Episodes

  • News Report on Jaxson Dart/Abdul Carter, Kevin Hart defends roast, Trump/MSG | The War on Drake (5/27/26, Hour 2)

    News Report on Jaxson Dart/Abdul Carter, Kevin Hart defends roast, Trump/MSG | The War on Drake (5/27/26, Hour 2)
    May 29 2026
    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, Kevin Hart defends racist jokes at his own Netflix roast, and will President Trump really attend a Finals game at Madison Square Garden? Later in the hour, Joshua has some fun with some Drake edits online, to the dismay of Drake fans Erik and Kory. To close the hour: the Sports Report, which dives deeper into the Knicks' incredible accomplishment of blitzing through the East on the way to their first NBA Finals in 27 years.
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    52 mins
  • Knicks in the NBA Finals, NCC Class of '26 Valedictorian Ny Staley joins the show! (5/27/26, Hour 1)

    Knicks in the NBA Finals, NCC Class of '26 Valedictorian Ny Staley joins the show! (5/27/26, Hour 1)
    May 29 2026
    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 the East Finals to make it to the franchise's first NBA Finals since 1999. The group had a discussion about what this means for the city and what might happen in NYC should the Knicks close the deal and win the whole thing.
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    58 mins
  • TRB Sports: Erik on the Knicks' historic blitz to the Finals

    TRB Sports: Erik on the Knicks' historic blitz to the Finals
    May 28 2026
    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 a backseat and staying out of the way. Which Western Conference team does NYK match up with best: San Antonio or Oklahoma City? And what should we make of the LeBron offseason rumors?
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    29 mins
  • Mentality Monday: The People-Pleasing Project, Ep. 3 - Joshua and Niki on Survival Mode

    Mentality Monday: The People-Pleasing Project, Ep. 3 - Joshua and Niki on Survival Mode
    May 26 2026
    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 behavioral loop brought on by prolonged stress that can yield very negative effects on us over the long-term, both mentally and even physically. The duo discuss their experiences with living in survival mode, how it affects the brain and our bodies, and themes that are common with survival mode like "fawning", being "wired-but-tired", and the et ceteras.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • News Report on LIRR strike + AIPAC money + horny landlords and more, Sports Report on the fiery-hot Knicks (5/20/26, Hour 2)

    News Report on LIRR strike + AIPAC money + horny landlords and more, Sports Report on the fiery-hot Knicks (5/20/26, Hour 2)
    May 23 2026
    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 getting caught on camera romping on a couch in a tenant's home. Following a brief conversation on Drake's latest 3-album drop, Joshua issues the Sports Report, discussing the Conference Finals in both conferences in the NBA Playoffs, as Joshua showcases his enthusiasm levels as a hyped-up Knicks fan given their historic postseason win streak.
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    55 mins
  • A competition conversation and a silly lil Show & Tell yapfest (5/20/26, Hour 1)

    A competition conversation and a silly lil Show & Tell yapfest (5/20/26, Hour 1)
    May 23 2026
    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 toxic. The crew spends the rest of the hour on one of their most generational group tangents, bouncing between topics like people walking around musty in NYC, visiting our fans in Vietnam, and dressing in drag, among a litany of other things.
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    49 mins
  • Sha Boing Boing of the Week: Bad Bunny FCC Complainers, Show and Tell, The Hating Debate (5/13/26, Hour 2)

    Sha Boing Boing of the Week: Bad Bunny FCC Complainers, Show and Tell, The Hating Debate (5/13/26, Hour 2)
    May 14 2026
    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 Boing of the Week' award, prompted by WIRED's report of the 2,155 FCC complaints about Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show performance in February. Meleny calls the show to discuss the idea of ethical hating, which leads to a conversation about just how weird "hating" can get with some people.
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    50 mins
  • Newsday Sports' Barbara Barker on the 2026 Knicks' historic run to the ECF (5/13/26, Hour 1)

    Newsday Sports' Barbara Barker on the 2026 Knicks' historic run to the ECF (5/13/26, Hour 1)
    May 14 2026
    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 en route to their 2nd consecutive Conference Finals berth? Joshua and Barbara chat about KAT's playmaking, OG Anunoby's status for the Conference Finals with his hamstring injury, and the job that Mike Brown has done in his first year as Knicks HC — as Barbara details a call that she had with Brown's coaching collegue, Steve Kerr.
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    55 mins