A Think First Podcast with Jim Detjen
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 ten. It depends on the story — and the energy drink situation.
No rants. No lectures. Just sharp questions, quick insights, and the occasional laugh to keep things sane.
Whether you’re dodging spin in the news, politics, or that “trust me, bro” post in your feed… take a breath. Think first.
Visit Gaslight360.com/clarity to sharpen your BS filter and explore the 6-step clarity framework.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 5 minutes
- Episodes
- 74
- Years Active
- 2025
Banned by YouTube: Here’s What They Won’t Say
YouTube took down my entire channel.
No warning. No specific reason. Just a generic message about “spam and deceptive practices.”
But this podcast has never sold scams or spread lies — it’s always been…
#52 The Pendulum Swing of Gen Z
What happens when a generation raised on racial sensitivity, identity politics, and moral language flips the script? In this episode of Think First, we explore the quiet rebellion taking shape across…
#51 Sydney Sweeney Has Great Genes… and That’s a Problem Now?
When Sydney Sweeney put on a pair of jeans, the internet saw Nazis.
Seriously.
What was supposed to be a cheeky denim campaign turned into a cultural meltdown about eugenics, whiteness, and “fascist fa…
#50 Skinwalker Ranch: When Reality Fights Back (Special Edition)
This isn’t a ghost story.
It’s not a UFO tale.
And it’s definitely not a recap of the TV show.
This is a Think First special edition — on the most heavily instrumented paranormal site on Earth: Skinwalk…
#49 Borrowed Truth. Broken Brands.
What do Victoria’s Secret, Nike, the U.S. Army, American Eagle, Harvard, Lululemon, and BlackRock all have in common?
They bought into poetic truth—branding built on feelings over facts.
In this Think …
#48 The Interstellar Visitors They Don’t Want You to Notice
Something strange is moving through our solar system — again.
First, it was ‘Oumuamua, the cigar-shaped traveler that accelerated without explanation.
Now it’s 3I/ATLAS — bigger, brighter, and on a pat…
#47 Clarity Is the New Counterculture · Light Your Flame
What if clarity isn’t something you find — but something you build?
In this special episode of Think First, we walk through the six-stage journey to mental clarity. From the first flicker of curiosity…
#46 Gaslighting 101 · That's Not What Happened
It’s a textbook Reframe moment: the lie isn’t the problem — it’s the doubt it plants.
Gaslighting isn’t just lying — it’s psychological warfare dressed as concern.
In this episode of Think First, we un…
#45 TikTok, Instagram, & YouTube · Why We’re Using Cartoons to Expose Gaslighting
🎉 Bonus Episode: Think First is now on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts — with a twist.
We’re using 1950s-style animation to tackle modern gaslighting and poetic truth. Why? Because nothing expos…
#44 The Happiness Study Lied to You (But Not How You Think)
For 85 years, Harvard tracked what makes life worth living.
The answer was clear. The culture? Not so much.
This episode unravels how we took one of the most important studies ever done on happiness — …
#43 The Mandela Effect: What If Reality Didn’t Agree With You?
What if you didn’t just remember it wrong…
But the world moved on — and left you behind?
In this special edition of Think First, we dive headfirst into the Mandela Effect — the eerie sensation that som…
#42 Brotherhood (Not Bureaucracies) · What the Ivy League Used to Get Right
The Ivy League was never perfect.
But it used to produce loyalty, grit, and real leadership — forged through brotherhood, not bureaucracy.
Today? The final clubs, eating clubs, and secret societies tha…
#41 The Federal Reserve · It’s Not Federal. And It Has No Reserve.
It controls your mortgage rate, your grocery bill, and the value of your paycheck — but it’s not even part of the government. In this episode of Think First, we unravel the strange origin of the Fede…
#40 Bacon, Booze, and Billion-Dollar Gaslighting: What They're Not Telling You
You’ve seen the headlines: cut bacon and booze, cut cancer by 40%. But why didn’t that go viral? Why didn’t your favorite steakhouse or whiskey brand mention it? In this episode, we pull back the cur…
#39 Epstein (Part 4) · Two Lies, No Escape
Pam Bondi said the Epstein client list was on her desk. Then she said it wasn’t. Trump promised transparency — now he wants us to move on. Ghislaine Maxwell offers to testify, and MAGA turns on itsel…
#38 The Barcode That Changed the World
You thought it was just a faster checkout. But that little beep at the register quietly reshaped retail, rewired your habits, and launched one of the first behavioral data systems ever used on the pu…
#37 Poetic Truth · When Feeling Replaces Fact
What if the most powerful lies… don’t look like lies at all?
In this episode of Think First, we unpack poetic truth — the kind of storytelling that sounds noble, feels right, and spreads fast… even wh…
#36 The Vanishing Middle Button on Elevators
It’s right there in the middle of the panel. The button you press when you’re in a hurry, annoyed, or just need to feel in control. But what if it’s not connected to anything at all? This is the stor…
#35 The Moon Landing · Perfect Story or Perfect Illusion?
What if humanity’s greatest leap… left a few footprints we weren’t meant to follow?
In this special episode of Think First, we examine the Moon landing — not to confirm or deny it happened, but to unp…
#34 Epstein, Deflection & Denial — I Tried to Be Funny
Donald Trump gets asked a simple question about Epstein’s client list — and melts down faster than a Palm Beach popsicle. The DOJ says Epstein had no clients, no blackmail, and definitely no murder. …