"I don't need no sage advice or nothin'," he says tiredly. "Just a buddy's thoughts. You know what it's like better than me."

Even if they are two different people, there are commonalities between them. Enough to keep them friends.

"And yeah, I got no idea why. I don't fully know my history with thisn' yet." But it's pointing out to him that all his excuses to keep Peter around to himself let along his crew were probably pretty bullshit. Give him some fake family and he'll desperately cling to it.