Behind the Scenes with Andrew Jarecki
Revisionist History
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 62K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Since Andrew Jarecki’s latest documentary The Alabama Solution debuted on HBO, it has stunned viewers with a story about a group of men seeking justice. The film shows the egregious abuse and systemic failure of Alabama’s prison system, largely through footage shot by incarcerated men on contraband cellphones.
In this conversation, Malcolm sits down with Andrew Jarecki to discuss the making of the Oscar-nominated film and how it resonates with The Alabama Murders, the seven episode series Revisionist History released last year.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jonathan Goldstein and this spring, heavyweight revisits some favorite episodes. |
| 0:06.9 | Yeah, I think I want to know why she made my life so difficult if she had some kind of thing against me. |
| 0:13.7 | Plus, we check back in with our guests to see what's changed in the years since. |
| 0:18.5 | How long has it been? Things have transpired. |
| 0:20.9 | Yeah, the last 10 years, everything's changed. |
| 0:24.5 | Listen to Heavyweight wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:40.7 | Hello, hello, revisionist history listeners. |
| 0:43.5 | As many of you will know, we did a seven-part series last fall called The Alabama |
| 0:47.6 | Murders, the story of the death of a preacher's wife in the shoals in northwestern Alabama |
| 0:52.4 | 35 years ago and the tragic reverberations of that case. |
| 0:56.8 | I honestly think it's one of the best things we've ever done on revisionist history. |
| 1:01.3 | And almost the exact time that our series dropped, HBO aired a brilliant documentary called |
| 1:07.4 | The Alabama Solution. The revisionist history series was about the death penalty in |
| 1:12.6 | Alabama. The Alabama solution was about the prison system in Alabama. |
| 1:18.0 | We had record numbers of people leaving out of here body bags. They don't want the public to see |
| 1:22.9 | what's really going on on the head side. How can the journal is going to a war zone but can't go into a prison in the United States |
| 1:29.5 | of America? |
| 1:31.1 | The state is selling one lawsuit after another. |
| 1:33.5 | There's no consequences for their actions. |
| 1:35.9 | There's an argument that there is some systemic problem within all of our facilities, |
| 1:40.0 | and I wholeheartedly disagree with that. |
| 1:46.6 | The two projects fit together almost perfectly. |
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