The latest edition of VICE’s Culture Club escapes the doomscroll this week and heads straight into the woods, as host Jackson Garrett sits down with Boone Hogue and Logan Juggler—the duo behind Official Stick Reviews. Their Instagram account has become the wholesome core of “Stick Nation,” a global community built around finding, rating, and celebrating sticks. It sounds ridiculous. That’s exactly why millions of followers, celebrities, and even NBC late-night host Jimmy Fallon can’t get enough of it.

Garrett opens with the question that fuels most comment wars: what actually counts as a stick? Boone calls it “a real controversial subject,” but years of “professional stickology,” their tongue-in-cheek name for the study of sticks, have given them an answer. “It’s the aura of the stick. It

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