Bingham Boys Podcast
by Copperfield Publishing
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 from Highland Boy, and John from Lead Mine.They believe they have a lot to say. binghamboyspodcast.substack.com
Episodes
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Red State Values (50th Episode)
Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas trade Brewers/Cubs MLB jabs before delving into the Greek Word of the Week, John’s new local hero: Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, local zero and sellout Gov. Spencer Cox, a little empathy (very little) for the Trump faithful now in the FO phase of FAFO,...
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Dolly Takes Her Wings
Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas check in on 1981 Chicago before paying much-deserved tribute to the late, great Dolly Parton, then they pour themselves a cup of ambition and discuss the Greek Word of the Week, the possible Greek lineage of Mother Teresa, Trump vs. Canada, Lake America…
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Nothing Good Happens After 10 O'Clock
Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas return from hiatus with stories of the 2026 Association of Alternative Newsmedia conference in Palm Springs (spoiler: John was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his 40+ years of work with Salt Lake City Weekly) before jumping into Ron’s theory...
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The Foot of a Tyrant
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...
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And Now, Sports (w/ Amy Donaldson)
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...
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The LDS vs. The DJT
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...
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The Curse of the Billy Goat
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…
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Meet the Press Club (w/ Randall Carlisle)
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...
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Ballroom Blitz
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…
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Political Picasso
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...
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Pro Bono Publico (w/ Mark Moffat)
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...
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Ball of Confusion (Hey Hey)
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,...
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The Third Marine (w/ Clark Clements)
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...
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No Plan, All Polemics, No Problem
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...
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"What Did You Do In the ICE War, Daddy?"
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...
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Let's Talk About ICE
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...
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Deseret La Migra
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…
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Monkism 101 (w/ Fr. Makarios)
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...
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Make America Boring Again
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...
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From Vietnam to Venezuela
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...
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Let My People Go (w/ Fr. Makarios)
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...
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Attack, Admit Nothing, Claim Victory
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...
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Hegseth: Cosplay Idiot or War Criminal?
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…
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Thanksgiving in Bingham
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...
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Always Finish the Race
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...
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Attn Gov. Cox: FU (Fund Utah)
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…
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A Little Chin Music
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…
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Sign, Sign, Everywhere a (Protest) Sign
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…
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Young Republicans For Hitler?
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…
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Taking a Volta
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...
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Truth Derangement Syndrome ft. John in Crete
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...
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The Ship of State ft. John in Greece
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…
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Don't Mourn, Organize (or, I Don't Want to Be Found Dead In Utah)
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...
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TV, Beer & Our Russian "Friends"
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...
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I'll Hug Your Elephant If You Kiss My Ass
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…
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Where's the Money, Nancy?
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...
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Prick of Conscience
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...
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Pie & Beer & Mom & Pop Media
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...
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Stockton's Last Assist
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…
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No Pencil-Neck Kings
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…
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Oh, Canada! (Happy 51st State Day)
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...
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There's Your Cue, 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...
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Mike Lee Is NEVER Right
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…
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Weddings & Yankees
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...
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The Road to Absolutes
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...
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Seek the Truth, Write the Truth
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...
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We Are the Asteroid
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…
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Make America Good Again
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...
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Chicago Charlie
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,...
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Legerdemain (Premiere Episode)
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…
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About this show
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 from Highland Boy, and John from Lead Mine.They believe they have a lot to say.
binghamboyspodcast.substack.com
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Copperfield Publishing
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