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What about New York, eh? When do I get it? When do I, hey hey hey, my heritage, when do I get it, ha ha ha hmm hmm?

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

You can hear this line at 00:12:35 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- What Neddie didn't know was an American company, the makers of Filth Muck, the detergent with the lead bubbles, had offered a prize of twenty dollars to the first idiot to cross the Atlantic in a zinc bath dressed as a Red Indian.

- As I lay in hospital recovering from my trip, the phone rang... (Foghorn)... In American.

- Hello, Grytpype?

- Yes. But how did you know it was me before I spoke?

- Well, you're so tall...

- So I am. But you too can be tall. Buy my book, How to be Three Inches Taller.

- Then what?

- Stand on it.

- Never mind those subtle jokes.

- What about New York, eh? When do I get it? When do I, hey hey hey, my heritage, when do I get it, ha ha ha hmm hmm?

- Yes, well you see there's been a bit of a broohaha, Neddie.

- What what what what what what what what?

- Well, America, it appears, won't give up New York to anybody without a legal tussle.

- But I haven't got a legal tussle, my folks were poor!

- Never mind, the woods are full of them. But first, I must get you an astute lawyer.

- Anyway, meantime you must disguise yourself as a beaver, swim cautiously up the Hudson, at all times keeping in touch by telephone.

- Right!

[...]

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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