The Recess Bell

News Report on LIRR strike + AIPAC money + horny landlords and more, Sports Report on the fiery-hot Knicks (5/20/26, Hour 2)

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.

A competition conversation and a silly lil Show & Tell yapfest (5/20/26, Hour 1)

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.

Sha Boing Boing of the Week: Bad Bunny FCC Complainers, Show and Tell, The Hating Debate (5/13/26, Hour 2)

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.

Newsday Sports' Barbara Barker on the 2026 Knicks' historic run to the ECF (5/13/26, Hour 1)

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.

TRB Mailbag: Unpopular Opinions, Gen Z trends, Sports Report on historically dominant Knicks run (5/6/26, Hour 2)

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 his weekly Sports Report — which focuses squarely on the New York Knicks' remarkable 4-game run in the NBA Playoffs in which they have dominated the Hawks and 76ers in unprecedented fashion, which has Knicks' fans championship hopes at new heights.