Original subtitles

# Rej and Rub...

# Are tiny little bots a long way from home.

# Rej and Rub...

# Are tiny little bots a long way from home.

# They missed their daddy, makes them cry.

# Goodbye A.I.

# I bet they wish that they could fly.

# Are tiny little bots, a long way from home.

# Are tiny little bots, a long way from home.

- Whoa! - Help me!

- Help me! Waaaa!

- Engaging magnetic motivators.

(ELECTRICITY CRACKLES)

- Whoa! - Rub! No, Rub!

Noooo!

- Ah! Aaaaah!

(THUD!)

- Aaaaaah!

(THUD!)

BOTH: GLITCH

- G'day.

- Kia ora.

- Hey, turns out we're a bit like ants.

Or cats... in that we can fall for ages and kind of be OK.

- I have a headache. - Same.

Hey look, we're outside Manaia's radio station.

- You're back with Midday Manaia, and the little robots, they're real.

The next person who rings in and says anything other than those robots are real, is gonna get hung

We're gonna take one more caller.

Hello caller. - Hello Manaia, my cat Bubbles is missing.

She's grey and fluffy. - Really interesting.

But do you think the robots are real?

- No, Mum said to ring and say my cat is missing.

- I asked a pretty simple question. Are the robots real?

- I just want my cat Bubbles back.

- SHOUTS: I don't even care about Bubbles!

I don't even know bubbles!

What do you know about the robots?!

- I don't know about the robots!

- Sorry, uh, Bubbles, you say? Bubbles.

Has anybody seen a grey cat in Ngaruawahia? (BUTTON THUDS)

- You're done. It's a gardening show. You're off. - (EXHALES)

- I'm taking that. - (EXHALES ANGRILY)

- PRODUCER: You're done! (DOOR CLOSES)

- Woop, woop, woop, woop, woop!

- Why are you wooping?

We are back in the rubbish because we are...

rubbish.

- Yeah, but it's totally different this time, Rej.

- How so?

- When we were falling, I saw you try and save me with your magnets.

Even though you were falling too. Woop, woop, woop, woop, woop, woop.

- Yes, but no need for woop woops.

- You tried to save me and not yourself.

So we might be back in the rubbish, but unlike last time, we are now best buddies!

Woo! BBF forever. Woop, woop, woop, woop, woop, woop.

- Well, I would not go that far. (RAISED VOICES IN THE DISTANCE)

- Hey, listen. Sounds like Manaia's getting a mass rark up from his boss.

- You will go on air. You will read an apology. You will say that you were wrong,

that the whole footage was fake and the robots don't exist!

Then you will go back on and do the gardening show that you paid to do!

- Or?

- Or you're fired. - (SCOFFS)

- Read the apology... or you're fired.

(FOOTSTEPS RETREAT)

- Hey, Rej. The professor didn't throw us out.

I can feel it in my circuits.

- I suppose that is possible and there is another explanation.

- Woo hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo!

You agreed with me, Best Bot Buddies Forever!

- Rub, let's analyse the facts. What do we know so far?

- An investigation. Radical. Awesome. Yes.

- Concentrate on remembering.

- Concentrating.

- This technology is really going to put Southern Institute of Technology on the map.

Map. Map. Map. Map. Map.

- We know he is south.

- (BUZZES)

- Remember, concentrate and you can achieve anything.

Anything, anything, anything, anything, anything.

(ELECTRICITY BUZZES)

- Cheers, Rej.

- We know we have special abilities.

- (BUZZES)

- They are a pair, a unit. Two, not one.

Two, not one.

- We know we are programmed to be best friends.

- One of these bots is going to be rather boring and the other is, well, how do I put this

They are going to be extremely annoying.

- We know one of us is smart and one of us is annoying.

- Smart? You mean boring.

- We know that the terrifying robot who was chasing us, was also in the lab.

- Hm.

- Hm?

- Attack. (EVIL LAUGH)

- What? I didn't know that. That's terrifying.

- Hm.

- Hey, I've got a memory.

(HEARTBEAT THUMPS)

- Rubbish.

- Rubbish.

- Dr Angela stabbed us.

- The female in the flashbacks?

- She threw us out. She sent that terrifying robot after us.

If she threw us out, she might throw out...

- The professor.

- We have to save him.

- Jump on, Rub.

- Woop, woop, woop, woop, woop.

- If we are going to save the Professor, we will need to useall of our special abilitie

- Understood.

Uh, what special abilities?

- My ability to logically solve problems.

- That's a boring ability.

- My special magnetic abilities.

- Ah, also quite boring. No offence.

- And your... and your...

- My what? My what?

- Your ability to be incredibly annoying.

- Ah, yeah, by making all those electronics freak out.

- My calculations suggest Manaia is in this building.

But how to enter?

Once we are inside, we will use your annoyingness to control the radio transmitter in there,

and communicate with the professor.

Magnetic ability, go.

Ah! (CLANK)

- Woop, woop, woop, woop, woop... super team.

- We are not a super team.

- Yep, understood.

Super team!

- Entry point located.

- Well, welcome back to Midday Manaia.

I would like to apologise for my actions on-air today.

I was rude to people.

Instead of giving gardening tips as I am employed to do, I was talking about robots.

I would like to state now categorically that it was all a hoax and the two robots do not ex

I repeat there are no tiny, little, A.I. robots.

To reiterate, the robots don't exist.

I have to go.

- They're real.

- The robots are real!

Captions by Helen Crown.

Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air.

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