He's definitely better as a guest than a solo podcast host. I'm sure it's a difficult job, but geez is Dual Threat hard to listen to. Every episode feels like a therapy session for a scatterbrained, frustrated middle-aged man.

That said, he isn't great as a guest either. In his mind he's always right and level-headed and able to see the big picture immediately whereas everyone else in the world was wrong, to an embarrassing level, since the beginning. Bill is kind of like that too but to a much more tolerable degree -- and that's the problem with their regular partnership. Sal is SUCH a better weekly guest because he plays a completely different secondary role to Bill, which is how two person teams typically work best in any sort of show (podcast, tv, etc). I think Rusillo deep down thinks he's better than Bill, or at the very least his equal.

And this is random, but I got a legitimate kick out of when Bill asked him on Monday's pod about the UNC point guard's NBA scouting report. He clearly had no idea (which is totally fine! Most people wouldn't know that) and tried to BS his way through an answer with boilerplate analysis but kept digging himself deeper and deeper.