Summary
On this episode of "The Human Behavior Podcast," hosts Brian Marren and Greg Williams launch an exciting new segment: "Remos Reviews." For their debut review, Greg delves into General Jim Mattis's compelling book, "Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead."
Greg provides a highly enthusiastic, yet humorously cautionary, review of the book. He playfully warns listeners about the profound impact of Mattis's work, jokingly suggesting that "the book reads you," and that if you don't finish it, "the book finishes you." Greg even quips that Mattis might personally show up at your house to quiz you on the chapters. Despite these comedic exaggerations, Greg unequivocally recommends the book, giving it a resounding "thumbs up" for its invaluable insights into leadership and life. Brian encourages listeners who read "Call Sign Chaos" to submit their own creative and humorous interpretations of the book's impact for a chance to be featured on a future episode.
Key Takeaways:
- "The Human Behavior Podcast" introduces a new segment called "Remos Reviews" for books and other media.
- Greg Williams reviews General Jim Mattis's book, "Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead," giving it a strong recommendation.
- The review is marked by humorous warnings, playfully exaggerating the book's powerful and immersive nature, such as "the book reads you."
- Despite the comedic tone, Greg emphasizes the book's profound importance and encourages everyone to read it.
- Brian Marren invites listeners to share their own clever reactions to the book for potential inclusion in a future episode.
Key Takeaways
Transcript
By the way, Brian, we want to introduce a new segment. We're excited about it, so let's go ahead. We'll call these "Remos Reviews." I think that works. There's a book review, but I want to do movie reviews, other stuff. We'll keep those separate. For everyone listening right now, we'll continue this here, but then we'll also separate it on that call. Your call. And by the way, of course... right. Yeah, we'll go ahead and bring up what we have right here. Greg, then you can kind of talk us through it. Here we are on a white screen with you.
Well, you'll know in future episodes if this catches on—and the only way we're going to know if it catches on is if you, viewers and listeners, hit up Brian and say, "Yeah, we like this." If not, then it'll be one with the desert, if you know what I'm saying.
So today, the book that I want to review (slide please) is a new book out from Chaos Actual. Everybody knows our hero, Jim Mattis. And the actual title of the book is Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead.
Well, I think it's funny real quick that he had to call it that because everyone, when he became Secretary of Defense and the press found out who this guy was, they started calling him "Mad Dog," which has never been his callsign. His callsign was always... well, the entire idea of "chaos," the first two letters of that, that's where "Combat Hunter" came from. So this guy has done it all, and he's been there, and Chuck Norris is his valet.
So I absolutely love the book, and you're going to have a great time reading the book, but I just want to warn you a little bit. (Slide please.) First thing is that Chaos Actual wrote a book that was called Learning to Bleed, but he wrote it under one of his vast pseudonyms. (Slide please.) You'll notice that Mattis is also what the Austrians and Germans called Krampus, and he takes the children around Christmas.
So with that warning, if you're going to order the book on Amazon today, which I highly recommend, (slide please, Brian) I've come up with just a couple of warnings for you, and there's only three.
First warning: you don't read the book, the book reads you.
The second warning I think that you should have is: if you don't finish the book, the book finishes you. Mattis actually calls you to find out which chapters you're on, and if you don't read a chapter fast enough, he's showing up at the house.
And then finally, you've got to remember that Chaos Actual will randomly show up at one of the readers' homes and quiz you on the chapters. Heaven help you if you didn't really read it. So if you're not reading the book and you're using it as a doorstop, I say pass it on. You'd rather sit with no jurors on an I.E.P. than mess with this book.
I highly recommend it. I think it's good. I give it a... I don't know what Remo would give. I thought we had many rules for Remo's "Rule of Thumb." "Rule of Thumb" would be, yeah, I guess you can only give a thumbs up or nothing, I guess. I don't know, because Jim Mattis has an incredible sense of humor. I won't be with you next week.
Turn the podcast... Greg got summoned. You're going to have... Now, The Bourbon, they're closing in on the "Rogue Man" or "West" right now, going, "What do you know? No stories from back in the day from Chaos Actual?" Exactly!
Alright, well, I like that. That's a good start. Listen, anybody else that's going to read that book, you know, they came out with the "Norris as a fist and his beard" and all that other stuff. Do me a favor, if you're clever, write what that book means to you in that same manner to Marren, and we'll put it on the air next time. That's perfect.