BONUS: Archipelago at the Treffert Center
The Telepathy Tapes
Ky Dickens
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode, we visit the Archipelago event held by the Treffert Center - the first and largest gathering of savants in the world. We meet two incredible born savants: Tony DuBlois, a completely blind musician who learned to play the piano at age two and now plays over 23 instruments. And Grant Marnier, an artist whose medium is also his muse - he crafts intricate paintings using recycled materials, most notably, puzzle pieces.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | That's audible.co.uk slash wondering. |
| 0:37.3 | That's audible.com.com. UK slash wondering. That's musical savant Tony de Blois, entertaining on the grand piano at the SSM Health Treffert Center's Treffert Studios in Fondulac, Wisconsin, a state-of-the-art multimedia creative facility designed specifically for the worldwide savant community. |
| 0:38.1 | We explored the fascinating world of savants in this past week's episode of the telepathy |
| 0:42.2 | tapes with psychiatrists from the Treffert Center who are carrying Dr. Treffert's mission |
| 0:46.5 | to support, understand, and encourage savants into the future. |
| 0:50.2 | Treford Studios hosted the world's first international gathering of savants at an event called |
| 0:54.4 | the archipelago last July. Let's take a closer look at Treffert Studios. Here's the Treffert |
| 0:58.9 | Center's medical director, child and adolescent psychiatrist, Jeremy Chapman. |
| 1:02.5 | Because Dr. Treffert's work with savants involves by definition these beautiful creative |
| 1:08.5 | gifts, artistic gifts, musical gifts, video. And so they were already thinking |
| 1:12.9 | we want to have a place where we can bring all this together, opening a studio and looking for |
| 1:17.7 | ways to combine that with mental health. And we opened Dufford Studios. We designed it from |
| 1:22.6 | scratch. We knocked down the walls of this 8,500 square foot building to have a hybrid outpatient mental |
| 1:28.6 | health clinic and creative production studio under one roof. I don't know of any other place that |
| 1:33.3 | has all of those together. And so we're always looking for ways to marry those two things. And we |
| 1:38.6 | specifically hired clinicians who have a creative twist to them, a background in film or media, |
| 1:44.0 | or who know how to play guitar and stuff like that. So we have a really cool team now and we have a creative twist to them, a background in film or media, or who know how to play guitar |
| 1:45.4 | and stuff like that. So we have a really cool team now, and we have a totally unique space |
| 1:49.5 | to serve the savants community of the world. Dr. Treffert's legacy of seeing Islands of Genius |
| 1:55.2 | where others see limitation expands every day. The telepathy tapes was invited to visit the Treffert |
| 2:00.4 | Studios for its first |
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