The Soft Serve Podcast

In this episode, I discuss the top ten horrifying apocalypse scenarios that could happen in our lifetime and end humanity. If you like our podcast, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: TELL A FRIEND about our show! Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@softservepodcast Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, I give a report on the “fate of our nation;” take a surprise call from RFK Jr. (?!) while discussing healthy changes to my diet; and talk about some of the good historical events that have happened in the month of May. I also review what shows we’re streaming and movies we’ve seen recently, including Outcome, Joy Ride, and Marty Supreme.  If you like our podcast, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: TELL A FRIEND about our show! Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@softservepodcast Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Sawtooth Frank discusses the current “fate of our nation;” the 30 goldfish that survived the winter living in his swimming pool; historical tragedies that have happened in the last 3 weeks of April; and some recent concerts (Mike Doughty, Puscifer) and movies (The Drama, Sirat, and S4: The Bob Lazar Story). If you like our podcast, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: TELL A FRIEND about our show! Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@softservepodcast Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Sawtooth Frank recreates his infamous Easter stand up comedy routine that caused someone to storm out in the middle of the set in disgust and anger.  If you like our podcast, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: TELL A FRIEND about our show! Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@softservepodcast Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Sawtooth Frank discusses Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary and why you need to see the movie and read the book.  If you like our podcast, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: TELL A FRIEND about our show! Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@softservepodcast Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

In this episode, Sawtooth Frank takes a sledgehammer to the comforting myths of spring. First, Sawtooth examines how Donald Trump’s favorite new slogan, “peace through strength,” falls apart under scrutiny, revealing how brute military force produces the exact instability it claims to prevent.Then, Sawtooth pivots to the season itself. From St. Patrick's Day to Earth Day, spring holidays sell us a story of rebirth, renewal, and cheerful green optimism. However, nature tells a darker tale. Spring isn’t warm and gentle. It’s cold and chaotic: mating frenzies, territorial battles, mass pollination, and plenty of death along the way. The season of “new life” is really a bloody annual biological free-for-all.  If you like our podcast, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: TELL A FRIEND about our show! Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@softservepodcast Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

War overseas, higher prices at home, protest music in the air, and a gothic movie on the big screen! In this episode, Sawtooth Frank breaks down how Donald Trump’s war with Iran is driving up gas prices and the cost-of-living for everyday Americans. Sawtooth then pumps up the volume on Brass Against, the brass-powered band known for inspiring social and personal change through their original brass-driven compositions and covers of hard rock and heavy metal classics. Finally, Sawtooth gives a spoiler-free review of The Bride!, an American Gothic romance film written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, and then wraps things up with a brief discussion of the Bridgeton universe show, Queen Charlotte.  If you like our podcast, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: TELL A FRIEND about our show! Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@softservepodcast Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 Check out Brass Against on their Web site: https://brassagainst.com/ "The Bride!" on IMBD: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30851137/  

In this episode, Sawtooth Frank talks about the illegal and unconstitutional war with Iran, and then jumps into his time machine to go back to 1974 to see what life was like 52 years ago on the day he was born.  If you like our podcast, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: TELL A FRIEND about our show! Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@softservepodcast Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328  

In this episode, Sawtooth talks about the Blizzard of 2026 and his new obsession with apples, including a reading of his apple-related poem, “Royalty Runs in the Family.” If you like our podcast, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: TELL A FRIEND about our show! Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@softservepodcast Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328

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: TELL A FRIEND about our show! Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@softservepodcast Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://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: TELL A FRIEND about our show! Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@softservepodcast Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://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: TELL A FRIEND about our show! Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@softservepodcast Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://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: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@softservepodcast Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

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: Read Sawtooth's Essay and subscribe to our Substack: https://softservepodcast.substack.com/p/fba2ddea-ab54-4107-9dcc-df3703fbf808 Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!  

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: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

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: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

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: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

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: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

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: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

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: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!   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: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

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: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

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: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

In this episode, we talk about: What 's been going on the last 10 months. The 2024 Election. What we’re entertaining ourselves with: Big Brother The Penguin. Agatha All Along. Joker 2. "The Expanse" books. Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach novels. Mark Helprin's novel, The Oceans and the Stars. Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A Scenario. A whole lot more! If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

In this episode, Brad and Jen talk about: The future of the podcast. Hanukkah, 5784/2023. The holiday cocktail party “dress-up blow-up.” Jen’s garlic dinner fiasco. Listening to lots of Christmas music. Why the Christmas story of Jesus may have been the result of contact with extraterrestrial or non-human intelligences. Brad’s top music for the year: Taylor Swift (#1); Roger Waters (#2); Eminem (#3); Peter Gabriel (#4); Wutang Clan (#5); Jenny Lewis (#6); Pink Floyd (#7); John Coltrane (#8); Tool (#9); NIN (#10); (#11) Phoebe Bridgers.  Jen's top music for the year. Following up on Brad's 2023 New Year’s resolutions. 2024 resolutions. What we’re watching on T.V. and at the Movies: Godzilla Minus 1. The Creator. Fry Bread Face and Me. Upload Season 3. The Crown Season 6. If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

In this episode, Brad and Jen talk about: Our ongoing (?) hiatus from podcasting. Death-a-versaries. What we’ve been up to the last 3 months: Our 22nd wedding anniversary. Brad’s Ancestry.com DNA test. Ignoring World War III. Jen falling apart. (Ankle and Neck). Peter Gabriel. i/O tour. Taylor Swift Eras movie. Les Claypool and the Flying Frog Brigade. Jen’s colonoscopy. 27/22 Anniversary. Rubblebucket, 11/18, at Academy of Music. Thanksgiving 2023 Real History of Thanksgiving— Dangerous myths. The start of “Traditional” Victorian Thanksgiving. Current traditions. Emerging traditions. What ways do/could/should people celebrate thankfulness during thanksgiving apart from the gluttonous consumption of the harvest? Our plans? Who carves the turkey? Random questions from friends: How do you wipe? Are you a neat folder, or a monster that just crumples it all together and hopes for the best. Are hotdogs a sandwich? Is cereal a soup? Are pop-tarts ravioli? Brad is addicted to social media "reels." If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

In this episode, Brad and Jen talk about: Radon gas test results. Pier Village in Long Branch, NJ; McLoone's Pier House. Monmouth, NJ Museum and the artist know as Porkchop. Redbank, NJ: Centrada restaurant, and Coney Waffles and Ice Cream. Asbury Park: Collage Workshop with Holly Would. Brad asks the A.I., “How long is too long to wash your asshole using a bidet?” Jen went to Jonas Brothers and was exposed to COVID. If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

In this episode, Brad and Jen talk about: Summer 2023 is almost over! A trip to York Beach, Maine. Brad’s obsession with radon gas. Jen going to an Ilana Glazer and Alyson Levy show. Our sugary cereal binge. Brad asks the A.I., “What is the most appropriate way to respond if an old lady shits her pants in front of you in the isle of a CVS store?” The play, “The Light,” at Chester Community Theater, in Chester, MA. Big Brother, Party Down, and What We Do In the Shadows. If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

In this episode, Brad and Jen talk about: Jen's terrifying encounter with a wasp and the debilitating after effects! A heartwarming story of a rainy day at Trader Joe's, where a compassionate employee came to Jen's rescue. Brad taking a refreshing nap and waking up to a…hard truth. Attending a Jenny Lewis concert at the Roadrunner music venue in Brighton, MA. The thought-provoking play, "Guards at the Taj," put on by the Chester Theater Company.  What jelly pairs best with a PB&J sandwich? Brad and Jen use the power of artificial intelligence to settle the age-old debate! Books they’ve read this year, and T.V. shows they are watching. The Barbie and Oppenheimer movies. If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

Brad and Jen are back after a 6-month break. It’s been a while, so we talk about a LOT of stuff! If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

Joshua Michael Stewart is the author of the 2022 collection of poems, “Love Something,” which he adds to his other full-length poetry collections including “Break Every String” and “The Bastard Children of Dharma Bums.” Joshua’s work has been published and featured in Massachusetts Review, Brilliant Corners, and Rattle, just to name a few publications. Buy Love Something at: https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/love-something-joshua-michael-stewart/ You can connect with Joshua at: www.joshuamichaelstewart.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joshua.m.stewart.526/ Instagram: @joshua_michael_stewart Twitter: @JoshuaMStewart If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

Jen and Brad talk about what they did over the winter holidays and their New Year's resolutions for 2023.  If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

Greta and Paul Boudreau are community leaders and founding members of the Hamden Tenants Union, the largest union within the Connecticut Tenants Union. Learn more about Greta and Paul’s work and the Connectiut Tenants union at: https://www.cttenantsunion.org/english Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/seramontestu @cttenantsunion (Twitter) If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

This episode is all about Hanukkah and Christmas! We had so much fun talking about: Jen’s Hanukkah party! Our Hanukkah & Christmas plans. Myths about Hanukkah & Christmas. Christmas-themed sex positions. Brad’s new spoken-word Christmas story! If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

Kelly Surprenant is a fashion artist who started "The Rainbow Rack" with the goal of creating unique fashions with vintage inspiration for the modern age. Her designs are for the fashion-forward conscious consumer; couture pieces as unique as we all are, created ethically in Western Massachusetts. Connect with Kelly at: https://therainbowrack.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRainbowRack Instagram: @therainbowrackboutique If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: —Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! —Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! —Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 —TELL A FRIEND about our show!

Jen and Brad talk about: Upcoming changes to the podcast. Jen going to a meet and greet with Corey Feldman and Jameson Newlander, aka the Frog Brothers from the "Lost Boys." Honey Bear Tea. Safe Passage Hot Chocolate Run. Loving and hating the holidays. A super jolly episode, we hope you enjoy! If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: —Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! —Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! —Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 —TELL A FRIEND about our show!

John Sheirer is a Northampton, Massachusetts, author whose works include memoir, fiction, poetry, essays, political satire, and photography. His most recent book is “Stumbling Through Adulthood,” is a collection of linked stories.  For more than 30 years, John has taught writing and communications for at Asnuntuck Community College in Enfield, Connecticut, where he also serves as editor and faculty advisor for “Freshwater Literary Journal.” John also writes a monthly column on current events for the Western Massachusetts newspaper the “Daily Hampshire Gazette.” Connect with John at: http://www.johnsheirer.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/john.sheirer Twitter: @RealAmericanLib https://www.facebook.com/makecommonsensecommon If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

Jen and Brad slow it down like cold gravy for the Thanksgiving holiday and talk about: A mysterious gift mailed to Brad. What we're thankful for. Colonialist myths about Thanksgiving. Weird Thanksgiving traditions. Thanksgiving safety tips. Is it Maynard? Thanksgiving edition! A super fun episode, we hope you enjoy! If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: —Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! —Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! —Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 —TELL A FRIEND about our show!

Jen and Brad are joined by their 12-year-old daughter, Space Unicorn, for a fun SAFE FOR WORK conversation about a whole bunch of topics, including: Cell phones for kids; Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (spoiler-free review); Fortune cookies; Preparing for a B'nai Mitzvah; The Walking Dead; Thanksgiving 2022 plans; A whole lot more! If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

Alyssa Curran is the Community Coordinator for Belchertown and Ware, Massachusetts, in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) HEALing Communities Study. A primary goal of the program is to reduce opioid overdose fatality by 40% over 3 years in urban and rural areas across four states, including MA. Alyssa is joined by Anna Martin and Randy Gratton, who are also working with the HEALing Communities Study. Learn more about the: https://HEALtogetherMA.org HEALing Communities Study: https://healingcommunitiesstudy.org/ The Consortium: https://wmtcinfo.org/ Instagram: @hcsbelchertownware  Facebook: @HCSBelchertownWare If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

In this episode, Jen and Brad talk about: Driving kids everywhere. Mortality Halloween. 21st wedding anniversary. Thanksgiving plans. What we're watching and listening to these days. If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

Michael Medeiros is the founder and chief potter of Poesia Pottery. Michael makes handmade ceramics for the garden and home, and teaches mindfulness through the practice of pottery. In addition to his work as a potter, Michael is also a poet and photographer. Connect with Michael at:  https://www.poesiapottery.com Instagram: @poesiapottery Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michael.medeiros.10 If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

On Monday, October 10, 2022, Brad’s father, Paul R. Turner, passed away at the age of 84 years. In this short episode, after reading the obituary, Brad recites a poem that his father used to read to him as a child, “The Cremation of Sam McGee,” by Robert W. Service.

Pasqualina Azzarello is an artist, community leader, and educator who works with others to cultivate generative spaces, initiatives, and partnerships that are innovative, collaborative, and inclusive of all participants. Her work has been featured and covered in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and other publications. Pasqualina also serves as City Arts Coordinator at Easthampton City Arts in Easthampton, MA, and is a graphic recorder and facilitator. Connect with Pasqualina at: http://www.pasqualinaazzarello.com Facebook Instagram: @pasqualinaazzarello If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

Fall is here! In this episode, Jen and Brad talk about: October and death. the town election. what's new with us. the arrival of fall. Glade Plug-Ins. the "Bros" movie. Starbucks Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew review. A dog walking encounter. Going to the 2022 Quabbin Garlic & Arts Festival. What we're watching and listening to these days. If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

Odin Goldman is the “Grand Papermancer” and owner of Susurrate Press, an independent small press focused on custom bookbinding and small publications, including short run artist books, (fan)zines, literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Connect with Odin at: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/SusurratePress Susurrate Press: https://www.susurratepress.com Instagram: @susurrate_press Susurrate Press YouTube Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/susurratepress If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

Lesa Lessard-Pearson is a candidate for Select Board in Belchertown, MA.  Raised and educated in MA, Lesa plans to bring her deep well of experience and know-how in business, communications, and leadership to this important town leadership role. This was a super-informative and fun conversation that covered, Lesa's love of Belchertown, the importance of inclusion, why she is ready to serve on the Select Board, pickle ball, and a whole lot more! Connect with Lesa and her campaign at https://www.facebook.com/lesaforbtown.

Jen and Brad appear on Steven Opalenik's Break the Chains, Find Your Flame podcast! We talked about a whole bunch of fun stuff, including comic books and movies; Jen and Brad's "origin stories"; how we started the Soft Serve Podcast; what superpowers we want; what things that most people think of as "normal," have been challenging for us. Connect with Steve at: https://theprometheanproject.org Facebook (@prometheancounseling) Break the Chains, Find Your Flame on Apple podcasts. If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

Our guests this week are Claire Walton and Brent "The High Five Guy" Walton, the owners of Liberty Woods, a 75+ acre horse farm in the Western MA town of Belchertown. Claire and Brent offer horsemanship, boarding, yoga, meditation, life coaching, an Airbnb— and more! Connect with Claire & Brent at: https://clairlydifferently.com/ https://www.facebook.com/High-Five-Coaching-and-Wellness-105270931556106 Brent’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brent.walton.54 Claire’s Facebook :https://www.facebook.com/claire.guimaud Instagram: @clairewalton11 Instagram: @liberty_woods_high_five_guy Claire & Brent’s AirBnB: https://airbnb.com/h/thesuiteatlibertywoods If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!

Fall is right around the corner! In this episode, Jen and Brad talk about: The end of summer. What's new with Jen. Brad's experimenting with new art. Our favorite things about the fall season. Jen being a "Sandman-Zilla." What we're watching and listening to these days. We also play a new installment of our Is it Maynard? game! If you like our show, there’s a few things you can do to help us out: Check out our website at https://www.softservepodcast.com! Subscribe to our podcast in your favorite app, download our episodes! Leave a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328 TELL A FRIEND about our show!