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Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the art of manliness podcast now if you were to make a list of all the skills know how

information that every young man should know before he leaves his parents home what would you put on that list.

Well our guest today has set out on that epic journey to create such a list his name is Kenneth W. Royce and his book about this list of everything that

a man should know is called modules for manhood what every man must know Kenneth W. Royce he's a writer, adventurer, hunter, some of many of our listeners are familiar with his Boston's gun

Bible and anyways in our discussion Kenneth and I talk about modules of manhood things that he thinks every man should know why there's such a decline in manliness and masculinity and our culture today and what young men can start doing now today to become better men and you know what

fathers and mothers can do as well to help shape good solid men for our culture through the interesting discussion fascinating a lot of fun you're going to enjoy it so stay tuned.

Kenneth W. Royce welcome to the show. Hey it's a pleasure breath thanks for having me on okay so let's start off by talking a bit about your background before getting to your book because when you emailed me and I looked into it I was like man this guy's guys pretty manly so tell us a bit about your background.

Well I grew up in Texas so you know manliness is part of the part of the scheme down there or at least we like to think so grew up in a small town I had fathers who hunted and had outdoor stuff you know for us to do lots of travel domestic and international and live near the Gulf Coast so we're on sale boats a lot too so I think I had a pretty good upbringing that is good for a boy you know getting a

manhood yeah and what do you mean what do you do now I mean you do some pretty cool I mean as a grown man you've done some pretty cool stuff too.

I'm I've been a motorcycle list for a long long time and I've been overseas with motorcycles and then trips there so I still do that I have to 1000 CC European machines ones on off road ones more of a street bike.

I hunt a lot and I enjoy safari in Africa I've been over five times after the third time I wrote a book kind of how to for the American deer and elk hunter who's always thought about going to Africa but didn't know if you could swing it that's called safari dreams and I'm into flying quite a bit single engine land some road to craft glider I'd like to get a sea plane rating this year and you know a couple of times I'm going to fly a little bit.

I'm going to do other things so let's see what else guns guns have always been part of my life yeah went to some of the big box shooting schools back the 90s such as Thunder Ranch and gun site and then became an instructor sort of an ad hoc instructor nothing you know very formal with a school or anything like that but I'd go to wherever someone could

accumulate six or more students and I travel to their state and put on a personalized weekend of instruction and I enjoy doing that very much because in order to really know something you have to teach it so it's good for me to be a shooting instructor because it just homes my skills also as I pass them on to others so basically guns hunting shooting flying motorcycle I'm not a rock climber so you know my manliness can still you know bump up a notch or two as a matter of time.

Things no that's that's pretty cool. I mean it's an all life of adventure. It's really yes that's right. Okay, so your book is called modules for manhood what every man must know and it's geared towards like younger men like teenagers early 20s what inspired you to write this book well growing up you know maturing as one does through manhood and it's a journey not a destination I still have a ways to go at my age but growing up I noticed

things that you know I didn't have squared away or things that were just plain missing you know modules of my own manhood so you know as a personal remedial and maturity process I tried to get rid of those along the way and something that Jeff Cooper

wrote the late lieutenant colonel Marine Corps Jeff Cooper was the founder of the gun site training academy in Paul and Arizona and it was the first shooting academy for civilians in the country

formed in I think the early 70s and just before he died in 2006 in his commentaries which is online if you search for Jeff Cooper commentaries you'll find it.

He wrote something basically about what every man young man should know before he leaves his father's household you know before he's 20 on or even 18 and he had a long list of things and they're pretty disparate

but you know they make a lot of sense if you read I mean it's basically understanding history understanding how you know finances work knowing how to speak a language being capable and unarmed and armed combat being able to write a motorcycle fly a light airplane some computer

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