A warning, this episode contains discussion of suicide.

For a lot of people, it's a wonderful life is the Christmas movie.

George Bailey's story of learning how much you really matter to the world has family,

community, and angel, a mean rich guy, and a little kid playing carols on the piano.

It wasn't a hit when it was released 75 years ago, but it's a wonderful life has become

a staple of holiday viewing.

I'm Stephen Tulsa.

And I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're talking about it's a wonderful life on pop culture

happy hour from NPR.

This message comes from NPR sponsor Capital One.

With early paycheck, you can get your direct deposit up to two days earlier, and with no

fees or minimums on checking and savings accounts, banking with Capital One is the easiest decision.

And supply, see capital one dot com slash bank capital one NA member FDIC joining us today

from his home studio is Glenn Weldon of the NPR culture desk.

Hi Glenn.

Hey Linda.

And also here with us from the West Coast is Iisha Harris.

Hi, hi there Linda.

It's wonderful to see all of you in this holiday season.

It might be redundant to recap the plot of this very familiar film, but here we go.

So wonderful life is the story of George Bailey who spends his entire life trying to be a

good person, trying to help his community, making sacrifices for others.

...