Fritzy: Hello?
Frank: Hello, I'm, it's about time you're home.
Fritzy: Yeah, whattya mean, it's about time I'm home? I've been home all the time.
Frank: [Aside to Helen, his gal] Ya hear 'em?
Fritzy: Whattya doin'? Where were you yesterday?
Frank: Puttin' up the berry trees now?
Fritzy: Yeah, well, no Tuesday.
Frank: All berries around, huh?
Fritzy: Yeah, that's right.
Frank: And when you walk you pick, huh?
Fritzy: Well, I, ya know, they'll get, they'll grow big and then I could climb a little bit.
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: Yeah. Then I could climb high.
Frank: [Aside] All berries around his house, they could eat.
Fritzy: Well, not yet. They, they're, the bloom won't come until the spring.
Frank: How do you feel, pal?
Fritzy: Very good.
Frank: I got back. I just missed ya.
Fritzy: I got a B-12 shot yesterday and...
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: ...it's startin' to pick me up. It gave me a nice boost.
Frank: No kiddin'?
Fritzy: Yeah. Gave me a big help.
Frank: [UI]
Fritzy: [UI] Yeah?
Frank: [Aside] Helen, give me my B-12 over there, by the way. Hurry up. That just remind me, I have a very small bottle there.
Fritzy: Yeah, but you, you're takin' a B-12 from the bottle. I got a syringe, I got.
Frank: I got the syringe here. Helen, tell 'em what I got. I got everything.
Fritzy: You got the syringe?
Frank: I got a B-12 over here.
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: It's 1000 milligrams.
Fritzy: Yeah, but that ain't enough.
Frank: It goes under the tongue.
Fritzy: Oh, yeah?
Frank: It's a, it's, it's a little midget.
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: It's very, very powerful.
Fritzy: Oh. Do you get a rise? I mean do you, ya feel yourself, the power come right away?
Frank: Power?
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: Whattya think this? [UI] power? I got my woman here, she's worn out. [UI] She knows it, too. She's too old for me.
Fritzy: Eh, marone a mi.
Frank: Watch, as soon as they hit, uh, 38, they're goin' up to 40...
Fritzy: Marone, get rid of 'em, huh?
Frank: Yeah, I gotta put this under my tongue now, see?
Fritzy: Yeah? Mamma mi. The powerhouse.
Frank: She knows.
Fritzy: Where were you yesterday? I was down there.
Frank: My mother's, I went.
Fritzy: Yeah, he said that. He said, "He musta went to see his mother." Ya know?
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: Eh, we were there for a few hours.
Frank: Yeah, I went to see her.
Fritzy: Yeah, how is she?
Frank: Alright.
Fritzy: She's good, she's, I mean she's bein' stabilized?
Frank: Yeah, ya know, she's struggling along and this and that there.
Fritzy: But, she understands, or what?
Frank: No, don't understand.
Fritzy: She don't understand. Eh.
Frank: No.
Fritzy: Eh.
Frank: Don't understand.
Fritzy: Ehh.
Frank: How do you feel, alright?
Fritzy: I'm tellin' ya, I'm comin' along nice.
Frank: [UI]
Fritzy: I'm takin' the, I got the new medication, ya know? But, the bottom number's my trouble. But that bottom number, God damn it.
Frank: What's the matter?
Fritzy: Well, I'm 120 over 105.
Frank: The bottom is good, 120 is good.
Fritzy: The top one is good. The top one is good. That's down...
Frank: You're 120 over what?
Fritzy: I'm 120 over 105, then it goes down to 97. I gotta walk.
Frank: No. If you're 120, say you're 120 over 80, that's...
Fritzy: That's, that, hey, that, that...
Frank: That's what I am, 120 over 80...
Fritzy: Ah, you're nor, you're great. You got good blood pressure.
Frank: One twenty over 80, sometimes...
Fritzy: I got, my heart labors. See, my heart, my heart, that's the one that's gotta, the beat between.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: See, the beat between to push the blood. Yours is good, there's a 40, 40 point span.
Frank: Uh-huh.
Fritzy: One twenty over 80 is great. Mine, it's too close together.
Frank: Uh-huh.
Fritzy: See. So, I gotta get the second one down. That's gonna take a lot of work, but I gotta do it when I'm strong, not when I'm laboring doing...
Frank: Soon as you get the weight off ya...
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: It'll be another [UI], that'll tell...
Fritzy: That'll come down another 10...
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: ...10, 15, 20.
Frank: [UI]
Fritzy: So, I, I'm down 20 pounds. Ten more pounds, when I get that, and then I gotta constantly exercise. I gotta walk a lot. You see what you got over there?
Frank: Uh-huh.
Fritzy: You don't drive. You walk up, you walk down. You up, you're down, you're walkin' all the time.
Frank: I'm walkin', yeah.
Fritzy: You got the greatest thing goin'. I'm never walkin'.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: I drive for two hours to get somewhere. I finally get out, I come there.
Frank: You walk...
Fritzy: I'm tired from drivin', I'm sitting.
Frank: Mmm.
Fritzy: You follow?
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: That's been my God damn trouble. I just...
Frank: [UI] exercise.
Fritzy: I gotta just, get, get rid of the car.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: I gotta walk.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: I gotta walk to and from, and that's it.
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Fritzy: Three, four more weeks I'll be down another 10 pounds, my God.
Frank: That's it. Take it easy, not fast.
Fritzy: No, no, now I'm goin' easy. I'm 197.
Frank: Good. Now, nice and easy.
Fritzy: So now, I'll, I'll break the 90 and I'll go to 189.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: And then nice and easy, down the line I go and I'll try to grab a pound, a half a pound at a time.
Frank: Yeah, nice and slow.
Fritzy: Slow. But once I got all that off, when I'm in the...
Frank: One ninety would be good for you.
Fritzy: One ninety.
Frank: Right?
Fritzy: One ninety's better than 220.
Frank: Right. What was your weight before? What were ya...
Fritzy: Two seventeen, 218.
Frank: No, what was your normal weight when I first met you?
Fritzy: One eighty three.
Frank: One eighty three.
Fritzy: That was my weight.
Frank: Well, 185 is good.
Fritzy: Yeah, but, ya know.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: The age is there now.
Frank: I know. But, you, ya, ya, your skin is good, though.
Fritzy: Oh, yeah. Forget about it, I look like a young buck.
Frank: Ya haven't got the chicken neck.
Fritzy: I ain't got the chicken neck. See, I'm losin' weight. No neck, I keep comin' in, no chicken.
Frank: I went to see Quiet Dom yesterday, too, ya know?
Fritzy: Yeah? How is, how is he? He's alright?
Frank: He looked like Emmett the Clown.
Fritzy: Yeah? What was he doin'?
Frank: He got the pair of suspenders on, and old pants...
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: I says, "Look at him."
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: "He never dresses up."
Fritzy: Yeah? Emmett the Clown.
Frank: You should see 'em with the suit and the tie.
Fritzy: Emmett Kelly.
Frank: Emmett Kelly.
Fritzy: And if he has a few scotches his nose gets red.
Frank: Marone.
Fritzy: He don't have to put the rouge on.
Frank: He's all wrinkled up. I says, "What happened to you? You're shrinkin', your head is gettin' like a little, uh, like those little dolls with the wrinkles."
Fritzy: The age is comin'.
Frank: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fritzy: The age. You, you're the only guy withstanding age down there.
Frank: He's, he's got [Italian] ya know?
Fritzy: Yeah, huh?
Frank: The, the little bird is out flyin', ya know?
Fritzy: Marone.
Frank: [UI] that's what it is. He sits and he just, he's like eatin' himself out.
Fritzy: Well, I got news for ya.
Frank: That's his only love, he says.
Fritzy: I got news for ya. That's what happens, that's how, and that's no good 'cause you get sick. You know, right now...
Frank: ...my baby over here.
Fritzy: Good for you.
Frank: She knows it. Well, I gotta get another spring chicken. I'm...
Fritzy: [Aside to Carol, his wife] Well, we gotta take that chicken out, we'll put. Wait, I got chicken. Talkin' about chickens. We're gonna put them under the grill.
Frank: Put, uh, Carol on.
Fritzy: Take the whole pan. Onto the pan. Yeah, wait a minute. Alright, here, I'm gonna give you Carol. Wait.
Frank: Okay.
Fritzy: I'll take care of it.
Frank: I'll see ya, uh, Tuesday.
Fritzy: Okay. Here, hang on, bye-bye.