Sawtooth Frank and Stomping Jen have interesting conversations with people and talk about life, entertainment, news, and whatever else comes to mind.
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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.”
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Wednesday Jan 28, 2026
Wednesday Jan 28, 2026
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.
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Wednesday Jan 21, 2026
Wednesday Jan 21, 2026
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."
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Wednesday Jan 14, 2026
Wednesday Jan 14, 2026
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.
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Wednesday Jan 07, 2026
Wednesday Jan 07, 2026
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.
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Wednesday Dec 31, 2025
Wednesday Dec 31, 2025
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.
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Wednesday Dec 24, 2025
Wednesday Dec 24, 2025
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.”
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Wednesday Dec 17, 2025
Wednesday Dec 17, 2025
In this episode, Sawtooth Frank reflects on the closing of a Western Massachusetts Jewish delicatessen.
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Wednesday Dec 10, 2025
Wednesday Dec 10, 2025
In this episode, Sawtooth reads the title poem from his second collection of poetry, Monolith Vendors.
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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.”
Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
Sawtooth is back for his 3rd solo Absolute Zero episode of the podcast to reflect on U2’s “The Joshua Tree” album.
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