Was The Phantom Of The Opera Book Worth All The Adaptations?

[Music] hello my beautiful Watchers and welcome to lost in adaptation the internet review show that's usually about comparing films to the books they're based on yes despite the lack of lost in adaptation in the title this is the first of a three-part I'm doing on the Phantom of the Opera because I just couldn't resist a chance to fully explore another story that's evolved through multiple mediums if someone mentions the Phantom of the Opera odds are they referring to the 1980s musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and for good reason it's one of the most successful plays of all time phantom one all of the freakin awards made billions of dollars being shown in 145 cities across 27 countries and is the second longest-running West End musical however it was most certainly not the birthplace of the famous opera ghost he'd already made his debut 76 years earlier in France in the form of a novel written by Gaston Leroux Webber's musical was so successful it's safe to say it has pretty much eclipsed its source material at this point and it's also inspired multiple adaptations of its own into film form what I plan to do is first give you a full synopsis and review of the book to see if it was really worth all this fast and then I'm going to do two episodes of lost in adaptation first seeing how the musical differs from the book then seeing how they film differed from the musical I'm going to look at the 25-year anniversary at the Royal Albert Hall to represent the musical because even though it might not have been the perfect venue for a production of phantom I'm pretty sure it's the only official recording of the play the film was a hard decision because there were so many good options to choose from it's the bad one it's the 2004 one directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Gerard Butler because well lifelike youtubers can be a real bastard sometimes just before I jump into a rundown of the book if you watch the reviews I did for the FEMA script tears you might remember that despite my best efforts I am a laughably bad at pronouncing French names so my deepest apologies in advance for what I'm about to put French speakers through and Gaston Leroux was a French journalist turned author he apparently originally wanted to be a lawyer but squandered his vast inheritance living like a rock star and ended up having to take a day job as a writer to pay his bills though the Phantom of the Opera is what he's most remembered for in the english-speaking world during his career in France he gained fame primarily for his crime mystery novels taking inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write such popular works as the mystery of the yellow room the Phantom of the Opera was originally serialized in 1909 then republished as a complete work in 1910 in the introduction LaRue writing as himself claims that the Opera ghost was totes real and this book is a reconstruction of actual events that he's collated from journal extracts and witness testimonies there's enough provable falsehoods to it statements to make it pretty clear this is just a gimmick he's trying out like when the Blair Witch Project first came out and all the marketing was based around going oh yeah now this is a very real we just found this footage don't mind the interviews with the cast or anything unfortunately it's a dramatic recreation and he summarizes a lot so it's not quite on the same level as say Dracula where the whole thing is past tense diary entries and you end up wondering how all of these characters have compulsively written down every detail of their lives as soon as it happens this format does result in a certain nonlinear element to the book story there some chapters described the events of the same period of time from multiple people's perspectives sometimes setting up a very strange interaction that confuses the reader at first but makes a little more sense a bit later when you hear what happened from the other party's point of view now it's universally true that no matter how detailed it is you'll never get the same sort of experience from hearing a summary of a book as reading it for yourself but because I'm certainly not going to recreate that particular writing choice I should warn you that hearing this synopsis from me is going to be even more removed from how the author intended for you to enjoy the story than usual so if you've not read this book please keep that in mind before passing judgment on it okay let's send up sir sighs the time the 1880s the place France the Paris Opera House the establishment is in the process of changing hands from the two previous owners to firm in Russia and his financial partner Armand de monterrey on the former management's last day in charge the chief stage mechanist Joseph Buquet is found dangling from a noose in the basement beneath the stage it's deemed to have been suicide by investigators despite the Evoque that was used to kill him mysteriously vanishing when they were turned to collect the body this prompts the previous owners to come clean to Bashar and motion about something that they've been hiding from them that for years now they had been plagued by some very strange goings-on at the Opera that were attributed to a ghost that lives there and had supposedly just been sighted just before bouquet was killed he was said to sometimes appear as a well dressed man with a terrible deaths head which I assumed at first meant a skull mask but apparently refers to her face so ugly it might as well be a skull other sightings described him as a floating disembodied head that how on fire but not burning up they had become so convinced that this ghost actually existed they had bound to several extraordinary demands that supposedly came from him namely they paid a twenty thousand francs salary to him every month and kept box five a high-value private viewing balcony free during every performance for his use they warned the new owners that terrible things tend to happen if the ghost wishes are not met things like stagehands being found mysteriously dead by apparent suicide neither Rashad nor mushroom Mar believe a word of it and laughed the whole thing off the death of bouquet has kept seeker for the rest of the day to not ruin the United performance the usual star of the show a famous Spanish soprano named Carlotta had taken ill and a hitherto unknown singer named Christine died he had stepped in to fill her role and had absolutely flattened the audience with her amazing singing before being so overcome with emotion she fainted right onstage amongst the audience that night was a French aristocrat Count Philippe de Shani and his younger brother the of I count Raoul Raoul recognizes Christine as the girl that he had met and fallen in love with when they were children he goes to visit her after the performance but she does not appear to remember him and humiliates him somewhat by laughing as his blurted out story about how they met when he rescued her scarf that had blown out to sea he goes a little butt hurts talked on her and sneaks back to her dressing room later where he his a man's voice from within demanding that Christine loved him and her replying that she sang just for him tonight and has already given him her soul after Christine leaves to go home we're all breaks into her room to confront his new love rival but is confused to find no one there over the next few weeks as Rochelle and Marcia ma are taking over the running of the opera house they received several notes signed by the opera ghost reminding the gentleman about the og salary and box 5 they are eloquently worded and in striking red ink but written in a clumsy childish handwriting finally starting to suspect that this might be more than just a practical joke especially after reports that people who were seated in box 5 heard a disembodied voice telling them that it was occupied the pair interview several employees about this mysterious ghost the Akashi is a very old woman by the name of Madame Giri claims to have never seen him but had often been spoken to by the ghost when he requested certain things in his box during performances and even claimed to have been tipped generously by him on many occasions the managers immediately had her fired for being obviously mad meanwhile a confused and angry Raoul is sliding into Christine's DMS by sending her letters until she finally replies and admit that she was only pretending not to recognize him and tells him that she is returning to the village in Normandy where they met as children to visit her father's grave on the anniversary of his death Raoul decides to follow her there and takes a train to Normandy the book then fills us in on Christine's backstory she was the daughter of a famous Swedish violin player who came to Paris to seek his fortune but took ill and died promising her in his final days that once he was in heaven he would seek out an angel of music and send him to earth to finish teaching her how to sing when he finally tracks Cristina the inn she doesn't seem surprised to see Raoul he blurts out a confession of love for her and is laughed at again hurt he confronts her about the man in her dressing room which in turn hurts her feelings for believing that she would be the kind of girl who would invite a man into her dressing room after hours she parts tearfully but they meet again in a local graveyard and she tells him that the voice that he heard was the angel of music that her father had sent to her from heaven to turn her into an amazing singer and that was how she gave such an amazing performance on her first night not believing her overall insists that whoever has been teaching her music is an impostor just pretending to be an angel christine once again leaves in tears later that night where all here's christine leaving the inn and continues stalking her he follows her back to the graveyard and his the most amazing violin music coming from her father's tomb presumably being played on the instrument he was buried with seeing a dark figure he attempts to grab him but is confronted with a death's-head face and glowing golden eyes so terrifying that rule faints dead away and has found the next morning unconscious on these steps of the church half frozen to death christine takes care of him and they return to paris once he's recovered back at the opera house relations between rashaam Oshima and the opera ghost have broken down considerably as they have refused to bow to his demands and keep trying to discover his identity to no avail one such demand was to permanently replace the now recovered Carlotta with Christine as lead singer and to rehire Madame Geary as the Box manager when this is not done closes voice through seemingly dark magic fails her mid song and she appears to make some sort of horrific quacking noise instead much much worse the massive chandelier that suspended over the audience falls right into the head of Madame Geary's replacement killing her instantly to top it all christine mysteriously disappears that night when Raul searches for her her caretaker Madame Valerius a elderly lady who was friends of her father tells him that she's gone to stay with her angel of music for a bit she also warns him that Christine can never truly be with him cause the angel said that he would have to go back to heaven if she ever got married man and Valerius appears to have partaken of the kool-aid pretty hard as she sees nothing unusual in the idea of a supernatural heavenly teacher who's also possessive and jealous while concludes that this old woman's madness is probably a factor in why Christine was so easily taken in by whoever's pretending to be this angel Christine eventually sends her all another letter apparently by throwing it out of a carriage onto the street in the hopes that some kind soul would find and deliver it which surprisingly actually worked she arranges to meet with him during a masquerade ball at the Opera House but before they can discuss anything Raul sees a man he believes to be her mysterious teacher walking around dressed as the Red Death from the Edgar Allen Poe story and tries to attack him Christine restrains him which were all considers to be enough of a trail to berate and insult her and she once again walks away from him emotionally distraught later he goes looking for her in her dressing room and finding it empty decides to go in and have a look around anyway when he hears Christine coming he hides in the inner room and witnesses her expressing pity for a man called Eric while wrestling with his sense of entitled anger that she is daring to lament this Eric person instead of him where all is shocked to hear a voice singing to her from a full-length wall mirror Christine approaches it and seems to vanish right before his eyes once again she reappears some time later and he goes to visit her and her adopted mother to finally get some answers Christine where on earth did you disappear to again oh she's been off with that angel of music again huh he's lovely huh mama I thought we agreed you'd want them to talk about the angel and also there is no angel that would be crazy you are correct there is no angel he's an impostor I you wearing a wedding ring no madam I believe your adopted daughter is in clear and present danger from home from the angel I thought you just said there is no angel there isn't thanks for dropping by if I count weirdly though shortly later Christine meets him yes again and confesses mutual feelings for him she seems to be under the impression that have romance between them would be doomed but suggests that they get secretly engaged anyway and they sort of pseudo date for a while they actually appear to be getting on for once and Christine's career as a singer seems to be going from strength to strength now that Coolatta believes she's cursed eventually though Raul can no longer take the jealousy over her wearing the Angels ring and in it's her again christine appears to have finally come to trust raoul enough to tell him the full story and it's a doozy she leads him up to the roof of the Opera House and somewhat unsurprisingly reveals to him that the opera ghost and her angel of music are the same person and he had started communicating with her through her mirror and giving her singing lessons a few months before being superstitious she had initially thought that it was indeed the angel that her father had promised to send her however this didn't last as long as you might think the ghost eventually had her walk up to the mirror and she inexplicably found herself in a secret tunnel with him she thinks that he must have drugged her at this point because she has only vague memories of a short trip on a horse that had been stolen from the Opera then a ride on a boat across a massive underground lake to a house in the far side of it when her senses finally returned to her the ghosts subterranean abode Christine got a good look at the guy for the first time and quickly realized that he was seriously lacking in angelic qualities contrary to her expectations instead of being transported into a magical realm of music she was in fact in a sewer with a creepy smelly man wearing a skull mask called Erik please bear in mind that that probably sounded more exotic and foreign to a nineteenth-century Frenchman to an English speaker there are some who call me Kim Erik is a tad weird to say the least of his kidnapping and drugging her hadn't been enough of a giveaway he also reveals that he willingly sleeps in a coffin and sometimes spends weeks not eating or sleeping just composing his masterpiece opera he professes his undying love for Christine and while she is deeply disappointed that he wasn't what she expected she is still quite impressed of his incredible singing and musical skills she might even have been willing to let him continue to be her friend and teacher but she becomes super curious about what he looks like underneath the mask and pulls it off him underneath Erik apparently looks like he's been dead for several years and his yellow eyes glow in the dark like a cat's he's pretty pissed at her for young king his mask and yells at her for a bit then saves that because she's seen his horrible horrible face he knows that she'll never return if he lets her leave so now he's gonna have to keep her prisoner forever Christine does the only sensible thing in this scenario and lies like crazy for a fortnight convincing him that if he were to let her go she would love to come back to this dark damp underground house of doom and gloom to visit him regularly he eventually agrees to let her go on the condition that she wears a ring that he gave her and promises to come back whenever he wants to see her Erik is so pathetic and sad at their parting despite everything early kind-hearted Christine is filled with pity for him and decides to keep the promise she made under duress and return regularly to continue singing lessons with him however upon every return visit she's become more and more frightened of Erick as he seems to be getting more and more insistent that she love him the way that he loves her so now she's willing to run away from the Opera with Raul in classic Christian fashion though she doesn't want to do it immediately she wants to stay one more night and sing for Eric one last time to lessen the blow of her leaving for him I should mention that this narrative of Christine's story was often cut up and interlaced in the book with more shenanigans involving Russia and more Shama failing to get to the bottom of this opera ghost business unfortunately me the Christine Norah will noticed that Eric was right behind them this entire conversation and has heard everything Raul's Big Brother they count is super not into the idea of him marrying a common singer but Raul gives him the you're not the boss of me man treatment and makes arrangements anyway alas during her final performance Christine vanishes from the stage in a flash of light before the eyes of the entire audience and no one can find her these stories segues once again to tell a long humorous story about Raja and Marcia ma attempting to track down whoever is pretending to be the ghost using the reinstated Madame giri and getting hoodwinked out of the money that they were using as bait multiple times as you can probably tell the slipping sanity of these men is a recurring theme in this story anyway getting back to the a plaintiff are all is pretty desperate to find Christine though he has no idea where to start looking until he is approached by a mysterious foreign man known only as the Persian who offers to help him the Persian had popped up once or twice throughout the story in a very minor capacity he was known as an eccentric who was allowed to wander around the Opera House to smite not working there every now and again he would whisper something to a lead character that suggested that he knew more about the Opera ghost than the average person and the full scope of the Persians shared history with Eric has revealed slowly in bits and pieces over the remaining chapters for the sake of keeping things simple I'm just going to lay out the OGIS whole backstory now despite his name Eric was actually born in France the son of a super talented Mason both his parents despised him for being born so hideously deformed so he ran away at a young age and spent a good portion of his life travelling around and learning lots of different skills it turns out that in a weird comic counterweight to being born super ugly Eric was naturally very very talented at a lot of things his singing and music playing was incredible he became a genius architect and mechanist and he even learned how to be a master to assassin because why not he spent some time in a carnival as a sort of combination of freakshow magician and Pioneer ventriloquist then was invited to travel to Persia the bastard the Sultana who he would go on to teach and entertained by horribly murdering people in front of her while he was there he took part in multiple political assassinations and used his architectural skills to help build cool palaces for the ruling class eventually it was decided that he just knew too much and a deroga which is a kind of Chief of Police was ordered to have him executed the deroga was the man who would eventually become known as the Persian hit a soft spot for Eric so helped him escape at the cost of his own banishment both men ended up moving to France where Eric once again put his genius architects skills to good use by designing and building the very Paris Opera House that he now lives in sick of the world and its treatment of him Eric had a secret home for himself built on these shores of the underground lake beneath its foundations and secret passages installed throughout the building that would allow him to travel around unnoticed Eric was at this point completely devoid of human empathy feeling he had been so screwed over by life the universe and everything he was no longer obliged to be bound by any constraints of civilized society or the desire to show kindness to others no matter how innocent they were wrong in him the Persian had called on him a few times mostly to admonish him for his latest murder as Eric owed him his life he was the only person he didn't kill on sight if discovered in his cave for example it's deduced that Joseph Buquet the man who was found hanged at the start of the story stumbled upon his lair and suffered his dark fate because of it it's revealed that it was partly due to the Persians insistence that Eric agreed to let Christine go the first time he kidnapped her though it's pretty clear that the drogas influence on him is limited because he's still kept her for the better part of a month after decades of letting Eric get away with gruesome murders with little more than a telling off this probably permanent second kidnapping of Christine has finally convinced the Persian to actually do something about him so he teams up with her rule and shows him how they spinning mirror that Eric built into Christine's room works he gives him an old pistol to hold even though he doesn't think they'll actually get a chance to use it on Eric it's actually just a way to give a rule to hold his hand up at the level of his eyes because Eric's weapon of choice is the Punjab I did some research and I think this is a weapon that the room made up it's like a noose like lasso that he could skillfully throw over someone's neck and strangle them with if they weren't blocking it well this is kind of clever I think it would have been quicker and easier to just tell him exactly that rather than constantly having to remind him to raise his hand like he ends up having to do as they say Dericks house one that unroot through the tunnels there suddenly confronted with the disembodied fiery head that the oppor employees sometimes witnessed it floats past them followed by an army of rats and [ __ ] gets weird hello on the ratcatcher if you don't move you'll be fine so yeah I'm just gonna go this way with me rats bye anyway when that seemingly very random digression is over with they finally get to their destination and slip in through a side door which unfortunately turns out to lead straight to Eric's personal torture chamber that he apparently has it's a complex room made entirely out of reinforced mirrors with a big metal tree in the middle that has a noose hanging from it when people are trapped inside it slowly heats up and causes them to dehydrate and hallucinate once they're really do lollies Eric uses various instruments to simulate the sounds of rain or animal noises further exacerbating their insanity until they inevitably end up killing themselves to escape it we're all on the Persian here Kristine and Eric talking in the next room not surprisingly Eric is demanding that she marry him and hints that there will be terrible consequences a few refuses he pops out for a bit because some sort of alarm system went off letting him know that someone was coming and he returns later boasting they just drowned someone unfortunately we learned later that was Raul's big brother who had come to try and find him there's also a long scene that makes a huge deal out of him showing off his ventriloquist and his uncanny ability to throw his voice and sound like he's talking from another part of the room when he realizes that he has yet more guests he decides that the Persian has pushed his luck with him one too many times so he's going to leave him and his love rival Rahul to die in the torture chamber they both very nearly do but fortunately the Persian is somewhat aware of how they torture chamber works and manages to find the secret exit just before they succumb and they find themselves in a long tunnel filled as far as the eye can see with bowels of what turns out to be gunpowder Eric has rigged the Opera House to explode if Christine doesn't agree to marry him he has apparently given her two levers that she can turn one is shaped like a grasshopper and the other a scorpion if she turns the scorpion then she has agreed to marry him and the gun part of the room will be flooded with water rendering it harmless if she turns the grasshopper then well boom the Persian is concerned that Eric has gone so completely nuts that both levers might blow them all to kingdom come but Christine eventually decides to risk turning the scorpion true to his word it does indeed start flooding the Gunpowder room but it doesn't stop there and starts to fill the room containing Raul and the Persian as well Christine bargains for their lives by promising Eric's who not only marry him but to be his living wife face statement dripping with deeper meaning well eric is considering his options both his prisoners semi drown but the Persian revives shortly later mysteriously back at his own home Raul and Christine are still missing and the police assume that the Persian is a loony when he tries to tell them what happened however in a surprising twist soon after he's visited by Eric who claims that he did have both them locked up but he's let them go now apparently his marriage with Christine only lasted one evening Eric had taken off his mask and kissed Christine's forehead and despite everything he'd done and you know him looking like something out of a John Carpenter film she had kissed him back Eric had never been kissed before not even by his mother and that one act of compassion was enough to fill him full of so much love he was literally dying of it yeah the original Phantom of the Opera went out in a sort of reverse Padme his last request was that Christine personally bury him somewhere secret with the gold ring that he gave her which she agrees to do before eloping with Raul the book ends with a wrapper where LaRue recaps Eric's life and definitively debunks all his magical powers by explaining how he used his various hidden passages trapdoors sleight of hands ventriloquism and throwing his voice skills to do all the things that convince people that he was a ghost he also mentions that Eric's skeleton was eventually discovered many years later still wearing the gold ring that christine has slipped onto his finger when she buried him in the last line of the book he says that he's going to suggest placing his remains in the National Academy of Music so starting by talking about my personal experience with this story only having been familiar with some of the film adaptations I was surprised by this book I had been told that the opera ghost was more manipulative in the book but I have to admit he wasn't what I was expecting I always imagined a Machiavellian villain who is so smart he knew exactly how everyone was going to react to certain situations and exactly what psychological buttons to push to keep everyone under his spell you know the chess player who's always 13 moves ahead of everyone else and while the rooh does insist that Eric is a genius in all things that don't directly involve romance the manipulation tactics he showed in the book were I guess a lot simpler than I expected on the very few occasions where he wasn't physically holding her prisoner he got Christine to continue to associate with him by breaking down and sobbing in front of her and heaping on the self-pity until she felt bad enough for him to give him a second date the thing is I myself and dozens of people I know personally in real life have been in relationships and friendships with people like that people who subconsciously or intentionally use their own utter patheticness and self-loathing as an excuse to get away with being horrible and these people certainly weren't geniuses it's the kind of manipulation that pretty much anyone can do so I guess now that I think about it maybe the basis of my complaint isn't that eric is too basic it's that his tactics are to reel LaRue to reel on a lighter note I was kind of amused by the Phantom's habit of telling almost childishly obvious lies to the Persian when he confronted him about killing people Eric did you drop the chandelier on that poor woman no no that thing fell entirely of its own accord it was old as balls an accident waiting to happen and The Count de Shanny how could you drown him so mercilessly me me how could you even think that no no he fell in entirely on his own poor bugger never learns how to swim that's what I heard and Joseph Buquet he was already strangled when I found him his method of attacking people he catches trying to cross his lake is really funny too what he does is he uses a large reed as a snorkel and swims up to the boat from below singing through his breathing tube so sweetly that people lean over board to see what's happening and then he leaps up and drags them under there's a lot of dodgy tricks in this book but I am definitely going to have to call [ __ ] on the ability to swim underwater in the dark while singing for a pipe the issues with dating Eric are pretty obvious but I can't say that I've really cared for the romance between Christine and Raoul either if I'm completely honest jealous boys who lash out and insult their love interests the second their feelings get hurt don't exactly do it for me as protagonists there just wasn't that much chemistry between these two in the book neither them seem to actually enjoy each other's company we're all had clearly put an idealized version of his childhood sweetheart up on a pedestal in his mind and was getting pissed at the real-life version when she didn't meet his expectations and well I'm pretty sure Christine was settling because her other romantic option was literally a sewer dwelling murderer slightly awkward but I couldn't help but notice that LaRue seems to have a pretty intensely low opinion of Iranian royalty Singh as he writes them all as bloodthirsty treachery monsters heck even a little princess that Eric made friends with apparently murdered her servants and friends just for funsies the constant cutaways to Rashad and Moshe ma doing something silly were actually less annoying that I expected in fact they were sometimes a welcome break for me that Eric who are all being a self-pitying jerk overall I found this book to be a bit of a hard read I think a big issue is it might have been a tad out of Lou's wheelhouse what with him usually being a crime thriller writer as a result even though this is clearly a gothic horror of romance it still sticks to all the tropes of a murder mystery novel things like multiple suspects red herrings it's even got a big reveal we're learning man explains how the villain did everything at the end all these things seem odd and unnecessary and what is extensively a love triangle that happens to involve a sociopathic killer this habit of LaRue's of leaning on the mystery format is especially an issue for a modern reader because of how much of the book involves building up to the big reveal of what the Phantom's real deal is is the opera ghost a complete hoax or is he genuinely an evil spirit perhaps he really is an angel of music nope he's a widow living in the basement that is pretty much common knowledge now even for people who have never seen any incarnation of the story so it's kind of hard to enjoy the unraveling of the Enigma so to answer the title question of was the Phantom of the Opera book worth all the adaptation children and grandchildren it spawned yeah not really the writing isn't bad in fact I'm tempted to track down one of LaRue's mystery novels now that I've experienced his work there's also nothing wrong with the concept in fact that's pretty good it's just that the story as a whole lacks a certain punch and the entire cast of characters are kind of unlikable in my opinion it would take a lot of very clever changes to turn this story into a masterpiece so please do join me next time my beautiful Watchers so we can discuss how Andrew Lloyd Webber did exactly that before I go I would like to give a huge thank you to ill Ned for writing the intro music and Alisa aka maven of the Eventide for sharing some of her extensive phantom knowledge with me it was invaluable to the making of this episode if I could also remind you that Eric the opera ghost body count has nothing on the YouTube algorithms and the only way to help channels keep their hand at the level of their eyes is by liking commenting sharing and subscribing so if you enjoyed this review please don't hold back on any or all of those things thank you for joining me and I will see you soon [Music] much love and appreciation to my patrons of honor Sasha I Edwards Shelby hotz and Matthew J bridge [Music] hello again my beautiful watchers I just wanted to take this opportunity to give you a quick reminder that there's a wonderful website called patreon that's been allowing online 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changing hands from the two previous owners to Thurman Rashad Rashad oh boy I got pronounce these names now okay was all these balls it was an accident waiting to happen definitely dropped of its own accord leaf and to me Delia Potter here are some pictures that match no no it doesn't doesn't matter at all squandered his vast inheritance living like a rock star and then ended up come on dude I don't know why I just call myself do that's I've never done that before so I am consistently laughably blad bladder Glee if his name is Weber or Lloyd Weber I don't know there's like a middle name or a double-barrelled surname he's been married a lot I thought he was gay and is the second longest running with running running and running some chapters describe the events of the hey buddy come feed are you okay me hey presumably being played on the instrument he was buried in with you Barry we buried him in a violin it was difficult and confusing I'm not sure what I did why we did it but we did it fails her mid song and she appears to make some sort of who what convincing him that if he would let her go she would love to come back to this dark dark dark doom doom dark doom doom dharmic words good the Persian had pops up the Persian had pip pip pip oops he spent some time working in a carnival as a sort of combination of freakshow magician and pioneer van pillow trilogy ventriloquist [ __ ] my life it's a word I always trip up on ventriloquist okay ventriloquist actually do something about him so easy right now is when you need to use the scratching post is it so Terry [Music] [Music] you look terrified by explaining how he used his various hidden passages trapdoors sleight of hand ven quill or ism convened Quiller ventriloquism and down that word in the last line the book he suggests that he's going to suggest and I've written is badly I'm pretty strong Christine was settling because her other romantic option was literally a steward dwelling monster damn it I said monster she said murderer he is not a monster the real monster is ma'am well he is also a man please do join me next time my beautiful watches so we can discuss how Android law little Euler abeba and Droid better before I go I would just like to say a huge thank you to DJ DJ ill niche he wasn't going by that name in ages I don't know why I say that

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Length: 31min 30sec (1890 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 04 2019

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