247: What Is This Thing?
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(upbeat music) - WWE beat easy Chicago is a American life distributed by Public Radio International. I'm a reclass. ♪ What is this thing ♪ ♪ How long ♪ ♪ Missed my name ♪ ♪ Oh now ♪ ♪ And just who can saw ♪ ♪ It's mystery ♪ ♪ Why should it make a fool of me ♪ - If you listen to the lyrics to this song, I have to say, it couldn't really be stated more simply. I had you, it was happy, you laughed. What was that about? More than any other pop song, it just kind of throws its hands in the air and says, what the hell? Not even at the person who left, but at the very idea of love, here's Killy Smith. ♪ I saw you there ♪ ♪ What wonderful day ♪ ♪ You took my heart and threw it away ♪ ♪ That's why I asked the Lord in heaven above ♪ ♪ What is this thing called ♪ (upbeat music) - Here's the story for you. Back during World War II, an infantryman named Joe Garland fell in love, completely breath-stoppingly in love with this college student named Helen Bryan. They brought it back and forth. And when the war ended, he was eager to get married. But her parents thought that she was too young. They wanted her to finish school. They did not see what all the hurry was. He wouldn't have it. - So he went off and made very hasty decisions and was married within what, to someone else within about six months. So a great surprise to say the least to me. - I was terribly impatient. I wanted to get married. I wanted to have children, a little house in the suburbs, do everything that we'd been deprived of, that we'd given up of, that we didn't know whether we were ever gonna come back to. You know, we've got to get in there and we've got to do it now. Everything you've got to do now. You've got to do everything now. 'Cause you don't know whether you're gonna be alive
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