Bert: "Hey Ernie! Hey Ern"
Ernie: "Hey there, Bert"
Bert: "Hi Listen the radio is playing soft and then loud Something wrong?"
Ernie: "That's the volume control, Bert See this little button here? That's the volume control"
Bert: "Yeah, you're the one that's doin that, huh?"
Ernie: "And when I turn the knob this way, it makes the radio play louder"
Bert: "Yeah, I know See, I'm tryin to read over there"
Ernie: "And then Bert, when I turn the knob this way, it makes the radio play softer"
Bert: "Good, I like it just that way Ernie, soft"
Ernie: "But I think, I think I like most of all, is when I turn the radio up loud"
Bert: "Ernie! Ernie! That's too loud You're making the radio play very very loudly!"
Ernie: "Bert, don't yell, I'm tryin to listen to the radio!"
Bert: "I will yell Ernie! I will yell! I have every right to yell! I'll yell and yell and yell because I can't hear myself any other way!"
(Ernie turns off the radio)
Bert: "Ernie! Now, you really do not care if I want some peace and quiet do you?"
Ernie: "I wonder what would happen if I took the knob off this radio"
Bert: "You know you really have no consideration for people, do you?"
Ernie: "C'mere Bert"
Bert: "What're you doing?"
Ernie: "I'm gonna put the volume control on you"
Bert: "Wha! I am not a radio, Ernie! Now cut that out!"
Ernie: "And now I think I'll turn the volume a little lower"
Bert: (In a softer voice) "You know you cannot do that to people, they wanna talk, they're not radios And I wanna talk and I'll tell you one thing"
(Ernie turns the volume up)
Bert: (In a louder voice) "I have been trying to read over there! I have been trying to read for so long"
(Ernie turns the volume down)
Bert: (In a softer voice) "And I hear the radio going up and down, up and down, up and down And I don't want that I want"
(Ernie turns Bert off)
Ernie: "Keeheeheehee"
(Ernie leaves Bert there with his mouth flapping and no sound coming out)