Ride Home Rants
"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!
Episodes
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 NASCAR roundtable starts: are race car drivers athletes, or is the word “athlete” getting stretched too far? I’m joined by Tony Bogan, Mike Worrell, and Dave Frank to argue it out with real exampl...
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 Wallace University baseball, fresh off another NCAA Division III World Series run, to talk about what actually travels in the postseason: confidence, toughness, and a team culture that holds up when the bounces stop going ...
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, choosing Baldwin Wallace University, and learning what Division III football really demands when you’re fighting for reps at the hardest position on the field.
From there, the conversation turns into the...
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 University, and we start where every serious life conversation should start: mustache loyalty, loud Italian households, and the kind of family stories that never die at Thanksgiving.
Then we shift into the real...
You can learn a lot about leadership from someone who once graduated with a 2.0, started at junior college, and still fought his way to a master’s degree and a long head coaching career. We’re talking with Baldwin Wallace University head wrestling coach Jamie Gibbs, a Division III wrestling staple in Northeast Ohio who’s built his program the hard way: by betting on people, setting a standard, and ...
The Spurs and the Knicks meeting in the NBA Finals sounds like a history book… until you remember the center of it all is a 7’3 force who blocks shots, hits threes, and makes every game plan feel incomplete. We bring the full Ride Home Rants panel back for our yearly Finals preview, starting with some rapid-fire fun and then getting straight into the real question: who controls this series, Victor Wemba...
You ever have a week where the smallest thing feels like a full-contact sport? We’re back to an old school, just-me rant, starting at home where my wife is recovering from surgery and the real challenge is convincing a “go-go-go” person to actually rest. Recovery isn’t just about healing, it’s about patience, boundaries, and trying not to lose your mind when the whole house is out of rh...
College gets expensive fast, and most families are forced to make big decisions with only half the story. We sit down with Rudy Kuntz, a financial aid counselor at Baldwin Wallace University, to talk through what the financial aid process actually looks like from the inside and why it’s rarely just “here’s your number, good luck.”
We dig into Rudy’s path from Cleveland to B...
Fast food opinions get personal fast, and we lean all the way into it. We start with the big four chains and rank Wendy’s, McDonald’s, Burger King, and Arby’s based on what actually keeps people coming back: breakfast consistency, app deals, coupons that save your wallet, and whether the food matches the hype. If you care about McDonald’s breakfast, Wendy’s hit-or-miss streaks, or why B...
The draft is over, the highlight reels are everywhere, and now comes the part that actually matters: figuring out who got better and who just talked themselves into it. We sit down as a panel and break down the biggest NFL Draft storylines coming out of Pittsburgh, starting with the teams everyone is arguing about most. Are the Giants truly set up for a fast turnaround? Did the Browns quietly stack another strong cl...
Being “the guy” in high school feels great until you land in a gym where you’re suddenly the third shortest player and everyone is faster, stronger, and more polished. That’s where this conversation with Kyle Mars, the men’s volleyball coach at Baldwin Wallace University and a former Penn State D1 player, gets real fast.
We talk about Kyle’s path from Rochester, New York to...
A college decision can change your life, but a good campus visit can change your mind even faster. We sit down with Blair Suttles, assistant director for first-year admission at Baldwin Wallace University, to talk about what admissions work actually looks like when it’s done with care. Blair explains how BW coordinates personalized visits that go beyond a standard walking tour, helping prospective students mee...
A season can swing on one awkward landing, one freak play, one practice rep you never see coming and Brad Johnson has lived that reality. Brad joins us from Cleveland as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Baldwin Wallace University, and we get into what it’s like to return to your alma mater with big standards, a young roster, and a year that gets hit early by injuries. We talk through how a staff ke...
A holiday can be loud, crowded, and still feel like rest if you’re with the right people. We sit down for an Easter roundtable and talk about what the day really looks like for us, from staying local around Cleveland to making the trip back to West Virginia to see grandparents, siblings, and the full extended family. Between coaching schedules, school calendars, and work, we dig into the simple truth about Eas...
The Final Four is stacked, the storylines are loud, and the arguments are even louder. We sit down with our “Excellent Eight” roundtable to preview the 2026 NCAA Final Four on Easter weekend and we don’t just pick winners, we dig into why these matchups feel like a collision of eras: UConn vs Illinois and Arizona vs Michigan, with the title game waiting on Easter Monday.
We start with the qu...
College doesn’t feel like a community by accident. It takes people behind the scenes who obsess over the details, fight for student leadership opportunities, and turn “a campus” into a place students actually belong.
We sit down with Heather Willis, Assistant Director for Engagement at Case Western Reserve University, to talk about the real work of student affairs and student engagement. Hea...
The MLB 2026 season is almost here, and we’re not waiting for the standings to tell us what to think. We kick things off with a real fan question that turns into a bigger debate: is 162 games still the right length when the MLB playoff format keeps expanding and October weather starts changing how the sport looks on TV and in the ballpark? From freezing April nights to the idea of starting closer to May, we ge...
St. Patrick’s Day hits different depending on where you live, who you’re with, and whether you’re celebrating on a Tuesday or turning the whole weekend into a mission. We bring in our “big three” roundtable crew Mister Askew, Collin Pope, and Dave Frank to talk all things green, all things Irish, and all the little choices that make the day legendary (or just messy).
We start wit...
Ever wonder which sponsors are worth your time—and which ones we actually use? We open the garage and pull every tool off the shelf: the golf gloves that came from a college teammate’s hustle, the beard oil a touring comic perfected, the veteran-built shirts with a purpose, the cheeky golf gear that keeps rounds fun, and a ranch-born hat brand preaching the art of being a straight shooter. This is a behi...
A shoulder injury changed the plan, but not the passion. We sit down with Baldwin Wallace defensive coordinator Ethan Nichol to unpack how a would-be sports broadcaster became a college coach, why a cross-country move to Wyoming collided with COVID, and how a family-first choice brought him back to Ohio—and into a program built on grit and continuity.
Ethan shares the apprenticeship years at Heidelberg,...
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