Extra Extra: Tucker Carlson Has Meltdown During Unaired Interview With Historian

Feb. 20, 2019, 5:04 p.m.

Because you swear you're not a Twitter reply guy, check out today's end-of-day links: RIP Tulum, young blood injections, unaired Tucker Carlson interview, Lonely Island touring, EDM festival cruise, and dogs show off funny walks.

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  • The Lonely Island are going on their first ever tour (including two dates in NYC).
  • Here is a VERY satisfying clip of Tucker Carlson interviewing a Dutch historian who called out billionaires at Davos—the interview went so well for Tucker, the segment was never aired.
  • Sorry Peter Thiel, injecting yourself with young blood is pointless.
  • How did Tulum become "Studio 54 In The Jungle," and why did it blow up faster than pretty much any other trendy destination?
  • Authorities in New Jersey are asking the public's help in identifying a possible serial cat killer.
  • Bernie Sanders has raised over $6 million in donations since announcing his presidential bid yesterday.
  • Why are before-and-after photos so transfixing?
  • Eighty years ago today, a Jewish plumber from Brooklyn was at Madison Square Garden as thousands of American Nazi sympathizers rallied and he rushed the stage—here's what happened next.
  • Mashable writes about the curse of Twitter reply guys.
  • A local nail salon business really went all-in with their name, "Hand Jobs."
  • The Fader went on a five-day EDM festival cruise and lived to write about it.
  • NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger responded to Trump's anti-media tweets from earlier, writing, "There are mounting signs that this incendiary rhetoric is encouraging threats and violence against journalists at home and abroad."
  • Taylor Swift is suing a Long Island man who claimed she stole his company name for her gaming app "The Swift Life"—she’s accusing him of fraud.
  • "There may be no worse place to live in New York City than on Rikers Island," writes the New Yorker, "and it is an even worse place to die."
  • Idris Elba will make his SNL hosting debut next month.
  • And finally, two members of the Ministry of Silly Walks: