How El Nino Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

El Nino may mean "the little boy" or "Christ Child" in Spanish, but this weather phenomenon really means crazy things for Planet Earth. We're talking rain where it's typically dry and drought where it's usually wet. Learn why today.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.4	Welcome to StuffyShitNow from HouseStopWorks.com.
0:41.3	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.7	I'm Josh Clark.
0:43.7	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry's over there and we got this guy.
0:49.1	I am El Nino. All other tropical storms must bow before El Nino.
0:58.2	You saw El Nino.
1:00.6	But those of you who don't have la espadio.
1:04.8	El Nino is Spanish for the Nino.
1:12.1	That was the Lake Great Chris Farley on Sarah At Live.
1:15.8	Back in the winter early spring of 97-98 when all anyone could talk about was El Nino.
1:23.5	Yeah, I thought you were going to select to play Wave of Mutilation by the Pixies.
1:29.7	Is that about El Nino?
1:31.9	It's in the lyric.
1:33.6	I've Kissmer Mades wrote the El Nino.
1:35.6	Oh yeah.
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