Trains vs. Planes: A transporting debate

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

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Today’s debate is more about the journey than the destination! It’s a match-up between the winged wonders of our skies and the locomotives that love making tracks. It’s Trains versus planes! In one corner we’ve got Forever Ago producer Nico Gonzalez Wisler ready to roll for team trains and in the other we’ve got actor, director, and teacher Allison Vincent here to take off for team planes! Who will be crowned the Smash Boom Best? Vote below for the team YOU think won!

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0:00.0	Today's episode is sponsored by Green Light. Did you know that 27 states don't require a personal
0:06.4	finance course for students even though teens score an average of 64% on the National
0:12.2	Financial Literacy Test? Let's make a difference. 64% on the national financial literacy test?
0:14.0	Let's make a difference.
0:16.0	Our friends at Million, Basilian, and Green Light are hitting the road visiting schools
0:20.2	to teach important lessons on financial literacy.
0:23.0	It's all the fun of the podcast, but now live and interactive.
0:27.0	Million Bazillion Live is in partnership with Green Light, the Money App for Kids and Teens.
0:32.0	Learn more about Green Light at greenlight. Greenlight. Light, the money app for kids and teens.
0:32.6	Learn more about greenlight at greenlight.com slash million.
0:36.5	That's greenlight dot com slash million.
0:39.7	From the brains behind brains on, it's Smash Boom Best. The show for people with big opinions.
0:47.0	Hi I'm Molly Bloom and this is Smash Boom Best. The show where we take two things
0:52.4	smash them together and ask you to decide which
0:55.7	one is best.
0:56.7	Today's debate is more about the journey than the destination.
1:00.6	It's a match-up between the winged wonders of our skies and the locomotives that love making tracks.
1:07.0	Grab your luggage and your passports because it's trains versus planes.
1:14.3	In one corner we've got Forever ago producer Nico Gonzales Whistler ready to roll for team trains.
1:20.8	It's the most attractive way to travel.
1:24.0	And actor, director, and teacher Allison Vincent is here to take off for team planes.
1:30.0	Up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's the superhuman capability of flight, so yeah, a plane.
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