Here on Desert Bus, we frequently encourage you to take care of others. But fun fact: did you know that you can (and should) also take care of yourself? This merch pack from Take This hopes to inspire you to do just that with a goodie collection from a fellow non-profit that aims to support mental health within the gaming community. It may dangerous to go alone, but you're not alone. Take this merch!

Donate $6.44 (or multiples thereof) before 11:15pm for a chance to win!

Fangamer brings us fabulous Desert Bus shirts, but if you like video games, they can bring you plenty of other fabulous stuff too. The store launched in 2008, and ever since then they have been adding collections for video games you were sure nobody else but you was that deeply in love with. Good news, gamers: Fangamer is as deeply in love with your favorite video games as you are. Go find your favorite new shirt, plush, or tea cup (no really)! Be sure to tell 'em "thanks for supporting Desert Bus!" while you're there.

Quick, James is asleep! Let's give away his stuff. 😈

James spent 2023 on an exhaustive tour of all four MagicCons, collecting goodies at every stop, and ultimately assembled this prize we call "James Went to All the MagicCons and Hosted 6 PPRs in 2023 Just So He Could Build This Prize Pack." By the time you finish saying the name of this prize, you'll be as tired as James was after all that travel. But you will also feel an insatiable hunger, a ravenous desire, an all-consuming need to take his stuff.

Donate $11.18 (or multiples thereof) before 8:45pm PT for a chance to take home all of James's stuff!

Kicking off the silent auction party for Desert Bus 2023, we have a Mushroom Witch Hat Trio and a collection of Watercolor Magic Tokens. Be the token-bearing card witch you want to see in the world by placing a bid on one or both!

These auctions will end at 2am PT.

Mushroom Witch Hat Trio

Watercolor Magic Tokens

You do your best to raise your dice right, you know? You enter a giveaway to get them fine, lathe-turned wooden accessories like a beautiful sycamore dice tray with a flocked bottom to soften their landing. They get a nice home in a dice tube made of purpleheart wood and closed securely with magnets. Heck, you even socialize them with a beautiful matching set of pen and mechanical pencil!

And then they roll 1s, and 2s, and more 1s again. But still, you love them enough to try and give them a good home by entering this giveaway for the Wood-Turned TTRPG Accessory Set. Donate $8.57 (or multiples thereof) before 7:15pm PT for a chance to surround your ungrateful dice-children with luxury!

Look, neither of us wants our naked human bodies just walking around being human and/or naked. So let's make a trade. You draw the fursona of any Desert Bus shift (or several of them). If your fursona is our favorite, then we send you a Unisex 2023 Desert Bus shirt to clothe your body. Deal? Okay, let's get on it.

But there are ground rules! We're looking for the fursona of the shift if that shift were a singular, conscious entity. No individual performers, please! We don't fursona without permission.

Send your fursona to contests@desertbus.org with the subject line "Shift Fursona" before 10:30pm PT. Please submit your entry as one PNG or JPG. Also, please be sure to include the name you'd like to go by (and your pronouns if you'd like to do so) should we show your submission on-air and on the blog.

We would't be Desert Bus without Loading Ready Run.  In 2003 Graham Stark and Paul Saunders founded Loading Ready Run.  In 2007 they decided to do a Charity Drive featuring the game Desert Bus and the rest is history.

Since then the members of Loading Ready Run have taken part in Desert Bus as organizers, managers, entertainers, and everything else in between.  

Thank you Loading Ready Run for all you have done and all you will do for Desert Bus for Hope.

Do you want to an uncut sheet of Innistrad? Everyone wants an uncut sheet of Innistrad.  You can win an uncut sheet of Innistrad today by donating $8.14 or multiples there of between now and 5:25 PM PST.

Thanks to the generosity of Teller, we have our first giveaway.  Teller has a graciously donated 2 tickets to the Penn and Teller in Las Vegas and a 2 night stay at the Rio All Suites hotel.

To enter donate $7.11 or multiples thereof ($14.22, $21.33, $28.33).  This giveaway will run until 3:45 PM PST

Our first call in this year is none other than Teller.

Teller will be calling in at 3:00 PM PST

Teller is one half of the world-famous American magicians and entertainment duo Penn and Teller. The two have performed together since the late 1970s, and are noted for their ongoing act that combines elements of comedy with magic. More importantly (to us, at least), they are a BIG part of how Desert Bus For Hope came to be. Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors for the Sega CD contains the Desert Bus mini game, without which Desert Bus literally would not exist!