"can I offer you a nice egg in this trying time" by Iori Kusano

It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton

Wil Wheaton

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4.9 • 664 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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"can I offer you a nice egg in this trying time" by Iori Kusano, narrated by Wil Welcome, friends. I'm Wil Wheaton, and it's Story Time.I remember being a kid in the late seventies, looking through this book I had called The Catalog of the Future. It was filled with imaginary vacation destinations, floating cities (in the air and in the sea), rockets, wireless phones, all beautifully illustrated. With a little assistance from my young imagination, I could pretend this catalog had been plucked from the future, that everything inside it was real, and one day, I would live there. I was a weird, lonely, scared kid. I treasured the escape and the sanctuary I found inside the covers of this book. Today, in a story that landed on me like an uppercut, I'm going to take you to a Waffle House, somewhere in North America, where we will meet a guy who had his own version of that catalog, his own glimpse of a world where the things that made him weird in our reality made him special and gave his life purpose. And we're going to find out how it feels for him to know that he can never go back. This is Can I Offer You An Egg In This Trying Time? To learn more about the author, please visit: https://kusanoiori.com/ It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our Content Editor is Michael Thomas Our Podcast is mixed, edited, and mastered by Alex Barton of PhaseShift AV Special thanks to Wes Stevens and Christopher Black. It's Storytime is recorded at Skyboat Media in the beautiful San Fernando Valley, California. If you'd like to support the show and get an ad-free feed, visit ⁠patreon.com/storytime⁠ I'm your Creator, Executive Producer, and host, Wil Wheaton. You can find me online at ⁠wilwheaton.net⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:29.0	I remember when I was a kid in the late 70s, looking through this book I had called The Catalog of the Future,
1:36.1	a huge, heavy paperbacked home filled with imaginary vacation destinations.
1:43.3	There were floating cities in the air and in the sea,
1:49.0	rockets that kids like me could ride on to the moon,
1:54.1	wireless phones, all of it was beautifully illustrated.
2:00.6	With a little assistance from my young imagination, it was so easy
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