Secret Places with Ashley Ray

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Podcaster, TV critic and comedian Ashley Ray has more than a soft spot for her Midwest hometown. Hear why she thinks it may just be the best kept secret. HEAR MORE FROM OUR GUEST: Ashley has her own podcast all about TV and culture. Check it out here: https://www.stitcher.com/show/tv-i-say-w-ashley-ray

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0:00.0	We're going to talk today about a secret place, like secret in a complicated way, because
0:08.7	although it's your sort of secret place, it's a place that you love.
0:13.0	It's also like, it's made a lot of internet lists.
0:16.2	Yeah.
0:17.2	Can you share kind of the general like list vibe that that your secret place is included
0:24.4	in?
0:25.4	That's my secret place.
0:26.8	Just this year was ranked number one as the worst place to get stoned on floor 20.
0:34.8	It was listed by Forbes as the third most depressing city in America.
0:41.0	Back when the recession was hitting, Yahoo said we were the city least likely to come back
0:46.4	from the recession.
0:48.4	Man, this is kind of a rough set of press for this place.
0:54.3	What is this city?
0:56.3	It is Rockford, Illinois, baby, Rockford, Illinois.
1:03.2	Today I am talking with Ashley Ray.
1:06.1	Ashley is a comedian, a TV critic, and host of the podcast, TV, I say, with Ashley Ray.
1:13.3	But most of all, for this conversation, she and I are both fans of underappreciated
1:20.0	Midwestern cities.
1:21.8	Order of this love letter to the unloved after this.
1:38.3	Rockford, Illinois is about 90 miles northwest of Chicago, and if we're honest, it's not
1:43.8	exactly the poster child for Illinois tourism.
1:47.1	We have more crime per capita than Chicago.
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