Cone Snails vs. Tsetse Flies: a deadly debate

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

Lemonada Media

Education For Kids, Kids & Family

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Today’s debate is a poisonous, blood-sucking battle between two dangerous creatures. One hides out in a decorative shell, the other buzzes ‘round like a carousel. It’s Cone Snails vs. Tsetse Flies! Radiolab co-host and science historian Latif Nasser gives it his all for the stealthy, seriously poisonous cone snail and Radiolab co-host and award-winning science reporter Lulu Miller defends the humdinger of blood suckers, tsetse flies. Head on over to smashboom.org and vote to tell us who YOU think won! Also…do you have your Smarty Pass yet? Get yours today for just $4/month (or $36/year) and get bonus episodes every month, and ad-free versions of every episode of Brains On, Smash Boom Best, Moment of Um, and Forever Ago. Visit www.smartypass.org to get your Smarty Pass today. As an added bonus, your Smarty Pass will grant you access to a super special debate starring Sanden and Molly! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Pack your bags. We're hitting the road in our newest Brainson Universe
0:04.8	Field Trip, the snack-tacular road trip. It's a mini movie where you can watch
0:09.0	Joy Dolo and me go on the trip of a lifetime. We try some sandwiches shaped by history, learn a snack-tastic
0:15.8	fact about Beaver Butts, and so much more. The shows are on November 30th and December 1st and
0:21.4	second, but seats are limited. So get your tickets today at Brainson.org
0:26.1	slash field trips. From the brains behind Brainson on it's Smash Boom Best.
0:36.0	The show for people with big opinions.
0:39.0	Hi, I'm Molly Bloom and and is a Smash Boom Best.
0:43.0	The show where we take two things, smash them together,
0:46.0	and ask you to decide which one is best.
0:48.9	Today's debate is a poisonous blood-sucking battle
0:51.7	between two dangerous creatures. one hides out in a decorative
0:55.3	shell, the other buzzes round like a carousel. It's cone snails versus seat-seats-flys.
1:02.3	We've got Radio Lab co-host and science historian
1:05.6	Luddif Nasser ready to give it his all for the stealthy, seriously
1:09.5	poisonous cone snail. Hero in a half shell.
1:13.0	Cone snail power.
1:14.0	And Radio Lab co-host and award-winning science reporter Lulu Miller here to defend
1:20.8	the humdinger of bloodsuckers, Titzi-Flies.
1:24.0	Only the most Tizi-rific aviator in the sky.
1:28.0	Excellent.
1:30.0	And here to judge it all is Elise from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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