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Joshua Umahi's personality-rich "The Recess Bell" discusses the most relevant topics in Sports, Music, Popular Culture and Mental Health. The Recess Bell features the podcasts "mentality" for mental health conversation,...
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Joshua Umahi's personality-rich "The Recess Bell" discusses the most relevant topics in Sports, Music, Popular Culture and Mental Health. The Recess Bell features the podcasts "mentality" for mental health conversation, "TRB Sports/The BackYard" for sports-related content, and "Creator Chats", an interview-style podcast meant to give aspiring creatives a platform to share their work and their creative vision.
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14 MAY 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.Â
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14 MAY 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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7 MAY 2026 · 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.
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7 MAY 2026 · 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 of his patented crashouts. As the hour progresses, the crew celebrates Lay's upcoming birthday, but not without a debate between Meleny and Joshua over which date Lay's birthday ACTUALLY falls on. To close the hour, Joshua reads Lay a heartfelt, creative, and ever-so-slightly unhinged birthday poem titled '24.'
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4 MAY 2026 · 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 what does it say about someone who does either response, or both? Joshua and Niki give their personal experiences with this concept and discuss its psychological bases.
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30 APR 2026 · 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 opens up TRB Court to break down monogamy, cheating, and other dating philosophies. To close the show, Joshua issues his weekly Sports Report, covering the Knicks' major series turnaround vs the Atlanta Hawks, the NBA Playoffs, and some unhinged updates from the Mike Vrabel/Dianna Russini affair saga.
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30 APR 2026 · 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 Megan said was a result of Klay's "cheating" and his position that he doesn't think he can be monogamous. Due to the increase of cheating scandals everywhere you look, is it true that most people feel like society and its pressures force them into settling down with one person, even if it's not in their true nature? Also: during the weekly Show and Tell segment, Lay shares her fourth and final poem in celebration of National Poetry Month, and Kory shares his new meal-prepping and low-sugar diet has been working out for him.
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23 APR 2026 · 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' cataclysmic start to the season, punctuated by their 12th consecutive defeat on Tuesday. Then, the crew ventures back to a familiar topic: singer 'd4vd' and the homicide of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez — an arrest was finally made by the LAPD and charges brought by the Los Angeles District Attorney's office. In the middle of it all, Lay reads her third poem of National Poetry Month.Â
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20 APR 2026 · 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 their experience with people-pleasing, dive into the two major psychological roots of people-pleasing behavior, and discuss how people-pleasing can rear its ugly head in the lives of creatives.
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16 APR 2026 · 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 characters Nate, Cassie, Rue, and Laurie. Joshua issues his weekly Sports Report, squarely focused on hoops the incredible beginning to the NBA Play-In with thrilling wins from the Charlotte Hornets and the Portland Trail Blazers, as well as the wild WNBA offseason thus far with stars Angel Reese and Rickea Jackson being traded and the Dallas Wings reuniting Paige Bueckers with Azzi Fudd with the #1 pick in back-to-back drafts. Additionally; an update on the Vrabel/Russini sports media scandal. To close the show, in celebration of National Poetry Month throughout April, Lay reads another phenomenal poem live On Air.
Joshua Umahi's personality-rich "The Recess Bell" discusses the most relevant topics in Sports, Music, Popular Culture and Mental Health. The Recess Bell features the podcasts "mentality" for mental health conversation,...
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Joshua Umahi's personality-rich "The Recess Bell" discusses the most relevant topics in Sports, Music, Popular Culture and Mental Health. The Recess Bell features the podcasts "mentality" for mental health conversation, "TRB Sports/The BackYard" for sports-related content, and "Creator Chats", an interview-style podcast meant to give aspiring creatives a platform to share their work and their creative vision.
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| Author | Joshua Umahi |
| Organization | Joshua Umahi |
| Categories | Society & Culture , Sports , Arts |
| Website | www.therecessbell.com |
| therecessbell@gmail.com |
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