Hour 2: Layoffs at The Washington Post.

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🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Mark explores the idea of turning Super Bowl weekend into a three-day holiday. He also discusses how NYC Mayor Mamdani may have missed the target for snow shoveling volunteers, possibly contributing to the city’s snowbank problems. In media news, The Washington Post has laid off many employees, and there are rumors that The Wall Street Journal may buy the paper. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews DJ legend Scott Shannon. Mark and Scott debate Bad Bunny’s inclusion in the halftime show, and Scott shares his favorite commercials from the game and what he enjoyed most about the broadcast.

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0:00.0	Mr. New York.
0:01.9	Mark Simone
0:02.8	On 710 W.O.R.
0:07.1	Well, we got a lot to get to this hour.
0:09.1	It was a pretty bad weekend weather-wise.
0:11.0	I mean, it was probably the worst weekend of the winter, even worse than those big snowfall
0:15.8	weekends.
0:16.5	I mean, it was so cold.
0:19.4	You just, Saturday just, people just hibernated all day Friday night Saturday
0:24.2	Saturday although I talked to people that went out there were people out there were people in restaurants
0:29.0	and comedy clubs and Broadway theaters and it wasn't easy though you know it was actually colder on
0:34.7	Saturday in New York it was colder than in Antarctica. That's absolutely
0:41.1	true. It was colder here than it was there for probably the first time ever. It was like
0:47.5	15 below here. And something like five degrees in Antarctica. So Super Bowl last night, a lot of people not coming to work today.
0:57.4	They call it Miss Work Monday, 26 million people, either take the day off or call in sick
1:03.3	because of the Super Bowl.
1:05.2	There's been talk of making it an actual holiday, a three-day weekend, making it the Monday a holiday.
1:12.8	Here's the problem, though.
1:13.8	If you did it, your Super Bowl is, you know, right now in February.
1:18.4	If you made this a holiday, this upcoming weekend, you got another holiday.
1:22.6	You got President's Day.
1:24.6	Don't forget this weekend.
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