In this episode, I talk a little bit about Tom Clancy's Executive Orders. Who was Tom Clancy? An insurance salesman. An admirer of the American military. And a wildly successful author. And he was more than all that. He helped shape the way America felt about its armed forces for the last four decades and with the revival of his hero Jack Ryan he continues to do so today. I dig into the politics and the allure of Tom Clancy.

In part two, I invite on my brother Matt, a former submariner and longtime admirer of Clancy for a defense of the man who by my estimation might have only been outdone by the Bible and that British wizard in terms of pageviews in the last thirty years. Love Clancy or hate him, this episode has something for you.

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