The Soft Serve Podcast

In this episode, Sawtooth talks about the snow, the Winter Olympics, and the movies, “Send Help” and “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.” If you like our podcast, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://substack.com/@softservepodcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Sawtooth reflects on Stomping Jen’s return to the podcast, talks about HBO’s “A Knight of the Seven Kingdom’s” and Apple T.V. 's “Dickinson,” and reads his new essay, “The Dysmorphic Brotherhood of the Stretching Pants.” If you like our podcast, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://substack.com/@softservepodcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Stomping Jen makes her triumphant return to the Soft Serve Podcast! We talk about what Jen has been up to and if she’s “back” on the podcast, and we discuss the movie “Hamnet” and the television show “Heated Rivalry.” If you like our podcast, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://substack.com/@softservepodcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Sawtooth opens up with some light talk about the Blizzard of January 2026 and watching "The Shawshank Redemption" with his daughter, Space Unicorn. To end the episode, Sawtooth reflects on the horrifying public execution of Department of Veterans Affairs intensive care unit nurse, Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by our government’s fascist immigration enforcement thugs. If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://substack.com/@softservepodcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Sawtooth Frank reflects on the music of Roger Waters and Pink Floyd. Sawtooth also talks about Trump’s crazy letter to the Prime Minister of Norway, and the movies "Avatar 3," "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple," and "Train Dreams." If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://softservepodcast.substack.com/p/fba2ddea-ab54-4107-9dcc-df3703fbf808https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

Sawtooth reflects on the horrific killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by our increasingly Orwellian government’s I.C.E. agents. Sawtooth follows this with a reading of “Here But Not Here,” his short story/poem about the hypnotic, isolating, and dark forces of social media. If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Sawtooth reflects on the two-and-a-half week trip he took with Stomping Jen to Europe and Africa over the 2025-2026 winter holidays. If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Sawtooth Frank reflects on the music he listened to the most in 2025 and talks about his 2026 New Year’s Resolutions. If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Sawtooth Frank revisits and reflects on two Soft Serve Podcast Christmas classics: A 2025 remix of his Eminem-inspired hip-hop banger and holiday classic, “What’s So Merry About Christmas?” and the haunting short story fever-dream, “Waiting for Christmas.” If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Sawtooth Frank reflects on the closing of a Western Massachusetts Jewish delicatessen. If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Sawtooth reads the title poem from his second collection of poetry, Monolith Vendors. If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 Monolith Vendors Castro’s beard was captured in Little Havana trying to start a revolution. Manuel, the barber on Calle Roja, who was no friend of Fidel’s, swept up Castro’s beard with his broom. Manuel placed the beard in a dill pickle jar and called the F.B.I. Interrogation proved useless against Castro’s infiltrating beard. Torture, truth serum, and offers of amnesty. None of these tactics worked. The F.B.I. made offers of money, to which Castro’s beard just laughed, and said, “Try again.” Following months of imprisonment and high level risk assessment, the FBI released Castro’s beard. A revolution in the United States was unlikely. Finding work was not difficult. Castro’s beard was offered a job to write for the socialist rag, La Revolucion. The Department of Labor issued a work visa. The beard was determined to make something of itself. Having lived in Cuba on a dictator’s face, Castro’s beard wrote the best articles on socialism anybody had ever read. The disembodied beard worked its way to the top. Staff writer, to lead writer, to Editor in Chief. Life was good for the transplanted ideologue. The beard bought a car and a small bungalow. None of it belonged to Cuba. Castro’s beard was happy for a long time. Many years later, on a cool evening, Castro’s Beard was watching television and eating dinner at home in Little Havana. There was a knock on the door. Not expecting company, the beard said, “Who is it?” There was a very long pause before the reply. “Somos los amigos de Fidel Castro. Señor Castro está muerto.” We are the friends of Fidel. Mr Castro is dead. The day Castro’s beard had been dreading had arrived. The beard opened its front door. Two men, dressed in black suits, with skin the color of gold stood on the porch. The men smelled of cigar smoke, rum, and fresh limes. They were crying. “Stay here,” said Castro’s beard. The beard went to its bedroom, and took a suitcase from the closet, and started packing. The men waited on the porch. Hundreds of thousands—maybe millions— of mourners passed by the glass coffin of Fidel Castro. The line of people waiting to see the dead President’s body at Revolution Square, stretched for miles. From its perch on Fidel’s cold dead chin, Castro’s beard regarded each mourner with gratitude. Most were silent, some said long and whispering prayers, others wailed and screamed with unfathomable grief. An old woman addressed Castro’s beard directly. “I’m so glad you’re home,” she said, wiping away tears, “You belong here, on the face of our leader.” Deep down inside, Castro’s beard was certain The old woman was right. “May I ask you a question?” said the beard to the woman. The old woman blew her nose into a rag and nodded. “Did Fidel forget me—did he hate me for failing?” “Never,” the woman said to the beard, dropping her handkerchief. She smiled. “He loved you for trying.”

Sawtooth is back for his 3rd solo Absolute Zero episode of the podcast to reflect on U2’s “The Joshua Tree” album. If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Sawtooth is back for his second solo Absolute Zero edition of the podcast to reflect on death, time, and an unexpected gift from a stranger. If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Sawtooth launches the first Absolute Zero Edition of the Soft Serve Podcast. If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, we talk about: If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Brad and Jen talk about: If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Brad and Jen talk about: Real History of ThanksgivingThe start of “Traditional” Victorian ThanksgivingCurrent traditionsEmerging traditions If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Brad and Jen talk about: If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Brad and Jen talk about: If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Brad and Jen talk about: If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: https://www.softservepodcast.com!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328