And beyond me being super strong, Ashton did a hand stand! Emily got slightly tangled up… she’s fine, promise! Would I be laughing otherwise? And finally we all came together for a cute group photo. See y’all tomorrow!

Get yourself a photographer who captures your raw strength like @kolin.me does, and friend who believes you can actually balance a heavy ass chair with one finger like Liz. @desertbus.org is a strange place y’all.

Ok. Next year let’s start @desertbus.org on Thursday and take the Tuesday in the middle off. I’m sleepy. 😴

GIMME YOUR LOCAL GOOD NEWS STORIES!

1H20M UNTIL @desertbus.org! We've had a BUNCH of $5 donations before we started, let's see how many more we can get! Head over to desertbus.org and throw $5 in the pot if you can :D

Today at 3:00PM we kick off the 19th @desertbus.org. But I'm already on Dawnguard time and 3:00PM is 8 hours away. Plus, if I go to the office now I'll just be sitting alone in the dark. So why not Punch-A-Chunk? twitch.tv/james_lrr

In an effort to expand on James's annual thing, I will match the next $500 in donations made through desertbus.org/2025/ The total is currently at $9039.

Ok. Holy shit. Plur1bus is fantastic. This is the kind of show that will either execute perfectly, or fall flat on its face. But that’s always where the really great shows start. I’ve got high hopes with Vince Gilligan at the helm.

Oh neat, here’s the actual science as to why I want to yell all the time :P youtu.be/Mo1A45ShcMo

Someone should write a series of novels studying the relationship between Game Makers, Streamers, and Viewers. Cause good lord, what a perfectly fucked up little trifecta we've created over the past 10 years.

There has never been a time when humans can be as angry at as many different things than right now and it’s breaking our brains.

I am a man of my word. Y'all came through in a big way with the $5 donations and I promised a match, and a match you shall get. If anyone else would like to match my match that would be super neato, but at the very least let's keep those early $5 donations coming! Onward to $10,000! desertbus.org

Been on a bit of Bob Dylan kick recently and I think when I grow up I wanna be a once in a generation genre defining folk singer-songwriter. So I just gotta learn how to sing... and write songs... and probably play guitar? Should I also pick up a harmonica as well?

We hit our 100th $5 donation last night so I’ll be making the $500 matching donation as promised in the next day or two. If anyone else would like to join me in my matching donation I wouldn’t say no 😛 desertbus.org And thanks to everyone who’s donated so far! We’re already over $5000!!! 🥳

Happy Halo 2 day y’all! On this day 21 years ago one of the all time GOATs was released. And a few years later we made this video. At this point I think the reality we crafted in this video might be better than our current one? 😬 youtu.be/JFtoanBDjOE

Nothing like waking up at 3:30AM to take a friend to the airport and then thinking a good idea is to go to the office to get a bunch of crap moved around for Desert Bus prep. On the upside I was first in line at the coffee shop and got what I assume is the best blueberry muffin they made today.

I mean... he's not wrong :P

It’s time for James Challenges @desertbus.org Chat. But I’m gonna be honest with y’all and lay it all out. Obviously this year has been rough on everyone, myself included. It’s been a struggle to find the energy for this years run. I know I’ll muster the juice needed for the show, but I’m tired.

I will never be able to understand people who don’t place a bare minimum amount respect and care towards any random human life. Like, no one fucking asked to be here! Why are we making it harder for so many people? I know this is just part of life, I’m not looking for advise. Just a bummer, y’know?

Blast from the past anyone? youtu.be/at_f98qOGY0

Kinda weird to check the news and it be… good? I think that’s the word I’m looking for? Not sure, it’s been a while. Great step forward America. Please keep it going!

The news is wild. I can either read about the fall of democracy around the world, or how giving local fauna contraceptives is helping control the deer population. Humans are fucking weird.

Whelp, was really hoping to leverage that Commissioner's Trophy and make a 1 for 1 trade for the Stanley Cup. Now I guess we’ll just have to win it fair and square. Hahahhahahahah. Siiiiiiiiigh.

There’s few performances I wish I could have been there for more. youtu.be/fYc3x3LgEJs

Media trained athletes are boring. Stop interviewing them.

Ok y’all. We’re two weeks from @desertbus.org and one week from donations opening and I’ve got nothing for this years “James Challenges Chat”. I’m open to any and all suggestions. But please keep them in the realm of reality :)

Arc Raiders is fun and good.

Magic is not a perfect game, Wizards is not a perfect company, but I truly believe this game we all love continues to be as good as it is through all that in large part because of Mark and the other incredibly passionate people in the building. Also, look how cute he is in his squirrel outfit?!

Can we please move past this concept of ads on Twitch styled after streamers? It's bad. It's really bad.

Does the MLB not understand the concept of days off and building tension? They're playing Game 5 (you could argue game 6 :P) today? Good lord.

Boo!

Had a pretty cool dream last night that @bengineeringtv.bsky.social secretly kept the lease at Moonbase Mk. V going and turned it into a Pokemon themed escape room. Honestly, seems like a pretty dope idea TBH.

I know it won't help, but I'm thinking about creating some alt accounts on YouTube, Reddit, Bluesky and setting aside 3-4 hours a day where I just YELL AT PEOPLE FOR BEING FUCKING STUPID. But I know that won't help... Right?

Sick over the weekend (my birthday weekend to boot), felt almost 100% yesterday, then last night the cough came roaring back and today it’s constant. Super fun. Also, being sick when your wife’s office is in your bedroom sucks. Stupid housing crisis. Stupid broken capitalism. (ノ•_•)ノ︵┻━┻

Gotta love when you finally take the first step on something you shouldn't have been avoiding, but you have cause that's what humans do only to be told "Great! See you in June!" Fingers crossed for the cancellation list.

I'm 42 now, which some would say is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. But of course it's not, digging holes in Minecraft and listening to good music is, and I already do that a few times a week. twitch.tv/james_lrr

Last year for my birthday I shared my PayPal with y’all and said give me money. I ended up donating $500 to the Trevor Project and bought myself a piece of cake :) This year I would love if you could contribute anything you can to the following Go Fund Me. Would mean the world. gofund.me/d54a7d085

D&D peaked at THAC0.

Hold up, we might be up to five channels! This is a reupload of the classic Nunchuck Fail that appears to have 1.5 million views!

WE HAVE A WINNER! This video we made for NimbleBit 13 years ago(!!!!!) has 1.1 million views :) Excellent detective work AltaKarl!

So it turns out there’s an unlisted (has copyright music) video on the @desertbus.org YouTube channel that has 1.1 million views. It’s the fucked up camera glitch from DB6. So I guess it’s actually 4 YouTube channels with a video with over a million views! No one’s got the last one yet :)

Never let it be said @tolariancommunitycollege.com and @rhysticstudies.bsky.social haven’t been contributing to the viewer count :D

Listen. This video needs 230 more views for us (LoadingReadyRun) to have a video with 1,000,000+ views across three different YouTube channels. Anyone know the other two channels? youtu.be/Z7l0pRm-VRU

Getting outside and getting some work done is the secret tech I’m extremely grateful for.

How in gods name do we still not have drafts here?!

I love bed.

I probably should have clarified. This is not my 1-5, this is just the names as they came out of my head. Here's my list. Jim Nantz & Tony Romo Mike Tirico & Cris Collinsworth Joe Buck & Troy Aikman Kevin Burkhardt & Tom Brady Al Michaels & Kirk Herbstreit

I don’t know if there are many NFL fans who follow me (I know there are a few of you at least) so I wanna see your rankings. 1. Mike Tirico & Cris Collinsworth 2. Joe Buck & Troy Aikman 3. Kevin Burkhardt & Tom Brady 4. Al Michaels & Kirk Herbstreit 5. Jim Nantz & Tony Romo

I’m a FPS gamer through and through. 3rd person shooters while fine have never been my jam. But holy moly. Arc Raiders makes it work, and work WELL. Can’t wait to dive into this game when it comes out next week.