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Think First with Jim Detjen — 81 episodes
What We Built Between Seasons — Inside the New Think First
Season Two Preview: Why Distorted Comes First
That’s Not What Happened — How Gaslighting Plants Doubt | The Foundations 06
Clarity Is the New Counterculture | The Foundations 05
Distorted Is Now in the World — Inside the 346 Pages | The Foundations 04
AI Hallucination and the Cost of Synthetic Confidence | The Foundations 03
Your Media Diet Is Training You | The Foundations 02
When AI Answers Faster Than We Can Verify | The Foundations 01
Season 2 Begins Where Certainty Ends — July 2026
BONUS · Why Chasing the Future Is Ruining Youth Sports and What Actually Works Instead
#113 Missing Scientists: The List Keeps Growing… But Does the Pattern Hold?
#112 SPLC: Built to Fight Hate… or Built on It?
#111 Questions About Israel · When Labels Come First
#110: 155 Aircraft Over Iran – What the Official Rescue Story Isn’t Telling Us
#109 The Ceasefire That Wasn’t · Iran, Leverage, and a Week That Didn’t Add Up
#108 Your Media Diet Is Training You
#107 Friday Review: Conversion Therapy, Charlie Kirk, Iran
#106 After Monday’s Episode: What You’re Noticing — And What It Means
#105 Iran: They Said It Was Limited. Then It Wasn’t.
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#104 You Asked for This
#103 Aliens or Demons? Notice What Happens Before You Decide
#102: MAGA: When a Movement Becomes a Loyalty Test
Podcast Arsenal: Your Defense Against Media Manipulation
FLASHBACK: #24 Iran’s Nukes or Narrative? · If It Was “Obliterated”… Why Are We Here Again?
#97 Palantir 'Hacked' by AI? Eight Days Later, Still Zero Receipts – Run the Clarity Framework
#96 AI Hallucination and the Cost of Synthetic Confidence
#95 Marijuana, Momentum, and the Cost of Moving Too Fast
What Happened to Customer Service After COVID?
#93 Death Isn’t the Problem. Delay Is.
When Feelings Replace Reality: The Danger of Narratives That Just "Feel True"
#91 A Year Later · Still Waiting on Justice
#90 When ChatGPT Boils Everything Down to God
#88 Who’s Actually Conscious? The Animals That Complicate the Question.
#87 Las Vegas, Charlie Kirk, Trump · And the Questions That Stopped Getting Asked
#86 Why a Harvard Professor Walked Away · And What the University Can’t Say Out Loud
#85 Nick Fuentes and the Internet’s Real Power
#84 The 150-Terabyte Moment No One Talks About
#83 The Video That Crossed the Line · Congress, the Military, and the Fog Between Them
#82 The Shift No One Explained · Inside the LGB → LGBTQIA+ Break
#81 Something Is Killing the Cows
#80 DNA and the Soul · The Architecture of Continuity
#78 Diversity Is Our Strength — Until You Disagree
#77 Weight of the World · Is the Obesity Epidemic a Side Effect or a Strategy?
#75 Wikipedia · The Internet’s Biggest Gaslight
#74 Walter Russell and the Gaslight of Science: Madman, Mystic, or a Thousand Years Too Soon?
#70 Bad Therapy: How the DSM Made Fragility a Feature, Not a Bug
#68 We Pay. They Podium. — How U.S. Clubs and Colleges Train the World’s Olympians
#66 Why Gas Pumps Are Still So Slow · The Psychology of Pump-Time Manipulation
#65 The Coin Shortage That Wasn’t · Think First
#64 Cursive · The Poetic Truth Behind Its Erasure
#61 NIL Unmasked · How College Sports Went Pro Without Saying It Out Loud
#60 When Empathy Becomes a Sin
#58 Giants, Gaslighting, and the Smithsonian
#57 How the Dinosaurs Disappeared — and Why We Love the Story
#56 The FBI Doesn’t Hit Record — And That’s the Point
#55 The Casual Sex Myth · Gaslit by the Culture
#53 Beauty's Biological Truth
#52 The Pendulum Swing of Gen Z
#50 Skinwalker Ranch: When Reality Fights Back (Special Edition)
#49 Borrowed Truth. Broken Brands.
#44 The Happiness Study Lied to You (But Not How You Think)
#43 The Mandela Effect: What If Reality Didn’t Agree With You?
#42 Brotherhood (Not Bureaucracies) · What the Ivy League Used to Get Right
#41 The Federal Reserve · It’s Not Federal. And It Has No Reserve.
#40 Bacon, Booze, and Billion-Dollar Gaslighting: What They're Not Telling You
Gaslighting 101 · That's Not What Happened
#38 The Barcode That Changed the World
#36 The Vanishing Middle Button on Elevators
#35 The Moon Landing · Perfect Story or Perfect Illusion?
#33 Retail Mind Games · How Stores Gaslight You into Buying Stuff You Don’t Need
#29 Freedom of Religion · Not from It
#28 Built to Endure · What the American Flag Still Gets Right
#27 Hollywood Is Broken · The Maverick Effect
#26 The Woke Right · When Culture War Flips Sides
#23 Congress Confidential · Where Insider Trading Goes to Retire
#21 Mark Cuban & Groupthink · Escaping the BlueSky Bubble
#20 Porn Is Normal Now · But Does That Make It Healthy?
#19 Bill Ackman · The Poison of Poetic Truth
#15 The MAGA Paradox · Popular at the Top, Powerless in the Ranks
#10 Postmodern Architecture · When Buildings Stop Telling the Truth