Zelenskyy agrees to record podcast with American interviewer Friedman

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has agreed to record a podcast with American scholar and interviewer Lex Fridman. Source: Zelenskyy and Fridman on social network X Details: On Saturday, Fridman wrote that he would like to record a 3-hour podcast with Zelenskyy and was ready to come to Kyiv for this purpose.

"Agreed.

See you in Ukraine," Zelenskyy tweeted in response. For reference: Lex Fridman (Alexey Alexandrovich Fridman) is an American scholar and interviewer of Ukrainian-Jewish descent, born in Tajikistan and raised in Moscow. Fridman started his podcast in 2018.

It was originally called The Artificial Intelligence Podcast but was changed to The Lex Fridman Podcast in 2020.

Episodes of the podcast have featured, among others, US President-elect Donald Trump, businessman Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Fridman visited Ukraine during the full-scale war in the summer of 2022.

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