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

Snakes vs Spiders

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

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.615.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

One has no legs, the other has eight. It’s snakes vs. spiders! The Washington Post’s Anna Rothschild reps Team Snake, and comedian Jenny Yang comes out swinging for Team Spider. So which one is cooler? Creepy, crawly spiders? Or slithering, scaly snakes? Listen and cast your vote at smashboom.org. This episode is sponsored by Raddish, a cooking club for kids (RaddishKids.com/Boom and coupon code BOOM). You can join the Debate Club and get access to our bonus episode at smashboom.org/debateclub. 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.

0:45.6

From the brains behind brains on, it's smash boom best.

0:51.1

The show for people with big opinions.

0:54.5

I'm Molly Bloom, and this is Smash Boom Best, the show where we take two things, smash them together,

0:59.9

and ask you to decide which one is best. Two creatures have slithered and crawled into the studio

1:05.7

today. They're both known for giving humans the hebie-jeebies. One has no legs, the other has eight. That's right, it's snakes versus spiders. The cooler one would probably be snakes because it's so funny how they just kind of just slither around. Snakes are cool. They can unhinge their jaw. Like, that's just dope. A snake would definitely eat the spider. Snakes are better because they don't have legs.

1:29.3

Legs freak me out, dude.

1:31.3

But if the spider was venomous, then they would both die because the snake would also

1:36.3

eat its venom sac.

1:38.3

So, which one is cooler?

1:40.3

Creepy crawly spiders or slithering scaly snakes. Our judge for today's episode,

1:46.1

Harriet, is here to help us decide. Hi, Harriet. Hey, how are you? I'm great. Thank you for being here.

1:52.3

So, Harriet, I hear you're an experienced debater and judge. Can you tell us a little about that?

1:58.0

Yeah, I've been debating for the past four years. I'm only in ninth

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