Easter Celebrations, Kinder Eggs, and the Dynatrap Gnat Solution
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open the show discussing Easter traditions and the legality of Kinder eggs in the United States. Curry describes a successful resolution to a gnat infestation in his Austin studio using a Dynatrap device, which utilizes UV light and a fan to capture insects. The hosts debate the ethics of "catch and release" for household pests.
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00:00 She's got the right look and feel. Adam Curry, John C. DeVore. It's Sunday April 8th 2012 time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 3 9 or 8 This is no agenda Enjoying my illegal Kinder eggs here at Camp MoFo in the capital of the drone star state Austin Tejas. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry and wishing everyone a happy Easter and other celebrations from Northern Silicon Valley. I am John C DeBorda. It's Crackpot & Buzzkill! Now is Eastern on one those fake
00:37 Fake holidays or is this a real one? Did the guy really get up from under that rock, is that how it works? Yeah he had to push the rock away. We're not celebrating... Roll away the stone! Yeah we're not celebrating uh...we're celebrating next weekend Why? Because Christina's working in Holland and she wanted to be here for Easter. Oh, so you're gonna have an Easter next week? Yeah! So we got our eggs and everything... The eggs are going bad No they won't it'll be fine We've got an egg tree and all kinds of... You're gonna egg the tree?! Now we have a egged tree Hey can you hear it humming in the background probably not It is audible though a little bit What is it? My Dinah trap
01:21 I'm sorry? My dynatrap. Well, gesundheit! Yeah you know after the gnat attack that i had on... Oh yeah yeah your little uh... On the previous episode yeah I got at least, must have been at least 30 different emails from people with suggestions which kind of ranged from put apple cider with a little bit of brown sugar and across the board everyone said a little bit of dishwashing liquid into a bowl or dish and put that down. You'll catch one? No, I caught three since the last program Yeah it's bullcrap That's not a very good way to do it Well... It's not entirely true
02:00 And the problem... So why don't you just stick with that? It doesn't make so much noise. Well, I'll tell you why is because the gnats are attracted to a light source and when i'm doing this show The entire studio was dark except for my monitors and I have a little small led desk lamp so I can kind of see the mixer So it's you know, I can't concentrate on anything else. It's just the monitors So you need another light source to attract them and you had said I needed to find some kind of thing with a light in the fan and UV yeah, so I found it if you go to dinatrap.curry.com that's d y n a t r a p Dynatrap.curry.com You can see this device And I have to say this is a winner John This thing is fantastic It has so many benefits
02:45 It has a UV lamp, which you can see all the little gnats and the moths and the flies. And they're like look at that groovy light! And they fly over to the light... ...and then all of sudden... They get sucked down by the fan into the trap below But this is not a water trap. No, it's not a water trap It does have a trap door so they get sucked down into the trap and you can see them in the little mesh enclosing So that so you essentially instead of just killing him with a water trap your tour tormenting well? No because here's the cool part about it after you're done using the dinah trap You can just unscrew it and take it outside let them all go oh
03:28 Oh, that's sick. What do you mean it is not sick? It's humane! You know like fishing and catching release... I mean there are bugs. It is catch and release! They just come right back. Catching release is fine! It's like okay here ya go. So your some sort of animal rights guy. Well I didn't say I did it, I'm just saying you can. We had um... Sounds like there's no other choice if they're not dead in there. Oh no they go pretty quick They get sucked down in there and they're like, I got no water. I got nothing to feed on but it works It's unbelievable the this thing mean it fills up with a little Water down there No, I read the instru well I could but then we'd kill them immediately and now they just get trapped down there And you can let him go so it's not bad So I have it in the studio and not a gnat insight
04:23 Yeah, you'd have been screwed if you had not done something about the situation. You know, if there's a drop of orange juice someplace they'll breed in that and you have a million of them coming out of a drop of orange juice. You forgot to wipe up or something could be in the drain. They go in there and they'll breed it and they breed within I think just a few hours. I think they have... Oh really? There are some nasty bugs. I mean, they're not nasty so far as biting you or anything but they just all over the place So that is our consumer report oh no! I have another consumer report. A very important one
