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Time Bombs is a thriller/sitcom fiction podcast audio drama created by Gabriel Urbina and Sarah Shachat, starring Peter Coleman as a bomb technician Simon Teller, Noah Masur as Mark Midland, Mike Schubert as Robert Hansen aka Radio Bob, and Cecilia Lynn-Jacobs as Tatiana Sobrero. Time Bombs tells the story of a bomb disposal unit on their night shift on New Year's Eve. The show starts as a fast paced comedy that focuses on character dynamics while adding some elements about bomb technician and on the conflict between the two main characters. The shows consist of 3 episodes, each is approximately 15 minutes long.

Time Bombs is part of the 'Fear of Public Shame' project where the creators set the goal of finishing the whole process of the show in one week.

Episode 1 "Pink Mist"
It is New Years' Eve and it is only six hours left until the end of the shift of Simon Teller, bomb disposal technician and only three more bomb disposals to go if he wants to beat the department record. Teller is having fun and his strong determination of beating the record is irritates his coworker, Mark Midland, who is on the last night of his probationary period. The situation is getting worse as the hour pass by while Teller will have to choose either he must change his work styles, or he may retain his enthusiasm and get through the last night of the year in one piece.

Episode 2 "Emotional Dysregulation"
Things are starting to get serious for Simon Teller, the bomb disposal technician. It is only four hours left until midnight, Teller's desperation for any bomb to defuse resulted as putting his relationship with his colleague at risk. While Midland is even more skeptical of Teller's situational judgment on the field, Sobrero, the reporter, gradually learns how Teller come to terms with his stressful, life-threatening profession.

Episode 3 "Countdown"
New Years' Eve is almost over with only two hours and one more bomb disposal to go for Simon Teller to become the new all-time department record holder. The life and death situation that happened early on had left a crack on Teller and Midland's relationship. While Bob played the role of the middleman between them making Midland temporarily accept Teller's term, Teller's endless determination on beating the record only makes the crack bigger and everything begins to meltdown.

Cast and Characters

 * Simon Teller – voiced by Peter Coleman. Bomb disposal technician and team leader of the unit. In order to beat the departmental record, he must disarm three bombs in six hours before midnight. He's very determined and obsessed with creatively disarming the bomb while making his co-worker feel alarmed.
 * Mark Midland – voiced by Noah Masur. One of the technicians who works under Teller's command. He tends to do things by the book and being on the same team as Teller on his last night of the probationary period only make things worse.
 * Robert Hansen or "Radio Bob" – voiced by Mike Schubert. Bob is in charge of the radio communicator on the van.
 * ﻿Tatiana Sobrero – voiced by Cecilia Lynn-Jacobs. The reporter gets permission to tag along with the unit to write the team's profile. She is interested in how the bomb technician handles stress.

Production
Time bombs is part of the Fear of Public Shame project. It has the same creator and producer of Wolf 359, the Webby Award nominated sci-fi audio drama. Gabriel Urbina talked about how the team felt when it generally takes a certain amount of time, a lot longer than they anticipate, to create a new project. Therefore, they haven’t released any new fiction to the world for a long time. Even though they did find their non-fiction project enjoyable, it moved to a stage of them missing the world of writing, recording, and then producing the audio drama in a fast-speed process, as they did with their previous project, Wolf 359. Hence, the 'Fear of Public Shame' project was born. For challenges and motivations, the creators set the goal of one week, attempting to release an audio drama although at that time there wasn’t any script or an idea yet. Time Bombs started from scratch to a complete audio drama in one week and is a self-contained project.