23 episodes

Welcome to the adventurous world of Zap to the Future! Join Zap, a 10 year old Boy Scout and expert rock climber, as he journeys across time to help future civilizations overcome some amazingly silly challenges. Zap applies lessons learned from school, family and scouts, to help a variety of fun future characters. A robot president in 2076? A digital Octillionaire, owning half the Milky Way? Gombie Invasions? Find out how history has a crazy way of repeating itself by joining Zap to the Future!

Zap to the Future The Alvarez Family

    • Kids & Family
    • 5.0 • 22 Ratings

Welcome to the adventurous world of Zap to the Future! Join Zap, a 10 year old Boy Scout and expert rock climber, as he journeys across time to help future civilizations overcome some amazingly silly challenges. Zap applies lessons learned from school, family and scouts, to help a variety of fun future characters. A robot president in 2076? A digital Octillionaire, owning half the Milky Way? Gombie Invasions? Find out how history has a crazy way of repeating itself by joining Zap to the Future!

    Season 2 Preview: Let's Go Camping!

    Season 2 Preview: Let's Go Camping!

    Welcome to Season 2 of Zap to the Future. In this season Zap will jump into new adventures and explore how environments change over time. This season also brings new future friends, space pirates, Franken-pires, and a weather event called a Trash Panda-Nado. What will Zap do to help the future? Will Jay and Abuela pop up in the season? Will Abuela cook more platanitos? Stay tuned to find out.

    If you are tuning in for the first time, we encourage you to hit pause, head on over to episode 1 and catch up on Zap’s adventure.

    Zap to the Future is a fiction story podcast for kids based on Zap, a 10-year old boy scout and expert rock climber. He journeys across time to help future civilizations overcome some amazingly silly challenges. Zap applies lessons learned from school, family and scouts to help a variety of fun future characters.

    Zap to there Future is created, written, voiced, and produced by The Alvarez Family. When we started this project we had zero experience in podcasting other than being loyal listeners to quite a few.

    • 11 min
    Zap's May the 4th Special - Moon Battles Part 3

    Zap's May the 4th Special - Moon Battles Part 3

    Happy Star Wars Day Zap Fans!

    Today, in celebration of May the 4th, we circle back to Zap's incredible adventure inspired by his favorite movie trilogy, Star Wars! We hop you enjoy this episode written by the voice of Zap.

    As you may recall from the last Moon Battles special, Zap and the rebel squad are on the Doom Moon trying to recover the superstar rock. Will ap and the rebel squad be successful in retrieving one of the greatest power sources of the Milky Shake Way? Listen in to find out!

    • 11 min
    Moon Battles Part 2 - Zap's Star Wars Parody Remastered

    Moon Battles Part 2 - Zap's Star Wars Parody Remastered

    Hi Zap Fans! If you listened to our most recent episode, celebrating Zap to the Future's 1 year anniversary, then you heard that in our first year of recording and audio production we had a lot of learning to do! Now we're using all those lessons to make Season 2 even better!

    As we bring you new adventures of Zap going into the future, we're also looking back at Season 1 and remastering the audio. We'll slowly start re-releasing each of Zap's adventures with much cleaner and consistent volume so you can better enjoy Season 1.

    While we did consider just replacing the previous episodes' audio files, we decided that instead sharing the before and after and how much we have learned, improved and evolved over time can be encouragement to other families who may be interested in producing some sort of creative endeavor but are afraid of sharing something that isn't quite perfect yet.

    And because Zap is such a HUGE Star Wars fan, before jumping into Season 2, we bring back MOON BATTLES.

    We hope you enjoy this remastered versions of Moon Battles Part 1 & 2 and stay tuned to celebrate Star Wars day on May the 4th with a new Moon Battles installment!

    We hope you enjoy these episodes written by the voice of Zap and voiced by The Alvarez Family.

    • 13 min
    Moon Battles - Zap's Star Wars Parody Remastered

    Moon Battles - Zap's Star Wars Parody Remastered

    Hi Zap Fans! If you listened to our most recent episode, celebrating Zap to the Future's 1 year anniversary, then you heard that in our first year of recording and audio production we had a lot of learning to do! Now we're using all those lessons to make Season 2 even better!

    As we bring you new adventures of Zap going into the future, we're also looking back at Season 1 and remastering the audio. We'll slowly start re-releasing each of Zap's adventures with much cleaner and consistent volume so you can better enjoy Season 1.

    While we did consider just replacing the previous episodes' audio files, we decided that instead sharing the before and after and how much we have learned, improved and evolved over time can be encouragement to other families who may be interested in producing some sort of creative endeavor but are afraid of sharing something that isn't quite perfect yet.

    And because Zap is such a HUGE Star Wars fan, before jumping into Season 2, we bring back MOON BATTLES.

    We hope you enjoy this remastered versions of Moon Battles Part 1 & 2 and stay tuned to celebrate Star Wars day on May the 4th with a new Moon Battles installment!

    We hope you enjoy these episodes written by the voice of Zap and voiced by The Alvarez Family.

    • 17 min
    Celebrating 1 Year of Zap to the Future!

    Celebrating 1 Year of Zap to the Future!

    A year ago we had zero experience in podcasting other than being loyal listeners to quite a few. But when our kids said they wanted to turn an idea into a podcast, we embraced the mindset that everything is figure-out-able and made it happen. Zap to the Future has turned into an avenue of creativity and connection that we want to continue to share with other families. We've learned a lot from our trial and error and have even more fantastic characters, stories (and sound effects) in store for Season 2. For now, take a moment to celebrate this milestone with us!

    • 2 min
    The E-Male Special: The Challenge of the Clickbaiter

    The E-Male Special: The Challenge of the Clickbaiter

    Hi Zap Fans! This is a special episode focused on expanding the Zap to the Future Universe. Today's adventure will return to the 31st century and follows the great guardian of the interwebs, the laser fast WiFi Warrior, the only man on Earth with ultra binary bravery...the dazzling Digital Defender of the 31st Century - the E-Male!

    Get ready for a fun future adventure as the Wi-Fi Warrior matches wits with one of his zaniest foes.

    This episode is inspired by the 1960's Adam West Batman series and a father and sons' love of superheroes.

    • 12 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
22 Ratings

22 Ratings

Breezem11 ,

Loved the Christmas Special!

I loved the Christmas Special! Zap is great and I enjoy his adventures very much!!!

AbuelaTati ,

What great storytelling!!

The tricentennial episode is my favorite! Love hearing Zap’s perspective and future robot President.

GustosGarci ,

Rockin

Had a smile on my face the whole time. Awesome story telling and am looking forward to more laughs

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