"They really wanted to make their acronym 'shield,' didn't they?" It was really a ridiculous name, but this is the American government, this was not the dumbest name they've given something that he's aware of, at least. "As far as I know, we don't have anything quite like that in our universe."

"What you went through with your little family, correct?" There's more than a couple situations he could think of that could be made into a movie in their own world and it really was strange to think about it in this context. "Prepare for the shortest amount of time, but hope for it to be longer so we can leave without incident."