The 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.
Find an episode
The episode database — all 355 broadcasts, filterable by year, guest, organization and topic, sortable by any column. Start here if you know roughly what you are looking for.
The timeline — the same episodes year by year, if you would rather see how the show’s preoccupations moved between 2009 and 2023.
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 the argument
- Concepts — civil asset forfeiture, occupational licensing, foot voting, public choice, regulatory capture.
- Laws & policies and Cases — Title IX, Prop 13, Section 230, CEQA; Kelo, Timbs, Janus.
- Guests & people — 272 people across 367 appearances. Richard Epstein ×9, Alex Nowrasteh ×8, Ilya Somin ×7.
- Organizations — Cato ×57, George Mason/Mercatus ×30, Reason ×25, FIRE, the Institute for Justice, CEI, Mises.
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.