>> with massive indifference. >> reporter: monty python's flying circus ran for four seasons before the bbc pulled the plug in 1974, but things were just beginning across the pond. ♪ i'm a lumberjack and i'm okay, i sleep all day, awhack all day ♪ >> reporter: that same year a dallas television station started airing episodes of "flying circus." soon other pbs stations followed suit, giving the pythons a big u.s. following. and that brought the troupe to hollywood. 1975's "monty python and the holy grail", a spoof of medieval film genre was a huge hit. >> one day all this will be yours. >> the curtains? >> not the curtains. >> every monty python movie has had sort of a similar reception where they get okay reviews, they do okay at the box office, and then people watch them and rewatch them and rewatch them. and they almost seem to age like wine. they don't get old. ♪ >> reporter: decades later, it became a tony-award winning musical. ♪ always look on the bright side of things ♪ >> reporter: more films would follow along with a stage film and comedy album. with chapman's untime

. >> and even references such as monty python. >> bring out the dead! >> i'm not dead yet! >> smallpox. >> dating back to the third century b.c. >> found on three mummies. >> a global disease spread through trade routes. >> the wife of the english ambassador documented the process of elation. >> i'm going to till a thing that will make you wish yourself here, the smallpox. so fatal and so general among us, it's homeless, but an invention. tuberculosis. >> descriptions of this disease tended to romanticize it. >> authors like edgar allan poe, emily brone and victor hugo all had characters that suffered from tuberculosis. edgar allan poe wrote -- >> the beautiful lady, how could she die? and of consumption? but it is a path i pray to follow he and i wish that all i love could perish of this gentle disease. >> while taking away from a plague is appealing, it does not cure the disease. >> leprosy. >> lepers were left to die. until the arrival of father. >> he cared for the sick by teaching them to farm and leading them in work shifts. >> once he contracted the disease, he began

>> with massive indifference. >> reporter: monty python's "flying circus" ran for four seasons before the bbc pulled the plug in 1974. things were just beginning across the pond. ♪ ♪ i'm a lumberjack. and i'm okay i sleep all night ♪ >> reporter: that same year a dallas public television station started airing episodes of "flying circus," soon other pbs stations followed suit, giving the pythons a big u.s. following. [ laughter ] and that brought the troupe to hollywood. 1975's "monty python and the holy grail," a spoof of medieval film genre was a huge fit. >> always will be hours -- >> the curtains? >> not the curtains. >> every movie has had a similar sort of reception where they get okay reviews, they do okay at the box office. and then people watch them and re-watch them and re-watch them. and they almost seem to age like wine. they don't get old. ♪ >> reporter: decades later, it became a tony ward-winning musical. ♪ ♪ always look >> reporter: more films would follow along with a stage film and comedy album. with chapman's untimely death in 1989, the rest of the troup

. >>> well, do you all remember that famous coconut horse sound from monty python? take a listen. [ clopping sound ] david: now tesla says this could be your new horn. should elon musk be worrying about bigger issues? we will debate that next. so. let's talk. we're built for hearing what's important to you, one to one. edward jones. it's time for investing to feel individual. david: that sound might be a thing of the past. tesla is going to be introducing some new and unconventional horn and movement sounds. elon musk is looking to make light of a mandate from the u.s. and the eu that calls for electric vehicles to emit a sound, some kind of sound, in low speed. this in order to prevent pedestrian accidents. musk says the sounds will be customizable and will include goat noises, sounds of flatulence, i kid you not, and the clip-clopping of coconuts used with great effect in monty python movies. but shouldn't tesla be focusing on issues bigger than this, like auto pilot accidents and car and fires and stuff like that, jonathan? >> listen, he's pulling rabbits out of

python always look on the bright side of life it's very good so let's 1st take a look at what research is saying about multiple sclerosis so i will have a good talk to her face all the sobs. times is a neurologist who researches multiple sclerosis a prelim shall he hospital he's also a medical advisory board member for the german m.s.i.e. he and his team are trying to find out what causes multiple sclerosis by discovering more about the triggers they hope to develop better treatment options. this multiple sclerosis doesn't mean you will end up. looking at a house full of things to date and why you see him is called the disease of the fouls and thesis that's because symptoms of multiple so this is very different very regime use militaristic so we have for instance. in laws we have numbness and tingling you have perrie's this. is also later on we have dysfunction of urine blood and later. often fatigue is a big problem for some patients so if you take a look well divide you will find that there are approximately 2500000 cases of m.s. world wide and the number of patients increasing so wh

. >> you know who hillary mark reminds me of, she reminds me of that night in the monty python sketch. he gets is arm cut off and finally he's a stump and he's like don't tempt me. >> also this don't tell me thing, that's dirty harry. remember dirty harry. he was standing with a gun over criminal. he was not lying on the ground with a gun on him. she is making threats that disguise the fact that she's lost two times, and i think she's doing this, i really theorized about this, is it to get attention or is she really running. i'm been asked the bannon and he says she's really running and i think she is too. you get attention by running. >> i think it's for real although your idea of hillary as dirty harry is actually a much better idea. dirty hillary, you gotta ask yourself, punk are you feeling lucky today and then she blows the studio lights out and falls on the floor in the street. i would go see that. we don't need to worry about this whole hillary clinton, for what it's worth i've enjoyed the first hillary clinton term in office. it's been better than i expected. i think i could t

elon musk is a monty python fan and a nerd. >> i always remind my kids to be careful. you cannot hear when the car is pulling out. >> now you'll hear horses or coconuts. >> lone ranger. >>> trending this morning, southern california moviegoers got a special surprise over the weekend, the joker himself showed up to meet fans before the film. nothing but smiling faces at alamo draft house in l.a. joaquin phoenix who plays the joker stopped by several screenings to meet fans. movie set a record for the best debut in october ever. it brought in $9 thepeng in the october. looks spooky. >>> you cannot silence a beautiful voice. >> a homeless woman went viral for singing in a los angeles metro station, and she's getting a second chance. listen. ♪ wow. that's russian born singer emily zaroka appearing on stage during a little italy celebration in l.a. yesterday. earlier this week she gained worldwide attention, this is after a los angeles police department actually posted this video of her singing, it went viral. she moved here from russia and suffered a major setback when h

a reference to monty python and the holy grail and we're interpreting flat lens, toot your own horn. >> oh, that's a boy's interpretation. i was thinking whoosh. >> yes, maybe when you hit the horn it will go whoosh, or maybe it will make another sound. >> i know what i would choose. >> i know what i would choose. >> not that sound. >> thanks, scott. welcome back, by the way. >>> trending this morning, southern california moviegoers got a special surprise over the weekend. the joker himself showed up to meet fans before the film. nothing but smiling faces at alamo draft house in l.a. joaquin phoenix who plays the joker stopped by several screenings to meet fans. movie set a record for the best debut in october ever. it brought in over $93 million in the u.s. looks good but a little spooky. >> i think i'm going to see it. >> i bet you will. 6:16. >>> you cannot silence a beautiful voice. >> a homeless woman went viral for singing in a los angeles metro station, and she's getting a second chance. ♪ that's russian born singer emily zaroka appearing on stage during a little italy celeb

john cleese, monty python, john cleese wrote a meditation in harper's, and he talked about, he had heard a talk about all those huxley, where was it, in california somewhere, where huxley said religion can generally be divided to two parts, those that do the dogma and the doctrines, and those that keep the tradition going. then the mystics, those that have these experiences where all the way now is the words for it but everything is connected. i am okay and love and hope is together and john cleese in his meditation compared it to his cat windley. of course he has a cat named windley, so british. a difference between wesley and our intelligence and every now and then he pools -- i give him a little pat. he said every now and then from god when we are praying we need that little divine pat, the feeling of closeness. so discounted and hard to rationalize in our western tradition that we discounted that there are different ways of knowing, deep ways of knowing which is the mystic way of knowing, meditation is a way of knowing, ways of knowing that are far more than a syllogism and proving s

python oh, so it has some ingredients beside spam. >> it's actually not bad >> the hormel's new burger has the least of any of these. >> it does have a lot of saturated fat. okay >> we should go to kala, doping don't you think? >> kayla, a full morning. >> reporter: good morning, charm. we just saw the reception outside the u.s. trade representative's office of the vice premier of china. he was received by the u.s. trade representative and the treasury secretary they all put on a good face. it was a congenial treating, smiles, backpacks, posing for a photo op for the media that is assembled for the most disspenceful moment in this protracted trade dispute on u.s. soil that i can remember you had in bounces airs and osaka, japan but this is really a critical moment here in this dispute. because have you this spector of tariffs going up next tuesday, tariffs on a wide variety of goods, many principles on the u.s. side believe would be incredibly damaging to the economy. then you have both side essentially throwing a whole bunch of options against the wall via the press and show the other

this whole notion the kurds are happy, the president tells us, sounds like some kind of cruel monty python skit going on. we're in serious difficulty now with the national security process disintegrating. >> general, put it in a perspective here. as you watch all that has played out. at least within the last three days. with the cease-fire in syria. how have things progressed, in your view? >> it's a disaster. i mean, in terms of trust on the united states' word. you hear kurdish allies, by the way they also fought with us in iraq. a couple million of them. basically got turned over to their enemies. their enemies being not just the turkish army, but the arab militias now terrorizing them, forcing tens of thousands into flight. it's a humanitarian disaster. it's really a shameful blot on the united states as an international partner. it's not new, i might add, kendis. for the last three years the president has gone after nato, which we know is the centerpiece of u.s. national security. gone after the south koreans, the japanese, and he's embraced people like kim jong-un and putin and duter

python and the holy grail. he'll consider letting drivers upload their own sounds. >> you're going to need it when you're calling your car to come from the parking lot to pick you up i don't know if you saw the story last week where they're getting people in the parking lots. >> near accidents. >> knits isnhtsa. >> i want a louder horn. >> louder horn >> louder horn >> you already have a loud horn. >> i want louder i want a louder horn i like it when there's more than -- have you ever noticed if your horn -- there's two of them and it's together they make that sound of a horn. when one breaks you just have the other one -- >> you have a mono horn. >> people don't even pay attention. they don't move. >>> coming up, upcatdates on soo the top tech including the nba and chinese ecommerce luminary details are straight ahead ay tuned, you're watching "squawk box" on cnbc we trust usaa more than any other company out there. they give us excellent customer service, every time. our 18 year old was in an accident. usaa t