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Welcome back to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast. In this week’s episode we talk to Walker Lamond, author of the new book Rules for My Unborn Son<\/a>. <\/em>Walker’s book is based on his popular blog, 1001 Rules for My Unborn Son<\/a>. We discuss the inspiration for the book, wheelie luggage, and required listening for boys. Pick up the book  from Amazon.com today! <\/a>Full of advice both insightful and humorous, I highly recommend it. It makes a great stocking stuffer<\/a> this Christmas for any man in your life, not just dads.<\/p>\n

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Brett McKay here, and welcome to another episode of The Art of Manliness
\npodcast. Now, if you made a rulebook on life for your son, what sort of
\nrules would you include in it? Well, our guest today has recently published
\na book with rules that he hopes his son will follow in order to become a
\nwell-rounded gentleman. His name is Walker Lamond and he is the author of
\nthe book, “Rules for my Unborn Son.” Walker is a writer and television
\nproducer and lives in Washington D.C. with his wife and their newborn son
\nwho was actually born shortly after he finished his book, “Rules for My
\nUnborn Son.” Walker, welcome to the show.<\/p>\n

Walker: <\/strong> Thanks for having me, Brett.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> All right, Walker. Well, first off, congratulations on the book
\nand congratulations on becoming a dad.<\/p>\n

Walker: <\/strong> Thanks, I appreciate it. Now if we can just get him turned into
\na man, we’ll be in good shape.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> There you go. All right. So, Walker, what inspired you to start
\nthis project? From what I understand, you actually started this before your
\nson was even a twinkle in your eye.<\/p>\n

Walker: <\/strong> Yeah, it was really years ago. I mean, the whole project
\nstarted back in New York as a single guy. It was kind of a back of a bar
\nnapkin type of thing where I just wanted to start keeping track of all the
\nthings that my old man had taught me growing up because I didn’t want to
\nforget it. So even long before I was married and long before I had a kid, I
\njust knew what kind of a son I wanted to have. So, I thought, well, let’s
\nwrite it all down now because I know that when actual fatherhood comes,
\nthere is a good chance that I would end up too exhausted or too overwhelmed
\nto remember all of the things that I always meant to teach him. So, I said,
\n“Hey, let’s just write it down in a book, and I can just give it to him.”<\/p>\n

Brett<\/strong>: Yeah. So, you actually started off as a blog, right?<\/p>\n

Walker<\/strong>: Yeah. Absolutely. When I got a good number of these things
\ngoing, I said, “You know, let’s, I want to share these with some friends
\nand family.” Luckily for me, the Tumblr blogging platform had just kind of
\ncome out and it was so easy that even a guy like me could figure it out. I
\nstarted throwing them up on the Web. I really liked the way they had these
\nreally nice design templates, and I really just did it for a gasp. But, you
\nknow, the Internet is a funny place. It was like doing stand-up comedy, you
\nknow. Before I knew it, a few people were laughing, a few more people were
\nreading, and it turned into this everyday thing where I was getting more
\nand more readers. It just kind of encouraged me to keep adding.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> And is this how you, your book publisher found you was through
\nyour blog?<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> Yeah. I mean, lucky me. You know, I didn’t have to write any
\nquery letters or any of that stuff that you had to do in the old days. Old
\ndays meaning probably, like, three years ago.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Mm-hmm. [laughs]<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> You know, before I knew it, there were enough readers on there
\nthat it was getting passed to the type of people that are in charge of
\nmaking books. So, an agent contacted me and a couple weeks later we were
\npitching publishers. It was all done before I really knew what hit me.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> [laughs] So, Walker, what are some of your favorite rules from
\nthe book?<\/p>\n

Walker: <\/strong> There’s so many, you know. I’ve got lots of rules about how to
\ndress like a man, how to act on a date. But if I was just to flip open the
\nbook at any point . . . here’s one, “On a road trip offer to buy the first
\ntank of gas.” I’m a firm believer that men should never wear sandals, ever.
\nHow about this one? “Never pack more than you can carry yourself, and a
\nman’s luggage doesn’t roll.”<\/p>\n

Brett: <\/strong> Yeah, I love that. It was funny. Actually, before I read the
\nbook and read that rule, my wife’s uncle and I were talking about that. He
\njust can’t stand wheelie luggage.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> And not only that, I mean, it’s one thing to see, you know, the
\ngolf-shirted businessmen rolling through the airport, you know, from gate
\nto gate, but have you seen, like, the fifth grade boys with their rolling
\nluggage backpacks?<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> It’s absurd.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yeah. It is absurd. Just going back to the golf-shirted
\nbusinessmen, you see them, you know, they don’t even have a big suitcase.
\nIt’s just like a carryon.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n

Brett: <\/strong> And they’re still wheeling it.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> Some people get upset when they see that rule. You know, this
\nis not to say that somehow, you know, wheeled luggage isn’t manly or, you
\nknow, you’ve got to be a tough guy. It’s really a rule to tell you, you
\nknow, “if you can’t carry it yourself, you’re probably packing too much.”<\/p>\n

Brett: <\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Walker<\/strong>: It’s more of a call for, you know, minimalism and paring down
\nyour life and your wardrobe rather than saying, “Hey, we all have to be
\nkind of macho tough guys.”<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> And that is kind of the point of the book. You know, a lot of
\nthese rules are earnest, and some, but a lot of them are a little tongue-in-
\ncheek. The idea is not to say, “Hey, I wish we were all, you know, turn-of-
\nthe century pugilists and everyone now is a, you know, a sensitive
\nponytailed guy.” It’s not really that type of thing. It’s more just saying,
\n“Hey, you know what? If you pare down your life a little bit and if you
\ngive yourself, in fact, less options, you’re going to have a form of
\nquality control.” You know, that’s really what the book is all about —
\nincreasing the quality of your life and what’s around you instead of just
\nthe quantity, you know.<\/p>\n

Brett: <\/strong> Yeah. Definitely. Here is another one I like, “Don’t
\npersonalize your license plates.”<\/p>\n

Walker: <\/strong> Yeah. I mean, it’s already kind of personalized, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> No two people have the same license plate. It’s kind of
\nredundant to put on there, you know . . .<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Exactly.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> . . . aviator pilot.<\/p>\n

Brett: <\/strong> No, no. Exactly. Here’s another one. “The best thing you can
\ngive your neighbors is a well-kept lawn.”<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> Yeah. Some of these rules are inspired, sometimes I’ll see a
\nphotograph somewhere and I am sure you’ve seen that “Life” magazine finally
\nput all of their photos and outtakes up on the Web for use. You can just
\nspend days scrolling through that. You come across a great photograph, and
\nit might inspire a rule.<\/p>\n

Brett: <\/strong> Mm-hmm.<\/p>\n

Walker: <\/strong> That was one of them. The pictures of classic 50s suburbia with
\nmen in their Bermuda shorts and a cold Schlitz pushing lawnmowers. I mean,
\nthat is truly the best gift you can give your neighbors.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Definitely. Definitely. One rule I thought should have been in
\nthere that my parents really harped this on me was, “Ask the girl who’s not
\ngetting asked to dance to dance.” I don’t know.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> That’s a good one.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yeah. Yeah.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> That’s a good one. The blog continues and I keep trying to add
\nrules because who knows, maybe there’ll be a second edition, but mostly
\nbecause I’ve got readers who like to tune in and I’m asking them to always
\nsubmit new rules. I love to hear other people’s stories. People give me
\ngreat rules all the time. Along that same vein, you know, I added one
\nrecently that says, it was a first day of school rule. I said, you know,
\n“Eat lunch with the new kid.”<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> There’s just like some good throwback lessons there on just how
\nto be a nice person without just being a kind of Miss Manners type of . . .<\/p>\n

Brett: <\/strong> Exactly. Being a well-rounded civil person.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> So, you kind of mentioned a little bit how you came up with the
\nrules. Can you explain that more? You mentioned your dad handed some of
\nthese rules. I mean, where else do you get inspiration for them?<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> Yeah. I mean the core, kind of the original group of rules,
\nthere’s probably like 50 of them. They really were straight from my dad. He
\nwasn’t like a strict disciplinarian. He just had a really good sense of
\nwhat he said, what made a good man, and what a good man did and what a good
\nman didn’t do. You know, some were little things, and some were clich\ufffdd
\nsports idioms about keeping your head down and persevering and things like
\nthat. Others were just kind of quirky to him. You know, the guy never wore
\nany socks. He never thought it was necessary. But at the same time, he was
\nusually the best dressed guy in the room.<\/p>\n

So, he had this group of rules and those are the ones that started me off
\nwith the list. Then I just kind of added to them using my own experiences.
\nYou know, every day walking in New York and every little embarrassing
\nepisode of your life you say, “God, I’m never going to do that again,” or
\n“I’m going to teach my kid to never make that mistake.” You just keep track
\nof those things and before you know it, you’ve got a rule for every walk of
\nlife. I mean, every time you go in the airport don’t you think, “Jesus, I’m
\nnever going to teach my kid to be like that person,” or something. So,
\nbefore I knew it. I was keeping track of all the things. Essentially it’s
\nlike wanting to make the world a little better place, you know?<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yeah. Yeah. Kind of make up for the lack of civility . . .<\/p>\n

Walker: <\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> . . . and good manners.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> Sounds ambitious doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yeah, it is, but I think you’re on to something here. You know,
\nI think there is definitely a desire for people to kind of counteract the
\ninformalism that has kind of crept in to American society. I think a lot of
\npeople are attracted to that.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> Yeah, I agree. I mean, you know, I say something in the
\nintroduction about at some point rules got this bad rap, you know. I mean,
\nin my opinion, rules are this really effective way to pass down
\ninstitutional knowledge, you know. I mean, if generations of people have
\ndone something a certain way, and they’ve taught us to do it the right way,
\nthe most effective way to pass it down is just make a rule about it, you
\nknow. Don’t run a red light or whatever. Hey, that works and now we’re all
\nsafe. Somewhere around I’d say, not to blame anybody, but the Woodstock
\nGeneration, you know, all of a sudden rules became synonymous with “The
\nMan” and authority and it was looked at as a barrier to freedom,
\nindividualism, and creativity, which is just not the case. I think they
\nkind of threw the baby out with the bathwater.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> Before you knew it, you’ve got a generation of men wearing
\nsneakers and T-shirts to the office and having haircuts like they did when
\nthey were 12, you know.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yeah. Yeah.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> So, I am all for freedom and living your life however you want,
\nbut it wasn’t a great model for young kids, because when they don’t see any
\ndifferentiation between their parents and them, where is the inspiration to
\nachieve more than they achieved, to grow up?<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yeah. Definitely. So, you mentioned, Walker, that some people
\ndidn’t like the no wheelie luggage rule. Were there any other rules that
\ncaused some controversy or that people just, you know, you got emails
\nsaying, “I can’t believe you put that in. That’s stupid,” and whatever.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> Yeah. It’s funny. I mean, you know, it’s a really subjective
\nlist. You know, I am an East Coast city kind. So when I wrote that, “If you
\nare tempted to wear a cowboy hat, resist.” Yeah, I caught a little flak
\nfrom some of the westerners from Colorado and Texas. I think in the next
\nedition, we’ll make a caveat that says, “Unless you actually own a horse.”
\nYou know, then we can satisfy the Texans. You know, it’s funny when people
\nfeel like they are getting criticized for their personal style, it can get
\na little touchy. I have a thing against facial hair. My dad always taught
\nme that men with facial hair have something to hide. At the same time, I’ve
\nkind of come around a little bit thanks to Art of Manliness on a good,
\nclean mustache.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> There you go.<\/p>\n

Walker: <\/strong>You know, so, I’m coming around a little bit on that one. It’s
\nfunny when you get emails from people, I seem to get a lot of emails from
\nCalifornia. A lot of guys in California saying, “What do you mean I can’t
\nwear sandals, jog shirtless, and grow a goatee?” I just let them be. Not
\neverybody’s going to want to follow these rules.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yeah. Exactly. We get that a lot, too, on our site. In fact,
\nyesterday we did a post of how to get a “Mad Men” haircut. You know, with
\nthe part and the . . .<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> I saw it. As a matter of fact, just yesterday. I went across
\nthe street to my mom and pop pharmacy and bought a tube of Brylcreem.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Oh, yeah. Have you used it yet?<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> Yeah. I used it last night.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> What do you think?<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> It’s not bad. I think you probably have to throw a lot more in
\nthan I did. I was a little gun-shy.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yeah. I don’t think that the phrase, “a little dab will do
\nyou,” is actually . . .<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> No, I think it’s about a softball sized dab will probably do
\nyou.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yeah, exactly. See, when we did that post, we got a lot of
\ncomplaints. Some emails from people saying, “What are you talking about,
\nyou know, that my hair that I’ve had since high school is not manly or
\nridiculous.” A lot of the stuff we do is subjective. People get kind of
\naffronted. Especially with our site, since it is called The Art of
\nManliness. When we say something is not manly, then people get really upset
\nbecause they do that thing.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> Yeah. Also, what I am sure you’ve experienced a little bit is
\nthere is still a very strong voice, especially in like college-age kids,
\nagainst traditional gender roles, as people like to say. You know, because
\npeople worked really hard to kind of loosen the restrictions of what it
\nmeans to be a man and a woman and a girl and a boy. All for the good. I
\nmean, I am not disagreeing with it. I think this book and a little bit of
\nwhat Art of Manliness is doing, it’s not trying to revolt against the
\nprogress that people have made in equality and all of those things. It is
\njust an idea of getting back to some level of quality control.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> I see it in earlier generations. I am not saying that
\neverything that is old is good. I am saying that we might want to look back
\ninto our recent past for ideas on how to have higher quality goods and
\nhigher quality of life rather than always trying to reinvent ourselves and
\ncome up with something new. Three-quarters of the stuff we are trying to do
\nhas already been done and done better.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yup.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> Just look back a little bit and figure it out.<\/p>\n

Brett: <\/strong>Yeah, exactly. That’s what we do with the site. Go back into
\nhistory and take the good and apply it with the things we’ve learned today
\nand the progress we’ve made. Yeah, I think you’re actually right. You know,
\nnot everything old is good, but there’s a lot of good stuff there.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> Right.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Okay. So, one of the things that you have on your site and also
\nin your book is a list of music called “Required Listening for Boys.” I’ve
\ngot to say, it’s been fun listening to your list on your website. What are
\nsome of the songs you have on your list and why did you pick them?<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> I’ve tried to give my own little very biased 20th century
\npopular music short course or something. My theory here is that if my kid
\ncan master Woody Guthrie, a little Elvis, a little Ramones, then he can
\npretty much bring home whatever noise he wants to listen to. You know, when
\nhe turns 16, I am not going to be able to stop him. If screech metal
\nhappens to be hip that day, I may be enduring some painful stuff. As long
\nas I feel like he has given Dylan and Springsteen their due and a little
\nSmith and a little this and there, then he’s got every right to go listen
\nto whatever he wants to. That’s kind of what my dad always did for me, you
\nknow. He was an Elvis man. He loved Frank. He loved Nat King Cole. That’s
\nwhat I listened to when I was a kid. My mom turned me on to Stax records
\nand soul music. Between those two, I got this bass. When I was coming home
\nwith the Ramones or the Sex Pistols or, you know, early discord record
\nmusic, my dad didn’t understand it, but he let me listen to it because he
\nknew that I had gotten there on my own.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> It’s my own personal greatest hits.<\/p>\n

Brett: <\/strong> Very nice. Now, would you, what about movies? Are there any
\nmovies that you would include on a required viewing list for boys?<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> You know, I thought about putting in a required viewing list
\nbecause I love movies. I worship them. It’s almost, it’s one of those
\nthings that it is so hard to pick your favorite movie. The list was getting
\nlonger and longer and longer. It was also sounding a little bit too much
\nlike AFI’s greatest movies. I figured there are enough good movie critics
\nout there, he can find his own list. Some of my favorites, surely, “Annie
\nHall” is still one of my favorite movies. I love Wes Anderson movies. I
\nlove “Armageddon.” I love a good John Wayne movie. My interests are all
\nover the place. I like what most people like.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> You like good stories. I am a big fan of crime novels and crime
\nfiction. I love mysteries. I love movies like “Sunset Boulevard.” Those are
\nmy favorite types of movies. I am not a movie snob particularly. As long as
\nit is under 150 minutes and has a good looking lead, I’m in.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Very nice. Very nice. Now, I am sure you’ve gotten requests to
\ndo, or maybe I’m wrong, to do a book called “Rules for My Unborn Daughter.”
\nIf so, what sort of rules would you include in it?<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> God, it’s, you know, people ask me that and I have such a hard
\ntime getting, I was like, “Yeah, it sounds like a great idea.” Except I can
\nonly think of one rule and it’s pretty much, “Never leave the house.” I
\nthink we could come up with some. As a matter of fact, I just wrote a few
\nfor a magazine down in Charleston. I think a few on the list were like,
\n“Always keep champagne in the fridge and ice cream in the freezer.”<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Very nice.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> That’s sounds like something a girl would like.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Walker<\/strong>: “No vans in the driveway.” Other things of that . . . Oh, how
\nabout, “When you’re on a first date, order the steak.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> There you go.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> There you go. Watch your date’s eyes get really big, you know.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> Right. So, we could probably come up with some. Who knows, if
\nthis book sells, then I will surely get to work on that one, no doubt.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Awesome. All right. Walker, both of our sites and our books, we
\nkind of talked about this a little bit already, they both kind of have that
\nvintage and traditional feeling. Kind of harken back to the old days a bit.
\nI’ve noticed there is kind of a trend of men going back to that. Why do you
\nthink men these days are attracted to this traditional manliness
\nmasculinity?<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> Again, I think it has something to do with a yearning for
\nquality. It’s a quality. It’s a quality that I think a lot of discerning
\nmen today saw in their father’s generation or maybe even their
\ngrandfather’s generation. A time when, you know, the majority of your
\nhousehold goods were made in America.<\/p>\n

Brett: <\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> Or you needed two suits because they lasted you ten years. Or 3
\npairs of shoes as opposed to 25 different types of running shoes, you know.
\nSo, maybe it is just a sign of the times. We’ve come out of this kind of
\nperiod of luxury and excess, and maybe people are feeling like, “I don’t
\nenjoy the disposable culture as much. I think I want something that is
\ngoing to last a little bit.” So, I think it is natural for us to look back
\nto a period in our culture when things did last a little longer. To me,
\nit’s like right around the ”30s, 40s and ’50s seem like the cool period
\nwhen America was really peaking and creating really great products. For me,
\nlike when I was designing the book, I always loved the look of old ’50s
\ntextbooks and schoolbooks.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Mm-hmm. Yeah.<\/p>\n

Walker:<\/strong> You know, the kind of book that you put up on your shelf and
\nyou don’t mind it sitting there forever. I looked at the tables and I saw a
\nlot of the books today and, you know, not just being paperback but with
\nmodern contemporary graphics and things, it actually really dates it after
\na couple of years. I wanted something that looked like it had been there
\nforever. I also wanted something small enough to fit in a blazer pocket,
\nwhich was the only other requirement I had for the book designer. That
\nworked out.<\/p>\n

Brett: <\/strong>Very nice. Well, our guest today was Walker Lamond. He is the
\nauthor of the book, “Rules for My Unborn Son.” Walker, thank you for your
\ntime. It’s been a pleasure.<\/p>\n

Walker: <\/strong>Thank you, Brett. I really appreciate it. Thanks so much for
\nyour site. I love it.<\/p>\n

Brett:<\/strong> Thank you. That wraps up another edition of The Art of
\nManliness podcast. For more manly tips and advice make sure to check back
\nat The Art of Manliness website at ArtofManliness.com. Remember, we’ve got
\na book on sale, too. It’s “The Art of Manliness: Classic Skills and Manners
\nfor the Modern Man.” You can find it at Amazon.com or any other major book
\nstore. For more information about the book, check out the website at
\nArtofManliness.com\/TheBook. Until next week, stay manly.<\/p>\n

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  Welcome back to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast. In this week’s episode we talk to Walker Lamond, author of the new book Rules for My Unborn Son. Walker’s book is based on his popular blog, 1001 Rules for My Unborn Son. 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