Frank: Marone a mi.

Fritzy: Marone.

Frank: Now, you know what happened with this guy?

Fritzy: Yeah. He started fightin' 'em.

Frank: I told Helen.

Fritzy: Yeah.

Frank: I read the story about him.

Fritzy: Yeah, Jimmy Breslin had, had somethin', but I didn't read.

Frank: He comes from Avenue A and D.

Fritzy: Yeah.

Frank: And he was a tough geezer in his day. He looked like he has this, a broken nose, too.

Fritzy: Yeah, yeah, huh?

Frank: His nephew went to work for him.

Fritzy: So, in other words, he must've started...

Frank: He worked 18 hours a day.

Fritzy: He must've started rantin' and ravin' with them.

Frank: He says, "Unc," he says, "you wanna give me some money for overtime?"

Fritzy: Yeah.

Frank: He says, "You just missed my balls." [UI] his balls. "Overtime?" He's a generous guy but a tough geezer.

Fritzy: Uh-huh. He says...

Frank: He invented the Roto-Broil.

Fritzy: Yeah, huh?

Frank: He's a millionaire.

Fritzy: Yeah, yeah.

Frank: So listen to me.

Fritzy: Yeah.

Frank: He's a millionaire and he still lives in the old East Village.

Fritzy: Yeah.

Frank: But he's in a big house on the corner, there. He's got a driveway. It's a condominium now. But he never left, like he could be on Park Avenue. He still lives where he came from, you know what I mean?

Fritzy: Yeah, yeah.

Frank: You think he'd buy a home, like, in Monaco? He bought one in Long Branch.

Fritzy: Well, he loved that.

Frank: He's in Long Branch.

Fritzy: Yeah.

Frank: You know what he's not, I hear he's not a fancy dude. His kids'll wind up with all his money.

Fritzy: That's what happens. I think they're glad they threw him overboard.

Frank: I figure this guy, when they went to him, he don't hear too good, he must, "What the hell do youse want?" And he hit and he swung the cane at them.

Fritzy: Marone.

Frank: That's what happened.

Fritzy: Probably did. Probably...

Frank: What were they gonna shoot this guy for?

Fritzy: Mannaggia.

Frank: They shot him in the head then threw him overboard. He musta went after them with the cane.

Fritzy: Sure he went after them.

Frank: Huh?

Fritzy: He'd a, guaranteed.

Frank: 'Cause the nephew said he was a tough son-of-a bitch. He didn't take shit off nobody. And he came from all the way down there, Avenue A and D, down in that neighborhood.

Fritzy: Yeah, must've been a real tough Jew.

Frank: He had a hardware store.

Fritzy: Well, yeah, sure. Yeah, then he invented this here thing, the brothers, him and the brother.

Frank: Yeah.

Fritzy: I think. And they got off.

Frank: Right, Freddie?

Fritzy: Yeah, let, lemme tell ya somethin'. I think we better get together. You know who was a good inventor?

Frank: Who?

Fritzy: Fat Dom. He was always inventin'.

Frank: Yeah.

Fritzy: He would've sat in his laboratory, he would've invented. You know, I betcha he woulda become a billionaire.

Frank: You know who was good?

Fritzy: Who's that?

Frank: His uncle down in New Orleans.

Fritzy: He was good.

Frank: The old man who died?

Fritzy: Yeah.

Frank: Fritzy?

Fritzy: Uh-huh?

Frank: I saw paintings.

Fritzy: Yeah.

Frank: That he has a machine, that he makes the paintings of the originals. And you look at his paintings, I says to the, the son, I says, "Why don't you put these in a museum?"

Fritzy: Yeah.

Frank: He says, "I can't. They're counterfeit." Counterfeit everything, license plates.

Fritzy: No kiddin'?

Frank: He'd counterfeit the, the tags.

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