Hello, trusted companion, on the ongoing journey that is this the Tully show.

I'm so pleased as always to have you here.

I am especially pleased for you that you decided to click on this week's episode.

I guarantee you are going to enjoy.

You're going to get a lot out of the conversation that I had with Robert

Spolsky. I have been reading about his book everywhere.

Everywhere that I trust, a news source that I use for my own personal information has been talking about

his book determined.

It is going to be on all of the year-end best-of lists, and I'm so pleased he was willing to spend some time with us.

I'm even more pleased with just what a great conversation we had.

It's a big mind-bending topic the book determined is all about whether or not human beings

possess free will but Robert manages to make it accessible

understandable human kind of life-affirming you're to enjoy it and then you're going to go

enjoy the book we'll get to that in a second real quick you know what else you might

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Okay, you ready to start this show!

Your host is the evening is a really funny dude.

I forgot his last name, but I've seen him before and he's really funny.

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