Wingmen Show
by Drew Brown and Paul Thompson
Teach Them the Gouge--Pass On the Inside Information
About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 250 episodes
- Teach Them the Gouge--Pass On the Inside Information · 31 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! You fought your way through the door. Now what? In Episode 268, Commander Drew Brown and Dr. Paul Thompson ask a question every…
- When Nobody Answers: Follow Up—or Move On · 33 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! You sent the application. You made the call. You wrote the proposal. And then—nothing. In Episode 267, Commander Drew and Dr. Paul…
- What the Hell Is Life All About? · 36 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! Every now and then you have to stop chasing the next thing long enough to ask the big question: what is life really all about? In…
- What Is Hip! · 31 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! What actually makes somebody cool? It is a question we have all been asking since middle school, and this week Commander Drew and…
- Reading is Essential, Not Just Fundamental · 32 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! The first book that finds its way into your heart can change everything. This week, Commander Drew and Dr. Paul explore why reading…
- How To Stay On The Grind, When the Goal Seems So Far Away · 35 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! The Wingmen will take the show somewhere special very soon—the Maldives. But in this episode we tackle a question every dreamer…
- Thirty Seconds to Calm: The Wingmen Way · 32 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! What if thirty seconds of kindness could cut discipline problems in half? In Episode 258, Drew and Paul open with a leadership…
- America Plays Soccer, But the World Lives Soccer · 39 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! The world speaks one sporting language, and it isn’t ours. In Episode 257, Commander Drew and Dr. Paul tackle a question American…
- When AI Becomes a Wingman · 36 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! This week, the Wingmen look at what happens when artificial intelligence stops being a buzzword and starts being a Wingman —…
- Why Watching Sports Makes People Happy · 29 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! Why does a championship win feel like you flew the final mission yourself? In Episode 255, Commander Drew and Dr. Paul break down…
- Team Pride. Oh What a Powerful Rush, Either WAY · 28 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! Team pride is one of the most powerful forces in human psychology — and in Episode 253, Commander Drew and Dr. Paul dig into why…
- How to Get More Men to Try Therapy-It’s Life Changing! · 30 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! Every man gets handed the same invisible rulebook at some point: don’t talk about your feelings, walk off the pain, say “I’m fine”…
- Discipline Always Beats Talent. Discipline Plus Talent Is Unstoppable · 35 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! In Episode 251, Commander Drew Brown and Dr. Paul Thompson take on one of the most misunderstood debates in performance culture…
- Menopause, Hot Flashes & Hard Landings: The Midlife Flight Brief · 31 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! Episode 250 is a milestone — and Commander Drew and Dr. Paul mark it with a conversation that matters for everyone: the truth about…
- The Wingmen of Virgin Voyages: A Transatlantic Journey · 28 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! Commander Drew Brown broadcasts live from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean aboard Virgin Voyages’ Scarlet Lady on a transatlantic…
- This Isn’t a Joke: Mental Health Can End a Pilot’s Career and Your Life · 41 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! FROM THE COCKPIT — EPISODE 247 SUMMARY: In this episode, Commander Drew and Dr. Paul tackle one of aviation's most dangerous open…
- You Gotta Believe, Rewriting Your Story the Wingmen Way · 40 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! In this episode, Commander Drew and Dr. Paul get personal—sharing the real story of how two kids from Harlem rewrote their flight…
- Welcome To The Dark Side of the Moon · 33 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! FROM THE COCKPIT — EPISODE 245 SUMMARY: In this episode, Commander Drew and Dr. Paul take a front-row seat to one of humanity's…
- What We Can Learn From the Happiest Countries and why are these Countries the Happiest? · 33 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! In this episode, Commander Drew and Dr. Paul explore what the world's happiest countries are doing right — and what the U.S. can…
- It’s All About The Prompt · 36 minSent us text! We would love to hear from you! Bruce Lee as well as his contemporary Chuck Norris, believed in efficiency in the world of martial arts as well as in everyday life…







