yes the link was for you to see the stream in action. My app (it's called Cast-tor) is not designed to pause, stop yes but not pause. You can stop the schedule but when restarted must restart from the beginning to get the timing down right. You can have obs send to a NDi link over to your copy of yourtube and then you can do anything you want. You can schedule lets say at 9pm to stop streaming for 30 minutes and then turn on again. You could use decklink during that time to do your thing. Or you could stop the scheduler, do your thing for 40 minutes, then put the scheduler in the run this for me now mode and when near the hour mark schedule it back to full station run mode. I suppose in the future i could add a "don't SEND COMMANDS MODE FOR LIVE PODCASTs mode. It would continue to think it was sending but wasn't. Have to think about it, it's more hybrid in it's mode. But would add more capibility to live programing. Casttor could do everything else you mentioned, no problem.
oh what time zone are you in?