i wouldn't be who i am today without Monty Python.

the first show i ever watched was the philosophers’ soccer match and it was life altering.

wasn’t even a pre-teen, but i was always an avid reader and i’d go thru my dad’s bookcase and read some of the philosophy and sociology books he’d kept from college and graduate school. we also had a full encyclopedia & atlas that i’d read like comics books.

so that night, i understood most of the jokes; and a blerd was born:

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-turns-50/