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Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron.

Evil genius.

He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it.

That's like hiding at your own funeral.

Yeah, a bit great gig.

I'm Russell Kane.

Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps it. It's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds. You're about to listen to a brand new

episode of Curious Cases. Shows are going to be released weekly, wherever you get your podcast,

but if you're in the UK, you can listen to the latest episodes first on BBC Sounds.

I'm Hannah Frye. And I'm Dara O'Brien. And this is Curious Cases. The show will we take your quirkiest questions? Your crudious conundrums. And then we solve them. With the power of science. I mean, do we always solve them? I mean, the hit rate's pretty low. But it is with science. It is with science. Are you a lucky person, Dara? Yeah, I think I'm a lucky person. Do you? Yeah, and you know, it's backed up by what the public often say to me. Go on. Taxi drivers say, God, you're lucky, aren't you? You? That and you're stealing a living and how long more do you have to put up with you. So that's...

The public are very wise.

They are very wise.

I mean, there's a lot of wisdom in crowds. I have a lot of crowds who shout that at me. But generally, yes, I do. Even as a kid, like my parents said, I don't know if you fell off a cliff, you'd land on a mattress. But like, do you, do you regard to as lucky person? I do. I do regard myself as lucky. But I sort of think when something bad almost happens and then it doesn't happen, that's like the biggest amount of evidence for me. But it's like, yeah, got away with that one, you know? See, this is like my Irish mammy. I crashed a car once and she said, well, you're very lucky and I said, by definition, I'm not lucky

I was just in a car crash.

But you are?

But she said,

no, no,

you're lucky because it wasn't worse. Yeah. But it was it happened. So, you know, there is a glass half a glass event. There is a little bit. Could have been so much worse.

But I'd like to think that to be a lucky person,

there must be some just brutal thing that I could walk into a casino, just pick up the dice and snake eye. And is snake eye good or bad? I think snake had something else altogether. No, it's the two, you know, you two ones in a... Oh, okay, sure. Stay guys. And they go, Sarah, this is a roulette table.

You don't belong here.

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