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PODCAST

Bingham Boys Podcast

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.

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59:19

From Vietnam to Venezuela

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2026/01/07

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. Cox and cellphones in schools, America’s decimated press corps, Utah “journalist” Nick Shirley, the Ozark

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72:51

Let My People Go (w/ Fr. Makarios)

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2025/12/24

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 religion,” the modern Moses, and more. Somehow, it’s a 99.9% Trump-free hour—a Christmas miracle!This episode

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57:38

Attack, Admit Nothing, Claim Victory

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2025/12/17

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’s infamous mantra (“Attack, admit nothing, claim victory”—sound familiar?), the

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55:33

Hegseth: Cosplay Idiot or War Criminal?

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2025/12/02

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, FDR’s interment camps (we need Make America Remember Again hats), the Anti-Fascist Sound of Music, Pete

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56:24

Thanksgiving in Bingham

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2025/11/25

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 of X/Twitter, MAGA’s overinvestment in social media “news,” The Great Hack documentary (watch it on

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51:51

Always Finish the Race

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2025/11/11

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 genius of Paul McCartney (with the Beatles and Wings), the tale of “She’s Leaving Home” and how it relates to

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55:23

Attn Gov. Cox: FU (Fund Utah)

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2025/11/04

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 house”), a recommendation to move to Copperton, the Air BnBs of corporations and lobbyists, how to get

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49:32

A Little Chin Music

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2025/10/28

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 Weekly’s unofficial office, Port O’ Call?), respecting American history, the overdue process for wannabe

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48:57

Sign, Sign, Everywhere a (Protest) Sign

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2025/10/21

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” supplied by George Soros, the importance of getting out younger protesters, how Trump lowered the bar on

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47:33

Young Republicans For Hitler?

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2025/10/14

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 contract isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, American citizens afraid of being ICEd for the crime of

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62:51

Taking a Volta

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2025/10/07

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 useless (for talking), the ever-lowering esteem for the USA across Europe, six degrees of Kevin Bacon

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55:12

Truth Derangement Syndrome ft. John in Crete

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2025/09/26

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 of Rhodes, the Greek Word of the Week: Stethoscope, the irony of ICE wrecking MAGA businesses, the

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53:51

The Ship of State ft. John in Greece

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2025/09/09

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 losers, the treatment of Greek traitors vs. the treatment of American traitors, the local availability of

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59:09

Don't Mourn, Organize (or, I Don't Want to Be Found...

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2025/09/03

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 Bingham, pie in the sky capitalism, Donald Trump vs. Chicago, Woody Guthrie vs. Fred Trump, Mike Lee’s

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59:57

TV, Beer & Our Russian "Friends"

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2025/08/19

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 smattering of Trump talk (at least he didn’t give Alaska to Putin … yet), California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s

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57:39

I'll Hug Your Elephant If You Kiss My Ass

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2025/08/12

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 world of theological politics, local Republican Christina Boggess’ “Christ’s Way or the Highway” DEI

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61:09

Where's the Money, Nancy?

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2025/08/05

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 lollipops, the differences between a pardon, amnesty, commutation, and clemency, Trump firing the messenger

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60:32

Prick of Conscience

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2025/07/29

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 Murdoch: Profile In Courage?, the possible arrival of the tipping point, Canada is the new USA, Bill

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63:55

Pie & Beer & Mom & Pop Media

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2025/07/22

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, the “Alligator Alcatrazs” of Utah’s own history, Helen Papanikolas’ Peoples of Utah book, Pioneer Day

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56:17

Stockton's Last Assist

Bingham Boys Podcast ·

2025/07/16

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 but were also planted by Democrats but they’re also no big deal so just shut up about ‘em, the confused

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