Season 2 Trailer

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

American Public Media

Education For Kids, Kids & Family

4.6 • 12.8K 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Did you know microwaves were created by accident?
0:05.0	How about that in some of the first playgrounds?
0:07.0	You could be pulled around in a cart by a real goat.
0:10.0	I'm Joy Dolor, host of Forevergo, a history show for the whole family.
0:15.0	Every episode looks into the surprising and fascinating history of things we think are ordinary, but they're not.
0:22.0	Make learning about the past and microwaves fun and follow Forevergo where you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	This summer, Smash Boom Best is back with 16 new debate battles for the whole family.
0:35.0	Yeah.
0:36.0	Oh, yeah.
0:37.0	Let's do this.
0:38.0	Every episode, two debaters use facts and the power of persuasion to argue for their side.
0:44.0	In epic matchups like chocolate versus cheese, aliens versus robots, and unicorns versus dragons.
0:51.0	Early records of unicorns go back as far as the 4th century BCE.
0:55.0	Get two horns if you're so special.
0:57.0	Four rounds of debate challenge our contestants to use research.
1:01.0	One species of piranha can bite with 72 pounds of force.
1:06.0	Creativity, grand mountain, you inspire me to write.
1:09.0	And plenty of bad jokes.
1:11.0	Basically the ancient astronomer equivalent of following it on Instagram.
1:15.0	We have a star studded lineup of debaters including story pirates, Lee Overtree and Peter McNerney,
1:22.0	the splendid tables, Francis Lamb, and NPR's Sam Sanders.
1:26.0	And all of the debates are judged by listeners like you.
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