CLASSIC: Idiomatic for the People II, Part II
Ridiculous History
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🗓️ 14 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Language is beautiful and, in many cases, continually evolving. As a result, we end up with hundreds of strange idioms and figures of speech that we use on a daily basis, with little to no understanding of what they originally meant. Join Ben and Noel with special guests Frank Mulherin and Rowan Newbie, the creator of the Pitches podcast, as they explore the bizarre origins of your favorite turns of phrase in this Classic episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Fellow ridiculous historians, we're back with another classic episode. |
| 0:04.7 | This is a follow-up to our legendary idiomatic for the people two, part one. |
| 0:10.5 | This is idiomatic for the people two, part two, which we thought was just an amazing inside joke. |
| 0:17.3 | We did. |
| 0:18.1 | And it was. |
| 0:19.3 | We stand by it. |
| 0:23.6 | If anyone's not familiar with the incredible Athens, Georgia-based indie, well, they became huge mega rock stars, but they originally were |
| 0:30.4 | kind of like heroes of the early indie rock kind of scene. R.A.M. Automatic for the people |
| 0:36.8 | is the name of one of their biggest albums and is named after a really |
| 0:40.8 | amazing soul food restaurant in Athens, Georgia, called Weaver D's. |
| 0:44.7 | And their slogan was whatever it means, automatic for the people. |
| 0:48.7 | Sadly, that spot recently closed. |
| 0:51.6 | And as long as I've been going to Athens and even living there, I'd never been |
| 0:55.6 | until very recently. And then they closed. And it was awesome. Had a squash casserole. Delicious. |
| 1:03.0 | And speaking of awesome, we have a lot of fun with this one. Max, I think it was a little bit |
| 1:08.3 | before your time, maybe. So we had talked previously when we aired part two, part one. |
| 1:17.1 | Still hilarious. |
| 1:18.8 | We had talked about re-reserrecting this series with more idioms and things for the etymology nerds. |
| 1:28.0 | Max, would you be on board to hop a mic with us for a gritty reboot? |
| 1:34.2 | You know I would. |
| 1:35.7 | All right, good, because it'd be awkward if you said no. |
| 1:38.9 | Anyway, let's roll the tape. |
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