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)
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