Research current through October 3, 2026.

Corrections

This is the corrections page for this episode. Each entry has the date of the catch, what an earlier draft held and what is right. We do not edit a page silently, and we do not remove an entry once it is here.

No post-publication corrections exist yet, because the episode has not gone live. Everything below was caught before the episode went live.

Entries are grouped by where the error was. The first group is errors in the script or on-screen cards, which were fixed before recording. The second is errors in our research notes and pitch-stage drafts that never reached the script, shown because they are the kind of error a reader could also make. The third came out of drafting and reviewing these pages.

Fixed in the script or cards (caught before air)

• Chain share of funeral homes. Caught Oct. 3, 2026: in script line L4, an earlier draft said about a quarter of funeral homes are owned by chains, derived from NFDA’s approximately 75% family- or privately owned figure. NFDA does not say what the other quarter are, and “privately owned” can include private-equity chains (NFDA statistics page^A). The one source that names chains, KFF Health News in 2022 citing industry officials, puts the share at about 20% (KFF Health News^C). The spoken line now says a 2022 industry estimate put it at roughly one in five.
• Menorah Gardens settlement date. Caught Oct. 3, 2026: our research package and the draft on-screen card dated the $100 million settlement to 2009, a date that came from a HuffPost article describing the money’s distribution. SCI’s own SEC filings put the agreement in December 2003 (SCI 8-K, Dec. 2003^A) and announce the court approval in November 2004 (SCI 8-K, Nov. 2004^A). HuffPost’s article gives the $100 million, and we no longer use its 2009 date (HuffPost^C). The $203.5 million total was unaffected, and the spoken line states no year.
• The tally behind “roughly thirty percent.” Caught Oct. 3 and 4, 2026: two classification decisions changed our 123-donor tally before air. KKR moved from “unresolved” to “adverse” once its $11 million SEC penalty was sourced to two outlets (Alternatives Watch^B). Foris DAX (Crypto.com) moved from “mixed” to “favorable timing, weak” because the SEC closed its investigation without enforcement action on March 27, 2025 (Crypto.com announcement^A). The favorable-timing count went from 39 to 40 of 123, or 32.5%. The on-screen card reads 40 of 123, and the spoken line reads “roughly thirty percent.”
• How One Nation’s donor names reached the public. Caught Oct. 3, 2026: an earlier draft credited two court cases with revealing the names. That was wrong, because Puck’s Theodore Schleifer reported the $10 million contribution on Sept. 26, 2023, before the trial exhibits and the FTX estate’s complaint, as CREW notes (CREW^B). The spoken line now begins with the reporter’s scoop.
• The word RESTRICTED. Caught Oct. 3 and 4, 2026: an earlier draft said One Nation’s filings “list its donors as” RESTRICTED, as if One Nation had written the word. RESTRICTED is the IRS’s marker on the public copy, and the spoken line now says “That’s the public copy” (One Nation’s public Schedule B, TY2023^A). The same draft said groups keep their donor names on file “in case anyone asks.” Treasury Decision 9898 says they keep them so the IRS can administer the tax laws through examinations, so the line now says “for an IRS request” (Treasury Decision 9898^A).

Fixed in our research, never in the script (caught before air)

• Pilgrim’s Pride’s parent group. A pitch-stage draft included claims about the group’s legal history that our research could not support. They never reached the script. Caught Sept. 30, 2026.
• Kraken as a donor. Caught Sept. 30, 2026: a research-ledger note said Kraken was absent from the inaugural committee’s filing, based on a keyword search for the word “Kraken.” The filing lists Kraken under its legal entity, Payward Inc, which gave $1,000,000 on Dec. 4, 2024 (FEC Form 13^A).
• Consensys’s gift. Caught Sept. 30, 2026: a draft figure of $1,000,000 for Consensys’s gift was ten times too high. The filing shows $100,000 on Jan. 16, 2025 (FEC Form 13^A).
• Donor count in the exact-million tier. Caught Sept. 30, 2026: a reviewer’s count was off by one. Hims, Inc. totals $1,000,000.01 and so is outside the exact-$1 million tier, and the re-parse gives 123 (FEC Form 13^A).
• “The biggest donors.” Caught Sept. 30, 2026: a draft called the 25 donors we first checked the biggest donors. They were 14 donors above $1 million plus the first 11 of the $1 million tier in alphabetical order, so they are donors checked and not a ranking by size (FEC Form 13^A).
• Chevron’s license. Caught Sept. 30, 2026: a draft said Chevron’s Venezuela license was reinstated in 2026 after Maduro’s removal. According to WLRN, a new, restricted Treasury license followed in late July 2025, with Maduro still in power at the time (WLRN^B).
• Applied Materials’ penalty date. Caught Sept. 30, 2026: a draft dated the $252.5 million export-control settlement Feb. 11, 2025. Applied Materials’ own SEC filing shows Feb. 11, 2026 (Applied Materials 8-K exhibit^A).
• Anheuser-Busch and the tariff list. Caught Sept. 30, 2026: a draft said beer was exempted from the aluminum-derivatives tariff. The Federal Register notice added beer and empty aluminum cans to the list (Federal Register^A).
• Venture Global’s final approval. Caught Sept. 30 and Oct. 3, 2026: a draft gave Oct. 22, 2025 for the final export order, which is a news date, and a $10 billion terminal cost that the cited article does not support. The Department of Energy’s order is dated Oct. 21, 2025, and we dropped the cost figure (Federal Register^A).
• Apple’s tariff exemptions. Caught Sept. 30, 2026: a draft included an August 2025 semiconductor-tariff exemption and a $100 billion manufacturing pledge that we had not sourced; neither cited source mentions them, so we dropped both (Sen. Warren’s release^A).
• Tyson, Breeze Smoke and Gotion. Caught Sept. 30, 2026: drafts counted all three as adverse after giving. Breeze Smoke’s and Gotion’s setbacks predate their gifts (Nicotine Insider^B; Bloomberg^B), and Tyson’s payout is a private class-action settlement (Bloomberg Law^B), so we count all three as none found. A separate $82.5 million settlement attributed to Tyson was in no cited source and was cut.
• Freedom Holding’s specifics. Caught Sept. 30 and Oct. 3, 2026: a draft carried a dollar figure, a percentage and sanctions language that the company’s filing note does not contain. The note describes SEC subpoenas and a Wells Notice dated March 11, 2026, and we cut the rest (Freedom Holding 10-K note^A).
• The Florida class action against SCI. Caught Oct. 3, 2026: a draft gave a second, slightly lower figure for the settlement that has no source anywhere, and treated the matter as an addition to the $203.5 million. The reported figure is “up to $209 million,” a ceiling from one original report (Sun Sentinel via Yahoo Finance^C). It is a different legal theory that we never combine with the $203.5 million (ECF 152^A).
• Oregon’s price-posting rule. Caught Oct. 3, 2026: a draft called Oregon’s price-posting rule a statute that parallels California’s. It is a conditional administrative rule that applies only when a funeral establishment states a price on its website (Oregon OAR 830-040-0050^A).
• A funeral-industry quote’s speaker. Caught Sept. 30, 2026: a draft attributed the 1990 quote about keeping names to Robert Waltrip. It is Blair Waltrip’s (Family Business Magazine^C).
• SLF’s 2022 receipts figure. Caught Sept. 30, 2026: a draft treated $288,049,997 as money SLF raised in 2022. That figure is opening cash on hand plus receipts, and total receipts were $240,608,609, of which $60,575,000 was One Nation’s money (SLF filing 1685608^A).
• The FTX money’s rank. Caught Sept. 30, 2026: a draft had the $15.5 million as One Nation’s third-largest gift of 2022. CREW’s text has it as the second-largest, with the $10 million alone third-largest (CREW^B).

Review of these pages

• Crypto donors’ combined total. Caught Oct. 4, 2026: our research package said the four crypto donors gave “nearly $8 million” combined. Their gifts of $1,000,000, $1,000,000, $2,000,000 and $4,889,345.33 sum to $8,889,345.33, about $8.9 million (FEC Form 13^A). The episode does not use the figure.
• Freedom Holding’s refund. Caught Oct. 4, 2026: our research package, and the first draft of these pages, said Freedom Holding gave $1,000,000 on Jan. 10, 2025 and did not say it was refunded. The same Form 13 lists a full refund of $1,000,000 on Jan. 21, 2025 (FEC Form 13^A). We now state both, and our tally still counts it as a gift made, so 40 of 123 is 32.5% and 40 of 122 would be 32.8% (FEC Form 13^A). The episode does not mention the refund.
• Gross and net donations. Caught Oct. 4, 2026: our research package described CNN’s “nearly $240 million” as an early figure before the final $245.3 million. It is the net figure: the committee reported $245,272,420.15 gross and $6,230,697.38 in refunds, so net donations were $239,041,722.77 (FEC Form 13^A; CNN^B). The episode’s $245.3 million is the gross figure (FEC Form 13^A).
• SLF’s address. Caught Oct. 4, 2026: a draft said SLF and One Nation share an address. SLF reports a Washington, D.C. address, and 15405 John Marshall Hwy in Haymarket, Va. is One Nation’s (SLF filing 1533238^A).
• Chevron’s wind-down date. Caught Oct. 4, 2026: a draft said the wind-down period expired May 27, 2025. Holland & Knight’s alert gives April 3, 2025 (Holland & Knight^B).
• The other Defense Department awards. Caught Oct. 4, 2026: a draft said Anthropic, Google and xAI received their awards in the same round as OpenAI. They were added on July 14, 2025, about a month later (DefenseScoop^B).
• Adobe’s settlement. Caught Oct. 4, 2026: a draft split the settlement into $75 million in cash and $75 million in services. The source we link reports a $150 million settlement with the Justice Department, and we now state only that (Compliance Week^B).
• BlackRock’s timing. Caught Oct. 4, 2026: a draft treated the states’ suit against BlackRock as something that followed its gift. The suit was filed on Nov. 27, 2024, before the gift (Utility Dive^B).

After publication

None yet. When there is one, it will be recorded here with its date.

A way to flag errors will arrive here before the site goes live.

Sources

Grades: A is a primary record, B is two independent outlets, C is a single source or an interested party, attributed.

• NFDA statistics page^A and KFF Health News^C support the chain-share correction.
• SCI 8-K, Dec. 2003^A, SCI 8-K, Nov. 2004^A and HuffPost^C support the Menorah Gardens dates.
• Alternatives Watch^B and Crypto.com announcement^A support the tally reclassifications.
• CREW^B supports the Puck credit and the ranking of the FTX money.
• One Nation’s public Schedule B, TY2023^A and Treasury Decision 9898^A support the “RESTRICTED” and records-on-file corrections.
• FEC Form 13^A supports the donor corrections.
• WLRN^B, Applied Materials 8-K exhibit^A, Federal Register on beer and cans^A, Federal Register on CP2^A and Sen. Warren’s release^A support the individual-case corrections.
• Nicotine Insider^B, Bloomberg^B and Bloomberg Law^B support the reclassifications.
• Freedom Holding 10-K note^A supports the Freedom Holding item.
• Sun Sentinel via Yahoo Finance^C and ECF 152^A support the Florida class action item.
• Oregon OAR 830-040-0050^A and Family Business Magazine^C support the Oregon and Waltrip items.
• SLF filing 1685608^A supports the 2022 receipts item.
• CNN^B, SLF filing 1533238^A, Holland & Knight^B, DefenseScoop^B, Compliance Week^B and Utility Dive^B support the review corrections.