From Trip to Dip: LSD, Nachos, and Botox

Dumbify — Get Smarter by Thinking Dumber

Imagine accidentally changing the course of history because you forgot to wash your hands, panicked in a kitchen, or misread a wrinkle. This episode of Dumbify takes you on a wild ride—literally starting with a sweaty Swiss chemist tripping through the streets on a bicycle after inventing LSD by mistake. From there, we dive into how a deadly toxin became the multi-billion-dollar beauty industry we now know as Botox, and how one desperate maitre d’ invented nachos to appease a group of ravenous Army wives.

These three stories have nothing in common—until you see the hidden thread. They weren’t acts of genius. They were “oh crap, what now?” moments that spiraled into mind-altering revolutions, frozen foreheads, and stadium snacks. Tune in to discover why some of the world’s biggest breakthroughs happen not because someone had a brilliant plan, but because they didn’t think it through at all.

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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.