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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (3607)	8/22/2002 7:28:40 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Respond to of 12465

I'm quite jealous of Mikey. FBN required a lot of work — planning, writing, editing and review to be the world's most ridiculous corporate team effort. Sylver just — "does it" — off-the-cuff, in seconds. What a natural! He should've been running WCOM.

To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (3607)	8/22/2002 7:57:52 PM
From: heronwater	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12465

I love those amazing Amazon Indians. National Geographic should do a story about them. ;-) You know the old saying about truth being stranger than fiction? ragingbull.lycos.com Q. -- where do the gems come from? A. I got them in Brazil when I was in Brazil. Got them for free. Q. I'm sorry? You got the gems for free? A. Oh yeah. Q. Why don't you explain that? A. Well, let's see. Dr Loricchio and I were in Paradonta and we went to these guys and then we were looking at gems, beautiful gems, beautiful. They make them there. Beautiful, just beautiful. and then we were looking at some amethysts. I mean they brought up cases -- Q. Can you keep this story short? A. Oh, okay. Well, basically they brought in cases and then we wanted to have some for samples, okay. For samples, so we picked out a few gems, and then he asked us if I wanted to buy those gems. So he gave us those gems and they were like 700 bucks. But then we were talking about Abracel and this and that and other things, and then the guy walks back in with this suitcase full of gems and he says, "With my compliments." Absolutely fantastic. I mean just hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them. Q. Would you say about how much did the suitcase weigh? A. Oh, probably almost 250, 300 pounds. Huge. And I had to put it in like two and a half suitcases. Huge. ragingbull.lycos.com Q. Why was Mr Kricfalusi selling gems? A. To bring money into the company. He sold everything. He sold Phytogenics. He sold stock. He sold teas. He sold everything. He tried to sell rare earth. I think he sold some rare earth. Q. What is rare earth? A. Rare earth is stuf that -- for instance let's -- it's a mineral that is very rare and the -- for instance if you took some rare earth like this piece of dirt and it weighs very light. Well, first of all all rare earth would weigh less it would be like a hundred pounds for this amount. Q. Why is it rare? A. Because it has unique properties and it's semi-radioactive and it's used in the production of like boninium, high precious steels, and it goes for like $10,000 -- Q. How did Amazon get into the business of selling rare earth? A. We got rare earth for free in Brazil. Q. Was the rare earth shipped to your office prior to selling it to customers? A. I brought it back. Q. Did you ever sell rare earth -- A. I think we did. Q. -- from Manaus? A. From here. Q. You only sold it from your offices here in Las Vegas? A. Yeah. We sold some rare earth, but it's stuff I still have some. You can look, when you come I'll show you. You can't lift up the bag it's so heavy.