[He just kind of laughs?] I never really thought about it. [He shrugs lightly.] It's just...how things are.

[But he's listening and he feels the hair tug and it gets another grin out of him at least because...yeah. They're a bunch of stubborn fools.] ...I've been trying to check in, too, but a lot of us are still really reluctant to say anything. Creatures of habit or whatever. Anyway doesn't that also make you kind of pigheaded since you're stuck with the rest of us? Maybe that's why we're really here.

[To out-stubborn each other? Sure.]