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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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Who in the Hell are the Wingmen Anyway?-Part 6

June 10, 2025 • Drew Brown and Paul Thompson

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In the final installment of their origin story, your wingmen, CDR Drew and Dr. Paul, discuss particular elements of their lives. The pair examine their station in life today. Throughout, they both reflect on the past to give a broader view of their approach to life based on the support and encouragement they received from their most trusted advisors.

Both wingmen have spent some time around individuals considered to be “rich & famous”. Separately, they have found that money alone cannot replace the benefits of good health and positive relationships with other people. Everything they achieved started with a good educational grounding. The common thread of academic excellence helped propel them both from relatively humble beginnings to a comfortable position later in life.

The reality of being married, with children, imposes certain lifestyle conditions on aircrew members anywhere in the world. As professional pilots they found themselves faced with some challenges that had to be overcome. These challenges or obstacles had to be properly managed in order to minimize family turmoil and provide a positive environment for their children to reach their greatest potential.

Having grandchildren has proved to be a blessing that has opened another portal in life. Through this gateway they have discovered new things in their newest generation, along with reflecting on some of the beneficial lessons they learned in the past.

The emphasis they place on health, nutrition and physical movement has benefits for us all in the long run. Those who dream may be visionaries, but dreams are not enough; without planning and taking action, nothing happens.

Even the wingmen, have wingmen. All of the shows relied heavily on the initial guidance provided by our trusted advisor, Mr. Matthew Bivins. Having graduated from the baby steps initially taken to get the production off the gound, it became time to get the assistance of a social media professional. Our show has been presented to the world under the guidance of our “main man in media”, Mr. Branden Gelinas of the Mystik Digital Agency. But for both wingmen, their greatest support and cheerleaders for their success came from those who were closest to them, from the very beginning.