Sticks that dont talk

We need your help. The Boss has some complicated toys and things that make strange noises and do interesting things, like the talking stick. In the room at the back the Boss and the Other Boss often sit and watch the teevee. We know its called teevee because of the many instructions that they give to each other about it. The thing that is on the teevee seems to be quite important. We don’t understand this because the same model of a car has been on the teevee since Jack came, and that was a long time ago. The Other Boss has some sticks that don’t talk but have to be waved at the teevee to get it to change the noise. When we lay down the sticks don’t work! We then get told to move, sometimes biscuits are involved and we move into the other room. The  Boss often has these sticks, but they are always passed to the Other Boss when he arrives. Me and Jack are the same, whenever he has a stick I try to take it away, but thats just any stick. The Boss’s sticks that don’t talk are special. We don’t know why.