How does cultural cross-disciplinary production comes down to listening? How does styrofoam teach us how we can relate to trash? How can we reconnect to the disparate parts of our self and our external environments?

Ari and Sarah go there, again. They deepen their conversation around creative process and what place means in today's world of safety and risk, loose and contained.

Whack hacks Field Notes to The PAUSE. Two unnamed voices from a remote sector of the multiverse explore the forest of the "Shh Whack" episode of The PAUSE radio show.

Whack hacks Field Notes to The PAUSE. Two unnamed voices from a remote sector of the multiverse explore the forest of the "Shh Whack" episode of The PAUSE radio show.

Ari and Ash randomize the preamble. Whack gets a promotion.  Iron John initiates the youngster to the perils and pleasures of the golden well. The chatbots set hard limits and enforce forbidden parrot flower pasties. Ash riffs on moss and mushrooms in the face of cities and buildings.

Join us as I pause with Jill Frere, movement artist, yoga teacher, Buddhist, and community activist among other talents, who previews her current dance work in the Shadows & Light show at the Knoxville Museum of Art this Saturday, 7 June 2025 at 7:00 PM eastern.

Sarah Ledbetter is a highly creative and insightful somatic therapist as well as  movement artist and writer currently based in Nashville, originally from Memphis.  Our wild conversation offers glimpses into the delicate relationship between nature and our natures. 

Ash restates the original 2024 poetic essay of The PAUSE as an invitation from the present tense expressing more spontaneity in the face of an unstable table. The show was recorded on Friday, 23 May 2025 but aired on Radio KCM on Thursday, 29 May 2025 during the waxing crescent Strawberry Moon. 

Davis Saul is on a spiritual journey toward a more authentic way of being, nontraditional in terms of modern values, traditional in terms of more ancient values. He shares a recent story of being swindled and the impact on him along his journey. 

Ari and Ash delve into the cultural construction of the cage. What would have happened if the parrot Whack was also forced to cohabitate with Iron John. Ari opens up for the first time publicly about the traumas of his two grandmothers and devotes to something big.