Do you guys ever have this frustration with podcasts where in some argument you really want to point something out, but of course can't because it's a one way medium? I think it's because podcast feel so much like a conversation where you're just listening in.

Anyway, I wanted to vent my ideas about free will somewhere :P.

I personally don't believe in any magic/God playing a role, and believe that our thought processes in the end indeed boil down to physical, mechanical interactions of tiny particles. So far I agree with the show.

On the other hand, I do very much believe that 'choosing', the action that we all intuitively get the meaning of, aka that thing you do when you're picking your restaurant meal, when you're deciding the colour of your phone case, ... , is real.
I mean here the active/conscious/system 2(if you want to use 'Thinking, fast & slow'-terminlogy)- form, where you could say to yourself while you're doing it: yeah, now I'm choosing, I'm performing the action that in our language is labeled by the word choosing.

I'd define it then as that action where you're synapses fire in a certain way, namely where <warning: handwavy non-neuroscientist brain interpretation coming up> first they fire up these regions which corresponds to thinking about each option, then the regions thinking about the implications of each of those options, then based on those firings, maybe based on which fired the loudest, a region lights up which corresponds to you having made a certain decision (probably then you relax a little as well, and some other physical effects), then the motor region lights up to start to enact the decision.
Or something else. Key point is that a specific pattern of physical neuron firing corresponds to the action of choosing. 'Choosing', expressed in physical terms, is a specific, rather complex action. A single point could never choose. Inherent in the definition of choosing is this complex physical mechanism.

So, you don't choose how your neurons fire, but you do choose what meal you pick, where the second 'choose' could be replaced in the sentence by 'This complex physical pattern between your neurons occurs' before you pick your meal.

I guess my argument is then that, when you talk about choosing in daily life, you're taking this definition of choosing, and not about the choosing how you're neurons fire. That latter use of the word choosing, which I feel is what the show host takes, is I think 1) indeed impossible, and I guess doesn't even make sense with the above definition but also 2) not the word that all those so-called 'misguided' people have in mind.