"Is that what he was back home?" That explains a whole lot.

"Maybe when we's done with all this, we can get him to play horseshoes or something. I was gonna make a pitch at the compound. Now I got even more reason to get on it." Not like it's involved.

Assuming they're going to make it home after all this. He has to assume that, or he wouldn't be out here in blazing summer heat doing this.