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Do you remember the names of these guys? Well, I know some of them.

Yeah. R2D2. All this guy, I don't know, but the stormtroopers, that's the stormtrooper.

I yoder, of course, Shabacher, of course. Who's this guy? Oh, these guys are.

Oh, this is the bad father. This is Yobi Kenobi or whatever his name is.

You're listening to imaginary worlds. I'm Eric Balensky. And that is how I began my first

episode in 2014 by opening up my childhood action figure case with my mom who bought

every one of those figures for me. I cannot believe I've hit 200 episodes. It feels

like a momentous occasion. So I'm going to reflect on and do a supersized episode about.

And when I thought about what I wanted to do for my 200th episode, I decided I wanted

to check in with some people who've been on the show before. People who's work really

inspired me and I wanted to follow up with them and see what they were doing.

The first person on that list was Karo Murphy. Karo was a listener who wrote me in 2016

and asked if I'd ever thought of doing an episode about larping. I ended up doing several

episodes on larping, including one of my personal favorite episodes, How I Wend the Larp

from 2018. And that episode I did a Larp with Karo where we played in a strange couple

in colonial Massachusetts between fighting off attacks from witches. We had this incredibly

emotional and totally improvised scene together. Hi. Hi. So excited to talk to you. So like

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