StickMart Podcast

In what can only be described as a fever dream wrapped in frosting, Aaron and Ethan attempt to interview two sugar-fueled kids about their favorite desserts and candy. The results? Chaos, giggles, and the kind of raw energy you only get from herding cats in the candy section of StickMart.

With Ethan on vacation, Aaron flies solo — and after a botched interview with some uncooperative chickens, he pivots to a curated lineup of StickMart’s finest ads, bits, and audio oddities. It’s a one-man variety show with plenty of weird to go around.

This week, Aaron and Ethan are joined by special guest Jason Foster — bass player, fellow weirdo, and pedal enthusiast. The trio dives deep into the wild world of effects pedals for guitar, bass, and synths. From sonic bliss to poultry chaos (yes, one pedal makes chicken noises), it's a noisy, nerdy jam session of the highest order.

Ethan dives into his day job, talking VFX, particles, and the strange magic behind digital illusion. Meanwhile, our would-be sponsor The Wretched Relic has ghosted us — probably cursed. It's a mix of pixels, paycheck woes, and the usual StickMart spiral into creative chaos.

Ethan’s moving, so we’re pressing pause on the chatter—but not on the weird. This week, we're airing a fresh batch of our finest fake ads from the first leg of Season 2. It’s commercials only, baby. No plot, all product!

Aaron takes the reins and guides Ethan into the dusty world of Westerns — starting with The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. There’s a Whitfield Fahrenheit cameo, a whole lot of genre gushing (from Aaron), and Ethan trying to figure out what a spaghetti western even is. Saddle up for some high plains confusion.

Ethan got a wild hair and took up linocut printing — so naturally, we had to talk about it. We explore artists like M.C. Escher, butcher the basics of the technique, and uncover the groundbreaking revelation that linoleum is made of cork (and… some other stuff). It’s art talk, StickMart style — uninformed, enthusiastic, and mildly educational.

Aaron and Ethan take a wildly uninformed dive into the world of cults—Manson, Jonestown, Om Shinrikyo, and the eerie pull of the Hive Mind. We don’t have all the facts, but we do have questions... and probably a few bad takes.

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Note - it was Dale Carnegie’s book How To Make Friends and Influence People, not Rockefeller.

This week, Aaron and Ethan dive into the cartoons that rewired their childhood brains—Ninja Turtles, Looney Tunes, Ren & Stimpy, Disney classics, and all the animated chaos in between. Nostalgia hits hard, and so do the anvils.

After two months in creative hibernation (or possibly a cyber-noir fever dream), Aaron and Ethan return, slightly changed... maybe mutated. Aaron wrote and submitted a few horror stories, while Ethan updates us on the tech-noir, body horror comic—now with even more existential dread.

Welcome back to StickMart!

(I bet you didn’t even notice we were gone)