The Recess Bell

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. During each February since the platform's inception, The Recess Bell dedicates itself to highlighting Black excellence with the annual 'Celebrating Black Creatives' campaign – website features, social media shoutouts, and... media interviews! TRB: On Air welcomes Cole (ice.co...

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. Joshua welcomes Meleny, Lay and Kory to this week's episode as they ring in Black History Month – but not without some shenanigans, of course. Before unveiling their first of four radio interviews this month as part of TRB's annual 'Celebrating Black Creatives' campaign throu...

Audio from Hour 2 of January 28, 2026's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air', airing live every Wednesday from 6pm-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua, Meleny, Lay, Erik and Kory hold a roundtable on some of the biggest trending news from the past week: MIN Rep. Ilhan Omar getting attacked at her Town Hall by a MAGA-supporting psychopath with an insane digital footprint, Nicki Minaj self-proclaiming herse...

Audio from Hour 1 of January 28, 2026's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air', airing live every Wednesday from 6pm-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua welcomes Meleny, Lay, ErikSincere and Kory David to this week's episode as they delve deep into ICE's murders of 37-year-old Minnesotans Renee Good and Alex Pretti this month – and give commentary on the extremely controversial reactions from the government...

Audio from January 21, 2026's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air', airing live eveery Wednesday from 6pm-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua welcomes Meleny, Lay and ErikSincere to the program to discuss how bad we should feel when bad things happen to objectively horrible people, inspired by updates about former NFL QB Brett Favre and his battle with Parkinson's. Joshua and Erik pick the NFL Conference...

Audio from January 14th, 2026's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air', airing live every Wednesday from 6pm-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua welcomes in Meleny, Lay, ErikSincere, and Kory to the show; in Hour 1, Joshua, Kory and Erik pick the upcoming weekend's NFL Divisional Round matchups. In Hour 2, the crew welcomes the beloved NikiMarie for her weekly Recess Rundown. In between? Unhinged hilarity,...

Audio from Hour 2 of December 31st, 2025's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air', airing live every Wednesday from 6pm-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua, Kory, and Erik open the second hour of TRBOA's NYE special with 'TRB Game Picks', which focuses on a handful of highly important games from the final weekend of the NFL regular season, as well as the Knicks/Spurs NBA Cup rematch from San Antonio. Then t...

Audio from Hour 1 of December 31, 2025's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air', airing live every Wednesday from 6pm-8pm om 90.3 WHPC-FM. Happy New Year! Joshua, Lay, Erik, and Kory close the book on 2025 in a way that only TRB can.

Audio from December 10th, 2025's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air', airing live every Wednesday from 6pm-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua starts the show by issuing his main takeaway from the intensely popular 'Sean Combs: The Reckoning' documentary on Netflix. From there, Joshua brings back the 'Sha Boing Boing of the Week' award with a historic THREE winners this go-around. Joshua and Kory pick th...

Mentality Monday returns with a very important and relevant topic: cognitive dissonance. The theory of cognitive dissonance was coined in 1957 by American social psychologist Leon Festinger, who outlined the internal, silent chaos that can take place when our actions don't match with our beliefs, or when our long-held notions don't line up with facts. Joshua and NikiMarie delve into the many diffe...

Audio from December 3rd, 2025's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air', airing live every Wednesday from 6pm-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua welcomes in co-hosts Meleny, Lay and Kory as they open the show talking about the sensitive topic of all sensitive topics that comedian Druski and his latest skit inspired: the male hairline. Following, Erik joins the crew to talk about the recent rise of his Dalla...

Audio from November 12th, 2025's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air', live every Wednesday from 6pm-8pm on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua, Kory, and Lay review some of the NFL's craziest & funniest headlines from the past week -- starring Eagles WR AJ Brown, Dolphins HC Mike McDaniel, and Giants QB Jameis Winston. Then, the news of the day: Joshua brings back the 'Why You Mad?' segment to rant about th...

On the 4th episode of Mentality Monday, Joshua Umahi and NikiMarie tackle the topic of narcissism. In a world where it's become a sort of buzzword, Joshua and Niki emphasize how the flippant use of the term today is equal parts delegitimizing and dangerous. The tandem explain how someone can have clear narcissistic tendenices, but cannot officially be deemed a narcissist until diagnoses as such by...

Audio from Hour 2 of October 23rd, 2025's episode of 'The Recess Bell: On Air', airing live every week on 90.3 WHPC-FM. Joshua, NikiMarie, Lay, and Kory dive headfirst into the stunning arrests of the NBA's Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones, and Terry Rozier in connection to an illegal gambling scandal. Niki gives her weekly Recess Rundown, discussing Jennifer Lopez, Diddy, KAT, Jordyn Woods, and reco...

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...

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...

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...

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...