When Hairspray Robs a Bank — Real Crimes Too Dumb to Fail

Dumbify — Get Smarter by Thinking Dumber

Most heist stories are about genius criminals outsmarting the system. This one is about idiots who broke it wide open. In this episode of Dumbify, David Carson takes you inside three real crimes so absurd they sound like rejected SNL sketches: a $100 million diamond heist pulled off with nothing but hairspray and Styrofoam takeout containers, a smuggler who disguised ostrich eggs as… avocados, and a con man who sold people an entire country that didn’t exist.

These schemes shouldn’t have worked. They should have collapsed under the sheer weight of their own stupidity. And yet, they didn’t. Along the way, David uncovers a strange truth: sometimes, the dumber the idea, the more invisible it becomes. If you’ve ever wondered how pure absurdity can defeat billion-dollar systems, this episode will have you laughing, cringing, and rethinking how you see the line between brilliance and idiocy.

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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.