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The Big Quit | One Small Step | The Kicker

TV Flash files “The Big Quit | One Small Step | The Kicker” as hour 627 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 54, episode 16, aired 2022-01-09, 60 min.

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This leaf is S54E16: listed hour 627 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 16 of 31 in season 54. It aired 2022-01-09 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Weather and Wine | Drawing Truth to Power” (S54E15). Next is “The Betrayal | Chris Stapleton” (S54E17). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — The Big Quit | One Small Step | The Kicker (S54E16)

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The Big Quit – As employers try to fill millions of open positions – for everything from restaurant dishwasher to software engineer – workers who have jobs are leaving them. People are quitting jobs at an unprecedented rate, and some are simply taking a "time out" from work entirely. Many are calling it "The Great Resignation," but few have been able to explain what's behind it. Bill Whitaker gets answers from the chief economist at the huge jobs site LinkedIn, who says that we are amid a historic shift in people's attitudes toward and expectations from their jobs.  One Small Step – Norah O'Donnell interviews Dave Isay, the founder of StoryCorps, an oral history project he started 18 years ago that has become the largest single collection of human voices ever recorded. Isay's new project, "One Small Step," is designed to get Americans from across the political spectrum to stop demonizing each other and start communicating, face to face, one conversation at a time.  The Kicker – Jon Wertheim reports on the NFL's great secret hiding in plain sight: the kicker. Kickers score about one-third of the points in the league but only get a small fraction of the respect. Wertheim interviews Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker, who is on a trajectory to go down as perhaps the greatest NFL kicker there ever was. Wertheim speaks with other current and former kickers about how unique the position is and the immense pressure that comes with the job.

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Where does The Big Quit | One Small Step | The Kicker sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S54E16 is listed hour 627 of 767 — hour 16 of 31 in season 54, season 54 episode 16.

When did 60 Minutes S54E16 air?

The Big Quit | One Small Step | The Kicker aired 2022-01-09 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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The grammar is the same: multi-segment hour, stopwatch motif, investigations plus profiles. In the 1980s it frequently outrated sitcoms — proof news could dominate prime time.

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Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report · Show package

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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