Wisp — a fresh family podcast every morning

Alex and Sam guide you through three tricky at-home build challenges—a wild tower, a paper bridge, and a marble dash—each sneaking in surprising secrets of balance and movement.

On Wisp today: a regrowing tree with a secret, a space experiment powered by sunlight, a peek into Victorian London by lantern-light, and the hunt for ancient stories buried under our feet.

Alex and Sam decode a true story from a Japanese elementary school—where using three different writing systems meant snack labels, science projects, and even lunch menus became mind-bending puzzles.

Alex and Sam dig into how hurricanes really work—from the spin to the storm’s eye to the wild ways scientists track every zigzag.

Alex and Sam explore this Sunday’s most curious news—celebrating Alaska’s fattest bear, giggling at silly animal moments, uncovering a cool new museum adventure, and puzzling through sun-powered science in space.

Alex and Sam dive into Japan’s unique system of mixing three scripts in everyday writing—exploring school adventures, comic book secrets, tasty packaging, and why each alphabet has a job.

Alex and Sam debate whether anything can escape a black hole, how the Event Horizon Telescope took a real picture, and bust some black hole myths with wild space facts.

Alex and Sam explore the world's largest electric plane, a surprise pelican guest, wild museum adventures, and Google's quest to launch computers into orbit.

Alex and Sam discover how a hit pop song is pieced together around the globe, with superstar writers bouncing tracks between cities—sometimes without ever meeting face-to-face.

Alex and Sam discover how scientists use fossils, animal experiments, and wild technology to uncover what dinosaurs might have sounded like—and why T-rex probably didn't roar.