Don't let the fame go to your head. Some of us still have to live in the real world.

[He says this as another dweeby joke, but like, it also hurts him... to say it... especially with Snake pushing for info about his own business right now. He doesn't want to be a downer any more than he naturally is, these days, but he might as well get it over with.

The abridged version, anyway. The Cliffs Notes.]

But me, uh... I was in school. Then I got in touch with Seven and did some... kinda freelance investigator stuff. You know he and Lotus are a thing now?

[Perfect, there is nothing else to learn about this story at all. How about those old people.]