- And you know what New York is worth today?
- Forty thousand million billion dollars.
- Correct. How did you know?
- Just a shot in the dark.

— Harry Secombe, Neddie Seagoon (Harry Secombe), Grytpype Thynne (Peter Sellers)

10 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 6, Sale of Manhattan classic radio program.

You can hear this line at 00:05:48 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- What were they?

- A piece of brown string, eleven pence in notes, a Mickey Mouse watch, remains of a small boiled chicken and a life-size statue of Sabrina.

- The very things I had in my pocket!

- Yes, it means that you are a direct descendant of the Red Indian who sold the land.

- What? You mean, my ancestors owned New York?

- Yes indeed yes!

- And you know what New York is worth today?

- Forty thousand million billion dollars.

- Correct. How did you know?

- Just a shot in the dark.

- Forty thousand million billion dollars? That money must be worth a fortune!

(Short crowd laughter)

- Well, to think that they sold all that for a piece of brown string, eleven pence in notes, a Mickey Mouse watch, remains of a small boiled chicken...

- Yes, but what you don't know is, that the man who bought New York in 1626 has since died.

- Yes, and furthermore, he died without any heirs.

- He died bald?

- Yes, but only from the waist up.

[...]

The Goon Show Sound Clip

The Goon Show RadioQuotes with sound clips from The Goon Show radio comedy programme produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960.

Actors: Peter Sellers (Bloodnok / Bluebottle/ Grytpype-Thynne), Spike Milligan (Eccles / Minnie Bannister), Harry Secombe (Neddie Seagoon)

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