The Recess Bell

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...

Audio from April 22, 2026's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air' , airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. (This show, TRBOA was only on from 6-7pm. 6-7!!) Joshua, Lay, Meleny, and Kory 'Double Agent' David discuss, among other things, the Knicks' all-too-familiar late-game collapse in Game 2 of their first round series vs the Atlanta Hawks at MSG on Monday, as well as the Mets' ca...

Joshua and Niki reunite at last to end the hiatus for Mentality Monday with the launch of a new project: The People-Pleasing Project. "People-pleasing" is defined as the following: a person who has an emotional need to please others often at the expense of the person's own needs or desires.  On the intro pod episode of this project, Joshua and Niki give their own personal examples and anecdotes on...

Audio from Hour 2 of April 15, 2026's episode of  'The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Meleny debuts her new segment: (and soon-to-be new project in production) Chronically Online — with this first update tackling the Season 3 debut of HBO's hit show ' Euphoria'.  She and the crew break down some of the viral moments from the first episode concerning...

Audio from Hour 1 of April 15, 2026's episode of  'The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua opens the show by locking in on the recent trend of New York cathing shots and slander from all angles. Aided by the fact that the New York Knicks will face off against the rival Atlanta Hawks in the first round of this year's NBA Playoffs beginning Saturday,...

Audio from April 8, 2026's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air', airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua, Lay, and Kory kick off the evening's festivities by ringing in this episode's central topic: the poor leadership pandemic. The trio rattle off their personal experiences of witnessing poor leadership while also pointing towards examples of lacking leadership in other ave...

Audio from Hour 2 of April 1, 2026's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air' — airing live every Wednesday at 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua, Meleny, Lay and Kory welcome Nessa of TRB's Turntables Music to the program! She calls in to join the Recess Roundtable's discussion on Nick Cannon telling Amber Rose that "republicans freed the slaves" and that "the democrats were the party of the KKK" — in add...

Audio from Hour 1 of April 1, 2026's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air' — airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua welcomes Meleny, Lay and Kory to TRBOA's April Fools special! The crew engages in shenanigans in celebration of the holiday, and recap their collective outing to Citi Field to watch the Mets this past Sunday. Appropriately on April Fools Day, Joshua hosts an in...

Audio from March 11, 2026's episode of ' The Recess Bell: On Air',  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua and friends welcome BxPolar to the 'Creator Chats' portion of the program. BxPolar is a deeply multi-faceted creative who met Joshua and TRB's Gina Halstead at Starr Bar in Bushwick, Brooklyn following his music performance in the middle of a wildly entertaining tourna...

Audio from March 18, 2026's episode of ' The Recess Bell: On Air,' airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua welcomes in a full house of co-hosts — Meleny, Lay, ErikSincere, and Kory — to ring in TRB's first ever "White Women Wednesday", inspired by Kory's longstanding affection for the WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark and Joshua's self-proclaimed love for "white girl music", amon...

Audio from Hour 2 of March 4, 2026's episode of  The Recess Bell: On Air,  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua kicks off the hour awarding the coveted 'Sha Boing Boing of the Week' award to none other than California Gov. Gavin Newsom for his suspiciously well-timed flip on opinion on Israel. Then, the wonderful NikiMarie calls into the show to issue her Recess Rundown o...

Audio from Hour 1 of March 4, 2026's episode of The Recess Bell: On Air,  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua, Meleny, Lay and Kory ring in Women's History Month in a fashion only they can. Then, given the United States' action against Iran in conjuction with Israel, Joshua presents some stats into Gen Z; specifically the much-maligned generation's significant difference...

For the fourth and final 'TRB: On Air' interview for The Recess Bell's 'Celebrating Black Creatives' campaign for 2026, Joshua Umahi sits down with Brooklyn-born Max Ragusa: a true multihyphenate creative in every sense of the term. The owner and founder of his own clothing brand, a music producer and the creative director of one of the more powerful annual movements in Brooklyn, Max discusses all...

Audio from Hour 2 of February, 18, 2026's episode of  The Recess Bell: On Air,  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. A discussion about Kevin Durant's twitter burner leak turns into a convo on the crew's history of using "finstas" (Instagram burners). After the crew grills Joshua on his lack of snack-providing, Joshua issues this week's Sports Report – a recap of NBA All-Star We...

Audio from February 18, 2026's episode of  The Recess Bell: On Air,  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua and the team welcome artists and event curators Robert Provilus (robertprovilus, Instagram) and Gabrielle Narcisse (gabriellenarcisse, Instagram) to the program for TRB's third radio interview for 'Celebrating Black Creatives' 2026. On Sunday, February 15, the BLACK S...

Audio from Hour 1 of February 18, 2026's episode of  The Recess Bell: On Air,  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua welcomes Meleny, Lay and Kory to this week's program, as Joshua opens with some thoughts on the ramifications (or lack thereof) for the world's elite after the latest explosive batch of the Epstein Files. Then, after discussing problems for two pro sports st...

Audio from Hour 2 of February 11, 2025's episode of The Recess Bell: On Air,  airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Kory and Joshua discuss the crazy, harrowing details of Atlanta Falcons defensive star James Pearce Jr., following his alleged stalking and vehicular assault of his ex-girlfriend, WNBA star Rickea Jackson. Kory goes on to give his weekly "Black History That Nobody R...

Audio from February 11, 2026's epsiode of  The Recess Bell: On Air , airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. During each February, The Recess Bell's Black History Month campaign, ' Celebrating Black Creatives',  takes center stage. In the second of 4 radio interviews this month, TRBOA welcomes Nia (iamnia._ on Instagram) to the program. Nia, an NYU alum and a skilled business strat...

Audio from Hour 1 of February 11, 2026's episode of  The Recess Bell: On Air , airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua and his co-hosts Kory and Lay react to Valentine's Day being mere days away, and also give their Super Bowl LX takeaways from the past weekend. Meleny then calls into the show to discuss her range of reactions to Bad Bunny's halftime show; more specifically...

turntables; The Recess Bell's music hub, is quarterbacked by Nessa (no pun intended on Super Bowl Sunday). The music review maven welcomes her guest co-host Debbie to the pod to discuss the wild world of the music industry at an extremely eventful time: days after the 2026 Grammy Awards and HOURS before tonight's Super Bowl LX (60) from Santa Clara, CA – and hours before Bad Bunny's highly-anticip...

Audio from February 4, 2026's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air', airing live every Wednesday from 6-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Following their Celebrating Black Creatives interview, Joshua, Meleny, Kory and Lay embark on a rapid Recess Roundtable, discussing piping hot topics: everyone's highlights from the 2026 Grammys over the weekend, picks for Super Bowl 60 on Sunday between the Seattle Seahawks...