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If you're looking for something fun to do this weekend, Nassau Coliseum is shifting into high gear. Yeah, it is the Hot Wheels monster trucks. They'll be there celebrating a very big milestone. So we sent our Jen Selig there right now to get a preview of what everyone can expect to see. Everyone loves those monster trucks, Jen. Absolutely. You guys like my new whip? This is the Tiger Shark nation. This is one of the more iconic trucks that you would be able to see this weekend here at NASA Coliseum. I'm not driving this thing. I, my heart's beating really fast right now actually just being up here. This is Mike. Mike is the driver. Mike is from Idaho and he is so thrilled to be here. Mike, I'm gonna hand you the microphone and if you wanna talk about a few facts about this cold truck, and you were telling me that a lot of the kids love this one. Yeah, absolutely. Like Mike Mentor, I drive Tiger Shark and we call this Tiger Shark nation. So Tiger Shark is known for the tiger shark chomp and 1500 horsepower. It's a big block Chevy, 66 inch tires, about 1500 horsepower, and it'll pretty much do whatever your heart desires. Oh my gosh, and you go on top of cars, you do a bunch of different stunts. What can folks expect when they come here? Oh, absolutely. So we do 4 contests. We do a wheelie contest. We do a donut contest. Uh, each truck does a long jump and then. Um, the final thing is freestyle, so each truck has 60 seconds to do whatever your heart desires. And I want to just make a quick mention you were just a fan 20 years ago. You came to one of these shows, you fell in love with it and then it inspired you to become one of these drivers. Yeah, absolutely. um I went to my first monster truck show. It was actually Hampton, Virginia, and I didn't even have tickets. I was just a fan and I fell in love and it was kind of my dream and it took me 20 years to. I chase my dream and now I'm out here entertaining Hot Wheels fans. I love it, living the dream, such a passion for folks interested in coming by this weekend. We have all that information on our website at news.com, but stick around throughout the morning because we're gonna be doing some cool stuff. So back to you guys in the studio for now.

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