Bingham Boys Podcast

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich pitch into Peak Baseball Season with another excursion into the Friday night lights of Bingham sports (including hometown hero and Sports Illustrated cover boy Bruce Hardy) and exorbitant college coaching salaries before getting into the Greek Word(s) of the Week, Trump “The Peacemaker” whining for a Nobel Prize, Everybody Derangement Syndrome, why a verbal...

Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas (who’s back in the studio, tanned, rested, and ready after a month abroad) give a shoutout to Utah Music Radio and local band Sindar before jumping into the final recap of John’s 2025 Greece trip, including Greek beer culture vs. Greek coffee culture, the things you’ll hear as an American tourista, the simple pleasures of taking a volta , how phones are now...

Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas (via the internet from Crete) sit down for a special weekend edition of the podcast to share the further adventures of this year’s City Weekly trip to Greece and talk about the chainification of the USA and (what should be) universal hospitality, what Europeans think of our current president aka “The Orange Ballbag” (spoiler: it ain’t pretty), the Colossus...

Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas (via the interwebs from Athens) take a leisurely walk-through of the 21-year-and-counting annual Salt Lake City Weekly Trip to Greece and discuss Greek history, the delectable combo of ouzo and octopus, the Acropolis, the societal Ship of State we all (used to) live by, how Greek roots = our roots, the country’s curious lack of statues and symbols for loser...

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich return after a week off (apologies for not warning you beforehand) to reminisce about the gypsies of Sugar House, the A-frame Tap Room, and Lumpy’s before delving into that one time when Ron was Pete Seeger’s banjo roadie and post-Labor Day catch-up talk about unions, Joe Hill, the Wobblies, the Strikebreakers, Monkeywrenching, the National Guard in 1912 Bi...

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich wish a happy birthday to television inventor and Manderfield Boy Philo T. Farnsworth, then jump off into the TV Generation, our local TV superstars of yore, today’s fractured news delivery systems, the legend of Helen Wolf, a deep dive on the logistics and perils of the annual Utah Beer Festival, local booze laws and their enforcement (and lack thereof), a...

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich convene in the pod studio to lament the overnight downtown Salt Lake City bar fire that affected White Horse, Whiskey Street, Los Tapatios, and London Belle before they take a deep dive into the history of SLC watering holes (both respectable and notorious) and their Bingham counterparts like the Copper King Bar, and then veer off into the wild and wonky wo...

Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas reminisce about the King Kong-Bingham connection (1930s actress Fay Wray was from Lark, Utah) and the curious ’80s case of dirty SLC cops and their Blue Mouse Theater money stash, then dive into the “unalived” similarities of Marilyn Monroe and Jeffrey Epstein and the power games of the elite, nukes on the White House roof(?), handing out pardons like lolli...

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich go deep in the outfield with some Major League Baseball (Go, Brewers! Sorry, Cubs) and round-ball heroes of Bingham talk before getting down to business with Trump’s none-too-subtle golf cheating, the lost art of sportsmanship, how I Cannot Tell a Lie has devolved into I Cannot Tell the Truth, the 25-cent peep shows of yore, Trump’s short-term wins, Rupert...

Bingham Boys (and star Scouts) Ron Yengich and John Saltas convene on the eve of Pioneer Day to talk about John Dillinger and his Lady In Red (orange, actually), Ghislane Maxwell and The Files, Ron’s Conspiracy 101 lesson, Watergate and the weaponization of courts, the Department of Justice that belongs to neither Trump or Biden, why newsmedia should focus on the victims and not the perpetrators,...

Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich talk about John’s cheese-filled trip to Madison, Wisconsin, for the 2025 Association of Alternative Newsmedia conference before delving into the late, great Frank Layden’s funeral and some inside-basketball Utah Jazz history, the seemingly never-ending clown parade of today’s GOP (Guardians of Pedophiles?), Trump and Jeffrey Epstein files that don’t exist b...

Episode 11 — Recorded July 8, 2025 Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich make some very important birthday announcements before diving into their thankfully politics-free Fourth of July visit to Copperton Park, a remembrance of the Bingham fallen of WWII, the burgeoning Greek cookbook empire of Eleni Saltas (John’s daughter) and how to grow garlic, the … fulfillment? … of Gov. Cox’s rain prayer...

Episode 10 — Recorded July 1, 2025 Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas kid about our northern neighbors joining the US of A on Canada Day, then get into the Fourth of July, Ron’s early baseball career, the wonders of Idaho’s Lava Hot Springs, the parade of horribles getting their hate kicks over fantasy deportation (including Zohran Mamdani and Elon Musk), The Constitution: READ IT, Gov. Cox’...

Episode 9 — Recorded June 24, 2025 Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas are back in the studio together and talking about fire season in Utah, our Purple Mountains Majesty vs. money, Ron’s Minnesota trip and the Milwaukee Brewers, Trump’s Iran bunkerbuster boondoggle (he doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing, either), statesmen vs. hucksters and reality show mentalities, how the USA undermines...

Episode 8 — Recorded June 17, 2025 Bingham Boys John Saltas (via the interwebs) and Ron Yengich revisit the Doppler-Dunning-Kruger Effect and other corrections, then dive into misinformation saturation, Trump’s epic military “perade” failure, the Bingham boys of Vietnam, last weekend’s massive (and tragic) No Kings Day protest in SLC and the importance of making your voice heard, the “peacekeeper”...

Episode 7 — Recorded June 10, 2025 Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich catch up on John’s weekend wedding trip to New York (and subsequent positive Covid test) and delight in Greek nuptials, then launch into the importance of tradition and the Democrats’ ill-advised denial of faith, religion the rise, the great American sport of baseball, Bingham success stories, Ron’s granddaughter Gabrielle...

Episode 6 — Recorded June 3, 2025 Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich don’t recall any public libraries in Bingham, but welcome the podcast’s first-ever guest Gabrielle Nelson (Ron’s granddaughter) to take a deep, deep dive into the banned books of Utah and elsewhere, and then talk a little TACO Trump trash before giving the Sotirious Family of Copperfield and Broadway a heartfelt shoutout. (...

Episode 5 — Recorded May 27, 2025 Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas discuss Memorial Day (formerly Decoration Day) in Bingham and Ron’s eight-cemetery weekend tour, honoring heritage and birthright citizenship, the heinous comeback of internment camps, Hegseth’s erasure of military history (by race), Trump’s embarrassing West Point commencement “speech” before another round of golf, how rea...

Episode 4 — Recorded May 20, 2025 Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich discuss John’s faceplant update, the old days of working in the mines, the House of Joy (a.k.a. prostitution) and opium dens, the SLC to Price crime pipeline, Big Helen, the Western Mining & Railroad Museum in Helper, Ron’s Milwaukee trip and the Grohmann Museum at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, class disparity and li...

Episode 3 — Recorded May 13, 2025 Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich are back (remotely via the interwebs) to take on John’s cycling incident, a phone call from Tomaso, the Bingham Clinic (this week’s sponsor), the legend of Joe Burger, Pope Leo XIV and the Pope Leos before him, the Industrial Revolution vs. humans, Tom Wharton R.I.P., a deep dive into Bingham athletics, obligatory Trump Tal...

Episode 2 — Recorded May 7, 2025 Bingham Boys John Saltas and Ron Yengich return to expound upon the Sunset Tavern (this week’s sponsor), go-go dancers and nude miners, SLC Mayor Mendenhall’s Pride flag F-U, free speech and symbolism, the dishonorable Pope Trump, real journalism vs. fake news, America: Already Great, Gov. Henderson and Cox the Coward, George Washington’s declined third term, Concl...

Introducing the Bingham Boys Podcast, hosted by John Saltas and Ron Yengich. Ron Yengich is a renowned Criminal Defense Attorney, newspaper columnist, and former baseball player. John Saltas is the founder and former publisher of Salt Lake City Weekly newspaper and an ex-blackjack dealer. Both are grandchildren of Ellis Island immigrants who settled in the mining towns of Bingham Canyon, Utah, Ron...