. Also: calculating how much emotional attachment the renter has with the puppy to determine how much money you can squeeze out of them to save their puppy's life; renting a new puppy each season or to match your outfits; accidentally crushing pets and coming up with inventions to prevent that from happening; when a vegan Buddhist hippie thought this idea was real

Also featuring Kristopher Allen Brown, Jake Mattes, and Tom Walma

Listen to or watch the podcast here: https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted/2025/9/26/puppers-puppy-rental-service
If you'd like to support the podcast or would like to hear the special uncut episodes, go here: https://www.patreon.com/creativitywasted
Creativity Wasted is part of Planet Ant Podcasts and Planet Ant

23/09/2025

Tom Walma's idea: Vendors that roam around the stands at a summer baseball game (or at other summer events) carrying a fan and a large battery (to power the fan) in a backpack that charge people money to cool them down. Also: brainstorming names for the business (Mr. Blow, etc.), the vendors ("Joe Blow", etc.), and things the vendors say ("get your fan jobs here..."); the risk of accidentally blowing sweat onto nearby people; questioning whether global warming will make summer sports like baseball die off because it's just too hot out

Also featuring Dan Leach, Lisa Green, and Steve Pierce

Listen to or watch the podcast here: https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted/2025/9/23/roaming-cool-air-vendors
If you'd like to support the podcast or would like to hear the special uncut episodes, go here: https://www.patreon.com/creativitywasted
Creativity Wasted is part of Planet Ant Podcasts and Planet Ant

13/09/2025

Steve Pierce's idea: To make a career out of being a paid guest on various podcasts. Also: faking expertise or ailments (or whatever else) to be a relevant guest for a themed podcast (such as Mormonism, alien abduction, or 18th-century cookery) with or without the podcast hosts knowing that you're a fake; creating a podcast feed out of links to your appearances on other podcasts; becoming a charismatic "character actor" who has fans that watch whatever they do, but in the venue of podcasting; making small appearances in movies as a podcaster, such as being the guy who says "Lex Luther is right, we do need to stop Superman"

Also featuring Dan Leach, Lisa Green, and Tom Walma

Listen to or watch the podcast here: https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted/2025/9/12/professional-podcast-guest
If you'd like to support the podcast or would like to hear the special uncut episodes, go here: https://www.patreon.com/creativitywasted
Creativity Wasted is part of Planet Ant Podcasts and Planet Ant

06/09/2025

Lisa Green's idea: An app to translate/interpret the grammar, slang, and acronyms of text (primarily social media) based on your age. Also: writing conventions that other generations find annoying such as "boomer ellipses" and excessive "LOLs" or "bruhs"; translating a text message from an old person to a zoomer and having it say "no cap" might not be necessary for understanding but would be hilarious; an in-app purchase to translate to 1800s or early 1900s slang such as "the cat's pajamas"; if a kid sends you a cryptic text full of emojis, you can respond with Egyptian hieroglyphs as a form of revenge

Also featuring Dan Leach, Steve Pierce, and Tom Walma

Listen to or watch the podcast here: https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted/2025/9/4/punksura-text-translation-app

If you'd like to support the podcast or would like to hear the special uncut episodes, go here: https://www.patreon.com/creativitywasted
Creativity Wasted is part of Planet Ant Podcasts and Planet Ant

30/08/2025

Dan Leach's idea: A business that you can hire to perform a prank on someone (like in the Norm MacDonald movie "Dirty Work"). Also: prank examples such as fish in cars, "Zoombombing", faking charitable donations on someone's behalf, tricking a public figure like in the movie "Borat", etc.; using leverage to break the law when pranking people to avoid getting ratted out; the risk of giving overly vague instructions to employees (like "take care of this guy") and accidentally causing a mob-style hit

Also featuring Lisa Green, Steve Pierce, and Tom Walma

Listen to or watch the podcast here: https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted/2025/8/30/prank-for-hire-business
If you'd like to support the podcast or would like to hear the special uncut episodes, go here: https://www.patreon.com/creativitywasted
Creativity Wasted is part of Planet Ant Podcasts and Planet Ant

24/08/2025

Tom Walma's 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.) for which you would get amusement out of being reminded of years later. Also: the risk of them being given out after traumatically humiliating events and pouring salt on the wound; pre-ordering the trophy before a contest so it can be given to the loser immediately as part of the event; brainstorming both good (non-traumatic) and bad scenarios for giving out humiliation trophies

Also featuring Ricarlo Williams-Winston, Emily Clark, Tom Brown, and Scott Fischer
Listen to or watch the podcast here: https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted/2025/8/22/humiliation-trophies
If you'd like to support the podcast or would like to hear the special uncut episodes, go here: https://www.patreon.com/creativitywasted
Creativity Wasted is part of Planet Ant Podcasts and Planet Ant

14/08/2025

Scott Fischer's idea: A screen that shows a thermal/infrared image of your food in the microwave so you can see how hot it is and whether it's still too cold (or it's too hot). Also: using microwaves, ovens, and fridges to survive a nuclear explosion; maybe the microwave could use the thermal/infrared info to redirect the microwave "rays" toward the cold spots on the food; maybe it could be a phone app or a gadget that connects to your phone instead of building it into the microwave, and then you could use the "heat map" for other purposes, such as to see if your partner laying in bed is cold

Also featuring Ricarlo Williams-Winston, Emily Clark, Tom Brown, and Tom Walma

Listen to or watch the podcast here: https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted/2025/8/14/microwave-heat-map
If you'd like to support the podcast or would like to hear the special uncut episodes, go here: https://www.patreon.com/creativitywasted
Creativity Wasted is part of Planet Ant Podcasts and Planet Ant

08/08/2025

Tom Brown's idea: To have an aviation museum in St. Louis (called "Aviation Under The Arches") to showcase the aviation history of the city, such as Charles Lindbergh and WWII fighter planes. Also: they could steal Akron's aviation museum; being too fat to ride in airplane simulators; being afraid of heights in some scenarios (such as skydiving) but not being afraid to ride in an airplane; an odd museum and an oddly-named gay strip club in St. Louis

Also featuring Ricarlo Williams-Winston, Emily Clark, Scott Fischer, and Tom Walma

Listen to or watch the podcast here: https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted/2025/8/8/st-louis-aviation-museum
If you'd like to support the podcast or would like to hear the special uncut episodes, go here: https://www.patreon.com/creativitywasted
Creativity Wasted is part of Planet Ant Podcasts and Planet Ant

01/08/2025

Emily Clark's idea: A rental service for large and/or expensive crafting equipment, such as rug tufting machines, 3D printers, and metalworking machines. Also: dreaming for years about rug tufting or doing out-of-reach crafting projects; joking about rug tufting risks, possible injuries, and whether training and insurance ("Tuft Break") are required; tufting a soft comfy rug onto a T-shirt or the butt of your pants ("Rug Tuft Jeans"); a crafting scandal involving stolen painted rocks

Also featuring Ricarlo Williams-Winston, Tom Brown, Scott Fischer, and Tom Walma

Listen to or watch the podcast here: https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted/2025/8/1/rug-tufting-machine-and-other-crafting-machine-rental-service
If you'd like to support the podcast or would like to hear the special uncut episodes, go here: https://www.patreon.com/creativitywasted
Creativity Wasted is part of Planet Ant Podcasts and Planet Ant

24/07/2025

Ricarlo Williams-Winston's 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.
Note: You can see this game being performed live on stage at the Laughter on the Lakeshore Comedy Festival (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558187071957) in Muskegon on Aug 29 - Aug 30
Also: testing out the game; discussing the comedy styles (such as self-deprecation and observational) and topics (such as "dad joke" and anatomy); discussing the "slapstick" style and whether it will lead to a comedian performing a lewd act upon the stool; suggesting a "wild card" topic on the dice where you draw an audience-suggested topic from a bowl

Also featuring Emily Clark, Tom Brown, Scott Fischer, and Tom Walma

Listen to or watch the podcast here: https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted/2025/7/23/rolling-on-the-floor-with-laughter-comedy-dice-game
If you'd like to support the podcast or would like to hear the special uncut episodes, go here: https://www.patreon.com/creativitywasted
Creativity Wasted is part of Planet Ant Podcasts and Planet Ant

09/07/2025

Tom Walma's idea: A comedy contest where the contestants comedically brag about themselves instead of roasting an opponent. Also: avoiding downsides of roasts, including deeply hurting someone's feelings and having to do research about an opponent before the show; the two rules of "smug of war"; a concept of a "smug of war" where topics to brag about are provided to the contestants before the show (so the jokes are better and it doesn't feel like an improv game); why AI might be useful for writing jokes specifically for this show

Also featuring Jack Cuncannan and Jeff Teed

Listen to or watch the podcast here: https://creativitywasted.com/creativitywasted/2025/7/8/smug-of-war-comedic-bragging-contest
If you'd like to support the podcast or would like to hear the special uncut episodes, go here: https://www.patreon.com/creativitywasted
Creativity Wasted is part of Planet Ant Podcasts and Planet Ant

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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.