"I had a good chat with [Australian test player] Ed Cowan," O'Brien says.
We enjoy a chat with me tucked safely in the middle, wearing Gulotta's heavy white bulletproof vest.
On the outside it looks like a small, old-world liquor store, but forget yourself, walk right behind the counter, take a seat in the front room or the hallway (complete with discrete exit to a side street), knock back some drinks and chat with owner Dilip and the locals.
Honest Brew has a live chat service that customers can contact through a pop-up box on its website.
The files were procured on chat channels and through Napster and BitTorrent; I haven't purchased an album with my own money since the turn of the millennium.
As I left the Wolverhampton HQ, Poundland CEO Jim MacCarthy presented me with a bulging collection of gifts, including a range of Chit Chat lipglosses.
Her eyes "filled with tears and she said 'I can't have it, it says they're only for boys.'" But Izzy decided not to take it lying down and, following a quick chat with her mother about gender stereotypes, she wrote to Disney to explain her sadness about how the costume was labelled.
I maintain my cheerful demeanour, though, anxious to chat with you and show I am not the inarticulate buffoon you evidently suppose I am.
"We will add 90 seconds for a chat over a gin and tonic," Watson quipped.
Kennedy was regarded as one of Britain's finest orators in recent years and was nicknamed "Chat Show Charlie" in light of his easy manner on television that once saw him chair an edition of Have I Got News for You.
Happily, Football Focus's charming anchor, Dan Walker, is willing to overlook my sporting ignorance when he joins me for a chat and a biscuit in one of several BBC outside broadcast trucks situated in Villa's car park.
