Bill Thompson

Explain all this.

All right, so, I mean, there's a larger explanatory reason behind this.

My brother and I grew up, my father died when I was five.

My brother and I grew up doing these things called rendezvous.

Have you ever heard of them?

In what way?

So there you go.

So what a rendezvous is, it's not – you know you go to those like –

I don't even know what they're called, but people do like reenactments.

Like Civil War reenactments?

It's not like that.

So that's the closest thing, approximation, to probably what it is.

You get invited to them, or these days they're easier to get to, but my stepfather, the guy my mother remarried, brought us to him.

All you do is camp, but you're only allowed to camp, and no one comes to the camp, or sometimes they might have people at the end.

But while you're in the camp, everything in the camp has to be 1840 or prior.

So there can be no modern appurtenances, nothing like a refrigerator or nothing like that.

1840, why that year?

At the end of the fur trapping.

That was considered like Jeremiah Johnson time, like peak fur trapping.

So there's people, you know, they dress like either...