The Balladeer waggles his hand in a "so-so" gesture. "Nothing like that?" It's pretty close, anyway, except that he rather enjoys the normalcy. No shootings, no time loops...it's actually very novel in its own way. But this is obviously too complex a subject to try to chat about backwards. "It's important," he concludes, waving a hand dismissively. If the subject ever comes up again later, he'll explain properly.

Anyway, the most important thing here is obviously Godzilla. "Really?" It's probably fruitless to do so, but he directs the question at Seth. "Here? I'd heard all about that."

Of course he hasn't heard a thing, and that does seem like something the locals might have mentioned. Trust him, he's intimately familiar with the reverberations tragedy leaves in a culture. Tragedy involving giant dinosaurs is doubtless much more dramatic.