00:00tell me a little bit about super troopers we were up at a wedding on the border of vermont
00:05that we sort of watching the driving by cops who pulled over teenagers and we were like the
00:10dynamic was so funny in the country at the time because there were all these like white boys in
00:14basements gangster rapping talking about popping caps and yet when they get pulled over there were
00:19like these nice boys we thought that's kind of funny dynamic let's make a movie about the vermont
00:25highway patrol that has nothing to do because there's no crime they just fuck with kids right
00:30and fuck with people and and so that was sort of the origin of and so we wrote it took
00:34it around
00:35we couldn't get anyone to do it none of the studio i mean cluny jumped on to exec produce and
00:41he couldn't
00:42get the money and danny nevito jumped on he couldn't get the money called it to fox search site and
00:46they bought it for like three and a half and then they made about 20 theatrically and about
00:52point over 120 million on on home video
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