Aliens vs Robots

Smash Boom Best: A funny, smart debate show for kids and family

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

NPR’s Sam Sanders and Elise Hu go head to head in this futuristic faceoff! Sam is repping the extraterrestrial neighbors we’re still searching for. And Elise is here to defend those helpful machines we call robots. Who do you think won? Head to smashboom.org to cast your vote. This episode is sponsored by Candlewick Press, publisher of Judy Moody Book Quiz Whiz, available wherever books are sold, and Mathnasium (mathnasium.com/boom or call 855-912-MATH). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Nothing's better than a good debate, except maybe a good debate live.
0:06.5	That's why we're bringing Smash Boom Best to Princeton, New Jersey, Sunday, October 26th
0:12.3	to the MacArthur Theater.
0:15.2	It's going to be a knock-down, drag-out, brawl of words, jokes, and probably some impromptu
0:20.1	dance moves, and guess who's judging
0:21.9	this time? You, the audience. Get your tickets by going to brains on.org, or you can head to
0:29.3	MacArthur.org, M-C-C-A-R-T-E-R.org. So that's Smash Boom Best in New Jersey on October 26th.
0:38.3	It's going to be a smash boom blast.
0:41.7	See you there.
0:45.5	From the brains behind brains on, it's smash boom best.
0:51.0	The show for people with big opinions.
0:57.5	I'm Molly Blue, and this is smash boom best,
1:02.6	where we take two things, smash them together, and ask you to decide which one is best.
1:08.4	Today we've got a futuristic face-off between two things that fascinate and frighten us humans.
1:11.7	They're the subject of sci-fi and of real-life science.
1:14.2	It's aliens versus robots.
1:17.2	I think that aliens are cooler.
1:19.3	Robots, they do my work for me.
1:22.5	Aliens are better because they haven't been found yet.
1:24.3	Robots, they can do so many things.
1:25.5	They're definitely cooler than aliens.
1:34.9	I really want to meet an alien sometime in my lifetime, and I already know many robots. Robots would win because we don't really know if aliens exist. Who will win the day? Those helpful machines we call robots, or the
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