Cayendo en Rabbit Holes
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<p>Cayendo en Rabbit Holes is a Spanish conversation podcast for intermediate and advanced learners.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p><br />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.</p><p>New episodes every Monday.</p>
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July 20, 2026
Episode #28: World Cup Underdogs & The American Sports Bubble | Intermediate Spanish Conversation
<p>Cabo Verde and Mexico both got knocked out of the World Cup — and both got welcomed home like champions. Meanwhile the United States, got blown out by Belgium, and nobody is throwing them a parade. In this week's rabbit hole, Rui and Roberto dig into why underdog stories hit so hard, and what the whole conversation reveals about the American habit of assuming we're the center of the sports universe.</p><p> </p><p>In this episode of Cayendo en Rabbit Holes, Rui (intermediate Spanish learner) and Roberto (native Spanish teacher) unpack two very different exits from the World Cup — Mexico's tactical, dignified loss to a much more talented England team, and the United States getting outclassed by Belgium with the entire country expecting a run. They land on the American sports bubble as the deeper story: how the Super Bowl feels enormous inside the U.S. (~200M viewers) but is dwarfed several times over by a single Barcelona–Real Madrid regular-season game, why Americans grew up believing they were the best at everything, and how the NBA is now dominated by Giannis, Luka, and Jokić. Roberto brings a great parallel from professional bull riding — the U.S. PBR final draws 20,000 people in Vegas while Brazil's Barretos rodeo pulls 90,000, and the greatest rider of Roberto's youth was a Brazilian nobody in Vegas thought could compete. They end on an unexpectedly hopeful note: sports globalization as a form of soft diplomacy, with the NFL playing in Mexico for two decades, the G League's Capitanes de Ciudad de México, and Mexican players slowly showing up on NFL rosters. Plus: Rui is officially in Boston, living in an apartment so empty Roberto compares it to an Apple Store, and testing out his first-ever standing desk.</p><p> </p><p>🎧 Listen on other platforms:</p><p>Spotify: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6kqxHxyZbyK00qPxB3NIGJ" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/6kqxHxyZbyK00qPxB3NIGJ</a></p><p>Apple Podcasts: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cayendo-en-rabbit-holes/id1866466665" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cayendo-en-rabbit-holes/id1866466665</a></p><p> </p><p>📝 Annotated scripts with error tracking and vocabulary notes:</p><p>Patreon: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.patreon.com/c/CayendoenRabbitHoles" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/c/CayendoenRabbitHoles</a></p><p> </p><p>👨🏫 Take lessons with Roberto:</p><p>italki: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.italki.com/en/i/reft/Aa6HHec/bFBHdH/spanish" target="_blank">https://www.italki.com/en/i/reft/Aa6HHec/bFBHdH/spanish</a></p><p>Instagram: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/robelprofesor" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/robelprofesor</a></p><p> </p><p>📱 Follow us:</p><p>TikTok: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles</p><p>Instagram: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles</p><p> </p><p>—</p><p> </p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p>#SpanishPodcast #IntermediateSpanish #LearnSpanish #ComprehensibleInput #SpanishConversation #LanguageLearning</p>
July 6, 2026
Episode #27: Souvenirs, Identity & The Case For Standing Out | Intermediate Spanish Conversation
<p>Roberto has a black guitar he doesn't play. It sits in his condo as decoration, and if you ask him about it, he might tell you the real story: it reminds him of a girl with black hair he had a thing with 23 years ago, when he was 17. Rui has a painting of a Krispy Kreme burning down — a citywide inside joke in Atlanta that he's about to hang in his new Boston apartment, where nobody will have any idea what it means. In this week's rabbit hole, Rui and Roberto try to figure out why we buy souvenirs — and why the strangest objects in our homes tend to be the ones that best explain who we are.</p><p> </p><p>In this episode of Cayendo en Rabbit Holes, Rui (intermediate Spanish learner) and Roberto (native Spanish teacher) trade takes on why humans keep buying trinkets: Rui sees them as a physical manifestation of a memory, Roberto as a way to include the people you love in an experience they didn't share. They compare the practical camp (Roberto's Peruvian pen he uses every day, Rui's Australian mug from his cousin) with the decorative camp (Rui's little Colombian turtle, a Botero hand from Medellín) and land on the same conclusion: souvenirs are conversation-starters, and the weirder they are, the better the story. From there the conversation opens up into a bigger question — is it better to fit in with the group or to stand out? Roberto explains why his cowboy boots and norteño style in beach-town Sinaloa work like a filter (repelling people who won't get him, attracting people who will), and Rui makes the case for a healthy balance. Plus: the Sistine Chapel print behind Roberto and its double meaning (Catholic upbringing + his own agnosticism), a Finnish wooden coffee cup that looks like a wallet, and Roberto's Chihuahua vacation with everyone's kids. And Rui is officially moving to Boston in a week.</p><p> </p><p>🎧 Listen on other platforms:</p><p>Spotify: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6kqxHxyZbyK00qPxB3NIGJ" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/6kqxHxyZbyK00qPxB3NIGJ</a></p><p>Apple Podcasts: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cayendo-en-rabbit-holes/id1866466665" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cayendo-en-rabbit-holes/id1866466665</a></p><p> </p><p>📝 Annotated scripts with error tracking and vocabulary notes:</p><p>Patreon: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.patreon.com/c/CayendoenRabbitHoles" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/c/CayendoenRabbitHoles</a></p><p> </p><p>👨🏫 Take lessons with Roberto:</p><p>italki: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.italki.com/en/i/reft/Aa6HHec/bFBHdH/spanish" target="_blank">https://www.italki.com/en/i/reft/Aa6HHec/bFBHdH/spanish</a></p><p>Instagram: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/robelprofesor" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/robelprofesor</a></p><p> </p><p>📱 Follow us:</p><p>TikTok: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles</p><p>Instagram: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles</p><p> </p><p>—</p><p> </p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p>#SpanishPodcast #IntermediateSpanish #LearnSpanish #ComprehensibleInput #SpanishConversation #LanguageLearning</p>
June 29, 2026
Episode #26: When Money Ruins Sports — Canelo, Jake Paul & Fantasy Football | Intermediate Spanish
<p>Roberto comes out swinging in this one: he thinks Canelo Álvarez — the most famous Mexican boxer in the world — is a disgrace to Mexican boxing. Fixed fights. Hand-picked opponents. Hydration clauses. Even contracts allegedly forcing opponents to lose. In this week's rabbit hole, Rui and Roberto trace the messy line between professional sports as a <i>sport</i> and professional sports as a <i>business</i> — through boxing, the NFL, sports betting, and the strange circus that is Jake Paul fighting actual world champions.</p><p> </p><p>In this episode of Cayendo en Rabbit Holes, Rui (intermediate Spanish learner) and Roberto (native Spanish teacher) start with the wave of legal sports gambling in the U.S. and the NCAA athletes who are now effectively professional, then go deep on Canelo Álvarez — the title-belt politics, the cherry-picked opponents, and the moment Bivol exposed him after refusing to honor what he says was a contract to lose. From there: Mike Tyson admitting he only took the Jake Paul fight because he needed the money, Anthony Joshua breaking Jake Paul's face when the "circus" tried to go too far, and Roberto's analogy that helps any NFL fan feel it ("imagine the Bengals had to play a team of YouTube influencers — and lost"). They wrap with the fantasy-football debate: Roberto refuses to play because it would make him watch games he doesn't care about, Rui plays it on a second TV but is slowly losing interest. Plus, a shout-out to Roberto's hometown Caudillos de Chihuahua, who just won their third LFA championship on the last play of the game.</p><p> </p><p>🎧 Listen on other platforms:</p><p>Spotify: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6kqxHxyZbyK00qPxB3NIGJ" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/6kqxHxyZbyK00qPxB3NIGJ</a></p><p>Apple Podcasts: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cayendo-en-rabbit-holes/id1866466665" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cayendo-en-rabbit-holes/id1866466665</a></p><p> </p><p>📝 Annotated scripts with error tracking and vocabulary notes:</p><p>Patreon: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.patreon.com/c/CayendoenRabbitHoles" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/c/CayendoenRabbitHoles</a></p><p> </p><p>👨🏫 Take lessons with Roberto:</p><p>italki: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.italki.com/en/i/reft/Aa6HHec/bFBHdH/spanish" target="_blank">https://www.italki.com/en/i/reft/Aa6HHec/bFBHdH/spanish</a></p><p>Instagram: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/robelprofesor" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/robelprofesor</a></p><p> </p><p>📱 Follow us:</p><p>TikTok: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles</p><p>Instagram: @CayendoEnRabbitHoles</p><p> </p><p>—</p><p> </p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p>#SpanishPodcast #IntermediateSpanish #LearnSpanish #ComprehensibleInput #SpanishConversation #LanguageLearning</p>
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- What is Cayendo en Rabbit Holes?
<p>Cayendo en Rabbit Holes is a Spanish conversation podcast for intermediate and advanced learners.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p><br />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.</p><p>New episodes every Monday.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
- Where can I listen to this podcast?
This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
- Does this podcast accept guests?
Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.
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