Any other time, John might be listening to be polite--but nope. Laios is passionate and eager and enthusiastic, and...

John is precisely drunk enough to let himself be charmed by the fact that the big lug is adorable gushing about magic. And after twenty-plus minutes of silence, just listening, John finds he's retained most of it and he's not bored.

"...I understood...a little of that. Now you gotta show me sometime just so I--y'know, fully get it."