Davey Lusco: RetroCon Origins

A rainy four-hour trade day, a handful of CRTs, and a line out the door—Louisiana RetroCon started small but struck a nerve. We sit down with founder Davey Lusco to unpack how a community-first retro gaming convention grew from neighborhood roots into a two-city schedule with Morgan City this winter and a flagship weekend in Gonzales on August 1–2. If you’ve ever wished big cons offered more play and less noise, this story will hit home.

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Transcript

Meet The RetroCon Founder

SPEAKER_02 0:04

Welcome to NOLA Film Team with TJ Play-Doh. I'm TJ. And as always, I'm Play-Doh.

SPEAKER_00 0:11

Welcome back to NOLA Film Scene with TJ and Play-Doh. That is TJ Play-Doh.

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I'm Play-Doh.

SPEAKER_00 0:17

And we're here with I'm TJ.

SPEAKER_02 0:20

David Lucasco. He is the founder of Louisiana RetroCon. How are you doing, Davy?

SPEAKER_00 0:26

Pretty good. Woohoo! Welcome, welcome. Good to see you, my friend. Appreciate y'all having me. It's a pleasure. Yeah, of course. So let's dive right into it. Tell us about RetroCon. How'd that come about? Shoot.

Why Gamers Needed Their Own Con

The First Rainy Trade Day

SPEAKER_01 0:41

Let me use my time machine in my brain really quick. So shoot, it was almost four years ago. I used to run like some how would you say it was like some swap meets in uh card shop with some friends back then, and uh it was fun. We'd do it for a while, and we did probably several of them, and a bunch of the people of Homa Louisiana came together, and you know, we'd we'd go do those and and I was with a different group, but eventually I broke off and I was like, you know, I want to do my own thing. I really want to run conventions because I went to cons for years and I enjoyed walking around and just you know doing that stuff, but it always felt like it was lacking for video games. Like I would go to Fan Expo before it was Fan Expo, it was like Wizard World, and I went there for years as a teenager, just you know, enjoying the con scene, at as from the attendee perspective. So I've seen both perspectives in this case, but like it just always felt like there wasn't really much for gamers. They would have like tournaments at some of these events, but there was not like oh, come play some video games for free. Oh, there's a bunch of people here selling your favorite games to collect and stuff. It wasn't really a lot of that stuff, so I really liked that formula and I wanted to see it actually take fruition into a like a special con, its own con. So in September 2022, it eventually came to be that I started Louisiana Retro Con, but uh, and we did our first show, and it was only a one-day event. It actually took place about five minutes from my house where I currently live, and it was in like a neighborhood gym, it was a recreation center, and they were like, We really need. I basically brought my hometown at the time something for the kids to do, recreational, because the recreational district managers were like, We really need something for the kids to do, we need something to get families out and do something. The kids aren't getting outside, they're not really doing enough. So, you know, I came up with this idea. We're like, we're gonna try it. We don't know what it's going to do. But it even rained that day. It rained, and like we had like I want to say 500 or so people that showed up and they were waiting outside for it. It was a small four-hour trade day. I call it the trade day because we didn't have panels, we didn't have like all these celebrities or you know, even you guys, like it wasn't anything like that. It was uh for a costume contest, it wasn't even a costume contest, it was like a cosplay walk, I think they called it, and everybody paraded around and walked in their Halloween costumes. Um and uh it was it was great though. Uh, as far as the arcade, it was like a few of my CRT TVs from my house and like a few of my game systems, which I'm still amazed nothing got stolen because some of that stuff was like valuable. But I I risked it all to try and it did well, and so now it's like we've slowly elevated each show, and now it's this thing where we eventually went to Morgan City and then it had to be rescheduled there for a hurricane. Then we moved to Gonzales and it started to boom in Gonzales, and then this year is this special thing where I do something I've never done before. We're promoting two shows at the same time, which we we've never done this. We're taking registration already for the August show while I've been getting bugged about the February show. Um, and then we're also doing it in two cities, so instead of a Puss in Boots at Tale of Two Kitties, it's a Tale of Two Cities with RetroCon. You know, we're we're doing Morgan City RetroCon and Louisiana RetroCon. So now RetroCon is its own special, like once per year annual con, a big, big con. Biggest I'll ever have run an August 1st and 2nd of this year. Uh, it'll be something to see for sure. It'll be the same skill as the Cajun con that just happened. Uh, my friend Scott Ennis did an amazing job with that show. Yeah, um, really looking forward to the December one. But it'll be in the same center. So what you saw there is kind of like uh pre-retrocon, because that'll that'll be what it is. We're gonna fill it up with games and nostalgia, and I'm really excited for that. Nice. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 5:07

And you've announced some very cool guests for the Morgan City one, which is the weekend of February 28th and March 1st. Yes, sir. Who you got so far? Shoot. Let me see here.

SPEAKER_01 5:17

I'll uh oh, I was gonna write off off the top of your head. Well, I'll give you two. I know we got well, we got Hicks Jeremy. You got a boy, yeah. We got uh my buddy Johnny Garcia, which I believe he knows. Yeah, yeah, we're friends with him. Let's see who else we've got. We've got my buddy Robbie Musso. He does uh all of our artwork and he's worked for Transformers and whatnot. As I mentioned before, we have Scott Innis also coming. Um, so he will be there and signing Scooby-Doo stuff. Just a few items. You got Billy Slaughter. Got Billy Slaughter. There's Carnage Perez, uh Carnam, sorry, Carnage Nola, he's a uh wrestler.

SPEAKER_00 5:56

Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:57

We'll have uh Mark Sciano, he'll be signing books, he's a book author. Uh Bram Stoker award winner. He's uh directed like uh written a movie and whatnot. Um Joe Mexican. You know Joe. Okay. I do uh Dokesmack, and he uh he also produces uh music videos, so a lot of cool stuff. We've been friends for a while, so excited to have him coming as a guest this time. So this will be his first time as a guest. Um Joseph Ortega is definitely a headliner. He'll be coming all the way from I think New Mexico. He's he l is uh but he he messaged us and directly and he was like, I want to come on, so bring it on. Come to Morgan City. So he was in Stranger Things 4. Uh he also was uh he played Pedro Pascal's uh son in Eddington, so that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 6:47

Yes. In in Stranger Things, he's the helicopter pilot.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

The sniper uh no, that's actually Roger Ivans. Roger Ivans is the helicopter sniper from season four, episode seven, I believe it is. I'm trying to remember here. No, that that's okay.

SPEAKER_02 7:00

I don't I don't have my brain's leaking, I I don't have the the episodes like I used to.

Growing Through Setbacks And Cities

SPEAKER_01 7:05

It's all good. I I literally so I'll blow your mind and I'll blow anyone that's watching's mind. Uh I actually literally just started the series this year at the beginning of the year, and then I finished it two nights ago. Like I I've never watched it. I was blown away with how impressive they structured this show over the course of almost a decade. Like it just flows so well, and it's now one of my favorite franchises. It's excellent.

SPEAKER_02 7:30

As you can see, I like Eleven's haircut. Yeah. What's that? I said I like Eleven's haircut. Yeah. It looks from me, I'm not sure. Although I think I just said that she's got a beard. That might that might have oh I'm banned in the industry. And you've got an announcement to make about another guest coming to RetroCon today.

SPEAKER_01 7:51

Yeah, it's actually you. I'll be having yes, that's right. I'll be having Brian Play-Doh. He'll be coming, be a wonderful guest, and he'll be representing the Enola film scene, which you and TJ do a fantastic job over here with. Thank you. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 8:07

Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Very excited to have you guys coming. So I'm happy to represent. I'm gonna I'm gonna print off some things, maybe a collage of pictures, and if anybody wants an autograph, we'll talk about that. Okay. I don't expect to sell any, but you might. It's never now. Maybe it'll be free with a picture, but you got to pay for the picture.

SPEAKER_01 8:25

Something I've always been told by like how do I say it? Like more of the indie guests and like uh just you know local guests we get. Yeah. Um, even with Hick, like when we had him for our craft a con project last year um as a guest, like he just said that you know, our people are uh how would you say they're really like special attendees, they're not quite like the average con goer I find. Like I find we get people that just they they love what we attribute, what we offer, and they they like to support the guests, and I appreciate that a lot. Sometimes they you don't get recognized at a bigger show, but at our show I find everybody's a star.

SPEAKER_02 9:02

I'm happy to break my singular cherry there. TJ and I were at Cajun Con together. Unfortunately, you can't make it this time, but I will carry the flag.

Two Cities, Two Shows

SPEAKER_00 9:50

I was actually really looking forward to it. I'm sorry, I want to interject. I was really looking forward to this event, but unfortunately a scheduling conflict came up, and I just can't I can't be in two places at once. I hate it. But August, though. Yeah. Gotta cover the August one that I'll just visit.

SPEAKER_02 10:06

Maybe you'll go by yourself and I'll just stay at home.

SPEAKER_00 10:11

That would be weird.

SPEAKER_02 10:12

It it would, but I am I'm very much looking forward to it. I am behind the table by myself for once, where I'm usually the guy. Ooh, look who's over there. Ooh, look who's over there.

SPEAKER_01 10:21

So it'll be a fun experience. Absolutely. I think you're going to have a great time, man. I appreciate you wanting to come and do this. So thank you.

SPEAKER_02 10:29

What are you saying that I asked to come on? You didn't beg me. Please, please, same thing my wife said, please marry me. Right.

SPEAKER_00 10:41

All right. So before we came on, we talked a little bit about gaming, some of the games that that you and I both play. Do you have a favorite retro game? Because when I saw you when I f when we first met, you had a a really cool special costume, and it seemed like you like the Mario Nintendo franchise. So I just wanted to get your take, see what your favorite retro game is.

Guests Announced For Morgan City

SPEAKER_01 11:07

Sure, I appreciate it. This is honestly a hard one for me. But if I had to pick overall, um Nintendo GameCube is how I started. I'm showing my age here. But I I really love the GameCube. I feel like it was a unique uh console. I love kart racers a lot, uh, like Mario Kart a lot. Uh so I'd probably have to say overall, uh maybe like Mario Kart Double Dash. Um it's a really fun, unique kart racer. Two player as uh can actually simultaneously switch between driving and throwing items and whatnot. So it's it's a very unique experience. And it was blowing, mind-blowing at the time when I was like six years old, so couldn't beat it. It was fun, still fun.

SPEAKER_00 11:48

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 11:48

And that's what we'll be celebrating at the uh Morgan City Retro. It'll be the 25th anniversary of my favorite console. It'll be the GameCube. So, and a lot of people also love it. So it's just a small theme we threw in. Sometimes we don't do like a whole, hey, we got all these celebrities, and this is the theme, you know. Sometimes it's just gotta be relaxed and just about the fun. Yeah, about having fun. And that's what this one's about. It's no no extra fluff, it's just the fun stuff. You know, we're just it's a simpler con. It's it's uh it's a remix of how we used to run it when it was simplified. Yeah. I think it should be fun.

SPEAKER_00 12:23

I think simpler is better. Yeah. Thank you. More more about the event than uh a bunch of special activities and I don't know. I've never been much for panels. I I like looking around, walking around, looking and seeing the booths and the people that are there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:41

And this will be very different because like it's kind of like coming back to form. This show is a I I call it a remix, but like yeah, you said about the panels, uh, this will actually be one of the first shows in a while that we don't do panels. There'll be activities in our nice theater room. It's a really big theater at this location, but we'll have like uh we'll have like free movies and whatnot from you know the retro days and whatnot, uh different TV shows and stuff that people can come in and watch for free. It's another new activity I'm adding to the show that'll be in place of the panels. But of course, you could still go up and get a table signature picture, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Of course. But you know, we're making it more about the experience. Like there's going to be Legos, there'll be Lego Duplo and Mega Blocks that people can go play and build all ages. You know, it's like on the box, it's one to 99, you know. Unless somebody 100 walks in, I guess I gotta like say you can't play. You can't play, it's not on the box.

SPEAKER_02 13:36

Dick Van Dyke is banned from playing with Lego. That's right. And Mel Brooks is getting close. So that's right. Y'all better join us quick, fellas.

SPEAKER_01 13:44

You're out of luck. Um, and then the arcade section, man. The arcade is always fun. We always try to add in new machines. It's getting to the point I need a warehouse. So if anyone wants to keep an eye out for a good warehouse, that would be great, so I can get rid of these two storage units. They're not getting expensive.

SPEAKER_00 14:01

Do you have any stand-up arcade games? Console or you know, the yeah, like the cabinets. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:06

So I actually, funny enough, I've got a uh got a couple in here.

SPEAKER_00 14:11

Oh, nice. Hard to turn the camera, but so are those are are those original cabinets or did you build those?

SPEAKER_01 14:19

Okay, so there's a Miss Pac-Man over there. That one, as far as I know, was made by a professional company in like the early 2000s or late 90s, I believe. But they manufactured them. I got it from an old lady, and she couldn't really tell me the full story. She was just like, Oh, I've had this for years, and it's uh it was Axelic edition. And I was like, I gotta have this for the house.

SPEAKER_02 14:42

But she only played it on Sundays, she barely took it out the driveway.

SPEAKER_01 14:47

Had to have, dude. Like, I'm like, this thing looks immaculate. Um, just like the uh the orange one that was in front of it right here. Uh, that one was made by uh Global VR, and they had about 80 classic games on it back in the day, and it's just a giant PC chassis that is uh ratchet strapped inside the PC. But an official company made these for home use. Yeah, you didn't see many of these, but it was literally industrial made. Um, and they're pretty hard to find these days, but it's been modified and it has uh has an SSD that my arcade repairment added to it now, so it runs super fast and has about 250 of the best like classic arcade games you can imagine on it. It's got like World Combat, Street Fighter, all that stuff. Um, and then at the show we have a cruising machine, so there's a crucial cruising arcade. Nice. Uh eventually we'll be trying to add an L C D to that because that thing is way too heavy. Uh they make a custom screen, but it's like about half a grand for just the screen. Yeah. And it's a lot.

Celebrating GameCube’s 25th

SPEAKER_00 15:50

So I built out a player about five years ago when I was laid up after a surgery on a Raspberry Pi, and you can put hundreds of games on an SD card and play through an emulator all all the old classic Atari games, street, you know, Street Fighter, the side scrollers, all the stuff that we played as kids. You can have uh just about as much as you want on one of those. And I was gonna build, there's tons of videos on how to build a cabinet out, you know, MDF and you get a screen, and I stopped short of building the full cabinet, but there's a way to build it, and you just put the Raspberry Pi inside of it. And yeah, I mean, it even works with the the classic controls from uh one of those cabinets like we're used to. That's amazing. I I didn't finish I didn't finish building that. I just played it, you know, on uh on a regular game and monitor.

SPEAKER_01 16:47

Well, if you ever want to get that project finished, I got a buddy that he literally like makes the machines. Oh, wow. Does an amazing job. Nice. All right. Yeah, I got his information if you want. Like he he'll help you bring it to life. I promise him. Does amazing work. Always just helped us for the cause.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

I I know there's a uh a business around here that you know rents out game stuff to bars and stuff. Oh so we either need to get you hooked up with them or you ever seen the ones in Walmart that make their cabinets? I think it's retro one-up or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 17:17

Is it the raw thrills? Oh, oh, you're talking about the arcade one-ups they sell at Walmart? Arcade one-ups.

SPEAKER_02 17:22

Get a sponsorship with them, get them to bring them in. You won't have to store them. Get a little advertising with it, but we'll talk and we'll try to hound these people down for you.

SPEAKER_01 17:30

Hey man, that'd be great. Let's do it. We need we need more. We need uh we need pinball. Like I want to bring actual pinball machines. That's something that I've been wanting for a long time at the show, but they're expensive and they break. And I'd rather have the rental service bring it than uh store all these, and it the transfer of those is terrifying. You have to dismantle a lot. I've I've seen uh I have a buddy that runs a Houston Arcade Expo, and it's dude, it's like the greatest party on earth. It started that his show started as a birthday party. I love hearing the origins of all kind of cons, but it started as a birthday party and they had arcades there, and he'll have a day where VIPs can come in on Thursday, and you get to watch them build the stuff and set up all the arcades. But it's just insane to see these guys with this dedicated, like, you know, they'll have the plastic wrap all over these things lugged in, and you gotta build this like a puzzle. Like, you got the back piece, the legs, the works. Everything has to be reassembled and added. It is insane, but they're dedicated to it. I know some guys that live an hour from me that go to this like five plus hour away event, and that's another fun show.

SPEAKER_02 18:41

Here's another thought went off there. No, no, no, that's perfect. We want you to go off. We want to explore your mind and hear more about it. You were talking about, oh, I want a warehouse to store my games. If it was possible, storefront, and not only I'm not saying you'd have your doors open every day, but you could rent it out to birthday parties. Yes, special events, deposits on in case things break, that kind of stuff. And then maybe open your door for a surprise, generate the money to pay for the storage, and then you wouldn't have, you know, we'll talk. We'll talk. I think it'd be cool.

A Simpler, Fun-First Format

SPEAKER_01 19:10

I just need to move first. Uh, I don't unfortunately, I just I'm in an area where I don't think you'd be highly profitable. But um, I think moving into the correct town, it it would definitely do well. Because the only like big arcade we have like nearby is Wayback's arcade. But that's all the way in uh I see uh Kettlebriers in the chat. He just mentioned that. But um, but yeah, that's uh all the way in Pineville, Louisiana. So that's uh it's quite a drive for most of us. But it's a really fun, that's actually a really fun place. Um that's the shirt I'm wearing, as a matter of fact. Um, I'm really good friends with them guys. Shout out to Waybacks. They uh they have the only, as far as I know, retro arcade and pinball place to have over 20 pinball machines, they have over 150 arcade stand-ups, gun machines, racing machines. They have the Mario Kart DX machine from Japan. They have all kinds of amazing stuff, and you pay$13 a day to go to that place. Um, very good friends with them. We've done uh a couple events there. We used to run Retro Exchange uh where it was just a pop-up and people could come do that. It was only a day, and that was free, and we'd have vendors outside, and they'd go inside Waybacks and you know, buy a pass and go play. Um, and what's cool about their place now is they have a pizza place you can eat at. Um literally they have uh eight-bit pizza, they call it, and there's a whole buffet on the weekdays now.

SPEAKER_02 20:44

Wait, wait, are you saying someone combined pizza and video games?

SPEAKER_01 20:48

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

What a concept. I mean it's I'm rocking fire for life, Chuck E. Cheese can eat it, but anyway. Correct.

SPEAKER_01 20:56

No, this is the way it should be. Like it's yeah, phenomenal. Phenomenal work on them guys for it.

SPEAKER_02 21:02

As you were saying, Kettlebriers in the in the chat. Hello, John. I'm too slow to type. But we were talking beforehand, when TJ first met you, you were dressed as something special. So if TJ, if you needed to ask me about any about that, or Davy, you can just launch into the description, however y'all want to do it.

SPEAKER_00 21:20

Yeah, when we first met, you had a costume that was a mashup between the Mandalorian and uh Nintendo gaming, if I remember correctly. Tell us a little bit about that costume because I thought it was pretty cool. I appreciate that. Thank you.

Arcades, Cabinets, And Pinball Dreams

SPEAKER_01 21:36

So that is the I guess I would say the love child of me and John together. Because, like, we uh he was the brains of designing this fantastic masterpiece. Uh, I simply went to him and I'm like, dude, I've got this idea. I'm like, it'd be so cool if we did the Mario Mando mashup. And he's like, oh yeah, we're gonna do this. So he just he comes to me, he's already starting on it. I'm like, wait, you're actually doing this? He's like, Yes, I'm doing it. I'm like, this is amazing. So even his early concepts of it before you added all the you know, war-torn paint to it and the dirt and whatnot, and you know, just the battle scars are just it's phenomenal. Like he's he's a master craftsman as far as it comes to cosplay. Um, I've never met somebody quite like him that has the just the brains and the tools to make whatever he wants. Like he's if he wants to make it, he makes it. And he's made some other incredible stuff like uh a Baldur's Gate 3 Mind Flayer costume, which that is really cool. I mean that hey, that's Related to kind of the Stranger Things. It's a different kind of mind flare, but uh, but yeah, so he he's done all kinds of fantastic stuff. But the uh the Mario Lorian suit even has a uh we had a baby Yoshi that he added to it. So we have Yoshu in a pouch. Um it's all kind of references to Super Mario World with uh the cape that he has on his side and just all kind of stuff. So it was a fun little project we did, and um, I'm definitely open to more costumes if he ever wants to make some more. Uh I love to dress up and make people smile. That's especially why I do these shows because I I'm kind of a public servant. I just I have even since I worked at uh GameStop in 2019, I was one of their best workers. I liked just bringing people joy and giving them what they want.

SPEAKER_02 23:31

That's awesome. Fantastic. Thank you. I I think we ran out of questions. That that's that's a first. Let's stop talking about it. Let's go to a con. Yeah, we've got a month to wait.

SPEAKER_01 23:45

I know it's gonna come fast for me, though. That's that's the thing, is everybody else is like excited, anticipating, and waiting. And it's like for me, it's like, oh, we don't have much time left. Because I now I need I'm at the point where we're needing to order our decor or a couple little extra things, um, yard signs, and uh, I still need to actually ship out a few last-minute flyers to people that asked for them. So there's just all kinds of stuff involved right now. I'm grateful that we sold out on vendors. Um, usually we don't sell out the month before prior. Like we uh we beat the deadline by a few days, and I'm happy to see that. Usually it's uh a few weeks prior, but it went well. Everybody's ready to go. Lots of great vendors with great product from like DVDs, vintage media like VHS tapes, all kind of different stuff. Video games, consoles, you name it, toys. They're supposed to be comic books this time. I heard too. Been get waiting to get a comic vendor for a while. People want comics, uh, Hot Wheels, uh, I think there's even gonna be some vintage clothing.

SPEAKER_00 24:53

Anime trivia game, cosplay contest, Morgan City, John says.

SPEAKER_01 24:58

Yes, that's correct. Uh, me and John actually just spoke about this today and uh yesterday. I think it was yesterday, right, John? I I'm not sure. But we uh I'm in a million places, but he came to me about uh uh we're adding an anime trivia game show on Sunday. So that should be a lot of fun for people to check out, and you'll be able to win it's supposed to be like hundreds of dollars of cash prizes. So even uh I think he set a subscription at Crunchyroll, so there'll be all kinds of great giveaways. So if you're into anime, come test your luck. If you know the answer to that one one piece question, hey, go ahead. I sure don't. I would get on the caber.

SPEAKER_02 25:39

I've been watching Speed Racer on Amazon lately, going back to the classic yeah, and I dropped everything. And with that, we might be out of time. You know what I was thinking though, because I have to get back into Captain Crescent City, so I had grown out of the costume. One of the things it's very hard because everybody knows I love to take pictures and take selfies. When you're in the gloves, you can't touch your screen. So what I'd do, I'd cut out a hole in the big I had like Darth Vader gloves, cut a hole, and then wear a thin black glove underneath so I could touch. But I always wanted to make a character called Cameraman so you have all the cameras on him because they they can't stop you from wearing it or bringing it in if it's part of your costume, like constant record, like somebody's uh war machine's got the gun on his shoulder, camera on my shoulder. Oh, yeah, couldn't do selfies, but I was just starting to think, you know. I think that'd be awesome. Yeah, interesting. Go for it. Welcome to my mind. Escape if you can.

SPEAKER_00 26:31

All right, man. Davey, where can people find you? Uh well, not your address.

SPEAKER_02 26:35

Don't give out your home address.

Partnerships, Rentals, And Storage

SPEAKER_01 26:36

No, I I'm not. So you can find me on Instagram and Facebook. I am uh Davey Lusco. But yeah, you can add me on there. Uh I should be the first on there on the I think I come the first on the search engine now, so that's pretty cool. Yeah, you can follow me there and uh send me a message. As far as keeping up with RetroCon, you can find all of our socials as Louisiana RetroCon on X. If we're not banned anymore, I don't know. I think they banned us again. But on X we're like LA RetroCon. Um, YouTube's the same as all the other ones. Uh for information as far as the statistic website goes, it's uh Louisiana Retroconvention.com, and they can see the event schedule when we roll that out in the next few weeks, the map, the guests that we'll have. They'll have all that information there. Future date shows, get your tickets. Tickets are available online, room discounts are available on the RetroCon site right now as well for the Morgan City show. And we'll have more information on the big mega event, RetroCon 2026, Louisiana. That'll be in August 1st and 2nd. That's coming soon. So if you follow us on any of those platforms, you'll find out all the great information. And the August show's in New Orleans, is that right? No, it's in the Gonzales, Louisiana at the Lamar Dixon Expo Center. Okay where CajunCon was.

SPEAKER_02 28:07

That's right. We didn't get snow down in our part, but bruh, 27 degrees with a wind chill in the teens.

SPEAKER_00 28:13

It was 18 for a minute this morning up here. I live up on the North Shore, so it's it was cold. It's cold. I've been enjoying it personally.

SPEAKER_01 28:21

I've I've been waiting for some cold air.

SPEAKER_02 28:23

I like it, but I'm a fall kind of guy. I like you know, late October weather, especially that last week when it changes from hot to cold. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:31

It's not enough of that. You know, we we get it for a week and then it's bipolar disorder with the weather again. It just goes back saying, ah, you gotta have summer. All right.

SPEAKER_00 28:40

See you later, folks. All right, see you folks. Thanks, Davey.

SPEAKER_01 28:43

I appreciate you guys. Thank y'all so much again.