Lex Fridman wants to interview Zelensky in Russian

Vlad's main channel

Support Vlad's work on Patreon!

Support Vlad via PayPal

[VladVexlerChat]

Vlad's main channel

Support Vlad's work on Patreon!

Support Vlad via PayPal

[arthurarthur]

That was a pretty odd request from Lex. I speak Russian fluently, and I've heard him trying speak Russian a couple of times and he’s really not that good at it. Honestly, I’d say Zelensky’s English sounds better than Lex’s Russian.

[Mark.Harrington]

I would like to see Putin interviewed in The Hague

[sgee]

I also wanted that Rogan and Trump interview conducted in english but unluckily they resorted to gibberish.

[Ravengagepvl]

Lex is the kind of guy that would attend the Nuremberg trials in a Live Laugh Love t-shirt and ask why we can't all just get along.

[Silverwidows]

Lex didn't interview Garry Kasparov in russian, even though garry is russian. It's a psychological play by lex

[eltamarindo]

Lex Friedman wraps his inherent disingenuousness with a painfully long-winded veneer of intellectualism

[haroldellis]

I think of Lex Fridman as a microphone holder who lacks a moral core.

[MrScandinavio]

Lex says he is not politically biased, however he is. He has an opinion and it comes through with his odd choices in questions or lack there of.

[Yells_at_Cloud]

Let’s compromise and do the interview in ancient Sumerian

[raymondgough]

Your comment about Lex having a "tendency to believe in positive intent from all leaders" was quite shocking for me because it made me realise I do this too. I need to think more about this and the potential negatives it brings...

[IsabelCoenen]

Friedman's arselicking Trump interview was so shocking that I would never want to watch him again.

[kirktown]

I've distanced myself from Lex since Ukraine was invaded and I watched him take several days to finally condemn Russia's invasion. I'm like him in some ways, he's part Ukrainian and speaks Russian and I'm primarily Ukrainian part Russian born in CCCP, and also mainly spoke Russian due to circumstance. I never thought of myself as Russian but wouldn't come to resent the language and association until Russia invaded Georgia... Then Chechnya... Now Ukraine.

Yet, despite Russia's bloody behavior, kids growin up under russification in their country were being welcomed more and more worldwide thanks to the internet... Not sure how to explain, but Lex finds himself as a 80's kid who wants to be proud of his heritage in some way, who wants to be part of bridging a gap. Is he actually doing that? I don't think so, I think his fence sitting is causing harm. I think his being enamoured with the душа of the Russian language, since he just doesn't speak Ukrainian which has the same quality.

I can't understand Lex anymore, he should be smart enough to know he's doing harm at this point.

[mattd]

Maybe Zelenskyy could be interviewed by someone who can both speak Ukrainian and also isn't a toxic propagandist.

[BusyLad]

If there ever was epitome of pseudo intellectualism it's Lex Fridman.

[coldwar]

Lex doesn’t even speak Russian that well so I don’t understand why LOL

[kated]

As a Ukrainian a feel a wave of rage by the fact that he even proposed that. It is not a respectful gesture at all.

[paulyoung]

Lex Fridman can speak in Russian and Zelensky can answer in English. That would show who's side, each is on.

[Ragnarok]

Lex is such a disappointment, at the very beginning of his podcast he was interviewing people in the academic fields of artificial intelligence and computer science, and now he just gives a platform to people like Trump or Musk.

[barmalini]

I'd rather see an interview of Putin by Tucker Carson in Ukrainian