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Bailey Hikawa and Scotty Wagner's Emotional.Store brings to life ridiculous scenarios fully rooted in contemporary culture's addiction to digital engagement and our increasingly digitally and physically hybridized world. Through comedic storytelling, Bailey and Scotty's large scale, multimedia projects explore, and poke fun at our phone dependency, angst around free WiFi, our relationship with screens and entertainment, and the emergence of alternate personalities online. In this episode, the two share Emotional.Store's origin story, discuss the topics performances like 100 Year Plan and Trial Child address, and share their thoughts on free WiFi, commercials, smartphones, and Kusama. You can listen to the full Emotional.Store Kusama Song featured in this episode by visiting: https://soundcloud.com/emotional-store/post-infinity -About Emotional.Store- Emotional.Store creates large scale, multimedia projects that explore the newly forming collective consciousness brought about by the union of the physical with the virtual. Through comedic storytelling, magical language and technological seduction, Emotional.Store projects weave audience members through a viscerally weird conversation around the interplay between systems that drive technological progress and the phenomenology of engagement in a digitally and physically hybridized world. Emotional.Store is the collaborative duo Bailey Hikawa and Scotty Wagner. Learn more at https://emotional.store/ Follow Emotional.Store @emotional_store