DOCUMENT: Funny, Crime

A Frank & Fritzy Halloween

Here's a Halloween treat courtesy of "The Frank & Fritzy Show," the inaugural program on WMOB, The Smoking Gun's sister site.Here's a Halloween treat courtesy of "The Frank & Fritzy Show," the inaugural program on WMOB, The Smoking Gun's sister site. In this FBI wiretap, Frank "Frankie California" Condo gives fellow Mafia soldier Federico "Fritzy" Giovanelli an on-scene report from the raucous Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. The famous street party/drag queen extravaganza passed by Condo's lower Manhattan apartment, where the wiseguy apparently watched in wide-eyed wonder. We've provided the below transcript for your reading pleasure.

FRITZY: Federico "Fritzy" Giovanelli

FRANK: Frank "Frankie California" Condo UI: Unintelligible

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Fritzy: Hello?

Frank: Hello?

Fritzy: Yeah?

Frank: How are you, my man?

Fritzy: How are ya, how are ya?

Frank: Where are they? They're out?

Fritzy: No, yeah, yeah.

Frank: For Halloween, they went out?

Fritzy: My, uh, little girl went to a party.

Frank: I called up before, you were sleepin'.

Fritzy: Probably was.

Frank: Huh?

Fritzy: Yeah.

Frank: You shoulda saw the people down here.

Fritzy: Yeah?

Frank: There musta been two hundred fuckin' thousand.

Fritzy: That musta been funny.

Frank: [UI]

Fritzy: Yeah?

Frank: All police barriers up.

Fritzy: Mamma...

Frank: No parkin'.

Fritzy: Marone.

Frank: I mean the street here, elbow-to-elbow marchin'. If you fell down, they'd stampede ya'.

Fritzy: Marone.

Frank: The sidewalks, you couldn't walk.

Fritzy: Yeah?

Frank: I never saw a, costumes you never saw in all your life.

Fritzy: Eh.

Frank: One more beautiful than the other.

Fritzy: Yeah, huh?

Frank: Fags. Dressed like women, how beautiful.

Fritzy: Did ya hug any?

Frank: Oh, my God.