comedy
Hosted by Mike Bono · comedy · EN-US
"Ride Home Rants" is a podcast brought to you by Comedian Mike "Bono" Bonaventura. The podcast has a different guest each week from a different career field and background talking about what led them into their career and the stops along the way. These guests are your everyday people who provide insight into their own journeys and life goals which we all have. Tune in, check us out, and hear from these great guests!
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Signup to Generate a Pitch"Ride Home Rants" is a podcast brought to you by Comedian Mike "Bono" Bonaventura. The podcast has a different guest each week from a different career field and background talking about what led them into their career and the stops along the way.
Ride Home Rants is hosted by Mike Bono. The show has published 322 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Halloween Costumes, Candy Rankings, And Spooky Season Debates" (28 October 2026, 39 minutes), "Brewers Vs Rays World Series Preview" (23 October 2026, 47 minutes), and "NBA Season Forecast" (17 October 2026, 50 minutes).
Ride Home Rants publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 50 minutes across 322 episodes.
Booking probability for Ride Home Rants is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Ride Home Rants requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Ride Home Rants's contact route on record: verified email.
Mike Bono hosts Ride Home Rants, a comedy podcast with 322 episodes published.
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Episode #319
Send us Fan Mail Halloween brings out everybody’s strongest opinions, so we pulled up with a full panel and let it fly. I’m Mike Bono, and Rusty, JJ, and Mister join me for our annual Halloween roundtable, starting with...
Episode #318
Send us Fan Mail A Brewers vs Rays World Series for a first-time championship sounds like a baseball purist’s dream, but it also raises a real question: how do teams without constant hype keep ending up on the biggest...
Episode #317
Send us Fan Mail The NBA season is almost here, and we’re not easing into it. We’re going straight to the arguments that every fan ends up having anyway: who are the best three NBA players right now, what “face of the...
Episode #316
Send us Fan Mail John Rambo doesn’t just survive movies, he survives arguments. We sit down for a loud, honest roundtable on the full Rambo film series and get into the questions action fans actually care about: which...
Episode #315
Send us Fan Mail Theme parks bring out the best opinions because everyone remembers their first big coaster, their worst line, and the one food bill that made them pause. We sit down with Wendy, TJ, and Rudy to talk...
Episode #314
Send us Fan Mail Fall brings out everyone’s strongest opinions, and we lean all the way into it. We start with the important questions that somehow reveal everything about a person: pens or pencils, and beer from a...
Episode #213
Send us Fan Mail You can learn a lot about higher education by listening to the people who live the college admissions grind every week. I sit down with Madison Federman, an undergraduate admissions counselor at Baldwin...
Episode #312
Send us Fan Mail The NFL season is back, and we’re doing what fans actually do best: making bold predictions and daring each other to call them ridiculous. I’m joined by our yearly roundtable Mike, Tony Bogan, Bill...
Episode #311
Send us Fan Mail MySpace made you pick a top eight and live with the consequences, AIM away messages were basically therapy, and if you missed one turn on your MapQuest printout your whole night was over. We’re throwing...
Episode #310
Send us Fan Mail County fairs are supposed to be simple, so why do they spark such strong opinions? We jump into a fast, funny roundtable on everything that makes a county fair worth the heat, the crowds, and the...
Episode #309
Send us Fan Mail One question can instantly time-travel any wrestling fan: WWF or WCW? We sit down with a full panel and let the memories fly, from Hulk Hogan’s era-defining run to Stone Cold’s anti-hero peak, Rey...
Episode #308
Send us Fan Mail Boxing arguments never stay polite for long, and that’s exactly what makes this roundtable so fun. We sit down and go straight from laughs to legacy: who we grew up watching, why certain fighters still...
Episode #307
Send us Fan Mail Road trips sound romantic until you’re 18.5 hours deep, your exit disappears behind construction, and the weather turns on you. We sit down and trade the kinds of travel stories you only earn with...
Episode #306
Send us Fan Mail Friday nights are almost here, and we wanted a real high school football season preview from people who live it. I’m joined by a roundtable of coaches and media to talk through what actually shapes a...
Episode #305
Send us Fan Mail Family Guy has been called “too much” for more than two decades and somehow that’s part of the point. We sit down with a full panel to talk through why Seth MacFarlane’s animated chaos machine is still...
Episode #304
Send us Fan Mail Shaving can be the fastest way to look put together or the fastest way to wreck your skin. We sit down with Brandon Wiley and JJ Phillips to talk beards, bald head maintenance, and the small grooming...
Episode #303
Send us Fan Mail 200 mph sounds fun until you remember it can be 140 degrees inside the car, your cool suit might fail, and you have to stay laser-focused for four straight hours with zero timeouts. That’s where our...
Episode #302
Send us Fan Mail A baseball season can feel like a coin flip until you hear how a veteran coach prepares for the moments when the game gets weird. I sit down with Brian Harrison, the longtime head coach at Baldwin...
Episode #301
Send us Fan Mail A quarterback journey rarely goes the way you draw it up, and Andrew Zimmerman proves it. We sit down and trace his path from growing up in Chesterton, Indiana to chasing college football opportunities...
Episode #300
Send us Fan Mail You can learn a lot about someone from the way they talk about family, food, and the job they chose when nobody was watching. I’m joined by Dom Baglier, an admissions counselor at Baldwin Wallace...
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former mission president of the Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Mission, U.S. Naval Academy and Johns Hopkins University
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Chair & V.P. Complex Risk and Trade Credit at Hub Intl, Component Repair Technologies
Executive Director of the Lemelson Foundation, J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company
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