ADAM ALI AMY ANDREW ANNOUNCER ARMSTRONG AUSTIN BEN BOB CONTROLLER DAN DAVID DON EDWARD EHI ERIN GREG JACK JOBS KAVITHA KIMBERLY MCCARTNEY MIKE NATALIA NEGIN NEIL NIXON PEYTON REPORTER RICK ROB ROBERT RUTLEDGE SULLIVAN THOMAS PEYTON This week on "History's Greatest of All Time," it's all about real-life pairs whose work together changed the world. EHI They represent humanity's greatest ambition. It's beyond a dynamic duo. ROB What they were able to accomplish is unprecedented. PEYTON We're gonna rank the top 10 dynamic duos with the help of 100 experts. They used stats, innovation, and legacy to find the team with the best record. From sports. NEGIN Venus and Serena have nine Olympic medals. PEYTON To music. AUSTIN Oh, it's not The Beatles; it's Paul McCartney and John Lennon together as a duo. PEYTON To building business empires. ADAM Athletic footwear was no longer relegated to athletics and none of it would be possible without Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight. PEYTON For these double acts, there's no "me" in "team." NEIL It's not a popularity contest. It's, "Who's greatest?" Deal with it. PEYTON Which pair do you think will rise to the top? Only one way to find out. Let the countdown begin. PEYTON We decided to have some fun with this category, and our experts were asked to choose from a pretty broad list of dynamic duos. Kicking us off, two guys who inspired us to "just do it." RICK Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight are on the dynamic duo list because of what you have on your feet right now. They changed that world, and they made it stylish. ROB I'm a 58-year-old man with 20 pair of Jordans in my closet. KIMBERLY I don't know if they can really be considered GOATs. I mean, not that many folks even know who they are. ERIN I actually had no idea who they were and I had to look it up. NATALIA Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight are not necessarily household names, but I think these specific men and the way that they worked together are inseparable from the success of Nike. ADAM These shoes now tell a story, and none of it would be possible without Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight. BEN When most people think of Nike, they think of Phil Knight. A lot of people don't even know the backstory. Without Bowerman, his track coach, Phil Knight does not become Phil Knight. PEYTON It all begins around 1958. Phil Knight is a business student and track athlete who admires his coach, Bill Bowerman. After Knight graduates in 1962, he decides to break into the sneaker industry. EDWARD So he goes to Japan and ultimately signs a deal with Tiger Shoes to be their distributor in the United States. Tells Bill Bowerman, his former coach, about it. Bowerman says, "It's a great idea. I want to be a 50-50 partner." That's their first big step together. PEYTON Bowerman and Knight are doing pretty well selling their shoes. Then Bowerman gets a stroke of inspiration from waffles. Hey, we've all been there. ADAM Bowerman, while eating breakfast, happened to look at the deep grooves of his waffle iron, so he poured a bunch of rubber onto his waffle iron. BEN He comes up with the sole of the shoe that is gonna change the way that athletes perform for the rest of time. DON He creates the original waffle tread out of that waffle iron. BEN And sure enough, it turned into a multi-billion dollar product. EDWARD Eventually, they form their own company, and that company, we know it today as Nike, and that is the beginning of one of the great business stories in American history. PEYTON The Waffle Trainer shoe is the first of many successes for Nike, turning Bowerman and Knight into millionaires in just a few years. BEN You had the inventor, Bowerman, who was able to come up with this amazing product, and then this young guy, Phil Knight. DON Knight's a marketing genius. He sees the future in terms of icons. If he can get Nike shoes on these up-and-comers, then he can ride their career to greater heights for his business. EDWARD Their first celebrity endorsement is the top runner in America, Steve Prefontaine. PEYTON But it's a young shooting guard from North Carolina who would transform Nike into a global phenomenon. ADAM Number 23 in your program, number one in your heart, Michael Jordan. DON If he can put Nike shoes on Michael Jordan, boom. Every kid on that playground's gonna wanna be in those shoes. ADAM Jordan wanted to work with Adidas or Converse, which, at the time, were the leading brands of shoes in the NBA. EDWARD But Phil Knight convinced him to sign with Nike for $500,000 and also a say into the design of the shoe. BEN Within the span of a couple years, you could not go into any city in America without seeing Michael Jordan's face. ROB It's mind boggling what Nike has done, and that logo of Michael dunking is unbelievable. It's equal or close to that swish. PEYTON I was wondering if someone was gonna mention the swoosh. BEN You think, "How could a logo change the world?" Well, here's an example right here. That swoosh changed the world. ROB Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, what they were able to accomplish with Nike is unprecedented. It's a part of our history, it's a part of our culture, and it will be around forever, like peanut butter and jelly. PEYTON So who beat out the Nike guys? These next two are famous for something completely different. That's why this category is so much fun. At number nine, a duo whose breaking news story took down a US president. DAVID Anyone who would say that Woodward and Bernstein don't belong on this list, I would challenge you. ADAM They changed investigative journalism forever as we know it. KIMBERLY One reason that they might not deserve to be on this list is because they kind of just did that one thing. Woodward and Bernstein are certainly important. Greatest of all time is a little tough. ANDREW You can call them one-hit wonders all you want, but people forget that kids were not rushing and running to be journalists. But after Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, they were. DON The greatness of Woodward and Bernstein was that they challenged the institution of the US presidency like no one else had ever done and they succeeded. EDWARD Up until the early 1970s, there was a certain kind of code among journalists, especially in Washington, that dirty laundry would not be aired. You couldn't publish it. PEYTON But the two young Washington Post reporters think otherwise, and a very unlikely partnership is born. AMY Bob is this guy who, you know, grows up in Illinois. Republican family. Goes to Yale. Serves in the Navy. He's a dignified smooth talker, makes friends with everybody in the room. Bernstein, on the other hand, he's a DC local. He comes from a Jewish family where his parents are communists. EDWARD They're in the right place at the right moment when a break-in at the Watergate Building in 1972 starts out as just sort of a strange crime story. ANDREW Woodward and Bernstein got under the story and were able to identify the misuse of funds, the wire tapping, and how it all connected back to the White House and Richard Nixon. NIXON Because of the Watergate matter, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. KIMBERLY Their reporting was so shocking to the American people that it actually led to Nixon's resignation, which has never happened in American history, and really told the country that no matter how powerful you are, there should and can be consequences for your actions. BOB What Carl Bernstein continues to say to this day is, "What do you want? You want the best, honest, obtainable version of the truth." And in one of the most remembered moments in the history of American journalism, that's what they got. AMY Two years after all of this happens, they write their bestseller, "All the President's Men." It becomes a huge hit for the two of them. PEYTON Some more GOAT-worthy stats: In 1976, their story becomes a blockbuster movie starring two of the biggest names in Hollywood. The movie "All the President's Men" won four Oscars. BOB Woodward and Bernstein, especially after they were portrayed by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in "All the President's Men," made print journalism glamorous to a large portion of the country. EDWARD Woodward and Bernstein are gonna be in the history books because they essentially brought down an American president. DAVID Tell me two other people who changed the relationship between the government and its people as profoundly as the Watergate scandal did. ADAM You can't have revelatory articles. You can't have people holding politicians' feet to the fire if it wasn't for Woodward and Bernstein. PEYTON I'm just saying, Woodward and Bernstein were kind of like if Batman and Robin dressed business casual. (exciting music) We've got lots more dynamic duos coming your way. Which will take the top spot? Could it be co-stars on the big screen? Or a legendary sports duo? Find out on "History's Greatest of All Time PEYTON Welcome back to History's Greatest Of All Time. Today, we're counting down the top 10 dynamic duos as chosen by our charismatic crew of experts based on three key factors: innovation, legacy, and stats. At number eight, two names that go together like detergent and dirty laundry, Procter and Gamble. AUSTIN Everything we touch in our modern consumer product oriented lifestyle is derived from Procter and Gamble's creation of "the brand." EDWARD Procter and Gamble brought us a whole long line of products that Americans recognize today. ADAM And we take the ubiquity and the availability of soap for granted now. Their contribution to humanity is so massive. ANDREW I don't like to be a hater. I don't think Procter and Gamble should be on this list. Big mistake. Sorry, guys. KIMBERLY Soap has been around for a big chunk of human history. What Procter and Gamble did was create the soap industry. Not sure if that exactly makes them GOAT-worthy, but I do like to be clean. EDWARD They certainly merit serious consideration as one of the top business duos of all time. Procter and Gamble's one of the most profitable and recognizable corporations in the world, and very few people would know that it actually begins with big piles of animal fat in Cincinnati, Ohio. AUSTIN By 1825, Cincinnati had the nickname of Porkopolis. It was a huge meat packing and transit hub for the middle Midwest. EDWARD Just a city just awash in pigs, pork, and tons of seemingly unusable pork fat. And these two guys are gonna get into a business that's gonna take that substance and turn it into something of value, candles and soap. AUSTIN Procter, the candle-maker, and Gamble, the apprentice soap-maker, would marry sisters. RICK And their father-in-law looks at 'em and says, "You know, you guys are both competing for the same resources. Why don't you form a company?" It clicks, right from the word go. AUSTIN They were producing soap for the Union Army. The company was generating $1-million in revenue in the 1860s, absolutely unheard of. They took that soap, modified the formula so that it would float, and bada boom bada bing, we've got Ivory soap. RICK And the two of them together take this company that focuses on household goods and slowly but surely build it into something that literally takes over that sphere. ERIN It wasn't even their idea to collaborate; it was their father-in-law's idea. Like, why are they on the list? I don't get it. DON It was completely embraced because they were coming out with products that nobody had ever seen before. Suddenly, Procter and Gamble was bringing a more efficient, cleaner, simpler life to the corner store down the street. PEYTON And how about these brands? RICK You've got Crisco, which comes out in the early 1900s. AUSTIN And from then comes Tide and Duracell batteries. RICK At the end of the 1940s, you've got Joy dishwashing soap. AUSTIN Cheer and Bounty and... Procter and Gamble is so big I can't keep track of which brands they still own and which brands they don't. ANDREW I think all of it would've happened without 'em. Did they figure out some stuff along the way, how to market it? Absolutely. Is that GOAT status? DON Did these guys create something lasting? I think proof is in the pudding. The name Procter and Gamble spills off my tongue. It's second nature to think of these products. PEYTON Up next, siblings and extraordinary athletes. Wow, I'm really flattered. Thanks, guys. Wait, what? The teleprompter says at number seven, it's the incomparable Venus and Serena Williams? Well, yeah. That makes sense. KAVITHA Seven? Seven?! I can't really name a duo that is more dynamic than Venus and Serena. EHI Their innovation and style of play, the raw total of the medals and titles that they have won and the legacy that they've created let them be as globally recognized as they are now. KAVITHA Tennis had never seen anybody who looked like Venus and Serena. They were Black. They were young. They had beads in their hair. Tennis didn't know what to do with them. BEN When they came on the scene, they were like a supernova. These two girls outta Compton come in there and they're dominating the sport. PEYTON How? Their power serve that clocked in at 100 miles an hour. At the age of 17, Venus debuts at the US Open in 1997. It's here she proves her serve would be tough for even the most experienced opponents. ANNOUNCER Game, Williams. EHI It's not just power; it's the precision. It's the ability to put the ball exactly where it needs to be and the return player has no hope of getting it back to you. BEN Sports is all about the stats, and they dominated for decades. BOB The titles speak for themselves, but the impact is more important than that. The incalculable number of young African-American girls and boys who said, because of that example, "This is something I want to try." That has an effect that can't be quantified on a score sheet. PEYTON And that is why the Williams sisters deserve to be on any list that ranks duos. They have it all: innovation, stats, and legacy. I can guess what you're thinking. "Did my favorite dynamic duo make the cut?" Coming up, are Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz going to top the list? ADAM They created a dynamic that really didn't exist before. PEYTON Or how about Abbott and Costello? RICK They were two massive egos that collided. Instead of destroying each other, made each other bigger and better and more vibrant. PEYTON You'll have to stick around and find out when we come back to History's Greatest of All Time. PEYTON Welcome back, as we count down the top 10 greatest dynamic duos of all time. Our next pair couldn't have been more different, but their mutual admiration took each other to the top. One was an icon in sports broadcasting, and the other a champion who literally coined the phrase that inspired this show, "greatest of all time." It's number six, Ali and Cosell. ALI Only one way he can beat me, and that's if God himself is not with me. BEN Boxing was never the same after Muhammad Ali, (energetic music) and sportscasting was never the same because of Howard Cosell. KIMBERLY Those two are a quirky dynamic duo, because they're in different industries. They come from completely different experiences. Not sure if their dynamic is exactly GOAT, but it was really unique. BEN You talk about the odd couple. You've got one guy, the boxer, Cassius Clay from Louisville, and then on the other side, you've got the top bloviating sportscaster, Howard Cosell, and you would think they would've nothing in common. PEYTON Well, we know they have one thing in common for sure. They love the spotlight. BOB There was no more compelling figure than Muhammad Ali. He was just so charismatic and so magnetic, and Cosell understood that. But there was a legitimate journalistic reason to stand up for Muhammad Ali. REPORTER Former World Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay refused to take the oath of induction into the Army. The Black Muslim fighter, who's also known as Muhammad Ali, was immediately stripped of his title by the World Boxing Association. PEYTON After Muhammad Ali is stripped of his heavyweight title, Cosell becomes much more than another ringside reporter. KIMBERLY One of the things that helped the two of them find common ground is that they both suffered being "the other" in America. Cosell had to deal with anti-Semitism, and Ali had to deal with racism throughout the entirety of his career. BEN I can only imagine what that was like for Cassius Clay when he became Muhammad Ali. People were upset, and so Howard Cosell came in there and really was the voice of reason. ROB In a time where there's so much racial strife in this country, and for a white guy in his position to still embrace Muhammad Ali, to listen to him, was unique. Muhammad Ali got a voice back when Black people didn't have a voice on a national platform. PEYTON Muhammad Ali's conviction is overturned by the Supreme Court in 1971. Four years later, he makes one of the greatest comebacks of all time with Cosell by his side. DAVID If you stopped the clock in 1975 and said, "Do Howard Cosell and Muhammad Ali belong on a list of the greatest dynamic duos of all time?" You might say, "Yeah." But of all time? I don't know. BEN Howard Cosell and Muhammad Ali have to be on this list because they transcended boxing and sportscasting. It was a perfect connection. PEYTON You'll hear no arguments from me on that pick. Believe it or not, we are only halfway there. So who tops Cosell and Ali? It's the OGs of late night at number five. Here's Johnny and Ed. ROB Johnny Carson, Ed McMahon, that was a duo made in heaven. ADAM They created a dynamic that really didn't exist before. KIMBERLY These guys created late night television as we know it today. The longevity is staggering. This dynamic duo really racked up the numbers. DON They sort of make fun of each other throughout. That was an invention. That's what they wanted you to believe, and then they did such a good job at it that you actually did believe. PEYTON Johnny never resisted the chance to pretend he was annoyed by Ed's commentary. It was a foolproof comedic strategy to keep viewers on their toes and tuning in to "The Tonight Show" every night. (percussive music) So how did all this begin? In 1958, ABC executives are looking for talent to host their new game show, "Who Do You Trust?" Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon are offered the gig, and a 30-year partnership is born. ROB Those two guys really understood television, really were able to get along, not worry about upstaging each other. PEYTON But it isn't long before a new opportunity comes knocking. ADAM And Johnny Carson got the call-up to "The Tonight Show." He brought Ed McMahon along with him as his announcer. (upbeat music) Eventually, they began doing sketches. PEYTON One of the most popular sketches, Carnac the Magnificent, always got the audience chuckling, and Ed and Johnny, too. KIMBERLY Johnny and Ed didn't just rule late night. They really set the culture for a whole generation of viewers, told them what music to listen to, what dances to do, who was important in society. ADAM The material that they created together still endures. People still buy DVDs of the sketches or the interviews that Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon did. ERIN I think you'd be hard pressed to find a Gen Z-er who really understands what their influence and impact was. They might know, "Here's Johnny!" but they're probably gonna know it from "The Shining," you know what I mean? Not from Carson and McMahon. ADAM So if you watch late night TV at all, any sort of talk show with guests on a couch promoting whatever, you have Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon to thank for that. DON Letterman, Arsenio Hall, you name it. Any of those late night figures will do the same thing because you can't shake the formula off. These two men created an institution in our late night experience. PEYTON There's no denying Ed McMahon and Johnny Carson are the greatest of late night duos, but I'm still holding out for some iconic pairings that haven't come up yet. Coming up, who will make it to our final four? NEIL I'd put them at the top for transforming our lives in fundamental and irreversible ways. EHI They were at the vanguard of human achievement at the time. It's beyond a dynamic duo. PEYTON Welcome back. We surveyed hundreds of industry experts and historians who helped us rank the top 10 dynamic duos based on three criteria: legacy, innovation, and stats. It's no surprise our panel picked this next powerful pair. Thanks to them, we have computers in our pockets. It's our number four. RICK Steve Jobs' vision, Steve Wozniak's technical ability, they have changed the face of computing. They deserve to be, if not at the top, near the top of dynamic duos. MIKE Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were really well-matched because Steve Jobs could envision a marketplace that didn't even exist. Wozniak could envision a product put into that marketplace. KIMBERLY I would definitely not rank them over Venus and Serena. From all the reports you read about how Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak worked together, it wasn't a healthy dynamic, 'cause Steve Jobs was kind of a tyrant and Steve Wozniak often got the brunt of it. ANDREW No, the relationship, whether it was healthy tension, unhealthy tension, that doesn't make them more or less GOAT-worthy. NEIL I'd put Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak at the top of the dynamic duos list for transforming our lives in fundamental and irreversible ways. RICK This dynamic duo really forms when Steve Jobs is in high school. Steve Wozniak's a little bit older, he's out of high school. NEGIN They became friends because they were uber nerds and the only two people within a 100-mile radius who understood what computer chips were. RICK And they're using Steve Wozniak's brain power. Jobs was out trying to figure out how to get investors, how to sell the product. JOBS There have only been two milestone products in our industry. Today, we are introducing the third industry milestone product, Macintosh. DAVID The Macintosh was genuinely revolutionary. (dramatic music) When the Apple II hit the market, it took off and that really put Apple on the map. PEYTON When Apple II debuts in 1977, Apple sales skyrocketed in just the first three years. NEGIN The Apple II is what also started the conflicts between Jobs and Woz. RICK Steve Jobs was a pain in the butt. He was obnoxious. You didn't realize all the chaos that was going on behind the scenes, how rude he was to people, how mean he was. Steve Jobs used Wozniak all along the way. MIKE I don't think Steve Jobs was meant to have an equal partner. I think whoever stood next to Steve Jobs in those early years at Apple was going to pay the price. ANDREW Would Apple have existed without Steve Wozniak? And if you say no, then he's a GOAT. PEYTON In 2022, Apple becomes the first company to reach a $3-trillion market value. That means if Apple were a country, it would be wealthier than most countries on the planet. RICK What's really significant about this dynamic duo is the legacy they leave. 20 years from now, the things we're going to be doing are based on the foundations of what those two put in place. NEIL Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak birthed this new relationship with a computer and no one has looked back. PEYTON The Steves are going to be a tough act to follow, but our next duos are out of this world. Coming in at number three, it's the astronaut dream team. CONTROLLER Liftoff. We have a liftoff. EHI Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were at the vanguard of human achievement. It's beyond a dynamic duo. NEIL Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, oh my gosh. You know, the first two to walk on the moon. KIMBERLY I feel like strapping yourself into a tin can to risk your life to push humanity forward, it's probably worth a pretty high ranking on this list. EHI It's just an example to billions of people all over the world, this is what we are capable of when we work together, when we apply ourselves, when we are disciplined, and when we work as a team. PEYTON After the Soviets put a human in space in 1961, President Kennedy promises to put a man on the moon. Eight years later, two men make it there: Neil and Buzz. EHI Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were not just pioneers. They were ace pilots. They were engineers. ERIN They worked very well together, but there wasn't a lot of friendly camaraderie. They were very much mission driven. MIKE Buzz did his PhD research on Lunar Rendezvous at MIT and the right guy to be there with Neil to feed him the information and to make that landing successful. DAN It was probably the highest pressure, the highest profile job that any two individuals could do. It was also fraught with potential peril. If there is a hardware failure on the surface of the moon, most likely, Armstrong and Aldrin are not coming back. CONTROLLER 15 seconds. NEIL We know how many astronauts have died, those who have risked their lives for the benefit of exploration and discovery. ERIN It's almost hard to quantify how huge that was, I think both from a political perspective and also just from a pop culture perspective. It was truly a world changing moment. ARMSTRONG That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. DAVID This wasn't just a victory for the United States. This was a victory for all mankind. PEYTON Our duo got most of the attention, but we can't forget the third astronaut, Michael Collins, who orbits around the moon solo while Neil and Buzz are on the surface, bounding around. KIMBERLY I can't really say anything against this dynamic duo being GOATs. However, there were three of them on that mission. If you wanna make a list of dynamic trios... MIKE Actually, there were hundreds of thousands of people contributing in different engineering and operational science jobs to make all this happen. But when we look up at the moon or we think about the moon landings, we identify it with Neil and Buzz. PEYTON Who can possibly top the only duo on our list that go beyond planet Earth? There's two spots left, and they must be pretty phenomenal. Coming up, see who our experts selected, and if you agree. RUTLEDGE I mean, they are absolute GOATs. These two just gave so many gifts to the world. Unbelievable. PEYTON Welcome back. We are very close to revealing our top dynamic duo of all time. But first, our runner-up. The songwriting team of the century that still hold the record for the most number one hit songs. At number two, they taught us all you need is love. REPORTER Beatlemania takes the country by storm. AUSTIN It's not The Beatles; it's Paul McCartney and John Lennon together as a duo. MIKE Lennon and McCartney, the most important dynamic duo, the number one, to my mind. RUTLEDGE I mean, they are absolute GOATs. These two just gave so many gifts to the world through their music. Unbelievable. DAVID That creative dynamic between Lennon and McCartney, (rock music) it was just natural. It flowed from them as if they really were blood brothers. KIMBERLY There were four members of The Beatles, so I'm not exactly sure this fits into the dynamic duo category. MIKE People talk about The Beatles as four members of the band and, "Ringo was the best drummer," or, "Look at George Harrison's body of work." A lot of those songs were songs that were workshopped by McCartney and Lennon, so I'm not sure that the other two guys really count. NEIL If you're still talking about people two generations later and one of 'em is dead, that's the test. People still play their music today. JACK Paul and John got together very early. They were kids. They were 15 and 16 years old. They had this process of growing up together, both musically and what you had to do to deal with this sudden fame that came upon you. MCCARTNEY He was such a major talent, John, and such a great fella, but I miss him particularly on the songwriting. I'd have a hard time finding anyone that good, wouldn't I? DAVID Paul McCartney and John Lennon were competitive. They were constantly writing songs to outdo the other. That's a big part of Lennon-McCartney's success as a duo. JACK Lennon and McCartney made an agreement somewhere along the line that they would sign their songs, "Lennon and McCartney." MIKE McCartney pulled the genius out of John, and John gave McCartney an edge that he desperately needed. PEYTON The Beatles become a smashing success in Great Britain. By 1964, it's time to cross the pond and test their luck in the United States. They debut on one of the top TV shows of the time, "The Ed Sullivan Show." SULLIVAN Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles. THOMAS You have Ed Sullivan and you had the recordings out on the radio and then you had "A Hard Day's Night" out a few months later, so this was like a multimedia assault. NEIL The teenager became an economic force in the 1960s in ways that no one ever thought about 'em. Lennon and McCartney were foundational to that. ROBERT They were being played nonstop on every radio station. The result was unprecedented domination of the US charts, where they had, at one point, five top 10 singles at the same time. Even Elvis didn't do that right off the bat. MIKE There was "Rubber Soul" at the end of '65, "Revolver" in the summer of '66, and then "Sgt. Pepper's" in '67. Those three albums came at a time when rock and roll was exploding, but they really had no peers. They were inventing as they went along. JACK They'd come into the studio in the morning and Ringo and George would have coffee and Paul would go over to the piano and write eight songs before anybody else finished a donut, you know, and John would come in and add something to it. The group moved because of McCartney and Lennon. DAVID They were such a dynamic duo, giving, taking, and occasionally putting the other down to get that edge. PEYTON The Beatles disband in 1970, but that doesn't impact their popularity or their record sales. ROBERT In 2019, the Beatles brought in $67-million in royalties. $2-billion would be the worth of their songwriting catalog, probably the highest valuation of any songwriter's body of work that there is. So if you want the statistics that's gonna win the bar argument, yeah, there you go, I think. MIKE The fact that these two guys were able to come together is, I think, one of those magical moments in human history that almost never happens. NEIL Just to start a fight, I don't think anything Paul McCartney did after McCartney-Lennon was as impactful, as significant as the Lennon-McCartney pairing, and so we should never underestimate the value of collaboration. PEYTON I mean, honestly, John and Paul had my vote for the number one spot, but apparently that didn't matter, even though I'm the host. Whatever. Coming up, who did our experts pick for the greatest dynamic duo of all time? KIMBERLY It's hard to deny their impact. ADAM You can't tell me that they don't surpass all these other dynamic duos. MIKE I mean, they're no Lennon and McCartney. PEYTON Find out when we come back. PEYTON Welcome back. We're getting ready to crown our top pair of all time, a duo who beat some tough competition. But there's no doubt about it, our winning pair are high flyers. Coming in at number one, it's the Wright Brothers. RUTLEDGE Oh, yeah, absolutely. Wright Brothers are solid GOAT status. NEIL Oh my gosh. Wright Brothers as a dynamic duo, put 'em up there. Get 'em as high as you can. BEN Can't beat the Wright Brothers, right? We all fly. How do you beat flight? You can't beat flight. MIKE I mean, they're no Lennon and McCartney. What Lennon and McCartney did, it's bigger than the airplane. ADAM You can't tell me that aviation, in terms of its impact on warfare, its impact on trade, on the very fact that it ferries musicians like Lennon and McCartney around, doesn't surpass all these other dynamic duos. KIMBERLY The Wright Brothers risk their lives, really, trying to advance aviation. Those early planes were pretty rickety. Yeah, I'll give 'em number one on this list. GREG We could not fathom our world without planes. No one's done this successfully before the Wright Brothers. NEIL I read op-eds and newspaper articles written around the year 1900, criticizing those who were trying to fly, saying, "It'll never work." It was a critique of efforts of brilliant, innovative people, a critique asserting that they have better things to do than trying to fly. PEYTON Little did these reporters know, a pair of brothers in Ohio think differently and begin trying to prove the naysayers wrong. ERIN Wilbur and Orville Wright were two brothers who grew up in a very interesting household for their time. ADAM They were deeply independent thinkers. Their father really instilled in them self-belief, self-determination, independent thought, and perseverance. PEYTON Before the Wright Brothers began building airplanes, they actually run a bicycle design and repair shop. ERIN What they learned building bicycles, they took directly and applied to building airplanes and, in fact, all of the gliders and the planes were built in their bicycle shop. ADAM Well, the Wright Brothers always had this fascination with aeronautics. They literally observed the way birds would take flight and they tried to create a craft that could mimic that. They added an element of flex to each of the wings so that they could turn right and left. They added a rudder on the back to give a little bit more control, and the ability to flex the wings upwards and down would give them the ability to climb and to dive. GREG People have died in gliders over the course of hundreds of years in an attempt to do this very sort of thing. ADAM They actually managed to create the first power driven, heavier-than-air aircraft flight, and in 59 seconds, one of the Wright Brothers managed to fly 852 feet. GREG This incredible moment at which our bipedal, earthbound species broke away and became a part of a flight, I mean, it's astonishing. ADAM It's a new era, and transit, transport really was ushered in, and if that alone doesn't make them the most dynamic duo, I don't know what is. RUTLEDGE In a real small time span, we went from two brothers with a bike shop to jumbo jets. I think without the two of them pushing each other, believing in what they were trying to do, Kitty Hawk doesn't happen. Delta doesn't happen. Wow, what a dynamic duo. PEYTON Just try counting the stats on this pair. MIKE Every second, somewhere on this planet, an airplane is taking off someplace, and it shrunk the world. Also led to space travel. KIMBERLY If you've ever gotten on a plane to go on vacation or even looked up at the sky and seen the jet trails, you're basically looking at the legacy of the Wright Brothers. ADAM The Wright Brothers creating the ability of humans to take flight and traverse massive distances in a short amount of time safely, it is a modern miracle. PEYTON A modern miracle indeed. Wow, what a countdown. There are tons of duos we didn't mention in this countdown. Don't worry. Our experts are ready to school us on who we overlooked. NEIL Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, what a powerful combination they were as the creative force behind "Cosmos." EHI Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first two people to have summited Everest and survived, and that's why they belong on that list, for me. ANDREW Where's Bert and Ernie? Changed my life. Changed the whole generation's life. ERIN Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton probably should have been on the list. NEIL Another one is, of course, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, New York Yankees. That's my hometown. RUTLEDGE If you think about other siblings on a quest to achieve greatness, like Peyton and Eli Manning, where one gets the skills and the other gets the looks... Which one was which? That's really up to you, isn't it? PEYTON Seems our experts think there's a couple teams missing from the list, but you can't deny all the duos on the list are GOAT-worthy. So, what double act would you pick? We'll keep the debate going, because you never know. Maybe next time, your GOAT will make it to the top. EDWARD He's a University of Oregon runner, an Olympic hopeful, and he signs a deal with Nike to wear their shoes. They understand something here, that if you can have greatness associated with a brand, it's gonna help that brand. NATALIA When Steve Prefontaine races in their shoes in the 1972 Olympics in Munich, that was just a huge deal for them getting on the map, for global visibility for this very new brand. ERIN It's like the best brand-building opportunity you could ever have to have your shoes on the feet of an athlete and to have their endorsement, so it was very smart. AMY Woodward and Bernstein just start thinking, "There must be something else going on here. Why is this lawyer so well connected? Who's paying for him? Why does this money seem to be coming from the Republican party?" And the more they pull on these threads, what seemed like a tiny story just starts to become bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. EDWARD Woodward and Bernstein are relentless, and they begin to develop sources and begin to find contacts within the Nixon administration. AMY Woodward is really the guy who can go out there and get this figuring on this Deep Throat to talk to him, and yet it's Bernstein who can take these details and then write that in a way where people are drawn to this article. He convinces readers that this is a story they really need to be following. EDWARD And day by day, week by week, year by year, they begin to develop the evidence, begin connecting the dots. They discovered that there's a taping system within the White House, and it turns out that Nixon had that tape machine go off every time people started speaking in the White House. So all of the illegality, all of the crimes, all the conspiracy, all the dirty tricks are all captured on tape. Nixon is cornered and decides rather than let impeachment proceedings begin and more revelations come out, he's gonna cut and run. EHI They grew up in hard circumstances in South Central Los Angeles, which is very far from the august greeny tennis courts that tennis champions are usually minted on. BEN Their father, who's hellbent on giving them every opportunity to succeed and to think that these two little girls were becoming prodigies in tennis in that environment, is a great testimonial to them and to their father and to everyone that helped them along the way. ROB And their dad, what he was able to do with them and rise them up through the tennis ranks, just makes no sense whatsoever. It's not possible that you could be playing tennis on terrible public courts in Compton and then go out and beat the people who have been groomed all their lives to be tennis pros. DON He's already a legend by the time they meet, who's coming out of tremendous controversy, who's been vilified by the American public for dodging the draft, in their opinion. He's lost his title. The man is disgraced in everyone's eyes. BOB There were seismic changes happening in America, civil rights, women's rights, the Vietnam War, and Cosell gave voice to a lot of those feelings, his own opinions, but also by giving airtime to people who had interesting points of view. RICK Back then, while sportscasters may have had friendships with athletes behind the scenes, they really didn't do it in front of the camera very much. Howard Cosell bridged that and he, with his relationship with Muhammad Ali, he brought that onto the television screen for everybody at home to see and to watch and to, more importantly, enjoy. RICK The idea of using a mouse, the idea of having that monitor, that really took things in a new direction. That laid the foundation that everybody else then followed. DAVID The first year alone, I think the sales were around $3-million. In two more years, it was $200-million. 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