ZadekpediaThe Bob Zadek Show, 2009–2023 — every episode, every guest, every argument. “The longest running live libertarian talk radio show on all of radio,” hosted by San Francisco attorney Bob Zadek: one scholar or litigator per week, the statute read before the interview, ideas not attitude.
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The episode database — every surviving broadcast, filterable by year, guest, organization and topic, sortable by any column. Start here if you know roughly what you are looking for.
Search every word — the full text of every conversation. Find the minute someone said “eminent domain” and play it from there.
The timeline — the same episodes year by year, if you would rather see how the show’s preoccupations moved between 2009 and 2023.
Start here — the best of the archive
A few of the highest-profile hours, playable right here. The rest are in the episode database.
Read
- Bob’s greatest hits — 62 of his strongest articulations and funniest lines, each quoted verbatim and linked to the minute it was said.
- Bob-isms — the recurring phrases, what each one means, and where he deploys it. “Ideas, not attitude” opens 194 episodes.
- The Founding Fathers — Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Franklin, Adams, Paine, Mason and Henry, as the show argued about them. Bob’s own rankings: Adams “my favorite founder”, Mason and Henry “my heroes”.
- Books by Bob Zadek — and the library of every book discussed on air.
Browse by subject
- Subjects — fifteen of them, from the Constitution and the courts to housing and land, each opening onto its topics and every episode that argued them: civil asset forfeiture, occupational licensing, foot voting, rent control, the minimum wage.
- Guests — every guest, A–Z by first name, each with every episode they were on. Frank Buckley ×10, Richard Epstein ×8, Alex Nowrasteh ×8, Ilya Somin ×6, Jeffrey Singer ×6.
- Organizations — where the guests came from: Cato ×54, George Mason and Mercatus ×28, Reason ×24, the Institute for Justice, Pacific Legal Foundation, FIRE.
- People the show was about, from Adam Smith to Ronald Reagan, and the glossary of terms, laws and cases.
Built from the recordings by Creative Intelligence Agency. Every article cites the episodes it was written from and every quotation is verbatim from the transcript. Bob Zadek owns the recordings.