We’re… oh geez… less than 24 hours from the official start of Desert Bus for Hope 2022? And yet we’ve got even more surprises as we’re ready to announce even more guests for this year’s event!

Ken Steacy

Wednesday, November 16th
9:00am PST

He’s back… it’s Ken “Value Added” Steacy, calling in to chat this year with the morning crew on Dawnguard. Ken decided at age eleven to become a professional comic book artist, a dream he’s realized since 1974. Since then, he’s worked on a plethora of projects and received awards including an Eisner, an Inkpot, and an induction into the Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Hall of Fame.

Travis Eriksen

Wednesday, November 16th
8:00pm PST

Travis is the Executive Director of Child’s Play and the orchestrator of the Omegathon at PAX. Tapping his background teaching middle school math, he has helped Child’s Play move towards not only giving games and tech away but also to become a teaching resource in how to use games as an intentional part of therapy. He’ll be calling in to chat with the Night Watch crew on Wednesday night.

Don’t miss either of these call-ins… and don’t miss the official kickoff of Desert Bus for Hope 2022… which is… oh dear, very very soon!

🚌 Saturday, November 12th at 2:00pm PST 🚌
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Now if you don’t mind, we’re gonna go back to last minute panicking planning...

You know, the Desert Bus for Hope schedule just wouldn’t be complete without our guest call-ins. And, we’re happy to announce that our guest schedule is now live!

As with last year, we won’t be having any on-site guests, but we’re excited to have all these awesome people call in, chat with us, get into hijinks, and answer your questions throughout the event…

Coyote Wall & The Garages

Sunday, November 13th
8:00pm PST

Back for a third time, alt-rock musical collective The Garages are teaming up with the country-folk musician Coyote Wall to bring the house down again with another performance. Tune in live to check out their tunes, then check out their album from this year’s performance on Bandcamp!

Victoria Tran

Monday, November 14th
3:00pm PST

Returning guest Victoria Tran is the Community Director at Innersloth (creators of Among Us) and an organizer for Wholesome Games. She’s constantly exploring ways to create kinder game community spaces, so we hope she’ll feel right at home with the Desert Bus community.

SungWon Cho

Tuesday, November 15th
3:00pm PST

Returning guest SungWon Cho has a very to-the-point bio: “I’m a voice actor and do YouTube too.” We’ll add on to that… board game reviewer, podcaster, and all-around entertaining video creator.

Molly Lewis

Thursday, November 17th
4:00am PST

Though Zeta survivor and singer-songwriter-ukulelist Molly Lewis couldn’t join us for the entire run this year, she’ll be calling in to say hello and hang out Thursday morning. She writes humorous-yet-poignant songs about history, current events, popular culture, and occasionally herself.

Laser

Friday, November 18th
9:00am PST

Returning guest Laser will be calling in to chat with the Dawnguard crew on Friday morning. He’s a trans musician known for the Doubleclicks, his musical Teaching a Robot to Love, and his new project Laser the Boy. Laser is also an improviser, TTRPG streamer, and Kickstarter coach.

Hey Guys!

Nothing new Desert Bus wise to talk about today, instead I have a email from one Stephanie Collins who has put together a charity drive of their very own to help raise money to build a school in Cambodia. Here is her email that I recieved that should give you a good idea of what they are about.

Hey James,

We have been really inspired these last couple years by the story of Desert Bus For Hope. Not only are we big believers in charity, but we go to a “geek” school where a greater-than-average amount of a population knows about Penny Arcade, Loading Ready Run, and Desert Bus. It was right up our alley.

I hope you guys don’t mind, but we modeled a fundraiser similar to Desert Bus for Hope to raise money to build an elementary school in rural Cambodia. It’s called the Worst Video Game Ever Marathon and in order to do it, we had the Game Developers Club at our college create a game even worse than Desert Bus. You can read all about it here: http://www.rit.edu/sg/cambodianschools/video-game-marathon-fundraiser/

If you think the idea is as cool as we do, would you mind throwing a little something about it up on the Desert Bus for Hope blog? We were so psyched when we saw you guys mention the Battle Against Dysentery fundraiser – more people with the same idea! We could really use the help – right now our donations have us ending at around 6am on Saturday, and we’re afraid that no one will be awake to donate enough to get us to the point where people are awake to donate… does that make sense? Anyway, we’re not asking for money, just a little mention to get the word out there.

Thanks so much, for all you do!

Stephanie Collins
President, Students for Cambodian Schools at RIT

I just want to say thanks to Stephanie for the kind words, and big ups to them for taking charge and making something happen. I want to wish their entire team good luck, I know I will be checking them out during their event and I hope everyone else will do the same! Once again you can find the site HERE.