You can view it on action right here. It is not present on other VLC versions, only the newest version exhibits this. On this specific file, it always happens at 2:21 mark. There were few more that I've noticed that the playback would pause very shortly, but I can't remember the others so this is what I could only present. I could send the file that's in use for checking purposes, but since the file played here is most likely copyrighted, I'll better off not do it here. Probably on PMs on a temporary file hosting site.
Using Windows 10, on 21H2 update. Please don't mind me using Audacity for the purposes of demonstrating this, I have no other audio player installed, I don't even have Windows Media Player installed after I debloated Windows.