Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

Anyway, um, so he's-

He's trying to be Jack Ryan.

Oh.

He's trying to be, like, Kaczynski's Jack Ryan.

Yep, yeah.

That's kind of what it felt like, yeah.

And this isn't just ancient history either.

The recent Jack Ryan streaming show on Prime Video proves that this franchise remains incredibly lucrative today.

Yeah, the IP is still a powerhouse, but for this deep dive we have to zero in on the character at the center of our source material.

Right.

Exactly.

He is a bedrock character of this franchise.

If Jack Ryan is the analyst, Kelly's the operator.

The darker, more lethal counterpart.

And I remember saying like, what is some of the most more recent times where like maybe you guys were born or like other people were born? A time that like people are just like, damn, you know what I mean? Like, You've always hear of 9-11 in certain situations and cases.

Like when you watch Jack Ryan, the entire reason of the CIA being allowed to do the things that it does is because they're trying to prevent other 9-11s from happening.

When you watch Lioness, they are also trying to prevent other 9-11s from happening.

When you watch The Crown, they showed...

That's the running thread through all the books, even though each of the now five have their own lead primary character.

It's not like J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter, or Tom Clancy, Jack Ryan works the same characters, and each book feeds into the next.

my life and liver series are all separate you can read any one of them out of order and they make sense uh but get carpe diem although i was joking with you before we hit record uh i'm up early because you're in australia i'm in the u.s it's late for you it's early for me i'm gonna carpe diem the bed after this i'm gonna i'm gonna head back to bed for a nap but uh Yeah, after I went on disability, I started thinking, what can I do from my couch to inspire others, to indeed, like in my The Book of Kennedy Project Carpe Diem book, the second in my Life and Living series, Kennedy...

Oh, my ADHD got me.

Oh, he's so good.

Known for Jack Ryan, The Penguin, House of Car- He was in House of Cards.

Yeah.

Well, anyways, he's joining the cast of Landman Season 3.

But I'm definitely going to watch that.

Jack Ryan.

Have you seen that?

I saw the early ones with what's his name? Emily Blunt's husband, right? I

So part of it is the legitimacy of it too.

I mean, yes, it's reaching older demographics, like he said, but you know, Beast Games is now up there while you're browsing with Jack Ryan and Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and it just kind of puts you in this other category.

So The other thing that's really interesting is they did this crossover episode with Beast Games and Survivor in season two.

And it also is another example of kind of how creators can benefit.