This is an apostrophe podcast production.

Your feet look lighter than no, no, no.

You're not you when you're hungry.

You're a good hand, swell off-seat.

You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly. I have spent my career in recording studios.

The company I co-founded owned four recording studios in Toronto and four more in New York City.

Audio was our product.

I've always been fascinated with sound.

There's something about the power of audio that never ceases to amaze me.

It's also remarkable how audio captured the voices of historic people.

Some, long before film, was married to sound.

Here is an audio recording of James Naismith, the man who invented basketball.

He created the game in 1891 during a blinding snowstorm.

For days, his students couldn't go outdoors, so Naismith invented a game in the gymnasium

to keep them occupied.

Here, the Canadian-born Naismith tells the story in an audio recording.

One day I had an idea. I called the boys to the gym, divided them up into teams of nine, and gave them an old

soccer ball. I showed them two peach baskets I'd nailed up at each end at the gym, and I told

them the idea was to throw the ball into the opposing team's peach basket. I blew a whistle,

and the first game of basketball began.

If you're a Lord of the Rings fan, here's an audio recording of J.R. Tolkien, reading from the

Hobbit, and he does a pretty good Gollum.

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