• ENCORE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - A Very Merry Zap to the Future Christmas Special
    Dec 21 2023

    Today we have a special episode to celebrate Zap’s favorite holiday and the most magical time of the year. In this podcast story for kids, listen as Zap calls on some of Season 1's characters to help Santa and save Christmas 3022.

    We hope you enjoy this episode written by the voice of Zap.


    Happy Holidays from the Familia Alvarez!

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    9 mins
  • ¡Ayuda! Stop the Frankenpire Migration! - Halloween Special Story for Kids
    Oct 31 2023

    As you may recall from the last episode, Zap was in coding class when he received a future message asking for help to stop a Frankenpire Migration. The message is from the year 2812. What are Frankenpires? And Ayuda means help in Spanish. Will Zap travel to a new country on this adventure? Keep listening to find out.

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

    While Zap visits a fictitious future in the middle of a super storm in this episode, in real life a major hurricane hit parts of Mexico on Oct. 25. Zap's adventures focus on helping the future, but let's take a break and help the present. We encourage you to search the internet for the many ways you can donate to the Hurricane Otis relief fund.


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    16 mins
  • ENCORE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL STORY FOR KIDS: Gombies in Paris!
    Oct 29 2023

    Today we have an encore episode of last year's Halloween special. This is a fun, silly, and just spooky enough adventure where Zap gets to travel to Paris, France and practice some French while learning about the Eiffel Tower and helping a new friend stop gombies.

    Usually, we break up our story into short 10-15 minute episodes, but for this special we're combining the three parts of Zap's gombie adventure in Paris.

    We hope you enjoy this episode of Zap to the Future and come back to listen to this year's Halloween special.

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    30 mins
  • The Volunteer State Returns! Cowabunga!
    Oct 15 2023

    As you may recall from last episode, Zap is trying to help organize a beach clean up in the year 4196. Can he inspire future people to help? Will the Volunteer spirit be reignited by a 21st century kid from Chattanooga? Keep listening to find out.

    If you are listening for the first time, we encourage you to head on over to episode 1 and catch up on Zap’s adventure so far.

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    12 mins
  • Surf's Up Chattanooga!
    Oct 1 2023

    Welcome back Zap fans! We've had a bit of a long summer break but as we've gotten back into our homeschooling routine, we've been writing and creating more fun, future adventures and can't wait to share more in Season 2.

    As you may recall from last episode, the mystery caller reminded Zap of the time tablet’s three rules while on a family camping trip. The mystery caller also mentioned environments change over time. How will Chattanooga, TN look in the year 4196? Keep listening to find out.

    If you are listening for the first time, we encourage you to hit pause, head on over to episode 1 and catch up on Zap’s adventure so far. For now, we are launching straight into the story, enjoy Zap to the Future Episode 14, Surf’s up Chattanooga!

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    13 mins
  • Let's Go Camping!
    May 19 2023

    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.

    After listening, draw us a picture of what you think any of the scenes or characters from today's episode look like, and then tag us in it on Instagram @zapfuture. We'd love to see your artwork and share it on our feed!

    If you would like to support Zap to the Future, you can subscribe and give us a review on your favorite podcast player, follow us on Instagram @zapfuture and share it with a friend!

    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.

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    12 mins
  • Zap's May the 4th Special - Moon Battles Part 3
    May 4 2023

    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!

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    12 mins
  • Moon Battles Part 2 - Zap's Star Wars Parody Remastered
    May 3 2023

    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.

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    14 mins