Mikie,

I'm not sure what you are listening to. Is it from the web site? Is is the MP3 file Jams posted?

The pause may be you're connection catching up, assuming that you are doing this online. You should try downloading the whole thing, then playing it. There isn't any pause in the tape. The whole tape is about 1:14 or so.

MP3 files compress audio. In order to do this, they cut up the audio into sections. If one of the cuts occurs in the middle of a word, it can be unintelligible. This may be the reason why it's hard to understand. MP3 files are a compromise between size and quality. WAV files are a little too big for storing on the Internet, so you won't often see them. If it were easily done, I would have provided the original 20 MByte file, but that's just too big.