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.