Fritzy: I got up 6 o'clock this mornin', I got on the bike.
Frank: Mmm. Where's the wife now?
Fritzy: She's inside.
Frank: Everything alright?
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: She's on the phone or what?
Fritzy: No.
Frank: No.
Fritzy: No. No.
Frank: My, my girl, I hadn't see her in three years, she's back. Marone a mi, wait'll you see her.
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: From Italy. [In Italian, she's an Italian.]
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: Marone a mi.
Fritzy: [In Italian, throw the other one out now.]
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: [In Italian, now you've got to tell the other one she has to go.] Alright. Alright. "Bonjour, monsieur."
Frank: Marone, she guzzled me up last night.
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: She left the bones.
Fritzy: Mmm.
Frank: Marone, these Italian girls, what lovers they are.
Fritzy: Yeah, I always told you that.
Frank: I was drinkin'...I was drinkin' champagne last night.
Fritzy: Yeah? [In Italian, Where?]
Frank: In Bruce's.
Fritzy: Yeah? Yeah? What time did you go there?
Frank: About 10 o'clock. Eight o'clock she come looking for me.
Fritzy: I was expecting a call from you. I says...I went upstairs to bed at 9:30. I says, "If he call..." I figured the other guy say, "Call up, see what the [UI]," you know?
Frank: She came looking for me.
Fritzy: He come looking for ya?
Frank: Marone.
Fritzy: Yeah? He found ya?
Frank: I didn't see her in two years.
Fritzy: But did he found ya'?
Frank: She came to the joint.
Fritzy: No, no. I'm sayin' he, he came looking for you, or what?
Frank: No, he didn't come looking for me...
Fritzy: No?
Frank: He was busy with the other one there. She's back.
Fritzy: Oh yeah?
Frank: [UI] that's a, that's a...
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: "Love is in the air..."
Fritzy: That's the best thing. Hey, if he wasn't busy there, you couldn't a been over there. So you better keep quiet.
Frank: "Love is a Many Splendored..." He's gotta keep his mouth shut now. He can't make fun and say nothin'.
Fritzy: That's right.
Frank: You know?
Fritzy: That's right.
Frank: He can't say two words.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: Marone, she's kissin' me in the place. "Ooh, ma, I love you, oh..." I says...
Fritzy: I was gonna call you.
Frank: "You took this long to find me?"
Fritzy: I was gonna call you an hour ago. Then I says, "Well, I'll wait." Then I got on the bike. I got into this goddamn, uh, blood pressure. [UI] on my armband now. Wait, I'm gonna pump it up now. C'mere, Carol, pump this. Now we see what we got now. Now that I, you know, I just got off the machine, everything was jumping around. Let's see what it reads now.
Frank: Well, naturally you're gonna be high. No?
Fritzy: Oh. This girl makes me more nervous when she takes my blood pressure.
Frank: Shh. Don't argue with her, leave her alone.
Fritzy: Lemme see. 141, 39, 34, 28...
Frank: His blood pressure...
Fritzy: Yeah? 119, 118. 118!
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: 118, the top one.
Frank: 118.
Fritzy: Error. Error. Error. Hold it, no good.
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: Error.
Frank: No good?
Fritzy: Pay attention here, not there, Carol. Carol. I, I do better alone.
Frank: Hey, don't get mad. I can see the way you talk. You do better alone. Is that the way you talk to her? Hey, listen.
Fritzy: She's supposed to be watchin' here, she's watchin' what her, what her son is doin'.
Frank: Did you here about Babe Ruth?
Fritzy: What happened?
Frank: Who do you think was the best ballplayer?
Fritzy: Who?
Frank: I'm readin' about Babe Ruth here.
Fritzy: Go ahead.
Frank: Listen to this here. "Fifty years ago, Babe Ruth."
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: "They say, some say Ty Cobb was the greatest. Some say Willie Mays."
Fritzy: Most, most hits ever.
Frank: "And Mickey Mantle didn't reach his pinnacle because of his legs."
Fritzy: Uh-huh.
Frank: "Babe Ruth was an all-around ballplayer."
Fritzy: Go ahead.
Frank: "He could hit and he could field."
Fritzy: He could pitch.
[WMOB piano interlude]
Frank: She grabbed my arms last night...
Fritzy: What do you weigh?
Frank: Mmm, and she told me Italian, "What force." She says, and, and "What a body." She had my waist, you know, she had her arm around...
Fritzy: Lemme ask you something. [In Italian, She's Italian?]
Frank: Yeah, she's from Rome.
Fritzy: Ooh. Mamma mi, yeah?
Frank: She talks to me.
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: "The lips," she told me.
Fritzy: Tu parli l'Italiano? Frankie, you talk Italian?
Frank: No, I can't talk Italian. I go, "Hey, where ya been?"
Fritzy: Yeah? Yeah?
Frank: She speaks English now.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: Years ago she couldn't talk English. We couldn't communicate.
Fritzy: Yeah, but now you're communicatin', huh?
Frank: Now she talks to me now.
Fritzy: I think I remember her.
Frank: Tinzani (phonetic spelling).
Fritzy: Did I meet her?
Frank: Tinzani, from the Bocconcino.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: [UI] Umberto what he did to her, that son of a bitch.
Fritzy: I remember that one. She used to be there in the beginning there, right?
Frank: You know what this son-of-a-bitch told her?
Fritzy: Wha'?
Frank: "Don't bother with him, he's bad. You gotta watch out for him."
Fritzy: Now you see, now you know.
Frank: I says, "You gotta be kiddin'."
Fritzy: You gotta be kiddin'? Everything I said...
Frank: [UI]
Fritzy: Everything I said is coming true.
Frank: When she came from Italy, I said, "Who is this beautiful girl?"
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: "Oh," he says, "This is my brother's, uh, friend's family."
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: "This is a virgin."
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: So he took her to his apartment.
Fritzy: She was lapping her cunt, probably.
Frank: No. Listen what happen. She says, "I woke up. He wanted to get in my bed."
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: "I wouldn't let him in." He threw her out of the house.
Fritzy: Alright.
Frank: You imagine this son of a bitch?
Fritzy: Okay.
Frank: Then I says, "What happened to Tinzani?" Then I saw her a couple of months later and we got together. And then she got married to some guy and she broke up with him, and this and that.
Fritzy: And that's it.
Frank: "I let three years go by without you," she says.
Fritzy: Ooh, mamma mi.
Frank: "I wanted you so much, you have no idea."
Fritzy: Listen.
Frank: ...she was huggin' me and kissin'...
Fritzy: How you gonna hide her?
Frank: Uh.
Fritzy: Huh?
Frank: Where's Carol, is she hidin'?
Fritzy: Yeah, I don't know where.
Frank: She might have one of these phones...
Fritzy: Yeah, I know, I know.
Frank: She's not there, huh?
Fritzy: [UI]
Frank: ...on the other end.
Fritzy: Yeah, who the hell knows?
Frank: You know? Does the phone, does the phone sound loud over there?
Fritzy: No. Nah.
Frank: When you pick up the other end, the phone, you hear me loud, right?
Fritzy: Yeah. Yeah.
Frank: 'Cause she might cover the thing. So call her, see where she is.
Fritzy: No, no, I got rid of her just now...why should I call her?
Frank: Why'd you get rid of her?
Fritzy: She was getting' me nervous with this fuckin' blood pressure thing.
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: A fuckin' pain in the ass.
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: She is, believe me. Some fuckin' days [UI] one day [UI] it's workin' out.
Frank: And whattya think of Babe Ruth? And do you know he was a, a fast baserunner, too?
Fritzy: Well, whattya think they got Baby Ruth bars for? Huh? Because he was the greatest ballplayer that ever lived. What are you just tellin' me something?
Frank: He led the league in home runs.
Fritzy: Right. He led the league in a lot of things. But the only thing he, he didn't, like...all, all-time, uh, hitting, uh, champ was Ty Cobb. Now...
Frank: He won more than 20 games...
Fritzy: But do you know you witnessed a, a...
Frank: He won 20 games a season.