The PAUSE

Radio show and podcast providing sanctuary for the wild ones. Ghosts Ari and Ash co-host a loosely scripted, surreal radio parody exploring cultural production in alignment with ecological intelligence in the multiverse of Knoxville. As visual, environmental, and musical artists, Ari and Ash practice emergent strategies experimenting with radio as art medium. Featuring improvised interviews, stories, and music, The PAUSE is both poetic and humorous inquiry into the sound of our voices in relation to the times and place we inhabit.

Latest episodes

16 October 2025

Mittelschmerz (S2E12)

Mittelschmerz (s2e12) is one-sided, lower abdominal pain associated with ovulation. German for “middle pain,” Mittelschmerz occurs midway through a menstrual cycle. Similarly Ari and Ash have to move through Knoxville’s narrow channels with pain, including a blunt interrogation by Ash of Ari’s experience visiting Israel in 2009 for his daughter’s bat mitzvah, or rite of passage, leading to an exodus from his starter home.

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09 October 2025

Fresh Squeezed Lemonade (S2E11)

Despite a successful day as preacher, Ash unexpectedly takes Ari the church layman to Knoxville's First Creek for a teaching he will never forget. Fortunately Ash has a lot of biblical lessons for Ari to learn. Unfortunately Ari loses his handle on his emotional support water bottle in the creek under the bridge. As he chases it downstream, Ash loses her own water beside the bridge above the creek. Read lemonade as urine.

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02 October 2025

Southland Under the Overpass (S2E10)

In a roar of unresolved power dynamics, Ari and Ash follow a trail of kudzu vines onto a steep incline of echo under the I-40 overpass. Fortunately they feel a moment of solidarity in the discord of dark sounds. Unfortunately they hear this place is not a home but rather a tombstone in the southland. To be continued.

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27 September 2025

Free Speech in the Belly of the Studio (S2E9)

While Ari and Ash entertain the wild sides of prayer and manifestation, Ash reveals she's lost one of their friends to freedom and ASMR. Unfortunately Ari drags Ash back to a manifestation when she had pasties on her tongue. Fortunately Ash shares a story of her soulful journey in nature as prayer. Ari struggles to be present in the face of religious conversation until Ash provides him a gift to free him from tyranny and oppression.

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23 September 2025

Interview with Kaitlyn Corse, Transformational Travel Coach

Join me as we pause to consider how travel and transformation recombined to guide those longing to connect not consume being with earth.

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18 September 2025

The Mayor is Back, Back Again (S2E8)

Ari Ash and Aim order coffee in a drive-through in Coffee County. While Ash experiences fear with the police, Ari becomes the land and insists on his boundaries being respected. Aim believes Ari when the flag on the flagpole is undersized. Ash falls for the golfing monkey in the window without a tooth.

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