This Mercouris dude has a knack for stretching 10 minutes of information into 75 minutes of video.
I put it on 2X speed.
They all do now. Longer videos give more commercials. Try a video on say, the star Betelgeuse going supernova soon. You will get 10 minutes or more of how supernovas happen even though they’ve explained it a hundred times before and it takes forever to get to the point. And sometimes they never do reveal what the clickbait headlines claimed. YouTube has a real problem with fake clickbait videos.
I used to enjoy some of his podcasts. But when he took the side of Hamas after Oct 7, that really turned me off to that guy.