I have spoken to Kerry King about this and it is certainly a concern of his but the problem is that the crossover interest
(Slayer Fans/Snake Fans) is very limited, as is his and Slayer's mainstream appeal. That does not mean Kerry has ruled such a project out he just hasn't had the right one yet, and none of my ideas has been robust enough. Trust me I have spent 4 years looking for the crossover interest with our music site and it just isn't strong enough.

I know that Chad filmed an interview for USARK in Chicago and has offered his services numerous times on numerous projects. As far as Nicholas Cage, he has proven to be unreachable, at least to myself. Alice Cooper does not actually keep snakes and has limited interest in participating. I have tried numerous times to reach Slash but we keep missing each other at SXSW and other local gigs and he doesn't respond when I try my back channel contacts nor front channel, but he knows I am trying to reach out.

There are other celebs that do not want to participate for reasons of their own, but even if we got all of the ones I have named and a few I haven't we don't quite have enough people to remake "we are the world"

As far as the show part, your preachin to the choir, but they had a limited time budget and time frame to get it all together and I don't think they would have drawn as many of the general public to the talk without the show.

I would have done it as just a law seminar for 2 1/2 days but that wouldn't have covered expenses more than likely and wouldn't have drawn enough people on short notice. Even so I believe the NARBC ran the show at a loss.

I'd like to see something like I have described on an annual basis with workshops on how state laws work, how bills become law, how to fight at a state level, how to utilize social media strategies to manage a grass roots campaign, how to engage with the mainstream media, things of that nature. I'd like to see every reptile club send a representative so that it becomes a network of force multipliers across the national/international community, sharing data and strategies, making connections and partnerships, and each one spreading the word to hundreds of others.

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