Zelenskyy agrees to record podcast with American interviewer Lex Fridman

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has agreed to record a podcast with American computer scientist and interviewer Lex Fridman.

Source: Zelenskyy and Fridman on X

Agreed. See you in Ukraine, @lexfridman — Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) November 30, 2024

Details: Fridman tweeted on Saturday that he would love to record a three-hour podcast with Zelenskyy and was prepared to travel to Kyiv to do it.

"Agreed. See you in Ukraine," Zelenskyy tweeted back.

For reference: Lex Fridman (Alexey Alexandrovich Fridman) is an American computer scientist and podcaster of Ukrainian-Jewish descent who was born in Tajikistan and raised in Moscow.

Fridman started his podcast in 2018. It was originally called The Artificial Intelligence Podcast but was renamed 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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