"Oh yeah, pretty much everyone back home had a phone before the Collapse." And that's the payoff! He got to have internet, Youtube, and memes, at the expense of dinosaurs and other sick-ass extinct animals. "They're super cool, though, right? It's better than havin' to wait for letters or whatever. Like, now that you've got my number, you can hit me up literally whenever."

Actually... "So you didn't have anything like phones back home? Like... IDK, telepathy or some shit." He's trying to understand magic, okay??