EPISODE 28
After another drafty night at the Triangle Social Club, Frank's fallen ill (with a "wheeze in my thing there") and started mainlining Helen's chicken soup. Unlike poor Frank, Fritzy--since he's based in faraway Queens--isn't often exposed to Vincent "Chin" Gigante's mercurial ways. The mob boss, as Frank moans, has a nasty habit of extracting the calcium from your bones. Note: A break in the tape is marked by a piano interlude. (3:20)
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FRITZY: Federico "Fritzy" Giovanelli
FRANK: Frank "Frankie California" Condo
UI: Unintelligible
Frank: Alright, my sweetheart just made me a big bowl of soup here.
Fritzy: Well, I see, I see...
Frank: I'll be lookin' like a chicken, I'll be lookin' like.
Fritzy: Well you look like one already. You look like a rooster.
Frank: I've been eatin' chicken soup, chicken soup everyday.
Fritzy: Ya had enough chicken soup.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: What ya eat last...
Frank: [Aside to girlfriend Helen] Quiet.
Fritzy: What'd ya eat last night?
Frank: [To Helen] Ah, get out. [UI] more money. Get outta here, I'll [UI]. Good-bye you, get out.
Fritzy: Your nurse came.
Frank: I know, you hear money. She...
Fritzy: Money. Fazoolas.
Frank: [UI] her out.
Fritzy: Fazoolas.
Frank: It'd be cheaper for me to have two Filipinos here, they get $100 a week. They sleep on the floor nice on the floor. [UI] get them. My, my, my sister-in-law's in the U.N.. I want a maid here she get one right from Philippine. [UI]
Fritzy: A Filipino.
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Frank: Now I should take 'em what time now? It's quarter after three.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: I should take one maybe six o'clock.
Fritzy: Take it [UI]. Yeah, because ya, you won't go to bed 'til two o'clock, like that.
Frank: Have one at six, huh?
Fritzy: That's right.
Frank: And then one, uh, when I go to bed.
Fritzy: Well what time was, uh, the first one you took?
Frank: About eleven o'clock.
Fritzy: Eleven, nah, eleven. Take it about six o'clock.
Frank: Six, right?
Fritzy: Yeah, six o'clock. Take it.
Frank: And the other one about two, huh?
Fritzy: And the other one later on before you go to sleep. Just before you go to bed 'cause you gonna get a good six, eight hours sleep.
Frank: The guy told me, he says, "Good thing you came, you woulda wind up with pneumonia."
Fritzy: Yeah, I told you that. When you told, when you told me that, and you got it in you, ya know, I says "Don't fuck around with it." And you know...
Frank: I got a wheeze in my thing there.
Fritzy: Ah, you'll clear up.
Frank: I got a jungle, he says.
Fritzy: You'll clear, you...
Frank: Fuckin' concrete place...
Fritzy: Hey.
Frank: ...'til three in the morning.
Fritzy: You sit there, make sure you got a rug under your feet over there.
Frank: Oh, it's bad there Freddy. Forget about it.
Fritzy: But he don't wanna , he don't wanna do, do nothing.
Frank: He don't give a fuck. He don't wanna put nothin' in that joint, fix it up, make a nice joint. Make it, ya know.
Fritzy: Yeah, but forget that. At least some fuckin' heat.
Frank: Nah, no fuckin' heat in there, nothin'.
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