Sade wrote a truly disgusting book called "120 Days of Sodom," and any movie with that title is one that would likely be sickeing, but what's 120 days, not even four full months, among friends and strangers like us?
He might be afraid to get into some kind of sword fight with John Hamm or have other reasons for pretending that big, thick tube is a "mic wire." Microphone, maybe (what does subumbilical flesh sound like at rest?), but he is calling it a wire, and he may be telling the truth, but I say that's baloney.