So as night draws in here in England, Gibbs joins the call in shorts and t-shirt, headphones in both ears, glorious Miami sunshine beaming from the balcony over his shoulder.
He recently became one of the first footballers to have half his monthly salary paid in bitcoin, made possible when XBTO became an Inter Miami sponsor.
It’s the first thing we use when we get up in the morning, the last thing people use before they sleep.
When Gibbs landed in Miami a year ago, he attended the Bitcoin Conference, a cryptocurrency extravaganza that brings together thousands of enthusiasts.
He’s met Michael Saylor a few times, the American entrepreneur whose MicroStrategy company owns more than a billion dollars of bitcoin.
“He went to El Salvador to help them make bitcoin legal tender and educate people on how this thing works,” Gibbs says.
He adds: “There’s a lot of different people from all walks of life moving to Miami.
It’s 10 years since Arsenal staged a photograph with Gibbs, Jack Wilshere, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Aaron Ramsey and Carl Jenkinson sat with pens poised over long-term contracts.
The 22-year-old Gibbs had probably never heard of bitcoin, created only four years earlier.
The picture was clearly meant as a statement, but Gibbs does not believe the players saw it that way, that while it was “nice to be a part of that”, they were individual footballers trying to carve a career who just happened to be signing contracts on the same day.
The club struggled to keep up with the transfer and wage spending power of rivals inflated by the influx of billions from the owners of Chelsea and Manchester City.
By the time Wenger retired in 2018, a year after Gibbs left, a large section of the fanbase had turned on the Frenchman, successive top four finishes ridiculed rather than celebrated.
We used to get in a lot of trouble for just managing to finish in the top four every year.
“He was such an important figure in my life, as well as many other of the boys,” he says.
When Gibbs’s contract came to an end after four years at West Brom, the full-back had always wanted to play abroad and the pandemic intensified that itch.
MLS clubs are so spread out that for away games they fly at least a few days in advance to acclimatise to the weather and time zones.
Yet even if life is good, Gibbs is not unaware the wider world around him is being ripped at the seams by war and pandemic.