The Soft Serve Podcast
 

The Soft Serve Podcast

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Sawtooth Frank and Stomping Jen have interesting conversations with people and talk about life, entertainment, news, and whatever else comes to mind.

Episodes

Roger Waters & Pink Floyd: F*ck Off to the Bar

Jan 21, 2026

Jan 21, 2026

1 hr 4 min

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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Jan 21, 2026

1 hr 4 min

Here But Not Here

Jan 14, 2026

Jan 14, 2026

54 min

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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Jan 14, 2026

54 min

Back in the U.S.A. (United States of Assholes)

Jan 7, 2026

Jan 7, 2026

39 min

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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Jan 7, 2026

39 min

2026 New Year Spectacular

Dec 31, 2025

Dec 31, 2025

40 min

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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Dec 31, 2025

40 min

2025 Christmas Spectacular

Dec 24, 2025

Dec 24, 2025

37 min

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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Dec 24, 2025

37 min

Geshlossen! On the Closing of a Jewish Deli

Dec 17, 2025

Dec 17, 2025

35 min

In this episode, Sawtooth Frank reflects on the closing of a Western Massachusetts Jewish delicatessen.

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Dec 17, 2025

35 min

Monolith Vendors

Dec 10, 2025

Dec 10, 2025

22 min

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.”

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Dec 10, 2025

22 min

Reflections on U2's The Joshua Tree

Dec 3, 2025

Dec 3, 2025

37 min

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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Dec 3, 2025

37 min

A Coin Out of Time

Nov 26, 2025

Nov 26, 2025

42 min

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.

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Nov 26, 2025

42 min

The Big Wheel

Nov 5, 2025

Nov 5, 2025

28 min

In this episode, Sawtooth launches the first Absolute Zero Edition of the Soft Serve Podcast.

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Nov 5, 2025

28 min

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