From Revisionist History: The Alabama Murders
Hot Money: Agent of Chaos
Pushkin Industries & Financial Times
4.6 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Here's a preview of a podcast we think you'll enjoy. It's from the new season of Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast, The Alabama Murders. Florence, Alabama. 1988. A preacher has an affair. A woman is murdered. One death cascades into more, stretching across decades and leaving no one untouched — victims, bystanders, perpetrators, and those just trying to help. Eventually, the consequences lead to the center of a hot national debate on who should be allowed to live, who should die, and how the state should kill them. On The Alabama Murders, Malcolm asks: why, in our efforts to alleviate suffering, do we so often make it worse?
Find Revisionist History: The Alabama Murders wherever you get podcasts. To get early access to ad-free episodes and extra content, subscribe to Pushkin+ on the Revisionist History show page on Apple Podcasts or at pushkin.fm/plus.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | It was the spring of 1988, northwestern Alabama. |
| 0:08.9 | A preacher commits a sin, a deeply personal transgression. |
| 0:13.7 | And from there, everything spirals out of control. |
| 0:17.1 | The amount of damage this man did is incalculable. |
| 0:21.1 | It's still damaging all of us. |
| 0:23.8 | It still hurts us to think about it. |
| 0:25.8 | From Revisionous History, this is The Alabama Murders. |
| 0:29.9 | Listen to Revisionous History, The Alabama Murders, Anyway You Get Podcasts. |
| 0:36.8 | Pushkin. Podcasts. |
| 0:41.4 | Pushkin. |
| 0:45.6 | Malcolm Gladwell here. |
| 0:49.1 | Today you'll hear a preview from the latest season of Revisionous History. |
| 0:52.1 | My podcast is about The Overlooked and Misunderstood. |
| 0:56.0 | This season, the Alabama murders. We'll look back to 1988 in northwest Alabama, |
| 0:59.0 | where a man committed a crime that spiraled out of control. |
| 1:03.0 | A woman was murdered, and her death cascaded into more tragedies, |
| 1:08.0 | leaving no one untouched, victims, bystanders, perpetrators, and even those just |
| 1:13.5 | trying to help. The Alabama murders ask the question, why in our efforts to alleviate suffering, |
| 1:19.9 | do we so often make it worse? Here's the preview. Find revisionist history, The Alabama Murders, |
| 1:27.1 | wherever you listen to podcasts. And if you |
| 1:29.8 | want to hear the full story right now, add free, subscribe to Revisionous History on Pushkin |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Pushkin Industries & Financial Times, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Pushkin Industries & Financial Times and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.