The Recess Bell

Audio from July 8, 2026's episode of  'The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua and Ny discuss the emotion of anger; why it's a very multifaceted and complex emotion and whether people should look to shy away from anger as a whole or instead embrace anger more in some areas of their lives. After Ny opines on everyone else's troubling opinions regard...

Audio from Hour 2 of July 1, 2026's episode of  'The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua issues the longest Sports Report in TRBOA history, covering the madness of the NBA offseason thus far, with LeBron leaving the Lakers, Kawhi Leonard going back to Toronto, Jaylen Brown getting dealt to Philadelphia, Mitchell Robinson departing the champion Knic...

Audio from Hour 1 of July 1, 2026's episode of  'The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua introduces the show theme, which is the deterioration of people's value of the human element of life, highlighted by the reckless fashion in which people discuss sports/atheltes, entertainers, and celebrities overall, among other subjects. Joshua and Kory discu...

TRB Sports: restoring the feeling of REAL sports media. Erik recaps what experts claim to be the most talent-rich NBA drafts in years — a draft that saw AJ Dybantsa selected at #1 overall by the Washington Wizards and Darryn Peterson taken at #2 overall by the Utah Jazz, and so on and so forth. What about all the other potential future stars and big trades that were made around the draft, with wha...

Audio from Hour 2 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 issues his TRB News Report on Angie Baez, the now-fired JPMorgan exec who bizarrely emptied a Knicks-themed trash can onto the Manhattan streets and walked off with it. Joshua then introduces Erik, Meleny, Lay and Ny to an unhinged Tubi show segment involving...

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...