"I have a VPI table with Umami Red cart and a felt top."
GASP! You must be one of those weight/mat users... bare platter/clamp & washer to flatten LP for my VPI.
If you want to play radio DJ, keep spinning. I used to do it with a Rega. The only thing I can think of is a constantly spinning platter potentially leading to a disaster-lifting the LP of the platter, a hand a finger brushes against it, causing hand jerk which then crashes into arm/cartridge and you now have a new Audiogon thread subject-
"Don't keep platter spinning while changing LP's."