You directly lied to us this entire time.

I can't believe they were, I can't believe they were dead all along.

And they're going, no, they weren't dead all along.

They were dead at the end.

Welcome to Recatopia, a happy home for recommended movies,

TV shows, music, video games, foodstuffs and more from two people you can definitely trust.

Trustability varies by region no guarantees implied. And now here are your hosts, Chris Atkinson and Aaron Dicer.

Hello everybody. It is episode 118 of Recatopia.

The big recommend today is Rashaman.

I'm Chris Atkinson joined by Aaron Dicer.

Hi to lee hilly hos, Interinos. And welcome. Dizer. Hightilyhose, and welcome, uh, chat, who's come out here on a Thursday.

Yes, it's a very special Thursday recording of the episode. I don't think anything is going to make it particularly special

just because it's Thursday, but it is a special Thursday recording of our show. I will start us off with our small recommends

It's no big deal

It's so small and light it's small it's tiny it's petite it's petite it's weed

So I decided to watch a couple of shorts this weekend some movies that

one I had seen one I had not before and the first one I had not seen was the red balloon, which is a French short, and I believe both of, actually both of the ones that I watched are French shorts.

The red balloon is from 1956 and it is about a boy who

unties a balloon from a lamp post doing his own stunts I might add I thought that was a pretty cool thing

they can't do that today probably you're not sending a kid up that lamp post these days

I don't know and he gets the balloon and of course he grows

attached to it and after a while he learns that he can command the balloon to go

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