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October 18, 2026
Breaking Down the Walls of Mediocrity
Part 1
Good morning, Central Kansas and around the world! Welcome to “Message at the Top,” and happy Fall again—such a beautiful time of year. Welcome to Mix 103.3’s unique top 10 show, “Message at the Top”. I am Fr. Mike, your host; get ready for the top 10 songs of our area as determined by our own research and Mediabase 24-7. We here at Mix 103 continue to give you only the very best in radio entertainment, / and that includes not only the songs that we play, but their messages as well. This morning, we have top 10 songs from today and yesterday, concentrating on the current top 10 and songs of the past top 10’s that include music from Taylor Swift and birthday people Doja Cat, Dean Lewis, Drake and Katy Perry.
And speaking of Katy Perry, her real name is Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson and she will 42 years old next Sunday. After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in Gospel music as a teenager. Then she signed with Capitol Records and has been successful ever since. She has received many awards, including 20 Guinness World Records, five American Music Awards, a Brit Award, and a Juno Award, and has been included in the annual Forbes lists of highest-earning women in music from 2011–2018. She is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold 151 million records globally throughout her career. So in honor of her birthday, we allow her to give us our lead song this morning, using an excellent song of hers and talking about the opposite of mediocrity.
That thought of mediocrity is the thought of one of her songs. It is one great song of meaning, certainly a 10+ song of meaning because it should make us realize what we are doing with our lives. Beginning with the words, “Are we crazy,” she then challenges us by saying that we may be simply “living our lives through a lens, trapped in our white picket fence, like ornaments, so comfortable, living in a bubble.” And she says what the real problem is, namely loneliness. But she wants to break through the distortion, break down the walls, inspire others to riot out of the rut. But the people don’t, they merely go back to doing what they always do without accomplishing the things that they could accomplish. Life goes on and on and on, like we’re chained to the rhythm, and we miss what life is really all about. We simply stick to our selfish feelings and problems, and do not open up to the people around us.
It is a statement of people who are satisfied with the way things are, and are not interested in going further in their lives. Or as they define it, they are satisfied with mediocrity. The song is a challenge because it is a statement to all of us. We are the people she is talking about. We are the ones who need to riot out of the rut of life. We are called to search for something higher than simply living out our lives.
I think that that gives us a pretty good theme for our show this morning as we think of Katy Perry’s birthday. “What are some ways to break down the walls of mediocrity” is the question we will deal with. That will bring up some interesting commentary, I believe. MATT presenting here a great song and video as well—this is Katy Perry singing along with Jamaican singer/songwriter who helped write the song as well, Skip Marley, from 2017, from her album “Witness,” her song “Chained to the Rhythm”, happy birthday next Sunday Katy Perry on MATT.
(double) CHAINED TO THE RHYTHM / Katy Perry f/ Skip Marley
BIRTHDAY / Katy Perry
Part 2
From Katy Perry again from her album “Prism”, and her song “Birthday” in honor of her own birthday next Sunday. It has a very interesting video in which Katy Perry does some pretty interesting acting. The song is a birthday wish for a boyfriend. “I heard you’re feeling nothing’s going right. Why don’t you let me stop by? The clock is ticking, running out of time, so we should party all night. So, cover your eyes, I have a surprise. Boy when you’re with me, I’ll give you a taste, make it like your birthday every day, I know you like it sweet, so you can have your cake, give you something good to celebrate.” As we think of how to stay away from mediocrity, a theme she gave us, one of the ways is to really enjoy our birthdays, even though we get older.
Let’s go to our countdown beginning with number 10 and give us numbers 10 through number 6. At number 10 is a song new to our top 10 from super artist Taylor Swift. It is a song of revenge as the lady in a once upon a time relationship talks directly to the new girlfriend of that lover. She sings: “I’ve gotta be honest, I’ve been expecting your call.” She had heard that they were having difficulties in dating, and she tells her that she knows something about that: “If you wanna party with somebody who might know about the devil on his shoulder under his halo, when the toxins take their hold, you’d rather die than let it go. But if you’re sick of him, I got you, I was patient zero.” Patient zero is a person identified as the first to become infected with an illness or disease in an outbreak. Therefore in the song, the person who is singing was his first victim. In terms of our theme this week, she is breaking down the walls of mediocrity by explaining to another the problems of the man in the relationship. Hopefully, somewhere along the line, someone will try to explain to him how he is coming across. From her album “The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore,” this is Taylor Swift at number 10 on our countdown, “Patient Zero” on MATT.
(triple) 10 PATIENT ZERO / Taylor Swift
9 MR KNOW IT ALL / Teddy Swims
8 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
Part 3
Continuing our countdown at number 8, that is a former number 1, three Korean young ladies named Huntr/X, and their former number 1 song “Golden” on MATT. It is from the soundtrack of the animated movie, “K Pop Demon Hunters” and the theme of the Netflix film that follows Huntr/X, the singers of the song—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “We’re going up, it’s our moment. You know together we’re glowin, gonna be golden. I’m done hidin’ now, I’m shinin’ like I’m born to be, oh, our time, no fears, no lies, that’s who we’re born to be.” I interpret it as a song urging people to do what is right, and in terms of our theme today, certainly if we really want that to happen—do what is right, we will be breaking down the walls of mediocrity in our lives.
Before them, we heard our number 9 song this week from Teddy Swims from his album “Ugly,” and his song “Mr. Know It All”. He describes it this way: The song explores the idea of a love that fails. “When you believe you already know how it ends, you protect yourself by holding back and that distance becomes the reason it fails. But when you try to fight that fate and control every outcome, you can end up suffocating the connection.” And so, some of his words: “Should’ve told you I could see this coming like I’m lookin’ right into a crystal ball. When I fall in love, it’s with misfortune. Give you everything you say you wanted, see the future like it’s written on the wall. You’re the only thing that’s missing from it. Oh, I wish I wasn’t Mr. Know It All.” The love situation is failing mainly because he is not working with the situation the way he should. In terms of our theme, he should get out of that relationship and in doing so, he will be breaking down some of the walls of mediocrity in his life.
We have taken that theme of breaking down the walls of mediocrity from Katy Perry and Skip Marley’s song “Chained to the Rhythm” and we will pursue some more thinking about that theme in just a couple of minutes with music from in order of appearance Dominic Fike, Olivia Rodrigo, the group Portugal.The Man, the band X Ambassadors and Taylor Swift. First, a thought from Vince Lombardi who knew something about football and life: “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.” That’s one of the major ways to bring about mediocrity. I’m Fr. Mike, this show is “Message at the Top”, this radio station is Mix 103.3, and we’ll be right back.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
Part 4
We are back for “Message at the Top” and we welcome you back to the top 10 songs of today and yesterday as determined by our research and your requests. We call our show MATT because we take those top 10 songs and analyze their meanings in the light of how we can live better in this complicated world. I am Fr. Mike, your host for the top 10 show of today’s best music, Mix 103.3, and we are asking each song of our show how to break down the walls of mediocrity.
Let’s continue our countdown with numbers 7 and 6. First to number 7 and a song of a person who cannot let go of a previous love relationship / perhaps because of a very difficult childhood. “I can’t move on, babydoll, waitin’ on calls, flippin’ through stations. I’m outclassed and it’s outrageous, and I’ll take it all, babydoll, whatever’s been weighin’ you down. Find me on Miami concrete, lookin’ for somebody different ‘cause my daddy was a pimp; my mama had her issues, but I miss her anyway. Oh, babydoll, please don’t call me for the wrong reasons.” The man in the relationship is looking for love, and he may not have ever learned exactly what it is. Tough song, teaching the importance of a good childhood. In terms of our theme, a good childhood is close to being the only way to learn to break down the walls of mediocrity in a person’s later life. This is 30 year old Dominic Fike born in Naples, Florida, and his song “Babydoll”, number 7 in our countdown on MATT.
(double) 7 BABYDOLL / Dominic Fike
6 DROP DEAD / Olivia Rodrigo
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Olivia Rodrigo there from her album “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” and her song “Drop Dead”, number 6 this morning on MATT’s top 10 countdown. It is a song about being totally infatuated with someone as a beginning love experience. She begins her song: “I know that the bar closes at 11, but I hope you never finish that beer. You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven,’ and I know why he wrote them now that you’re standin’ right here. One night I was bored in bed and stalked you on the internet. It’s feminine intuition ‘cause I always had a vision of us standing like this. You’re lookin’ like an angel on the walls of Versailles, the most alive I’ve ever been, but kiss me and I might drop dead.” The person in the song is completely infatuated with the man, and portrays the intense feeling of an early romance, referring to a similar experience as described in the song “Just Like Heaven.” In terms of our theme today, being infatuated with someone is one of the walls of mediocrity that must be broken in order to pursue a real relationship.
Let’s talk about the 3 songs on my website frmikescully.com this week. Tomorrow, we have a former number 1 from a band from Alaska and now based in Portland, Oregon, the band Portugal.The Man. “Can’t keep my hands to myself,” they sing, “think I’ll dust ‘em off, put ‘em back up on the shelf in case my little baby girl is in need. Am I coming out of left field? I’m a rebel just for kicks, now I been feeling it since 1966, now might be over now, but I feel it still. Let me kick it like it’s 1986, now might be over now, but I feel it still. Is it coming?” It is a song in which the person is remembering what it was like before and what was now—then—is over, but he would like the feeling again. In terms of our theme today, one of the ways to deal with mediocrity is to identify how we feel and see whether it is for our good or not. From their album “Woodstock,” a song from 2017, the group Portugal.The Man and their song “Feel It Still” on MATT.
(triple ) FEEL IT STILL / Portugal.The Man
UNSTEADY / X Ambassadors
WILDEST DREAMS / Taylor Swift
Part 6
Saturday’s song on my website frmikescully.com from Ms. Taylor Alison Swift again, this time from her award winning album “1989”, and her song “Wildest Dreams” from 2014 on MATT. The lady in the relationship has broken up with the man, and she talks about how he is going to feel about her. “He said, ‘Let's get out of this town,’” she sings, “’drive out of the city, away from the crowds.’ I thought heaven can't help me now. Nothing lasts forever, but this is gonna take me down. He's so tall and handsome. I can see the end as it begins. My one condition is: say you'll remember me standing in a nice dress, staring at the sunset, red lips and rosy cheeks. Say you'll see me again, even if it's just in your wildest dreams.” She is anticipating the breakup, and she is feeling the pain. In terms of our theme, one of the ways to fight mediocrity is to have a pretty good idea of what’s really happening in our lives and to work with it as best we can.
Before her, we heard a super song from the band X Ambassadors from their album “VHS”, and their song “Unsteady”, the number 1 song of meaning of the whole year of 2016. It is a song that talks about the importance of Moms and Dads, and it should be required listening for everyone who decides to have a family. “Hold on,” the young person sings because he/she is a little unsteady. “Mama,” the child sings, “come here. Daddy, I’m alone ‘cause this house don’t feel like home. If you love me, don’t let go. Hold on to me.” In terms of our theme, this song should make every Mom and Dad know that they cause mediocrity in their lives by not paying enough attention to their children, and it sets up the young people for very difficult beginnings in their lives. Great song to study.
We will continue with that thought of what causes mediocrity in our lives in just a few moments. Get ready for a second hour which will continue to give us top 10 songs with their messages. Let me take you to that second hour with this thought from Mr. or Mrs. Google, and really the problem with communication. “The biggest communication problem is that we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.” And when we do that, we often think negative thoughts that lead only to mediocrity. Your dial is set for “Message at the Top”; may I implore you to keep it there. Like MacArthur, we will return.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
Part 7
This is MATT on Mix 103, and we believe that every song has a message, and most of the time that message can make us do some serious thinking about life. Such is our thinking here. Hi again, everyone. You are in tune with “Message at the Top,” on Mix 103.3, your top 10 show that plays the top 10 songs in our land right now, and we also play great songs of meaning from past top 10’s. We take the top 10 of the present and the past, study their messages, and then call our show MATT. I’m your host, Fr. Mike. It’s great to have you here. We’re concentrating on the fact that there is mediocrity in our lives, and there are ways to break down its walls which our songs can help us with.
Let’s begin our second hour together with a song that comes from the problem of loneliness, a topic that is common to these songs, and we’ve heard it already. And what the person in the song needs is a connection with people. “These days my waves get lost in the ocean, seven billion swimmers, I’m going through the motions, sent up a flare, I need love and devotion, take me to the places and the people that know me, trying to just connect, thinking maybe you could show me. If there’s so many people here, then why am I so lonely? Can I get a connection?” And he’s trying to do something about it: “Right now, I’m switching to a new lane, foot on the floor, man searching for the real thing.” That which can keep us away from mediocrity, our theme today, is to recognize that we need connection with friends, and then work at it. This is the song “Connection” from 2018 from the band OneRepublic on MATT.
(triple) CONNECTION / OneRepublic
THE WAY I AM / Charlie Puth
5 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME / Ariana Grande
Part 8
Our theme next week when we will talk about one of the real problems of young love, namely breakups, Ariana Grande there at number 5 on our countdown from her new album “Petal,” “Hate That I Made You Love Me” on MATT. It is a song of a breakup: “Just know that I will find my way from you,” she sings, “Like flowers from a tomb while you decide who you are. And I can see right through like shadows on the moon and it’s all bad news. I hate that I made you love me, sorry if I made me your type. Yeah, I hate that I made you love me ‘cause I barely tried. What’s happening now? You studied my crown and borrowed my body, warm, kissed by the sun, then cold like the wind, a bee stuck in honey. Know that I will find my way from you. I hate that I made you love me.” In terms of our theme today, this love relationship is part of the mediocrity in her life, and she should indeed get out of it, and move on.
Before her, we heard from Charlie Puth from his album “Voicenotes,” from 2018, “The Way I Am”. It is the story of a man who is looking closely at his behavior and seems to be very honest—“Maybe I get a little anxious, maybe I get a little shy. I’m just trying to find a place to hide. All I wanna do is just hold somebody. I tell ‘em all / that you could either hate me or love me, but that’s just the way I am.” He wants people to accept him the way he is, and that’s just fine, but in order to overcome mediocrity in his life, our theme today, he must try to be a little better at being the way he is.
Most of our music comes to us in triple plays, and we have another one right now beginning with the band Imagine Dragons. It is song as lead singer Dan Reynolds says, about finding yourself and being willing and able to stand up to whatever adversity comes your way. So, a song about being a natural in a positive sense in today’s world. “Will you hold the line when every one of them has given up and given in? Tell me in this house of mine, nothing ever comes with a consequence of cost, tell me, will heaven step in, will it save us from our sin? Will it? ‘Cause this house of mine stands strong. That’s the price you pay.” As one faces adversity, we must be able to adjust, and when we learn to do that well, we will be finding a way to break down the walls of mediocrity, our theme today. This is a great song of meaning from Imagine Dragons, “Natural,” from 2018 on MATT.
(triple) NATURAL / Imagine Dragons
FAR AWAY / Nickelback
4 DRACULA / Tame Impala
Part 9
Our number 4 song this week from Tame Impala, the musical project of Australian instrumentalist Kevin Parker and he is accompanied by South Korean singer Jennie. It is from the album “Deadbeat” and the song “Dracula” on MATT. The song is about a person who is wanting a love connection while at the same time not wanting to come out of his chosen hidden life. Comparing the person in the song to a vampire, they sing: “The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre. The night is almost over, I still don’t know where you are. The shadows, they keep me like a movie star, daylight makes me feel like Dracula. In the end, I hope it’s you and me in the darkness, I would never leave. Run from the sunlight, Dracula.” The man in the relationship is growing up trying to understand love, and part of that understanding means that he has to move out of his desire to be alone and will involve knowing that doing that—coming out of his shell—is a wall of mediocrity that he must address, our theme today.
Before them, we heard a former number 1 song for a number of weeks in 2006, from the Canadian group Nickelback and their song “Far Away” from their multi-million selling album “All The Right Reasons”. The song is a high category song, all about forgiveness. The person in the song has been far away for far too long, they sing, and then he says, “I wanted you to stay ‘cause I need to hear you say that I love you and I forgive you for being far away for far too long.” He needs her to hear him say to her “I forgive you for being too far away.” Forgiveness is such an important part of life. We all mess up once in a while, and when we do, we have to say both / “I’m sorry,” and “I forgive you.” It is one of the most important facts about true living that we should be aware of, and when we are able to do it, we will conquer some of the mediocrity in our lives, our theme today.
Which brings us to our final break of the day. Our final session will include three birthday wishes and the top 3 songs in our land today. To break with a quote from author Marthe Troly-Curtin: “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” Now that is encouraging and a statement that some wasting time might be necessary for a good life and challenging the mediocrity of living. Our show is MATT, and we’ll be right back. I invite you to stay right where you are.
Part 10
We welcome you back to MATT as we celebrate the third Sunday of October together. We get closer to Halloween as all the stores around us keep reminding us. This show plays the top 10 songs of America, as well as some of the top 10 of the past, and we talk about their meanings, and how they can make us be a little better than we are already. I’m Fr. Mike, and we are ready to pursue our final portion of MATT together as we consider some thoughts about breaking the walls of mediocrity in life and love.
As promised, let’s remember some birthdays this week. First of all, Aubrey Drake Graham, better known as Drake, a Canadian rapper will be 40 years old this coming Saturday. We remember him with his song of a breakup that has happened, and the man in the relationship is not sure what really happened. “You used to call me on my cell phone late night when you need my love. And I know when that hotline bling that can only mean one thing. Since I left the city you got a reputation for yourself now. Everybody knows and I feel left out. You got me down, you got me stressed out, ‘cause ever since I left the city, you started goin' out more, glasses of champagne out on the dance floor, hangin' with some girls I've never seen before. Ever since I left the city, you and me we just don't get along. You make me feel like I did you wrong, going places where you don't belong.” So, a break up initiated by the lady in the relationship, one would assume, and it is extremely difficult for the man to handle. One can envision breakups as the result of mediocrity, that is, not giving the relationship the effort that must be, and the way to break it down, our theme today, is to learn from those breakups so we can improve in other relationships. This is the Grammy -award winning Best Rap Song in 2016 from Canadian singer/songwriter/rapper/actor Drake--Happy birthday, Mr. Drake, and his song from 2015, “Hotline Bling” on MATT.
(triple) HOTLINE BLING / Drake
I LIKE YOU / Post Malone & Doja Cat
BE ALRIGHT / Dean Lewis
Part 11
Happy birthday to him, a singer / songwriter from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Mr. Dean Lewis and his song “Be Alright” from 2019 as we celebrate his birthday on Wednesday of this week. He will be 39 years old. It is a song of wondering what to do when your girlfriend has cheated. “I look up from the ground to see your sad eyes. You look away from me, and I see there’s something you’re trying to hide. And then you say to me you made a dumb mistake. And I feel the color draining from my face. And my friend said, ‘I know you love her, but it’s over. It doesn’t matter, put the phone away. It’s never easy to walk away. Let her go, it’ll be alright.” Smart friend and a little later he sings: “Nothing heals the past like time. They can’t steal the love you’re born to find.” Great advice, and it will be alright, but he has to make the move first to move on unless she really means her love this time. Sometimes the only way to break down the walls of mediocrity, our theme today, is to admit mistakes and move on.
Let’s also wish happy birthday to Doja Cat. She will be 31 years old likewise this Wednesday. She sang with Post Malone in this song. It is from Post Malone’s album, “Twelve Carat Toothache” and the song “I Like You” and in parenthesis (“A Happier Song”) from 2022. The words signify some type of friendship, a song of feeling good about someone else. “I like you, I do,” they begin the song, “I wanna be your friend, go shoppin’ in the Benz, I like you, I do. I’ll hit you when I land, can you fit me in your plans? I need a good girl, I need someone to ground me, so please be true, don’t mess around with me. I need someone to share this heart with me.” I cleaned up the words a little; it is a statement of feeling love toward another. In terms of our theme today, one of the ways to break down the walls of mediocrity is to show true love to our friends.
And we have made it to our top 3 songs of this week ending today October 18, 2026. At number 3 is a song that extols, according to the singer, her Swedish roots, and in particular a summer than never ends. “No nightmares when you can still see the light,” she sings, “can’t find me—I’m not in the city tonight. I like your playlist, boy, turn it up a little louder; road’s empty, so you drive a little faster. Ain’t taken nothing tonight, but I’m feeling so high. Show my tan lines, low-rise, rooftop down, it’s golden hour all the time. It’s that midnight sun-kissed skin under the red sky. Summer isn’t over yet, it’s my favorite part now. We ain’t gotta tell no one: a never-ending midnight sun.” Sweden is a land of literally a midnight sun at least during the summer, and the singer recalls that fact in her love of a friend. Truly being in love with another human being and really working at it is a way to break down the walls of mediocrity in our lives, our theme today. From the album of the same name as the song, “Midnight Sun” this is Zara Larsson at number 3 this week on MATT.
(double) 3 MIDNIGHT SUN / Zara Larsson
2 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
Part 12
Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez, from his album “The Romantic” and his number 2 song right now, “I Just Might”, the R&B Song of the Year at this year’s VMA ceremonies on MATT. The song was a number 1 for a couple of weeks, a song of wanting another to show her love for the man in the relationship by good dancing. “It would break my heart” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” As I have said, it is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, and in terms of our theme, can good dancing help break down the walls of mediocrity in a person’s life? I think so, at least judging from the fact that people enjoy dancing.
And the number 1 song is once again from British singer Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “So Easy”, making it altogether 15 weeks at number 1. It is a song of the desire for love of one particular person. “I could be the twist, the one to make you stop,” she begins the song, “The icing on the cake, the cherry on the top. It’s heaven in my heart, and we could find you some space. I could be the world to you, the missing piece, that extra kind of chemistry. Some people make it hard; with me, that isn’t the case ‘cause I make it so easy to fall in love. So, come give me a call, and we’ll fall into us. I’m the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life. Anyone with a heart would agree: it’s so easy to fall in love with me.” So, a rather straightforward statement to someone and it sounds like the lady is saying that she and he can break down any walls of mediocrity, our theme today, as they grow in their love.
That theme was taken from Katy Perry and Skip Marley and their song “Chained to the Rhythm”, as we prepare to celebrate Katy Perry’s 42nd birthday next Sunday, and we have heard some great thoughts about how to break down the walls of mediocrity in our lives. My prayer for you and me is that every one of us will never fall into mediocrity in any relationship we are in. Thanks for your time today and thanks to our producers and to our sponsors, especially Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, Hays Car and Truck Alignment, Auto World in Hays, and Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays. If you would like to request a song to be studied or want to comment on any of my comments, feel free to write me here at KJLS-FM, Hays, KS 67601 or e-mail me at frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website is frmikescully.com where you will find a transcript of the show and some meditations on the Gospels, these songs and some great movies. A reminder that you can join us on the web every Sunday morning at 10 wherever you are: simply choose hayspost.com on your internet provider and click on Mix 103.3 at 10 am CDT for another couple weeks anyway. Before we take our leave, one final thought from Wayne Gretzky of hockey fame: “You miss 100 percent of shots you never take.” Yes, indeed. As you listen to the number 1 song in our area, from Olivia Dean once again, her song “So Easy” and as we lead into it, may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music Mix 103.3 and our advice to you is, among the other things we have said, hold a good thought. From beautiful downtown Lawrence, KS, through likewise beautiful Hays, KS and to the world, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good!
1 SO EASY / Olivia Dean
October 11, 2026
What Will Save Us?
Part 1
Hello, Central Kansas and around the world! Welcome to “Message at the Top,” and happy Fall again, as we are aware of the beautiful about-to-turn landscape around us. Welcome to Mix 103.3’s unique top 10 show, “Message at the Top”. I am Fr. Mike, your host; get ready for the top 10 songs of our area as determined by our own research and Mediabase 24-7. We here at Mix 103.3 continue to give you only the very best in radio entertainment, / and that includes not only the songs that we play, but their messages as well. This morning we have top 10 songs from among others, Huntrix, Zara Larsson and Olivia Dean; and we have past top 10’s as well from people like Benson Boone and birthday person John Mayer.
The Video Music Awards were held on September 27 this year, and the two principal winners were Taylor Swift and Madonna. It would be good to honor them, I believe, and so let’s begin our show today with two sets of songs, one featuring Taylor Swift’s winner of the VMA awards with the theme of our show today coming from the song, and one set featuring three songs from the past of Madonna’s.
Let’s begin with Taylor Swift’s song that generated the video of the year. As one would guess, it is quite a good video, and the song—well, let’s give it a proper introduction. The song involves a study of one of the plays of William Shakespeare, namely his play “Hamlet” and his once-upon-a-time presumed future wife Ophelia. In the story, Mr. Shakespeare has Ophelia drown herself after a rejection from Prince Hamlet and after her father’s death at the hands of Hamlet. So a little tragic, but the song writes a different ending. The song is a powerful anthem about the woman in a relationship being rescued from the brink of emotional and psychological collapse by an all-consuming lover who is a literal resurrection and according to the people who should know about such things, resembles her new husband. “All that time,” she sings, “I sat alone in my tower. You were just honing your powers; now I can see it all: Late one night, you dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.”
There are a number of ideas in the song that we could concentrate on, but maybe a good one would be the idea that her friend will help her. And the question might come up then of what are the different ways that we can help or be a resurrection for another person.
The primary way in my opinion involves talking to the person, and trying to make him/her see that there are some things in life that he/she could do in order to feel better or be better—and we’ve said that a number of times on our show. Be that as it may, let’s concentrate on the theme named “The Ways to Save or Help Another” this morning, and see what the songs of our show lead us to. From her latest album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” the first release from it last year, this is “The Fate of Ophelia”, the VMA video of the year, Ms. Taylor Swift on MATT.
(double) THE FATE OF OPHELIA / Taylor Swift
OPALITE / Taylor Swift
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Also from Ms. Taylor Swift, a song of hope, also from her album, “The Life of a Showgirl”, “Opalite” on MATT. It also won an award at the VMA ceremonies a couple of weeks ago. The awards introduced this year the category of “Best Direction”, recognizing performers whose work behind the camera advanced music video storytelling, and Taylor Swift won it with that song “Opalite.” It is quite a video to study. Perhaps her own explanation is necessary first. She says that she has always loved opals. Opal is also Travis Kelce’s birthstone, by the way, someone whom Taylor Swift knows in a special way. Swift took inspiration from the facts connected with opals, saying that opalite is a metaphor for the idea that happiness can be created voluntarily. Opal is also believed to symbolically represent hope, healing and positive energy. She described the song as a song about healing, self-forgiveness, and intentionally creating happiness after a past heartbreak. So she sings: “Life is a song, it ends when it ends; you move on, and that’s when I told you, it’s alright, you were dancing through the lightning strikes, but now the sky is opalite.” Ultimately, it means that things will work out eventually. In terms of our theme, what can save us in life is finally working out successfully the love situations that we are in. Taylor and Travis did.
Madonna Louise Ciccone, that is, Madonna was the other big winner at the 2026 VMA ceremonies since she was chosen to be artist of the year. We’ll devote a triple play in her honor right now beginning with a song that a very high category of meaning song, what MATT called a top 3 song of all the songs of meaning of 1994. Her song is a "Thank You" to someone who was able to let her know the truth about her behavior. "Things haven't been the same since you came into my life," she sings. "You've found a way to touch my soul. Happiness lies in your own hand. It took me much too long to understand how it could be until you shared your secret with me. Until I learned to love myself, I was never ever loving anybody else." Her words are very important for us to listen to and if we understand, they could change our outlook on life. Happiness lies in our own hands. We determine our own destiny. In fact, the reason why so many adult people are so angry or mean or disgruntled with life is that they never learned that secret. Love of self is a must before we can love anyone else. What an important lesson. And as we talk about attitudes that can save us, this is certainly one of them—learning to love who we are. Super song. From her album “Bedtime Stories”, this is her song “Secret”, 1994, Madonna on MATT.
(triple) SECRET / Madonna
VOGUE / Madonna
EXPRESS YOURSELF / Madonna
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Closing off a triple play from her, the artist of the year according to the VMA ceremonies this year, Madonna, and her song of 1989 “Express Yourself” from her album “Like a Prayer” on MATT. She sang of what must be done before anything like commitment is to happen. “Make him express how he feels and then you’ll know your love is real” she sings. Now, I believe that that is pretty good advice. In fact, in a love relationship, a person’s motivation should be guided by the thought of whether people are saying how they feel. Then, as Madonna, sang, you’ll know. Thinking with the theme of “What Will Save Us”—if a couple can talk about how they feel, their relationship will be a good one.
Before that song from her, we heard another one from her—Madonna--from the year 1990, and the song “Vogue” from her “I’m Breathless” album. She invites the listener to not just stand around, but go to it, strike a pose, then you’re in vogue. She sings: “All you need is your own imagination, so use it. That’s what it’s for. Your dreams will open the door.” Her contribution to our theme this morning might be phrased this way. One of the things that will save us as we grow is that we identify our dreams and then try to live them out.
Important words being said there about saving ourselves, not because I said them, but coming from these songs and if people would know them, we’d be able to understand our lives a little more, I believe. What great messages these songs have. We will continue our countdown and extras after our first break of the day. Let me take you to that break with a thought. It comes from Tullulah Bankhead from a number of years ago, and a really good statement of fact: “If I had my life to live again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.” Now, that is one true statement and the advice that should be taught: make it a point to try to stay away from the mistakes. Our show is called MATT; I am Fr. Mike, and I hope your Sunday is a good one. Don’t go way; “Message at the Top” on today’s best music Mix 103.3 will be right back.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
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This is MATT and it is so good to have you back with us. We welcome you back to the top 10 songs of our area as of the week ending today, and we welcome you back to some top 10 songs of the past as well. And with our music, we always give the meanings of the songs. I’m Fr. Mike, your host for the only top 10 show of its kind in this area, maybe in the world, the show that takes the top songs and explains their messages, and then we call the show “Message at the Top.” The topic of our show this morning was given to us by the winner of the VMA video of the year, Taylor Swift and her song “The Fate of Ophelia.”
Let’s take us to the end of our first hour together by listening to the beginning of our countdown beginning with number 10. It is a song of a person who cannot let go of a previous love relationship / perhaps because of a very difficult childhood. “I can’t move on, babydoll, waitin’ on calls, flippin’ through stations. I’m outclassed and it’s outrageous, and I’ll take it all, babydoll, whatever’s been weighin’ you down. Find me on Miami concrete, lookin’ for somebody different ‘cause my daddy was a pimp; my mama had her issues, but I miss her anyway. Oh, babydoll, please don’t call me for the wrong reasons.” The man in the relationship is looking for love, and he may not have ever learned exactly what it is. Tough song, teaching the importance of a good childhood. In terms of our theme, a good childhood is a way to save us in life and love. This is 30 year old Dominic Fike born in Naples, Florida, and his song “Babydoll”, number 10 in our countdown on MATT.
(double) 10 BABYDOLL / Dominic Fike
9 MR KNOW IT ALL / Teddy Swims
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Our number 9 song this week from Teddy Swims from his album “Ugly,” and his song “Mr. Know It All” on MATT. He describes it this way: The song explores the idea of a love that fails. “When you believe you already know how it ends, you protect yourself by holding back and that distance becomes the reason it fails. But when you try to fight that fate and control every outcome, you can end up suffocating the connection.” And so, some of his words: “Should’ve told you I could see this coming like I’m lookin’ right into a crystal ball. When I fall in love, it’s with misfortune. Give you everything you say you wanted, see the future like it’s written on the wall. You’re the only thing that’s missing from it. Oh, I wish I wasn’t Mr. Know It All.” The love situation is failing mainly because he is not working with the situation the way he should. In terms of our theme, the way to save the love relationship is to really work at it.
Let’s continue our countdown with number 8. It comes from Bruno Mars who just celebrated a birthday—41 years old. The song was a number 1 for a couple of weeks, a song of wanting another to show her love for the man in the relationship by good dancing. “It would break my heart” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” As I have said, it is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, and in terms of our theme, good dancing is not going to save our lives or even our loves, but it might help. This is the first song in the top 10 for him this morning, his other one following this one, Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez, from his album “The Romantic” and his number 8 song right now, “I Just Might”, the R&B Song of the Year at this year’s VMA ceremonies on MATT.
(triple ) 8 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
7 RISK IT ALL / Bruno Mars
6 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME / Ariana Grande
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The video with the Best Visual Effects according to the 2026 VMA awards, Ariana Grande there from her new album “Petal,” “Hate That I Made You Love Me”, number 6 on MATT. It is a song of a breakup: “Just know that I will find my way from you,” she sings, “Like flowers from a tomb while you decide who you are. And I can see right through like shadows on the moon and it’s all bad news. I hate that I made you love me, sorry if I made me your type. Yeah, I hate that I made you love me ‘cause I barely tried. What’s happening now? You studied my crown and borrowed my body, warm, kissed by the sun, then cold like the wind, a bee stuck in honey. Know that I will find my way from you. I hate that I made you love me.” So, a relatively negative song, and in terms of our theme, this love relationship is not going to help save her life, and probably she should indeed get out of it as she plans.
Before her, we heard the close of a top 10 double play from him, also from his album “The Romantic”, Bruno Mars, and his song of complete commitment to another, “Risk It All”, number 7 right now on MATT. “For just the chance to win your heart, you could set the bar beyond the stars” he sings, “I’ll do anything, anything you ask me to. Say you want the moon—watch me learn to fly, ain’t no mountain you could point to I wouldn’t climb. It’s crazy, but it’s true. There’s nothing I won’t do. I’d risk it all for you.” He describes a permanent commitment to another really well, I believe. In terms of our theme this week, making a permanent commitment and the follow through is a way to live and save a life.
As always, we have some interesting thoughts about some very real love and life situations in these songs. The theme of MATT this morning is the idea of saving our lives. Our next session of music and message will explore that theme with top 10 music from the past. In fact, get ready for music from John Mayer, the band lovelytheband, Benson Boone, Shawn Mendes, the group BTS, and Sabrina Carpenter. Let me take you to break with this thought. It comes from Pearl S. Buck, the famous early advocate for women’s rights, born in Hillsboro, West Virginia by the way, not far from my home town: “Every great mistake has a half-way moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.” Now that is encouraging—mistakes made about life have some time when we can re-think what we’re going to do. Advice to remember. You bet. I’m Fr. Mike for “Message at the Top” on today’s best music Mix 103.3.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
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This is “Message at the Top” on today’s best music Mix 103, and what we often call the MATT music network. Thank you for being here this morning. I am Fr. Mike, ready to lead you through the second hour of our show, and songs that talk about life subjects that range from having a good time to falling in love with ease. We are pursuing a theme that is discovering what the songs of our show say about what will save us in life and love, a thought that came from the VMA video of the year, Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia.”
Let’s go to two songs by artists of other songs on the VMA ceremonies. First to the group BTS. This song is the story in song of enjoying life. “Cause I’m in the stars tonight,” they begin the song, “So watch me bring the fire and set the night alight. Shoes on, get up in the morn, cup of milk, let’s rock and roll. This is getting heavy; can you hear the bass boom. I’m ready. Life is sweet as honey. Hey, let’s go, shining through the city with a little funk and soul, so I’ma light it up like dynamite.” And he came to celebrate, to have a good time, and that’s great, as long as we don’t hurt ourselves or others in the process. In terms of our theme, it is right and good to have a good time, as we work at saving ourselves in this complicated world. The American Music Awards artist of the year in 2021, the seven-member Korean male group BTS, and their song “Dynamite” on MATT.
(triple) DYNAMITE / BTS
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE / Sabrina Carpenter
SHADOW DAYS / John Mayer
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Celebrating his birthday on Friday, John Mayer will be 49 years old, and we played his song “Shadow Days” from 2012 on MATT. It came from his album “Born and Raised” and it is a great song of meaning. I would rate it a 10+ category of meaning, the highest I get, because of its stress on the thought that you can live and learn from the pains of life, and then move on. Some great words to the song and you might want to look up all of the words: “Did you know,” he begins his song, “that you could be wrong and swear you’re right. But you find yourself alone just like you found yourself before, like I found myself in pieces on the hotel floor. Hard times help me see (a great line!). I’m a good man with a good heart, had a tough time, got a rough start, but I finally learn to let it go. Now I’m hoping, knowing somehow that my shadow days are over now.” As I say, a super song saying—you can live and learn from the pains of life, and when one does that, then he/she is ready to save him/herself, our theme today.
Before him, we heard from another person, Sabrina Carpenter, who was honored in the VMA ceremonies, but with a different song. The song we played was a song to her boyfriend who is acting out in a negative way, the song “Please please please” from 2024 from her album “Short n’ Sweet”. “I know I have good judgment” she sings, “I know I have good taste; It's funny and it's ironic that only I feel that way. I promise 'em that you're different and everyone makes mistakes, but just don't. I heard that you're an actor, so act like a stand-up guy; whatever devil's inside you, don't let him out tonight. I tell them it's just your culture and everyone rolls their eye. Please, please, please, don't prove I'm right And please, please, please, don't bring me to tears when I just did my makeup so nice; heartbreak is one thing, my ego's another, I beg you, don't embarrass me.” First of all, begging another in a love relationship is not so good, and secondly, you’re led to believe from the rest of the song and video, that he doesn’t heed her advice. In terms of our theme, what will save us as we pursue our lives is help from as many places as we can get, I believe.
Let’s go to three songs that are part of my website frmikescully.com this week. First, on Tuesday, we have a song that shows some domestic violence in the video, and at the end of the video, the domestic violence hotline is listed. It is the story of a young man who knows that the girlfriend that he would like / is dating someone else, but that someone else is not treating her correctly. The video points out the problem very well. He sings that he knows the other guy is not right for her, and he senses that she knows it also. “I know I can treat you better than he can,” he sings, “And any girl like you deserves a gentleman.” He asks her why she’s spending time with him, and begs her to come over to him. In fact, he sings, “I’ll stop time for you the second you say you’d like me to; I promise I’ll never let you down.” MATT considers his song an important song because it not only points out that we should treat everyone with respect, but it shows the important fact that if there is any angry physical contact between people, it is wrong, and especially if there is such contact between so-called lovers, it is wrong and they should get out of that relationship. This is Shawn Mendes, a Canadian singer/songwriter and the song from his album “Illuminate”, “Treat You Better”—from 2017 on MATT.
(triple) TREAT YOU BETTER / Shawn Mendes
BROKEN / lovelytheband
BEAUTIFUL THINGS / Benson Boone
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On my website frmikescully.com this Saturday, from 2024 from his album “Fireworks and Rollerblades,” his song “Beautiful Things,” Benson Boone, former number 1 on MATT. It is a song about a man in a relationship who has discovered a person that he really likes and he wants to keep it that way. And he relies on God in order to help him. “For a while there, it was rough,” he sings, “but lately I’ve been doing better than the last four Decembers I recall. And I see my family every month and I found a girl my parents love. She’ll come and stay the night, and I think I might have it all, and I thank God every day for the girl He sent my way. But I know the things He gives me, He can take away, and I hold you every night and that’s a feeling I wanna get used to. But there’s no man as terrified as the man who stands to lose you. I hope I don’t lose you. Please, God, don’t take these beautiful things that I’ve got.” The person is into God, and from my point of view anyway, that is something that we should all have. I’m happy the subject of God comes up often in these songs. We are indeed people of faith for the most part. Two reasons why I think this song is so great. One is the obvious dependence on God, and second the desire to do the right thing with the relationship. Both thoughts fit into our theme very well about some things that will save us in life.
Before him, we heard a song on my website this Friday; from the group lovelytheband from the album “Finding it Hard to Smile” and their song “Broken” from the year 2017. The couple in the relationship that they sing about are both trying to get over loneliness by spending time together. “I like that you’re broken,” they sing, “broken like me. Maybe that makes me a fool. I like that you’re lonely, lonely like me, I could be lonely with you.” They met at a party, and they sing “These aren’t my people, these aren’t my friends. She grabbed my face and said I like that you’re broken, broken like me, lonely like me.” So, both of them lonely and broken, but you get the feeling that they will not remain that way very long. In terms of our theme, that which will save both of them is exactly what they are doing—finding love with each other.
We are talking of the things that will save us on our show today. It came from Taylor Swift’s VMA video of the year “The Fate of Ophelia”. We have another half hour to go yet as we listen to some more music and messages. A thought to take us out of this segment: it was attributed to Benjamin Franklin, and I just love this one. “He that waits upon fortune / is never sure of a dinner.” Think about that. My comment: we can’t just wait for life to happen—we have to work at it. It is part of what will save is. Don’t go way—we’ll be right back with MATT on Mix 103.3.
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You, my friends, are in tune with “Message at the Top,” your top 10 show on today’s best music Mix 103.3. Welcome back to the songs that have been most popular in this area during this week which ends today, the second Sunday in October 2026. Our show takes the top 10 from today and yesterday and studies their messages, and then, we call our show MATT. I’m your host Fr. Mike. It’s great to have you here. We have taken our theme from the song “The Fate of Ophelia” by Taylor Swift and we are using it with the theme of finding things that will save us.
One of the songs of the VMA ceremonies this year that was nominated for song of the year was from Olivia Dean. The song is the statement of what I call the virtue which is most needed in any love relationship or any relationship really, namely, communication. “Talk to me,” she begins her song, “looks like we’re making up for lost time; need you to spell it out for me. Don’t be shy, just come be the man I need. Tell me you got something to give. I want it. I kinda like when you call me wonderful, whatever the type of talk it is. Come on then, I gotta know you’re meant to be the man I need. Talk to me. I’d like to think you feel the same way, but I can’t tell with you sometimes. So, baby, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication and she gives the reason why. That which will save us, our theme today, in however we choose to live our lives is communication. This is British singer/songwriter Olivia Lauryn Dean or simply Olivia Dean from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “Man I Need”—listen to the words—on MATT.
(triple) MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean
5 DROP DEAD / Olivia Rodrigo
4 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
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Continuing our countdown to number 1, that is a former number 1, our current number 4 song, three Korean young ladies named Huntr/X, and their former number 1 song “Golden” on MATT. It is from the soundtrack of the animated movie, “K Pop Demon Hunters” and the theme of the Netflix film that follows Huntr/X, the singers of the song—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “We’re going up, it’s our moment. You know together we’re glowin, gonna be golden. I’m done hidin’ now, I’m shinin’ like I’m born to be, oh, our time, no fears, no lies, that’s who we’re born to be.” I interpret it as a song urging people to do what is right, and in terms of our theme today, certainly that is a way to live our lives and save them in the process.
Before them, we heard from Olivia Rodrigo from her album “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” and her song “Drop Dead”, number 5 this morning. It is a song about being totally infatuated with someone as a beginning love experience. She begins her song: “I know that the bar closes at 11, but I hope you never finish that beer. You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven,’ and I know why he wrote them now that you’re standin’ right here. One night I was bored in bed and stalked you on the internet. It’s feminine intuition ‘cause I always had a vision of us standing like this. You’re lookin’ like an angel on the walls of Versailles, the most alive I’ve ever been, but kiss me and I might drop dead.” The person in the song is completely infatuated with the man, and portrays the intense feeling of an early romance, referring to a similar experience as described in the song “Just Like Heaven.” In terms of our theme today, being infatuated with someone is not going to save a love relationship unless both of them grow out of the infatuation and into real living.
And we are up to our top 3 songs of this second Sunday of October 2026 and they begin with a song that extols, according to the singer, her Swedish roots, and in particular a summer than never ends. “No nightmares when you can still see the light,” she sings, “can’t find me—I’m not in the city tonight. I like your playlist, boy, turn it up a little louder; road’s empty, so you drive a little faster. Ain’t taken nothing tonight, but I’m feeling so high. Show my tan lines, low-rise, rooftop down, it’s golden hour all the time. It’s that midnight sun-kissed skin under the red sky. Summer isn’t over yet, it’s my favorite part now. We ain’t gotta tell no one: a never-ending midnight sun.” Sweden is a land of literally a midnight sun at least during the summer, and the singer recalls that fact in her love of a friend. Truly being in love with another human being is a way to live life, and save it, I believe, our theme today. From the album of the same name as the song, “Midnight Sun” this is Zara Larsson at number 3 this week on MATT.
(double) 3 MIDNIGHT SUN / Zara Larsson
2 DRACULA / Tame Impala
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Once again our current number 2 song this week is from Tame Impala, the musical project of Australian instrumentalist Kevin Parker and he is accompanied by South Korean singer Jennie. It is from the album “Deadbeat” and the song “Dracula” on MATT. The song is about a person who is wanting a love connection while at the same time not wanting to come out of his chosen hidden life. Comparing the person in the song to a vampire, they sing: “The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre. The night is almost over, I still don’t know where you are. The shadows, they keep me like a movie star, daylight makes me feel like Dracula. In the end, I hope it’s you and me in the darkness, I would never leave. Run from the sunlight, Dracula.” The man in the relationship is growing up trying to understand love, and part of that understanding means that he has to move out of his desire to be alone and will involve knowing that a love relationship will eventually save his life, our theme today.
And the number 1 song is once again from British singer Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “So Easy”, making it altogether 14 weeks at number 1. It is a song of the desire for love of one particular person. “I could be the twist, the one to make you stop,” she begins the song, “The icing on the cake, the cherry on the top. It’s heaven in my heart, and we could find you some space. I could be the world to you, the missing piece, that extra kind of chemistry. Some people make it hard; with me, that isn’t the case ‘cause I make it so easy to fall in love. So, come give me a call, and we’ll fall into us. I’m the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life. Anyone with a heart would agree: it’s so easy to fall in love with me.” So, a rather straightforward statement to someone and it sounds like the lady is saying that she intends to live and save her life—and his—as they live together, our theme today.
That theme of what can save us in our world was taken from Taylor Swift’s intriguing song “The Fate of Ophelia”, the video of the year according to the VMA ceremonies a couple weeks ago. My prayer for you and me is that we will learn what will save us, that is make us better people and then learn to practice it every day. My thanks to our producers and sponsors, especially our sponsors at Hays Car and Truck Alignment, Auto World in Hays, Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, and Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays. If you want to contact me by mail, hope you do so at KJLS radio, Hays, KS, 67601 or my e-mail address is frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website is frmikescully.com where you will find some meditations on the Gospels, these songs and some great movies and a transcript of this show. If you want to join us on the web, go to hayspost.com and click on Mix 103.3 at 10am Sunday mornings. A final thought from leadership specialist Elbert Hubbard: “The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.” We have to be cautious about our living, but we still have to live, and sometimes we will make mistakes, but we have to lift ourselves right up and go at life again as best as we can. As we close with Olivia Dean and her song “So Easy”, may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music Mix 103.3, and among the other things that we have said today, our advice is to hold a good thought. From beautiful downtown Lawrence, KS through beautiful Hays, KS and to the whole world, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good.
1 SO EASY / Olivia Dean
October 4, 2026
Re-creating Our Place
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Good morning, Central Kansas and around the world! Welcome to “Message at the Top” your top 10 show on Mix 103.3. This is the show that gives you the messages of the top 10 of today and yesterday, and, surprisingly enough, the songs enable us to see exactly what can help our lives be a bit better than they are already. I’m your host, Fr. Mike; thanks for being part of our show this morning. We have the top 10 music of today and some of the past 46 years all warmed up on our computers. Some of those songs today include music from Maroon 5, Bruno Mars, Sting, Tame Impala and a lot more. Our motto continues to be to enjoy the music, but at the same time—what our show adds—listen to the message, allowing that message to sink into our brains and actually guide us to better living.
Our lead song comes from 2007 from Gwen Stefani singing with the artist known as Akon. We remember Gwen Stefani in particular this morning because her birthday was yesterday when she was 57 years old. It is a song begging for better behavior on the part of the couple in the song. “If I could escape,” she sings, “I would, but first of all let me say, I must apologize for acting, treating you this way, ‘cause I’ve been acting like sour milk fell on the floor: it’s your fault you didn’t shut the refrigerator—maybe that’s the reason I’ve been acting so cold. If I could escape and re-create a place as my own world and I could be your favorite girl forever, perfectly together, tell me, now wouldn’t that be sweet. If I could be sweet, I know I’ve been a real bad girl, I didn’t mean for you to get hurt forever. We can make it better. You let me down. I can see that you’re angry by the way you treat me.” It is a situation in which both are at fault.
And it is a situation that is quite common. In a developing relationship, there are many things that happen that help us discover what the other person is like—we say certain things, they react. We give them our thoughts about whatever, and they react. Then they will talk about how they feel about those things, and we react, and so forth. That is the normal way of discovering how other people think. Often however, in that discovery process, we may say things that the other doesn’t agree with for whatever reason, and he/she will say so, we react, and many times things get “personal,” that is we say personal things that may hurt the other. Such is the description in Gwen Stefani’s song.
She uses a phrase in the song which is a good one to dwell on, both as one thinks about discovering a relationship and / addressing life. She sings: “If I could re-create a place as my own world,” then she would set up the relationship better. The idea is good—she has to change some circumstances to be a bit better. Indeed, that is the way to work on the relationship. And it brings up the further thought: what areas should we re-create in the places of our lives. In those places, what should we re-create, and how should we do it. That leads to a pretty good theme for us as we study the songs of our show, a show we will call “Re-creating our Place.” Giving us that theme, this is Gwen Stefani—happy birthday to her yesterday--, singing along with Akon, one of the number 1 songs of 2007, from her album named after this song, “The Sweet Escape” on MATT.
(double) THE SWEET ESCAPE / Gwen Stefani
RICH GIRL / Gwen Stefani f/ Eve
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Double Gwen Stefani there, her album this time is “Love, Angel, Music, Baby,” the song featuring the artist who simply goes by the name of Eve, and the song “Rich Girl,” inspired by the music of “Fiddler On The Roof” on MATT. “If I was a rich girl,” she began her song. “See, I’d have all the money in the world. If I was a wealthy girl, no man could test me, impress me; my cash flow would never ever end cause I’d have all the money in the world if I was a wealthy girl. But she sings, “All the riches baby, won’t mean anything; all the riches won’t bring what your love can bring. Don’t need no other baby. Your lovin’ is better than gold, and I know.” That’s a great message, of course—that love is better than money. And, a perfect answer to the question of our theme this morning, how do you recreate your life—love has to be more important than money, no matter what the situation.
Our number 10 song this week is new to our top 10 from Teddy Swims. He describes it this way: The song explores the idea of a love that fails. “When you believe you already know how it ends, you protect yourself by holding back and that distance becomes the reason it fails. But when you try to fight that fate and control every outcome, you can end up suffocating the connection.” And so, some of his words: “Should’ve told you I could see this coming like I’m lookin’ right into a crystal ball. When I fall in love, it’s with misfortune. Give you everything you say you wanted, see the future like it’s written on the wall. You’re the only thing that’s missing from it. Oh, I wish I wasn’t Mr. Know It All.” The love situation is failing mainly because he is not working with the situation the way he should. In terms of our theme, he needs to recreate his working with that love situation. From his album “Ugly,” this is Teddy Swims, “Mr. Know It All,” number 10 this morning on MATT.
(triple) 10 MR. KNOW IT ALL / Teddy Swims
IF YOU LOVE SOMEBODY, SET THEM FREE / Sting
9 BABYDOLL / Dominic Fike
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30 year old Dominic Fike born in Naples, Florida, and his song “Babydoll”, number 9 in our countdown on MATT. It is a song of a person who cannot let go of a previous love relationship / perhaps because of a very difficult childhood. “I can’t move on, babydoll, waitin’ on calls, flippin’ through stations. I’m outclassed and it’s outrageous, and I’ll take it all, babydoll, whatever’s been weighin’ you down. Find me on Miami concrete, lookin’ for somebody different ‘cause my daddy was a pimp; my mama had her issues, but I miss her anyway. Oh, babydoll, please don’t call me for the wrong reasons.” The man in the relationship is looking for love, and he may not have ever learned exactly what it is. Tough song, teaching the importance of a good childhood. In terms of our theme, if we did not have a good childhood, we have to work at recreating ourselves; if we did have a good one, we should be thankful.
Before him, we have 4 birthdays that we are celebrating this week and last, and here is another one with an excellent song of meaning. Sting, that is Gordon Matthew Sumner, was 75 years old last Friday. In my mind, he is one of the greatest songwriters of all time. The song is from the year 1985, from his album “Dream of the Blue Turtles”, and the song “If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free”. It is a great love song of meaning because it is exactly what should happen in a love relationship. “If you need somebody, call my name,” he sings. “If you want someone, you can do the same. If you want to keep something precious, you got to lock it up and throw away the key. If you want to hold onto your possession, don’t even think about me. If you love somebody, set them free.” Great advice and exactly what should be done in a true love situation. The way to truly love is the topic: the other in the relationship must be free so that she/he can choose whether or not to pursue the relationship. It is the only way to recreate a love situation. Good song.
We will continue to allow the songs of our show to talk about that question of how to recreate love and life. Get ready for in order of appearance—Ariana Grande, Adele, birthday person Bruno Mars, birthday person Ashlee Simpson, and Fergie. May I take you to break with this proverb: “Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.” Amen to that. And MATT’s advice—keep your mouth shut if you don’t know what you are talking about. Your dial is set for “Message at the Top”; may I implore you to keep it there. As MacArthur, we will return.
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If the song is in the top 10, we will play it here, to be sure. Hi, everyone. You are in tune with “Message at the Top,” your top 10 show that plays songs from the top 10 from the present and from the past, and we talk about their meanings in our world today. Welcome back to our show. We take the top 10 and study their messages, and then call our show MATT. Our motto is to enjoy the music and listen to the message so that the message can help us live better lives. I’m your host, Fr. Mike. It’s great to have you here. We’re concentrating on a theme from birthday girl yesterday Gwen Stefani and the theme we are using is “Re-creating Our Place.”
As promised, we begin with number 8 in our countdown. It is a song of a breakup with some personal overtones about the singer’s career. According to the music critics, Ariana Grande here addresses regret over a relationship while also reflecting her conflicted feelings about fame and public scrutiny. “Just know that I will find my way from you,” she sings, “Like flowers from a tomb while you decide who you are. And I can see right through like shadows on the moon and it’s all bad news. I hate that I made you love me, sorry if I made me your type. Yeah, I hate that I made you love me ‘cause I barely tried. What’s happening now? You studied my crown and borrowed my body, warm, kissed by the sun, then cold like the wind, a bee stuck in honey. Know that I will find my way from you. I hate that I made you love me.” So, a relatively negative song, and in terms of our theme, the person in the song will have to spend some time recreating her/himself. This is Ariana Grande from her new album “Petal,” “Hate That I Made You Love Me”, number 8 on MATT.
(double) 8 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME / Ariana Grande
SOMEONE LIKE YOU / Adele
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Going back to 2010, Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, that is Adele, and her song “Someone Like You” from her album “21” on MATT. It is another excellent song. The content deals with a breakup, and to my mind, exactly how a former love relationship should be treated. “I heard that you’re settled down,” she begins her song, “that you found a girl and you’re married now. I heard that your dreams came true. Guess she gave you things I didn’t give to you. I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited, but I couldn’t stay away, I couldn’t fight it. I had hoped you’d see my face and that you’d be reminded that for me it isn’t over. Never mind, I’ll find someone like you. I wish nothing but the best for you too. Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead.” That is an excellent statement. There is pain there, but it is pain from which the lady in the relationship learned. She was a little vindictive which is not good, but in the end, she wishes nothing bad for him which is an excellent message. Nothing can help the original relationship, since he is now married to someone else, but there is a tremendous amount of learning happening for the person in the song, and in order to re-create our own little worlds, our theme today, we have to learn and work at learning even if we are hurt.
Most of our songs today come in triples, and we begin another one right now. It begins with the number 7 song on our countdown. We celebrate his birthday this week. Bruno Mars will be 41 years old on Thursday. It was a number 1 for a couple of weeks, a song of wanting another to show her love for the man in the relationship by good dancing. “It would break my heart” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” As I have said, it is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, and in terms of our theme, recreating our place may involve better dancing, but as I have said, there is more to love than knowing how to dance. This is the first song in the top 10 for him this morning, happy birthday on Thursday, Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez, from his album “The Romantic” and his number 7 song right now, “I Just Might” on MATT.
(triple ) 7 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
PIECES OF ME / Ashlee Simpson
BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY / Fergie
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One of our number 1 songs of 2007 from Stacy Ann Ferguson, that is Fergie and her album “Duchess,” the number 4 song of all the songs of meaning of that year, “Big Girls Don’t Cry” on MATT. “The smell of your skin lingers on me now,” she began her song, “you’re probably on your flight back to your home town. I need some shelter of my own protection, to be with myself and center; clarity, peace, serenity. I hope you know that this has nothing to do with you. It’s personal. We’ve got some straightenin’ out to do, and I’m gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket, but I’ve got to get a move on with my life; it’s time to be a big girl now and big girls don’t cry.” The point is that she has some serious thinking to do as she puts her life back together—great advice, and, speaking in a general way, it is a way to re-create our world, our theme today.
Before her, we celebrated another birthday, this time, Ashlee Nicolle Simpson from her album “Autobiography”, and a song of meaning from 2004, “Pieces of Me”. As I remember it, the song received extensive hype from MTV at the time, and rightly so, I think. “Oh, it seems like I can finally rest my head on something real;” she sings, “I like the way that feels. It’s as if you knew me better than I ever knew myself. I love how you can tell all the pieces of me.” Her boyfriend is able to identify how she feels, and adjusts accordingly. Having a friend like this can easily make one feel good, and will help repair any problem we have. In fact she sings it: “Sometimes I fall so fast. When I hit that bottom, crash—you’re all I have.” As we think of the theme of recreating our world, we need special people to help us.
Great stuff to think about I believe. The title of MATT today concerns the thought of some ways to recreate our lives for the better. Our next hour of music and message will explore that theme with top 10 music, past and present. Here is a thought to lead us to break from Alex Haley of “Roots” fame: “You have to deal with the fact that your life / is your life.” Yes indeed, and therefore, don’t blame others for the past, accept the responsibility of yourself, and you will find a way to recreate your lives. I’m Fr. Mike for “Message at the Top”. With all due respect, I say--Don’t even think about touching that dial!
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This is MATT on Mix 103. We are back, as we celebrate another Sunday together, this one in the beautiful Fall month of October, the first Sunday of Fall 2026. I hope it is beautiful for you and I hope that the rest of your Sunday will be a good one for you as well. This is “Message at the Top”. I am Fr. Mike, ready to lead you through the second hour of our show today, a show that is concentrating on the question of how to recreate our lives. It came from birthday person Gwen Stefani’s song “The Great Escape”.
We begin our second hour today with a song that is from the soundtrack of the animated movie, “K Pop Demon Hunters” and the theme of the Netflix film that follows Huntr/X, the singers of the song—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “We’re going up, it’s our moment. You know together we’re glowin, gonna be golden. I’m done hidin’ now, I’m shinin’ like I’m born to be, oh, our time, no fears, no lies, that’s who we’re born to be.” I interpret it as a song urging people to do what is right, and in terms of our theme today, what is right is continually recreating our lives for the better. This is our current number 6 song, three Korean young ladies named Huntr/X, and their former number 1 song “Golden” on MATT.
(triple) 6 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
TONIGHT, TONIGHT / Hot Chelle Rae
5 DROP DEAD / Olivia Rodrigo
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Olivia Rodrigo there from her album “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” and her song “Drop Dead”, number 5 on MATT. It is a song about being totally infatuated with someone as a beginning love experience. She begins her song: “I know that the bar closes at 11, but I hope you never finish that beer. You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven,’ and I know why he wrote them now that you’re standin’ right here. One night I was bored in bed and stalked you on the internet. It’s feminine intuition ‘cause I always had a vision of us standing like this. You’re lookin’ like an angel on the walls of Versailles, the most alive I’ve ever been, but kiss me and I might drop dead.” The person in the song is completely infatuated with the man, and portrays the intense feeling of an early romance, referring to a similar experience as described in the band the Cure’s song “Just Like Heaven.” In terms of our theme today, being infatuated with someone carries with it some recreating of our lives, but the outcome of the situation must be how to handle it when the infatuation may or may not turn into reality.
Before her, we went to the year 2011, and the group Hot Chelle Rae. Their song is a “desire for a party” song, their song “Tonight, Tonight” from their album “Whatever”. They begin their song: “It’s been a really really messed up week, seven days of torture, seven days of bitter and my girlfriend went and cheated on me. Whatever, it doesn’t matter. We’re going at it tonight. There’s a party on the rooftop top of the world and we’re dancing on the edge of the Hollywood sign. I don’t know if I’ll make it but watch how good I’ll fake it. It’s alright tonight. Just don’t stop, let’s keep the beat pumpin’. It’s my party dance if I want to; we can get crazy; let it all out.” So, a party song, and the desire to relax. Tying it into our theme, one of the ways to re-create ourselves is at a party, but we have to watch that we don’t overdo it, because then, the party will have just the opposite effect.
Another triple play is in front of us right now and it begins with number 4 on our chart. It was our theme last week when we spoke about the good feelings of love and life. The song extols, according to the singer, her Swedish roots, and in particular a summer than never ends. “No nightmares when you can still see the light,” she sings, “can’t find me—I’m not in the city tonight. I like your playlist, boy, turn it up a little louder; road’s empty, so you drive a little faster. Ain’t taken nothing tonight, but I’m feeling so high. Show my tan lines, low-rise, rooftop down, it’s golden hour all the time. It’s that midnight sun-kissed skin under the red sky. Summer isn’t over yet, it’s my favorite part now. We ain’t gotta tell no one: a never-ending midnight sun.” Sweden is a land of literally a midnight sun at least during the summer, and the singer recalls that fact in her love of a friend. Truly being in love will require all kinds of readjustment and in terms of our theme today, the readjustment means recreating our lives. From the album of the same name as the song, “Midnight Sun” from Zara Larsson at number 4 this week on MATT.
(triple) 4 MIDNIGHT SUN / Zara Larsson
A BAR SONG / Shaboozey
SENORITA / Shawn Mendes f/ Camila Cabell0
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One of five songs this week on my website frmikescully.com, that one on Friday, Shawn Mendes, singing with Camila Cabello, and their song, “Senorita” from Shawn Mendes’s album “Romance” on MATT. It is another interesting song of love, and it seems that the couple really don’t know for sure about each other yet. “I love it when you call me Senorita,” the lady sings, “I wish I could pretend I don’t need you, but every touch is true. Oh, I should be running. You keep me coming for you.” The man in the relationship sings, “Sapphire moonlight, we danced for hours in the sand.” And she sings, “When you call me Senorita, I wish it wasn’t so hard to leave you. Locked in the hotel, there’s some things that never change. You say, ‘We’re just friends.’” And all during the song, it feels as though things are just not quite right between them. It is acted out in the video with the man leaving the girl. Once again we run across the really important theme connected with love songs—when you are developing the love, make sure that you give it plenty of time. In terms of our theme today, it is the way to recreate love in a couple.
Before them, we heard another song on my website, this time on Thursday of this week, the song: “A Bar Song” from his album “Where I’ve Been Isn’t Where I’m Going”, the artist whose real name is Collins Obinna Chibueze and we know him as Shaboozey. I wouldn’t rate drinking songs high usually, but it calls to mind the problem of alcohol, and we need to think about that. It was a former number 1 and top 5 quite a long time. He begins his song by telling us that he works hard and has problems that he won’t have when he’s gone. And then presumably, he wants to relax from his work and problems by drinking alcohol. “Someone, pour me up a double shot of whiskey,” he sings, “They know me and Jack Daniel's got a history. There's a party downtown, near 5th Street. Everybody at the bar gettin' tipsy. I've been boozey since I left, I ain't changin' for a check. Woke up drunk at 10 am, we gon[na] do this stuff again. Tell your girl to bring a friend.” I changed a word in the song. Thinking with our theme about this song, perhaps he can recreate his life if he wants to, and that might mean drinking less alcohol.
We have taken that theme from birthday person Gwen Stefani and her song “The Great Escape”. Here’s some advice to close this segment: “If you want to make the world smell a little better, you’ve got to do your own laundry first.” I love it, and I used it all the time on the parish retreats that I have given. It came from a billboard in front of a Laundromat in Denver. That’s pretty good. We will continue MATT in just a minute. I’m Fr. Mike for the MATT music network. Stay with us!
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We are back, my friends, for “Message at the Top” on Mix 103.3, your music station in Central Kansas, today’s best music. I’m Fr. Mike, ready to give you the final segment of our show, this first Sunday of the beautiful month of October, 2026. It is great to have you with us once again as we are developing a theme that Gwen Stefani gave us, and we continue the remaining three songs that are on my website this week.
On Tuesday, we have a song that is the story of two people in love who want their relationship to continue. “Slow hands,” he sings, “Like sweat dripping down our dirty laundry. No chance that I’m leaving here without you on me. I know that there ain’t no stopping your plans and those slow hands. I just wanna take my time. We could do this all night ‘cause I want you bad. Fingertips putting on a show, got me now and I can’t say ‘No,” wanna be with you all alone. Take me home. Can’t you tell that I want you.” So, both in the relationship really wanting the relationship, and you are led to believe that the time that they spend working on the relationship is well worth it for them. In terms of our theme this week, we can usually recreate love relationships if we spend a lot of time doing it. MATT presenting here Niall Horan, once a member of the group One Direction before they ceased recording together, and from his album “Flicker” his song from 2017 “Slow Hands” on MATT.
(triple) SLOW HANDS/ Niall Horan
WATERMELON SUGAR / Harry Styles
WHAT DO YOU MEAN / Justin Bieber
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Continuing to play the songs featured on my website this week, that one is tomorrow’s song, a great song of the importance of communication, Justin Bieber, “What do You Mean” from his album “Purpose” from 2015. “What do you mean?” he begins the song. “When you nod your head yes, but you wanna say no, what do you mean? When you don't want me to move, but you tell me to go, what do you mean? Said we're running out of time, what do you mean? Better make up your mind. What do you mean? You're so indecisive of what I'm saying, trying to catch the beat, make up your heart. Don't know if you're happy or complaining, don't want for us to end. Where do I start? First you wanna go to the left and you want to turn right. First you up then you're down and between. I really want to know. What do you mean?” In terms of our theme, if there is one thing that is a must to recreate ourselves and relationships, our theme today, it is the art of how to communicate with others.
Before him, we heard the song featured on my website today. It was from the year 2020, from his album “Fine Line,” Harry Styles and his song “Watermelon Sugar”. “Tastes like strawberries on a summer evenin,” he sings. “And it sounds like a summer feelin’, it’s so wonderful and warm. Breathe me in, breathe me out. I don’t know if I could ever go without. I’m just thinking out loud. Watermelon sugar high. I want that summer feelin’, getting washed away in you. I just wanna taste it, Watermelon sugar high.” It is a song about feelings, and feelings are fickle which would lead us to a statement we have made a number of times. We hope that we have good feelings during our lives, but we must be prepared for some negative feelings as well. In fact, that is something that is almost needed to recreate ourselves in a good way, our theme today, because those negative feelings help us truly understand how good we actually have it.
Our top 3 songs are up for us next. Number 3 is the second song in the top 10 for him this morning, “For just the chance to win your heart, you could set the bar beyond the stars” he sings, “I’ll do anything, anything you ask me to. Say you want the moon—watch me learn to fly, ain’t no mountain you could point to I wouldn’t climb. It’s crazy, but it’s true. There’s nothing I won’t do. I’d risk it all for you.” He describes a permanent commitment to another really well, I believe. In terms of our theme this week, when we want to make a permanent commitment, it will involve a lot of recreating of ourselves. Also from his album “The Romantic”, 41 year old birthday person on Thursday Bruno Mars, and his song of complete commitment to another, “Risk It All”, number 3 right now on MATT.
(double) 3 RISK IT ALL / Bruno Mars
2 DRACULA / Tame Impala
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Our current number 2 song this week from Tame Impala, the musical project of Australian instrumentalist Kevin Parker and he is accompanied by South Korean singer Jennie. It is from the album “Deadbeat” and the song “Dracula” on MATT. The song is about a person who is wanting a love connection while at the same time not wanting to come out of his chosen hidden life. Comparing the person in the song to a vampire, they sing: “The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre. The night is almost over, I still don’t know where you are. The shadows, they keep me like a movie star, daylight makes me feel like Dracula. In the end, I hope it’s you and me in the darkness, I would never leave. Run from the sunlight, Dracula.” The man in the relationship is growing up trying to understand love, and part of that understanding, he will discover, means recreating the way we think and act.
And the number 1 song is once again from British singer Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “So Easy”, making it altogether 13 weeks at number 1. It is a song of the desire for love of one particular person. “I could be the twist, the one to make you stop,” she begins the song, “The icing on the cake, the cherry on the top. It’s heaven in my heart, and we could find you some space. I could be the world to you, the missing piece, that extra kind of chemistry. Some people make it hard; with me, that isn’t the case ‘cause I make it so easy to fall in love. So, come give me a call, and we’ll fall into us. I’m the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life. Anyone with a heart would agree: it’s so easy to fall in love with me.” So, a rather straightforward statement to someone and it sounds like the lady is saying that she will recreate her life on behalf of the man in the relationship.
That theme of recreating our place came from birthday person Gwen Stefani’s song “The Great Escape” from 2007. My prayer for you and me is that we will re-create our places where we live, and bring about a little more love in them. If you want to contact me for any reason, my e-mail address is: frmikescully@yahoo.com or the address at the radio station: KJLS-FM, Hays, KS 67601. I invite you to visit my website as well at frmikescully.com where you will find some meditations on the Gospels, songs and movies and a transcript of our show today. And you can hear us on the web every Sunday morning at 10 by tuning to hayspost.com and clicking on Mix 103.3. Thank you for being with us today. My thanks to Jeff, the producer of our show and to our sponsors, Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays, Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, Hays Car and Truck Alignment and Auto World in Hays. Here is a thought to close with. It comes from Very Reverend Jonathan Swift, an English priest who died in 1745: “No wise person ever wished to be younger.” That’s interesting; of course, it means that we learn more and more as we grow older and become more mature—or we should anyway. We close our show with the number 1 song in our area from Olivia Dean and her song “So Easy” and as you listen to it, may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music, Mix 103.3, and our advice to you among the other things we have said today is to hold a good thought. From beautiful downtown Lawrence, KS through likewise beautiful Hays, KS, and to the world, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good!
1 SO EASY / Olivia Dean