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NEW SPECIAL EFFECTS: Thanks to Technical Producer Ryan Young for his new audio effects in this episode. Soon our production values will rival those of local morning Morning Zoo.

Also, your hosts extend special thanks to the audio wizardry of LibertyWeek’s technical director Ryan Young and the scheduling flexibility provided by blogger outreach guru Ryan Lynch.

We start out by re-capping the weekend’s entertainments, including films presented at the American Film Renaissance annual film festival here in Washington, D.C., the victory of the New England Patriots over the San Francisco 49ers and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History’s eye-opening special exhibit on the history and culture of the Rastafari.

Your hosts then proceed to tackle the big issues of the day, including the fallout from the Wall Street bailout bill, political interference with a proposed online advertising deal between Google and Yahoo, the just-announced recipients of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, the prospect of Sen. Ted Stevens spending “a little time in jail,” the $50 million embezzlement scandal in D.C. city government, parental controls for teen drivers, and, as always, the best in Olympic headlines.

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SPECIAL FEATURE: For those in the Washington, D.C. area, your LibertyWeek hosts encourage you to attend the American Film Renaissance Institute’s Film Festival, this October1-4th, the world’s first-ever film festival featuring movies with conservative and libertarian themes, now in its 5th year. The festival kicks off with the Washington premiere of Robert Davi’s directorial debut, The Dukes, a warm-hearted heist comedy starring Chazz Palminteri (Analyze This, The Usual Suspects) and Peter Bogdanovich (The Sopranos, The Last Picture Show). Other festival films include the Moving Picture Institute’s Do As I Say, about the hypocrisy of leading liberal icons from Michael Moore to Al Gore, and the much-anticipated comedy An American Carol, with an all-star cast featuring Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voight, Leslie Nielsen, Dennis Hopper and James Woods. Browse the full lineup of films, receptions, parties and events and purchase tickets here.

Also, don’t forget to purchase a copy of special guest Iain Murray’s new book The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don’t Want You to Know About – Because They Helped Cause Them. Perfect for weddings, bar mitzvahs, confirmations, anniversaries and gift-giving occasions of all varieties. Now available at 34% off at Amazon.com and at fine booksellers nationwide.

SPECIAL GUEST: John Berlau joins us to discuss the ongoing Wall Street bailout debacle and explains to us how something as mundain as accounting rules could be dramatically affecting US financial markets.

SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL GUEST: Radu Burnete (our Romanian intern) joins us to consider how European Union rules have made short cucumbers, uncurved bananas and unpasteurized cheese crimes against the people.

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