Wet has personality. Damp is more like it, I might even say … mois (Oh wait.)
And maybe he glitched because her interruption made no sense to him - he’d already forgotten her name again, and that he’d called her Barbara. Tries to seem friendly and warm and as if he is talking to YOU, but like most politicos, he’s just talking to a random person/microphone and racking his brains for the right thing to say to this particular microphone. Mics don’t have names.
