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'.
Fritzy: [Italian]. I mean, ya know, that's...
Frank: [UI]. And the whole draft comes right in through the door.
Fritzy: He says you come...
Frank: [UI] in there.
Fritzy: He told you, "You comin' back?"
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: He [UI].
Frank: Marone a mi.
Fritzy: He told ya [UI].
Frank: Huh? Wants ya on crutches, this guy.
Fritzy: [Italian].
Frank: You see that old man Jimmy comes there [UI].
Fritzy: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He won't let him quit.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: Can't quit.
Frank: He's blind, he's goin'.
Fritzy: He can't quit.
Frank: Right.
Fritzy: He can't quit, that guy. Marone.
Frank: He takes the, the, the, the, the, the, the, calcium outta your bones, he takes it.
Fritzy: Marone...
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: ...a mi.
Frank: Huh? And look how he looks. I don't know how the fuck he does it.
Fritzy: I know.
Frank: It's catchin' up with him, though.
Fritzy: Yeah, well he's humpin', he's got a new one now.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: He's humpin' that one, too.
Frank: That'll, that'll put, that'll weaken him down a bit.
Fritzy: Yeah, you think so?
Frank: Oh yeah, that'll put the crutch on him.
Fritzy: Yeah, oogatz, he's gonna get stronger.
Frank: Ya know what time he's out to? With that, that's late hours. That's no good, the night air.
Fritzy: Yeah, the night. He, he lives on night air.
Frank: He ain't gonna live on it long. He's pushin' 60 ya know. He ain't pushin', uh, 40 or 45 or 50. Sixty, he's goin' up the ladder now.
Fritzy: Yeah, but he's wearin', he's wearin' you out first.
Frank: He's goin' up the ladder.
Fritzy: He's goin' up the ladder?
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: He's got you down the fuckin' ladder.
Frank: No, but who was in the hospital all the while? Him.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: He's in the hospital.
Fritzy: Yeah, he was restin' up.
Frank: Yeah, I know restin' up. He's got the fuckin' heart, the valve, this, that. He keeps fuckin' around what he's doin', this night air, and this and that, he'll kill himself.
Fritzy: Ah, they're hurtin me, ya know. If I want to stay in and enjoy myself with her, I can't even do it.
Zookie: Yeah.
Fritzy: 'Cause she's like, if I, "Well, come on let's go, let's do this, let's do that..." Alright, she's got that attitude.
Zookie: Yeah.
Fritzy: And she goes another way and I get, fuck it. Fuck it. Ya know?
Zookie: You get disgusted and...
Fritzy: Yeah, but, ya know.
Zookie: I know.
Fritzy: Fuckin' things.
Zookie: I know.
Fritzy: Ah, I don't know. I wished...
Zookie: What did you wind up eating? Anybody with you?
Fritzy: I ate. I made, I made, I stuffed some mushrooms today. I made somethin', forget it, I got recipes in my sleep, forget about it.
Zookie: Yeah?
Fritzy: Yeah. I took pork.
Zookie: Yeah.
Fritzy: Alright. And I mixed it with breadcrumbs and I took, uh, uh, pate, uh, a liver pate...
Zookie: Whattya mean, like pork? Chopped-up pork?
Fritzy: Yeah, ground pork.
Zookie: Like the sausage pork.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Zookie: Yeah.
Fritzy: Only it was chopped very thick, ya know, like, uh, and I mixed it with some breadcrumbs and I took some scallion and I took some, uh, bacon. Real good bacon. I chopped it up and I sautéed it and I, and I mixed it together and I took the mushroom stems, I sautéed them in and I turned around and mixed it up with the fresh meat, ya know?
Zookie: Yeah.
Fritzy: Then I, with the egg and different seasonings I put in. And then I made all the mushrooms. Now meantime I made a whole load, I made two big boxes.
Zookie: Yeah.
Fritzy: And I baked them and they were done. Half hour they were out.
Zookie: Un-huh.
Fritzy: Meantime, I had a lot of, uh, mix leftover. So I added some more, uh, pork and fixed it up. Some cheese on there, I put cheese in there, too, ya know?
Zookie: What, like a frittata?
Fritzy: Yeah. And I made like a frittata. I made meatballs. And I made all the leftover frittatas, I made.
Zookie: Oh, that sounds good.
Fritzy: And, I, we were eatin' a few this morning when I cooked. Everything was fine. I was gonna go by, to my mother-in-law's. Don't forget, six weeks I don't talk to her. Finally, this past week, she says, "You wanna come to my mother-in-law, my mother?" "Alright." Then this and that. Everything started to come and go along a little better.
Zookie: Yeah.
Fritzy: This fuckin' thing had to happen to me.
Zookie: Oh my God, Fritzy.
Fritzy: So I bought the turkey, I bought the ham. I said, bring your [UI]. I bought the cakes. I bought everything under the sun, I bought. Alright? And she was, we, my mother-in-law was bakin' this and doin' that, and, this fuckin' thing, this. Ah, so when she come in, she told me, I ate about eight of them meatballs right away. Ya know it, so fuckin'...
Zookie: I don't mean to laugh, Fritzy.
Fritzy: I know, I know.
Zookie: The nerves.
Fritzy: I know, I know.
Zookie: Oh my God.
Fritzy: So when you says to me I didn't eat, don't worry about it. I ate all fuckin' day here.
Zookie: All aggravation.
Fritzy: Yeah. So if I woulda went there, I'd a been tearin' at that turkey.
Zookie: [UI] Fritzy.
Fritzy: What?
Zookie: You shoulda went anyway.
Fritzy: No, no, no. I woulda had a, ya know.
Zookie: You show no guilt if you woulda went.
Fritzy: No guilt?
Zookie: Ya know what I mean?
Fritzy: Ya know what I told her?
Zookie: What.
Fritzy: I says, because she got very insulted because of Meade, botherin', talkin' with her and knowin' her and doing that. And she says, "Even my goombata, 30 years, he calls this house and calls me Gail. Ya know, that's a fuckin' hurt, ya know."
Zookie: Yeah.
Fritzy: So I says, "Look, he's trying to get her a job," I says.
Zookie: Yeah.
Fritzy: I wanna get her out of my fuckin' hair.
Zookie: Yeah.
Fritzy: That's what I says. What could I say? I'm dead. I'm dead every fuckin which way.