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Season 2 Begins Where Certainty Ends — July 2026
Jun 8, 2026
19m 56s
Season 2 Begins Where Certainty Ends
May 19, 2026
19m 56s
BONUS · Why Chasing the Future Is Ruining Youth Sports and What Actually Works Instead
May 14, 2026
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TRENDING: What Happened to Customer Service After COVID?
May 8, 2026
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Missing Scientists: The List Keeps Growing… But Does the Pattern Hold?
Apr 29, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/8/26 |  Season 2 Begins Where Certainty Ends — July 2026 | Send Jim a Topic to Explore Season 2 of Think First is coming — and it’s going much deeper. In this special announcement episode, Jim Detjen shares what’s changing, why the show is evolving beyond headlines and culture-war reactions, and how Think First is expanding into a broader long-form exploration of perception, memory, belief, institutional trust, consciousness, mythology, AI, narrative formation, and the psychology of reality itself. Jim also introduces The M Institute™ — a new long-ho... | 19m 56s | ||||||
| 5/19/26 | Season 2 Begins Where Certainty Ends✨ | perceptionmemory+7 | — | The M Institute™ | — | Think FirstJim Detjen+8 | — | 19m 56s | |
| 5/14/26 |  BONUS · Why Chasing the Future Is Ruining Youth Sports and What Actually Works Instead✨ | youth sportsdevelopment+3 | — | Gaslight 360 | — | youth sportsbasketball+3 | — | 15m 36s | |
| 5/8/26 |  TRENDING: What Happened to Customer Service After COVID?✨ | customer serviceCOVID-19+3 | — | Gaslight 360 | — | customer serviceCOVID-19+5 | — | 6m 57s | |
| 4/29/26 | Missing Scientists: The List Keeps Growing… But Does the Pattern Hold?✨ | missing scientistsUFOs+3 | — | — | — | missing scientistsUFOs+3 | Cozy EarthTHINKFIRST | 17m 54s | |
| 4/29/26 |  #113 Missing Scientists: The List Keeps Growing… But Does the Pattern Hold? | Send Jim a Topic to Explore This 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. It sounds like a pattern. It feels like a pattern. But is it actually one? In this episode of Think First, I walk through what’s real, what’s being assumed, and what doesn’t hold up under pressure. From a missing Air Force general to viral claims about UFO whistleblowers, we break down ho... | 17m 23s | ||||||
| 4/27/26 | #112 SPLC: Built to Fight Hate… or Built on It?✨ | hateSouthern Poverty Law Center+3 | — | cozyearth.comSouthern Poverty Law Center | — | SPLChate+3 | Cozy EarthTHINKFIRST | 5m 03s | |
| 4/22/26 | #111 Questions About Israel · When Labels Come First✨ | IsraelIran+4 | — | — | IsraelIran+1 | IsraelIran+5 | Cozy EarthTHINKFIRST | 21m 09s | |
| 4/15/26 | #110: 155 Aircraft Over Iran – What the Official Rescue Story Isn’t Telling Us✨ | military operationsIran+3 | — | — | Iran | fighter jetIran+5 | Cozy EarthTHINKFIRST | 19m 20s | |
| 4/10/26 | #109 The Ceasefire That Wasn’t · Iran, Leverage, and a Week That Didn’t Add Up✨ | ceasefireIran+5 | — | IranU.S.+1 | Strait of Hormuz | ceasefireIran+5 | — | 15m 49s | |
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| 4/7/26 | #108 Your Media Diet Is Training You✨ | media diettrust in media+3 | — | FoxCNN | — | mediatrust+5 | — | 13m 08s | |
| 4/3/26 | #107 Friday Review: Conversion Therapy, Charlie Kirk, Iran✨ | conversion therapyCharlie Kirk+4 | — | Supreme Court | ColoradoIran | conversion therapyCharlie Kirk+5 | — | 16m 53s | |
| 4/1/26 | #106 After Monday’s Episode: What You’re Noticing — And What It Means✨ | media distrustleadership frustration+3 | — | — | — | mediadistrust+4 | — | 8m 31s | |
| 3/31/26 | #105 Iran: They Said It Was Limited. Then It Wasn’t.✨ | Iran conflictregional involvement+3 | — | — | Iran | Iranconflict+3 | — | 20m 27s | |
| 3/29/26 |  Paperback. This Week. $16.99.✨ | book pricingnarratives+3 | — | $16.99$22.99+1 | — | Distortednarratives+5 | — | 2m 36s | |
| 3/27/26 | #104 You Asked for This✨ | podcast evolutiontopic exploration+3 | — | — | — | Think Firstpodcast update+3 | — | 4m 24s | |
| 3/24/26 | #103 Aliens or Demons? Notice What Happens Before You Decide✨ | UAPbelief systems+4 | — | — | — | UAPaliens+4 | — | 12m 38s | |
| 3/18/26 | #102: MAGA: When a Movement Becomes a Loyalty Test | Send Jim a Topic to Explore You’re not watching a policy debate. You’re watching a movement decide what it will allow itself to question. Over the last few days, something shifted. Not just in tone—but in permission. Who gets to speak. What can be said. And what happens when someone steps outside the line. This episode isn’t about Iran. It’s about something more structural: What happens when a movement built on questioning power… has to decide whether it can question its own. Voices like Tuck... | 14m 47s | ||||||
| 3/4/26 | Podcast Arsenal: Your Defense Against Media Manipulation✨ | media manipulationpodcast recommendations+3 | — | — | — | mediapodcasts+4 | — | 7m 04s | |
| 2/28/26 | FLASHBACK: #24 Iran’s Nukes or Narrative? · If It Was “Obliterated”… Why Are We Here Again?✨ | Iran nuclear programwar posture+3 | — | — | Iran | Irannuclear program+5 | — | 6m 19s | |
| 2/23/26 | #97 Palantir 'Hacked' by AI? Eight Days Later, Still Zero Receipts – Run the Clarity Framework✨ | AIsurveillance+5 | — | PalantirCIA | UkraineGaza | PalantirAI+8 | — | 10m 21s | |
| 2/20/26 | #96 AI Hallucination and the Cost of Synthetic Confidence | Send Jim a Topic to Explore AI doesn’t “hallucinate” because it’s broken. It hallucinates because it’s rewarded for coherence under uncertainty. So are we. In this episode of Think First, Jim Detjen examines how artificial intelligence, media systems, and human cognition all prioritize fluency over verification — and why smooth narratives feel true long before they’re tested. This isn’t an anti-technology episode. It’s a structural one. When speed is rewarded and uncertainty is penalized, com... | 13m 12s | ||||||
| 2/13/26 | #95 Marijuana, Momentum, and the Cost of Moving Too Fast✨ | marijuanalegalization+3 | — | marijuanaGaslight 360 | — | marijuanalegalization+5 | — | 16m 28s | |
| 2/11/26 | What Happened to Customer Service After COVID? | Send Jim a Topic to Explore Remember when stores were open 24/7, hotel rooms came with daily housekeeping, and tipping was a thank-you — not a ransom note? Since COVID, businesses keep promising that “normal” will return… but the truth is, it’s not. In this episode of Think First, we unravel the gaslighting baked into today’s customer experience: airlines charging more for less, restaurants pushing QR menus that nobody asked for, and shrinkflation turning family-size snacks into travel-size l... | 6m 26s | ||||||
| 2/9/26 |  #93 Death Isn’t the Problem. Delay Is. | Send Jim a Topic to Explore 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 repla... | 12m 32s | ||||||
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