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This is 15 minutes of freedom. I'm your host Ryan Nidell and today's episode is a special guest and a very special guest at that. The star of a new CMT reality TV show as well as a professional race car driver, Amber Balkan. How are you, Amber?

I'm doing great. How are you doing?

I am excellent, thank you. So I must know, right now up to this date in time,

what's the craziest thing that's happened to you? up to this date and time.

What's the craziest thing that's happened to you

in a race car, whether dirt track or road track?

Like, what's that thing?

We're like, oh shit, like, what do I do now?

What is that?

I would think it would be when I race Dirt Track.

I race Sprint cars and those things flip so easily.

They're so fast, they're so light, they're actually the biggest when it comes to power to weight ratio.

So there's 900 horsepower in a 1,300 pound car with the driver in it.

So when we start flipping, we don't and that's probably the craziest thing that's happened to me in a race car.

I actually got concussed so I got knocked out. I didn't remember for a while and when I woke up I lost my vision. I couldn't see anything. I could hear

the paramedics everyone talking to me but I couldn't see anything. And then a few minutes later my sight came back but I still felt really out of it and that was the first I'd

flipped quite a few times before that that was the first time that it kind of shook me

just losing my vision was really freaky you know we are little things that we take for granted every day seeing hearing all those things and when it's gone it's really scary.

Oh, I'm sure I can't even imagine what that's like. So Amber explained this to me, like, how many times have you crashed on dirt?

Like you say flipping like it's just nobody doing.

I'm sitting here thinking like, I've driven a lot of miles in my life,

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