The Earthquake Episodes

Host James Lott Jr talks about the Season 5 Ending and Season 6 opening of Falcon Crest.

Episode Transcript

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The only prime time soap opera inthe eighties to do a natural disaster.
It was Fucking Crest Highs the FuckingCrest After show here on jail Ji Media.
I'm James Lott Junior. Not Slandingand Falcon Crest were both set in

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California, California, we have earthquakes. I live out here. I live
in Los Angeles. I also livein Northern California, where Found Crest was
set. I've been in earthquakes inSan Francisco. I've been in the big
earthquake in San Francisco Lower Priana.I was there for that in eighty nine,
and also been in the earth bigearth things here in Los Angeles,
the ones in seventy one and ninetyfour others. So I've been. I've

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been through big earthquakes. They're veryscary, and we tell you we get.
We get the joke like an LAstory that when a regular earthquake happens,
we don't even get bothered. That'smostly true. We have a lot
of little earthquakes here. So whenI say little, I'm talking two point
three point four points starts to crossover a little bit more, but still

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not that big. Alls depends onwhere you're where you're at in the earthquake,
because they're closer you are to theepicenter where the earthquake starts. Even
it's a three pointer, it's strong. I've been in a couple of earthquakes
where the epicenter was ten blocks awayfrom me and our house shook the f

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out. You're like, Okay,but it's only a three point seven.
You're like, but no, butwe're closer to the epicenter, so we're
stronger. And different types shotquakes.There's rolling earthquakes, there's jolting earthquakes.
I don't like the rolling ones.Tell you the truth. Those scare the
s out of me. Trying tocuts you guys. Let's Fay podcast those

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and you can hear earthquakes sometimes youcan hear it coming. It's crazy.
It's crazy. But I don't wantto give anybody anxiety or trigger anybody.
But Falcon Crest did a big earthquakeepisode. Literally, they did the season
five finale. Cliffhanger was an earthquake, and I remember watching it and I

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was living was I living in northernCalifornia, yet now I was still living
in southern California. I was stillliving in LA and because I moved to
California eighty seven, so I wasstill in southern California, and I remember
being excited because I want to seea production value made, all the sets,

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how to go, how to goand do this, what they're going
to do. I was very excited, and again so don't do earthquakes.
But it made total sensor. InCalifornia, we have earthquakes, so seeing
uh people. Remember Maggie was busybeing held hosts by Jeff rain White Rake,

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him thinking say the words Wayne right, say that fine as fast eber
Chase had been shot by Jeff.He was on the loose. There was
a whole cartel stuff. So Ijust we're gonna talk strictly just the earthquake
itself. And with having Seesa Romeroand Jane went on, I was like,

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how did you handle the older people? Obviously had stunt folks and that
kind of thing, but I wasalways bowing. I remember going there,
you know, the younger folks Icould do with them, and Richard and
Maggie and all that stuff. Everythinghappens, but the earthquake itself it was
pretty good. I had to laughwhen I had Emma the door. We're
all gonna die to check out thedoor. At funcrest, I did chuckle

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and the guys coming down the stairs, and it was a little dramatic.
They were like really falling down thestairs. Now, remember it was Charlie's
daughter who predicted earthquake was coming,but we don't believe you. I don't
believe in earthquake predictions. Blah blahblah, Peter and all that. It
was hilarious. He knew it wascoming. But the actual production, I

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really enjoyed it for being a primetime so they had money back then there're
no CGI or whatever they did.They did a good job depicting a major
earthquake. Now this goes on intoseason sixth the premiere, so I'm trying
to think about I forgot how muchtitled the show. I guess I guess
I'll just like the earthquake and uh, it's but because carried the afterback carries

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over to it. Next of coursepeople Terry dies and it which is which
is why those There's some stuff that'sthat happens, but that part is not
the most important. Back to theends and the earthquake. So the folks
coming down the stairs the way itshook, so I'm curious how they did
it on They must have had theymust have the stage on rollers because it

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really rocks back and forth. Ithought it was well done. I actually
give it a seven or eight ona scale of prime type earthquakes. There
weren't that many. There's not thatmany, but there was someone extra cheese.
This one's kind of real. Itwas. It was a little.
It was a little. It wasit was real. That was real.
And you can watch it if youdon't want to watch it on why do

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you go to YouTube? You cansee it. You know. It was
good, so I would go bychair. It was good. But they
when they show the aftermath in seasonsix, there was a death toll.

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They had death, which is realistic. You know, death happens in in
earthquake, big earthquakes. And andthey had father Bob on the show who
chair who made his church into afield hospital for all the folks who were
in the valley. They were inTuscany Valley, so they did that,

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so that was good also, itwas it was good. I thought I
thought it was good. I thoughtthey did a great job depicting it for
being a soap and and I'm notsurprised testing because they had They really had
to be really good because again itwas set in California. Fun question was
kind of the class year of thesoaps. I don't want to offend the

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other soap operas. I love them, but it was kind of held in
a different regard. So I thinkanyone to do. They give you some
theatrics, but they had to kindof be careful. Let's see. So
let me tell you. I triedto like to look and see give people
the credit. So Earl Hamner Juniorco wrote this episode. I want to

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make check you with his credit.And we've talked about Earl Hammler on the
show already. A previous episode wetalked about him. He look that up
bon ger his credit. He wrotethe episodes. So there you go.
That's end of season five. Sorrywith spoiler alert if you ever watched Vic
Crest and the season five ends inan earthquake. Season six opens with the
aftermath literally titled Aftershocks, so youcan check those out. I'm James Lott

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