Which dessert is more awesome: ice cream or cake? Smash Boom Best producer Aron Woldeslassie and Brains On! producer Marc Sanchez have VERY different opinions on the matter. Lucky for them, Molly Bloom is ready with a super sneak attack to help them decide! Grab your Smarty Pass to find out which treat takes the cake. Errr…. pie?
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ROBOT: Now entering Brains On headquarters.
[BEEP, WHOOSHING, STEAMS, CREAKS, BEEPS]
MOLLY BLOOM: Hey, Smarty Pass. Happy new Smash Boom episode month. Who do you think came out on top of our first debate? Electric Eels or Tasmanian Devils? It's a very tough call.
MARC SANCHEZ: For sure.
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh, Marc Sanchez. You may remember him from debates such as Basketball versus Baseball, Libraries versus Museums, Deserts versus Swamps--
MARC SANCHEZ: And so many more.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: And you may remember me, Aron Woldeselassie from debates such as Kung Fu versus Tap Dancing and Godzilla versus King Kong.
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh, Aron, what are you two up to?
MARC SANCHEZ: It's 3:30, so we're eating deserts. Aron claims, this is the perfect time to eat sugar.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: There's something about this hour that just makes fudge taste so good.
MOLLY BLOOM: I'm so glad you're both here. I've got an itch. And the only thing that can scratch it is by springing a sneak attack on someone. Would you two be game?
MARC SANCHEZ: Sure. I could be ready in just a few seconds. Let me do a few quick vocal warm-ups. Good mommies, good mommies, good mommies. Good daddies, good daddies, good daddies. Good babies, good babies, good babies. Good daughters, good daughters, good daughters. Oil well! Oil well! Oil well!
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: I'm good to go. If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.
MARC SANCHEZ: [CHUCKLES] OK, fine. Then I'm ready too.
MOLLY BLOOM: Perfect. Then it's time for--
BOTH: Ha-ha! Hu-ha!
MOLLY BLOOM: --Sneak Attack. Today's Sneak Attack is called Haiku For You.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: What's a Haiku?
MARC SANCHEZ: Molly, I got this. [LAUGHS] A Haiku is a traditional Japanese poem that's three lines long. It has five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. And the lines usually don't rhyme.
And just so we're clear, a syllable is like one beat of a word. So push is one syllable. Button is two. Here's an example of a Haiku just off the top of my dome. Pickles are awesome. Tacos are also quite good. Pickle, tacos, yum.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Oh, how delicious.
MOLLY BLOOM: Very nice, Marc. Though, someday, I have hopes that you'll write a poem about something other than pickles and tacos. And that day is now. For this Sneak Attack, you'll each have to write a Haiku about your side. And afterwards, I'll decide who won by deciding the best poem.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: But we're not debating anything. What side should we write about?
MOLLY BLOOM: Do you two have anything you disagree about?
MARC SANCHEZ: Not really. I don't think so. The only thing we disagree on is what dessert to eat. It's pretty trivial.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Trivial? Trivial? Who orders ice cream at 3:30? Everyone knows the best dessert is cake.
MARC SANCHEZ: I already had cake for lunch. That's too much cake.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: There's no such thing.
MOLLY BLOOM: What a delicious disagreement. Aron, how about you write about cake, and, Marc, you write about ice cream?
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Fine by me.
MARC SANCHEZ: OK, let's do this.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Yeah.
MOLLY BLOOM: We flipped a coin. And, Marc, you're up first. Hit us with your ice cream Haiku.
MARC SANCHEZ: OK, here we go. Ready? Pecans and pralines, so creamy and delicious. Lovely, oh, in summer. How about that?
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh, delicious. You like a nutty ice cream?
MARC SANCHEZ: Oh, yeah, nutty and sweet.
MOLLY BLOOM: [LAUGHS] Delicious.
MARC SANCHEZ: That's kind of like-- it's kind of a description of myself. Am I right? Hey, nutty and sweet. [CHUCKLES]
MOLLY BLOOM: [LAUGHS] You are nutty and sweet. OK, Aron, your turn. Show us your pastry poem.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: OK. OK, I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it. This is going to be perfect. Cake bake tastes so good. Birthday treat you cannot beat. Frosted for all y'all.
MOLLY BLOOM: Very nice. Good internal rhyming. I loved it. All right, it was a very close battle here, guys. But I'm going to choose the winner. And my favorite dessert is pie.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: What? Molly, the options were cake or ice cream.
MARC SANCHEZ: Ugh, what? The best was ice cream, I think, right, Pie a la Mode?
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: I'd like to think that cake is pie's respected older brother.
[LAUGHTER]
MOLLY BLOOM: I think we can agree that all desserts are excellent.
MARC SANCHEZ: Ice cream is really the best pal of pie, right?
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: You know what? I like that. I like that a lot. Also, ice cream is often pie's little companion, or even a hat.
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh, well, now that we can all agree that pie is wonderful and a great companion to both cake and ice cream, you want to go get something to eat?
MARC SANCHEZ: Yeah. How about some dessert?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
MOLLY BLOOM: That's it for this Smarty Pass episode. It was made by Aron Woldeselassie and Anna Goldfield. Our executive producer is Beth Pearlman. And the executives in charge of APM Studios are Chandra Cowatti, Joanne Griffith, and Alex Schaffert. Brains On is a non-profit public radio program. Thanks, Smarty Pass friends. We appreciate you.
MARC SANCHEZ: Ice cream dreams time!
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Bye!
ALL: (SINGING) Better than the rest. You're the Smash Boom Best. You're the Smash Boom Best.
[BEEP, WHOOSHING, STEAMS, CREAKS, BEEPS]
MOLLY BLOOM: Hey, Smarty Pass. Happy new Smash Boom episode month. Who do you think came out on top of our first debate? Electric Eels or Tasmanian Devils? It's a very tough call.
MARC SANCHEZ: For sure.
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh, Marc Sanchez. You may remember him from debates such as Basketball versus Baseball, Libraries versus Museums, Deserts versus Swamps--
MARC SANCHEZ: And so many more.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: And you may remember me, Aron Woldeselassie from debates such as Kung Fu versus Tap Dancing and Godzilla versus King Kong.
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh, Aron, what are you two up to?
MARC SANCHEZ: It's 3:30, so we're eating deserts. Aron claims, this is the perfect time to eat sugar.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: There's something about this hour that just makes fudge taste so good.
MOLLY BLOOM: I'm so glad you're both here. I've got an itch. And the only thing that can scratch it is by springing a sneak attack on someone. Would you two be game?
MARC SANCHEZ: Sure. I could be ready in just a few seconds. Let me do a few quick vocal warm-ups. Good mommies, good mommies, good mommies. Good daddies, good daddies, good daddies. Good babies, good babies, good babies. Good daughters, good daughters, good daughters. Oil well! Oil well! Oil well!
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: I'm good to go. If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.
MARC SANCHEZ: [CHUCKLES] OK, fine. Then I'm ready too.
MOLLY BLOOM: Perfect. Then it's time for--
BOTH: Ha-ha! Hu-ha!
MOLLY BLOOM: --Sneak Attack. Today's Sneak Attack is called Haiku For You.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: What's a Haiku?
MARC SANCHEZ: Molly, I got this. [LAUGHS] A Haiku is a traditional Japanese poem that's three lines long. It has five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. And the lines usually don't rhyme.
And just so we're clear, a syllable is like one beat of a word. So push is one syllable. Button is two. Here's an example of a Haiku just off the top of my dome. Pickles are awesome. Tacos are also quite good. Pickle, tacos, yum.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Oh, how delicious.
MOLLY BLOOM: Very nice, Marc. Though, someday, I have hopes that you'll write a poem about something other than pickles and tacos. And that day is now. For this Sneak Attack, you'll each have to write a Haiku about your side. And afterwards, I'll decide who won by deciding the best poem.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: But we're not debating anything. What side should we write about?
MOLLY BLOOM: Do you two have anything you disagree about?
MARC SANCHEZ: Not really. I don't think so. The only thing we disagree on is what dessert to eat. It's pretty trivial.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Trivial? Trivial? Who orders ice cream at 3:30? Everyone knows the best dessert is cake.
MARC SANCHEZ: I already had cake for lunch. That's too much cake.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: There's no such thing.
MOLLY BLOOM: What a delicious disagreement. Aron, how about you write about cake, and, Marc, you write about ice cream?
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Fine by me.
MARC SANCHEZ: OK, let's do this.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Yeah.
MOLLY BLOOM: We flipped a coin. And, Marc, you're up first. Hit us with your ice cream Haiku.
MARC SANCHEZ: OK, here we go. Ready? Pecans and pralines, so creamy and delicious. Lovely, oh, in summer. How about that?
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh, delicious. You like a nutty ice cream?
MARC SANCHEZ: Oh, yeah, nutty and sweet.
MOLLY BLOOM: [LAUGHS] Delicious.
MARC SANCHEZ: That's kind of like-- it's kind of a description of myself. Am I right? Hey, nutty and sweet. [CHUCKLES]
MOLLY BLOOM: [LAUGHS] You are nutty and sweet. OK, Aron, your turn. Show us your pastry poem.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: OK. OK, I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it. This is going to be perfect. Cake bake tastes so good. Birthday treat you cannot beat. Frosted for all y'all.
MOLLY BLOOM: Very nice. Good internal rhyming. I loved it. All right, it was a very close battle here, guys. But I'm going to choose the winner. And my favorite dessert is pie.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: What? Molly, the options were cake or ice cream.
MARC SANCHEZ: Ugh, what? The best was ice cream, I think, right, Pie a la Mode?
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: I'd like to think that cake is pie's respected older brother.
[LAUGHTER]
MOLLY BLOOM: I think we can agree that all desserts are excellent.
MARC SANCHEZ: Ice cream is really the best pal of pie, right?
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: You know what? I like that. I like that a lot. Also, ice cream is often pie's little companion, or even a hat.
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh, well, now that we can all agree that pie is wonderful and a great companion to both cake and ice cream, you want to go get something to eat?
MARC SANCHEZ: Yeah. How about some dessert?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
MOLLY BLOOM: That's it for this Smarty Pass episode. It was made by Aron Woldeselassie and Anna Goldfield. Our executive producer is Beth Pearlman. And the executives in charge of APM Studios are Chandra Cowatti, Joanne Griffith, and Alex Schaffert. Brains On is a non-profit public radio program. Thanks, Smarty Pass friends. We appreciate you.
MARC SANCHEZ: Ice cream dreams time!
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Bye!
ALL: (SINGING) Better than the rest. You're the Smash Boom Best. You're the Smash Boom Best.
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