Kangaroos vs. Platypuses
Smash Boom Best: A funny, smart debate show for kids and family
American Public Media
4.6 • 12.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
You’re in for some bouncy, duck-billed fun from “down undah!” It’s kangaroos vs. platypuses! Comedian and writer Allison Reese reps kangaroos in a beastly brawl with platypus-fan and Brains On! co-creator Sanden Totten. Which creature will come out on top? Paddling platypuses? Or kickin’ kangas? Hop over to smashboom.org and vote for the team YOU think won!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, Molly here. I'm coming to you from Brains on Headquarters with some exciting news. |
| 0:05.3 | Starting now, we're offering a new way to engage with Brains on and get some fun perks. |
| 0:10.5 | It's called Smarty Pass, and it's your ticket to add free episodes of Brains on, |
| 0:15.6 | Smash Boom Best Forever Go, and Moment of UMM, plus a bonus episode of one of our shows every month. |
| 0:22.4 | And you get to listen to it all right here in your favorite podcast listening app, |
| 0:26.8 | including Spotify and Apple podcasts. Pretty cool, right? If you don't subscribe to Smarty Pass, |
| 0:32.9 | your original free feeds will still be going strong just as they are now. But if you do choose |
| 0:39.1 | to subscribe, you'll get ad free feeds for each of our shows and some awesome bonus episodes |
| 0:44.4 | on top of it. Subscribe now to get your Smarty Pass at SmartyPass.org slash Brains on. That's SmartyPass.org |
| 0:52.6 | slash Brains on. It's just $3.99 a month or $36 for the whole year, which is three months free. |
| 1:00.0 | Thank you so much for helping us make this show. Again, it's SmartyPass.org slash Brains on. |
| 1:07.6 | From the Brains behind Brains on, it's Smash Boom Best. The show for people with big opinions. |
| 1:15.7 | Hi, I'm Molly Boom, and this is Smash Boom Best, the show where we take two things, |
| 1:20.4 | smash them together, and ask you to decide which one is best. Today's debate is a bouncy, |
| 1:26.4 | duck-billed brawl between two awesome animals from down under. It's kangaroos versus platypuses. |
| 1:33.2 | In one corner, we have comedian and writer Alison Reese defending kick and kangas. Let's talk to it. |
| 1:40.3 | And in the other, we've got Brains on co-creator Sandin Totten here to flatter the platypuses. |
| 1:46.9 | Ooh, what's up my platypide people? And here to judge it all, we've got Maya from Brooklyn, New York. |
| 1:54.0 | She's an avid dancer, loves mermaids, and has taken Mandarin Chinese for seven years. Hi, Maya. |
| 2:00.7 | Hi, Molly. It is so nice to have you here, and I'm very impressed that you've taken Mandarin classes |
| 2:06.1 | for seven years. We would love, if you wouldn't mind showing off a little bit of your hard work, |
| 2:10.8 | how would you translate, do you think the title of Smash Boom Best into Mandarin? |
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