Pigs vs. Frogs
Smash Boom Best: A funny, smart debate show for kids and family
Brains On Universe
4.6 • 12.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
One’s a happy hopper and the other is a fine swine. Get ready for Pigs vs Frogs! Both animals are popular in books and movies. Both have cool features. But which is the coolest critter? Writer and archeologist Anna Goldfield will argue for Team Pig and actor, voice artist, and improviser Billy Soco will debate for Team Frogs. Listen to see which animal our judge crowns the Smash Boom Best, and head to smashboom.org to tell us who you chose.
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| 0:00.0 | Lemonada |
| 0:02.0 | Brains on Universe |
| 0:09.0 | From the brains behind brains on, it's Smash Boom Best. |
| 0:17.0 | The show for people with big opinions. |
| 0:20.0 | Hi, I'm Molly Bloom and this is Smash Boom Best, the show for people with big opinions. Hi, I'm Molly Bloom, and this is Smash Boom Best. |
| 0:23.9 | The show where we take two things, smash them together, and ask you to decide which one is best. |
| 0:30.5 | Today, it's a clash of the critters, a bash of the beasts, a tussle of two cuties. |
| 0:36.2 | It's pigs versus frogs. One's a happy hopper, the other a mighty |
| 0:41.5 | fine swine. Which animal will take the trophy? Let's find out. Here to go big for team pig |
| 0:47.8 | is writer and archaeologist Anna Goldfield. Sitting in the mud, they're my buds. Pigs. And he's not fibbin about loving amphibians. |
| 0:58.4 | It's actor, voice artist, and improviser, Billy Soko. It's time to rib it. |
| 1:07.3 | And in the judge's seat today, we've got Emmy from New York City. She's into debate. Theater and everything chocolate. She's got a dog named Storm and she's co-hosted our sister pod brains on. Not once, but twice. Hi, Emmy. Hi. So you and I go way back at this point. What was the first episode that we did together? The first episode we did together was Owl About Owls. I was in fourth grade. Okay. Yeah, that's a long, because now what grade are you in? Eighth grade. So four years ago. Do you still love owls as much as you did back then? Or have you kind of moved on to other things? |
| 1:45.3 | Probably not as much as I did back then, but I still do love them. |
| 1:48.6 | That's great. |
| 1:50.0 | You love animals, clearly. |
| 1:52.1 | This is going to be an exciting debate for you to judge today. |
| 1:55.3 | So you are a debater now. |
| 1:58.1 | Yes. |
| 1:58.4 | So what advice do you have for our debaters today? If you use logical |
| 2:02.5 | fallacies, I will not cast you as a winner. Oh, okay. No logical fallacies allowed. And in |
| 2:12.2 | addition to debating, you're also a performer in theater. What is your most recent production you've been in? |
| 2:18.8 | Oh, so right now I'm doing the sound of music. I'm playing the role of Maria, so I'm super |
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