How This Works

Four steps that turn a three-hour conversation into a list of claims with sources attached. No human touches it along the way. Think of it as Jamie, if Jamie never slept.

1. It finds the new episodes

Something checks the JRE channel a few times a day. When a full episode shows up, it goes straight into the line to be checked. Nobody presses a button.

2. It pulls out the claims

A model reads the whole transcript and pulls the statements you could actually check: numbers, science and medical claims, historical facts. Opinions, jokes, and stories about somebody's buddy get left alone.

3. It checks each one against live sources

Every claim gets searched on the open web right then, instead of pulled from whatever the model happens to remember. The verdict lands on one of five: accurate, false, distorted, one-sided, or unverified. Whatever the best source turned out to be, it gets linked.

4. You get the last word

Every verdict shows its timestamp, the reasoning behind it, and the link. Some of them will be wrong, and that is exactly why the sources sit right there. Go look.

The Jamie Meter

Every checked episode gets a score for how many times someone at the table should have said “pull that up.” It is a plain count of the claims that didn't hold up: false, distorted, or one-sided. It is not a percentage. How many claims an episode produces depends on how much got said, and that is not what a listener cares about. What they care about is how many things they heard that were wrong. Three hours of talking that produces more than thirty of those is off the charts. Unverified claims are open questions, not misses, so they don't count. Fewer than 5 claims with a verdict either way and there is no score at all.

  • “Legit”up to 5 missesA handful at most. Jamie barely had to move.
  • “Entirely possible”6 to 12 missesA few needed a second look. About what three hours of talking gets you.
  • “Look into it”13 to 20 missesEnough got stretched that you'll want the sources open.
  • “That's crazy”21 to 30 missesA miss every ten minutes or so. Jamie was busy.
  • “Have you ever tried DMT?”31 or more missesOff the charts. More than thirty things that didn't hold up. Jamie needs a nap.

The label is a joke. The number next to it is not, and it sits right there on every episode so you can check the arithmetic.

Where this can go wrong

AI is good at this and still gets things wrong. Verdicts come out of a live search instead of the model's memory, and anything the search can't settle either way gets marked 'Unverified' rather than guessed at. Treat a verdict as a well-sourced place to start, not the last word. The links are there so you can go check.