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All episodes Season 49 S49E29 2017-04-09 60 min 1980s CBS

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Brain Hacking | Chief of Chobani | Japan's Babe Ruth

TV Flash files “Brain Hacking | Chief of Chobani | Japan's Babe Ruth” as hour 464 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 49, episode 29, aired 2017-04-09, 60 min.

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This leaf is S49E29: listed hour 464 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 29 of 37 in season 49. It aired 2017-04-09 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Shots Fired | Peter Marino” (S49E28). Next is “Return to Newtown | Defenseless | Out of Darkness” (S49E30). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Brain Hacking: Silicon Valley is engineering your phone, apps and social media to get you hooked, says a former Google product manager. Anderson Cooper reports. Chief of Chobani: Hamdi Ulukaya built the best-selling yogurt brand in the U.S. after coming here 23 years ago. Today, 70% of Chobani employees are American born, 30% are immigrants and refugees. Japan's Babe Ruth: Japan's most fearsome starting pitcher, Shohei Ohtani, is also its most prolific hitter -- and he may be headed to the Majors as early as next season.

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Where does Brain Hacking | Chief of Chobani | Japan's Babe Ruth sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S49E29 is listed hour 464 of 767 — hour 29 of 37 in season 49, season 49 episode 29.

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Brain Hacking | Chief of Chobani | Japan's Babe Ruth aired 2017-04-09 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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The template of TV newsmagazine power — for the craft of the package and the history of broadcast investigation. Hewitt's stopwatch, Wallace's ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes: Sunday night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms. Appointment news before the infinite scroll. Tick, tick, tick.

Tick, tick, tick — not a theme song, a weapon. CBS's 60 Minutes, Don Hewitt's stopwatch since 1968, was an 1980s Nielsen bully that outrated sitcoms on Sunday night: investigative pieces, profiles, commentator segments, correspondent star power. Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner, Ed Bradley, Diane Sawyer, Andy Rooney's endnotes. **Ambush interviews and gotcha lore made Wallace a fearsome brand.** The museum guard wants the package as civic virtue. The flash is the ambush. Appointment news before the…

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