Wingmen Show

By: Drew Brown and Paul Thompson
  • Summary

  • Two Dope Boys in a Navy jet. The Wingmen Show is a weekly podcast about challenges and opportunities in everyday life. Your hosts are two guys born in Harlem, New York previously unknown to each other. Separately, they became Navy pilots flying high performance jet aircraft on and off of aircraft carriers patrolling the world’s oceans. Their paths did not cross formally until they ended up flying for the same airline after their active-duty military service had ended. They have a wide range of experiences spanning the worlds of basketball and boxing. Drew’s father is Drew Bundini Brown, Muhammad Ali’s Wingman and coined the iconic phrase “Float Like A Butterfly Sting, Like A Bee". Martial Arts and Show Business are also areas of mutual interest. Drew has been featured nationally on television programs such as the Donahue Show and the Today Show. He has also appeared in hundreds of newspapers and magazines. Both are published authors as well as former Navy jet pilots and Commercial Airline Pilots; they retired after having flown the Boeing 777 airliner. The cultural mix of religions, immigrant parents and grandparents from Europe and the Caribbean gives them an uncommon perspective on racial matters. Melding the cultures of New York City, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Memphis, the Caribbean and Atlanta has helped shape their worldview when combined with the life they have seen and experienced having flown extensively to countries throughout the world.They are wingmen to each other, providing advice, guidance and constructive criticism when needed. The goal of the show is to inspire and entertain those unafraid to expand their minds and perhaps learn something new in the hope that the listeners can become wingmen to others. Each one, teach one.
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Episodes
  • How to Work Anywhere in the world…Become a Digital Nomad
    Sep 10 2024

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    Life is not always going to be convenient. Embrace the challenge to be better even though you may suffer some discomfort in the short run. Meaningful growth rarely happens by accident, one must be intentional to move forward.


    A U.S. Army base in the state of Virginia has been renamed Fort Greg-Adams to honor two pioneers who persevered to serve the nation honorably, oftentimes under less than honorable social conditions mandated by culture and law. The honorees, Lt. General James Greg was the first black military officer to achieve the rank of Lieutenant General; while Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams Earley was the first black woman to become a commissioned officer in the Army’s Womens Auxiliary Corps and given the ground breaking task of leading a specialized unit of women on a special project overseas during World War II.


    The emergence of a new class of employees has been created. Those known as digital nomads are employed worldwide outside of a traditional office. Instead, they work from disparate locations from a personal computer. In general these oftentimes, highly skilled workers have no fixed position. Some work from home or other domestic location, while others may be found anywhere in the world. The primary requirement is a suitable environment and employer who allows remote work and a good internet connection.


    Young adults are still trying to mature in many cases, years after they technically become adult. Conflicts with parents in adulthood need to be handled differently than in an earlier environment where one is clearly the parent while the other is a minor.


    Meet a wingman to an entire school system who quietly contributed to the upward growth of her school family during her life and beyond.



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    33 mins
  • How to Get a Job at a Black Airline Convention While Being White
    Sep 3 2024

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    Every day you wake up is a new day, so make the most of it.

    Dr. Paul represented the Wingmen Show at the OBAP (Organization of Black Aviation Professionals) at their annual conference held this year in Memphis, Tennessee, and sponsored by FedEx. This annual conference is open to all and serves as a gathering point for those interested in any of the vast array of career opportunities that are available in the airline industry right now and in the foreseeable future.

    One of the most touching aspects of the conference was the special recognition given to the first seven black pilots hired by a small company known as Federal Express that grew to become a global giant in the cargo transportation industry. Of the seven aviators, the four pilots still living, were present at the airing of this mini documentary. In this Biopic, the founder of Federal Express, Mr. Fred Smith gave a comprehensive historical narrative on the need to open opportunities for employment without regard to racial background or other limiting factors in order to expedite the long term development of his burgeoning aviation company.

    Heman Bekele, a young man we featured some time ago for his development of a special soap to combat skin cancer has been named Time Magazine’s, Kid of The Year and has teamed up with researchers at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at John’s Hopkins University to get his treatment approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and made available to the outside world.

    The recent passing of the one-time, most listened-to daytime talk show hosts, Phil Donahue was noted by the wingmen as his show watched daily by millions. Commander Drew was the star of his show, not once but twice, that helped propel his motivational speaking career throughout the United States. This show you are listen to or watching, the Wingmen Show Podcast is an offshoot of what he has been doing in front of of large audiences for decades.

    Listen to the story of a whole town full of wingmen who adopted dozens of children who had nowhere to go.

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    32 mins
  • How to Stay Pee-Pee Free In a Pool? Don’t Be An Olympic Swimmer!
    Aug 20 2024

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    Those who help others are essentially wingmen, whether they know it or not. We have renewed our alliance with Magic Mind, the nootropic that improves alertness and concentration. This concoction is so effective, that separately, both of our wives have requested it by name, to improve their individual performance. The Veterans Hotline has been found to be an effective way to get mental health help to our servicemen and women who need assistance with internal battles that plague their lives. As so-called Baby Boomers we reflect on some of the simple things in life that gave us great joy while growing up. The ability to roam free, unrestricted by artificial boundaries, in the search for youthful adventure, provided us with an exposure to the outside world and a sense for adventure. Did you know that olympic swimmers relieve themselves in the pool when nature calls? No wonder my old YMCA pool had enough chlorine in the water that it turned everyone’s eyes red even before we got in the water! If you are fortunate enough to get a sizable inheritance, we think it’s ok to spend some of it on yourself to have some fun; then knock out some debt and invest the rest. Meet a young wingman who has been helping school children in his county and shows no signs of stopping.


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    34 mins

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