Stanley is on his way home after a night out.

Well, I was out having a regular night in Manhattan, and, and on my way home on the subway, I actually started talking to this girl, and she was lovely, and we both got off at the same stop.

And, uh, a- and after we left, I said, "Do you mind, just wait a moment while I go in this deli to try to get my favorite chocolate chip cookies?" And she didn't mind, uh, but they didn't have them, so she says, "Well, come walk over towards where I live.

Maybe they have them there." Um, so we walked further towards very close to where she lived and found an open supermarket where we bought, uh, I bought the cookies for myself.

She preferred a different brand, so she got her own bag of cookies.

And then, um, I walked her to her building, said good night.

She went up the stairs, and I was feeling great.

The kidnappers withdrew Stanley's money from an ATM.

Yeah.

The Hudson River here was absolutely dead, and the Riverkeeper under Bobby Kennedy, um, uh, well, now under Bobby Kennedy, they started waging little fights against polluters that were just dumping all kinds of stuff in the Hudson.

They have succeeded now in, together with the new federal laws and also federal law enforcement, they have succeeded in cleaning up the Hudson to the point that it is one of the richest, uh, well, probably the richest, uh, water body in terms of, uh, of, of, of sea life, uh, river life, uh, which becomes sea life at, down at the estuary, um, anywhere in the Northeast.

Uh, so there's been huge progress.

The problem is, is that in some other ways we're in trouble.

I mean, one of the things that, and I worked on some Ocean Dumping Act stuff when I was at the US Attorney's.

One of the things that bothers me the most is how much we've overfished, uh, so that, you know, the notion that, you know, that our kids are gonna be able to eat salmon that they can grab out of the ocean, I mean, it's, it's just getting more and more difficult.

You apparently are now involved with, uh, some sort of lawsuit, uh, uh, against a company called Keyspan or something like that?