"Yeah and god bless you for that." The match-making that is, even if he doesn't actually mean that. The comment acknowledges a damage that takes all that effusive and logical praise to try and chip away at.

Yondu's spoke of that hole inside him, and Soldat has his own. All he can do is try to fill it up, bit by bit.

"My jokes are dumb, don't you go givin' me a classy reputation. Just cause they dumb don't mean they ain't funny. I won't have it."