It's like my great-grandmother used to say: You never know until you try, and when that doesn't work you try try again until they toss you out into the troll infested hills!

[... Admittedly her great-grandmother was Kind Of An Ass (TM) so.]

It's not like he can stop us from calling him or anything, so as long as you're persistent there's bound to be places he'll give. But you gotta be polite or he'll give you lip.