Joe Biden once famously said that he told his wife Joan that if she was ever home alone and heard a suspicious noise outside, to just take a shotgun and step out on the porch and fire off two blasts into the air, and that would scare any intruder away. "Just get a shotgun"
Biden could not even remember a time in his life when he and his family were not under 24/7 Secret Service protection.
That's what makes it so funny.
Joe Biden is not a pipe smoker, to the best of my knowledge, by the way.