it was extraordinarily -- extraordinary feeling to be on stage as mike halen says this must be what it like to be a dictator. [laughter] it is an enormous stadium and it did not feel big as the audience loved us so much. >> it felt intimate. >> it felt absolutely intimate. just a bunch of friends gathered together and at the beginning every body was tense but i the end it was joyous. we had a great time. >> whose idea? >> it was a desperate need to plug a hole. we lost a court case and it was a big to make spence of thing and eric idle has always been trying to get us to do a stage show. eric said, what about this and we said ok. it will not take us too much time and we get together and do one show. that show sold out within 47 seconds. this is crazy. >> on the internet. >> and we penciled in a few more and we ended up doing 10. we could have gone on and on. >> you made the amount of money that you need to make and that was it or because -- >> we wanted to get back to our own lives and careers. suddenly returned to 30 years ago and i have always liked the fact that python quick while w