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His name wasn't always Jason. Before he was directing documentaries with Steven Spielberg and running the Mayweather vs. McGregor press tour, he was a kid in Teaneck, New Jersey named Noam.

In this conversation, Jason Aron explains what a documentary actually is once the cameras stop rolling — "entertaining propaganda," in his own words — and what it's like to build the most-watched moments in someone else's story while quietly editing your own.

We talk about the bar mitzvah video that accidentally became a film starring Spielberg and Michael J. Fox, what was real and what wasn't backstage at Mayweather vs. McGregor, and the one scene from his own life he'd cut if he could.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Cold open — "At some point, you became Jason"
01:30 Yavneh, TABC, and the criminal justice degree his parents wanted
04:30 The bar mitzvah video that led to Spielberg
08:15 The Kickstarter, and the call from "Adam Goldberg"
20:58 The Read
22:11 "Is it accurate?"
30:53 Mayweather vs. McGregor — real or theater?
35:52 "Is a documentary journalism, or a product?"
40:15 Define "unfiltered"
49:50 The moment he'd fight to cut from his own life

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"People look at a picture from outside and they picture it differently. It's a beautiful picture. I wake up, I put on my makeup, I have a smile on my face. But people don't know the inside."

🎟️ Seed of Life Gala — September 30. Donate here:
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All proceeds support the World Children's Transplant Fund.

Louise Gill chairs a foundation that gives children in countries without the medical infrastructure a chance at a transplant. A diagnosis that's survivable here is a death sentence there. On September 30 she's trying to raise $1.2 million toward a fund in Armenia.

She has almost no presence online, and that's deliberate. This is the first long conversation she's given.

In this episode:
— the mother in Argentina whose dying request started the whole organisation
— what the money actually pays for, and where it goes
— what she learned from her mother, who helped resettle Armenian refugees for decades
— being on a police commission and what she's had to say from that seat
— what she says to one person who thinks they're not enough
— why she believes being humble is the highest form of integrity

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 "People see the picture"
00:33 When helping children became the thing she's here for
02:20 Her mother, ANCHA, and 68,000 refugees
04:20 The mother in Argentina whose dying wish started it
06:10 Why Armenia, and why now
08:30 What September 30 actually looks like
09:40 The two people being honoured
12:30 What the money does
13:50 "There's nothing about me on the internet"
16:20 "We're lacking the unity"
21:29 Taking care of other people's children
22:20 Three years
25:05 "People don't know the inside"
26:39 The ones who want the photo
31:53 To anyone who feels like just one person

INSIGHT is a long-form interview show about the stories behind the headlines, hosted by Emma Sargsyan. New episodes Saturdays 1pm PT.

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He spent 22 years in the FBI. For over two decades of it, he decided whether people were telling the truth.

George Olivo became an FBI-certified polygraph examiner in 2012, and was later promoted to Senior Polygraph Examiner for the FBI's Los Angeles Division, managing the polygraph program for the second-largest office in the country. His colleagues called him the Gatekeeper.

In this conversation, he explains the only five lies that actually exist, why he treats every person in that chair like a hundred-dollar bill, and the exact moment — he calls it the point of surrender — where nearly every confession happens. He tells the story of a night in an abandoned house in Englewood that changed the course of his life. And near the end, he says something about the Casey Anthony case he's never said publicly before.

Since retiring from the Bureau, George has conducted polygraph examinations for A&E's Lie Detector series, including George and Cindy Anthony and Shannon Price, and appears regularly on FBI-focused podcasts including The Consult and FBI Case File Review. He now runs George Olivo & Associates, a private practice offering federally certified polygraph examinations in all fifty states.

Learn more or book a consultation: https://georgeolivo.com
He also runs Operation DREAM, a nonprofit providing food and support to orphans in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

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This is a long one. Worth all of it.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 "how many innocent people have you called liars?"
02:05 Can I tell if you're lying right now?
04:20 The only five lies that exist
09:40 The house he grew up in
12:50 From the FBI to a small room with one chair
14:50 The Read
17:20 Inside the pre-test interview
24:10 Building rapport — treating people like a $100 bill
28:00 The mirror — a story that changed his life
34:00 The 10/80/10 rule and the point of surrender
39:30 The gatekeeper, corrected
42:00 Karina Sanchez — Harbor Division
54:00 Can you actually beat a polygraph?
1:01:30 What his critics get right
1:10:00 "In God we trust, everyone else we polygraph"
1:11:20 Operation Dream
1:19:40 The one he's still not sure about — and Casey Anthony

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