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

Eyebrows vs. Thumbs: a bodily debate

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

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.615.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

They come in pairs, they both wiggle and they’re going up against each other in today’s debate! It’s Eyebrows vs. Thumbs! Listen as producer and writer Menaka Wilhelm raises eyebrows for team eyebrows while comedian Katie McVay declares a thumb war for team thumbs. Who will be crowned the fiercest physical feature? 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

From the brains behind brains on it's Smash Boom Best.

0:06.0

The show for people with big opinions.

0:08.0

Hi, I'm Anna Weggle filling in for Molly Bloom and this is Smash Boom Best.

0:14.5

The show where we take two things, smash them together and ask you to decide which one is best.

0:19.9

Today's debate features two features that come in pairs and love to wiggle. It's

0:24.7

Eyebrows versus thumbs. In one corner we've got producer and writer Manica Wilhelm

0:30.0

raising eyebrows for team eyebrows.

0:32.4

Yeah and I hope everybody is ready to brow down to the greatness of eyebrows.

0:37.2

And comedian Katie McVeigh is here to declare a thumb war for team thumbs.

0:41.6

I thumb my nose at the idea that anything is better than

0:44.7

thumbs. And here to judge it all is Daniel from Toronto. Daniel loves playing

0:49.3

baseball. He's made his own periodic table of elements. He has a cat and once raised three ducklings.

0:56.1

Hi Daniel. Hi Daniel.

0:57.2

Hi. Daniel, please please tell us how did you become the owner of three baby ducks?

1:04.0

Oh, well, those ducklings were not ours, they were borrowed,

1:10.0

and believe me, I would pay to own those guys for the rest of my life.

1:14.0

Okay, okay. So how did you become the borrower of three baby ducks?

1:19.0

So my mom got the rights to borrow three baby ducks from a farm where you take them for up to six

1:26.9

weeks so that they can mature.

1:29.6

And then at the end of the six weeks, we give them back to the farm.

1:33.2

What do we need to know about having baby ducklings around?

1:37.6

Like what don't we know about that?

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