Ball of Confusion (Hey Hey)

And Now, Sports (w/ Amy Donaldson)

Bingham Boys Ron Yengich and John Saltas welcome renowned Utah sports journalist Amy Donaldson [https://www.ksl.com/author/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 audience net, the myths of “only men care about sports” and “women aren’t tough,” womens’ advantage of church ball, a three-way song showdown between “Amie,” “Dirty Water,” and “Paula,” the Italian Word of the Week, and more. * Reminder: Bingham Boys Podcast will be releasing new episodes every other week during the spring/summer season. Recorded and edited by Bill Frost [https://billfrost.substack.com/] at FrostyCo Studios. Opening theme “Pawnshop Boogie” courtesy of Steven Wells & Ghostowne [https://ghostowne.com/]. Bingham Boys Podcast socials: @binghamboyspodcast on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@BinghamBoysPodcast], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/binghamboyspodcast/], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/binghamboyspodcast], Threads [https://www.threads.com/@binghamboyspodcast], and Bluesky [https://binghamboyspodcast.bsky.social/]. Email us at binghamboyspodcast@gmail.com or binghamboyspodcast@substack.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit binghamboyspodcast.substack.com [https://binghamboyspodcast.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

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 Orange Brick Road right up until Team Trump just declared that they aren’t Christians, Mike Lee’s whiny response (and the fact that he actually had any kind of response to Trump), evangelical regret, mockery of the Pope, the proposed Penn Station makeover, the sadly real prospect of a Trump Penile Monument, the 38-and-counting times the Iran War has been “ended,” why the 1976 Bicentennial was far more celebrated that this year’s “Freedom 250,” Ford’s pardon of Nixon, Bill Maher being a weasel (again), Madison Square Garden vs. Trump, better song: Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” or Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love”?, at least the Righteous Gemstones knew their scriptures, better movie: Dustin Hoffman’s The Graduate or Little Big Man?, our Poolboy In Chief, and more. * Reminder: Bingham Boys Podcast will be releasing new episodes every other week during the spring/summer season. Recorded and edited by Bill Frost [https://billfrost.substack.com/] at FrostyCo Studios. Opening theme “Pawnshop Boogie” courtesy of Steven Wells & Ghostowne [https://ghostowne.com/]. Bingham Boys Podcast socials: @binghamboyspodcast on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@BinghamBoysPodcast], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/binghamboyspodcast/], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/binghamboyspodcast], Threads [https://www.threads.com/@binghamboyspodcast], and Bluesky [https://binghamboyspodcast.bsky.social/]. Email us at binghamboyspodcast@gmail.com or binghamboyspodcast@substack.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit binghamboyspodcast.substack.com [https://binghamboyspodcast.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

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 Little Big League (John hasn’t seen one; doesn’t get the other), history repeating, DJT’s reflecting “swimming pool,” Don Jr.’s familial “sacrifices,” past and future Bingham Boys guest Clark Clements [https://binghamboyspodcast.substack.com/p/the-third-marine-w-clark-clements], “Suckers & Losers,” dishonoring veterans, confusing Iraq and Iran (a common mistake these days), no deal vs. no deal, the Orange Fart Machine and the evil love of power, the dead Republican brand, the sane Center, Bingham Boys Book Club: Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower [https://aspectsofhistory.com/book_reviews/sparta-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-ancient-superpower-by-andrew-bayliss/], the handful of Smart Democrats, Kinky Friedman, the Greek Word(s) of the Week, and more. * Reminder: Bingham Boys Podcast will be releasing new episodes every other week during the spring/summer season. Recorded and edited by Bill Frost [https://billfrost.substack.com/] at FrostyCo Studios. Opening theme “Pawnshop Boogie” courtesy of Steven Wells & Ghostowne [https://ghostowne.com/]. Bingham Boys Podcast socials: @binghamboyspodcast on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@BinghamBoysPodcast], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/binghamboyspodcast/], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/binghamboyspodcast], Threads [https://www.threads.com/@binghamboyspodcast], and Bluesky [https://binghamboyspodcast.bsky.social/]. Email us at binghamboyspodcast@gmail.com or binghamboyspodcast@substack.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit binghamboyspodcast.substack.com [https://binghamboyspodcast.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

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 relations, Salt Lake City’s classic watering hole press clubs, today’s idiocy-adjacent Faux News reporting, the Greek Word of the Week, profit-first journalism, the days of just three local TV news stations, Trump’s Reflecting Pool disaster, how alternative newsweekly papers presaged Substack, favorite local women news anchors, the erosion of public trust in media, Ron vs. A.I. (not Allen Iverson), a Boomer response poem, Randall’s daily news diet, the TV news ownership consolidation-to-censorship pipleline, Ron’s (muted) message of hope, and more. * Reminder: Bingham Boys Podcast will be releasing new episodes every other week during the spring/summer season. Recorded and edited by Bill Frost [https://billfrost.substack.com/] at FrostyCo Studios. Opening theme “Pawnshop Boogie” courtesy of Steven Wells & Ghostowne [https://ghostowne.com/]. Bingham Boys Podcast socials: @binghamboyspodcast on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@BinghamBoysPodcast], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/binghamboyspodcast/], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/binghamboyspodcast], Threads [https://www.threads.com/@binghamboyspodcast], and Bluesky [https://binghamboyspodcast.bsky.social/]. Email us at binghamboyspodcast@gmail.com or binghamboyspodcast@substack.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit binghamboyspodcast.substack.com [https://binghamboyspodcast.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

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 Capitol building, Trump’s participation trophies, good money re: the Miller and Eccles families, expectant widow Melania vs. “atrocious” Jimmy Kimmel, the insult-ridden legacy of Rush Limbaugh, conspiracies and ballrooms, the golden dome of dumb, the death of facts, the hypothetical King of the Ashes, chaos is a ladder (quoth Littlefinger), let’s hear about Trump’s accomplishments (… crickets?), and more. Recorded and edited by Bill Frost [https://billfrost.substack.com/] at FrostyCo Studios. Opening theme “Pawnshop Boogie” courtesy of Steven Wells & Ghostowne [https://ghostowne.com/]. Bingham Boys Podcast socials: @binghamboyspodcast on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@BinghamBoysPodcast], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/binghamboyspodcast/], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/binghamboyspodcast], Threads [https://www.threads.com/@binghamboyspodcast], and Bluesky [https://binghamboyspodcast.bsky.social/]. Email us at binghamboyspodcast@gmail.com or binghamboyspodcast@substack.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit binghamboyspodcast.substack.com [https://binghamboyspodcast.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]