Ugh. [riptide's nose wrinkles with distaste.] Of course Darin tries to one up you by making it about him and how sad and woeful his life is.

[riptide doesn't like him. that might not be obvious.]

Look, solid gold bars are still bars, alright? If I didn't want to bother with asking you to teach me this stuff, I wouldn't have asked! What does it say that you're one of the first people in almost four million years that I feel pretty alright with asking about it?