No Agenda - Revisited: Episode 12 re-reviews No Agenda from January 12, 2008 — the "Lawsuit Crazy" show, with Adam in sunny England and John back from CES in Las Vegas. Each claim is checked twice: against what was known at the time, and against what we know now.

• John — the Las Vegas Pinball Hall of Fame: Tim Arnold's museum, ~200 machines on the floor, 25-cent play, proceeds to charity. Correct.

• John — the Tesla Roadster: a Lotus body, 0–60 in under four seconds, and in January 2008 nobody had received one yet — the first delivery came three weeks later. Correct.

• Adam — GM's EV1 was leased, never sold, then taken back and crushed. Correct.

• Adam — the battery patent blockade: a real NiMH patent choke point under Chevron/Cobasys, but narrower than the blanket version — lithium-ion sidestepped it. Mixed.

• Adam — France: the 35-hour week is real law, but "all of August off" is culture, not statute. Mixed.

• John and Adam — Sarkozy's Hungarian father and his new romance with Carla Bruni: both right, and the wedding came three weeks after the show. Correct.

• Adam — his Creative Commons lawsuit: the first CC case anywhere, Amsterdam 2006, and his account matches the judgment. Correct.

• Adam — the MTV.com fight: sued in 1994, settled out of court, neither party commenting. Correct.

• John — Mark Burnett "invented" reality TV: he popularized it, but Survivor came from Charlie Parsons and the genre predates him. Mixed.

• Adam — The Osbournes began in 2002, self-corrected on air from 2003. Correct.

• Adam — the Celebrity Big Brother race row went all the way to Parliament, with a record 44,500 Ofcom complaints. Correct.

• John — August Dvorak, University of Washington, keyboard patented in the mid-1930s. Correct.

• John — hydrogen cars: 10,000 psi tanks, still under 300 miles of range. Correct.

Score for this episode: 10 correct · 3 mixed · 0 incorrect · 0 unverified. Series totals after Episode 12: 134 claims checked — 59 correct · 45 mixed · 22 incorrect · 10 unverified.

Sources:

Pinball Hall of Fame history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Hall_of_Fame

Tesla Roadster first delivery, Feb 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster_(2008)

GM EV1 leased and crushed: https://cleantechnica.com/2020/02/10/we-should-thank-the-gm-ev1-and-its-death-for-tesla/

NiMH patent encumbrance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_encumbrance_of_large_automotive_NiMH_batteries

Curry v. Audax, Amsterdam 2006: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Curry_v._Audax&oldid=50489

MTV.com domain battle: https://paleofuture.com/blog/2014/11/21/5-domain-name-battles-of-the-early-web

Survivor origins (Charlie Parsons): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_(US_TV_series)

Celebrity Big Brother race row: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Big_Brother_(British_series_5)_racism_controversy

Dvorak keyboard patent 1936: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_keyboard_layout

Honda FCX Clarity range: https://motorweek.org/road_tests/2008_honda_fcx_clarity/

Independent fact-check review for reporting and commentary purposes only; not affiliated with No Agenda, Adam Curry, or John C. Dvorak.