No Agenda - Revisited: Episode 14 re-reviews No Agenda from Sunday, January 27, 2008 — a show recorded a day late, with Adam in a hotel room and John at home in rainy Northern California, nine days before Super Tuesday. Each claim is checked twice: against what was known at the time, and against what we know now.• John — Yerba Buena Island used to be called Goat Island, officially, from 1895 to 1931. Correct.• One of the hosts — Verbatim's gold archival discs, made for 100 years of archiving: the product is real, the century is the maker's promise. Mixed.• John — Obama won the South Carolina primary the day before, with 55.4 percent. Correct.• John — the prediction: a Hillary-Obama ticket, "totally unelectable," then McCain with Romney: Obama won it all instead, with Biden, 365 to 173. Incorrect.• Adam — Ron Paul came in second somewhere: Nevada, January 19, 2008, ahead of McCain. Correct.• Adam — the February 5th money bomb would raise five million: no five-million day ever came. Incorrect.• John — only five left in the Republican race: Giuliani, Romney, Huckabee, McCain, and Paul. Correct.• John — Huckabee's plan to drop the income tax for a consumption tax: the FairTax, his signature proposal. Correct.• Adam — Belgium's VAT is 21 percent. Correct.• John — Ron Paul's four-point plan, Fed openness and televised meetings plus Sarbanes-Oxley repeal, quoted word for word. Correct.• John — Sarbanes-Oxley is named after two men in Congress: Senator Sarbanes and Representative Oxley. Correct.• Adam — Neelie Kroes and her husband's scandal: his Rotterdam expenses affair was real, but she was never accused. Mixed.• Adam — the EU busting cartels, paraffin wax included: the 676-million-euro paraffin bust landed nine months later. Mixed.Score for this episode: 8 correct · 3 mixed · 2 incorrect · 0 unverified. Series totals after Episode 14: 159 claims checked — 73 correct · 54 mixed · 24 incorrect · 10 unverified.Sources:Yerba Buena / Goat Island: https://www.baycrossings.com/yerba-buena-island/Verbatim 100-year gold discs: https://business.officedepot.com/a/products/195345/Verbatim-CD-R-700MB-52X-UltraLife/?prSouth Carolina primary, Jan 26, 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_South_Carolina_Democratic_presidential_primary2008 election outcome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Presidential_Election,_2008Nevada caucuses, Paul second: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Nevada_Republican_presidential_caucusesPaul campaign fundraising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul_2008_presidential_campaign2008 Republican primaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Republican_Party_presidential_primariesHuckabee FairTax: https://taxpolicycenter.org/sites/default/files/alfresco/publication-pdfs/901139-Huckabee-Tax-Plan-Would-Be-A-Disaster.pdfBelgium VAT 21%: https://www.estv.admin.ch/dam/en/sd-web/Ljcc6y5wmIQN/statstik-int-vergleich-2008-06-en.pdfPaul four-point plan: http://alvarezgalloso.com/2008/01/26/dr-ron-paul-and-his-economic-prescription/Sarbanes-Oxley names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes-Oxley_ActPeper expense scandal: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-journal-of-political-research/article/abs/netherlands/71170E26454653B9A2F4BFFA33F3BC33EU paraffin wax fines: https://www.mondaq.com/eu-law-regulatory/67714/eu-competition-law-news-8-october-2008Independent fact-check review for reporting and commentary purposes only; not affiliated with No Agenda, Adam Curry, or John C. Dvorak.

No Agenda - Revisited: Episode 13 re-reviews No Agenda from January 19, 2008 — the "Turned on by Esther Dyson" show, with Adam reading the weekend Financial Times in the UK and John reading from a notebook he can barely decipher. Each claim is checked twice: against what was known at the time, and against what we know now.• Adam — Gordon Brown's China visit: the Beijing trip and the welcome for Chinese investment were real, but Northern Rock was nationalised weeks later, not bought. Mixed.• Adam — the non-dom £30,000 annual charge to keep the remittance basis from April 2008. Correct.• Adam — Americans are taxed on capital gains wherever in the world they arise. Correct.• John — Ireland's artist deal: a real tax exemption since 1969, but not citizenship and not freedom from all tax. Mixed.• Adam — the Trans-Australian Railway holds the world's longest straight stretch of track, 478 km across the Nullarbor. Correct.• One of the hosts — Neanderthals were redheads: some were, per the October 2007 Science paper, but pigmentation varied. Mixed.• One of the hosts — the 787 Dreamliner Wi-Fi hack fear: the FAA's January 2008 special conditions were real, but no passenger ever hacked a 787's flight controls. Mixed.• Adam — the Heathrow 777 crash: engines that would not answer on final approach, caused by ice in the fuel. Correct.• Adam — the 777 as the only large fly-by-wire aircraft: Boeing's first, but the A320 came first and the A340 is fly-by-wire too, as John corrected on air. Mixed.• Adam — Esther Dyson's father Freeman, the famous physicist. Correct.• Adam — the Financial Times motto, "Without Fear and Without Favor." Correct.• Adam — hackers cutting power to whole countries: the CIA analyst really said it in January 2008, but the details were never confirmed. Mixed.Score for this episode: 6 correct · 6 mixed · 0 incorrect · 0 unverified. Series totals after Episode 13: 146 claims checked — 65 correct · 51 mixed · 22 incorrect · 10 unverified.Sources:Brown in Beijing, Jan 2008: https://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/domestic_politics/invest%2bin%2buk%2bbrown%2btells%2bchina/1356147.htmlNon-dom £30,000 charge: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=b4bcb21f-ed5f-40ee-9a56-c189be061996US worldwide taxation: https://www.claconnect.com/en/resources/articles/us-citizens-living-abroad-must-report-all-income-and-pay-taxesIrish artists' exemption: https://www.mccarthyaccountants.com/tax-services/artists-tax-exemption/Nullarbor straight track: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullarbor_PlainNeanderthal MC1R paper: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/11/dna-reveals-neanderthal-redheads/FAA 787 special conditions: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/html/2007/12/28/E7-25075.htmlBA Flight 38 findings: https://www.faa.gov/lessons_learned/transport_airplane/accidents/G-YMMMFly-by-wire history: https://theaeroinsider.com/fly-by-wire-vs-mechanical-controls/Freeman Dyson obituary: https://sciencex.com/wire-news/344594748/freeman-j-dyson-19232020-scientist-and-writer-who-dreamt-among-t.htmlFT motto: https://www.historic-newspapers.com/en-in/blogs/article/financial-times-historyCIA power-grid disclosure: https://www.scworld.com/news/cia-analyst-reports-hacker-attack-on-foreign-power-gridIndependent fact-check review for reporting and commentary purposes only; not affiliated with No Agenda, Adam Curry, or John C. Dvorak.

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.