How a Bongo Enthusiast & Practical Joker Won the Nobel Prize — And Why Richard Feynman Is the Patron Saint of Dumb-Thinking

Host David Carson dives into the beautifully bizarre brain of Richard Feynman—Nobel laureate, safecracker, bongo enthusiast, and the poster child for thinking dumb on purpose. From poking government safes with a stick to interrogating the color of the sky, Feynman never confused sounding smart with being curious.You’ll hear how a cafeteria prank led to a Nobel-winning quantum theory, how Feynman prank-unlocked top-secret safes at Los Alamos, and why he once forced a class of elite students into a courtyard to stare at the sky until someone could actually explain why it was blue.This isn’t physics. It’s philosophy in flip-flops.Whether you love science or haven’t passed math since 10th grade, this episode will leave you laughing, wondering, and maybe even wobbling like that plate.Sign up for the Dumbify newsletter: https://www.david-carson.com/Dumbify celebrates ideas so weird, wrong, or wildly impractical… they just might be brilliant. Hosted by David Carson, a serial entrepreneur behind multiple hundred-million-dollar companies and the go-to secret weapon for companies looking to unlock new markets through unconventional thinking. Dumbify dives into the messy, counter-intuitive side of creativity — the “dumb” ideas that built empires, broke rules, and ended up changing everything.

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