Season 2 Trailer

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

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Smash Boom Best is back on June 6th! In 16 new episodes, our debaters tackle epic match-ups like chocolate versus cheese! Aliens versus robots! And unicorns versus dragons! This season, we have a challenge for you: If 150 people make a donation to support the show by June 30th, we’ll make a bonus episode featuring host Molly Bloom as a debater for the first time ever! Everyone who donates will receive a link to listen. Plus, donating automatically makes you a member of our brand new Debate Club. We have Debate Club pins, t-shirts, a card game and more as thank-you gifts. You can even get a special recording made just for you, by Molly and some of our all-star debaters. Click here to donate and join. Season 2 features a star-studded line-up of debaters, including Story Pirates’ Lee Overtree and Peter McNerney, the Splendid Table’s Francis Lam, and NPR’s Sam Sanders. And all of the debates are judged by listeners like you. So who will be crowned the smash boom best? Find out June 6th when our season kicks off with two new debate battles. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Nothing's better than a good debate, except maybe a good debate live.
0:06.5	That's why we're bringing Smash Boom Best to Princeton, New Jersey, Sunday, October 26th
0:12.3	to the MacArthur Theater.
0:15.2	It's going to be a knock-down, drag-out, brawl of words, jokes, and probably some impromptu
0:20.1	dance moves, and guess who's judging
0:21.9	this time? You, the audience. Get your tickets by going to brains on.org, or you can head to
0:29.3	MacArthur.org, M-C-C-A-R-T-E-R.org. So that's Smash Boom Best in New Jersey on October 26th.
0:38.3	It's going to be a smash boom blast.
0:41.7	See you there.
0:45.5	This summer, smash boom best is back with 16 new debate battles for the whole family.
0:51.3	Yes.
0:52.1	Oh yeah.
0:53.2	Let's do this.
0:54.3	Every episode, two debaters use facts and the power of persuasion to argue for their side in epic
1:00.3	matchups like chocolate versus cheese, aliens versus robots, and unicorns versus dragons.
1:06.9	Early records of unicorns go back as far as the 4th century BCE.
1:11.3	Get two horns if you're so special.
1:13.4	Four rounds of debate challenge our contestants to use research.
1:17.0	One species of piranha can bite with 72 pounds of force.
1:21.6	Creativity.
1:22.5	Grand Mountain, you inspire me to write.
1:25.3	And plenty of bad jokes.
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