I sort of agree, and have said so, Where we disagree on this is I don't see him as mooching, but trying to make money honestly in a venue filled with mostly younger people and with no great support staff. He does not have great technicians. He is not looking for free stuff though, I think he has put money out of his own pocket into tis.

As for the quality , it varies in consistency. He has a great show, then 2 stiffs in a row. He needs a Bruce Cutler as a guest, John Gotti Jr may have been a great guest if he had agreed to do the show, but Merlino went off on him, so that is off the table. Merlino has to get into exposing biased judges, as he had in his early shows,

The best episode may have been where he exposed that rat John Rubeo as not only a fake (Rubeo tried to entrap Merlino) but showed how Rubeo and Borrello openly bragged on a podcast about how the FBI allowed him to get away with so many crimes he was making tons of illegal money through crimes, which he had never done before. Rubeo laughed with Borrello about how the FBI was getting him off and looking the other way on anything he did!
That show was great, but it was ignored by people on sites like this,