Thanks for all of the email feedback. It’s been fantastic. Even the “constructive” ones.

Day 2 felt miles better than Day 1, and hopefully Day 3 will see a similar increase. Familiarity is not Kimbo Slice waiting for you in your garage with a heavy brick and an ass-kicking agenda. Familiarity is your friend, and ours. As I sit here writing this at 1am I can’t wait for Wednesday’s show to start.

We secured some true golden gold tonight with TO and a few of his buddies. As long as Eric was able to get some decent audio, that could potentially be “don’t miss radio” during the show tomorrow.

We also have a new prank call to a sales guy to debut… and this one could be even better than the first one. By the way, Adam Jones from our sales dept was a great sport about the Fake Wade Phillips bit, and in general he’s just a super dude. We greatly appreciate him letting us throw a grenade at him for the good of our show, the economy and of course mankind.

We also have some early morning interviews scheduled with Gary Sinise (CSI NY/Forest Gump/Everything) and Lea Thompson (All the Right Moves/Some Kind of Wonderful/Everything)… we’ll go digging for gold in the am and bring back whatever magic we come up with.

Keep in mind that our first live remote on Live 105.3 is coming up this Friday and we’d love to turn it into something cool-cool and alright. We invite you — yes you — to come join us at Duke’s in Bedford. Start your Labor Day weekend in style by having a cold one with us at Dukes.

If you come out and see us, you can get lunch for two on selected items for $10.53 not including tax or drinks. Great food at a special Live 105.3 Ben and Skin price. Let’s pack Duke’s on Friday!! I’ll have some Coffee Nods CDs to give away to those interested in learning more about why I failed horribly in the music business.

Make plans now to join us on Friday. It’s on like Donkey Kong. Wait, what does that mean again?

Click the link below to immediately make your life better:

http://www.dukesoriginalroadhouse.com/events.html

The first day was a bit hectic as everything was new to us, but it was a hell of a good time nonetheless. Sure, I accidentally hung up on both Jason Terry and Josh Howard during a tragic 7-second phone disaster, but sometimes you have to show professional athletes that you mean business.

Outside of trying to learn the new system on the fly, I was really impressed by the phone activity at our new digs. At the sweet Ticket, I think we had somewhere between 3 and 5 phone lines in play, but Live 105.3 has a whopping 10 lines. It was amazing to throw something to the phones and see all 10 lines light up instantly. On Tuesday’s show, we’ll likely explore that animal in greater detail to see what callers might have up their sleeves.

I’ve been very impressed with the quality of calls that we’ve received thus far. Seems like there are more female listeners than I initially anticipated as well, which is fantastic. Overall, it seems like there is a dynamic listener base that is eager to participate in the show, which we absolutely welcome. Emails have been mostly positive too, so thank you. Obviously, this is a hater rich environment right now due to the significant routine change (change for haters is like chum for sharks), but that’s all good too. I encourage the haters (and anyone else in mid cities mode) to come out and meet us in person at our Live Broadcast from Dukes in Bedford this Friday, from 11a-3p.

Tomorrow morning, we start things off bright and early at 8am with a taped interview with Don Cheadle — which should appear on tomorrow’s show at some point. It is impossible not to love that dude. He is truly one of the great actors of our generation.

We also expect to discuss Pit Bull ownership and how exactly that topic relates to Mesquite… and damnit if this Dee Snider thing won’t go away… why did we do that interview again? Oh yeah, the Cooligan factor. Catch you at 11a tomorrow.

Hello internet consumers, and welcome to the Ben and Skin Show

Day 1 will be full of surprises. Especially for us as we haven’t planned anything yet - so we hope something really cool happens. We have some cool friends of B&S lined up to call in, but we’re too scared they’ll blow us off so we won’t name any names.

But there will be plenty of funny, good times and party favors. Check us out at 11AM on Monday morning.

Love you,

Skin