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Timestorm

Cocotazo Media and TRAX from PRX

The Ventura twins are yanked into another dimension where they meet a distant cousin who gives them an extraordinary mission: travel through time to witness their culture’s true history. Alexa and Beni visit three continents across the span of five centuries, meeting people who have left their mark on Puerto Rican heritage. In the twenty-first century, the twins navigate school, friendship, and family while keeping their time-traveling quests a secret.

Timestorm is produced by Cocotazo Media and is a proud member of TRAX from PRX. Support for TRAX comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support comes from the Google Podcasts creator program and our loyal Patreon community.

Dania Ramos (Creator, head writer, producer)

Michael Aquino (Sound designer, composer, producer)

TimestormSeries.com | TRAX.fm | Kids Listen

Twitter & Instagram: @TimestormPod | Facebook: facebook.com/CocotazoM

Equipment sponsor: 3DioSound | Series art: Hispanic Legacy Studio

Timestorm Patreon Community 

Timestorm resources: Series Listening Guide | Episode Guides & Transcripts | More About Puerto Rico | Map Guides

Timestorm is produced in Essex County, New Jersey, which is situated on the traditional territory of the Leni Lenape people.

© 2018-2021 Cocotazo Media

The Ventura twins are yanked into another dimension where they meet a distant cousin who gives them an extraordinary mission: travel through time to witness their culture’s true history. Alexa and Beni visit three continents across the span of five centuries, meeting people who have left their mark on Puerto Rican heritage. In the twenty-first century, the twins navigate school, friendship, and family while keeping their time-traveling quests a secret.

Timestorm is produced by Cocotazo Media and is a proud member of TRAX from PRX. Support for TRAX comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support comes from the Google Podcasts creator program and our loyal Patreon community.

Dania Ramos (Creator, head writer, producer)

Michael Aquino (Sound designer, composer, producer)

TimestormSeries.com | TRAX.fm | Kids Listen

Twitter & Instagram: @TimestormPod | Facebook: facebook.com/CocotazoM

Equipment sponsor: 3DioSound | Series art: Hispanic Legacy Studio

Timestorm Patreon Community 

Timestorm resources: Series Listening Guide | Episode Guides & Transcripts | More About Puerto Rico | Map Guides

Timestorm is produced in Essex County, New Jersey, which is situated on the traditional territory of the Leni Lenape people.

© 2018-2021 Cocotazo Media
13hr 36min
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The Ventura twins travel through time to preserve Puerto Rico’s true history.
June 19, 20192min 5sec3.01 MB
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November 1, 20249min 44sec23.26 MB
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October 25, 202411min 56sec28.54 MB
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October 18, 202411min 1sec26.35 MB
Thumbnail for "Coming soon: October Minisodes".
October 15, 202436sec1.35 MB
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A bonus episode featuring moments with women teachers: Celestina Cordero, Lolita Tizol, and Monsi Román’s fictional teacher, Seńora Ramirez.
March 10, 20208min 48sec12.69 MB
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A brief chat with cast members Claudio Venancio and Leilany Figueroa (Alexa).
February 17, 202010min 35sec15.24 MB
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Sonia and Janelly perform in the Heart of Newark fundraiser at the Brick City Cafe.
November 27, 201921min 53sec31.51 MB
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Michael Aquino shares how he created the music featured in season 1 of Timestorm.
November 7, 201919min 22sec27.91 MB
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A behind-the-scenes episode about how the Timestorm team recorded the music in episode 7.
October 31, 201911min 5sec15.98 MB
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Thad makes an admission, a deal, and an offer.
October 24, 201910min 56sec15.77 MB
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The twins do some sleuthing about L. J. Ortega and find a strange clue: secret audio with mysterious voices.
October 10, 20196min 37sec9.53 MB
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Several stages of Sonia's songwriting.
September 30, 201910min 7sec14.57 MB
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The Ventura twins are yanked into a timestorm where they meet a distant cousin.
August 1, 201919min 56sec28.71 MB
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The Venturas learn their family in Puerto Rico will have to brace for a second hurricane in two weeks.
August 1, 201922min 10sec31.92 MB
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The Ventura twins return to the timestorm ready to join Horacio’s mission.
August 1, 201919min 4sec27.48 MB
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In San Juan, 1838, Alexa and Beni must retrieve a plea for equality.
August 8, 201920min 43sec29.83 MB
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The Ventura twins head to La Fortaleza to confront the Spanish guard officer who has stolen the plea for equality.
August 8, 201916min 16sec23.44 MB
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The Ventura twins struggle to navigate their ordinary lives while keeping their time-traveling quests a secret.
August 15, 201920min 50sec30.02 MB
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The Ventura twins travel to Ponce during the turn of the twentieth century to retrieve a broken promise.
August 22, 201924min 24sec35.15 MB
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The Ventura twins come to terms with their changing neighborhood, friendships, and lives.
September 5, 201923min 15sec33.5 MB
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The Ventura twins travel to 1975 to find an invisible danger at the University of Puerto Rico.
September 12, 201924min 59sec36 MB
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A Newark neighborhood unites to get donated goods shipped to Puerto Rico. The Venturas finally hear word about family on the island.
September 19, 201924min 32sec35.35 MB
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Michael Aquino shares how he collaborated with musicians to create the music featured in season 2 of Timestorm.
October 27, 202019min 58sec28.77 MB
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Horacio and Atabey prepare the Ventura twins for their upcoming quests—and additional clues are revealed.
February 16, 20217min 8sec10.28 MB
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After Sonia wins the Newark Sounds contest, the studio version of her original song hits the airwaves.
January 19, 20217min 57sec11.46 MB
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Bloopers, outtakes, and lots of laughs with the lead actors of Timestorm.
December 30, 20208min 38sec12.44 MB
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The Ventura twins meet a mysterious figure and learn the name of the treasure they will soon seek.
October 30, 202012min 22sec17.82 MB
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Guaynia, Borikén, 1510: Aguey walks in the woods with his wife Karaya. They recall a simpler time before the Spanish arrived on the island and life as they knew it changed forever.
October 20, 20209min 42sec13.98 MB
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The Ventura twins make new connections in their family tree.
October 13, 20209min 11sec13.25 MB
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When a spring thunderstorm approaches the city of Newark, the Ventura twins hope they’ll soon be heading back into the timestorm. But first, Beni and Janelly suspect there's something mysterious happening at Taíno Comics and Games.
June 9, 202016min 27sec23.7 MB
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In 1810, the Ventura twins search for the beat of three motherlands in a Wolof village in the Saint-Louis region of Senegal in West Africa. They meet Idrissa, who invites them to a baby-naming ceremony for his nephew.
June 16, 202019min 17sec27.78 MB
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After the Ventura twins return from their journey to nineteenth-century Senegal, they face unfinished business with their friends back home in twenty-first-century Newark.
June 23, 202018min 49sec27.11 MB
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The Ventura twins are sent to Guaynia, Borikén, in 1488 to carve the beat of three motherlands. They meet Aguey, a teen boy afraid to recite the Taíno creation tale at his village’s areíto.
June 30, 202021min 19sec30.7 MB
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The Venturas spend the day at a music festival in Branch Brook Park. Janelly does some solo investigating at Taíno Comics and Games. Datu joins Josie on a visit to her other store.
July 7, 202020min 32sec29.58 MB
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When the Ventura twins land inside La Academia de San Fernando in Madrid in 1852, they must find Francisco Oller, an art student who can help them with their quest.
August 4, 202021min 32sec31.02 MB
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Loiza, Puerto Rico, 1890: The Ventura twins meet a family of storytellers and recognize one member from a previous quest.
August 11, 202018min 10sec26.17 MB
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Janelly finds a mysterious item hidden inside Taíno Comics and Games. Alexa, Beni, and Sonia join her investigation to uncover the identity of the person who hid the secret object.
September 1, 202017min 28sec25.16 MB
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The Ventura twins travel to San Juan in 1999 where they find a message from family inside an iconic park.
September 8, 202023min 42sec34.13 MB
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Josie shows the secret tapestry to Alexa and Beni and plans for the three of them to travel to the other store together…but someone tags along.
September 15, 202024min 30sec35.3 MB
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Beni recalls an unsettling moment during the music festival that left him speechless.
July 28, 20206min 58sec10.05 MB
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A look back at the moment when Datu learned about Josie's secret tapestry.
July 21, 20208min11.54 MB
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The Ventura twins are back! Their new adventures will send them to 3 continents…and 3 centuries.
May 7, 20202min 29sec3.6 MB
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The Ventura twins seek a clue for their next quest inside a lighthouse in Aguadilla during the flu pandemic of 1918.
April 27, 202115min 27sec22.25 MB
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The Ventura twins return to the lighthouse they visited one hundred years earlier where they find an artifact in an unexpected place.
May 4, 202116min 12sec23.34 MB
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Tibes, 1980: The Ventura twins run into a pair of archeologists while searching for an artifact in an excavation site of a former Taíno village.
May 11, 202113min 57sec20.11 MB
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Josie and Janelly join the twins on a trip to the Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center to complete the quest. Tensions rise when Janelly and the twins disagree about what to do after the artifact is freed from the stone.
May 18, 202115min 43sec22.63 MB
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El Yunque,1938: In the mountainous rainforest, the Ventura twins come across Gael, a Civilian Conservation Corps worker, who hides a metal container in the foundation of a future observation tower.
June 15, 202115min 13sec21.92 MB
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Lalo helps the Ventura twins locate the arrowhead before Kaylee returns. When an anomaly is triggered, Horacio, Alexa, and Beni find themselves in a murky place.
July 6, 202115min 58sec23 MB
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The Ventura twins create their own quest and return a trio of artifacts to where they belong.
July 29, 202132min 52sec47.35 MB
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An anomaly lets Horacio say goodbye.
July 13, 20219min 27sec13.62 MB
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Horacio recalls a visit to Old San Juan on the day he left for the School of Infantry.
June 29, 202111min 12sec16.13 MB
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Josie, Alexa, and Beni head to the El Yunque National Rainforest to retrieve a metal container from the base of an observation tower...unaware that someone else is also searching for the artifact.
June 22, 202115min 59sec23.02 MB
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Horacio recalls when his grandfather gave him a gift for his eleventh birthday.
May 25, 20216min 48sec9.79 MB
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The Ventura twins hunt for three sacred artifacts in a thrilling cross-island adventure that takes them from the ruins of a lighthouse to towering heights in a tropical rainforest.
April 20, 20212min 13sec3.21 MB

Bonus: The Beat of Three Motherlands

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October 27, 202019min 58sec

Michael Aquino shares how he collaborated with musicians to create the music featured in season 2 of Timestorm.


EPISODE CREDITS
Script, audio engineering, sound design, and original music by Michael Aquino; Script editing by Dania Ramos
”In the Timestorm” (alternate version) lyrics by Michael Aquino & Dania Ramos; music by M. Aquino with percussion by Lara Gonzalez, Christopher White
“The Beat - Parts I & II” & “Naming” created and performed by Lara Gonzalez Christopher White
”The Beat - Parts III, IV & V,” “Areíto Heketi” & “Areíto Yamoca” created and performed by William Ruiz
”The Beat - Parts VI & VII” & “Bomba Newark” created and performed by Luis Diaz
”The Melody - Parts III & IX” created and performed by Deivis ‘Deivito’ Garcia
”The Beat of Three Motherlands and Beyond” created and performed by Michael Aquino, Luis Diaz, Deivis ‘Deivito’ Garcia, Lara Gonzalez, William Ruiz, Christopher White
”Letter” created and performed by Michael Aquino
Additional voices: Leilany Figueroa and Claudio Venancio
Episode art layout: M. Aquino; original image: Pixabay/abstract

Timestorm is produced by Cocotazo Media and is a proud member of TRAX from PRX. Support for TRAX comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support comes from the Google Podcasts creator program and our loyal Patreon community.

TimestormSeries.com | TRAX.fm | Kids Listen
Twitter & Instagram: @TimestormPod | Facebook: facebook.com/CocotazoM
Equipment sponsor: 3DioSound | Series art: Hispanic Legacy Studio
Timestorm Patreon Community 

Timestorm resources: Episode Guides & Transcripts | More About Puerto Rico | Map Guides

Timestorm is produced in Essex County, NJ, which is situated on the traditional territory of the Leni Lenape people.

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