Those flashbacks featuring pre-ghoulified Cooper Howard take place around 2077. Specifically, the flashback showing the nukes falling on America takes place on October 23, 2077. The recap also claims that Lucy goes with the Ghoul at the end of the Fallout season finale because she has to choose between life and death. Wrong again, you dumb robot. She actually goes because she wants to track down her father and learn the truth. Something the Ghoul is interested in, too.
All of a sudden, I'm looking at this world from a very different perspective, and as something on a screen in which I am an avatar in. I don't believe that I'm an avatar. I believe The Ghoul exists in the world. I believe that Cooper Howard exists in the world, The best way that I can serve this world and serve the fans of this game, I think, is to go to work every single day and believe the circumstances that I'm presented with.