We're here today with the Afghan files whistleblower, David McBride, who is facing a lifetime in jail for doing the right thing by exposing war crimes by Australian troops in Afghanistan. David, thanks for agreeing to chat with us. Can you give us a bit of background to start on what you're actually facing in terms of your prosecution at the moment? Well, you're right, they said. I'm facing a possible lifetime imprisonment. There's actually an unlimited upper limit, so I could die in jail. I'm in my late 50s now. Even if they say, well, you could have got 200 years, we're only going to give you 20. That's obviously, it's a big thing.  I don't feel sorry for myself. This is something I've gone into with my eyes wide open. I believe it's an issue that needs to be sorted for Australia's future. And I'm proud to stand up what I believe. And if I've committed a crime, I'll go to jail. I'm all about the rule of law. So I'm not trying to get sympathy. I'm trying to get justice. And your situation in some respects mirrors that of a number of Australians who have acted on principle and have come out and said this is wrong in their various professions and have been persecuted for it. We have witness Kay and Bernard Kaleri. We have, of course, Julian Assange, the most globally recognised of this type of prosecution. We have Richard Boyle who took on the ATO. There are a number of Australians. How would your situation, do you think, differ from theirs? It's very similar, and there's more similarities and differences. And the key thing, this is why my case is so important. We need to work out whether it's OK, whether the government can say it's illegal to report government crime. Now, they have a bare majority. They can do that. I believe if they can do that, there's no reason why they can't pass the law to say it's illegal to vote for anybody but us. I think that's wrong. I think it doesn't matter whether Parliament has passed a law legislation. If it's fundamentally goes against the spirit of democracy, it cannot be law. I don't think you can ever make it illegal to report government wrongdoing. And that's what my case is all about. So, can you tell us, just give us a background, a bit of a briefing on the timeline and what actually happened in terms of your involvement in the armed forces in Afghanistan that happened subsequently that brought you to this position that's been going on for a decade? One of the similarities that I have with the ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle and Bernard Caleri that were the cases that you mentioned, and in fact, Jeff Morris, the Commonwealth Bank whistleblower, is that we were all actually relatively conservative-minded people who believed in the rule of law and believed in doing our job. That's one of the misconceptions that whistleblowers are activists or bomb throwers, generally where people very much believe in doing the right thing. We believe the propaganda that actually the government is good and the government files a law. And when we see something wrong, we think that it's actually our job to speak up. I have a very sort of blue-chip background. I can't deny it. I'm from a wealthy family. I went to a good school in Sydney. I joined the British military first. I went to Santerst. I went to Oxford University. I was never like Julian Assange. I was never sort of against the Americans. I was never against the British. I really believed in the rule of law. I did a tour of operations in Northern Ireland. Looking back, I was a barrister in Sydney and I joined... I found the law a little bit too... It lacked the public service that I wanted. And I rejoined the Australian Army at my wife's suggestion. But this time as a lawyer, before I was just a soldier, but as a lawyer. And I found that the perfect combination of what was important to me, I was half lawyer, half soldier, half defending the country, using my legal brain. I had a good career. I did two tours of Afghanistan and not everybody gets elected to go to Afghanistan. I became increasingly concerned that we were talking the talk and not walking the walk. We had a case in 2009 where we killed five children. And there was a trial, but the trial was axed before it got to court. And I think as a result of conservative pressure, I began to realise or suspect that polling and public perception was really running the war in the sense that even if someone had murdered five children, in this case, if it was... You were going to lose votes by having a trial, there would be no trial. And that's been borne out in England.  We made heroes of people who weren't heroes. We made villains of people that weren't villains. And that's one of the important things. While I'm known as the sort of war crimes whistleblower, it first started because I could see that good soldiers were being scapegoated for just doing their jobs because the political winds had changed and they needed scapegoats. So they found some scapegoats. It's a bit like the NRL analogy where some famous players get into trouble but you don't want them to go down because the club is going to go down. So you find some 19-year-old new recruits and you make an example of them because that won't affect the club's bank balance. And there was more and more of that going on. I think one of the best illustrations of what I was talking about happened recently when the Afghan nation that we built or the government that we built collapsed in a heap days after Americans left.  For 20 years we said it was going well publicly. Everyone in the military knew it wasn't. And it showed that we were pumping out things that had no relation to the truth. And that in itself was a crime. We were fooling the Australian public. We were lying to the Australian public saying everything was going well. Our allies were often criminals, drug dealers, pedophiles. But we pretended that they weren't in order to sell a good news message. It was a bit like, and your viewers will understand this, it was a bit like the war was a huge military enron and that we were putting out good news information and things that were going well. But it was a house of cards up a Tenton village which was about to fall down. I could see that in all sorts of levels. We were putting out PowerPoint to say, oh, look how well we're doing when it had no bearing on the truth. We were showering medals on people who were murderers. And we knew that. And occasionally we'd make a scapegoat of someone who was just doing their job. So it was a big problem. It was hard to get people interested because it just sounds too big and you would have this as well. I mean, if you start to talk to someone about it, especially when I was a true believer and I believe the whole stuff, I still do. I still do believe that democracy is good and we should be fighting for freedom. All of that stuff is good. It sounds good. But when you began to see the seamy side of it, it's a bit like a police force which has become corrupted. You become quite revolted.  But I don't. I love the American people. I think that their government and our government have been hijacked by some of the most cynical people and they use patriotism. They use words like freedom and democracy in order to sell a product which is not the product that we're actually getting. Talking about the selling products, the opium trade obviously didn't stop so that was still a huge source of income and the spectacular collapse and the Taliban coming back after 20 years and then as you say, it evinced the failure of the nation-building thing. But just on that opium trade thing, was it interrupted during the time or was it just allowed to continue? I'm glad you mentioned it. Has there been any change? This is one of the things which illustrates how topsy-turvy our worldview was or the propaganda. I was privileged enough to go to Afghanistan in the year 2000 when the Taliban were running. I travelled all around. We were making a travel documentary. And being a former soldier, even though the Taliban were already demonised around the world, I had some sympathy for them. I knew that they were an amateur government and I knew that they were a product of the Civil War and the Russian in 20 years of terrible things. So the Taliban actually destroyed the heroin poppy because they decided, Mullah Omar decided it was un-Islamic and that people with addicts were bad, Afghan addicts were dying. And he probably didn't think it was good for American kids to be dying either. So they actually destroyed it. They were desperate for money. They had thousands of people dying of famine, but they still destroyed the poppy. And I know that because we drove around and we saw all the fields and they were the sort of people, if they said something, they did it. They weren't like us. And yeah, when we came back from 2000, the terrible thing was we put in Hamid Karzai's brother and family and they started growing it again. And because they were anti-Taliban or on our side, they were allowed to grow. But we also had terrible wheels within wheels where we killed a lot of poppy growers.  And that was against international war. But the Americans just decided, as they do, with their very questionable interpretations of international war to say, if you're growing poppy, you're going to give the money to the Taliban.  That's wrong. And that was actually murder. But the Australians were involved in a lot. This is one thing that hasn't come out yet. We're involved in what they called a lot of anti-Nexus operations where we just killed poppy growers and it was illegal. And nobody within the Australian, rather, had enough backbone to say, are we sure we can just kill people for growing poppy? And it's particularly ironic and disgusting to me because I did years and years of training both at law school in Oxford and in the military. And I knew that that wasn't right. I knew that you couldn't kill people for being even involved in organized crime. You couldn't just make that connection and say, oh, well, you must be part of an insurgency, not necessarily. And they don't, you can't just do the death threat. But they've got away with that. And the poppies come back. And there is credible evidence that the CIA are involved growing of the poppy. So it's become so disgusting. We try to paint the Taliban as these evil people. And there was a lot of propaganda that said they were behind the poppy and whatever. Actually, the opposite was true. For all their kind of medieval ideas, they didn't, they killed the poppy. They thought it was kind of evil. And when we came back, it was their toxic nationality that we were right and they were wrong, meant that we grew poppy. We used the money for ourselves. We got allies who were openly pedophiles, openly murderers. We would engage with anybody as long as they would be on our side. And it made me, it still makes my skin crawl now as I'm saying it, particularly for someone who grew up as such an idealist. I began to see that we were the bad guys. We were full of it. We said the stars and stripes and we talked about democracy, but we were drug dealers. We were poppy growers. Well, we were murderers. We did Abu Ghraib, which had no, no one high up got punished. We cynically did Guantanamo Bay. And they actually came, they said, oh, well, if we bring these prisoners back to America, they're going to have rights. Even if we hit them in Afghanistan, they're going to have some rights. But if we bring them to some place which has a questionable legal status, we can torture them. And the rendition was the same. We can't bring them back to America and torture them. We'll take them to Kazakhstan and we'll pay them, you know, a couple of billion dollars so we can torture them in Kazakhstan. That's our allies. That goes against all the training I had. And I was repulsed by it. And the more I looked into it, I actually started it relatively small. And this is a point worth making as well as I didn't go straight to the media. I wrote a very diplomatically worded 20-page document with 400 attachments. This was in what year? This was in 2014. After my 2013 deployment where they threatened to arrest me because they said, you know, I was obstructive justice, but I was actually standing up for some soldiers who were being made scapegoats. I said, you've got to apply. Simply, I just said, we have got to apply the law in investigating SAS people. By this stage in 2013, the winds had changed and they were looking for some SAS scapegoats, I believe. And they were trying to put some people on trial for murder who had simply just done their job and may have shot someone by mistake in the heat of battle, but they had not committed a murder. But the military brass was so cynical, they needed someone to go to jail and they were looking. And I stood up for this guy and said no. I didn't say he was innocent. I said, we just need to apply the law. And they tried to put me in jail for that. And that made me think this is a strange thing. What charge did they try to make? Obstruction of justice. And that was never going to work. I just laughed. They had a bit like you did with your defamation. I was like, how can a lawyer be guilty of obstruction of justice by giving a legal opinion? You know, you might have a different legal opinion. But if you don't want a lawyer to give a legal opinion, why do you send them to the battle space anyway? But I began to see the reality of the military structure. And it wasn't about... They have lawyers just for show. It wasn't really a... They didn't expect me to follow the law and help SAS soldiers. They wanted me to follow orders. And if the politicians wanted a scalp, they wanted me to bring them a scalp. And I didn't like that. And when I got back, I wrote a 20-page complaint. Internal complaint, not even a complaint. Because, you know, it's a very hierarchical structure. And you lose your job for being rude to a senior officer. And they can actually... It's something called insubordination, which just means having an attitude and put you in jail. So I couldn't have an attitude. I wrote this thing and I did it in my spare time. And it took me months and months and months. And now even when I read it back, I'm quite impressed by it. I even saw the AFP. I contacted the AFP hotline and I said, I think there's something wrong in the defence force and that we don't follow our own laws. And we do it deliberately. And if nothing else, it's a spending offence because you're only meant to spend money on legitimate goals of an apartment. That is fighting the war. But we were spending money on false media messages, which is not fighting the war. And we were spending money on scapegoating people again, which is not fighting the war. And it was because they've worked out that if the electorate likes the military, they will tend to reelect the incumbent government. And so they were important. It was important for them to the electorate to like the military. So they were spending money. It was a way to get around election advertising or spending a lot of money on making the military likeable, regardless of the facts. And so I said, even if it's just on a pure spending law, we need to have a look at this. So the AFP fought me off. They said, if the government doesn't, it can't be illegal, basically. And they said, anyway, you've got your own military police and if there's anything wrong, they will find out. So the military police work for the generals. They're not going to investigate their own generals. So don't expect them to do anything. And they were like, yeah, they were quite good. I mean, they weren't evil, but they were just like, yeah, that's a bad world we live in. The government can do what they want. So anyway, I wrote this long internal complaint and I was trying to say that we need to follow the law. We can't just scapegoat people one day, lionize people the next. If there's an allegation of murder against a famous person, well, you have to look into it. We've got to carry it. And at that time, I was still a true believer and I was hoping they'd come back to me and say, with a deep breath, they'd say, look, you're right. We're fighting a war. We've got to carry away. And yeah, we did start to run a bit fast and loose with things. So I was trying to draw the analogy to say, if the military are allowed to continue in life and murder for political purposes, where's it going to end?  You know, there's no difference. There's no legal difference between doing those things. We can't mislead the Australian public and it's all very well to say, oh, we'd never do that. But the military don't think that way. And if you say to them, it's all right to kill people and lie about it, they're going to continue to do it until you tell them it's not. And it was a worrying thing. So I tried to make this point as diplomatically as I could. I still had a career at that stage. And although it was rapidly that was going down the tubes because I was seen as a trouble, you know, people couldn't, I was surprised, and you might find this, I was surprised how many people ran for cover and couldn't believe that I wanted to make trouble. Even at this stage, it was just a relatively polite letter saying, you sure we don't want to have a second look at this. And at the time I was prepared for them to say, yeah, yeah, I can see your point. And I thought I might get a pat on the back and maybe who knows, maybe even a promotion for doing what, taking that hardcore. It happens in corporations too. Precisely this slide is to be somebody being deemed to be not part of the team. But yeah, a troublemaker, of course that can, either they buckle under and put up with it or, but in your case, of course you didn't. You continued to do what you thought was the right thing. Well, it took them a whole year to decide and they eventually came back with it. As I expected, this is one of the frustrating things about being a military lawyer, is that one of your bread and butter jobs is putting down complaints. So I kind of knew how they were going to handle it exactly the way I would have handled it, draw it out, write a very long response and say, on balance, we've decided he's got no case. Which of course is what they did. But I still had to go through that motion. I knew I wouldn't get any sympathy if I went straight to the press and I didn't really want to. I was still very much, I wanted to stay in the military. It was the perfect job for me. Half lawyer, half soldier. So it was quite, it was a very hard time for me. I searched for what I was going to do. I did, in 2014 I spoke to Chris Masters. I chose, well it's a little bit of the universe. I didn't know his full history when I chose him. I knew he was a relatively conservative guy who wrote positive things about the military. He'd been to Afghanistan. So I thought he would care. I thought he'd say, look we escaped getting SAS people when they don't deserve to be. And I think that the reason we're doing that is to cover up some really serious crimes by his famous people. He seemed to get it. And I'm not ashamed of speaking to him. I might go to jail for speaking to him. But I'm not ashamed of it. He was a bit like the Watergate affair and it wasn't going to fix itself without the media. I tried to ask the military to fix themselves. They weren't going to do it. You went through the proper whistleblower channels. I went through the channels. And actually under the act, the Public Injustice Disclosure Act, you are allowed to go to the media if you make a complaint and then the complaint is filed off. And I waited over a year and they filed it off eventually and got no grounds. And then I started going to people like Masters who were very responsible. And this is one of the annoying things. It's not like I went to the Chinese. I got a sold secret. So I had a top secret security clearance. Access to a lot of things. It could have got me a lot of money if I wanted that way. I didn't want that. I went to a very responsible journalist who I thought like Bernstein and Woodward could really start asking more questions and get some action, which is what I really wanted. The problem with all this, it's not about me having attention about them not doing what I wanted. If the military is corrupt, if the military doesn't do what it says it's doing and doesn't spend money the way it's meant to, Australia is not protected. And that bothered me. As a lifetime soldier, that bothered me to say, we're not even protecting the country. We're pretending to protect the country. But if this present government fought the Chinese as they seem determined to do, they would consider it acceptable if Darwin was totally bombed by getting a green screen of Darwin, Dutton, and standing there going, Darwin is safe. Get some soldiers. That's how they fight wars with phony stuff. I don't really care about what happens. I don't care whether you... I don't think they care how many civilians got killed as long as no one found out. It was all about public opinion. And that bothered me. That really bothered me, because not only was it wrong, we weren't going to win your wars. Did you know, though, what sort of apprehension did you have? What sort of feeling did you have that you're taking this next move to release the information more broadly in the public interest and the national interest? Indeed, would end up... You must have known the risk of rolling the dice on this. Yeah, I did. And that's why I don't want sympathy. But it never occurred to me. I never had any fear. The journalists always said... They were to be fair to me. They always said, you understand that you've been the frame for this. And I can understand... I guess that shows you the sort of disconnection between being an investigative journalist and their brave people. They do a good job and actually being a soldier. They didn't really want to go to jail for doing their job, which is fair enough. They're exposed to career-wise. Yeah, they're exposed. Yeah, and I get that. But I was a soldier and I was... The reality...  If you don't like that, you shouldn't be a soldier. And I was so angry by what I saw as the absolute trashing of everything we were meant to stand for. But I was like, bring it on. You know, I don't care about going to jail. I just want justice. It was a bit... I was a bit like Rambo in the sense that I was so angry about what we'd become. Because even from the early days, I saw the hell... They said, you know, I said, look, I'll do a bloody public appearance in my uniform if necessary, if I think it's going to achieve something. Oh, I don't want to self... The only reason I needed to sort of stay out of jail for as long as I could is I needed to win the case. And I wasn't going to win the case of a jail cell. But I certainly was never afraid of that. And that's because I was a true believer in Australia. I was a true believer in democracy. I was a true believer in America. And I was so angry when I saw that it was... We were increasingly becoming a nation of car salesmen and it's unfair to car salesmen. But the worst kind of con man... And I was angry. I wanted it fixed. And that conviction, the rule of law, stays today doesn't, because you're not contesting that if they want to hold these trials, the David McBride trial in secret, in camera, you're not contesting that. You're saying, well, if that's the case, you've still got a reasonable view of the judiciary and that they will come up and make the right decision in the case. Is that a... Well, that's the case. I wasn't even going to get lawyers to begin with. I'm satisfied. I've been treated very fairly by the AFP, by the Crown prosecutors, by all the Canberra judges and magistrates I've appeared before. I can't speak highly enough of them. They've been so good. I've got no fear of the judiciary. And if we have to have a secret trial, a judge-alone trial, I say that's fine. I'm about... From the very beginning against all the legal advice I had, I spoke to the police. I said, yes, I gave the documents over. I don't want the case to be run about whether I gave the documents. I did. I did it because I was justified. I did it because I think that in certain circumstances, like a holocaust or whatever, you must be justified in speaking to the press. And it'll be a question of fact about whether the circumstances were bad enough. But I'm happy to have that issue ventilated and happy to have that issue judged. But you didn't pass on operational things. So there's no operational things at risk here. This was about historical things that had happened about breaking the law, basically. The government, and that's where I get angry. All the judicial people have been fantastic. The government has been totally disgusting in that regard. And they know there's no operational... You know, if someone murdered someone on a hill in Afghanistan 10 years ago, that's not national security information. That's just a crime. And the idea that that would somehow endanger us to the Chinese, it's just disgusting BS. It's not national security information. That a crime occurred and a child was murdered and it was covered up by a government official. That's a crime. And people need to speak. And no matter... They could execute me. But I will never say that it's OK for the government to stop people talking about murders of children by soldiers because the government say it is. You know, that's wrong. Just another issue here in the aftermath of Afghanistan since the withdrawal. Of course, the people that are sticklers for in there in the first place and our conduct was fine. They're basically the people, the promoters of it. They're now saying that women are in danger. Now, is that the case? Because this is the...obviously, you know, from the conservative side with Vietnam or the refusal to embrace the fact that it was a complete farce and that many people died unnecessarily. In that case, millions. And then Iraq, of course. Organis, of course, continue to find justification. And it seems to me that the central justification is now that we are trying to do the right thing for women. The Taliban are going to be bad for women. In fact, they haven't got a great track record on women and masking. What is your view about the Taliban women? You must have got a reasonable feel for it while you were there. That's all a crock. The only reason they even say that is because they know it's likable. One of the things I used to do as a military lawyer was sign off from what they call information operations, PSY OPS operations, which is false information we put out in order to win the war, whatever that might be. Of course, it's a bit like the murders and covering up. It's been abused. So it's like you might have seen in the Syrian war when fighting ISIS there were things on social media about here's pictures of ISIS killing a gay person.  And as someone has been involved in those, you can see that that's a fake photo.  It's convenient to win the progressives over to the war. We will make up stuff to win progressive votes or win conservative votes. And indeed, just to get consent, national consent for the war. And if you asked an Afghan girl what they most want, they would say, not to be killed by an American bomb. Thank you very much.   He doesn't care about Afghan women and girls any more than he cares about Texan women and girls. He cares about saying something which will touch a chord. We killed so many Afghan women and girls and we continue to. And there's no justification for starting a war because you're worried about the human rights. That is, it's a whole new level of cynicism to show that we weren't in the war to help Afghan women's war. We were there for all sorts of reasons, mainly for revenge, mainly to win elections. We didn't care how many people were killed. And Afghan women and girls, if they're honest, can't stand George W. Bush and his phony sentiment and anybody else that kind of says the same thing. They know that we don't really care about Afghans. That is something that we used to sell a product, which was a war, which was run for political purposes. So tell me we're up to exactly now. Now, you've had the proceedings delayed for another year or something. You've got this hanging over your head until the kickoff isn't even until another year or something. It's not even really kickoff. It's pre-season in the sense that there's a first, there's an original trial, a pre-trial, about whether or not I'm protected under the public interest disclosure rate, which is an act which you would expect, judging by the name, is out there to protect people who do public interest disclosure. And they've already admitted that there was a public interest because they've dropped the, well, they've decided not to continue with the charges against the ABC journalists. And the reason that they gave was because it was a public interest story and they don't prosecute people for public interest stories. Right. Okay, so that's on the record that they know it was a public interest story and you think I'd be protected by the act. But the public interest disclosure rate is a bit like the Fair Work Act. It seems to be the opposite to what it actually proclaims to me.  And not even now we've got this ridiculous Kafka situation where the government has admitted the act is pretty hopeless and needs to be rewritten, but I'm still going to go trial under the old act. Go figure. You know, taxpayer money, not their money, why not? And I would rather just go straight to the jury trial. It's going to be a jury trial. God knows how they're going to have a secret, top secret jury trial. Imagine everybody in the jury might be... They've all got security clearances. It might be a very conservative pool, as you might say. But they need to have security clearances. Well, it's all... If the government... The government are going to be hoist on their own patata, certainly, one hand they're saying, this is all super, super, super, you know, information. And the other hand they're going to have to find 12 people who can hear super-duper information who don't work for the government or maybe they do. So the jury selection process is interesting, wouldn't it? It's going to... And they're going to... Even if they get people from the street, they're going to have to... They're going to have to give them security classifications. And it's going to make them a mockery of the idea that the information was that secret, if they're going to pick people out of suburban cameras. The security clearance to get to my level takes two years. You have to ask all sorts of questions, look at your bank details, find out about the sexual past, find out about the hotel you're spending. So it's just a ridiculous idea. And of course, but the government don't want to have to admit that it's really not. The information wasn't really, you know, it was about murders, it was about crimes. It's not actually about our secrets, you know. So it seems that the government's playing a drag it out type of game. Yeah. Yeah. It's so often the case with whistleblowers that they like to make an example of a lot of problems in somebody's life and the life of their family and their children and everybody. Yeah. That sets an example. Don't go blowing the whistle.  And we touched on it. And they like to think, and this is my message to the people who worked for the Attorney General's Department and the Australian government.  My mother was 92 and she was trying to hang in here for the end of my trial. And she's recently passed away last week.   So to the AGs, and you are the bad guys. My father died after I was on the run when he died. It wasn't actually charged. I couldn't go to his funeral because I knew I'd get arrested. You know, we are basically a pretty good Australian family.  Then it's not like two equally matched sporting teams fighting each other. They are pretty bad. And if you work for the government on this, they wouldn't say it out loud, but they would be happy for my children and for myself harm, for me to self harm. They really want to destroy me and they think that that's part of the job. Now I say it's not. That's not the Australia I grew up in. Well, it's certainly the case with Assange who's effectively been tortured via his incarceration, isn't it? So it's part of the playbook. There's no doubt about that. It's part of the playbook and they think that it's clever but it's not great. No, but it's extreme pressure on people. It certainly seems to be part of the playbook. Now what about the other proceedings then? What are the other acts that they're pursuing you on? Well, there's a whole lot of acts. I don't read them too much. One thing that's in my favour is it's not a pure official secrets act and it's not like the simple act of giving documents to the ABC is not enough. There's a gap in legislation. I'm charged under the Defence Act with an oldy-worldy thing which says I gave information to people that weren't entitled to it and it wasn't my duty to do so. Now I love that flash phrase because I want to run the case on the idea that it exactly was my duty. I had a practicing certificate as a lawyer. I was a military officer who went to the military schools where they talk about honour and ethics and moral courage. You meant to have moral courage. It's one of the sort of touchstones of the Australian Defence Wars and I reckon I did exactly what I was meant to do. Which you'll be able to say in court. I want to have that judged in court. Did he do his duty or did he not? What is a public servant's duty when they see the wrongdoing? In a public sense, the media coverage of this and the fact that you went public intrepidly gave you positive coverage generally. How have you seen the media cover it since then and you've decided to keep it in the public domain rather than keep it lawyer-to-lawyer because you feel that you've got a better chance of justice or because you're doing the right thing by talking about these issues publicly? It's always a gamble and I have a lot of Archie with my lawyer who is an ex-newsman. He knows a lot about it. My attitude is I have my fingers burnt a few times and my attitude is I'll speak to anyone at any time. That's a bit of a gamble and I've had a bit of beginner's luck. I got set up once by a piece in the City Morning Hell and I think the guy had been he was a defense writer and he was quite clever and this is what it was quite a good illustration about a clever hatchet job. He said a lot of sort of relatively hard paragraphs but he put the boot in and if you file paragraphs if a judge or someone was reading it he implied that I was a little bit unbalanced that I was a little bit wound up a bit too tight and just did it subtly so I got my fingers burnt on that one. Luckily people don't read things very closely even though I was very angry about it most people were like good article and he came across very well and there was something in there about me biting someone's finger off and they were like that's fucking great but it's interesting how people don't really read stuff but I think it's been helpful the Twitter has been really good for me I need to sing your praises because the independent media is so powerful and you could easily be the best intention person in the world to be drawn pretty quickly because there's no guarantee the mainstream media will help you and they might and I haven't been treated particularly badly but they there's a lot of sensitive to government sensibilities well I think certain journalists mention the particular papers but I think certain journalists have a lot of personal sympathy with me the government is a huge advertiser in the Australian and they don't want to piss the government off the first time it was covered I spoke to a journalist in a very positive fashion and all said I was charged with theft famous lawyer charged with theft and even though we talked about all the major issues and they have done some very good things for me they have covered what I you can't get everything I mean there's so many wheels in the wheels the Australian have covered the fact that the leadership have got questions to answer which I like and I'm very grateful for them doing that because that's my key thing obviously the the nine newspapers are covering the war crimes trial which I think is really good and the substance of your work has ended up before the Broughton commission as well so that's being tested in another domain and that was covered well I was happy with that and I got good press after Broughton came out and that was very good I can't certainly can't complain about that as a lot of people have said to me it's funny how and you've seen this you would see this and the Trump and Brexit there is a disconnect between the mainstream media narrative and what a lot of people actually think and people often say to me we can't believe Broughton's conclusion that no general knew anything it's just totally improbable and so people say that to me and that's my one complaint about that is to say we need to look at the leadership this is not just a problem of a few people at the very bottom I mean if it was putting those people in jail would solve the problem but it won't and I'm more worried about the next war than the last war and if we have shonky people at the top we're not going to win it this is one of the things I say to the conservatives the theory of being conservative and freedom was all very well but look at what happened in Afghanistan I mean it was a failure it was an absolute $6 billion failure so if your team of that good we would not have been beaten by a part-time insurgency and this is what I laugh about the arms manufacturer and lobbyists if equipment was enough to win a war we would have won the war but we couldn't even get the Taliban with all this fancy drones and supersonic jets so it's hard so much we need a bit more than that and we saw it in one of the things this is as I was becoming one of the things it's a very good plane that they used over there it's a cold war 50's design called the warthog fly slow got a big cannon on it and it was perfect for fighting the Taliban when you're stuck down and they're surrounding you and this slow plane comes in and it goes bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang you know you're going to be alright anyway they had plenty of them they bought in the F-35 $6 billion which wasn't even as good because it flew so fast you couldn't just hit the targets on the ground you have to come back for another one by that time everyone was dead but because Boeing or McDonnell whoever was pushing them in Washington they were getting the orders for them I think this is one of the reasons it's very cynical but I'm saying that I've talked from an insider who's seen a lot of secret documents I think one of the reasons that they're pushing China and Russia again is they're much more lucrative war markets and that if you're fighting China you can sell thousands of F-35s and new aircraft carriers the problem with fighting the Islamists is that you couldn't justify new fighter planes and aircraft carriers and that was a problem but the reality of course is that you can keep the walls going for a long time what would happen if China did actually decide to have a crack at Australia or we did get involved in a war with China? This is the thing as I say I really speak to your conservative viewers here our team are so rubbish in the sense that our leadership are so idiotic our military leadership we couldn't beat Fiji in a war it's not like we don't have the equipment we just don't have anyone with any backbone we would never tell it like it is we need people who tell the truth if things are not going well we need to say we lost to the Taliban they weren't that good we lost to them over 20 years one of the things that is good we're having a Senate inquiry I hope there's a Royal Commission I can't find out what happened we need a Royal Commission in the Defence Force to find out whether they are phony I don't know what they're doing I've got a view on that and I'm happy to have a judge look at it but it's a bit like the banking thing I suspect there's enough evidence to suggest we don't know what we're doing in the defence space and there's a lot of lobbyists and there's a lot of careerists who tell you the right thing but anyone that actually tells the truth ends up like me, shunted out and that's a problem we need to be defending Australia and everything we believe in for our children now our children's children and if bullshit will not defend them we need people who actually talk the truth and again it's an disgusting development that they're putting people who tell the truth in jail and again an even worse twist a lot of things went wrong in Afghanistan there is one person in Australia who's going to go to jail for Afghanistan and that's me the guy that's telling the truth and they've never proved that I haven't told the truth even my haters say you shouldn't have released a document no one's ever said I've made them up printed them in my garage and it was all wrong it was real documents and how darely you let anyone else read them my god, if the Australian public you know what we're actually doing it doesn't make sense but psychology is an important thing a lot of people hate me and say he broke the rules he broke the rules I think the military broke the rules and I think someone needed to stand up and be counted do you have background silent support from people in the establishment that would be too scared to say anything publicly but would feel that you were doing the right thing I think so I think people I admire know that it was a hard road and I did a lot of frustrated people in the public service support me because they know the public service has been completely politicised and that now they've got the senior executive officers that get huge pay rises for basically doing what the government wants and not actually helping Australia they're all very frustrated because they know they have to do what they lose their job and I was thinking about the last guy in Canberra who didn't get the memo that you don't really work for the Australian people you work for the government and that's wrong but I'm going to fight that so a lot of people support me in that but people are quite scared I do get whispers to say what we support you I don't own the defence force they would be in trouble even for having my phone number such as the sort of witch hunt I like to think what I love is a lot of everyday Australians right to me you know farmers and the tired cops and things like that and they say we're great nomads now we think what you've done is great here's $10 whatever I love that I think the average Australian is a really good person what has disappointed me is the intellectuals I don't think I don't know that they're doing enough anyone that scratches their chin and goes it's a grey area they don't really help that's a bit of a failure of the private school system the people who really should be standing up for what is right seem to be more interested in counting their job keeper millions and building a new house in a palm beach of our moral and that's a shame but the average Australian is good they get it and they can see whenever you tell your story to someone in the pub or whatever they say that sounds bad so you try to do the right thing about war crimes and they're trying to put you in jail now yeah so I'm hopeful about Australia's future but we need to win this case and I don't see winning the case as necessarily being acquittal it's not about being I could go to jail but as long as people hear about it and they know about it and they say that guy went to jail for what he believed in and he believed that the government can't break the law and just say it's not a crime because the government doesn't that will still be a victory I will come out of jail a bigger man and I've got teenage children so it will still be hard but I'm not afraid of that if that's what it takes to make Australia the place it should be well thanks very much David and for viewers you can support David at the link below


Dear students, in this topic we shall discuss the blood pressure. You know that contractions of the ventricles of heart generate blood pressure. This pressure causes the blood to flow in the arteries away from the heart, from the areas of high pressure to the areas of lower pressure. Dear students, the blood pressure generated from the ventricles changes during survival during circulation through different regions of the body. Pressure is highest in the aorta. It decreases during circulation through arterioles and capillaries. The narrow diameter vessels offer substantial resistance to flow. This is why blood pressure decreases in the less diameter vessels. So that when the blood enters the ventricle, the pressure of the blood is almost finished. This is why there is no pressure in the ventricle. Similarly, during the cardiac cycle, the blood pressure changes. Arterial blood pressure is highest during the ventricular systole. This pressure is known as systolic blood pressure. Due to this pressure, the walls of the arteries stretch. Pressure drops when the ventricle relaxes. That is during diastole. This diastolic pressure is comparatively lower. And this lower diastolic pressure is maintained in the arteries. This pressure, which is diastole of the ventricle of heart, although it is not pumping, still some pressure is maintained. It is because of the contraction of the elastic walls of arteries. Dear students, now we shall discuss the regulation of blood pressure. Blood pressure fluctuates due to the contraction or relaxation of smooth muscles of the arterial walls. In the walls of arterials, contractions and relaxations of smooth muscle cause either vasodilation or vasoconstriction. Vasoconstriction causes the arterioles to become narrow. And this causes blood pressure to increase. Whereas vasodilation increases the diameter of arterioles as a result, blood pressure falls. The contraction of smooth muscles of arterial walls is regulated through chemical, nervous and hormonal controls. These controls are affected by physical or emotional states. For example, exercise and stress. The hormones raised during stress also cause vasodilation or vasoconstriction. So they regulate blood pressure. These hormones include cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine. In addition, renin and eutensin, the aldosterone system of kidneys which regulates blood volume also affects the blood pressure. In addition, nitric oxide serves as a major inducer of vasodilation in the circulatory system. And an endothelene is a potent inducer of vasoconstriction and thus helps to regulate blood pressure.


If y'all thought the Chinese people were doing chemical warfare, biological warfare, what do you think they're going to think now? What do you think they're going to think now? Yo, it's not like you're speaking Chinese. Damn, I never noticed how much country in China sound like. If you speed up Southern, what y'all going to think now? No, you're right. What y'all going to think now? No, for real, no. If you speed up Honky Tonk, I never thought of that. If you speed up Honky Tonk, I'm looking for that. Yo, I never thought of that. Chinese sound like sped up Honky Tonk.


Synthetic meat. Synthetic meat is made from real animal muscle cells grown by artificial means in the laboratory. Because meat is animal muscle, we can take a small sample of these muscle cells from a living animal and then using a technique called tissue culture grow enough cells together to make a cut of meat. This meat can then be packaged, sold and eaten, just like normal meat, with the ethical advantage that no animal was harmed in its production. We asked people, what excites you? What frightens you? And how will it change the way you live? These were some of their responses. Eating is more than just flavour and texture, it's the whole experience. How can technology simulate that? That's a very good question, especially if you've ever tried textured soy proteins as a meat substitute. But while meat growing in the laboratory is synthetic in its production, it is not artificial, it is still made from exactly the same sorts of muscle cells found in the animal. However, whether it tastes exactly the same or provides the same culinary experience is up to the person eating it. People are already suspicious of the marketing industry telling us what we should eat. How would synthetic meat be labelled and promoted? Synthetic meat may well be marketed as the ethical choice. It can be produced without having to kill animals for their meat and potentially has a whole range of additional advantages. Synthetic meat can be grown and its nutritional content optimised to make it healthier by design. It may also help reduce the current carbon footprint associated with meat production. And if synthetic meat really lives up to this potential, it would be likely that labelling and promotion would reflect these benefits. What chance does synthetic meat have of being a successful alternative? While synthetic meat exists, it's not possible to produce commercial amounts of it at the moment due to cost. If it were cost competitive and provided the ethical and nutritional advantages it promises, then it probably could be successful. What do you think? Would you eat it?


Week 14 did feature more quarterback injuries to quarterbacks. I like a lot and CJ Stroud and Justin Herbert So big bummers there, but there were also some really fun games Especially a banger between the Ravens and the Rams a game that featured actually some pretty key DFS takeaways We're gonna break down key takeaways across week 14 including from that new look Ravens offense We'll talk about other role changes other injuries to note and take a look forward to salaries on the week 15 Fandal NFL DFS main slate welcome on into the heat check fantasy podcast That's right here on the Fandal podcast network and Fandal research. My name is Jim Sonnis I am a managing editor of digital media for Fandal research here to take a look at the key takeaways from week 14 In an NFL DFS and take an initial look at the week 15 main slate as well I'll do all that for today Here in just one second the first day reminder to make sure you're subscribed to the number fire daily fantasy podcast Wherever you get your podcast Tom Vecchio has you covered for NBA DFS every weekday right here with the daily ISO Talking about its air plays of that slate over on fandal.com You can also find the daily ISO in the heat check on Fandal TV plus to get fandal TV plus go to fandal.com slash watch and log in with your fandal account or Download the fandal TV plus app on Amazon Fireapple TV Roku devices and of course you can watch the heat check alongside up and Adams run it back Covering the spread daily ISO all in the same place along with other ringer shows as well So check us out on fandal TV plus To get all the action in video for Score early this NFL season with Fandal America's number one sportsbook right now new customers get $150 and bonus bets any winning $5 money line bet That's a hundred and fifty bucks if your team wins if you've been thinking about joining fandal There is no better time to get in on the action the app is so easy to use There is a wide range of betting options including spreads player props totals and more So visit fandal and kick off the NFL season fandal official partner of the NFL must be 21 plus and president select states Fandal is offering online sports wagering in Kansas under an agreement with Kansas Star Casino LLC first online real money Wager only $5 pregame money line wage required $10 first deposit required Bonus issued is not with trouble bonus bets that expire seven days after a seat see terms at sportsbook.fandal.com gambling problem call 1 800 gambler was a fandal.com slash rg in Colorado, Iowa, Michigan New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia Call 1 800 next step or text next step to five three three four two in Arizona one eight and eight seven eight nine seven seven seven seven or visit ccpg.org slash chat Connecticut 109 with it in Indiana 105 2 2 4700 or visit ksgambling health.com in Kansas 1877 770 stop in Louisiana visit mdgambling health at organ, Maryland 1 a hundred gambler net in West Virginia 105 2 2 4700 in Wyoming hope is here visit gambling helpline ma.org or call 3 800 3 2 7 50 50 for 24 7 support in Massachusetts or call 1 877 in hope and why or text hope and why in New York Let's begin things here on a high note by talking about the Baltimore Ravens win over the Rams really fun game for both sides And I thought the Rams played great in this game and had a chance to win Let's talk about the Ravens because there's some key takeaways for DFS on their side of the ball Second game for the Ravens no mark Andrews and the Ravens funneled work to Odo Beckham the Z Flours and Isaiah likely Lamar Jackson very efficient on those throws as well Beckham and flowers both had 10 targets six were deep for Beckham easily his most this year likely had seven targets We talked on Thursday about how well Beckham has played when healthy and on the field this year and That showed up on Sunday as he had 97 yards receiving to me If we are ranking out stacking partners with Lamar Jackson right now It's gonna be Odell Beckham number one surpassing Z Flours honestly likely is two because he feels tight end Flowers is third, but still very much in play They get the Jags Sunday night a very fun game there and if you're looking at the single game slate there That's my rank them is Odell one I would put likely to I guess the tight end part doesn't matter there because it's any flex So we'll go to Z Flours two for single game likely three for single game But all three are are really really fun And I think that the Odell stuff is kind of sticky just because again his purse snap and per route numbers this year Have been very very good. So I've not been an Odell guy for years like more than half a decade at this point I am right now and we'll happily be back on him for that single great game slate on Sunday In the backfield Keaton Mitchell's role role remained pretty stagnant He led the backfield nine carries and he tied Justice Hill with two targets But came on a 33% snap rates. He played a ton of snaps early So they're opening script had a lot of Keaton Mitchell in it But it didn't carry over to the rest of the game. So I had sprinkles of Mitchell this week for NDFS in the full slate I'm not gonna be back there again until we get more signs of hope I thought there was a chance coming out of the buy maybe they'd expand his role They did initially but didn't translate so pretty status quo with Mitchell bit disappointed that he didn't get more but We'll keep a close eye on him. He's very very fun. But overall having Three guys we can feel good about in this offense alongside Lamar Jackson. That's pretty fun to me So the Ravens stock up pretty much across the board for me Let's talk now about those bummer injuries from week 14 beginning with Justin Herbert's left with what turned out to be a broken right index finger for the Chargers have not seen a timeline for him yet But can't be good and probably not going to play on Thursday against the Raiders Eastern stick took over and predictably struggled average negative point to passing that expected points per drop back on 26 drop backs So it's a downgrade obviously again negative point to passing any P4 stick per drop back league average Typically around point one. It is not been that this year because the all the injuries but this is one as well and Honestly, like even before the injury We were not I wasn't hiding the Chargers to begin with like I talked to did a full trend on Thursday about like looking for excuses not to use them So like back of quarterback is a good excuse not to go there Austin Eckler did finally play okay hundred yards and scrimmage again Sunday They did give some carriers to Isaiah Spiller, but Eckler's passing game work was enough so honestly with no Herbert this team is a cross-off because They have a an uber talented quarterback and they can't generate useful pieces outside of Allen Even with him and now you take that guy away. That's pretty tough and I don't coat I don't trust this coaching staff Right now enough to be able to be like, okay, they can get by similar to The Bengals with Jake Browning to be enough So I'm kind of sat on the Chargers they play Thursday So I have to be in because it's a single game slate The Raiders have better skill on offense right now than the Chargers do so I would You know make sure you're making a big downgrade for stick when trying to figure out that single game slate And it's gonna be ugly a total is 34 and a half at least as of last night. So Enjoy should be a whole lot of fun Justin Jefferson finally returned from his hand string injury But hurt his chest and left early had to go to the the hospital to be checked out there Alexander Madison also sprained his ankle and could not return KJ Hawkinson led with eight targets KJ Osborne had seven But they went for just 15 yards Osborne not a guy I want to go to We know this team is only Hawkinson and Jordan Addison as being viable pieces without Kirk Cousins so It is what it is Nick Mullins took over for Joshua Dobbs and played better but Still not gonna be a great situation We might be able to go at Chandler though Ty Chandler finished with a 56% snap rate He's got a lot of juice and he should play a ton of snaps because he only had a guy that got here as Kanae and Wang Wu And he did play a few offenses snaps and he's really really fast. I like Wang Wu But really more of a special teamer than an actual running back So even in a middling offense, I could see being really into Chandler They faced Cincinnati on saturday for that three game slate No slate posted as of yet over on fandals. So let's check back on sellers that later on but I would think the Chandler Even in a bad situation given his snap rate probably worth around seven thousand or so on that slate given that He's gonna be like the guy in this back. I believe they brought back Miles Gaskin from the Rams He was with the team earlier on this year So Gaskin will probably be active, but I think that Chandler will be Borderline every down back in that offense As for the Texans things went from bad to worse for them with cg Stroud and Nico Collins both leaving early Stroud had a concussion Collins had a calf injury Stroud's injury looked pretty bad. So why does Sumi misses at least one week potentially more doesn't typically happen with concussions But like it was not ideal and Collins had a calf injury earlier this year So I'm gonna assume he's gonna miss time as well While Stroud is out Everybody on this team is relevant for DFS if Stroud gets back I'd have interested Noah Brown like I think that's fine two more deep targets for him Sunday And he's been effective on those deep throws this year If it's Davis mill starting I will pass on Noah Brown, but once Stroud is back Brown will be the first place I turn to Whether Collins is out or not because I think that Brown Has shown enough to be viable of playing alongside Nico Collins if Stroud is healthy So it's a bummer they've got the Titans next week like that would be a good spot to go to but Not right now with the way this team is looking with Stroud likely out Josh Jacobs left late in the game with a knee injury for the Raiders and did not return They play Thursday So pretty tough turnaround for him to get back there quickly If he does said I'd expect a mirror of doula to handle all the passing game work While Zemir White gets the only down stuff and that's how to make both of them play for the single game slate against the chargers I would proceed with caution on whites You know, they're facing the chargers minus Herbert's that means it's more likely to be a positive script They were three point favorites last night. So, you know, I guess it's a positive for the Raiders but He's probably not going to get the passing game work You're gonna need to be pretty effective as a rusher When he gets work in order to really get a good score out of him So I do like Zemir White and think he will be the main guy here But he's it's gonna be like an early down late down split between those two guys So keep that in mind when allocating Your shares if you assume a positive script for the Raiders, then it'll favor Zemir White Assume a negative script that it's more a mirror of doula Tutu Atwell left early for the Rams they can cushion and Demarcus Robinson had a nice game without him He tied Cooper cup for the team lead with 10 targets and eight of those were deep with four in the red zone Demarcus Robinson, which makes Robinson viable like that's sick. That's a great role I wouldn't downgrade Cooper cup or pukin akua too much, but I think that Robinson did show he can do a better job of earning targets than Atwell does The one concern for the overall offense that if Atwell is out, they are so slow like 1970s slow kind of offense. Uh, none of their starting skill guys ran a 40 better than 4.5 9 coming on that 4.5 9 came from demarcus Robinson He was not a spring chicken anymore either So I downgrade offensive efficiency A little bit if Atwell can't play and maybe downgrade Cooper cup and nikua smidge because Robinson is a better target earner Then Atwell is the Robinson can be a consideration At the right salary in the right game environment and next week The Rams are facing Washington. So we'll have to at least consider them may passing a perspective in that game I mean by consider. I mean probably prioritized to be fully honest. You can see on the screen right here Kyren Williams is $9600. That's a little high but might be fair given the matchup But the passing eight pieces here are very viable. So let's take a look here at Robinson I would say I'd want him around like 55 given that's where Atwell tends to be a bit higher than that. Um Again got downfield work. So that's intriguing Robinson is should have gone to Marcus instead of Robinson. That's my fault Uh 56 that's fair. That's enough to be in play. So demarcus Robinson 56 at least on the menu for next week Probably not gonna be my preferred route to exposure to this team But if I need a value play I can do that As far as nikua, uh, nikua is 8,000. That's probably too low. I think honestly in that matchup I would like to get to nikua at that number cup. I would say probably let's say, uh 76 for cup because he looked more healthy. Well He got open. He found ways to get open on on sunday. She didn't say he looked healthier But 82 for cup is a bit high for me, but I like nikua at 8,000 and stafford I'd wanted to be low 7,000 still especially with no at well. So let's say 72 for stafford and he's 72 on the button. So Maybe we get to stafford. He's not the highest upside quarterback So I don't really necessarily want to get there, but Robinson in play Nikua pretty in play at 8,000 as well and cup not off the menu despite the fact his salary has been higher Than where I'd wanted to be Let's take a look at some key roll updates from week number 14 with no isaac pacheco Clyde edward elair and jerrick mckinnon and basically the exact roles you would expect CEH led with 11 carries and four targets mckinnon mixed in on latedowns CEH had 68 yards, but he had just one out of nine red zone chances mckinnon had two I don't really want to be on either because ch is the preferred option and Maybe you can get him against patriots next week But like he's also very limited not the highest upside guy in terms of yardage So I need a very low salary to get to CEH next week despite the fact it is a plus matchup With new england so for next week on CEH. I would probably want him to be around like 62 or so 61 okay fair enough so At least no low enough to consider there, which is something Maybe we get to CEH against new england if we're looking for some salaries here's already back, but like Still not jazzed. I guess mckinnon. I don't think I'll get there regardless 55 for him. So Yeah, I think that ceh is at least fine But it's really what you expected and not in a positive way that the cheese running backs without pacheco Hopefully he is back suit It does help though that rishi rice keeps solidifying his role He had 10 targets again on sunday He has 10 nine and 10 targets the past three games and they said entering that that third game that They wanted to do a better job of getting their good players of football and they've proven that rice is one of those guys Rice did lose a fumble, but they went right back to him on a screen the next drive So I don't think there'll be any ramifications of that fumble for him so He's a really fine way to get exposure to this offense and He's getting a good role not a lot of downfield work for rishi rice, which is annoying, but still in place So next week against new england again that defense for new england played pretty well on thursday Hasn't been as good overall this year playing better recently I would say in that matchup very low total, but Heavy spread in kinsidy's favor I would still want rice around 67. I paid 63 a lot this week for him, but 67 I think is about fair for him He's 65. So again rishi rice very fine with him as far as a mid-tier receiver don't mind that don't mind ceh at 61 as well. So Rice the preferred guy over ceh at their respective salaries at least for me for next week against new england Even with doson knocks or so let's talk about the the backfield for the For the bills first james cooks james cook went over 100 yards in scrimmage for the fourth consecutive game on saturday or sunday Which is impressive? He had 141 yards on 10 carries and five targets He has been getting a lot of passing game work since the ken dorsi firing And this one they talked a lot in the broadcast which says to me that that's what joe brady and Shaw mcdermot are telling the broadcasters and the production meetings because they'd mentioned it like in multiple broadcasts so far but In those games cook has four seven and five targets and he's making it look good And that's awesome because we need yardage to to get both a better floor and a better ceiling in dfs But cook is still getting no red zone work. He had zero seven red zone chances this week So cook is doing enough to be in play and he can score a long touchdown because he's getting creative targets It's like he can't score, but it does hurt him quite a bit to not get that work inside the red zone now next week The bills face the cowboys on hands down the best game on the main slate So We're gonna want at least take a look at james cook. This is nothing i've done very often recently so I know he was in the low six thousand range this past week or 66 potentially this past week I would say given the red zone woes. I would still want a salary around 7 000 in order to be Considering him in this matchup and his salary is 72 It's a little bit higher than I would hope it would be it's not egregious by any means but At 72 you really do need a touchdown to come through so I will give him consideration at that number I'm not committing to using him there, but It is at least something so james cook a guy. I'll have a close eye on for that Really fun game on sunday against the cowboys Now let's talk past catchers here. Dawson knocks came back, but dalton kincade maintained a very nice role He had nine targets which ranked second the team behind staphon digs. That was a 22 target share for kincade gave davis airballed on two targets davis will still have upside but This does increase the odds that he whiffs. I think kincade can still be pretty held neutral though, which is good And he's earned a legit role in this offense. So Again premier game on next week slate Guy who's getting eight targets Maintained that role despite the fact that dawson knocks is back And we want to tie our tight ends to good game scripts or good game environments So I would say kincade Probably worth around 6100 dollars and he's 56. Okay, kind of got banged up and we're causing that late in that game, but uh, dalton kincade if he's okay to go 5600 dollars very fair of sally for him on the week 15 main slave for that very fun game against the cowboys Zach wilson regained the jet starting role and he dealt in this game He averaged 0.28 passing that expected points for drop back, which is probably the best game in his career and If wilson can sustain anything close to that it will make brice hall and garrant wilson both viable wilson led the team with 13 targets for 108 yards and hill or hall had nine targets on top of 10 carries Those two guys are very talented and they get very good usage we just need Acceptable quarterback play for them to be good enough to be in play for dfs and we got that here for once They're on the road taking on the dolphins next week They're big underdogs as they should be in that game But I think that there's at least a path outside now if Zach wilson can be Somewhat remotely confident. So I would say for garrant wilson appropriate starter for him Let's say seven thousand dollars And he's 6900 dollars. That's not terrible. I can potentially with that as a Bring back if I want to stack the dolphins in this game for brice hall tougher script for him I know he gets a lot of passing game work, but still we do prefer our backs and more neutral scripts So I would say for him probably still 6600 dollars for breeze hall He's 75. That's all right. That's pretty high. So Not as high at all at his respective salary, but you know, maybe if you think the jets keep it closed, he's good I think it's more so about garrant wilson at 69 as being the primary guy I want to turn to when getting exposure to the jets offense in their game against the dolphins With no christian kirk the jags gave 12 plus targets to all of zay jones evan ingram and calvin ridley Ridley and jones both had five deep targets ridley had three in the red zone while engram had two Parker washington 61 snap rate earned just four targets though ridley had 53 receiving yards But I understand that When you're facing the browns, we're not going to get huge outputs out of a receiver engram was the guy with the huge productivity and I think we need to be high in all these guys with christian kirk on ir including zay jams and Trevor lawrence looked healthy enough for us to trust this offense a bit more I think all three guys would be great for the sinkley and slate against the ravens on sunday night I like ridley's upside there. So I wouldn't I don't know if I can go like contrarian mvp for ridley in that game because uh, you got lamar jackson there And you're probably gonna want to go lamar at mvp, but ridley's upside be pretty fun He's a guy I want to get to for sure for that sunday single game slate and zay jones the value play engram all those guys Very viable with no christian kirk in the mix there Joe mixon had a big game for the bangles But so did chase brown mixon had 125 yards on 21 carries and four targets But brown had a long touchdown. He had eight carries and three targets brown had not had multiple targets in a game before this one So mixon is finally showing life, but brown is deserving of more work given how well he's played That's a risk for mixon which does hurt his floor But I don't think it hurts his ceiling which had been the biggest issue for mixon So far this year because if they keep the roles the same then mixon Has as he's shown the past two games at least a path to a ceiling So i'm finally receptive to mixon in tournaments, which i've been trying to avoid him throughout this year It does help that we've seen the jake brown and let offense be efficient now for two games and not terrible against the stealers Despite the fact they scored just 10 points there They're facing the vikings on saturday I think that all want to be on mixon there given that they are at home three and a half point favorites facing nick mullins That's a good enough spot to be on mixon But I don't want to go too hard just in case they decide To get chase brown more than next because he's been very very good when he has gotten chances so far this year Zeke elliot was a full-on feature back for the patriots with no ramon rey stevenson He had 22 carries and eight targets while playing 91 of the snaps Zeke had 140 yards half of which came through the air. He also had three out of four red zone chances so I have avoided this patriots offense the entire year, which has been a very good thing But I don't think I can do that anymore along as long as the salary for zeke is appropriate Facing the cheese on on sunday You know how the cheese have played maybe that's more of a neutral script than we thought initially So let's play name that salary on zeke elliot Featured back bad offense pretty low total Pretty tough script as well. I would say appropriate number for zeke elliot all those things considered would probably be like $6,800 any 65 so I think we've seen enough where zeke is in play in week 15 on the main slate against the chiefs You know, there are risks tying assets to this offense but You know when they're going to get out all the work and look kind of okay doing it That's enough to make them viable. So zeke elliot in play for dfs and week 15 in the year 2023 What could possibly go wrong for us with that? So love to see zeke back in our lives once again Drew lock filled in for jeno smith this past week and he honestly wasn't awful Lock average point away passing that expected points for a drop back. So pretty decent the seahawks were in that game for a pretty long While but they just didn't run a lot of plays Tyler lockett came back to life 89 yards and six targets Jackson smith and jigba led the team with seven targets It was a downgrade from smith But they're not full cross-offs at least with lock whereas a lot of teams at back of quarterbacks are so I thought that was good from drew lock. They play The eagles on monday night We'll see if jeno's able to go there. But even if it's drew lock. We can at least Be somewhat okay with seahawks pieces in that game Just because of lock looking okay backfield was what you'd expect kenneth walker the third back zack charbury healthy Charbury did out carry kenneth walker the third but walker led and snatched 58 to 40 percent It's pretty much status quo for me right now in that backfield I'm not super into either when both are healthy I would say in that script next week, uh, seattle four and a half point dog against the eagles That's probably more of a walker script. But you know tough team to run on are the eagles so Uh, you know, I think they are what they are salaries probably will be pretty reasonable for them on that slate given we got a lot of high start eagles guys We can go to but you know, they're fine. Um They're kind of status quo for as what they were before their injuries For the second consecutive game joe flacco was not efficient But they let him chuck it which is pretty fun Flacco had 45 pass attempts for the browns in this game through two games The browns early down first half pass area flacco is 65 percent It was 51 before this stretch 14 of those targets went to amari cooper david and joku had eight targets and had two touchdowns on those targets as well Elijah more was next up with six So the passing game pieces are a lot more attractive now than they were pre flacco And they're facing the bears at home next week. The bearers defense has played very well recently So that's worth mentioning. They played well again on sunday. It's not against a super easy matchup, but They're letting it ride and that's what you want to do against the bearers is air things out So let's take a look at some salaries for the browns next week against the bearers on the main slate Amari cooper pass heavy offense not very efficient Not quite Garrett wilson ask like it's a bit more efficient than that But like I would say let's say 72 for amari cooper He's 72 on the button. Love that. I think that's okay And joku I am way more receptive to now than I have been the past It's going to be probably a high salary because of the two touchdowns, but like, you know, we kind of earn that salary so I would say Let's say 59 for in joku 62 for him So more on cooper than in joku Elijah more I'd still want in like the low 6,000 range Let's say 61 for him. He's 57 That might force me to consider Elijah more, which I don't love. I've never really been super high in him personally The targets aren't super efficient for him and cooper gets a lot of work when he's healthy So maybe I have to go to Elijah more. I don't really want to but I might be forced into it so Either way, the key takeaway is the browns passing game is relevant for dfs, which has not been the case for a while so I guess we'll take it from that perspective, but If it forced me to consider Elijah more that might not be necessarily worth it because I really don't want to do that personally Drake london went off with 172 receiving yards on sunday and a lot of that was via the log ball Six deep targets for drake london on sunday His previous high this year was two and london led the team overall with 11 targets I've not used much london so far this year and you know part of the the blow up here is potentially because of the matchup with the Bucks But this is a legitimate bump up for drake london from where he was at before They're facing carolina on sunday on the road So they are outdoors, which is not typical for them low total at 35 Implied total for the falcons is 19 So not the best setup for them overall, but let's take a look here at least at drake london And see what his salary May be this week I would say with that showing london deserves the salary of around $6600 And he is 66 on the button so Been pretty close to salaries here on fan dual for this week, which probably implies that we'll be able to build lineups next week You know no huge values yet But also not a lot of guys who are super super over salary that it does include london Who is very fair at 66 and a guy? I could see myself considering in the right spots there prefer a bijan robinson who's been really really good recently, but london least okay at that number dallas got it returned for the eagles and Their big three got almost every target for the team They got every target except for one on a fake punt to alarmaday zekias AJ brown led with 13 targets divante smith at 10 and goddard has four that's reassuring for me For divante smith because he was not a big factor Before goddard's injury and he played well with goddard out and it seems like he's gotta gotten back to his 2022 form now So I think all three pieces are great pieces individually and for game stacks of the eagles I'm higher on smith now than I was before which is good And if goddard's salary continues to be as low as it was on sunday's single game slates I'll be very into him on monday As they take on seattle. I think he was 85 last night And like at that number I know he didn't do a ton, but I'm going to take that every single time So dallas goddard If he doesn't get a huge salary boost would be like a focal point for me on that monday single game slate Jake furgusson continued to solidify himself as the cowboys number two passing game option He had eight targets for the second consecutive game Since they're bi-week furgusson has a 17 target share Which is half of cd lam's number, but still a very good number and very much ahead of brandy cooks for second Furgusson is also averaging one deep target per game. He has 24 of the red zone targets, which means He has upside. I did not think that was the case with furgusson before so I was pretty skeptical of him initially, but I have disavowed myself of that notion now fully. He's playing very very well and again Cowboys in a very fun game Taking on the bills next week the premier game. I think on the main slate One attire tight ends to good games Uh could potentially do so with concaid, but I think furgusson's salary now is worth around $6100 and he is 59. So that's not bad at all Jake furgusson playing good ball We want pieces of this cowboys offense, especially through the air even when they're on the road right now And furgusson gets us that at a very acceptable salary. So jake furgusson A guy I'll likely turn to when it comes to dfs in week number 15 Deontay foreman was the bearer's lead back in his return to the lineup But three-man backfield here foreman led with 11 carries and three targets both cluel harbert and roshan johnson mixed in in this game It makes foreman viable if we're talking like a single game slate in a shorter slate, but I can't see getting here on a full one though Just because this backfield is pretty dispersed Not the most valuable backfield to begin with anyway facing cleveland next week very tough matchups So i'll miss out if the and if the bears burn me then so be it with their back Small thing here, but chris godwin had four deep targets on sunday for the bucks. That's his new season high He had 11 targets overall and led the team in that number chris godwin Still just 53 yards in that game. So it's not like he went nuts, but Deep targets are how you get upside and godwin hasn't had that so far this year So i'm still not on him, but it does increase the odds that I use him at some point godwin and the buccaneers are I think they're in a fun game if I were facing green bay. It's not a bad game on sunday that game is in green bay So assuming the weather is okay You know, I don't really want to get to godwin, but you know, I think that game could be somewhat in play for stacking Especially the packers continue to look good on monday night tonight Let's dig in now to our salary scroll for week number 15 pulling out the main slate over on fandworld.com again The saturday night not posted as of yet, but should be a fun one of three games there as well Let's start things off at quarterback premier game of this this week is the cowboys and the bills a high total there at 49 At least as of last night. I think That's pretty fun. Actually I pulled these when that game was not posted So let's see if it's up now 48 and a half for bills and cowboys And you see here that the two eyes salaries belong to josh allen and dak press scott makes a lot of sense And I like both those guys for sure despite where this salary sits Scrolling down further at quarterback jordan love is 8 000, but honestly against him at bay I might consider that given how efficient he has been He's been playing really well. That's not the worst game Not the best quarterbacking slate. So love at 8 000 Not off the menu. I wouldn't think at least for me Let's scroll down further here to a tongue of a low is 76 against the jets. That's very interesting Um, he hasn't had a lot of upside games recently The jet's defense is playing very well once again But like, you know 76 kind of low for that especially as zack wilson will be good enough to push uh in that game Maybe we get to toa at 76 As a quarterback option for sunday getting down into the 6000 range not seeing a whole lot down here. So Uh thin quarterbacks late with no jail and hurts no lamar jackson. No trevor lorence Yeah, so I think it's really about dak press scott and Josh allen don't mind getting to potentially to a tongue of a loa Maybe we have to go staffer to 72 potentially given how good that match up is with commanders But then also jordan love at 8 000 least consideration for me As of right now Moving over to running back already mentioned that kiran william souri is 96 A little high for me. I get it, but it's a little bit high Bija robinson got jacked up to 86. I think that's a little bit high too He's been very good on a used him in nearly every lineup this past week So, you know, it is what it is, but um A little bit high there also divan h-hand is 85 They are way ahead of that one. Um Curious what the distribution is between human most dirt on a monday night because most dirt Got the most early down or the most first half work for the dolphins in that game against the commanders But h-hand is very good. So Curious how those guys look following monday night between h-hand and most dirt In that setup I like both those guys But I want to see because their salaries are very much not low there Rashad white keeps cooking. He's a $7,600, you know Not terrible against the packers not great, but also not terrible Maybe oh, okay I got distracted because tony powered is back down to seven thousand dollars Taking on buffalo buffalos rush defense has been okay Since the matt malano injury honestly like better than I thought it would have been The power to seven thousands that's pretty low riko dowdle is getting work But tony powered saw an awesome role for the cowboys on sunday Final workload for pollard 16 carries eight targets 96 yards 70 snap rates Here we go again back on tony powered at seven thousand dollars. What could possibly go wrong? If is a pacheco plays he's six nine hundred dollars That's fine. Um, you know, I liked him a lot this week before he got hurt They're facing the patriots. I think they know they need pacheco involved in the running games So would like to get there if he's healthy. I do again still like zeke alley to 65 I think that's a very fine sour for a guy with his kind of workload right now So zeke's a guy I would probably assume all beyond this week alongside Pollard at seven thousand dollars Looking down further At running back this week and not seeing much unless erin jones looks okay on Monday night his sour 62 Don't hate that Against tampa bay tough running matchup But you can't get through it get out into the air also v to vea missed this past week And if he's out again that could open up work for erin jones So I want to do this workload if he plays looks like on monday night Deontay four minute 58 not really intrigued by that So to me it's really about tony powered six thousand or seven thousand zeke alley at 65 I think those are the primary guys who stand out to me. I running back as of right now We'll probably be on rashad white again And then want to check on the dolphins tonight to see what that workload looks like Shifting over to wide receiver and gonna scroll on down here a bit Debo samuels are past brandon iuk in terms of salary fair Debo 84 iuk is 78 so iuk salary didn't go down. It's just that debos went up They're facing the cardinals next week is big favorites Hopefully kyler can keep that game competitive because we can keep those guys involved later on I don't think either debo or iuk is over salary, but I also don't think either is under salary Who are things stand right now when we shocked if I get to my heavens at 83 high salary But like deserve probably prefer puka nakua though at 8000 given the match with the commanders. I like that one a lot so Puka 8000 indoors at home efficient spot. I will probably be there pretty heavily Crystal lavet facing the giants not a high total game, but he keeps on getting a lot of work for 7500 Let's scroll down a bit further though again. I mentioned marcoo per 72 not terrible jill waddle 7000 I think he got like 10 or so targets the first game against the jets. Maybe we wind up there as a pairing with To a tongue of i loa and then gary wilson's a bring back 69 don't hate that Where she rise 65 mentioned that before it still do like that salary for him this week uh taking on new england not the best game to stack but Still an okay game regardless Getting down further at receiver gave datas down to 62 That's fair given the fact that the airballed again, but I think when i'm stacking that game I'll still be on gabe once again this week. You can get at the cowboys and outside receivers They can get some work against them. So i'll be on gabe. It's not the best setup, but Not terrible either jaden reed is 61 taking on tampa bay want to see what his workload looks like on On monday without christian watson, but I like the way they use read in the red zone They seem to want the ball in his hand. So don't hate that at 61 for jaden reed Down further again, elijah moors 57. That's fine You know, I don't love him, but I don't hate it either marcus robinson 56 kind of the same thing And not seeing much unless jalen hyatt indoors maybe depending on what his role looks like this this week I think marcia on latimore still has a couple more games on ir or maybe one more at least High at 54 though if devido continues to look his way Jalen hyatt indoors could be somewhat fun there as well I don't see a whole lot else at receiver. So I think the guy who got me most excited was jaden reed is 61 Do not dislike rishi rice in 65 waddle 7 000 Pukinakua 8 000 the primary guy is catching my eye right now Travis kelsey salaries down to 7500 dollars Another cheese had not been great and they're like game is not great But like it's also travis kelsey and he's still getting a lot of work. He's getting good yardage still so I'm kind of into that kelsey 75. We know bill bellichick will put an emphasis on stopping kelsey, which he should But that's not a terrible number for him. George kill 68 also not terrible trimmick brides 66 Taking on san francisco.  I am on board of that Kyle pits 57 good workload for him You know still not I guess not actually the best workload because he did lose I think he had fewer targets than johnny smith in that game. So maybe not on pits at that number Looking down further at tight ends Uh davis allen popped up this past week with tyler higby sideline I think higby was doubtful coming in or questionable coming in Maybe if hippie sits again, we could dig more into allen in that matchup for the rams I do want to check out his workload Ah this past week to see what the overall target number is. It felt like he got targeted a bunch, but it wasn't as much as nikua robinson or um cup davis allen five targets in that game He had one deep target, which is good. He had A red zone target as well. So allen at 50 or 4,800 dollars if we go with like Nikua and want to offset the salary a bit maybe we go allen as well Getting a little team stack in there. Don't mind that for davis allen at 48. So Worth monitoring tyler higby throughout this week mentioned before that kinkade they've gotten banged up late against the cheese uh dawson knock salary is 47 If there's no kinkade that would boost both dawson knocks and gave davis So keep an eye on both those guys keep an eye on the health status of dalton kinkade Tucker craft 47 taking on tampon bay probably a spot where i'll want to go at the packer's passing offense he looked okay So far and low salary efficient passing offense. Don't mind that So potential spend downspots with tucker craft and davis allen do not mind uh getting to jake furguson 59 or potentially dalton kinkade at 56 And then uh into travis kelsey 75 And never going to talk someone out of george kittle especially in the salary is very reasonable at 6800 dollars for next week That's all we got here for today for our week 14 recap We'll be back with you once again on thursday to get you ready for the week 15 Main slate in full that'll be right here on the fandal youtube page live at 10 a.m. Eastern over on fandal tv plus and on uh the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed as well If you've got any questions for me. I am on twitter at jim sonnis j i m s a n n e s You can also find me on threads at jim dot sonnis and find fan dual research on twitter at fan dual research I want to thank you all for tuning in for today. Good luck to you. It's your monday Two game lineups. 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