You've been given a great gift George a chance to see what the world would be like without you

Hello and welcome once again to the Synophiles where this week we are continuing our exploration of one of our favorite holiday films.

It's a wonderful life.

My name is Steve Morris.

I'm a filmmaker in directing director in Los Angeles, California.

Hello, my name is John Rook. I'm a writer producer and host here in San Diego, California,

and of course, excited as well as Steve is to jump back into one of our favorite films and explore

what's been going on in Bedford Falls here. It's funny we've just had a

really horrible tragedy and reversal in life with the death of Peter Bailey and

George being forced to take over the building and loan and sacrificing his trip to

Europe and college and we're about to get to one that another he had another

disappointment in the life of George Bailey should we should we jump right

into it let's do it let's jump right into it? Let's do it, let's jump right into it.

So we're at the train station and it's been four years and Harry went off to college

and George has a bunch of pamphlets in his hands and what's interesting

by the way is they're all pamphlets to jobs in faraway places.

But college is now out.

You know what I mean? Yes. Oh yes. College is now out. You know what I mean?

Yes, no, yes. College is done.

He's only a high school graduate.

Yeah.

And no trip to Europe and he's talking to Uncle Billy and then the train comes up and there is Harry and they joke and

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