Think First with Jim Detjen
by Jim Detjen | Think First
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What We Built Between Seasons — Inside the New Think First
What We Built Between Seasons — Inside the New Think First
About this podcast
Think First with Jim Detjen examines the ideas, evidence, and stories shaping what we believe and how we act.
Through conversations and investigations, the podcast explores media, technology, culture, and the habits of human judgment.
Read Distorted and explore essays and practical tools at thnkfirst.com.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 26 episodes
- What We Built Between Seasons — Inside the New Think First · 14 min · Season 2 Episode 121While the podcast feed was quieter over the summer, the work behind Think First expanded. In this bonus episode, Jim Detjen introduces the newly rebuilt thnkfirst.com and walks…
- Season Two Preview: Why Distorted Comes First · 6 min · Season 2Season Two of Think First arrives this fall—and it is going deeper. Jim Detjen previews a more expansive, long-form season built around investigation, narrative storytelling…
- That’s Not What Happened — How Gaslighting Plants Doubt | The Foundations 06 · 7 min · Season 2 Episode 120From Season One · Foundational context for Season Two Gaslighting does not always succeed by replacing the facts. Often, it works by making us doubt our ability to recognize…
- Clarity Is the New Counterculture | The Foundations 05 · 8 min · Season 2 Episode 119From Season One · Foundational context for Season Two This early Think First episode captures the first public articulation of work that would later evolve into the Clarity…
- Distorted Is Now in the World — Inside the 346 Pages | The Foundations 04 · 7 min · Season 2 Episode 118From Season One · Foundational context for Season Two Distorted is now in the world. Not a preview, a preorder, or a promise. It is out. This episode is not a sales pitch. It is…
- AI Hallucination and the Cost of Synthetic Confidence | The Foundations 03 · 13 min · Season 2 Episode 117From Season One · Foundational context for Season Two AI does not hallucinate simply because it is broken. It hallucinates because it is designed to produce coherent answers…
- Your Media Diet Is Training You | The Foundations 02 · 11 min · Season 2 Episode 116From Season One · Foundational context for Season Two Every feed trains a way of seeing. In this episode, Jim Detjen examines how repeated voices, emotional rewards, and easy…
- When AI Answers Faster Than We Can Verify | The Foundations 01 · 13 min · Season 2 Episode 115From Season One · Foundational context for Season Two Before Season 2 begins, we’re revisiting an earlier episode that has become even more relevant as artificial intelligence…
- #113 Missing Scientists: The List Keeps Growing… But Does the Pattern Hold? · 16 min · Season 1 Episode 113This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth — use code THINKFIRST for 20% off. A growing list of “missing and dead scientists” is making headlines—eight, ten, eleven… now more…
- #111 Questions About Israel · When Labels Come First · 19 min · Season 1 Episode 111This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth — use code THINKFIRST for up to 20% off. You can question almost anything right now—until the temperature shifts. In this episode…
- #110: 155 Aircraft Over Iran – What the Official Rescue Story Isn’t Telling Us · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 110This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth — use code THINKFIRST for up to 20% off. A U.S. fighter jet goes down over Iran. One pilot is recovered quickly. The second is…
- #103 Aliens or Demons? Notice What Happens Before You Decide · 11 min · Season 1 Episode 103Before any new UAP footage drops… people already know what it means. Aliens. Demons. Cover-up. Revelation. But what if the real story isn’t what these objects are— it’s how…
- #93 Death Isn’t the Problem. Delay Is. · 11 min · Season 1 Episode 93We 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…
- #90 When ChatGPT Boils Everything Down to God · 8 min · Season 1 Episode 90An 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…
- #88 Who’s Actually Conscious? The Animals That Complicate the Question. · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 88Some 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…
- #86 Why a Harvard Professor Walked Away · And What the University Can’t Say Out Loud · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 86After 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’…
- #85 Nick Fuentes and the Internet’s Real Power · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 85Nick 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…
- #84 The 150-Terabyte Moment No One Talks About · 23 min · Season 1 Episode 84Every 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…
- #82 The Shift No One Explained · Inside the LGB → LGBTQIA+ Break · 1 h 2 min · Season 1 Episode 82Something 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…
- #80 DNA and the Soul · The Architecture of Continuity · 22 min · Season 1 Episode 80What 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…
