Josh Clark
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And you said something that I think kind of applied to a lot of the nation.
Hockey was not really a thing, nothing like it is now in the United States.
Like you had to live in a place where your rivers froze over every year to like hockey.
It was a very regional sport.
And yet, like you said, the entire United States tuned in for this match because it was the evil Soviets.
And to our younger viewers or listeners, you can't imagine what they told us about the Russians.
Essentially, if you were a kid in the 70s, 80s, probably 60s too, you were basically taught that if you ever crossed paths with anybody from the Soviet Union, they would slash your throat just as soon as they look at you.
That was essentially what people thought of the Soviet Union at the time.
And vice versa.
So it was the big bad Soviets who...
who were just this huge juggernaut of a team and the Americans, the ragtag underdog Americans standing up to these these this evil empire.
And that's why everybody tuned in.
I remember very just having the distinct feeling it was communism versus democracy.