CPT Presents: Origin Stories - Dan Taberski on Hysterical

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Sharing a new podcast from Campside Media called Origin Stories, about the creative process and the craft of writing and reporting. Each episode drills down on a single work. What inspired it? How was it created, and why? What kind of challenges and hurdles cropped up along the way? And above all, what can the rest of us learn from the guest’s creative process? In this episode, Matt talks to Dan Taberski about his podcast “Hysterical,” which centers on a strange illness that afflicted a group of girls in the New York town of LeRoy. Dan discusses his reporting and outlining approach and the importance of treating subjects (and their stories) with care and respect. You can listen to more episodes of Origin Stories at https://link.mgln.ai/creativepeptalk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I love to do partnerships with other creatives and podcasts that I think you will like if you like creative pep talk.
0:10.9	So if you have ever wondered exactly how your favorite book or movie or TV show or podcast got made,
0:19.6	well, there is a fascinating new weekly podcast that has you covered.
0:24.5	Each week on Origin Stories, veteran journalist Matthew Scher talks to a different writer or
0:31.5	director about the creation of a work that is close to their hearts. Nothing is off the table,
0:41.0	not the frustrations and the joys, not the setbacks and the successes.
0:42.6	It is intimate and incisive.
0:44.9	It's instructive and really eye-opening.
0:47.3	Origin Stories is the ultimate podcast for anyone curious about the workings of the
0:51.9	creative mind, which is probably you, if you like creative pep talk. Among the guestsings of the creative mind, which is probably you if you like creative
0:54.5	pep talk.
0:55.4	Among the guests appearing in the early episodes are Stephanie Fu, former This American Life
1:01.9	Producer, who chats about her New York Times bestselling memoir, What My Bones Know,
1:08.0	Francis Lawrence, who dishes on his film adaptation of Stephen King's early novel,
1:13.9	The Long Walk, and so many more.
1:16.6	In this episode that you're about to hear, Matt talks to Dan Tversky about his podcast,
1:23.2	hysterical, which centers on a strange illness that afflicted a group of girls in the New York
1:30.2	town of Leroy.
1:31.7	Dan discusses his reporting and outlining approach and the importance of treating subjects
1:36.7	and their stories with care and respect.
1:40.3	Okay, here comes the episode.
1:42.0	You can listen to more episodes of origin stories wherever you get your podcast.
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