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Episode 204: The Good Old Days

Words & Numbers

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Are You in the 70s and 80s?

In the 70s and 80s, people were convinced Ronald Reagan was going to usher in nuclear annihilation for both us and the Russians. "I keep one of those signs in my office to remind me of these times," says CNN's John Sutter. We haven't had to think seriously about that in a very long time; we can look back nostalgically because we know how the story ended up.

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