The PAUSE

Where there's smoke, there's fire. Ari, Ash, and Aim set out to investigate the unresolved death of the mayor from 2024. Ari learns to kiss his ash goodbye as Ash goes from sound nerd to sign seer. W…

Ash trashes Ari and Aim about lawns and lawnmower friends on their drive around Knoxville following an investigative journalism field research trip. While Aim fesses up to her secret motivations, Ari…

Flooding alert!! Not your typical flood waters. This is the new kind of Southern Appalachian flooding that happens in Knoxville and beyond. It's part of the flooding of the new Creative South. Ari a…

Learn between the turns with Mo Squito as Ari seeks common ground in community with Stephen playing another flying friend; Sarah whacks another gestalt poem; Ash pulls a rabbit out of the hat and das…

Deep within the multiverse of radio, conflict is reimagined as a dynamic creative force of emergent play and growth, living in the multitude of voices and characters living inside of us and among us.…

Season Two Premiere, broadcasted live on Thursday, 31 July 2025, Ari and Ash reunite after a month-long summer break. Ari shares his musical work-in-progress with Emmy Carter and Ash gets emotional a…

sound sample // mixed by ari, voices by ash and ari and addair, recorded at Radio KCM studio, Knoxville

Whack leads Ari down the path of no return. The woods weep creepy heaps of powerless promises. Parrots profess portentous popcorn while Ash perpetuates profuse profundity on the tour with The Black L…

Whack deeply apologize for these creepy heaps of powerless promises. Parrots profess portentous popcorn. Ash perpetuates the tour with The Black Lilies while Ari produces poetic prompts perpetuated p…

Ari shares how to pray with food as Whack honors her ancestors' sacred recipe. Walk on the wild side of the goddess within any head of cabbage. Listen and groove with the incredibly generous soundtra…

Fortunately the full episode will air on Thursday, 17 July 2025 > Unfortunately you will have to listen online at www.radiokcm.com or on-demand at: thepause.alitu.com to hear the whole story, actuall…

Ari pauses with Whack walking and gets mixed up in the hair of themes of singularity vs. duality, creativity vs . kinship, and bird of crows vs. bird of parrots.

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 extern…

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 extern…

Heck, trash is trash. Listen. You know who you are. You like the dirty pleasures of it all. You know, like, sometimes you are driving down the road in Knox County and you see a farmhouse to toss your…

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Hot fun in the Knoxville sun. Ash expresses her anger caused by some incompetence by a so-called advocate while Ari discusses Rage Becomes Her book by Soraya Chemaly. Then, Ari and Ash role play ange…

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 extern…

Ari and Ash fish for gold inside their anatomies. Ash shares her tales of nipple milk while Ari shares his tales of liquid gold plus secret recipe for his Trinity tincture.

Just in! Whack has flown the coop and between beers and cigs, she's got something you don't want to miss.