Incoming Live Auction! Brace yourself for incoming temporal fluctuations, rogue time travelers, and conspicuous blue police boxes, because, coming up at 1:00pm PST, we’ll be running a Live Auction for The Turn of the Universe, a beautiful Doctor Who themed cross-stitch created and donated by Sarah Serinde.

First time tuning in for a live auction? Here’s what you need to know…

• You’ll need to create a Donor Account and you’ll need to link your Donor Account to your Twitch account in order to participate.
• Live Auctions are conducted in our Twitch chat.
• The live stream is on a delay! Keep an eye on chat, and for messages from BidBot, to keep up with the latest status of the live auction.

Books! Books! Reading and words and books oh my! Here’s a donation drive for a collection of great books to add to your bookshelf.

This set of three books from Legacy Books Press explores a variety of aspects of film, pop culture, and video games. This set includes…

• The Secret History of Star Wars by Michael Kaminski
• An Odyssey into Video Games and Pop Culture by Robert B. Marks
• Garwulf’s Corner: An Odyssey into Diablo and the World of the Video Game by Robert B. Marks

Donate $5.33 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 1:15pm PST.

Later on in today’s Alpha Flight shift, we’ll be talking about our Brave New Faves: musical selections from our on-shift team members. In honor of this, we wanted to kick off a Creative Challenge! We’re challenging the community to come up with cover art for our Alpha Flight musical mix-tape.

Email your creations to [email protected] with the subject line “Alpha Flight Mixtape.” Please include your submission as an attachment in .png or .jpg format. Please name the file, and include in your email, the name you’d like to go by should we show your submission on-air.

We’ll accept submissions until 5:00pm PST today. The winner will receive a Desert Bus for Hope T-Shirt and a DBloon!

For you Magic lovers who don’t have access to Japanese cards, we’ve got a great giveawa for you! This lot includes one copy of all 269 cards in the Magic: the Gathering Throne of Eldraine set, printed in Japanese.

If you want a shot at this set of beauties donate $6.29 or multiples thereof by 11:50am PST for a shot at winning this!

Time to check in on our Silent Auctions for today. These all end at 4pm PST!

First up is the Desert Bus Shift Clock that has been specially crafted to go for a full 24 hours, so you will always know what shift you’re in! This is over $1k and going!

Our second one for the morning is a detailed crocheted blanket based on the Legend Of Zelda: Wind Waker stained glass art. This is at over $2k but you’ve still got time!

Have you been hearing all about this cool game called Darkest Dungeon but haven’t played it yet? Would you like to play that game, give to charity, AND get a DBLOON?! Then get in on this giveaway for a game code provided by Red Hook Games!

Donate $7.01 or multiples thereof by 11:18am PST to try to win!

Don’t forget we’ve got a call in soon with the McElroy(s)!

If you want to submit a question for them, go onto Twitter and use the hashtag #DBMcElroy so we can pick some goodies for the interview!

We’ve got another giveaway for all of you lovelies! This is a circle scarf lovingly knitted and emblazened with the banners of our shifts. Donate $6.79 or multiples thereof by 9:30am PST for a chance at this!

A tradition now for 3 years, we welcome Jagasilk again for a tea ceremony. This set includes: an apprentice chawan (a ceramic bowl for preparing and drinking maccha), an apprentice chasen (a bamboo whisk for preparing maccha), a chasen’naoshi (a holder for the chasen), and a chashaku (a bamboo scoop). Also included is an electric kettle and scale, and some Jagasilk maccha.

So if you’d like to win this lot donate $6.24 or multiples thereof by 7:55am PST to get a chance at this beautiful starter set!

Another Zeta Shift has come and gone, but never fear, we are here to let you know what you missed!

It started off with Beej getting real friendly with the co-pilot’s chair:

Ian takes his leave for the evening, joining Alex and Beej for a rousing rendition of the Mazinger Z theme:

Zeta hit over 9k shift total, so everyone took their union-mandated 30 minute break:

Zeta took a moment to stretch it out:

Ben practiced his skills as a late-night radio DJ, welcoming us to Radio DBFH, Da Best Friggin’ House:

Dale arrived, and treated chat and the room to a reading from the Hobbit, along with Cam and Andre:

And we wrapped up by getting welcomed to Hell!

Remember, for the latest updates, stay tuned to desertbus.org. You can also catch up on the latest #DB2019 happenings around the web…

• Visit photos.desertbus.org for the latest photos.
• Visit youtube.com/user/DesertBusForHope for the latest video highlights from the Video Strike Team (VST).
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• And, of course, the live stream is always available at desertbus.org and twitch.tv/desertbus!