The Morning Show (TV Series)

The Interview (2019)

Nestor Carbonell: Yanko Flores

Quotes 

• Yanko Flores : You ever wonder why they call it that? El Niño. It starts with something so small and so insignificant: An anchovy. See, the anchovy, it prospers most in temperate waters. So when equatorial trade winds, when they brought cold water westward, it slowly broiled under the beating sun. And by the time it reached Chimbote, Peru, which is the anchovy capital of the world, the warming waters were completely uninhabitable for the anchovy.

  Woman at Bar : That's so sad.

  Yanko Flores : Oh, no. Gets worse. The economy suffered. I mean, everything suffered, not just the fish. The aquatic seabirds that fed on the anchovies, from the gannets to the cormorants to the pelicans, they all died. And then so did the animals that fed on them. And because this phenomenon would, without fail, coincide with the celebration of the birth of Christ, they called it El Niño de Navidad. The Christmas Boy. Come on. You got to hand it to the Peruvians. I mean, something so destructive in such harmless packaging. El Niño de Navidad. I mean, this thing that seems so insignificant, winds that make the water too hot for this tiny little fish to live, but no. It's a harbinger of something that throws everything out of whack. I mean, droughts, floods, storms. I mean, huge global events. But there's nothing you can do to stop the wind from blowing. So what can you do when you see all these little anchovies belly up in the water? You just keep on moving. And you brace yourself for the shitstorm.