Random Facts: Where did Pilates start?

What is a cheesemonger? 
When did Converse start and what were they selling? 
Where did Pilates start?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well that was kind of random. Mel dying for random
facts with Mel Taylor.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
A cheesemonger.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You know what that is.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
You're called a cheesemonger. It's like, you know, with cheese,
like a somalier is to wine. Not a producer, but
a knowledgeable interpreter, advisor, a seller. Converse started in nineteen
oh eight as a company that made rain boots. By
nineteen twenty they transitioned into the shoe business created the
All Star basketball shoe. Pilates was actually started in an

(00:29):
instrument camp a German athletes named Joseph Pilates was locked
up by the British came up with a way for
his fellow German inmates to exercise when they were sick
and stuck in bed. True thing. North Korean women have
to get one of eighteen different hairstyles that have been
approved by the governments. Men have to choose one of ten.

(00:49):
And when Guns n' Roses was trying to figure out
a name for the band in nineteen eighty five, one
of their options was aids. That's true, and it's estimated
there's about three million shipwrecks and sitting on the bottom
of the ocean worth billions of dollars between artifacts and treasures.
That's pretty crazy.