You know? / get it? — Chile's conversational tag.
Chileans end sentences with "cachai" the way English speakers end them with "you know?" It checks comprehension without really expecting an answer. Hearing it three times in a minute is normal.
From English "to catch," Spanish-ified as "cachar" and then run through Chilean voseo endings.
It is a real voseo conjugation — Chilean voseo turns -as endings into -ai. Same reason you hear "¿cómo estai?" instead of "¿cómo estás?"
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