Good Bye to All That: The Falcon & The Winter Soldier

This week on Good Bye to All That, The Pop Break’s Podcasts
Editor Alex Marcus is joined by Michael T. Ford
III, co-host of the Racial Draft
Podcast, to discuss Disney Plus’s The Falcon
& The Winter Soldier, Marvel Studios latest event series,
starring Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan as the titular Falcon
& The Winter Soldier as they deal with the fall out of a
post-blip world and come to terms with the mantle of Captain
America now that Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers is no longer a part of
the franchise after 2019’s Avengers: Endgame.


Show Topics discussed include:


-How covering the series weekly on TWO podcasts impacted
Michael’s experience with the series


-How the series’ various sympathetic antiheroes impacted the
telling of Sam’s story


-What went wrong with the Flag Smashers


-If the Power Broker mattered


-The ways in which Karli and Walker’s arc’s parallel each other


-The incredible performance and transgressive nature of Carly
Lumbly’s Isiah Bradley


-The role of Wakanda and Zemo on the series


-If Bucky deserved to be the co-lead of this series and if he
could ever be a solo lead


-What’s next for Sam Wilson’s Captain America, including thoughts
on the new costume!


You can follow host Alex Marcus on Twitter and
Letterboxd and check out his film podcast
Cinema Joes.