Bingham Boys Podcast

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich open the Listener Mailbag (thanks, Mary & Edie Gaythwaite), then move on to the 4th of July in Copperton Park, reclaiming patriotism from the Orange Man and his cronies, a necessary reading of the Declaration of Independence, how Trump’s done more damage than the British could ever dream of, America’s rejection of Supreme Leaders and Kings, how the Democrat...

Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas welcome renowned Utah sports journalist Amy Donaldson to discuss Catholic guilt and dogs, Amy’s sports reporter origin story, working for pizza, the need for in-depth local sports coverage vs. the erosion of reading, giving equal weight to pro and school sports, the sports-to-lawyer pipeline, avoiding cynicism over time and repetition, casting a wider audie...

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich recollect their stronger and tanner days working the mines in Bingham and that long-lost feeling of waking up to normality in America before diving into how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints sold out their religion and dutifully followed the Orange Brick Road right up until Team Trump just declared that they aren’t Christians, Mike Lee’s whiny...

Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas check in (existentially) from Chicago to reminisce about ‘70s Saturday Night Live and the Billy Goat Tavern, Lincoln Park softball, Sweetwater Clifton, and burger joints before biting into Ron’s Memorial Weekend cemetery tours, the movies Bugonia and Little Big League (John hasn’t seen one; doesn’t get the other), history repeating, DJT’s reflecting “swimmi...

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich welcome special guest Randall Carlisle (former ABC 4 Utah news anchor and Ohio State Radio Announcing champion) and discuss Randall’s Best of Utah award for Best News Hair and his journalism background, the more civil times of media and law enforcement relations, Salt Lake City’s classic watering hole press clubs, today’s idiocy-adjacent Faux News reporting...

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich return after two weeks off (reminder: the podcast is going biweekly for the spring) to proclaim that every day is No Kings Day, then discuss Utah Copper magnate Daniel Jackling, monuments and statues and who deserves them, the refurbished Utah State Capitol building, Trump’s participation trophies, good money re: the Miller and Eccles families, expectant wi...

Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas reconvene after a couple of weeks off to discuss Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, the inverted presidential mantra of “I cannot tell the truth,” Honest Abe vs. Dishonest Don, patriotism and intelligence vs. superstition, ambition, and ignorance, the Greek Word of the Week, the absence of learning and the acceptance of illusion, Trump: The Political Pi...

Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas welcome defense attorney Mark Moffat to discuss the 2026 Utah legislative session, the ins and outs of pro bono legal work, bills designed to create new crimes and offenses, the old 200 South crime sweeps, bail reform, Criminal Law 101, the presumption of innocence, the court of social media, grading judges, how “activist judges” = judges we don’t agree wit...

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich reminisce about the Beatles and the Temptations, “Ball of Confusion,” and the origin of “Googly Moogly” before delving into the Greek Word of the Week, our Confuser In Chief’s big dumb war, MAGA children off to battle, the Bushes George, the NATO charter, the World Baseball Classic, losing loyalty but gaining clown shoes in the cabinet, how USA 2026 = Argen...

Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas welcome musician and Vietnam Marine vet Clark Clements to talk about enlistment in the ’60s vs. now, March 11 of 1969, how war and propaganda are the same as they ever were before, buying into John Wayne patriotism, universal soldiers, G.I. benefits for college, the anti-war folk singers of the day, the generational divide between WWII vets and Vietnam vets...

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich reconvene after two weeks off to chew over MLB spring training and Springtime for Trumpler, Pete Hegseth vs. war literacy, it doesn’t stop at golf cheating, smart bombs and dumb people, MTG’s 180 on the neo-convict, the evolution of the Tea Party into whatever this is, MAGAfluencers off the Trump train, the case of the missing military gear, the ongoing fai...

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich welcome attorney John West of immigration firm Stowell Crayk to talk about the ins and outs of immigration law, the harrowing true story of “Bob” (not his real name), the Big Beautiful Bill and the (over)funding of ICE, the fear factor of and mandatory agreement with DHS, Gov. Cox and his cowboys’ attempts to expand the courts, parens patrie (parenthood of...

Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas, with special guest Prof. Craig Watson (Criminal Justice Dept., Salt Lake Community College), discuss the historical trust between the badge and the people, how ICE isn’t the police, the “disgusting” masks that erode trust, local police vs. Feds, the performative nature of ICE for an audience of one, “menace to society” Don Lemon, the flawed practice of pos...

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich take it back to the 1880s to dissect the parallels between today’s ICE thuggery and how the LDS were treated a couple of centuries ago in the Salt Lake Valley, plus the Mormon Battalion, Bingham Gingham, presidential two-timer Grover Cleveland, John’s first immigration encounter at Jim’s Casino in ’70s Wendover, the Declaration of Grievances, dictators and...

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich welcome back John’s cousin, Fr. Makarios, and drop the Greek Word of the Week before jumping to some Bingham and Copperfield (and Leadmine) memories, shoutouts to TV classics The Virginian and Steve Allen’s Meeting of the Minds , a lightning round of Name Those Binghamites , and then a deep dive into Fr. Makarios’ origin story and what it’s really like to b...

Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas compare the front-porch friendliness of old to today’s backyard culture before steering into Harvey Milk Blvd. vs. Charlie Kirk Blvd. (Ron’s solution: pick a local), the never-ending suckitude of Rep. Trevor Lee, the “taking” of Greenland, praise for modern-day troubadour Jesse Welles , how history repeats if we could only remember, a brief Athens quiz, pow...

Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas congregate for the first time in 2026 to discuss (St.) John’s name birthday, other Johns from Bingham, the Greek Phrase of the Week, Salt Lake City Weekly ’s 2025 retrospective , the U.S.’s latest War for Oil, the sad similarities between Venezuela and Vietnam, Trump’s America Last agenda, policy dictated from the Resolute Toilet via “Truth” Social, Gov. Co...

Bingham Boys Ron Yengich, John Saltas, and special guest Fr. Makarios (John’s cousin) grab a bite at Astro Burger, talk about growing up in Bingham, and trace Fr. Makarios’ clerical journey from Bingham to Copperfield to Midvale to SLC to Korea to Boston to Egypt, before taking a deep, deep, deep dive into Greek Orthodoxy (much to Ron’s delight), how “Christianity was OK before it became a religio...

Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas reconvene to reminisce about Christmas (and Christmas eats) in Bingham before getting into The Apprentice (the 2024 pre-election movie about Donald Trump and his mentor Roy Cohn in the ’80s; stream it on Amazon Prime Video, Pluto TV, Plex, Roku Channel, or Tubi), Ron’s New York brush with Cohn and remembering Angels In America at Salt Lake Acting Co., Cohn’...

Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas are live from Bingham’s Green Front Bar (it’s audio theater, just go with it) and bantering about some Bingham lore and Ron’s annual Copperton fun run 5K benefit for veterans this Saturday, December 6, before diving headlong into Giving Tuesday, the hot new current-events quiz show Si or No? , how counting tweets is the new counting sheep, Pearl Harbor Day,...

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich reminisce about Thanksgivings past in Bingham before discussing Ron’s annual Copperton fun run to benefit veterans on December 6, SLC’s Grove Market and the late Jim Savas, American affluence, “Woke” Pope Leo vs. JD Vance and Donald Trump, The Wizard of Oz and Wicked , the Zohran Mamdani + Trump bromance, journalism vs. fashionable fluff, the foreign bots o...

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich pay respect to Veterans Day and the vets of Bingham, and also celebrate Eleni Saltas’ showing in the 2025 Athens Marathon in Greece, then Ron reads John’s latest Private Eye column in Salt Lake City Weekly (highly recommended), before jumping into the difference between a vocation and a job, the prevelance of fake news and even faker news, the musical geniu...

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich dispense with the Trump talk (so boring) and gardening tips (so out of season) before going deep on the history of booze availability on Election Day and even deeper into the sad state of Salt Lake City and Utah governance, the inflated local housing market that no one can afford (quoth the late Voice of Reason Tom Barberi: “You’ll never really own your hou...

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich try to keep the Trump Talk to a minimum, but the daily trainwreck/dumpster fire/shitshow proves impossible to ignore. But, they soldier on to also discuss important issues like the World Series and unnecessary showboating, a nod to Joe Walsh (the Republican, not the Eagles’ guitarist), the disappearing landmarks of Bingham and elsewhere (remember City Weekl...

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich share their stories and Bingham alum encounters of the Salt Lake City No Kings rally on Saturday (including Dustin Hensel and Marv Hamilton ) and then go deep on the nationwide “Hate America” protests, the Choice of Evils Defense, how No Kings really means No Tyrants, the pencilneck pricks of J6, King Trump’s A.I. shitbomb video, all those “offensive signs”...