The Recess Bell

Audio from Hour 1 of October 23rd, 2025's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air' on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua welcomes in co-hosts NikiMarie, Lay, and Kory as they tackle a wild week of news. Joshua describes his time at the Knicks season opener at MSG, and introduces 'TRB Game Picks' with Kory as they pick some NFL and NBA games. Joshua issues his 'News Flashes' updates, which this week included Mike Jo...

Audio from Thursday, October 16th, 2025's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air' on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua makes a special show announcement and proceeds to get into another weird week of news out of the White House. Niki gives her weekly Recess Rundown, discussing Kim K's new "hairy underwear" launch and Diddy's prospects in jail, among other topics. The group -- Meleny, Lay, and Kory -- all join in...

Kory and Corn discuss Crown Jewel, Bound For Glory, NJPW and everything else going on in wrestling.

The third episode of 'Mentality Monday' featuring Joshua Umahi and NikiMarie tackles the widespread phenomenon of impostor syndrome, which is defined as "the persistent inability to believe that one's success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of one's own efforts or skills." How does one begin to suffer from this syndrome in their career field or creative craft, and what ca...

Talking TAXI, Boxing, Andy Kaufman, and his Frank Sinatra Tribute Show with the iconic TONY DANZA — Justin Greenberg

Audio from Hour 2 of October 9th, 2025's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air'. Niki gets into her weekly 'Recess Rundown', which features the news of Drake's infamous lawsuit asserted against UMG and Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' getting thrown out in court, as well as the fallout from the Mark Sanchez stabbing incident. Joshua issues the 'Sha Boing Boing of the Week' to a Pro Football Hall of Fa...

Audio from Hour 1 of October 9th, 2025's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air'. Joshua Umahi is joined by NikiMarie, Lay and Meleny, as Niki kicks off the show by discussing her fear of spiders and her anger at her husband for not killing one recently. After some TRB platform annoucements, Joshua issues this week's TRB News Flashes, which includes Pam Bondi's heavily criticized performance at her h...

Liam Flynn and Joshua Umahi welcome Dr. Joylette Williams to the Recess Report! She discusses her current position as a Nassau Community College staff member and professor and how she'll transfer over all of her life experience in education and public service to the County Clerk's office if elected in November. What does the County Clerk do? How does the Clerk work hand-in-hand with the Nassau Cou...

The second installment of Joshua Umahi and NikiMarie's Mentality Monday focuses on FOMO, or the fear of missing out. Niki discusses her personal knowledge of FOMO while Joshua discusses the term's history, his personal experiences with FOMO, and gives a rundown of other closely associated terms and acronyms to FOMO. Within the conversation, the two discuss the recent viral comments from celebrity...

Audio from Hour 2 of October 2nd, 2025's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air', which airs live every Thursday from 8pm-10pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. NikiMarie kicks off the hour with her weekly 'Recess Rundown', which covered Cardi B and Nicki Minaj's unhinged war of words on social media throughout the week. Then, with the drop of Netflix's 'Love Is Blind -- Season 9', the conversation shifts to Joshua's...

Audio from Hour 1 of October 2nd, 2025's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air', which airs live every Thursday from 8pm-10pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua Umahi welcomes in NikiMarie, Lay, Meleny, and ErikSincere as they discuss the week's news, which included the controversy hanging over the government shutdown, Jimmy Fallon ducking Trump smoke, people teaming up for free speech rights following the fal...

Kory and Corn discuss the results of NO MERCY and the future of Oba Femi, as well as everything happening in on Raw, Smackdown, and AEW.

Mentality Mondays: where Joshua Umahi and NikiMarie field conversations about various mental health topics and concepts. On this episode, the two discuss what it means to be alone vs what it means to FEEL alone (yes, there's a MAJOR difference), and how that dichotomy is tied directly to one's self-esteem. The two also offered up some personal examples of childhood wounds & trauma that they ea...

Audio from Hour 2 of September 25th, 2025's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air', which airs live every Thursday from 8pm-10pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Niki kicks off the hour with her Recess Rundown, which covers pop culture topics such as Rihanna and A$AP Rocky having their third child this week, Cardi B embroiled in drama, Mariah Carey's new album, and d4vd's potential murder of 15-year-old Celeste Riv...

Audio from Hour 1 of September 25th, 2025's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air', which airs live every Thursday from 8pm-10pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua Umahi is joined by NikiMarie, Lay, Meleny and Kory as they dive headfirst into the week's biggest news. President Donald Trump and Erika Kirk spoke at Charlie Kirk's memorial service at State Farm Stadium in Phoenix, Kash Patel continues to drive hi...

Kory and Corn take a look at the big two companies going at it. WWE with Wrestlepalooza and AEW with All Out -- who had the superior product? Also: whose wrestling stock is going up and whose are we selling? All that and more on WHEN THE BELL RINGS.

Kory & Corn preview AEW All Out and Wrestlepalooza, as well as AAA Worlds Collide.

Liam Flynn and Joshua Umahi welcome Olena Nicks to the Recess Report! Nicks is running an election campaign for legislator in Nassau County's 5th District. She discusses her campaign & her goals for the overall betterment of Nassau County, which is currently in -- as Nicks calls it -- one of the most consequential moments in its history. Election Day is Tuesday, November 4, 2025. Early voting...

Liam Flynn and Joshua Umahi welcome Nicole Aloise to the Recess Report. Aloise carries a bevy of legal experience as a prosecutor, having most recently worked as a Senior Assistant District Attorney in the Queens Homicide Bureau. She discusses her campaign against the current Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly (R) while outlining the ways in which the current DA's office hasn't met Nass...

Liam Flynn and Joshua Umahi sit down with Wayne H. Wink Jr., the Democrat running for Nassau County Comptroller. Wayne is a native Long Islander who has served North Hempstead, first as a Town Councilmember and then serving two terms as the Town Clerk. Wayne is also a Hofstra graduate and has a law degree from St. John’s.  Wayne’s Lightning Round answers: Best Nassau Bagel: Pop Up Bagels in Roslyn...

Liam Flynn and Joshua Umahi have a chat with Joe Scianablo: the Marine combat veteran, former NYPD officer and prosecutor who is the Democratic candidate for the Town of Hempstead Supervisor seat. In addition to discussing his campaign's priorties, he also expounds on his major problems with his opponent, John Ferretti (R), who is the incumbent Supervisor. On August 25th, Scianablo filed a lawsuit...

Liam Flynn and Joshua Umahi have a conversation with Seth Koslow: father, baseball coach, lifelong Nassau County resident, current Nassau County legislator in the 5th District and the Democratic candidate for the Nassau County Executive seat, running against the incumbent Bruce Blakeman. Koslow shares his vision for a better Nassau County: putting an end to wasteful spending, high taxes, governmen...

It's Clipped? On Wednesday, September 3rd, Pablo Torre and his award-winning podcast, 'Pablo Torre Finds Out', published a NBA-shaking report on Clippers star Kawhi Leonard receiving a $28+ million "no-show" job from the environmental company Aspiration. The now-defunct company, which was funded by Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, serves toward the belief of potential salary cap circumvention, which...

Justin's friend THE SHERIFF joins the show to discuss his favorite films and cause chaos.

Audio from Hour 2 of September 4th, 2025's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air', which airs live every Thursday from 8pm-10pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM in New York. Joshua, NikiMarie, Lay & Meleny discuss the bombshell report from The Athletic's Pablo Torre on Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers' alleged circumvention of the NBA's salary cap by way of shadow LLCs and side money from Clippers' owner Steve Bal...