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Think First with Jim Detjen

Jim Detjen | Gaslight 360

Think First is a short-form podcast that makes you pause — before you scroll, share, or believe the headline.Hosted by Jim Detjen, a guy who’s been gaslit enough to start a podcast about it, Think First dives into modern narratives, media manipulation, and cultural BS — all through the lens of gaslighting and poetic truth.Some episodes are two minutes. Some are an hour. It depends on the story — and the energy drink situation.No rants. No lectures. Just sharp questions, quick insights, and the

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14:59

# 95 Marijuana, Momentum, and the Cost of Moving Too...

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2026/02/13

We were told marijuana was basically harmless. Not perfect — but harmless enough. Now even some of the institutions that once championed legalization are adjusting their tone. Daily use is higher than many predicted. Potency is stronger than it used to be. Regulation is catching up. This episode isn’t about returning to prohibition. It’s about something more interesting. How emotionally satisfying stories turn into policy. How momentum can outrun guardrails. And what happens when we legalize ...

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#94 Distorted Is Now in the World · What’s Inside the...

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2026/02/11

Distorted is officially out — and this episode is your map to what’s inside. In this launch edition of Think First, I walk through the structure of the book, what you’ll find across its five parts, and why it was built the way it was. From gaslighting and institutional process to artificial intelligence, identity, media, medicine, education, and the “fringe” moments when official narratives collide with lived experience — this book is about how distortion operates quietly, and how to resist i...

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11:05

#93 Death Isn’t the Problem. Delay Is.

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2026/02/09

We don’t talk about death very clearly. We whisper about it at funerals… then scroll past confident voices explaining how to manage it. This episode started with a conversation on a plane — about a Yale philosophy course taught by Shelly Kagan, and a deceptively simple question: Why is death bad at all? From there, we explore the idea that death isn’t frightening because it’s painful — but because it deprives us of future goods. And how modern culture quietly replaces that reality with a more...

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14:10

#92 Why Chasing the Future Is Ruining Youth Sports...

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2026/01/26

We love to talk about the future — rankings, opportunities, exposure. But real development doesn’t happen out there. It happens today. After nearly a decade running one of the most demanding youth basketball camps in the country, I’ve watched the same pattern repeat itself: kids grow fastest when the environment protects the present — not the promise. In this episode, we explore why sports like basketball and swimming are such powerful teachers of life, how discipline and belief systems trans...

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15:57

#91 A Year Later · Still Waiting on Justice

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2026/01/26

A year later, many Americans are still waiting — not for vengeance, not for show trials, but for explanation. This episode of Think First isn’t about indictments. It’s about legitimacy… and what happens when institutions ask for patience, but refuse to explain the delay. After a year of publicly granted patience, many Americans are asking the same question quietly: Is anything actually happening — and if so, why won’t anyone say so? We explore why delay can be prudent… but silence is corrosi...

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Yes, This Is About the Book

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2026/01/23

This is a short bonus episode. Distorted — the book behind Think First — is now available as a free Advanced Reader Copy, in signed paperback or eBook, for listeners. If you’ve left a rating for Think First on Apple Podcasts — and plan to review Distorted on Amazon when it officially releases — you can request the ARC here: 👉 https://www.jimdetjen.com/arc No verification. This is built on trust. Early reviews don’t reward popularity. They act as signal — helping thoughtful work surface in

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8:05

#90 When ChatGPT Boils Everything Down to God

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2026/01/21

An AI-generated answer landed at the top of my Instagram feed — calmly explaining why, when intelligence strips away scripture, science, and human narrative, it still arrives at the idea of God. Not revelation. Not belief. Just reduction. The conclusion felt familiar. Reassuring, even. This episode isn’t about whether God exists. It’s about what happens when AI compresses reality until one explanation feels inevitable — and how easily certainty settles in when complexity disappears. This isn’...

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#90 When AI Boils Everything Down to God

Think First with Jim Detjen ·

2026/01/20

An AI-generated carousel landed at the top of my Instagram feed — calmly explaining why, when intelligence strips away scripture, science, and human narrative, it still arrives at the idea of God. Not revelation. Not belief. Just reduction. The conclusion felt familiar. Reassuring, even. This episode isn’t about whether God exists. It’s about what happens when AI compresses reality until one explanation feels inevitable — and how easily certainty settles in when complexity disappears. ...

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15:06

#89 When Protest Stops Being Speech · Minneapolis,...

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2026/01/14

What happens when protest quietly becomes interference — and language outruns the law? In this episode of Think First, Jim Detjen examines the Minneapolis ICE shooting not to adjudicate guilt, but to understand something deeper: how stories harden into certainty, how moral language becomes permission, and why video no longer settles anything. Jim looks at: how legal standards actually work in split-second encounterswhy vehicles collapse decision space faster than intent can explainhow narrati...

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19:41

#88 Your Dog Knows Before You Do

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2026/01/11

Some animals don’t just react. They anticipate. In this episode of Think First, we explore a quiet idea most of us already sense but rarely say out loud: animals may notice shifts in the world before we do — emotional, social, and environmental — in ways that complicate how we think about consciousness. From dogs that read the room before anything happens, to crows that plan, elephants that remember relationships, whales that communicate across vast distances, and octopuses that solve problem...

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20:07

#87 Las Vegas, Charlie Kirk, Trump · And the...

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2026/01/06

The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history didn’t fade because it was resolved. It faded because asking questions became unwelcome. In this episode of Think First, we revisit the 2017 Las Vegas shooting — not to advance a theory, but to examine what happens when explanations arrive quickly… and then stop evolving. Drawing on a recent long-form interview between Tucker Carlson and researcher Ian Carroll, we explore how narratives stabilize, why timelines shift, and what it means when transpar...

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#86 Why a Harvard Professor Walked Away · And What...

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2026/01/03

After forty years at Harvard, historian James Hankins quietly walked away. Not in protest. Not in anger. But with a diagnosis. In this episode of Think First, we examine Hankins’ final essay and a recent interview to understand what changed inside elite universities — not ideologically, but institutionally. From the disappearance of Western civilization requirements to shifting hiring incentives and the loss of a shared cultural foundation, this isn’t a story about politics. It’s about drift....

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#85 Nick Fuentes and the Internet’s Real Power

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2025/12/15

Nick Fuentes didn’t appear in a vacuum — and this episode isn’t about defending or denouncing him. It’s about why certain voices cut through during moments of institutional fatigue — and why the same mechanics repeat across the political spectrum. Drawing on campus observations, recent media flashpoints, and Episode #52 (The Pendulum Swing of Gen Z), we look at how attention, irony, certainty, and drift shape what rises online. Not persuasion — selection. And if something in the conversat...

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23:25

#84 The 150-Terabyte Moment No One Talks About

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2025/12/09

Every human carries the most advanced backup system on Earth — and it’s not your phone, your cloud account, or anything designed in Silicon Valley. It’s older, denser, more durable, and capable of moving more information in a single moment than most companies store for all their customers combined. In this episode, we explore the staggering information inside DNA, why one human cell holds hundreds of megabytes of data, and what it means when biology quietly outperforms every digital system we...

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#83 The Video That Crossed the Line · Congress, the...

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2025/11/29

When six lawmakers released a highly polished “You can refuse illegal orders” video aimed at America’s troops, the official explanation was simple: It was just a reminder. But that’s not how the Pentagon saw it. Or the FBI. Or the White House. Or the Commander in Chief. Or anyone familiar with how civil-military trust actually works. In this longform Think First episode, we break down what really happened — from the institutional responses to the historical red lines, to the subliminal me...

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#82 The Shift No One Explained · Inside the LGB →...

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2025/11/24

Something happened to the movement that began as L-G-B. It expanded — then expanded again — until the letters outgrew the definitions they were built on. This Think First investigation walks through the quiet fracture inside the modern LGBTQIA+ umbrella, guided not by critics, but by insiders: gay-rights pioneers, lesbian activists, queer commentators, and left-leaning journalists who’ve watched the ground shift beneath their feet. Equal parts history, psychology, and cultural clarity — with ...

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32:28

#81 Something Is Killing the Cows

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2025/11/13

A rancher finds his best bull bloodless at sunrise. No tracks. No struggle. No answers. From the 1970s panic to the Oregon cases making headlines today, “cattle mutilations” have never really gone away—they’ve just upgraded their tools. In this episode, Think First breaks the case open from both sides: the paperwork and the poetry. We follow the trail through FBI archives, media spin, biotech theories, eco-activists, and the faithful who still call it The Devil’s Tithe. And then we feed fifty...

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#81 Cattle Mutilations · What the Evidence Says—and...

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2025/11/12

A rancher finds his best bull bloodless at sunrise. No tracks. No struggle. No answers. From the 1970s panic to the Oregon cases making headlines today, “cattle mutilations” have never really gone away—they’ve just upgraded their tools. In this episode, Think First breaks the case open from both sides: the paperwork and the poetry. We follow the trail through FBI archives, media spin, biotech theories, eco-activists, and the faithful who still call it The Devil’s Tithe. And then we feed fifty...

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21:53

#80 DNA and the Soul · The Architecture of Continuity

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2025/11/06

What if DNA isn’t just a code of flesh, but the anchor of something older? In this episode, Jim Detjen explores the thin line between biology and belief — from inherited trauma and quantum biology to the question of whether consciousness might use DNA as its docking station. It’s part science, part philosophy, part cosmic stand-up routine. If DNA really is the soul’s anchor, what exactly is being transmitted — and who’s doing the editing? Support the show Stay sharp. Stay skeptical. #SpotTheG...

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#79 Ten Headlines, One Comet, and a Cold.

Think First with Jim Detjen ·

2025/10/30

Between Air Force Academy swim meets, a fiftieth-birthday celebration, Harvard Parent Weekend for two kids, a Distorted publishing deadline, and a world-class case of COVID — Jim’s finally back behind the mic. This week, it’s a full-service check-up on ten headlines that forgot to match their own paragraphs: the $14-billion “disaster” that wasn’t, the Fed’s optimistic rate-cut asterisk, Amazon’s AI “layoffs,” consumer confidence’s one-point panic, the inflation report on vacation, HR’s new ...

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