The Recess Bell

Audio from Hour 1 of June 24, 2026's episode of ' The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua welcomes Erik, Lay, Meleny and Ny to this week's program as he re-hashes the origin of The Recess Bell as a network and reflects philosophically on the Knicks' Finals victory. Kory calls the program up to cause chaos while Joshua demands an apology for Kory's...

Audio from Hour 2 of June 17, 2026's episode of ' The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua, Kory, Meleny and Lay discuss their (potential) plans for the Knicks championship parade, while Joshua makes history with his presitgious 'Sha Boin Boing of the Week' award.  0:00 TRB's Knicks title celebration and prospective plans for parade 31:50 Sha Boing...

Audio from June 17, 2026's episode of  'The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua welcomes longtime Newsday sports columnist Steve Popper back to TRB. The Knicks have won their first championship in 53 years, and the fans are getting set to party like it's 1973 — especially at the Canyon of Heroes ticker tape parade. Joshua and Steve chat about wheth...

They've done it! The New York Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs by the score of 94-90 in Game 5 of the 2026 NBA Finals to win the franchise's first championship since 1973, with Knicks captain Jalen Brunson winning Finals MVP. Erik reacts to everything that this incredible Finals brought us: the Knicks' repetitive comeback efforts in literally every single game of the series, what the champion...

Audio from June 10, 2026's episode of  'The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Season 8 of Love Island is in full swing, and you know the 'Chronically Online' queen, Meleny, is very much locked in. Mel with Love Island fans Joshua and Lay discuss all that's happened in Fiji thus far: Sincere and Melanie's tumultous (and highly entertaining) relationship,...

The latest development in what has already become a classic NBA Finals: the Knicks overcoming a 29-point deficit to pull off an incredible and impossible win, marking the largest single-game comeback in Finals history. Was the game truly more about the Spurs choking it away? Erik reacts to Wemby's lacking performance in the clutch in this series, if the Spurs can mentally recover from such a devas...

Audio from June 10, 2026's episode of  'The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua, Meleny, Lay, Erik and Kory preview a monumentally big Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the hometown Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs, as Joshua laments that the fact that the NBA has allowed the conversation of a classic Finals matchup to be dominated by "ref talk". Th...

Unfortunately, one of the most anticipated NBA Finals in years has been dominated by ref talk in each of the first three games — getting progressively louder following each game. Erik reacts to the controversial calls in NYK/SAS Game 3 and gives his opinion on whether the conversation is fair or has gotten to a point of insanity. Erik also opines on a recent AJ Dybantsa's quote about his NBA futur...

The Knicks, if you haven't heard, are up 2-0 in the NBA Finals over the San Antonio Spurs, and have done so by winning a historic 13 straight games in the playoffs overall. While many different people are talking about many different things and are spelling out many different narratives — Joshua (of course) decides to take note of the Knicks' MENTAL approach in these Finals and why it may be they...

The New York Knicks have taken a super-commanding 2-games-to-none lead in the 2026 NBA Finals, doing so by winning both games on San Antonio's home floor. No team in NBA history has ever come back from losing the first two games at home, but why might Erik think this series could be a different story? He breaks down the Spurs' chances to come back, how the Knicks have gotten themselves to the poin...

Audio from June 3, 2026's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. It's NBA Finals Day! As the Knicks get set to tip off Game 1 in San Antonio vs the Spurs in their quest to end a 53-year title drought, Joshua, Kory, Meleny and Lay break down the series from statistical, gameplan and narrative perspectives. Joshua wrote on the TRB website about...

RECORDED 6/2/26 — Erik welcomes you for another TRB Sports pod, where he discusses a crazy start to the month of June in the sports world. The Knicks and the Spurs meet in the NBA Finals; an NBA Finals that should be a classic. Who does Erik think will prevail? Additionally in the NFL, not only was AJ Brown finally traded from the Philadelphia Eagles to the New England Patriots (as was rumored all...

Audio from Hour 2 of May 27, 2026's episode of ' The Recess Bell: On Air' ,  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua issues the hoopla-filled News Report: this week covering the drama stirred up in the New York Giants' locker room, prompted by Jaxson Dart's participation in a recent Donald Trump rally and teammate Abdul Carter's public distaste for Dart's actions. Also, Kevi...

Audio from Hour 1 of May 27, 2026's episode of ' The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. The crew welcomes an old friend back to the show, as Ny makes her return to TRB, as they celebrate Ny's nod as the Valedictorian for this year's graduating class at Nassau Community College! That isn't all that they celebrated, as the Knicks swept through the Cavs in...

Erik (erik.sincere) gets his collection of thoughts and takes off on the Knicks' historic 11-game playoff win streak through the Eastern Conference and to the NBA Finals; their first since 1999 as they look to win their first NBA Championship since 1973. Erik discusses everything that went into the Knicks' rise, from the wheeling-and-dealing of Team President Leon Rose to owner James Dolan taking...

Mentality Monday on a Tuesday! (we took Memorial Day off like everyone else.) Joshua and Niki get together once again for a mental health conversation — this one once again as part of TRB's People-Pleasing Project, aiming to shine a light on people-pleasing behaviors and how to emerge out of them with more self-awareness and healthy self-respect. Today's conversation focuses on  survival mode:  a...

Audio from Hour 2 of May 20, 2026's episode of  'The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. The hoopla-filled TRB News Report covers a busy week of unhinged stories: the crazy three-day LIRR strike and shutdown, Trump's plan to throw taxpayer dollars into Jan. 6 insurrectionists, AIPAC money deciding elections, Jeff Bezos bootlicking, and a NYC landlord gett...

Audio from Hour 1 of May 20, 2026's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua, alongside Kory, Lay and Meleny discuss the idea of competition, and how it serves both good and bad purposes in society with themes like using mutual competition as motivation, and weird, petty, and sometimes even one-sided competitions that can get extremely t...

Audio from Hour 2 of May 13, 2026's episode of  The Recess Bell: On Air,  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua, Erik and Lay kick off Hour 2 of the show with their weekly Show & Tell segment: Lay discusses her birthday weekend and the trio shares what they did in celebration of the women in their life for Mother's Day. Joshua then brings back the prestigous 'Sha Boing...

Audio from Hour 1 of May 13, 2026's episode of  The Recess Bell: On Air,  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua, Erik and Lay welcome Newsday Sports veteran writer Barbara Barker to the program. Barker has covered the Knicks as a beat writer since 1995, so who better to talk to regarding the history that the New York Knicks have been making this postseason across the board...

Audio from Hour 2 of May 6, 2026's episode of  'The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Over the past week, Meleny fielded some of your "unpopular opinions" —and we read them live on air during the Mailbag segment. Joshua then discusses some interesting Gen Z trends that other publications have written on lately, and to close out the hour, Joshua issues h...

Audio is from Hour 1 of May 6, 2026's episode of  'The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua, Meleny, Lay, Erik and Kory get ready to handle business as usual at the start of the show, but.... oh no! Two work trucks stationed right outside the studio walls make a whole lot of hoopla and ruckus outside, forcing Joshua to pivot and resist another one o...

As part of TRB's latest mental health project, 'The People-Pleasing Project' — Mentality Monday co-hosts Joshua and NikiMarie discuss trauma responses under the theme of people-pleasing... more specifically: freeze and fawn. You've probably heard of "fight vs flight", but "freeze vs fawn" are deeply integrated into a people-pleaser's routine and life overall? What is "freezing" and "fawning", and...

Audio from Hour 2 of April 29, 2026's episode of ' The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. The crew continues with the evening's theme of "the war on monogamy." Meleny's Chronically Online update shines light on widespread parasocial reaction to Meg and Klay's breakup as well as critical acclaim to the recently released Michael Jackson biopic. Joshua open...

Audio from Hour 1 of April 29, 2026's episode of ' The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua intros this week's show with the main, central topic of the evening: "The Monogamy Conversation". The crew reacts to celebrity couple, musical artist Megan Thee Stallion and 4-time NBA champion Klay Thompson ending their high-profile relationship due to what...