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In the 1980s, a low-sodium diet was seen as the gold standard for healthy behavior. In 2026, salt has been repackaged as “electrolytes” and is now cast as a core component of wellness. How did we get here?
Also, an important correction: One pound of butter to one pound of potatoes is Joel Robuchon’s recipe.
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The 25 Saltiest Restaurant Meals in America Facts, Issues, and Controversies in Salt Reduction for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Salt Wars The INTERSALT Study: background, methods, findings, and implicationsSodium reductionSodium Intake Reduction: An Important But Elusive Public Health GoalEffects of Diet and Sodium IntakeSalt intake, stroke, and cardiovascular disease Racial and Ethnic Differences in Sodium Sources and Sodium Reduction Behaviors Among US AdultsThe Great Salt Debate: So Bad?Salt guidelines draw heavy backlashSodium Reduction in US Households’ Packaged Food and Beverage PurchasesBlood pressure lowering efficacy of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors for primary hypertensionThanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!
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This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we’re cruising on over to the noughties to watch the ever-prescient Steven Spielberg film Minority Report (2002), based on the classic novella by Philip K Dick.
Join us for a vision of a future where we blow our entire Patreon budget on milk baths and pass the savings onto you, where a Colin Farrell can be too Catholic even for November Kelly, and how shaven a Tom Cruise can be narrowly avoids becoming a lawsuit. We've got babygirl Pool-Boys, Twinks From The Fed, Emotional-Support Enbies. It's a gender kaleidoscope, folks.
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Join us there next time for BLADE RUNNER!
The Be Gay Solve Crimes team is made up of November Kelly, Mia Mulder, and their local librarian Lucy.
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This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we're joined by our dear friend Josh Boerman (host of Worst of All Possible Worlds and Ill Conceived!) for an episode all about that scruffiest of detectives, Columbo.
Specifically in... uhh... [spinning a big wheel] ...Season 2, Episode 5? Requiem For A Falling Star?
Join us as we dive into a feast of Old Hollywood Lesbianism, Lucy reveals exactly what would make her betray her union, Nova gives us self-defence advice, and we all collectively lose our mind about the most Theatre Kid cameo in the world.
Also, our beloved Professional Automotive Journalist Victoria Scott swings by to give us her Professional Automotive Journalistic Opinion on Columbo's beloved old banger!
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Next week, Mia will be back with us for I, Robot!
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Robert finally concludes the tale of OneTaste by describing how it all fell apart and ended in prison for Nicole Daedone.
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Robert continues to tell Jamie about Nicole Daedone's OneTaste, orgasm cult.
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Robert sits down with Jamie Loftus to weave the half-century long history of orgasm cults in the U.S., culminating in the rise of Nicole Daedone's OneTaste.
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Peter and Michael discuss "Think And Grow Rich," the 1937 classic written by a lifelong fraudster who finds his final mark: You.
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The Untold Story of Napoleon Hill, the Greatest Self-Help Scammer of All TimeA Lifetime of RichesHow to Lose Friends and Alienate PeopleHow a Different America Responded to the Great DepressionThe Psychic Scandal How Trump Turned The Power of Positive Thinking Into DelusionThanks to Mindseye for our theme song!
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Over the last year or so a series of news articles have sounded warnings about AI psychosis, and now an AI-generated cult, the Spiralists. Robert sits down with Blake Wexler to answer an important question: can a chatbot become a cult leader?
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This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we're leapfrogging right into Inspector Gadget 2! The one with the Girl Inspector Gadget, who looks remarkably like a friend of ours.
Join us on the goopiest episode yet as we introduce you all to our new beloved cyborg co-host Robo-Nova, wade into a whole new world of viscous hot pink gunge to pick apart exactly in what ways a movie can be racist towards a car, and Mia interrogates Lucy about a mystery piercing...
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Join us there next time as we take on Nick Valentine from Fallout 4!
The Be Gay Solve Crimes team is made up of November Kelly, Mia Mulder, and their local librarian Lucy.
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Robert concludes the thrilling story of Dr. Robert Spears, who absolutely was not a doctor or actually named Robert Spears.
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Robert tells Brandie Posey the thrilling tale of Dr. Robert Spears, a man who was not a doctor but was a trailblazing Naturopath. And when I say "trailblazing", I mean he committed terrorism on a plane.
https://books.google.com/books?id=70oEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q&f=true
https://time.com/archive/6888850/national-affairs-the-naturopath/
https://www.nytimes.com/1960/01/22/archives/explosives-found.html
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-odessa-american/82054980/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7219457/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7219462/
https://wearepressingmatters.com/blog%2Farticles/f/a-brief-history-of-naturopathy-in-the-united-states
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/benedict-lust
https://ndnr.com/past-pearls-the-trials-of-benedict-lust/
https://www.futurelearn.com/info/courses/fundamentals-of-naturopathic-medicine/0/steps/372463
https://www.ndhealthfacts.org/wiki/Benedict_Lust
https://quackwatch.org/related/naturopathy/
https://www.amazon.com/Self-Styled-Chasing-Robert-Vernon-Spears/dp/1734204915
https://www.amazon.com/Vanishing-Act-Airliner-Backroom-Abortions/dp/B0D9PTQK7L
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In 2013, education reformers tried to help poor students the using the best tool at their disposal: The 16th most popular Ted Talk.
Special thanks to Marcus Credé!
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Much Ado About GritWhat Shall We Do About Grit?Grit under attackTeaching “Grit”The Problem With GritThe Limits of “Grit”Grit: The power of passion and perseveranceIs 'Grit' Doomed To Be The New Self-Esteem?Measurement MattersUsing Psychological Science to Help Children ThriveSelf-Control and Academic AchievementCognitive and noncognitive predictors of successShould non-cognitive skills be included in school accountability systems?Measuring Students’ Non-Cognitive Skills and the Impact of SchoolingGrit: A Short History of a Useful ConceptTeaching Kids 'Grit' is All the Rage."Grit" RevisitedCharacter Education: A Cautionary NoteWhat if the Secret to Success Is Failure?The Effects of the EITC on Child AchievementAcademic Performance And Food StampsThanks to Mindseye for our theme song!
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This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, things are finally getting Swedish round here as we dig out the files on Stieg Larsson's posthumous novel Men Who Hate Women, and its two separate film adaptations; The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
But which one are we watching, I hear you ask?
Yes.
Could we have planned this better?
Yes.
Join us for a Scandinavian smorgasbord where Lucy gets pretty convinced that the layout of chess pieces is key to unlocking the mystery, Nova takes us on a much needed detour to a tranquil oasis spa retreat, and Mia keeps everyone afloat by revealing her unfiltered Swedish accent in all its glory.
If you want to hear more Be Gay Solve Crimes, drop what you're doing right now and head on over to our Patreon where for as little as £5 a month you can get access to a new bonus episode from us every fortnight as well as all our previous bonus episodes. We've got one on Disco Elysium, on Silence of the Lambs, on LA Noire, on that one Simpson's episode where Mr Burns gets shot.
Next time, we'll be watching Nancy Drew (2007) with our first special guest Victoria Scott, automotive journalist, photographer extraordinaire, and host of the wonderful podcast Tran Girlismo!
The Be Gay Solve Crimes team is made up of November Kelly, Mia Mulder, and their local librarian Lucy.
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July 29, 1965. Gothenburg, Sweden. After meeting together at a café, 21-year old Jan Olof Dahlsjo, 22-year old Gay Roger Karlsson and 16-year old Kjell-Ake Johansson all climb into a Volvo belonging to Jan Olof’s brother, but the three men and the car soon vanish without a trace. That very same day, 18-year old Hubner “Hymme” Lundquist also disappears after travelling from his family’s cottage in Torekov to Gothenburg Central Station. There is speculation that the two cases might be connected to each other, as well as a bank robbery which also took place in Gothenburg that same afternoon, but this is never conclusively proven and none of the four missing victims are ever found. For the first time ever, “The Trail Went Cold” will be travelling to Sweden to explore a mystery known as “The Dahlsjo Case”.
Be sure to check out the podcast, "Global True Crime", on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
Additional Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlsj%C3%B6_Case
https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/589089
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/6220069
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/6226177
https://www.land.se/allmant/dahlsjofallet-4-pojkar-forsvann-gatan-olost-efter-50-ar
https://www.expressen.se/gt/pojkarna-har-varit-forsvunna--i-50-ar/
https://gamlagoteborg.se/2017/04/02/dahlsjofallet/
https://gamlagoteborg.se/2017/04/02/grodmansranet/
https://www.expressen.se/gt/han-bryter-tystnaden-om-ranet--efter-50-ar/
https://audioboom.com/posts/6908628-the-dahlsjo-disappearance
“The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon. Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content.
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.
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Robert explores the life and times of Jimmy Savile, the face of the BBC for decades, an ally of Margaret Thatcher, and a pedophile rapist on an incomprehensible scale.
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We're joined by Mike's If Books Could Kill co-host to revisit a biohacking diet book for the boys.
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Greazy Wil concludes the story of Phil Spector by talking about the murder he definitely committed.
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Greazy Wil continues the story of Phil Spector, and how his relationship with the Beatles and his relationship with his wife came into, uh, conflict.
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Bonjour, détectives! This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we bring in Commissaire Jules Maigret for some much needed gender questioning. Specifically, the Georges Simenon novella Maigret and the Dead Girl, for which the best on-screen adaptation unfortunately stars the most Brought-In-For-Questioning actor we've yet encountered.
Oui, nous regrettons tout.
We've watched it so you don't have to.
Join us as investigate the Saddest Detective In The World. A man with the lungs of a twelve year old. A man who isn't sure what a pipe is, let alone how to get rid of his own. A man who, if the subtitles that we very legally downloaded are to be believed, sure knows how to choke every last drop of gravy out of the head of his duck (???)
For more Be Gay Solve Crimes, check out our patreon, where for as little as £5 a month you can get access to a new bonus episode every fortnight, including our past bonus episodes on Disco Elysium, Silence of the Lambs, and LA Noire!
Next week, we're cracking open an old case with the girls to ask whether they really got the right culprit in the classic two-part Simpsons episode Who Shot Mr Burns.
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The Be Gay Solve Crimes team is made up of November Kelly, Mia Mulder, and your local librarian Lucy.
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August 7, 1973. Fontana, California. A CB radio operator hears a broadcast from a crying boy calling himself “Larry”, who claims that his father is dead and he needs help. Other CB operators throughout the United States start receiving broadcasts from Larry on their radios and he eventually reveals that he was involved in an accident in a remote part of New Mexico and is trapped inside an overturned pick-up truck alongside his father’s body. While Larry claims that he is using the truck’s CB radio to communicate, he fails to provide many specific details about his location or his background. Even though a massive search operation is launched, no trace of Larry or his truck can be found, leading to speculation that the whole incident was an elaborate hoax, but the mysterious broadcaster known only as “Lost Boy Larry” is never identified. To commemorate our episode’s release date of April 1, we will be doing something a little differently from the norm this week by chronicling the saga of “Lost Boy Larry”.
Additional Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Boy_Larry
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/10/archives/a-scared-boys-broadcasts-set-off-search-in-new-mexico.html
https://www.newspapers.com/image/158062448/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/609038354/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/294018772/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/581417783/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/398941370/
“The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon. Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content.
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.
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