ZadekpediaBob Zadek (Robert A. Zadek) is a San Francisco business attorney and the host of The Bob Zadek Show, which aired Sunday mornings on KSFO 560 AM from 2009 to 2023 and billed itself as “the longest running live libertarian talk radio show on all of radio.” The surviving archive runs from April 2009 to November 2023.
The format was his own: one guest, one book or case or statute, about fifty minutes. He read the underlying text before the show and then questioned its author the way a lawyer examines a witness — granting the premises, then working through the mechanism, the constitutional question and the practical consequence. His rule for the conversation was “ideas, not attitude.”
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- Every guest, A–Z — who he interviewed, with every appearance.
- The episode database — every surviving broadcast, by year, guest and topic.
- Bob’s greatest hits — his strongest articulations and funniest lines, verbatim.
- Bob-isms — the phrases he returned to, and where.
- Books by Bob Zadek — five books, four of them built from the show’s interviews.
- The Founding Fathers — as the show argued about them.
Bob on his own
A handful of broadcasts have no guest: Bob making the argument himself.
- Legalize Drugs (2009)
- Best of: Changing the Face of History (2010)
- The Credit Crunch (2010)
- The Rent Control Bomb (2019)
- Force as Farce: Unmasking the COVID Hypocrites (2020)