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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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