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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

How To Put Your Town on the Map

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

How To! Host Amanda Ripley goes in search of the answer to the question “how to set up a roadside attraction that will bring visitors to your town” with expert Erika Nelson - the founder of the World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Things.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey listeners, today we are bringing you a special episode of another podcast.

0:09.6

This is a slate podcast called How To, which is hosted by Amanda Ripley.

0:15.8

And on the podcast How To, listeners write in with all kinds of very strange and specific

0:20.8

questions, and then Amanda finds the perfect expert to answer these questions.

0:27.0

And this episode is especially relevant to Atlas Obscura listeners because it's about

0:32.3

how to put your town on the map in a good way, not in a bad way.

0:37.2

There are bad ways to put your town on the map.

0:39.5

But this one also features a previous Atlas Obscura guest, Eric Anelson, who is the creator

0:45.8

of the amazing, the incomparable world's largest collection of world's smallest versions

0:52.7

of the world's largest things.

0:55.7

And if that has left you scratching your head, just take a listen, and host Amanda Ripley

1:01.6

will explain it all.

1:03.4

That's after this.

1:11.6

What's one attraction you think everyone should see at least once in their life?

1:16.1

Oh, hands down, the world's largest fall of twine.

1:19.5

I mean, that is a cultural icon.

1:22.3

Yeah, and you have to listen to the song over and over and over again while you're driving

1:26.7

there to annoy you, children.

1:29.3

That's part of it.

1:34.3

You're listening to How To, I'm Amanda Ripley.

1:47.8

That was Weird Al Yankovic, singing about one of our country's most famous roadside

1:52.2

attractions.

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