Warrior Kid Podcast #41: Ask Uncle Jake. With Ryan Manion
Warrior Kid Podcast
Jocko Willink
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
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What did Travis learn from you?
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What was his main sport?
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Was it easy for him?
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How old was he when he decided to be a Marine?
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What does "Find Your Brendan" mean?
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What does "Kindness matters more than you know" mean?
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What does "Dream big and work hard to get there" mean?
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What does "Be big in the little things" mean?
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What does "If not me, then who?" mean?
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What does it mean to have character?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Warrior Kid podcast number 41 Ask Uncle Jake. This podcast is based on the five |
| 0:07.7 | way of the warrior kid books. The first one, wave the warrior kid. The second one, Mark's mission. |
| 0:13.3 | The third one, where there's a will. The fourth one, field manual. And book five letters from |
| 0:20.4 | Uncle Jake. And these books are about young mark who faces |
| 0:24.4 | a lot of the same problems that kids everywhere face but mark gets help solving those problems from |
| 0:31.5 | his uncle jake who is a navy seal and who stays with mark in the summertime there's also a movie coming out this year that does a great job showing Mark's journey |
| 0:42.3 | to becoming a warrior kid. |
| 0:45.8 | And this podcast is for kids to hear some more lessons from Uncle Jake and also to get the |
| 0:51.1 | chance to ask Uncle Jake some questions. But it doesn't always happen like that exactly |
| 0:57.9 | because today I have another author on this podcast to talk about her book. And her name is Ryan Mannion |
| 1:07.8 | and her brother whose name was Travis Mannion was a United States Marine hero |
| 1:12.8 | who was killed in Iraq when he was helping to save some of his fellow Marines and Travis was a true |
| 1:21.5 | warrior and this is not just when he was a Marine. He was a warrior kid as well. And his sister, |
| 1:32.4 | Ryan, wrote a book to teach people, especially kids, the things that her brother, Travis, |
| 1:39.0 | said. And these are words that guided him and kept him on the warrior path. So Ryan, thank you very much for |
| 1:49.1 | joining us. Oh, thanks for having me, Jocko. So your book is called Things My Brother Used to Say. |
| 1:56.3 | And this is a great book and teaches some incredible lessons that your brother taught to you. |
| 2:04.0 | Even though you were the older sister, right? |
| 2:06.3 | I was, but he set the example for me all the time. |
| 2:10.3 | Even though you were the older sister, he set the example for you. |
| 2:13.9 | Yep. |
| 2:14.7 | That's good to hear. |
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