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2025 is gone, and everyone is already doing their year-end reviews, rituals, and repeating little phrases they swear will help them become the best version of themselves.

Or… will they?

Listen to my very unhumble and completely unsolicited opinion on the matter—while you learn Chilean Spanish...

...and complain the way God intended.

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Christmas… that magical season when your coworkers become your judges.

In this final episode of the trilogy, I close the loop on Scrooge’s Three Ghosts at Work by tackling the worst one of all: The Amigo Secreto.

That “not mandatory” game where you’re publicly exposed and measured by how well you perform gratitude for a low-budget gift you didn’t ask for.

No bonuses.

No speeches.

In the original A Christmas Carol, the last ghost shows Scrooge his future.

Here, the ghost shows yours.

Hit play and face it.

• Background music: “Let It Snow” by MFCC – free track from Pixabay.

 


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Christmas… that magical season where your company pretends to love you just enough to keep you functional.

In this episode I keep using the three ghosts from Carlitos Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to dissect workplace dynamics in Chile during Christmas time.

Tonight’s ghost is: The Office Christmas Carrete.

Free food, free copete, forced fun and corporate performance at its finest. 

The moment when everyone drops the employee-of-the-month mask… and the real cahuines are born.

No idea what I’m talking about?


Hit play and find out.

• Background music: “Let It Snow” by MFCC – free track from Pixabay.

 


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Christmas… that time of year that makes you love humanity and hate humanity at the same time. 

In this episode I go full rant mode and use the three ghosts from Carlitos Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to illustrate workplace dynamics in Chile during the most beautiful time of the year. 

Tonight’s ghost is: La caja de Navidad y el aguinaldo.
 
Cajas pichiruchis, jefes cagaos y las infaltables yifcars.

 
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Hit play and find out. 

• Background music: “Let It Snow” by MFCC – free track from Pixabay.

 


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In this messy world, there are two perfect things: cats and Pedro Pascal.

Since I already talked about Pedro Pascal a few months ago, this time I sat down with my colleague Fabi to talk about our cats — how they chose us, how we take care of them, and cat-related expressions to help you sound like a pro when you speak Spanish.

By the end of the episode, you’ll at least feel like adopting two cats.

Spoiler: one is never enough.

And if you liked Fabi, you can find him on social media as @profedeflele.




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All the kittens of the world will thank you.

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In today’s episode I talk with Amanda Calderón—Mandy to her friends—about her 10 years living in Sweden.

La Mandy went off to the Viking lands and never came back, but of course there are things she misses from Chilito, like avocados and how we Chileans are so achoclonados (piled up) living with our families.

And also a few anecdotes about pee and poop...


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During the production of this episode, I used musical fragments under Creative Commons (CC) licenses or within the framework of fair use.

Chillpeach - In Dreamland (CC version)
3 reasons why is so HARD to make friends in Sweden 


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Today’s episode aims to convert you to Satanism, because only Satan can help you adapt when you travel to Chile or when you’re learning Chilean Spanish with his 11 commandments.


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• When you get the first email, reply telling me which commandment was your favorite.
• If you don’t reply to that email, there’s no gift.

I won’t answer questions about how to get the transcript or other tech support stuff. Girl, if I start doing that, I won’t have a life left. The instructions are up there. Do your part.




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During the production of this episode, I used musical fragments under Creative Commons (CC) licenses or within the framework of fair use (less than 7 seconds).

O Fortuna (Carmina Burana) – Carl Orff (CC version)
¿Por qué no se van? – Los Prisioneros (short excerpt used for educational purposes)




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Oh, linguistic discrimination…

That ridiculous habit of people who have no clue what’s going on — thinking there’s only one correct way to speak Spanish.

In this episode, I brought in the pulento Antonio from Spanish with Antonio — a Spanish teacher and Andalusian Spanish advocate — to talk about the prejudice that Chileans and Andalusians face because of the way we speak.

We also did a slang battle, so if you wanna know who won, hit play on the episode.




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Things I absolutely love about Chile: That people dress up as Satan and go dance for 10 straight days in the desert.

Yeah, for real. But don’t get it twisted — they do it to honor the Virgin of Carmen.

We might be intense, but we’re not satanic.

Since I’m way too much of an atheist and a heretic to explain this properly, I invited Marcelo Puch to talk about the biggest religious festival in all of Chile:

La fiesta de La Tirana. 

What do you need to bring?
How are you expected to behave?

(Spoiler: no showing up drunk or naked.) That’s just how we roll.


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Exclusive episode from the private podcast Chilean Slang Dictionary.

The transcript is available on Patreon.

Look, I don’t know what the hell got into me making this episode public — I guess the threat of Caeza e’ Pichí (Pee Head) leaving the whole world in ruins triggered my primal urge to say something out loud.

Anyway, you’ll probably get to say it to him before I ever could. So yeah — here are three very Chilean expressions to say that the sociopath you have as president is screwing everything up on a global scale...

...and we still have 3.5 years to go.


Así no más po. 



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