Birthday Parties vs. Trick-or-Treating
Smash Boom Best: A funny, smart debate show for kids and family
American Public Media
4.6 • 12.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today’s debate is a face-off between yearly sensations that rock the nation. Both involve candy and cake for eating, so grab your costumes and birthday suits for… birthday parties vs. trick-or-treating!
Editor, reporter, writer and birthday enthusiast Jed Kim goes up against podcaster, improviser and trick-or-treating fiend Michael Stevens in this celebratory smackdown. Which pastime will win? Breathtaking birthdays? Or tasty trick-or-treating? Slip on a costume and strut over to smashboom.org to vote for the team YOU think won!
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| 1:07.8 | From the Brains behind Brains on, it's Smash Boom Best. The show for people with big opinions. |
| 1:15.5 | Hi, I'm Molly Bloom and this is Smash Boom Best. The show where we take two things, |
| 1:20.7 | a smash them together and ask you to decide which one is best. Today's debate is a face-off between |
| 1:26.7 | yearly sensations that rock the nation, both involve candy and cake for eating, so grab your |
| 1:32.7 | costumes and birthday suits for birthday parties versus jicker trading. In one corner, we've got |
| 1:39.3 | editor, reporter and writer Jed Kim defending birthday parties. Happy birthday, y'all. What am I giving |
| 1:45.8 | you? How about a total smackdown on Halloween? And in the other, we've got Improvisor Extraordinaire, |
| 1:54.6 | Michael Stevens, ready to duke it out for trick-or-treating. Trick-or-treat, trick-or-treat. Now it's time for |
| 2:01.6 | birthdays, defeat. Oh, and here to judge it all, we've got Alex from Worcester, Massachusetts. He's |
| 2:08.8 | head of his school's creative writing club. He's got a greenhouse in his room and he's a fellow |
| 2:13.6 | podcaster. Hi, Alex. Hey. So, Alex, can you tell us a little bit about your podcast? Sure, so |
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