Cayendo en Rabbit Holes

Cayendo en Rabbit Holes
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Cayendo en Rabbit Holes is a Spanish conversation podcast for intermediate and advanced learners. Each episode, Rui (an intermediate Spanish learner) and Roberto (a native Spanish teacher) sit down for a real, unscripted conversation in Spanish. No scripts, no simplification — just authentic discussion that goes wherever it goes. Mistakes, corrections, and natural learning moments are all left in. If you're learning Spanish and tired of content that feels too polished or too slow, this is for you. Real conversation. Real errors. Real progress. New episodes every Monday.

  1. 3d ago

    Episode #24: Unboxing Videos & Why Experts See What We Can't | Intermediate Spanish Conversation

    A barista hands Rui a coffee and tells him it tastes like a strawberry Pop-Tart. Rui is skeptical — there's no way this is going to taste like a strawberry Pop-Tart — but he tries it, and… she's not wrong. Why do experts get to use words that don't seem to belong, and how come they're usually right? In this week's rabbit hole, Rui and Roberto start with the strange world of unboxing videos and end up somewhere bigger: intuition, flow, and what 10,000 hours of doing anything actually buys you. Plus, Rui shares some big personal news — he just landed a new job and is moving to Boston in six weeks. In this episode of Cayendo en Rabbit Holes, Rui (intermediate Spanish learner) and Roberto (native Spanish teacher) pick apart why people watch other people open boxes on the internet, and where the line is between honest review and "paid collaboration." They cover micro-influencers as a more precise marketing tool than Taylor Swift, why Marques Brownlee's "they sent it for free but they're not paying me" disclaimer matters, and how the best unboxing videos sneak in something poetic — like the Ferrari F80 reviewer who said pushing the car to its limits is "signing a contract with physics and hoping it doesn't read the fine print." From there they get into the bigger question: why do musicians describe a sound as "shinier," chefs call a flavor "nostalgic," and Roberto's dad teach him that riding a motorcycle requires "not fear, but a little paranoia"? Roberto and Rui land on the same answer — that real expertise feels like intuition, and that intuition is just thousands of hours of pattern recognition the rest of us never put in. 🎧 Listen on other platforms: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kqxHxyZbyK00qPxB3NIGJ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cayendo-en-rabbit-holes/id1866466665 📝 Annotated scripts with error tracking and vocabulary notes: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/CayendoenRabbitHoles 👨‍🏫 Take lessons with Roberto: italki: https://www.italki.com/en/i/reft/Aa6HHec/bFBHdH/spanish Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robelprofesor 📱 Follow us: TikTok: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles Instagram: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles — Cayendo en Rabbit Holes is a Spanish conversation podcast for intermediate and advanced learners. Every episode features real, unscripted conversation between a learner and a native speaker. Mistakes are left in — because that's how real communication works. #SpanishPodcast #IntermediateSpanish #LearnSpanish #ComprehensibleInput #SpanishConversation #LanguageLearning

    45 min

  2. Jun 8

    Episode #23: Why The Best Nights Are The Ones You Didn't Plan | Intermediate Spanish Conversation

    Roberto goes to the mall by himself on a Sunday — eats sushi, watches a mediocre movie, sends a friend a random text on the way out. By the end of the night he's bar-hopping with two friends, eating tacos at midnight, and laughing harder than he has in weeks. None of it was planned. And Roberto, by his own admission, is a planner. In this week's rabbit hole, Rui and Roberto try to figure out why the unplanned nights so often turn out to be the best ones — and where the line is when spontaneity starts to mess with the rest of your life. In this episode of Cayendo en Rabbit Holes, Rui (intermediate Spanish learner) and Roberto (native Spanish teacher) compare notes as two self-described planners. Roberto talks about organizing his 40th birthday yacht party a month and a half in advance while his younger friends kept telling him to chill, and then walks through the chain of small decisions that turned his quiet Sunday into a three-stop night out with friends from three different generations (40, 30, and 23 — basically the Ghosts of Spontaneous Plans Past, Present, and Future). They land on the same rule for when spontaneity becomes a problem: the moment it disrupts the rhythm that holds your real life together. Plus: Roberto's old habit of keeping a "spontaneity kit" (fresh clothes, toothbrush, deodorant) in his car at twenty, why FOMO hits harder when you're young, and Rui's weekly food-tracking discipline that gives him the weekend off — a small case study in why balance beats discipline alone. 🎧 Listen on other platforms: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kqxHxyZbyK00qPxB3NIGJ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cayendo-en-rabbit-holes/id1866466665 📝 Annotated scripts with error tracking and vocabulary notes: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/CayendoenRabbitHoles 👨‍🏫 Take lessons with Roberto: italki: https://www.italki.com/en/i/reft/Aa6HHec/bFBHdH/spanish Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robelprofesor 📱 Follow us: TikTok: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles Instagram: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles — Cayendo en Rabbit Holes is a Spanish conversation podcast for intermediate and advanced learners. Every episode features real, unscripted conversation between a learner and a native speaker. Mistakes are left in — because that's how real communication works. #SpanishPodcast #IntermediateSpanish #LearnSpanish #ComprehensibleInput #SpanishConversation #LanguageLearning

    43 min

  3. Jun 1

    Episode #22: Pop Culture, Cringey Old Emails & Why Easy Tech Always Wins | Intermediate Spanish

    Roberto's first email was named after a 1973 Mustang nobody his age recognized. Rui's was a crude reference to an obscure college football player nobody would recognize either. Both of them were dead convinced they had the coolest email address on the planet. In this week's rabbit hole, Rui and Roberto take a generational lap through pop culture — what used to be cool, what tech actually wins, and what the kids of today are never going to understand. In this episode of Cayendo en Rabbit Holes, Rui (intermediate Spanish learner) and Roberto (native Spanish teacher) compare notes across a 13-year age gap. They reminisce about Blockbuster as the original date night, why Hugh Hefner playing Pac-Man for hours was peak '80s celebrity content, and how the Hotmail-vs-Yahoo divide actually mapped to geography (Mexican friends had Hotmail, Roberto's American friends had Yahoo). They land on a bigger idea — that in tech, easy always beats configurable. MySpace let you tweak your profile with Java; Facebook didn't, and Facebook won. Android does more; iPhone wins because there's no friction. Plus: Roberto's "vampire problem" (his Apple ID is locked to a Hotmail account that no longer exists), why stand-up comedy is a near-perfect time capsule of the era it was made in, and Roberto's polite but real disappointment with his new AirPods. 🎧 Listen on other platforms: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kqxHxyZbyK00qPxB3NIGJ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cayendo-en-rabbit-holes/id1866466665 📝 Annotated scripts with error tracking and vocabulary notes: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/CayendoenRabbitHoles 👨‍🏫 Take lessons with Roberto: italki: https://www.italki.com/en/i/reft/Aa6HHec/bFBHdH/spanish Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robelprofesor 📱 Follow us: TikTok: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles Instagram: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles — Cayendo en Rabbit Holes is a Spanish conversation podcast for intermediate and advanced learners. Every episode features real, unscripted conversation between a learner and a native speaker. Mistakes are left in — because that's how real communication works. #SpanishPodcast #IntermediateSpanish #LearnSpanish #ComprehensibleInput #SpanishConversation #LanguageLearning

    45 min

  4. May 25

    Episode #21: Coincidences, Luck & How to Create Your Own | Intermediate Spanish Conversation

    Rui blows a tire on his birthday in a sketchy part of town and somehow coasts to a stop in the parking lot of the only tire shop within miles — closed, but with a stranger standing outside who fixes it for ten dollars so he can still make his golf tee time. A miracle? A gift from the universe? Or just statistics doing what statistics do? In this week's rabbit hole, Rui and Roberto pull apart what coincidences really are, and whether you can do something about them. In this episode of Cayendo en Rabbit Holes, Rui (intermediate Spanish learner) and Roberto (native Spanish teacher) trade the mystical and the statistical takes on luck — and end up agreeing that even a fully logical brain can't help feeling a little awe when the math lines up. Roberto tells the story of how he met his first friend in Mazatlán through a cascade of coincidences (their dogs hit it off, she turned out to be from his hometown in Chihuahua, her parents live blocks from his), and explains why he thinks you can engineer your own luck by changing where you live and how you spend your time. Along the way: a finance professor's "if an investment feels exciting, you're doing it wrong" rule, Rui's "expected value" framework for trusting the process over the result, and why religious, emotional, and logical people each handle the gap between effort and outcome in completely different ways. 🎧 Listen on other platforms: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kqxHxyZbyK00qPxB3NIGJ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cayendo-en-rabbit-holes/id1866466665 📝 Annotated scripts with error tracking and vocabulary notes: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/CayendoenRabbitHoles 👨‍🏫 Take lessons with Roberto: italki: https://www.italki.com/en/i/reft/Aa6HHec/bFBHdH/spanish Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robelprofesor 📱 Follow us: TikTok: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles Instagram: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles — Cayendo en Rabbit Holes is a Spanish conversation podcast for intermediate and advanced learners. Every episode features real, unscripted conversation between a learner and a native speaker. Mistakes are left in — because that's how real communication works. #SpanishPodcast #IntermediateSpanish #LearnSpanish #ComprehensibleInput #SpanishConversation #LanguageLearning

    41 min

  5. May 18

    Episode #20: Elisa — A Polyglot's Guide to Learning Languages | Intermediate Spanish Conversation

    Elisa speaks five languages — German, English, French, Spanish, and Dutch — and is studying Korean on the side. She's lived in Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Mexico, and now Canada. And when Roberto first heard her speak Spanish, he didn't think she was German at all. So what's her secret? In this week's rabbit hole, Rui meets Elisa for the first time and the three of them dig into what actually works (and what definitely doesn't) when you're trying to learn a language from scratch. In this episode of Cayendo en Rabbit Holes, Rui (intermediate Spanish learner) and Roberto (native Spanish teacher) are joined by Elisa, a German polyglot living in Montreal. She shares the unusual trick that keeps her languages from blurring together — treating each one like a different muscle that needs its own rest day — and explains why she lived in Aguascalientes for seven months to break through her speaking block. Along the way: Roberto's metaphor trick for getting unstuck mid-sentence, the simple words formal classes never teach you (Elisa didn't learn "pájaro" until she saw a Botero statue), why Duolingo alone won't get you fluent, and a story about lucha libre that ends with Elisa playing emergency-room translator. A reminder that progress in a language is never linear — and that patience matters more than talent. 🎧 Listen on other platforms: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kqxHxyZbyK00qPxB3NIGJ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cayendo-en-rabbit-holes/id1866466665 📝 Annotated scripts with error tracking and vocabulary notes: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/CayendoenRabbitHoles 👨‍🏫 Take lessons with Roberto: italki: https://www.italki.com/en/i/reft/Aa6HHec/bFBHdH/spanish Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robelprofesor 📱 Follow us: TikTok: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles Instagram: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles — Cayendo en Rabbit Holes is a Spanish conversation podcast for intermediate and advanced learners. Every episode features real, unscripted conversation between a learner and a native speaker. Mistakes are left in — because that's how real communication works. #SpanishPodcast #IntermediateSpanish #LearnSpanish #ComprehensibleInput #SpanishConversation #LanguageLearning

    41 min

  6. May 11

    Episode #19: The Paradox of Choice — Why Too Many Options Paralyze Us | Intermediate Spanish

    Roberto walks into a sushi restaurant and the menu has so many pages he can't pick a roll. Rui opens Netflix and his food goes cold before he settles on a show. We've all been there — but at what point did having more options stop making life better and start making it worse? In this week's rabbit hole, Rui and Roberto pick apart the strange modern problem of being saturated with choice, from fast-food menus to $1,000 phone purchases. In this episode of Cayendo en Rabbit Holes, Rui (intermediate Spanish learner) and Roberto (native Spanish teacher) compare the freedom of a four-option Michelin menu to the chaos of Taco Bell's "build your own combo" — and land on Roberto's theory that Taco Bell is basically a printer with three colors of ink. They get into the illusion of options (how Coke and Pepsi or two nearly identical sushi rolls trick you into thinking you're choosing), the real cost of being impulsive vs. comparing prices, and Roberto's iPhone hunt that saved him hundreds of dollars but took a week. Plus: Roberto's stolen wheel cap and Rui's near-impulse Whoop purchase, both case studies in how we've lost our patience for anything that isn't immediate. 🎧 Listen on other platforms: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kqxHxyZbyK00qPxB3NIGJ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cayendo-en-rabbit-holes/id1866466665 📝 Annotated scripts with error tracking and vocabulary notes: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/CayendoenRabbitHoles 👨‍🏫 Take lessons with Roberto: italki: https://www.italki.com/en/i/reft/Aa6HHec/bFBHdH/spanish Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robelprofesor 📱 Follow us: TikTok: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles Instagram: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles — Cayendo en Rabbit Holes is a Spanish conversation podcast for intermediate and advanced learners. Every episode features real, unscripted conversation between a learner and a native speaker. Mistakes are left in — because that's how real communication works. #SpanishPodcast #IntermediateSpanish #LearnSpanish #ComprehensibleInput #SpanishConversation #LanguageLearning

    44 min

  7. May 4

    Episode #18: How To Make Yourself Do Things You Don't Want To Do | Intermediate Spanish Conversation

    Every adult has a list of things they really don't want to do — and somehow has to find a way to do them anyway. Editing a paper. Going to the gym on a day you'd rather sleep in. Spending time with your partner's social circle when it's not your scene. So what actually works? Rui and Roberto trade strategies in this week's rabbit hole and end up somewhere unexpected: the answer might be less about willpower and more about the people around you. In this episode of Cayendo en Rabbit Holes, Rui (intermediate Spanish learner) and Roberto (native Spanish teacher) compare their internal motivation tactics — Rui dangles a snack or a run as a reward beforehand, while Roberto only treats himself after a job well done. Roberto admits he's a little egoísta about his time, opens up about a personal project he's been perfecting for four years, and explains why he watches classical music concerts and football games alone. Along the way they land on the Mike Tomlin "volunteers, not hostages" philosophy, the double standard we all have when giving advice vs. taking it, and why a close friend asking the right questions might be the most constructive form of social pressure there is. 🎧 Listen on other platforms: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kqxHxyZbyK00qPxB3NIGJ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cayendo-en-rabbit-holes/id1866466665 📝 Annotated scripts with error tracking and vocabulary notes: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/CayendoenRabbitHoles 👨‍🏫 Take lessons with Roberto: italki: https://www.italki.com/en/i/reft/Aa6HHec/bFBHdH/spanish Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robelprofesor 📱 Follow us: TikTok: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles Instagram: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles — Cayendo en Rabbit Holes is a Spanish conversation podcast for intermediate and advanced learners. Every episode features real, unscripted conversation between a learner and a native speaker. Mistakes are left in — because that's how real communication works. #SpanishPodcast #IntermediateSpanish #LearnSpanish #ComprehensibleInput #SpanishConversation #LanguageLearning

    44 min

  8. Apr 27

    Episode #17: Small Pleasures & Acquired Tastes | Intermediate Spanish Conversation

    Roberto just turned 40 — and he still doesn't feel like a real adult. That kicks off a conversation about "las pequeñas cosas": the tiny, almost stupidly simple things that quietly make life better. A woman jamming to music behind the counter at the Oxxo. A perfectly clean apartment on the morning of your birthday. A black coffee that turns a workday you didn't want to do into something tolerable. From there Rui and Roberto fall into bigger questions: why are some pleasures acquired tastes (coffee, wine, cleaning the kitchen), and what do your preferences actually say about who you are?   In this episode of Cayendo en Rabbit Holes, Rui (intermediate Spanish learner) and Roberto (native Spanish teacher) talk about being present, the strange feeling of not feeling like an adult at any age, and Roberto's theory that "we're all improvising" no matter how old we get. Highlights include Roberto's hot take that Starbucks pumpkin spice drinks aren't actually coffee, the surprising joy of making your bed every morning, and a thread connecting black coffee, Cabernet Sauvignon, stout beer, classic rock, and a Harley Davidson — Roberto's "pure and powerful" theory of personal taste.   🎧 Listen on other platforms: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kqxHxyZbyK00qPxB3NIGJ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cayendo-en-rabbit-holes/id1866466665   📝 Annotated scripts with error tracking and vocabulary notes: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/CayendoenRabbitHoles   👨‍🏫 Take lessons with Roberto: italki: https://www.italki.com/en/i/reft/Aa6HHec/bFBHdH/spanish Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robelprofesor   📱 Follow us: TikTok: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles Instagram: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles   —   Cayendo en Rabbit Holes is a Spanish conversation podcast for intermediate and advanced learners. Every episode features real, unscripted conversation between a learner and a native speaker. Mistakes are left in — because that's how real communication works.

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Cayendo en Rabbit Holes is a Spanish conversation podcast for intermediate and advanced learners. Each episode, Rui (an intermediate Spanish learner) and Roberto (a native Spanish teacher) sit down for a real, unscripted conversation in Spanish. No scripts, no simplification — just authentic discussion that goes wherever it goes. Mistakes, corrections, and natural learning moments are all left in. If you're learning Spanish and tired of content that feels too polished or too slow, this is for you. Real conversation. Real errors. Real progress. New episodes every Monday.

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    Cayendo en Rabbit Holes
  • Years Active
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  • Episodes
    24
  • Rating
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