Think First 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.
Think First with Jim Detjen
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 unpack the 7 most compelling claims behind the conspiracy theories. From fluttering flags to missing craters, radiation belts to missing tapes, we ask the questions you’re not supposed to ask — and let you decide what adds up.
No conclusions. No lectures. Just a slow orbit around truth, gaslighting, and the kind of poetic narratives that sometimes glow a little too brightly.
Stay sharp. Stay skeptical. And maybe… look up tonight.
Stay sharp. Stay skeptical. #SpotTheGaslight
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This is Think First, where we don't follow the script. We question it Because, in a world full of poetic truths and professional gaslighting, someone's got to say the quiet part out loud. What if one of the most iconic moments in human history never actually happened?
Speaker 2:Listen, Tranquility Base here.
Speaker 1:Or maybe it did, and it's only now, decades later, that we're being dared to question it. The moon landing, the black and white footage, the astronauts saluting the flag on a world with no wind, the famous spoken with a bit too much confidence. If you ask some people, Twelve men walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972, or so we're told. But here we are, over 50 years later, and something still feels off, not just to internet trolls and tinfoil hatters, but to people who just know how power works and how stories stick. So let's do something dangerous. Let's think, not to confirm, not to deny, but to question the way we've been told to never question, because where there's smoke, there might not be fire, but there might be something smoldering just below the surface.
Speaker 1:First, no stars. We've all seen the photos Stark shadows, perfectly crisp astronauts, a jet black sky With not a single star, not even one. Why weren't stars visible In a sky with no atmosphere? Why do the shadows run in different directions? Why do some crosshairs appear behind the objects they're supposed to overlay? Some say it's just camera settings, others say it's studio lighting. Either way, why were we never allowed to ask?
Speaker 2:Okay, we've had a problem here. This is Houston.
Speaker 1:Say up the flag, the American flag, allegedly planted in one-sixth gravity on an airless rock. And yet it moves, ripples flutters even. How does a flag flutter in a vacuum? Is it inertia or illusion, or a fan off-camera? We're told there was a rigid rod holding the flag out, that the ripples were just leftover momentum. But if it was truly motionless air, shouldn't it have stopped? The second they let go? Radiation, the invisible killer we just skipped over.
Speaker 2:We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard, Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, Because that challenge is one that we're willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win, and the others too.
Speaker 1:Between Earth and the Moon sits the Van Allen radiation belt, a swirling soup of charged particles, deadly in high doses. And yet the astronauts passed through it twice in lightweight aluminum capsules with 1960s technology, and they came home with no radiation sickness, not even a sunburn. Did they go fast enough to avoid exposure? Did their suits somehow shield them better than what we have today? And if so, why haven't we sent anyone back with our better tech? And my personal favorite, the missing crater. The lunar module descended with 10,000 pounds of thrust, yet left no crater, just a gentle dusting. Meanwhile, the astronauts' boot prints Sharp, deep, almost sculpted, like someone had pressed them into clay. Why didn't the lander's engine blow the dust away? Why did the pads leave barely an impression, while boots left perfect ones? Shouldn't the descent have blasted out a scorched crater beneath the nozzle? Or is that what would happen on a soundstage? Now let's talk tech.
Speaker 2:That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Speaker 1:It was the 60s no GPS, no Wi-Fi, no touchscreens. And yet we navigated a quarter million miles through space, hit a moving rock, landed safely, took off again, rendezvoused in lunar orbit and flew home with computers less powerful than the phone in your sock drawer. Did NASA really solve all that on the first try? Did we master space travel, then forget how to do it for 50 years? And if this was possible in 69, why can't we live stream a Zoom call from the Sahara without buffering? Ah, yes, the tapes. Nasa Lost the original telemetry tapes, the moon landing master footage Recorded over, misplaced, gone. How do you misplace the most important footage in human history? How does that not trigger audits, hearings or I don't know, panic? We're told they used the tapes to save money, that no one realized what was on them. Maybe that's true, or maybe the original was never meant to be found again.
Speaker 2:And, finally, the silence. I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth 400,000 people worked on the Apollo program Scientists, engineers, contractors, soviets tracked it, australians received transmissions and no one not one whistleblower ever cracked.
Speaker 1:Could that many people keep a lie this big for this long? Or is it possible that only some people needed to know? A need-to-know operation With layers of truth, enough truth to hide the rest? So here we are, still circling the moon, still asking questions. We're told not to ask, still wondering whether the biggest leap for mankind was a little too clean, a little too perfect, a little too poetic. Maybe we went, maybe we didn't, but when the answers were given, stop making sense. It's not denial to doubt it's survival. You don't need all the answers, but you should question the ones you're handed, especially when they come in black and white with perfect lighting. Stay sharp, stay skeptical and maybe look up. Tonight. The moon's still out there. Want more? The full six-step framework we use is at Gaslight360.com. You can also dive into the deeper story, the bio, the podcast and the mission at jimdetchincom. And if you like this one, tag it, save it, share it.
