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’s prayers for rain, the Big Beautiful Bomb Bill, the curious votes of Rand Paul, Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins, R.I.P. rural hospitals, Trump’s lust for a July 4 photo-op, news deserts, blame-shifting to the media, Communism ≠ Socialism, digging for Trump’s … good? … policies, that Bezos wedding in Venice, Bad Bingham Word of the Week (congrats Mike Evans on winning Utah Beer Festival 2025 tickets), an invitation to meet John and Ron at Copperton Park on the Fourth of July, and more.
John’s Lead Mine house in the late ’60s/early ’70s, “to the left, blue-green, two windows.”
A Getty image (as watermarked) of Bingham in the ’50s. Ron: “I remember when I was a little kid and we’d go occasionally into Bingham when it was really busy, and I thought it was the biggest city in the world. It was just so different than living up in Highland Boy.”
A Salt Lake City neighborhood Canadian flag on Canada Day, July 1, 2025.
The Bingham Boys Podcast info sheet that John and Ron never remember to reference (so here it is).
Recorded and edited by Bill Frost at FrostyCo Studios.
Opening theme “Pawnshop Boogie” courtesy of Steven Wells & Ghostowne.
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