Human · Scientist
Gayla Brakt
A former station engineer and science communicator who asks questions, tests ideas, and makes discovery welcoming.
Science · Magic · Conversation · Older general audience
Stratus-Sphere 9
Three friends. Two ways of understanding the universe. And the questions that make a studio full of people lean forward.
Gayla Brakt, Jolta Banes, and Van Lottiso explore real science, the magic of Despies, and life across Stratus. Guests, experiments, and audience questions keep the conversation moving, with occasional looks at the wider universe’s affairs.
The people behind the conversation
Fey Elf · Wizard
Jolta Banes
A wide-ranging elemental practitioner who crafts spells into Stratus technology. Once focused on destruction, he now pursues understanding and creation.
Human · Comedian
Van Lottiso
A traveling entertainer and curious audience voice. He finds the funny and asks the questions everyone is thinking, especially when his friends choose an expensive restaurant.
They met through work and became friends beyond the studio, sharing family events, evenings out, and inside jokes that occasionally follow them on air.
Episode 01 · Pages 1–5
Welcome to the studio
A live audience surrounds the demonstration space behind an energy barrier, with room for experiments, questions, and a little friendly interruption.
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Science and magic meet here, but they are not the same: the magical systems belong to the fictional Despies universe. This series is presented separately from the younger-reader shows.