What's in a name?

On Wednesday I was invited to be a guest on the Alan Stock radio show here in Vegas to discuss the proposed banning of the dreaded "M" word that's Midget to all you people out of the know.



If you're not familiar with what's going on in the news I'll give you a recap. NBC aired a episode of Celebrity, I use the term Celebrity loosely, Apprentice where they were throwing the "M" word around like it was going out of style.



A few Little People (appropriate term btw) got up in arms about the episode and started a letter writing campaign to NBC as well as the Federal Communications Commission.



Alan Stock, much like most of you giants out there, didn't see what the big deal was about the word. His Board Op, Nick Steele, explained that the "m" word was just as bad a to a little person as the "n" word was for black people.



Alan was intrigued by this and Nick told him he knew a real live LP (that's me) and said that he would be willing to come on air and school the thousands of uninformed people in Vegas.



So I went on Wednesday morning to talk about the history and try to shed some light on a very sensitive subject. I'm sad to say that I wasn't as prepared as i like but I thought I Championed the cause well.



Of course there were some people that didn't understand why the term was frowned upon and thought that "we" were being over sensitive and what about free speech and all that stuff?!?

But a journey of 1,000 miles begins with one step. So that was me stepping =)