4.6 • 12.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Today’s debate zooms out to the farthest reaches of space then back in to the tiniest details of life on Earth. It’s Telescope vs. Microscope! Astronomer Mark Popinchalk will leave you starry-eyed for Team Telescope, while writer and producer Menaka Wilhelm will fill you with marvel for Team Microscope. Who will reign supreme in this ultimate battle of magnification? Head on over to smashboom.org and vote to tell us who YOU think won!
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0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, it's Smash Boom Best. |
0:05.1 | The show for people with big opinions. |
0:07.9 | Hi, I'm Molly Bloom, and this is Smash Boom Best. |
0:11.1 | The show where we take two things, smash them together, and ask you to decide which one is best. |
0:17.4 | Today's debate zooms out to the farthest reaches of space, then back into the tiniest details |
0:22.6 | of life on Earth. It's telescopes versus microscopes. We've got astronomer Mark Poppanchoch |
0:29.9 | here to leave you starry-eyed for team telescopes. Tell your family, tell your friends, tell everyone, |
0:36.1 | the best tool is a telescope. |
0:38.6 | And writer and producer Manika Wilhelm will fill you with Marvel for Team Microscopes. |
0:44.2 | Micro, but mighty. We're sculpting stuff that's tiny. |
0:49.0 | And here to judge it all is Yasmin from Vancouver, Canada. |
0:53.3 | Yasmin is a gray belt in Jiu-Jitsu, loves making her own Halloween costumes, is fluent in Japanese, |
0:59.4 | and once did an entire smash boom best style debate with her dad. |
1:03.6 | Hi, Yasmin. |
1:04.7 | Goodinja. |
1:05.7 | Hi. |
1:06.3 | Hi. |
1:07.1 | So what were the sides you and your dad represented in your debate? |
1:10.8 | So it was apples versus oranges since I love apple juice. |
1:17.1 | And my dad is strongly orange juice. |
1:19.1 | So we decided to have a debate about that. |
1:22.3 | And I won. |
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