Tuesday May 9 Daily Links

TUESDAY 5.9


NEWS STORIES

 



Tuckers Gone and Advertisers are Coming Back

Madison Avenue blue chips didn’t want to touch the 8:00 hour on Fox but now some of those big names are starting to return with Tucker out.

Fox is getting less listeners and more money. Who do you think won?

Read more at Variety


Mark Zuckerberg Wins Gold and Silver at his First Fight

Zuck the hook played and won his first ever jiu jitsiu match at Woodside High School in Woodside, California. He says he won silver AND gold for the Guerrilla Jiu Jitsu team.

Yeah we remember when Elvis was able to beat up his security guards too.

Read more at mediaite.

https://www.instagram.com/zuck/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=71b76cbf-0eae-4728-9348-afe246c8e535



SPORTS



Brett Favre is Boycotting Fox News and Wants You To Do it Too

“I’m with Tucker,” Favre tweeted. “Time to boycott Fox until they come to their senses and let the man speak.”

Great, we’ve been boycotting them since 1993.

Read more at the daily beast


Colts: Take Your Damn Hands Off Andrew Luck

Jim Irsay tweeted, “If any NFL Team,attempted to contact Andrew Luck (or any associate of him)… to play for their Franchise – it would be a clear Violation of the League’s Tampering Policy.”

Nobody wants him. Are you also guarding John Unitas?

Read more at Marca



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



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WGA Strike Halts Severance Production in NYC

The set of Severance shut down after the WGA strikers picketed the set and other union workers refused to cross the picket line.

Well half of it did. The other half doesn’t know there’s a strike.

Read more at Deadline

‘Severance’: Production On Apple Series Shuts Down In New York


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Sean Penn and Rosanna Arquette’s Kids are Dating Each Other

While filming Signs of Love in Italy, Hopper Penn and Zoe Sidel confirmed that they’re dating.

Can we do a quick DNA test and make sure nothing took place in the 80s?

Read more at pagesix.


Sum41 Back for One Last Ride

Canadian rock band Sum 41 have announced they are to disband, after one final album and world tour.

This is really going to be sumthing.

Read more at Yahoo.


Sean Penn and Rosanna Arquettes Kids are Dating Each Other

While filming Signs of Love in Italy, Hopper Penn and Zoe Sidel confirmed that they’re dating.

Can we do a quick DNA test and make sure nothing took place in the 80s?

Read more at pagesix.


All Your Favorite Irish Content Just Won IFTAS

Banshees of Inisherin, Bad Sisters, Aftersun, Paul Mescal….all those Irish productions that played big in the US this year cleaned up at the Irish Film and TV Awards.

It truly is an Irish Spring

Read more at THR

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/bad-sisters-paul-mescal-banshees-of-inisherin-win-big-at-2023-irish-film-and-tv-awards-1235481973/


Scott Baio Packs Up and Heads...Somewhere Else

Baio is done with Los Angeles. He says the homeless and the crime have gone and chased him out. “After 45 years, I’m making my way to finally ‘exit stage right’ from California.”

Hey snagglepuss…what are you going to do about your big tv career? #ROTFL

Read more at kmph


Kelly Clarkson Show Packs Up and Heads East

Coming soon to NYC, thanks to tax breaks, it’s the Kelly Clarkson Show.

I hope your audience wants to pay for congestion pricing.

Read more at variety.


The Weeknd is Killing Off His Name

Abel Tesfaye is retiring the moniker The Weeknd. “It’s getting to a place and a time where I’m getting ready to close the Weeknd chapter,” he told the publication. “I’ll still make music, maybe as Abel, maybe as The Weeknd. But I still want to kill The Weeknd. And I will. Eventually. I’m definitely trying to shed that skin and be reborn.”

Heard the album. Should change it to the Weak End.

Read more at variety


Do you Tip in a Self Serve Self Checkout Joint?

The question of tipping never ends. Just when you think you know what to do, modern living throws a new curveball at you. This time, its self serve restaurants and shops that for some reason still offer you a tipping option when you self check yourself out.

This seems close to corporate phrogging.

Read more at WSJ




VIRAL & TRENDING



Is Phrogging Real? Could You Have a Phrog?

They call it phrogging and its basically squatting but instead of choosing an empty house to live in like a squatter, phroggers are hiding in your closet till you leave for work, then basically enjoying your life- your cat, your food, your tv- while you’re gone.

Back in the old days we called these mice.

Read more at lifehacker.


Trailer Alert: Oppenheimer

Christopher Nolan’s movie about the man who created the atomic bomb has a new trailer and it looks sinister AF.

This seems like a great date movie.



STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



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