Fritzy: Hello?
Frank: Hello?
Fritzy: Hello, ho, ho. How are ya?
Frank: How are ya?
Fritzy: Alright.
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: Alright.
Frank: You alright?
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: Ya sure?
Fritzy: Yeah, I'm fine.
Frank: Where ya, in bed?
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: You gotta take it easy?
Fritzy: Well, I gotta rest up. I gotta rest up.
Frank: Ya really got sick, huh?
Fritzy: I got an enlarged heart.
Frank: Enlarged heart, huh?
Fritzy: Fuckin' thing. You believe this? [UI]
Frank: This what Romolo had?
Fritzy: That's what Romolo had.
Frank: Mannaggia.
Fritzy: [UI] to take the fuckin' high blood pressure pills, I always...
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: ...Ducked around and ducked around. He says that's what caused it. Ya know?
Frank: That's what caused it?
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: Not takin' the pills?
Fritzy: Not takin' the fuckin', ya got high blood pressure? Either you do the right thing or take the fuckin' pills. Ya know that?
Frank: You better start livin' right, pal. Huh?
Fritzy: Ah, how the fuck can ya? Ya know, live right, live right. How ya gonna live right?
Frank: What, you gotta...
Fritzy: To live on a farm, ya wanna live right.
Frank: [UI]
Fritzy: Huh?
Frank: Freddie's crazy.
Fritzy: I'm crazy, I'm fuckin' dyin'. Tell our friends they made me, I nearly died with that fuckin' Epsom salts. That was worse than the fuckin' blood pressure.
Frank: That cleaned ya out?
Fritzy: I died like a, I had a fuckin' headache, I vomited, I did everything with that stuff.
Frank: No kiddin'?
Fritzy: Mamma mi.
Frank: Did ya shit?
Fritzy: Yeah, but I got sick from it. I was sick anyhow, but it made me worse.
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: Sure.
Frank: The Epsom salts made ya worse?
Fritzy: Oh, my God. Forget about it. I told my doc, he says, "Who's the doctor tell ya to take that." I says, "A doctor, nice man," I says. [UI] I says, "A top doctor in his field." He says, "Yeah?" He says, "You fuckin' crazy," he told me.
Frank: He woulda killed ya.
Fritzy: Mamma mi.
Frank: It cleaned ya out, though?
Fritzy: Eh, ya shit and, well, ya suffer and ya, you do just as well with an enema, which I took later on, ya know?
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: Ya feel better?
Fritzy: I just took two fuckin' pills. I got a headache and, and a [UI], startin' all over again. One I hadda stop.
Frank: That's from the fuckin' blood pressure.
Fritzy: Nah, but I got the one pill for the blood pressure.
Frank: Did it go down?
Fritzy: It helped it. It came down [UI].
Frank: Drink a lot of water, Freddie.
Fritzy: Ah, that ain't, that's not, uh.
Frank: No, I'm sayin' drink a lot of water, a lot of fluids. Put a lot of fluids in your system.
Fritzy: And I gotta go...
Frank: Flush yourself.
Fritzy: I gotta go through a lot of tests, I gotta go through.
Frank: I know, but flush yourself out.
Fritzy: They're gonna, I'm gonna go through a renal test, kidney, and then I'm gonna go through the, uh, uh, carotid.
Frank: Uh-huh.
Fritzy: That's why he's givin' me this medicine to thin out the blood.
Frank: What's the carotid?
Fritzy: That's the artery that goes to the brain.
Frank: No kiddin'?
Fritzy: He says, "That's why maybe you're blackin' out." He says, "That, you know, the, the blood pressure shouldn't make you, uh, ya know." He says, "You get all symptoms, but uh, the fact that you're blackin' out," he says, "That'll be the carotid." He says...
Frank: The carotid to the brain, huh?
Fritzy: Yeah. That's the artery in the neck.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: Ya know? Remember when I was tellin' ya, goin' back a few years ago, I says, I was, thought I was gettin' a "zap" number? I would get a "zap" sound in my head?
Frank: Uh-huh.
Fritzy: That's it.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: That's three years ago.
Frank: Where's the wife, went to work?
Fritzy: Yeah. [Curses in Italian]. I hadda, I told her, "Quit."
Frank: You told her to quit? Why?
Fritzy: Well, I need someone to take care of me.
Frank: Aww.
Fritzy: Nah, let her go out. Fuck, she just started over there.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: I'll be alright.
Frank: How 'bout the, uh, goumada?
Fritzy: Our goumada says, "I love you."
Frank: [UI]
Fritzy: I love ya, I didn't see her, I don't know how many days.
Frank: Where is she now? She call ya? You speak to her?
Fritzy: How could she call me? I call her.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: Yeah. I told her, I says, "[UI] bye-bye." "Don't say that!" Whattya gonna? Hey, I'm gonna change my lifestyle, pal.
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: What is it gonna be like? Lemme hear.
Fritzy: Well, early to bed, early to rise.
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: To live like a farmer.
Frank: And no, no more aggravation?
Fritzy: Well, how, who's gonna stop that?
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: How ya gonna stop that?
Frank: Ya gotta try and stop it.
Fritzy: Well, ya know, I'm gonna try and get not involved, ya know what I mean?
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: I get less involved, [Italian], ya know, mind your own business?
Frank: Do what ya gotta do. Don't put ya, stretch yourself out.
Fritzy: That's right. You're right.
Frank: Don't stretch yourself.
Fritzy: I was thinkin' of you, I says, "My friend Frank, God bless 'em, he's nice and strong. He had a heart attack, he had his back operated on. He looks like a young boy."
Frank: I try my...
Fritzy: [In Italian, to your health]. Good for you. I was only thinkin' of you.
Frank: I don't make a lot of money, but, ya know.
Fritzy: Fuck the money.
Frank: That's right.
Fritzy: Or you're like that other guy that says, "So long as you got your health."
Frank: [UI]
Fritzy: [UI] He goes.
Frank: Bada-bum.
Fritzy: Ba-bum. Ba-bum. Whattya care about money?
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: "Ya gotta have [In Italian, health.]"
Frank: Yeah. Yeah. [In Italian, health.] Only the, you don't hear the poor guys say that, do ya?
Fritzy: Marone.
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: That's right.
Frank: [UI]
Fritzy: I'm thinkin', I'm layin' here, I say what the fuck am I gonna do? I, I, I say if I lay here another few, four, four, five more fuckin' days I'm out of business.
Frank: Nobody, nobody there to take care...
Fritzy: Nah, I take, I got, but ya know.
Frank: Nothin' like you bein' there.
Fritzy: You know. You're there, ya, you know. I says, "How fuckin' quick everything ends." You know that?
Frank: You hear from Joe Carpets?
Fritzy: Yeah, he called.
Frank: What'd he say?
Fritzy: Well, "I'll take ya to the doctor, I'll take ya here, ba-bing, ba-bum."
Frank: Sure. Sure. He loses you, forget about it.
Fritzy: Huh.
Frank: [UI] soup. Who's gonna take care of 'em like you do?
Fritzy: Eh.
Frank: They're all worried now. "I'll take ya here, I'll take ya there." Huh?
Fritzy: Eh. Well, thank God, that, hey, at least they're concerned. Thank God.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: Whattya gonna do?
Frank: What could I do for ya, anything pal?
Fritzy: Just your call enough is just made me happy and healthy. You laugh?
Frank: I miss ya.
Fritzy: I miss you, too. I love you.


