Okay, thank you very much for taking the time to come and listen to me this morning. So evolutionary medicine, application of modern evolutionary theory. So I'm going to touch on that today, I'm going to touch on modern evolutionary theory, and I'm going to present things from my perspective. Okay, so if we have disease, we can break that down to acute and chronic diseases.  I think it's important that we don't forget the great advances that's been done in modern medicine. That as much as we may have critique on certain areas, acute medicine is brilliant.  There are injuries that 100 years ago I would have had a 95% chance of dying from. I would now have a 95% chance of surviving. And that is testament to the application of modern technology and theory into medicine. However, if I have a chronic condition, we could argue that modern medicine should at least be asking around for possible new ideas. And we could then apply that to teeth. People, sort of at the turn of the 1900s, people were starting to get crooked teeth. And people wanted to have straight teeth. So where there's a need, usually there comes an answer. Now, will you be interested what methods there were available, or what methods people were having to make teeth straight? Cos that was the desired outcome. And this is a tale of two charismatic individuals. Well, there were probably more charismatic individuals.  They're probably the most extreme two characters. We have Edward Angle on the left from the States, and we have Rolf Frankel from East Germany on the right-hand side. And they both had very different approaches. So Edward Angle had what he referred to as the E-arch, and the E-arch has now turned into fixed braces, or braces. I mean, it's generic now. They're just braces, that's what people mean. Whereas Frankel had these shields. So we know the teeth sit in the balance between the lip and the tongue, or the tongue and the cheek. We know the tooth, the bone, and the gum sit in this balance. And Frankel would try and disturb this balance with these shields. So he's trying to get closer to the cause of the problem. However, what method do you think won? Well, we know what method one, fixed braces. That's what is meant by braces. If you say I'm wearing braces, no one stops and thinks, are you wearing a Frankel appliance? I try to find someone practising Frankel appliances in East Germany, and I really struggled. That's just the win. Well, who wants to work with difficult, unco-operative children when the appliance is potentially, well, often is uncomfortable? That's how it changes people by being uncomfortable? Well, people wanted what they wanted, which was straight teeth, and a mechanical method to make the teeth straight has one. Whereas the one that clearly is trying to affect the symptoms of the problem hasn't one, and of course we're paying the price with retention. So if you have your teeth straightened, you need to have them straightened forever. And when you look at most forms of retainers, they are in effect an orthodontic appliance, so it is effectively orthodontics forever. Cos you're not trying to cause, sorry, you're not trying to treat the cause of the problem. Now, orthodontics started in the turn of the 1900s to make teeth straight, and it's been hoped that they would fill the science in later. So we've had this approach to backfilling the science to fit the treatment, which is also always dangerous. There is no understanding of the etiology, the cause of the problem. And of course there's no real understanding of the epidemiology or the pathology.  That's not a cure, that's orthodontics forever. And I feel, is my opinion, that the orthodontic community, I mean, I'm not trying to knock the treatment too much, I'm knocking the philosophy. I'm saying the philosophy is a philosophical house of cards that's been built up to look impressive, to sound scientific, to fulfil their objective of being scientifically based. But it sounds good, it looks good, till you ask difficult questions. And normal responses don't let anyone ask any difficult questions. Now, it's very important to understand what normal is. Cos if you don't know what normal is, you will struggle to understand a disease. And that is normal. If your teeth don't bite together like that, now this is a slightly warm dentition, a slightly extreme level of wearing. But this is far closer to normal than any of you here. And notice the huge space behind the wisdom teeth. You know, one if not two centimetres of spare space behind the wisdom teeth. Then you've got a gap at the front, and, well, I won't go into canine guidance, but if you wanted to cut something that you were eating, you did this. You incised it with your incisors. That's what they're for. You're never going to have a jaw that's too far forward or too far back. If every time you eat anything, you have to incise it with your incisors. And you're having to do that for a significant portion of every day as they did, which is why they wore their teeth out. Now, I'm trying to make you understand the changes in facial form that occur. So this face is going to drop down to the classic adenoidal face type. It's been with us for years, the adenoidal face type. Most of you will be halfway through that pattern. So if you watch this, as a face drops down, it drops down from a more ancestral perspective through to where most of you are, and going beyond to being quite downswag. But we know people are different. We know we have the class 1s, the class 2s, the class 3s, the different types of crookedness. Of course, these are layered on top. Because if your face, as you've got weak soft food from the modern diet, we're hanging our mouths open because we've changed our posture from incidents of nasal obstruction, our tongues come off the roof of the mouth, our lip seal has been broken, so we're now like this. Faces are dropping down. As the face becomes longer, it becomes narrower and shallower, reducing cross-sectional area. And as that happens, you eventually have to respond. I think the face can drop about 10mm, and you know, you're perfectly healthy. Humanity, humans are well built, we're well designed. But beyond that, then you have to change.  The second thing you do is you have to find a new place to place your tongue so that you can eat, you can talk, you can do everything else you need to do with your mouth. And there are only so many comfortable places that you can place your tongue. Do I trust these? I haven't done slides many times before. Sorry, I haven't done movies yet. Here we go. So this is the class one where you just put your tongue between your teeth, generally. Class two, the pattern is like this. And class three, you put your tongue in the mandrel and hold it forwards. The different patterns give the different types of face. And that's just the most generic base patterns. There's a lot of subtleties with the swallowing and the function as well. But in generic, that's why from one type of facial form we get these, you know, big spread of patterns and that's patterns from patterns of behaviour. But you can see we've had this major change in structure. And this is just from pre-industrial. This isn't going all the way back. And you can see, particularly in the transverse, look how narrow people are and how many people get nasal obstructions now. But are you surprised you're getting nasal obstructions? This is a sea change in structure. And you can see how it's got it's got it's longer and it's dropped back. So as I said, it's down swinging. And of course a face that's not the right shape doesn't work properly. And here is a distribution of different symptoms. So notice we've got the highlighted sleep apnea, jaw joint and scoliosis. It's just some sort of the range of problems we have. Clearly I'm an orthodontist so I come from malo-clusion direction. But I couldn't say there's a hard primary evidence on all of this. That's not where you start with a new science. You start trying to prove or disprove something and I would like to discuss this with any orthodontic professor on the planet, anyone. That's my problem. No one has ever engaged with me, ever, in any form of meaningful engagement. The only real response I can have to my arguments is people running away. And that is usually the limit of the response I get. So we're breaking this down. We're talking about sleep apnea. What I don't have here is the distortion on the facial form because people aren't thinking about that when they're making these slides because they're thinking faces grow normally. But clearly what we've got here is a face that's already halfway down that downswing as described by cranio-facial dystrophy but clearly the tongue is on the back of the throat because you lack space. The whole face has been truncated with the tongue falling in the airway. Now, there's a concept going forward from Stephen Sheldon in Chicago. Kevin knows him well, saying that there is no such thing as ADHD. There's these kids who can't sleep properly. You know, if you've had kids and if you've got a group of them and they've not slept well, well, what's the difference between them and kids with ADHD? They're the same. And what are we giving to kids with ADHD? We're giving them to grandparents to wake them up because clearly they are tired. And of course my father was dealing with people with sleep apnea in the 80s. So it's great that it's got a lot of attention now that it needs, but we have been thinking a while having already understood sleep apnea. So we talk about Eustachian tube. The idea here is your tongue is supposed to be on the palate. Your tongue is on the palate, not to properly operate. But if the tongue can't go on the palate and the muscles at the back of your throat aren't very well set up because your facial form has changed, then you don't open the Eustachian tube when you swine. Then this is an interesting case I found because clearly they've taken out very molar tooth in this area here and they've taken out the wisdom tooth here so that's eight teeth down in the mouth if they've done it at the top or the bottom. And he's still crowding up, or she. So what's going on? What are you going to do now? Take out more teeth to straighten things up? I'm surprised people actually speak as well as they do but I've helped a lot of young kids speak better because they've had more space. And of course we could go on to jaw-chart pain, I won't dwell on the subject today. And of course appearance. So this is your classic adnoidal face and this has been with us for centuries.   Now on the right hand side I've got the top cases someone I've treated and you see how we've got the whole face to grow up and forwards. I've not just moved the bottom jaw forward, I've moved the top jaw forwards as well. That's not easy. It's also not cost effective. The bottom cases I think Stanley Lew from Stanford and a fantastic result. Doing the same thing as I would like with surgery to correct sleep apnea. But of course having a major impact on facial form. I'm talking about tribal uniformity we'll come back to that later. Of course then we talk about body posture. We're aware that we've gone from looking at the horizon for predators and prey to looking at televisions, desktops, laptops and now tablets. That's not helping. But I'd also say one of the underlying reasons of a forward head posture is that you have to hold your head forward to breathe, to open your airway.  You can't breathe properly. So as much as the angel on one side is saying you know the theory, you want to stand up straight, yada, yada, yada. You've got the devil on the other side that says breathe. Now I don't know if I can keep my attention on much during the day but you're going to end up flipping back to a forward head posture and this is for all the movement people we had here today of this weekend.  Hello, wake up. What are you doing about that? Now obstructive sleep apnoeo, we know it's increasing. So I qualified from dentistry in 93. When I qualified in 93, sleep apnoeo wasn't in the syllabus. I talked to a ENT surgeon, autolaryngology, I think you call it, recently and he said he felt in his opinion that 20% of the people in westernised societies were going to die a decade early. That's 20%. Now we know it's going up and of course people are saying it's going up with obesity and of course at age everything goes up when you get older unfortunately. But I would argue that there's a lot of good research that suggests maybe it's not just obesity that makes you have sleep apnoeo that if you get sleep apnoeo you may get obese. You certainly crave all of the foods that would likely make you obese after that bad night sleep. That's well researched, well understood. Also I was talking to a surgeon from Australia, Paul Kosjardnig, I think great surgeon, great book, I'd recommend. Six ways to design a face. He was pointing out the number of times he does that surgery like Stanley Liu I showed you. He moves the maxilla forwards, he moves the pallet forwards and these guys come back afterwards and he says how are you going? He goes I can run. What do you mean? He says I'm a sportsman all of a sudden. I always thought I was a poor sportsman. But now hey I'm kicking it and I love it. So by moving the pallet forwards by opening up the airway suddenly these people could run they could exercise. That interested me clearly. So what I'm saying is a destructive technology. In destructive technology causes change people don't like change. Here's just a list of the people who I will upset. And you know I'm going to upset them. And of course they're going to turn around to me and say what evidence have you got? Well I don't have a huge amount of primary evidence. I knew ideas don't start with lots of primary evidence. They start with a concept. You know I watched a program the other day on when evolution actually proved because when Darwin put it forward there wasn't a lot of proof. It was amazing how within the next 10 years the proof arrived. You don't start with the proof. You start with the hypothesis. And that's how science progresses. But there are certain breaks on challenge. We've got medical inertia. It was a famous medical inertia isn't it? You know we were bloodletting for possibly too far too long. Clearly when there's money involved medicine and money. Status. People have got qualifications. And you did two, three years hard graph to get this qualification.  You're a professor of what after I turn up and mess it all up for you. You know it's not what people want to hear. And of course there are repercussions. Repercussions on what's gone on in the past. Well these are two cases that were treated with orthodontics. My father went on national television in 1998 saying he felt orthodontics could damage faces. He was his reputation wasn't the same afterwards should we say. I'd say he probably has the lowest reputation of anyone in medicine point blank in the UK. You know don't go again. Don't make suggestions. But if we can change facial growth then you can either change the positive or negatively. That goes to reason. And sometimes you may do it negatively. And I'm not saying this happens a lot. But this has never been fully discussed. With all parties involved. You know the AAA meeting the white paper didn't invite all the parties. In Britain no one ever talked to my father about what he meant as they made research to try and prove he was wrong. But we could potentially make the statement. Sometimes does an elective procedure like orthodontics compound or even cause sleep apnea. Therefore reducing intelligence life expectancy and your facial form. Because if an elective procedure ever does that it needs investigating in a free fair and full manner. And I know it's controversial just saying that. You know people will be upset that I even bought that subject up.  And what I'm saying is that if your face didn't grow well you may be looking ugly that is your fault and that may well have significant health implications. Whoa this is difficult this is what has held this science back you know. And of course this is prevailing trend isn't that. What do you think the woke movement will do to me you know. I'm saying don't be happy with the way you are.  And I notice when I'm trying to motivate people coming up with ways of motivating people or when I'm trying to do marketing. That's when you realise how far I cross that line but I cross the Rubicon of disagreement with this. Now so who makes money a dietician or a lipo surgeon because one drives a Ferrari the other drives a bicycle and of course it all comes down to that famous thing money. Prevention doesn't make money and that could easily be supplied to the whole of this movement. It's where this movement comes down you know. There's a pill for every L and hey don't pills make money. Whereas exercises don't. Now we have changed that because people now pay to go down the gym. They pay for their medicine. They sweat and they pay for it in physical terms as well as wallet terms. You know and we've got this movement that people are trying to eat healthily. So it is possible to change society to change people but it's not easy. You need some stimulus to make them do it. But of course facial appearance and orthodontics are big. You know 50 to 70% of people in the UK and America are having orthodontics and it seems to be that if more people would afford it more people would be having it done. And of course as I said the only people interested in the message I'm saying are people with faces. But if you do have a face you seem to be very very interested in what I'm saying. But of course this 50 to 70% that's been going up remarkably. We've got all these adult orthodontics. You know I don't go into a dental surgery where people aren't advertising Invisalign or SocialSmit6 or these other methods. It's as if everyone's jumping on the bandwagon. And okay. Now so the only people interested I gave this lecture now infamous in the UK and it started this craze of mewing that's going. So I wasn't expecting this. It was God given really. I had been working to get something to go viral so I had had that objective. Anyway someone sent me this statistics recently and what you'll notice in the statistic there's one on the top left hand there so just on TikTok I don't do TikTok by the way I haven't got any videos on TikTok of the hashtag hashtag mewing it's been seen 1.1 billion times. That is insane. And of course I could say the same thing for my main that's up at 25 million but otherwise and of course it's all around the world I'm surprised on the countries that seem to be coming up at top at times. But there was this yeah craze going on but mewing works. His boy he's healthier his tongue is held further away from his airway. You see she her tongue is further from her airway just looking at that one aspect how close your tongue is to your airway the distance from your chin back to the throat and you can see she's healthier and this girl as well this boy and that boy but also they're better looking aren't they? So this thing the health in this looks you know this is this it's just you know now read that joke now I've selected that I've chosen that slide well because it's very easy we come and we talk about all these medical things and how important medicine is and people are saying oh well Mike you're just making pretty faces you know you shouldn't be here in this medical area you should be out there in that aesthetics you should be down there with those plastic surgeons because you're just making pretty faces and this is what's held this subject back because this is relationship between how well you've grown and how healthy you are if I say that in any respect to any other part of the body it's obvious but if I said that to the face people can have a sense of humour loss and you know these things are related you know are we attracted are we inherently we genetically engineered to be attracted to healthier people or less healthy people what do we think in Darwin's philosophy of mate selection remember his dad granddad came up with evolution he came up with mate selection so it's just a pretty face isn't it well when you go back in time everyone had pretty faces so this is the himba and you know this is basically what Weiss was saying but you'll notice their teeth aren't warmed down like that original face I showed you so they are way different there's no just because they're dressed up to look tribal don't be drawn in that they're living a natural lifestyle they've got knives there's changed their you know I would say 50% from them from their natural lifestyle of hunter gathered to us just having a knife made a major change in how you're going to eat your food so they don't have that wear pattern and it seems they're all through life the kids, the aunts, everyone and that's how we all should be well again they're half way I wonder if we would actually find someone from a true hunter gatherer I think they might be beyond our envelope of what we would think would be tip top but you see all good facial form all of them health and beauty this thing goes together doesn't it but of course the empire strikes back so in November I've got a court case where they're going to try and take my license away and it's been brutal it's been dominated the last five years of my life and I'm going in to court without an expert because there aren't any experts that really believe in what I'm saying and that's a tough one to pull off it's not going to be a level playing field because I'm trying to put forward I don't have direct evidence and without direct evidence you're slightly screwed to be honest and if you don't have an expert and you're going to challenge their expert it's not a good position to be in and of course everyone in the courtroom are going to believe that the way their face grew the fact that they don't have wisdom teeth is normal and realise if you don't have your wisdom teeth in your mouth you're away from normal you're an affected person and everyone there will already believe where that is that's normal they're biased now I know what cards to remove from that house of cards but you can't do that in the courtroom I've focused on the etiology the cause but I do think this is a travesty of science this is not how surprise it's supposed to be I challenged my profession to a debate on the cause over and over again I've never got that and it's been sent to shit because my insurance company has stopped me saying anything and that's what normally happens and you either slip below the horizon and however I've moved from being suppressed to being persecuted and in being persecuted well that's newsworthy as you'll see this is newsworthy we've got a camera crew here today and they're making a documentary on us and we are making headway but in a way I need your help in a way I could help you you know modern medicine you know the barriers to changing modern medicine it's all well established there's already this pushback happening there isn't that in dentistry particularly not in the UK now when are we going to reach 30% of people dying 10 years early from sleep apnea in its consequences it'll be soon and what we really need is a revolution many of you here will be affected by the problems I'm saying you know forward head posture snoring sleep apnea you had orthodontics struggle with breathing through your noses you know what I want is debate scientific engagement I just want the scientific process I've been asking for no more again and again I've done the letter writing campaign I've put enough stuff out there saying all I want is debate and again any professor on the planet any time I'm ready for meaningful engagement ok thank you very much Mike Mike I'm going to talk to you anyway I'll shout then wait till when you're close it works oh I'm that close yesterday we ran out of time you know James schoolfully kept us on time but the last slide I was going to show how do we fix it there's a number of peer reviewed orthodontic journals that call malocclusion or what you have identified as craniofacial dystrophy as being a developmental variant or situation but not a disease malocclusion is not a disease by your orthodontic peers could you please speak to that because it's causing a lot of problems the moment we're in a situation where we're all affected I showed you the face dropping down and back we're all at the halfway well some more than others we're a range around that halfway point and when you're in that halfway point where everyone's affected you can't see the wood for the trees when you're in that place where you think having wisdom teeth wisdom teeth are a genetic abnormality we don't need anymore at that point you can't see the wood for the trees you don't know what's happening because everyone's affected and we're in a situation where because everyone's affected you imagine that crooked teeth is a variation around the norm what we're seeing at the moment that's the comment from the orthodontics that malocclusion is a variation around the norm but if you had him but people living in your village on your town you wouldn't think it was a variation around the norm because you would see people who were developed so much better malocclusion is a symptom of another disease so malocclusion is a symptom of craniofacial dystrophy is a symptom of not having enough space for the teeth there are so many barriers is one of many barriers the biggest barrier is people wanting to believe that the way their face has grown is genetic that's you, that's your personality that's your identity you did a really convincing you have a convincing argument that there's this major problem and I'm biased because I already I'm on board with that and understand that the general scientific community doesn't agree but you also hinted at a possible solution with the muing like that that can help is that what you would prescribe because you didn't really go into what the actual solution would be clearly there's a limit to what I can put out on a lecture I should highlight this slide on the top left the slide on the left is prevent crooked teeth campaign so please take some time could everyone go google prevent crooked teeth sign up to that campaign because the answer has to be prevention you know prevention, what I'm saying basically could be boiled down to stand up straight and shut your mouth there's not a new idea the pathology could be summed up as shut your mouth or the wind will change and your face will set like that that's not a new idea if you want to prevent kids take kids I don't want to be drawn under about four years old from about four years old you could be chewing gum, lip taping and just telling kids sit up straight shut your mouth eat with your mouth shut this has a huge and powerful benefit to helping teeth straighten line up as I said teeth sitting is balanced between the lips and the tongue get the lips working correctly but what I do work wise I showed you this case here it's a lovely result, I've changed that kids life the life he's going to go on and have is going to be just completely different he'd have got worse if I hadn't intervened yet it is not very profitable, I'm just getting it to the point of being profitable now but to teach other people how to do this it's really hard work you need to be really dedicated and focused to get those scientific changes it is we need to work on it we need to work on that science but that's what science developed by working on them the other thing I'm curious about you listed some problems that go along with the tooth problem the hearing is one example I'm wondering if there's a connection with the epidemic of myopia because of the fact that the face is narrowing myopia parallels this perfectly in fact I'd go so far as to say that at this level of change you're getting at someone you're probably actually influencing that part of the skull that interests me but either ways it parallels a modern disease of modern society because we're changing our environment thank you so I was one of the many kids who had orthodontics from first grade to college, ultimately I had the frankle, I had braces multiple times I had permanent teeth pulled and now I'm working with a dentist that seems very much aligned with your philosophy to correct all of that that was done as a kid and my question for you one of the things that through this process of correcting a lot of this, realigning my jaw I'll be doing the upper palate expansion one of the things she mentioned too as a possibility is tongue tie release and I hear that a lot in kind of the more holistic dentistry world I'm wondering what your thoughts are on that I mean there's the old argument do tongue ties not become released so you get a residual tongue tie because you haven't been using that muscle properly or is it because the muscle is tied, I mean it's a chicken and egg really and I think I'm a cautious when it comes to tongue ties I slightly sit on the fence my father remembers the time when he was younger where everyone was rash cutting tongue ties so I didn't ever meet my grandfather but so apparently did my grandfather so this is the third point when tongue ties are being invoked I'm a little bit more cautious I see too much post-operative scarring because people don't then stretch their tongue and use it properly so I think in extreme cases yes I think we risk treating because it's flavor of the month and it makes certainly really exercise before and afterwards because if you really do that then it's great it works if you don't waste of time but what I would like of the ancestral health symposium what I want to do is I want to take evidence that doesn't yet exist I would like anyone who can to write me an article from their perspective on craniofasial dystrophy because if I could take through 10, 20 articles like that written from other people from other professions that can validate what I'm saying craniofasial dystrophy then I start putting together some type of science some thing to help me and help me help you because this is an ancestral subject we can get this one across the line and help the whole movement thank you very much


Well, this is Tim. Did you come back today to hear what happened to Jump Jump and me when we were captured by the ice dwarfs? The dwarfs had captured us. They were little men no taller than my shoulder. They had long beards made of icicles, and they carried swords of ice.  We didn't know where. I'll tell you just about that in just a minute. Do you suppose? Maybe. He's in my pocket. You're alright, aren't you, Jump Jump? Good. You stay down in my pocket and be real quiet. We don't want the ice dwarfs to find you. I just saw a poet's chin wobbling up and down. Well, the poet is probably making up a poem. It's Sleepy Slim I'm worried about. Where do you suppose Sleepy Slim is? The dwarfs are stopping. What do you suppose they're going to do now?  I think it's ice instead of rock, Tim. The leader of the dwarfs is taking out his sword. And he's touching his sword to that big snow-covered rock. The rock is moving. See, Tim? It's opening like a door. What's happening, Mary Holiday? What's happening? Shh, Jump Jump. Keep your head down. We're going into some sort of an ice tunnel. The motioning for us to go into the tunnel, Mary Holiday. All right. Come on, Archie Bodley. Come on, poet. Yes, Archie Bodley. Walk close to Mary Holiday so the ice dwarfs won't get near our pocket. You know why don't you, Archie Bodley? Yes, Tim. Here we are in a tunnel. Yes. Look how the lanterns set in the sides of the wall and make the floors shine. The walls and floors are ice. No wonder they shine. Don't slip. The floors are slippery. Ice elves don't seem to mind their slippery. No. Oh, they're closing the door behind us. Well, we walked along for several minutes. Most of the ice dwarfs are ahead of us. But about a dozen are so following us down the tunnel. They never spoke a word, but they shoved us along. And if we look back as if we are going to stop, as the poet did every now and then, they found and laid their pointed icy swords at us. It was sort of creepy and awfully cold. And then... Look, everybody. Look. There's a big room opening out of the tunnel ahead. Right in the middle, Mary Holiday. Oh, please. Jump. Jump. Keep your head down. Yes, there is a big room there. That must be as high as the building. And look at all those funny things hanging from it. More icicles, I guess. I was in a cave near the orphanage one time. And it kind of looked like this, Mary Holiday. There's a fire in the center. Good. There's a fire. Maybe we'll all fall out a little. Auntie Pogby's so cold, he can't even talk straight. Oh, is he just cold? I thought he was scared, Mary Holiday. No, Tim. I'm cold. Look. Look, Auntie Pogby. Look, Mary Holiday. Jump, jump. Quiet. I'll tell you what we've seen. I'll keep you no head down.  Maybe they'll all melt, Mary Holiday. Oh, please, just be quiet.  It looks like a big chair. Yes. It's a throne chair, Tim. And someone is sitting on the throne chair with a fire. Oh, it must be the king of the ice dwarves. I'm going to ask him if he's seen Sleepy Slim. It's towards a meeting in Ohio for us to walk through, Mary Holiday. Yes. Come on, poet. And, Auntie Pogby, you stay close to Tim and me. Look! Look who's sitting on the throne. Yes. Why, it's Sleepy Slim. It's Sleepy Slim. Oh, hello. Surprise. Surprise? Oh, Sleepy Slim, we thought we'd lost it. Yes. I bet you wondered where it was, didn't you? Wondered. Oh, we've been so worried. What does all this mean? Are you a prisoner here, too? You me? Of course not. I'm the new king here. The king of the ice dwarves? You? Sleepy Slim, the king of the ice dwarves? Yeah, but please sit down and get warm. I sent a few of the dwarves up after you. Cute little fellas, I'd say, but I'd rather be a elf myself. Oh, there you are. There you are. I was wondering where you were. Jump, jump. Come up here and sit on the arm of my throne chair. Now, say hello to the ice dwarves. Jump, jump. I already did. Oh, you did, huh? They didn't say hello to me, no. Oh, they didn't, huh? I hid in merry-holy socks. And I'll bet you had a nap in Merry Holiday's pocket, too. I bet you I'd like to take a nap myself. Oh, please, Sleepy Slim, don't take a nap now. Tell us how you became king of the ice elf. How did you get off our sled? Oh, that. Well, I was sleeping. Naturally, you're always sleeping, Sleepy Slim. I fell off.  Yeah, I fell off and rolled into the snow. Well, I was lying there thinking. Why didn't you get up and run and catch us? I thought I would, and then I thought again and again. You thought what, Sleepy Slim? King of Sleepy Slim? Yes, I thought I'd run up and catch you after I rested a while. Oh, dear.  They thought that I was wonderful. Of course I am wonderful. Of course, Sleepy Slim, but... Oh, it's nice to be appreciated even when you're sleeping. Well, how did you get down here?  Ask you to be king, but why should be them? You're too sleepy. Oh, Sleepy Slim, you're impossible. No, it isn't impossible for me to sleep. It's impossible for them to sleep. That's why I'm the king here. The ice dwarves haven't slept for a thousand years. They got me to do their sleeping for them. The ice dwarves haven't slept for a thousand years? Why? It's too cold, I guess. Some people just can't sleep when they're too cold, I guess. I can.  Jump, jump. I can. Now you take me. Sleepy Slim, you aren't going to stay here with these dwarves, are you? We need you to go with us to help rescue Sam as reindeer from the ice queen. You need me, huh? Oh, yes, we are you. Because I'm so smart, I guess. Yeah, you're everything, Sam. Yeah, well, I guess I'll just abdicate the throne and come with you after all. I kind of hate to miss Christmas. Out of the way, ice dwarves, out of my way and let my friends through here.  Stars, I'm going to let us through, Sleepy Slim. They don't want you to go. They don't, I guess, well, then I'll just stay. Oh, no, no, Sleepy Slim.  Ask them again to let us through. It's getting close to Christmas. Stand aside, stand aside, stand aside. But they didn't stand aside. They closed in around us and waved their icy swords in our faces. We didn't quite know what to do. And then, Mary Holiday said, I have an idea. You said the dwarves haven't slept for a thousand years. Yeah, yeah, I try. Then they must be awfully sleepy. So don't you see if we could only think of some way of putting them to sleep. How can we put them to sleep, Mary Holiday? What can we do? I can jump. What good would your jumping do, Jump Jump? I can jump. And sure enough, Jump Jump jumped into the seat of the throne chair and started jumping up and down. He jumped backwards and forwards and sideways. And he jumped so fast and so long that all the ice dwarves, watching him closely, that pretty soon they began to nod and the first thing to do, one by one those little ice dwarves fell over on the floor and they caverned asleep. They made me sleepy too. Watching Jump Jump jump up and down.  Come on, poet, come on, Archie Parkley. All the ice dwarves have been hypnotized by Jump Jump jumping up and down. Come on, hurry, step over the sleeping dwarves. Careful now, careful, don't wake them up. Step over and we'll run away before they wake up.  We ran up that ice tunnel as fast as we could go and they opened this squeaky door and they were free outside once more. Oh, he made it. Oh, nice to be out in the open air again. Oh, and look, the wind has completely stopped blowing. Is everybody all right? Yes, we're all right, Mary Holiday. I'm all right, Mary Holiday. Oh, good. Now to hurry on along the silver path that the Christmas fairy showed us before the ice dwarves wake up is gone. Mary Holiday, Mary Holiday, look. What, Tim, look where? Up there, look up there, everybody, across the silver path. What is it, what is it? Don't you see it's a crack in the ground that's getting bigger and bigger. Look, it's just cracking open right across the silver path. Oh, we can't get back to our dog team and we can't follow the silver path either. Oh, it goes down and down and down. Jump Jump, don't you get close to the edge? I know. The ice queen has opened up this gap in the ice to keep us from passing through. Oh, what shall we do now to get to the ice queen's palace to rescue Santa's reindeer in time for Christmas?


Pearson, Stacey on the edge of the D. Everyone else inside the 18-yard area. Mark Kondes does deliver into the area. Solanke with the header, straight in, Ingram, who saved brilliantly. And then the rebound was put over the bar by Solanke. The goal kick still holds, it's an ill-bore with no great chance for Dominic Solanke. Well, it was, and it was a fantastic corner, right on the money. Early delivery, into the six-yard area, headed off the crossbar by Docherty. The rebound comes out and Jack Stacey gets it away, not dealt with by Bournemouth though. David Brooks eventually does nip it away at the second attempt. Mistake at the back from Jacob Greaves to let Dominic Solanke and Greaves source his feet out there. Give it away for the goalkeeper, Solanke again saved by Ingram. Matt Ingram has just passed the ball straight to Dominic Solanke. One touch from Solanke, Ingram had charged him down. Just have a listen to that noise. Chance here. Here's Zamora, inside the box, left side, pulls it back. Marconde's over the bar and into the south stand. Bournemouth nil, another chance for the Cherries.


Ahoy, ahoy, and welcome to the channel. I'm Dr. Sumerian, not a real doctor, and today we're going to talk about something that is so important that I used to end videos by saying it way, way back, maybe three or four years ago, when this was more of a podcast than a YouTube channel. I used to end the episodes by saying, and remember, there is no canon. Or was it I started the episodes? I need to go back and listen to some of regardless. It was a central fixture of the actual, the creations that I was making at the time, the podcast, that's the right word. And I've done videos before that have detailed what that means. But more recently, I've started to come to the conclusion that a lot of people still don't understand what that really comes to mean. And the reason I stopped saying it was less that it's not valid and that it's a little misleading to say there is no canon because, of course, there are cannons on the SCP wiki. The phrase, there is no canon is quite old. It started, you know, short, probably shortly after the fishmonger debacle where they used to be an interconnected single sort of cannon on the SCP wiki because that's the standard for fiction. And we'll get into why that's actually part of the problem later. But that's sort of the standard for fiction. So when the wiki was started, the idea was that there was a single interconnected canon.  And other people who had built stuff around that person's articles were then left orphaned. And so what was one canon fractured? And then from there, everyone just decided screw it. Every article is its own thing. We don't want to have to deal with that again. And that sort of early problem with just a few people has now ballooned since there are literally almost, oh, gosh, I think with tails and Geo eyes and SCPs combined probably over 10,000 articles in the SCP wiki. And in a sense, every single individual article is its own canon. And that's the more important thing to say. Instead of there is no cannon, think of each individual article as having its own cannon. And of course, there are cannons as well. So this is another reason why there is no cannon can be misleading. There actually are cannons on the SCP wiki. There's quite a few of them. Two, three, maybe even four dozen cannons now exist on the SCP wiki. I've helped create of four or five and been personally like the driving force behind the creation of three. But for the main lane cannon of the SCP wiki, there are some standards for what makes what it what makes an SCP an SCP, for example. And they're very limited. It's there are. There is an SCP foundation. That SCP foundation is involved in the cover up and containment of anomalies and anomalies are essentially magical or unexplainable things that need to be contained or it need to be contained for either the safety of humanity or for just the preservation of the idea that they're the idea in the world that they're that magic doesn't exist. So out. And by the way, individual cannons that I was just talking about do up in some of the like that's their whole conceit is that they up in some of those conventions. So that's the important part. Like that's what differentiates them from a standard SCP story. Unfounded is the greatest example of that because it's about an SCP foundation universe where the foundation wasn't created or broken masquerade, which is about an SCP foundation universe where everyone knows that magic exists. And so those cannons of those cannons on the SCP wiki are are are created as exceptions to what is the baseline cannon. Now, what is it about the SCP universe that is difficult to grasp for new or even I'm going to say this with no sense of superiority in my heart, younger fans. And that's the idea that almost every piece of fiction you consume has an internally consistent lore. And a canon as it were, which is what an internally consistent lore is. The every story has to meet at least a minimum requirement of standardization with the overall medium that it's in. Let's take a look at, you know, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, because it's maybe one of the best examples and not. Well, the best example. I don't know best is the word that a lot of people might dispute. I don't dispute, but it's one of the best examples in modern fiction of an internally consistent universe. Now, there are some and this is the important part. Like there are some inconsistencies. I can't off the top of my head name any. But I know I've seen, you know, you've seen YouTube videos about logic plot holes and logic flaws, but they get the majority of things correct. Like the hometown, I don't know what it is in the MCU. But if they listed a hometown for Tony Stark, it's not going to change. Once it's set in a movie, that's it. It is fact, five movies, 10 movies, 20 movies down the line. That is Tony Stark's hometown. But if you look at someone in like, we'll just say Dr. Sumerian, because that's the character that I originated. His hometown is not defined and will never be fully defined. In the stories I write, I like to think he comes from Alabama, but I have written stories where he comes from somewhere else, where he immigrated in from Crimea. There are also plenty of stories where he is straight up, well, not straight up, but he's the son of two Ukrainian immigrants. Say they kind of, if you think about it, they do evolve around the same idea, but they're not exactly the same. But other people have written stories and not a lot of people go into the background of Dr. Sumerian. But if other people wrote stories and he was from Oregon or Canada or. Or Saudi Arabia, it wouldn't matter because there is no canonical definitive single representation of Dr. Sumerian. Dr. Sumerian is a more nebulous character that meets certain that fits certain archetypes and requirements. And if you use them, great. And if you don't use them, you don't have to. There are plenty of universes with Dr. Sumerian. I should say plenty of articles where Dr. Sumerian doesn't exist. There are plenty of articles where the ethics committee doesn't exist. The SCP Wiki is a wide and open space. It does not follow the same rules as standard fiction. And this is difficult for especially younger fans to understand and not just younger fans. And I'm not saying this is a sense of like, you know, immaturity. It's not. It's just a matter of not being exposed to enough fiction of a particular type. If everything in your life as an internally consistent lore. Why would you expect anything different from the next piece of fiction that you consume? So when so many shows up in a discord server, which has happened a lot recently, or an IRC chat or just in person is talking about like, why do you think the old man is the way he is? Well, that's a question that assumes the the existence of the old man. And you can actually answer that pretty easily. But in the back of your head, you're like, well, in my version of the SG universe, the old man doesn't exist. Or why is it that the SCP 682 is completely indestructible? Again, that assumes a lot in your version or my version of the SCP universe. It might not be. So when you ask that question, you're asking a question that not everyone agrees with the underlying assumptions about. That's the problem in living in it. Well, not living in writing and reading in a universe where there is no canonical representation of anything, no single canonical representation of anything. What you have to do is when you frame your question and this is not this is not conducive to easy conversation. When you frame your question, you have to say in article X, why is why? That's confusing when I say, why is why in universe X? What is the reason that Y is Z? Yeah, that'll work fine, fine, fine. I made it more complicated, but it's still, I think, easier to understand when I say it that way, because if you don't tell me which article you're basing your things around, I have no idea because and a lot of articles do interconnect, by the way. But if I write in, let's say if 682, off the top of my head, I don't remember if it does or not. But if 682 is core article, no, it doesn't, for sure. It's in the testing log. But if 682 is core article, it's technically separate from its testing log, in a sense. But even if it wasn't and you consider them the same thing, just because an SCP shows up in SCP 682's testing log doesn't mean that that article. So let's use 343 as an example. 682, canonically, in its article, has interacted with SCP 343. That does not mean that in its article, that 343 has interacted with 682, period. If a tail connects two articles together, that's great. It means that they are connected by that tail in the sense that that tail has them connected to each other. And one of the articles might even rewrite a little bit. To change it so that it is connected to the other one. But if only one of them does it, then the other article is not strictly speaking, automatically connected by this thread. That's not how the SCP wiki works, because there isn't a single internally consistent lore. Anyway, let's just end it there before it gets much longer. If you enjoyed the video, hit the subscribe button and then hit the notification bell next to that so you're notified when I upload new videos. And then head on over to patreon.com forward slash D. Cimmerian and pledge at any level like everybody here on the screen already has, including Doc. Wow. That's an old patron that came back that suddenly I was about to list his name off again. He hasn't been pledged above $10 for quite some time. Yeah, that's right. I know my patrons somewhat personally. But anyway, Centuriki was pledged $100 and MC Casimo was pledged at $50. 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