Yeah, that's right. Saturday, 11.04 a.m. July 30th, 2022. How's everybody doing this week?

It is BK here. That's right. Coming at you from San Diego, California, America's finest city.

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Yes, you guys. That's right. I feel pretty comfortable saying that this has got to be the longest running solo veteran hosted weekly news

podcast in the world. Two and a half hours. No breaks. No editing guys. That's never changed since I started it.

And I just realized we're coming. You know, we just passed the six year mark that I've been doing this. That's right.

Podcasts number one recorded on an iPhone in Iraq way back in 2016 when I first kicked this all off.

And you know how things go. I just decided to be like, well, let's see where this goes. And here I am still coming at you six years later.

Hard to believe. But that's right. You guys, nothing's changed. It's still two and a half hours. There's no breaks.

There's no editing. The ab veins are on point as always. The hair is unbelievable right now.

The shoulders are like two bronze bowling balls bulging out of my t shirt. And nobody else is capable of doing this.

They don't have the mental capacity to do it. It's not their fault. Let's go ahead and get started. Let's go to Iraq where there had a bit of an insurrectiony thing going on over

protesters stormed the Iraqi parliament. Now it wasn't that cool. No lawmakers were present when the demonstrators were in the building.

And these demonstrators were mostly followers of our old friend Shiite cleric moktada al-sadr.

Yeah, there was hundreds of them. They breached the parliament on Wednesday chanting anti-Iran curses in a demonstration against a nominee for Prime Minister chosen by the Iran backed parties.

Now, of course, the demonstrators are all men. They were seen walking on tables of the parliament floor going through folders sitting in the chairs of lawmakers and waving Iraqi flags.

And this is kind of raising the stakes in the political struggle of Iraq. This is almost 10 months after federal elections.

So there were no lawmakers, as I said, there were security forces there. They appeared to allow the protesters in with relative ease.

So what was this all about? Well, they were protesting the recent selection of a guy named Mohammed al-Soudani as the official nominee of the coordination framework block. Great name.

That is a coalition led by Iran backed Shiite parties and their allies. This is the largest protest since those federal elections were held last October.

And this is the second time Saadr has used his ability to mobilize masses to send a message to his political rivals this month.

Number earlier in July, he called for a mass prayer and thousands showed up. So hours after his followers occupied parliament, Saadr issued a statement on Twitter.

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