DAVE: "Alice, you are a little flat. Watch it."

its like a lil box with female 3.5mm ports you plug in and out. inside, its gubbins contain an opto-isolator circuit that elims the noise by converting the audio to light and then back to electricity.

looks like dis:

They are addicted to it. Need to manufacture a reason to be upset. oh to be in the position to need to make shadow problems instead of real ones.