The fact that he's so accepting of it is strange to Dave, but he assumes someone has explained it to him before. He refuses to believe he's the only Texan here, even if he's only seen a few people who look like cowboys.

When Gannicus laughs, he wants to backtrack everything immediately and pretend he never said anything. Alas, he needs to follow these things up.

"I dunno, you're buff and have long hair and you talk like you're a badass Shakespeare." Now that he thinks about that, it was a flimsy justification. "Where are you from, then?"