KJLS-FM 103.3 10am Sundays
August 2, 2026
Treating Others Well
Part 1
Hello, Central Kansas and around the world! Thank you for joining us this first Sunday of the summer month of August 2026. I hope your summer has begun in a beautiful way and that you have adjusted to the weather. Welcome to MATT on today’s best music, Mix 103, the number 1 popular music station in central Kansas. It’s great to have you with us this Sunday morning as we study the top 10 of today and yesterday, not only listening to the songs, but studying their meanings as well. I am Fr. Mike, your host for MATT and it’s my pleasure to give us some great songs and some great messages about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as a true American might. Get ready to listen to some songs from Tame Impala, the band Collective Soul, R City, Bruno Mars and many others. Today we will think a little about the idea of treating others well.
And the reason for that thought is a song from a birthday person on Saturday. Shawn Mendes will be 28 years old then. By way of introduction, we ask the question: how should we treat others? That is a pretty good topic for a Church service, to be sure. It is also the topic of Shawn Mendes’s song “Treat You Better.” Let’s think of it today with a quote from a website called “The Way To Happiness: A Common Sense Guide to Better Living” which I would strongly suggest to all of you. A great piece of work, in my opinion. I’ll mention it again a couple times if you want to write down the website—”The Way to Happiness: A Common Sense Guide to Better Living.”
The authors say this: “In all times and in most places, humankind has looked up to and revered certain values. They are called the virtues. They have been attributed to wise people, holy people, saints and gods. They have made the difference between a barbarian and a cultured person, the difference between chaos and a decent society.
“It doesn’t absolutely require a heavenly mandate nor a tedious search through the thick tomes of the philosophers to discover what “good” is. A self-revelation can occur on the subject.
“It can be worked out by almost any person.
“If one were to think over how he or she would like to be treated by others, one would evolve the human virtues. Just figure out how you would want people to treat you.”
Of course, their directive is the age old directive of treating others the way you want them to treat you—the Golden Rule.
Shawn Mendes’s song is a very interesting 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.
That is a heavy thought for a light-hearted show, but it is a good one for us to consider with our songs today. We’ll call our show “Treating Others Well,” and starting us off, this is Shawn Mendes, a 28 year old on Saturday Canadian singer/songwriter and the song from his album “Illuminate”, “Treat You Better”—from 2017, happy birthday, Shawn Mendes on MATT.
(double) TREAT YOU BETTER / Shawn Mendes
THERE’S NOTHING HOLDING ME BACK / Shawn Mendes
Part 2
You’ll find that song featured on my website www.frmikesully.com tomorrow, the close of double play from birthday person on Saturday, Shawn Mendes, and his song “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” from 2017 again from his album “Illuminate” on MATT. The song is all about not holding back feelings. It is a song of the man in the relationship about his girlfriend: “I wanna follow where she goes; I think about her and she knows it. I wanna let her take control ‘cause every time that she gets close, she pulls me in enough to keep me guessing. I’ve been shaking; I love it when you go crazy. You take all my inhibitions: there’s nothing holdin’ me back.” So, there is nothing holding him back from allowing his girlfriend to take control. Actually, I think that that is good and bad. When you set out to treat a person better, our theme today, giving that person control of the relationship is necessary at times, but the person has to be aware of what he or she is doing and at the same time realize that they must work for control at times themselves.
We’ll give our countdown of the top 10 songs of our day this week at the end of our show today just to be a little different. Right now our first triple play of the day begins with the duo called The Chainsmokers who are the DJ duo Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall, and the song features 27 year old Grace Martine Tandon, better known as Daya. It is a song of desire on the part of the person in the song for another. The person has given into despair and needs a miracle in a hurry. She calls his name, but he’s not around, and so she sings “I need you right now, don’t let me down. I really thought you were on my side, but now there’s nobody by my side.” The person is hurting badly, and there doesn’t seem to be anyone to help her, or maybe she wants someone special to help her. In terms of our theme, she wants to be treated better, of course, and maybe part of it is to move herself to treat others a little better. This is the duo DJs The Chainsmokers from their album “Bouquet”, here featuring Daya, and their song “Don’t Let Me Down” from 2016 on MATT.
(triple) DON’T LET ME DOWN / The Chainsmokers f/ Daya
THIS IS WHAT YOU CAME FOR / Calvin Harris f/ Rihanna
BETTER NOW / Collective Soul
Part 3
One of the songs of meaning of 2005, and a very high category song of meaning from their album “Youth”, the band Collective Soul and their song “Better Now” on MATT. They are still on the music scene. “Oh, I’m newly calibrated,” they begin their song, “all shiny and clean, I’m your recent adaptation, time to redefine me. Let the word out: I’ve got to get out, oh, I’m feeling better now. Break the news out, I’ve got to get out, Oh, I’m feeling better now. The world’s done shaking me down.” A girlfriend has come into the person in the song’s life, and has redefined the way that he should act. He has to get out of his selfishness and the way the world was shaking him down, and as he chooses to go that route, he’s feeling better now. One of the things that we should accomplish in life should be to be to get out of the selfishness in our lives and to perhaps re-define the way we’re thinking. Tying it into our theme today, if we manage to get out of our selfishness, we will automatically see the importance of treating ourselves and others well.
Before them, we heard from Scottish producer, musician and DJ, Adam Richard Wiles, better known as Calvin Harris singing along with Robyn Rihanna Fenty better known as Rihanna from Calvin Harris’s album “Ready for the Weekend” and their song “This is What You Came For” from 2016. It is an emotional song that extols the fact that both of the couple in the relationship are ready for the relationship to continue, to allow “the lightning” as she sings, to strike again and again. He is completely satisfied because everybody’s watching her, and she’s only looking at him. They say, she sings, nothing more than what they need, and presumably emotion takes over. And when emotion takes over, they are both going to feel good, and it should move them to treat each other even better than they are, our theme today.
Our theme today is that idea of treating others well. We took it from Shawn Mendes’s song “Treat You Better” as we celebrate his birthday on Saturday. We will continue with that thought in just a few minutes as we listen to and study the music of in order of appearance—the group Boys Like Girls, the duo R City, Naughty Boy, the band Matchbox Twenty and the group INXS. After a short break, we will continue our presentation of the top 10 songs of mainly the 2000’s. May I lead you to break, as is my wont, with a quote. Here’s one from football coach Lou Holz: “No one has ever drowned in sweat.” Great insight, I believe. One of the ways to improve our lives is to take our time and work at the important things. And that is a quote especially for all of you who are out for sports or those who are just trying to lose weight. Your dial is set for 100,000 watts of insight and power, Mix 103.3 and you are listening to “Message at the Top”.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
Part 4
We are back for “Message at the Top” on Mix 103 which gives you the top 10 popular songs of our area that have been most popular during this past week. Today, we are playing the songs and studying them in the light of our theme thought of “Treating Others Well”, a thought taken from birthday person on Saturday Shawn Mendes and his song “Treat You Better”. I’m your host, Fr. Mike. Thank you for joining us again this morning. It is great to have you with us! Get ready for the music and messages of the songs of this half-hour which begins with the group whose ominous name is Boys Like Girls.
It is a song of preparation for marriage, I think. “I remember what you wore on the first day,” they begin their song with the thoughts of the man in the relationship: “You came into my life and I thought hey, you know, this could be something. So maybe it’s true that I can’t live without you, and maybe two is better than one. But there’s so much time to figure out the rest of my life.” And the lady in the relationship sings: “I remember every look upon your face. I’m finally now believing that maybe it’s true that I can’t live without you, and maybe two is better than one.” To me, the important thought is the line: “there’s so much time to figure out the rest of my life.” They are thinking that they should be married, but they are still figuring it out. I believe strongly in being sure before the marriage occurs, and in terms of our theme today, both of them have to be treating each other really well before their marriage will work. This is the band Boys Like Girls, a group formed in Boston in 2005. The song was from their album “Love Drunk,” a song featuring Taylor Swift, “Two is Better Than One” from the year 2009 on MATT.
(double) TWO IS BETTER THAN ONE / Boys Like Girls f/ Taylor Swift
LOCKED AWAY / R City f/ Adam Levine
Part 5
R City or Rock City, that is a duo from the U.S. Virgin Islands, Theron and Timothy Thomas featuring Adam Levine from Maroon 5, and their song, “Locked Away” from 2017 on MATT. Their song is an important extended question about commitment, and phrased very well, a question that every serious couple should ask themselves. “If I got locked away,” they sing, “and we lost it all today, tell me honestly, would you still love me the same? If I showed you my flaws, if I couldn't be strong, tell me honestly, would you still love me the same? Right about now, if you judge for life me, would you stay by my side? Or is you gonna say goodbye?” It is an important question for commitment, and certainly both of them should be treating others well, our theme today, as they make the commitment. Good song and video.
Next a triple play to close out our first hour together. Just a reminder, we will play the top 10 to close our show today. The first song of this triple play is from 2014. It has a really good message about the use of words and communication. “Hush, don’t speak,” the person in the song sings “When you spit your venom, keep it shut. I hate it. When you hiss and preach about your new messiah ‘cause your theories catch fire, I can’t find your silver lining. I don’t mean to judge, but when you read your speech, it’s tiring. Enough is enough. I’m covering my ears like a kid when your words mean nothing. I’m turning up the volume when you speak ‘cause if my heart can’t stop it, I find a way to block it.” It has a great video to study also. Thinking about what helps treating others well, well, speaking well and communicating with sincerity will do it for sure. This is Naughty Boy, who is a British DJ/producer/songwriter whose real name is Shahid Kahn, and the song features Samuel Frederick Smith better known simply as Sam Smith, British singer/songwriter, and their song “La La La” on MATT.
(triple) LA LA LA / Naughty Boy f/ Sam Smith
MAD SEASON / Matchbox Twenty
NEED YOU TONIGHT / INXS
Part 6
The group is INXS, “Need You Tonight”, a song from a past top 10 from 1987 from their album “Kick” on MATT. They sing about loneliness, and the fact that the only one who can cure the person in the song is his girlfriend. Now, I don’t believe that because loneliness usually passes, whether the person is present or not. Nonetheless, they sing “Slide over here, and give me a moment. I’ve got to let you know: you’re one of my kind. I’m lonely.” Which means that the dominating thought for the person in the song is to get over the loneliness, and he thinks that she is the way to do it. There’s no doubt that the person in the song has a difficult situation, and doubly so because he/she cannot treat others well, our theme, if we are too lonely. In fact, love can only begin to take shape once a person has conquered the feeling of loneliness.
Before them, we heard from the band Matchbox Twenty from 2001, the title song from their album “Mad Season”. The song, I believe is about anger. “I feel stupid,” they sing, “but I know it won’t last for long. I’ve been guessing—I could have been guessing wrong. You don’t know me now. I kinda thought that you should somehow. Does that whole mad season have ya down. I feel stupid but it’s something that comes and goes. I’ve been changing—think it’s funny how no one knows. We don’t talk about the little things that we do without / when that whole mad season comes around.” The mad season they describe may very well be the time when the couple in the relationship are mad—angry—at each other. They haven’t been able to communicate with one another, and life is very tough that way: “I’m lost and I’m hopeless, bleeding and broken,” they sing the thoughts of the man. One of the prerequisites to treating others well, our theme today, is that we be able to control our mad season, that is our anger.
Convinced as I am that most music is basically good, today our theme is treating others well. Our second hour’s beginning next will explore that theme with among others, Olivia Rodrigo and the group Animotion. First this thought about real living. It comes from my favorite author, Mr. Mark Twain. Here, he is talking about control of anger, the topic of Matchbox Twenty’s previous song: “When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.” Now, I don’t agree with that, but he always catches you off guard. What I would say, what you should do when very angry is pause for a few moments and take some time in order to establish some form of inner peace and honesty, and then talk. I’m Fr. Mike, this show is “Message at the Top” and your dial is set at Mix 103.3. Happy August, everyone, listen to these words of wisdom, and then I hope you come back here for more wisdom.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
Part 7
This is Message at the Top on Mix 103, and I am Fr. Mike, your host saying to you that every song has a message and most of the time, that message can actually help our lives in some way. Such is our belief on this show. Good morning, everyone. We have songs of meaning along with their music from the top 10’s since 1980 as they come to us this 2nd day of August, 2026. Our motto is to enjoy the music, and to listen to the message as we work today with the theme of treating others well.
Let’s begin our second hour with a group that was founded in the year 1983 in Los Angeles, and their name Animotion. Here, they sing “You are an obsession, you are my obsession. What do you want me to be to make you sleep with me.” Rather strong statement of wanting sexual pleasure. Which gives rise to a thought that is difficult for many to hear. If we want love in our lives, that is, real love—and we define love as sex—we are short-circuiting the whole love situation. And usually a couple who have given into sexual pleasure are a couple who won’t take the time to discuss the more important things in a relationship. With our theme being treating others well, we must learn to treat everyone with respect first. This is the group Animotion from 1984 from their album named after them, and their song “Obsession” on MATT.
(triple) OBSESSION/ Animotion
CLARITY / Zedd f/ Foxes today
10 DROP DEAD / Olivia Rodrigo
Part 8
Beginning our countdown this morning at number 10, from her new album “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” Olivia Rodrigo there, and her song “Drop Dead”, on MATT. It is a song about being totally infatuated. 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.” As I say, 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 Cure’s song “Just Like Heaven.” In terms of our theme, when we are totally infatuated with one particular person, the chances are that we will forget about others, all of whom we should treat well.
Before her, we heard the song featured on my website www.frmikescully.com today from Zedd, that is Anton Zavlavski and sung by English singer Louise Rose Allen better known as Foxes and their song “Clarity,” the name of Zedd’s album as well, a former number 1 from 2013. The song is a poetic statement of a lady giving into a love relationship that hurt her in the past. “I give into frozen waves where the past comes back to life, fight fear for the selfish pain, it was worth it every time. Hold still right before we crash ‘cause we both know how this ends, a clock ticks ‘til it breaks your glass and I drown in you again. If your love is tragedy why are you my remedy? If our love’s insanity, why are you my clarity.” Moving back into a love relationship is a very dangerous situation, and it is one that must be approached with extreme caution. As we think of treating others well, we are called to treat well even past love relationships.
Continuing our countdown, we are up to number 9. It comes from Alexander Warren Hughes, that is, Alex Warren and a song about love overcoming loneliness. “How did you know I was hoping for a sign,” he sings, “My heart was so close to closing time. Somethin’ ‘bout you hit me like a freight train to the chest the day we met. My loneliness left the room the second that you walked in, somethin’ like a fever dream. Haven’t slept in weeks, I think I’m seeing things like our shadows dancing us out of our clothes. I’ll be damned if you love me, damned if you don’t. Maybe it’s fate, maybe it’s late. Told you I ain’t no liar, watching you leave’s haunting my dreams.” In terms of our theme, one of the ways to treat our own loneliness is to treat others well. This is number 9 this morning on our countdown from his album “Wildchild”, Alex Warren, “Fever Dream” on MATT.
(triple) 9 FEVER DREAM / Alex Warren
8 NEED YOUR LOVE / OneRepublic
7 RISK IT ALL / Bruno Mars
Part 9
Number 7 in our countdown this weekend, from his album “The Romantic,” his song of complete commitment to another, “Risk It All”, Bruno Mars or his real name Peter Gene Hernandez for the first time in our top 10 this morning on MATT. “For just the chance to win your heart, you could set the bar beyond the stars. 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.” For a person who makes a permanent commitment which is described in the song there, he/she must treat the other well in order to be happy and to make it work, and once that happens, it is much easier for him/her to treat everyone well, our theme today.
Before him, we heard number 8 on our countdown right now, the band OneRepublic’s song “Need Your Love”. It is a song that according to the leader of the band, highlights the importance of valuing love over material wealth. “I need your love,” they begin the song, “don’t need the buzz or the credit cards, the house on the hill with a perfect yard, don’t gotta see my name on the boulevard, I don’t need a million dollars giving me expensive problems; oh, don’t need a drink just to fill the cup, I need your love.” And they close their song with a sense of a forever commitment: “And when all of our time starts to slip away, I’m gonna love those lines, gonna love your shades of grey. You know that I have made a million mistakes, but I won’t make a million dollars at least not with another.” In terms of our theme, a permanent commitment will be stronger if the couple places “treating each other well” over material wealth, and indeed our world would be better if all of us would learn to treat others well, and make it an ideal that is more important than material wealth.
Our theme today is the directive to treat others well. It came from birthday person on Saturday Shawn Mendes, and his song “Treat You Well.” To take us to break, here’s a thought from an author by the name of A. J. Kitt, and you’ve probably heard it before, but it’s really very good: “You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.” And if we learn that, we will have a happy life and we will learn to treat others well. Hey, don’t even think of touching that dial—it is set for today’s best music, Mix 103 and MATT, and we’ll be right back.
Part 10
Welcome back to MATT on the Mix, the show that gives you the top 10 of today and yesterday along with their messages. As we like to say, if a song is in the top 10, you will hear it here! I’m your host, Fr. Mike. This morning we’re playing all our songs in the light of how we treat others and how we should treat others. We have begun our countdown of the top 10 songs of our area, and we are up to number 6.
It comes from Shane Michael Boose, that is Sombr, and is a song about the scenario in which a couple have given themselves completely to each other physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends, and that, the artist concludes, is a contradiction. He sings, “How can we go back to being friends when we just shared a bed? How can you look at me and pretend I’m someone you’ve never met?” It seems as though the lady in the relationship wants to have a breakup or at least a temporary time apart, but the two have already made it clear that they are committed to each other. As I have mentioned, it is unfortunately a common enough experience. I believe that one of the evils of society is giving in to too much physical involvement because the physical involvement tends to dominate rather than thinking about what love truly is. In fact, one of the guides in our lives just might be that we learn to treat others well and leave any physical involvement to couples who are only about to be married. My opinion, of course. This is 21 year old Sombr from his album “I Barely Know Her” and his song “Back to Friends” at number 6 this week on MATT.
(triple) 6 BACK TO FRIENDS / Sombr
5 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
4 I KNEW IT, I KNEW YOU / Taylor Swift
Part 11
At number 4 on our countdown, Taylor Swift’s latest song from the highly ranked movie “Toy Story 5”, number 4 on our countdown this week, “I Knew It, I Knew You” on MATT. The song is the story line of the movie “Toy Story 5”, and in particular the journey of the character Jessie, depicting the concepts of reunion and memory, and the emotions that go with it. Taylor Swift wrote it after she had watched the movie. “I knew you through the daze of the blades of the grass in summer,” she begins her song, “parachutes for the free fall of being younger. I memorized the sound of your bare footsteps running wild. It’s been a long time; life has ways of leaving those days behind. But seeing you tonight, I remembered I loved you, came back when it mattered. I saw you, standing there in the light of the window, wearing that same smile. Man, it’s been a while, but I knew it, I knew you.” Remembering a past love is its theme, and in terms of our theme this week, our remembering others would be a pleasant experience if we can say that we treated them well, our theme today.
Before her, we heard from three Korean young ladies named Huntr/X, and their number 5 song this morning, former number 1, “Golden”. It is from the soundtrack of the best animated feature of this year according to the Academy Awards, “K Pop Demon Hunters” the name of it. It is the theme of the Netflix film that follows them—namely Huntr/X—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.” This is the song of the year according to the American Music Awards singing about doing what is right, and in terms of our theme today, treating others well is certainly the right thing to do.
And we move to the top 3. At number 3 is what is called a musical project called Tame Impala. The song is wanting a love connection while at the same time not wanting to come out of the shadows. Comparing the person in the song to a vampire, they sing: “The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre,” they begin their song. “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 certainly interested in treating the other well, our theme today. And as we have said before, if we learn to treat all others well, it may improve our lives a little. The song is the creation of Australian instrumentalist Kevin Parker and he is accompanied by South Korean singer Jennie. It is from the album “Deadbeat” and the song “Dracula”, number 3 on MATT.
(double) 3 DRACULA / Tame Impala
2 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
Part 12
A song of wanting another to show her love for him by good dancing, a song from Bruno Mars’s album “The Romantic”, and the song “I Just Might”, the second time in the top 10 this morning on MATT for him. Here at number 2 in our countdown, Bruno Mars sings, “It would break my heart, 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.” It is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, but some general thoughts on dancing might be in order as we think of the song as we have done over the weeks it has been in the top 10. As usual with him—Bruno Mars—the song has quite a good dance video. In terms of our theme this week, perhaps one of the ways that we show that we are treating others well is by being a good dancer with them.
And the number 1 song is once again from London born Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “So Easy”, making it altogether 6 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 whom she is treating well, our theme today. Again if she would learn to treat everyone well, her life would go well.
We have heard some good thoughts about treating others well a thought which we took from Shawn Mendes and his song, “Treat You Well.” My prayer for you and for me is that we can learn the virtue of treating everyone we meet as best as we can. My thanks to the producers of “Message at the Top,” and to the staff here at Mix 103, and to our sponsors, my friends at TMP-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays, Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, Hays Car and Truck Alignment and Auto World om Hays. If you have some song suggestions, or if you want to comment on anything I have said, feel free to write me here at KJLS-FM, Hays, KS 67601 or e-mail me at frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website is www.frmikescully.com where you will find a transcript of the show along with some meditations on the Gospels, some songs and some pretty good movies. You can also join us on the web every Sunday morning at 10 by tuning in your listening device to www.hayspost.com and telling it to play KJLS-FM. That website we mentioned concerning treating others well is ”The Way to Happiness: A Common Sense Guide to Better Living.” Good stuff. My closing thought for you comes from Muhammad Ali and something especially for all of you out for competitive sports this fall season: “Champions are not made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: a desire, a dream, a vision.” Great quote, and I would add that it takes time and perseverance. Thank you for your time today. As Olivia Dean and her song “So Easy” leads us out, may I remind you to hold a good thought. From the beauty of West Virginia through the beauty of downtown Lawrence KS through the beauty of Hays, KS to the world, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good!
1 SO EASY / Olivia Dean
Living on the Edge
July 26, 2026
Part 1
Good morning, Central Kansas and around the world. Thank you for joining us this last Sunday of the summer month of July. My, what weather our Western world is feeling these days. I am Fr. Mike and you have your dial set to the number one popular music station in Central Kansas. It is great to have you with us. Our motto continues to be the plea—to enjoy the music, and at the same time, we implore you to listen to the message so that the message can truly affect our lives for the better. As usual, great music coming your way this morning from people like Bruno Mars, Rihanna and Sombr. Olivia Dean had the number 1 song last week. We’ll see if she stays there today.
Looking at the upcoming week with songs featured on my website www.frmikescully.com, one of them is from Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta better known as Lady Gaga, an American singer-songwriter from New York City. She is featured on Wednesday of this week, and in the song, she is singing about romantic love, and the way to work with it. It is a song of discovering excitement in life. The woman in a relationship begins the song: "There ain’t no reason you and me should be alone tonight. And I got a reason that you’re who should take me home tonight. I need a man that thinks it’s right when it’s so wrong, right on the limits where we know we both belong tonight. It’s hard to feel the rush, to brush the dangerous. I’m gonna run to the edge with you, where we can both fall far in love. I’m on the edge of glory, and I’m hanging on a moment of truth. I’m on the edge with you. I’m on the edge of something final we call life tonight."
People deciding who to marry and to whom they should give themselves for love can be "brushing the dangerous" as Lady Gaga describes it. But if romantic love is to survive in our world, people must take the risk. In Lady Gaga's song, the person is feeling the excitement of romantic love. She could easily be hurt by the person with whom she shares her love, and she must be careful, but if she wants to truly live in the world of life and love, at some time in her life, she must take the risk. As Lady Gaga sings, it becomes a "moment of truth."
The specific application of the song, of course, is in the area of developing romantic love. It can be labeled as being on "the edge of glory" as Lady Gaga calls it, and being on the edge, those involved must be very cautious. It is a dangerous action to give ourselves completely to another. But to be human and to develop an understanding of romantic love, being on the "edge" may be the best way to describe it. The only way to discover a future mate in Western culture is to take the risk of going to the edge of love and finding out whether it is present or not. But there is a general application to a meditation on Lady Gaga's song as well. Living close to any edge as we pursue our lives may be dangerous, and we must be careful, but sometimes we simply must accept the risk.
This all leads to a theme for our show this morning which can be called “Livin’ on the Edge.” We’ll study each of our songs in light of that phrase and to start us off, Lady Gaga here, from her album “Born This Way,” the song, “The Edge of Glory” from 2011, on MATT.
(double) THE EDGE OF GLORY / Lady Gaga
LIVIN’ ON THE EDGE / Aerosmith
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Steven Tyler and the band Aerosmith or sometimes known as the “Bad Boys from Boston.” Formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970, they are what you call a mega-group in rock music. This is one of my favorite songs from them, one that has a lot of meaning, especially for young people today. The name of it is “Livin on the Edge” our theme today from 1993 from the album “Get a Grip.” It says basically that there are people who like to live on the edge, with the unstated conclusion that life will be very difficult when you live that way. It is a great song to study and one that I have used a lot on retreats when we should be honestly looking at what we are doing with our lives. “There’s something wrong with the world today,” they begin their song, and then their refrain: “We’re livin’ on the edge. You can’t help yourself from falling. You can’t help yourself at all.” And an intriguing line: “There’s something right with the world today, and everybody knows it’s wrong.” A song that is designed to make us think. As I said, it is what our theme is all about—living on the edge—this morning. Super song to study.
Let’s begin our countdown this morning, and therefore number 10 and a song about being totally infatuated. It is new to our countdown from the very popular 23 year old Murrieta, CA born Olivia Rodrigo. 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.” As I say, 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 Cure’s song “Just Like Heaven.” In terms of our theme, she is living on the edge in the sense of allowing the feeling to overwhelm her, and she must allow it to develop before it is real love. From her new album “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” Olivia Rodrigo here, and her song “Drop Dead”, number 10 this morning on MATT.
(triple) 10 DROP DEAD / Olivia Rodrigo
PART OF ME / Katy Perry
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY / Katy Perry
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Double Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson there, that is Katy Perry, that last one “The One That Got Away” from 2011 from her immensely popular album “Teenage Dream” on MATT. In the song, the woman of the relationship is recalling what an early romance was all about and how she misses it now. “In another life,” the lady of the relationship sings, “I would be your girl. We’d keep all our promises, be us against the world. In another life, I would make you stay so I don’t have to say you were the one that got away. All this money can’t buy me a time machine. It can’t replace you with a million rings. I shoulda told you what you meant to me, ‘cause now I paid the price.” She has lost him forever, and the video shows that in a striking way. As we think of living on the edge, and pursuing our own way of doing things, we are going to upset people, and may lose them forever. Good song and video to study.
Before her, the beginning of her double play, another very good song because of its stress on the importance of the individual. It is from her expanded album “Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection,” Katy Perry, “Part of Me” from 2012. The person in the song has been hurt by her boyfriend, but she is saying something quite true—she will survive. “Days like this,” the lady begins the song, “I want to drive away, you chewed me up and spit me out like I was poison in your mouth. But that was then and this is now. This is the part of me that you’re never gonna ever take from me. Throw your sticks and your stones, throw your bombs and your blows, but you’re never gonna break my soul.” We have to always look at the fact that we have the wherewithal to survive even difficult breakups. If we are into living on the edge, our theme today, we may be living that way because of some difficult breakup, and how we are living may be worse than suffering the breakup.
We have much more music for you today right after the break including songs from the band OneRepublic and Gotye. The thought that we are working with came from American musician Lady Gaga and her song “The Edge of Glory”. Thanks to my trusty quote book, I have another thought for you. It comes from Bob Dylan in one of his songs, as he sings about his age. “I was so much older then; I’m younger than that now.” Interesting, huh. Think about that. Being too old / too soon is not a good thing—we have to try to be “forever young” to quote another artist Rod Stewart. You’ve got Mix 103.3 on your dial right now, I’m your host Fr. Mike, and you are in tune with the MATT music network.
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We continue on the MATT music network. Welcome back to the only top 10 show of its kind in these parts, and as we say, maybe in the whole world. We look at the meanings of the songs we play in the hopes that you and I can learn to live better. I’m Fr. Mike, your host, and it is so good to have you with us today. The motto of our show continues to be to enjoy the music, and to listen to the message. We are using a theme which we have labeled “Livin’ on the Edge” and we are exploring how the songs of our show today fit into the idea of living as we should.
Right now, let’s go to a song from an immensely popular movie at one time called “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” and a song of commitment. “Heart beats fast,” she begins her song, “colors and promises, how to be brave, how can I love when I’m afraid to fall, but watching you stand alone—all my doubt suddenly goes away somehow. One step closer.” In the official video to the song, the lady in the song is approaching her future husband at the altar of marriage. “I have died,” she sings, “every day waiting for you. Don’t be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years. I’ll love you for a thousand more. I will not let anything take away what’s standing in front of me. Every breath, every hour has come to this. One step closer.” So, commitment to another in the relationship is the topic and, if we are only living on the edge, our theme today, we will learn to be more intense as we love. This is a beautiful love song, I believe from Ms. Christina Perri, “A Thousand Years”, from 2011 on MATT.
(double) A THOUSAND YEARS / Christina Perri
9 FEVER DREAM / Alex Warren
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That was number 9 this morning on our countdown from his album “Wildchild”, Alex Warren on MATT. It is a song about love overcoming loneliness. “How did you know I was hoping for a sign,” he sings, “My heart was so close to closing time. Somethin’ ‘bout you hit me like a freight train to the chest the day we met. My loneliness left the room the second that you walked in, somethin’ like a fever dream. Haven’t slept in weeks, I think I’m seeing things like our shadows dancing us out of our clothes. I’ll be damned if you love me, damned if you don’t. Maybe it’s fate, maybe it’s late. Told you I ain’t no liar, watching you leave’s haunting my dreams.” In terms of our theme, one of the feelings of early life and sometimes later, is the feeling of living on the edge of loneliness, and one of our tasks as we grow is to overcome it.
Another triple play is up next for us, and it begins with the number 8 song on our countdown this morning. It is a song that according to the leader of the band OneRepublic, highlights the importance of valuing love over material wealth. “I need your love,” they begin the song, “don’t need the buzz or the credit cards, the house on the hill with a perfect yard, don’t gotta see my name on the boulevard, I don’t need a million dollars giving me expensive problems; oh, don’t need a drink just to fill the cup, I need your love.” And they close their song with a sense of a forever commitment: “And when all of our time starts to slip away, I’m gonna love those lines, gonna love your shades of grey. You know that I have made a million mistakes, but I won’t make a million dollars at least not with another.” In terms of our theme, the person in the song is living on the edge with too strong a love for money, and he must spend more time at what it means to really love another. It will be on their next album, number 8 on our countdown right now, their song “Need Your Love”, OneRepublic on MATT.
(triple) 8 NEED YOUR LOVE / OneRepublic
SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW/ Gotye f/ Kimbra
7 RISK IT ALL / Bruno Mars
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Number 7 in our countdown this weekend, from his album “The Romantic,” his song of complete commitment to another, “Risk It All”, Bruno Mars or his real name Peter Gene Hernandez for the first time in our top 10 this morning on MATT. “For just the chance to win your heart, you could set the bar beyond the stars. 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.” The person in the song is saying some strong words and might be just living on the edge of a serious commitment; if we make a forever commitment, in order to survive well, we have to intend to keep that commitment.
Before him, we heard another one of my favorite sounding songs from his album, “Making Mirrors,” singing along with Kimbra Johnson or simply Kimbra, that was Walter “Wally” De Beckar, a 31 year old Belgium-born singer-songwriter, better known by his stage name of Gotye and his song, “Somebody That I Used to Know” from 2012. Their song is a relatively bitter song about a breakup. The man in the relationship is thinking back to the moment of the breakup, and he felt alright about it, but then he adds: “But you didn’t have to cut me off, make out like it never happened and that we were nothing, and I don’t even need your love, but you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough. No, you didn’t have to stoop so low. Now you’re somebody that I used to know.” The lady in the relationship responds basically the same way. Like I say a bitter breakup, not something that we want in life, to be sure. But, in terms of our theme this week, when you live on the edge, you may do some things that end up in bitterness.
We have another hour to go yet today. Popular music always seems to have a message, and it always contains something to talk about, and we will continue to do just that in a couple minutes. First, a thought to lead us to break, coming from Oscar Wilde who died back at the turn of the last century. One of his characters said this in one of his plays: “My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, / they don’t know anything at all.” Now that is a true statement, I believe. I’m Fr. Mike, inviting you to keep your dial right there as we continue shortly on the MATT music network on Mix 103.
We continue with the only top 10 show of its kind in this area as we celebrate the last Sunday of July 2026. It is great to have you with us on 100,000 watts of power, Mix 103.3 live streaming across the world, and the show we have labeled MATT, the show that takes only the top 10 of today and yesterday, and discovers just what their messages are, often giving us some thoughts to live by. My name is Fr. Mike, your host, and we are featuring the thought of Lady Gaga and her song “The Edge of Glory” which is on my website this Wednesday and we are speaking of some thoughts connected with living on the edge.
Let’s begin our second hour with the song on my website tomorrow. Sabrina Carpenter begins her song, “You said your phone was broken, just forgot to charge it; Did you just say you’re finished? Didn’t know we started. It’s all just so familiar, what do you call it? Stupid, or is it slow? Maybe it’s useless? But there’s a cuter word for it, I know, Man-child. Why you always come a-running to me? Won’t you let an innocent woman be? Never heard of self-care, half your brain just ain’t there. Man-child, why you always come a-running, taking all my loving from me?” It is a song that is speaking of the immaturity of young adult love, especially men and it is a picture of what can happen when one is only out for fun in a relationship. It is only a selfish relationship and before they can grow into what is right, they have to grow away from the selfishness. They are living on the edge, our theme today, and they will have to change in order to live well. A song from the AMA album of the year, namely “Man’s Best Friend” by the best female artist of the year, Sabrina Carpenter, and her song “Manchild” on MATT.
(triple) MANCHILD / Sabrina Carpenter
WE FOUND LOVE / Rihanna
6 BACK TO FRIENDS / Sombr
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21 year old Sombr, that is Shane Michael Boose from his album “I Barely Know Her” and his song “Back to Friends” at number 6 on MATT this week. It is a song about the fact that a couple have given themselves completely to each other physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends, and that, the artist concludes, is a contradiction. He sings, “How can we go back to being friends when we just shared a bed? How can you look at me and pretend I’m someone you’ve never met?” It seems as though the lady in the relationship wants to have a breakup or at least a temporary time apart, but the two have already made it clear that they are committed to each other. As I have mentioned, it is unfortunately a common enough experience. In terms of our theme, a person is living on the edge when there is too much physical involvement because the physical involvement tends to dominate rather than thinking about what love truly is.
Before him, we heard from Rihanna along with Calvin Harris as DJ from 2011, and her song “We Found Love” from her album “Talk That Talk”. On the album from which the song is taken, the lady in the relationship begins this song with the statement of the problem: “It’s like you’re screaming, and no one can hear. You almost feel ashamed that someone could be that important; that, without them, you feel like nothing.” And the lyrics of the song say the same thing a little more poetically: “Yellow diamonds in the light. Now we’re standing side by side, as your shadow crosses mine, what it takes to come alive. It’s the way I’m feeling, I just can’t deny, but I’ve gotta let it go. We found love in a hopeless place.” She doesn’t explain why she has to let it go, but my guess is that it was a relationship that was totally unhealthy, and so my theme on my website reads: “Some relationships are not healthy, and should be abandoned”, and tying it into our theme of living on the edge, staying with unhealthy relationships is living on the edge, and we may end up hurting ourselves.
And we are ready to go into our top 5 right now. At number 5 is a song quite familiar with the top 5 because it has been there so often recently. It is from the soundtrack of the best animated feature of this year according to the Academy Awards, “K Pop Demon Hunters” the name of it. It is the theme of the Netflix film that follows them—namely Huntr/X—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.” This is the song of the year according to the American Music Awards singing about doing what is right, and in terms of our theme today, the only way to survive well in our world whether in love or otherwise is to do what is right. We are living on the edge if all we are doing is thinking about doing good. We actually have to do it if we are going to live well. This is a trio of Korean young ladies named Huntr/X, and their number 5 song this morning, former number 1, “Golden” on MATT.
(triple) 5 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
SET FIRE TO THE RAIN / Adele
LIFE IS A HIGHWAY / Tom Cochrane
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From his album “Mad Mad World,” that was Canadian singer Tom Cochrane and his song “Life Is A Highway” on MATT. MATT considered it to be the number 1 song of meaning of 1992. We used it as our theme one time since the title gave us such a good way to speak of the songs of the show. The theme was very simply “Life Is …” and then let the songs of our show fill in the blank. Tom Cochrane looked at life as a highway. He talked about moving into the light. For a believer in a Higher Power, that light can easily be interpreted as God, the one to whom everyone is headed in one way or another. / The song is an excellent meditation on life. We are traveling toward a destination of light, the light of God or Higher Power. As we travel, we want to include others so that all can have the same light. Therefore we must face the misunderstandings, face the pain, face the sorrow, overcome them, and allow ourselves to travel fearlessly together “all night long,” because it’s worth it. It was an interesting theme: “Life is…” and then fill in the blank according to the songs, and it ties into our theme this week this way: when one makes life to be living on the edge, one must always be cautious about the possible consequences.
Before him, we heard from Adele, and her song from her album “21”, “Set Fire to the Rain”. She is a clever songwriter and always leaves a person thinking about her songs, and this latest one is no exception. It is a song speaking of the contradictions that are present in a relationship. The lady in the relationship begins by recognizing that she needs the man: “My hands,” she sings, “they’re strong, but my knees were far too weak to stand in your arms without falling to your feet. But,” she continues, “there’s a side to you that I never knew, all the things you’d say—they were never true, and the games you play, you would always win. But I set fire to the rain, watched it pour as I touched your face. Well, it burned while I cried ‘cause I heard it screaming out your name.” And the whole relationship is still there in her mind. She sings, “Even now when we’re already over, I can’t help myself from looking for you.” She always writes with poetry and here: setting fire to the rain is impossible of course, and it means that their relationship is impossible as long as the man in the relationship is not being honest to the lady in the song. Perhaps the person was living on the edge, our theme today, and couldn’t really enter the relationship well.
And that thought takes us to another break this last Sunday of July morning, as we think about living on the edge. Get ready to see how a birthday person and the top 4 fit into that theme. To that break, we go with this thought from an anonymous author again: “Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, / you'd have the time of your life.” Now, that’s pretty good. And once we have that maturity, we would be over only living on the edge of life. I’m Fr. Mike, and this show is MATT on Mix 103.
Part 10
Every song has a message and most of the time that message can be studied in the light of helping ourselves and others. Such is our thought on this show. Hi, everyone, welcome back to the only top 10 show of Mix 103, and really most other radio stations that gives you the meanings of the songs. We take the top 10 of today and the past 46 years, study their messages, and then find a guide to better living. In fact, such is our motto as we gather every Sunday: enjoy the music we play and listen to the message. I’m Fr. Mike, your host for a show that we call MATT, and the thought that we are working with today is the thought of living on the edge. It came from Lady Gaga and her song, “The Edge of Glory.”
Let’s work on a birthday right now, and a person that anyone interested in music will certainly know. Sir Michael Phillip Jagger that is, Mick Jagger, is 83 years old today, and still producing music as the leader of the Rolling Stones. The song compares a person’s love to a motorcycle, something only the Rolling Stones could do: “If you start me up, I’ll never stop. I’ve been running hot. You got me ticking, gonna blow my top if you start me up. You make a grown man cry, spread out the oil, the gasoline, I walk smooth, ride in a mean mean machine. Kick on the starter, give it all you got, I can’t compete with the riders in the other heats.” In the man’s mind, the lady is able to move him like none other. In terms of our theme, they could be playing the game of too much too soon, and therefore living on the edge, our theme today, and what must happen is a slow down in love activity perhaps. From their album “Tattoo You”, Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones and their song from 1981, “Start Me Up” on MATT.
(triple) START ME UP / Rolling Stones
CHEAP THRILLS / Sia
4 I KNEW IT, I KNEW YOU / Taylor Swift
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Taylor Swift’s latest song from the highly rated movie “Toy Story 5”, number 4 on our countdown this week, “I Knew It, I Knew You” on MATT. The song is the story line of the movie “Toy Story 5”, and in particular the journey of the character Jessie, depicting the concepts of reunion and memory, and the emotions that go with it. Taylor Swift wrote it after she had watched the movie. “I knew you through the daze of the blades of the grass in summer,” she begins her song, “parachutes for the free fall of being younger. I memorized the sound of your bare footsteps running wild. It’s been a long time; life has ways of leaving those days behind. But seeing you tonight, I remembered I loved you, came back when it mattered. I saw you, standing there in the light of the window, wearing that same smile. Man, it’s been a while, but I knew it, I knew you.” Remembering a past love is its theme, and in terms of our theme this week, if one really wants the love, they are only living on the edge unless they do something about it.
Before her, we heard the song on my website this Thursday www.frmikescully.com . It came from Australia-born Sia Kate Isebelle Furler, that is simply Sia and a song of having fun by dancing on a weekend. It is from her album “This is Acting” from 2016 and her song “Cheap Thrills”. “Come on, turn the radio on,” she sings, “It’s Friday night and I won’t be long. Gotta do my hair, I put my make-up on. I won’t be long till I hit the dance floor. I got all I need. No, I ain’t got no cash. I don’t need dollar bills to have fun tonight. I love cheap thrills. I don’t need no money as long as I keep dancing.” So a dance song of happiness. Tying it into our theme, dancing is one of the fun activities that can accompany couples as they are growing in love, and sometimes a person may be living on the edge, our theme today, by too much dancing and not enough communicating, which happens too often perhaps.
Let’s close off our countdown with the top 3 songs of our land as we speak. At number 3 is what is called a musical project called Tame Impala. The song is wanting a love connection while at the same time not wanting to come out of the shadows. Comparing the person in the song to a vampire, they sing: “The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre,” they begin their song. “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.” It brings up the thought of hoping for true love midst all the problems and situations that come into our lives, and that is very much living on the edge, our theme today. If we want love, we have to show it. The song is the creation of Australian instrumentalist Kevin Parker and he is accompanied by South Korean singer Jennie. It is from the album “Deadbeat” and the song “Dracula”, number 3 on MATT.
(double) 3 DRACULA / Tame Impala
2 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
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A song of wanting another to show her love for him by good dancing, the second time we have heard that idea this morning. This time it is the song from Bruno Mars’s album “The Romantic”, and the song “I Just Might.” This is the second time in the top 10 this morning on MATT for him. Here at number 2 in our countdown, Bruno Mars sings, “It would break my heart, 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.” It is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, but some general thoughts on dancing might be in order as we think of the song as we have done over the weeks it has been in the top 10. As usual with him—Bruno Mars—the song has quite a good dance video. In terms of our theme this week, as we said with Sia’s song just a few minutes ago, dancing is one of the fun activities that can accompany couples as they are growing in love, and sometimes a person may be living on the edge, our theme today, by too much dancing and not enough communicating.
And the number 1 song is once again from London born Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “So Easy”, making it altogether 5 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 looking for love of a particular person. In terms of our theme, it sounds as though the person in the song is begging another to love her, and that could be simply living on the edge of love, our theme today.
Our theme has been that idea of living on the edge and what it could mean in the situation of the song. My prayer for all of us is that we will take the time to seriously consider what our lives should be instead of simply living on the edge. My thanks to Jeff Leiker, our producer and to our sponsors, especially the people of Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays, Holy Family Elementary in Hays, Hays Car and Truck Alignment and Auto World in Hays. I hope you enjoyed our show, and that you choose to make our show always part of your Sunday thinking. If you would like to request a song or want to contact me, feel free to let me know by mail at KJLS-FM Hays, KS 67601 or by e-mail at frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website is www.frmikescully.com where you can find a transcript of the show, and some meditations on some Gospel passages and these songs and some great movies. You can catch us on the web also as Mix 103 live streams their station across the world. Just go to www.hayspost.com and click on Mix 103.3. A final thought today coming from the author Diane Von Furstenberg: “You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” In other words, be happy with who you are, and when we are, we will have a good foundation as we stay away from living only on the edge. As you listen to the number 1 song today once again from Olivia Dean and her song “So Easy,” may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music Mix 103.3, and one of our thoughts for you to keep in mind is to hold a good thought. Thank you for your time today. From Almost Heaven West Virginia through downtown Lawrence KS to Hays, KS and the world, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Stay safe, stay cool, peace to you, and be good!
1 SO EASY / Olivia Dean
Gotta Survive
July 19, 2026
Part 1
Hell0, Central Kansas and around the world! Happy second last Sunday of July to all of you, and welcome to MATT on today’s best music Mix 103.3. I hope you have found a way to stay cool. On our show, we pride ourselves on playing the best of popular music today and the best of pop from the past as well, the top 10 of today and yesterday as we call it, and we continue to be so much more because we like to speak of the meaning of the songs we play here. MATT looks at those meanings and finds in them some good thoughts for living well. I am Fr. Mike, your host. We take songs that have been popular for a while, songs that are only beginning their popularity and some very good songs from the past, put them all together with a theme, and we discover an attitude of living that can actually guide our lives. Today as we consider the very best that popular music has offered over the past 46 years, get ready for current top 10 music from Tame Impala, Taylor Swift, Sombr and the remaining top 10 this week. We also have past top 10’s from people like birthday person Selena Gomez and the band Queen. We’ll use the song that is on my website www.frmikescully.com this Tuesday by Em Beihold as our lead song this morning.
By way of introduction, pointing us in the direction of our lead song, I go to a story that came from my airline travels a number of years ago. / David was ten years old and a frequent flier on one of the major United States airlines. His mother lived in a city whose airport was a hub for the airline. His father lived in a city across the country whose airport was a secondary hub for the same airline. Since his father worked for the airline, the fare was inexpensive, and it fit well into the divorce settlement that called for the ten year old to visit his father on weekends every other week. As was their practice, the airline personnel always put a sticker on the young person giving the destination point, so that the flight attendants would always know where the young person was going. David made the flights so often that the hub-based airline crew got to know him, and in particular one flight attendant. As she related the story to me, she had found him in his seat crying one day. David freely talked to the kind attendant, opening up to her / that what he wanted most was for his mom and dad to stop hating one another. He remembered when they were so much in love only a couple of years before, and he could not understand how they could change so quickly.
In the words of our opening song, David was trying to survive. Things in his life were not what he wanted them to be and he felt badly. He loved his Mom and Dad equally, but he wanted that same love to exist between his Mom and Dad.
Well, according to her interview, Em Beihold wrote the song about being “numb” while on antidepressants due to her anxiety, but one can apply the song to any anxiety, like David’s in the story. In her song, she is wondering whether her life couldn’t get a little bit better than it is right now. “I don’t feel a single thing; have the pills done too much; haven’t caught up with my friends in weeks. And I just wanna see if you feel the same as me. Do you ever get a little bit tired of life, like you’re not really happy, but you don’t wanna die, like you’re hanging by a thread but you gotta survive? So I got these quick repairs to cope. Like a numb little bug that’s gotta survive.” She is using “quick repairs to cope” she sings, that is finding things that can help her survive. Let’s use the theme of “Gotta Survive” for our show this morning, and starting us off, this is Los Angeles born, 27 year old Miss Emily, that is, Em Beihold, from her album “Egg in the Backseat” and her song from 2022, “Numb Little Bug”on MATT.
(double) NUMB LITTLE BUG / Em Beihold
GIVE A LITTLE BIT / Goo Goo Dolls
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From the group the Goo Goo Dolls and their album “Live From Buffalo,” and their song “Give A Little Bit,” one of the songs of meaning of 2oo4. Our lead song from Em Beihold used the word “little” in its title, and so I went through our MATT playlist for “little” songs, and that was one of them. Incidentally, there are no songs titles with the word “numb” or “bug” in them. A little useless fact there; “Give a little bit,” they sing, “give a little bit of your love to me; I’ll give a little bit of my love to you. There’s so much that we need to share, so send a smile and show you care. I’ll give a little bit of my life for you. Give a little bit of your time to me. Now’s the time that we need to share, so find yourself, we’re on our way back home.” The person in the song is quite anxious to get into love, but you’re not sure about the partner. The thing I like about the song is their insistence on giving, and that is a way to survive, as we use our theme from Em Beihold, “Gotta Survive.”
Let’s begin our countdown this week and begin it with a triple play of numbers 10, 9 and 8. At number 10 is a song that according to the leader of the band OneRepublic, highlights the importance of valuing love over material wealth. “I need your love,” they begin the song, “don’t need the buzz or the credit cards, the house on the hill with a perfect yard, don’t gotta see my name on the boulevard, I don’t need a million dollars giving me expensive problems; oh, don’t need a drink just to fill the cup, I need your love.” And they close their song with a sense of a forever commitment: “And when all of our time starts to slip away, I’m gonna love those lines, gonna love your shades of grey. You know that I have made a million mistakes, but I won’t make a million dollars at least not with another.” In terms of our theme, if one is to survive after a commitment is made, the couple have to be willing to keep it forever. It will be on their next album, number 10 on our countdown right now, their song “Need Your Love”, OneRepublic on MATT.
(triple) 10 NEED YOUR LOVE / OneRepublic
9 AMERICAN GIRLS / Harry Styles
8 FEVER DREAM / Alex Warren
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The song at number 8 on our countdown this morning, from his album “Wildchild”, Alex Warren on MATT. It is a song about love overcoming loneliness. “How did you know I was hoping for a sign,” he sings, “My heart was so close to closing time. Somethin’ ‘bout you hit me like a freight train to the chest the day we met. My loneliness left the room the second that you walked in, somethin’ like a fever dream. Haven’t slept in weeks, I think I’m seeing things like our shadows dancing us out of our clothes. I’ll be damned if you love me, damned if you don’t. Maybe it’s fate, maybe it’s late. Told you I ain’t no liar, watching you leave’s haunting my dreams.” In terms of our theme, one of the feelings we have as we grow is the feeling of loneliness and one has to survive it by allowing true love to overcome it.
Before him, we heard from Harry Styles from his album “Kiss All the Time, Disco Occasionally,” his song “American Girls” number 9 this morning. The song is a philosophical thought about dating. Harry Styles said that the song gave him the opportunity to look at his own dating patterns. “Right at home with perfect timing,” he begins his song, “A face that knows her perfect lighting ‘cause time will show that you should try it, those American girls you spend your life with. I’ve known you for ages, it’s all that I’ve heard. My friends are in love with American girls; I’ve seen it in stages all over the world. Her sweet eyes, your temptations don’t deny her frustrations. Just spend your life with those American girls.” He sees that his friends are all getting married as he continues his dating process. In terms of our theme this week, he knows that in order to survive in love relationships, we must study our dating patterns to realize our behavioral activity.
Interesting things being said here. We’re talking about the subject of surviving our situations, especially our love situations. Get ready for current top 10 music from Bruno Mars and also music from Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber together, the band All American Rejects, the band Queen and the band Maroon 5. May I lead you to break with this thought from Mr. or Mrs. Anonymous: “In this world of give and take, there are few people willing to give what it takes.” And, my two bits, there are a lot of people who take and never give. But both of those thoughts are probably too negative. The positive side of it is that true giving is a trait of many good human beings, and a way to truly survive in our lives. You’ve got MATT on your dial today, this second last Sunday of July 2026. I’m your host Fr. Mike, and this is your invitation to stay right where you are.
We continue with MATT. Welcome back to the only show of its kind in these parts. We take the situations of the top 10 songs we play here on Mix 103, and we look at their meanings in the hopes that you and I can learn to live better. I’m Fr. Mike, your host, and it is great to have you with us again today. Our theme came from the 2022 song “Numb Little Bug” by Em Beihold and that theme: we are looking at the situation of the song and talking about how to survive in our world.
Let’s begin this double play with a song that is featured on my website www.frmikesully.com this Saturday. It is a song about the man in the relationship not being real happy with the situation he is in except for the fact that his significant other is there. “I’m at a party I don’t wanna be at”, they sing. “Don’t think I want to be at this party, I always feel like I’m nobody, who wants to fit in anyway ‘cause I don’t care when I’m with my baby, all the bad things disappear. And you’re making me feel like maybe I am somebody. I can deal with the bad nights when I’m with my baby.” He or she is really important to this relationship, perhaps too important. One person alone cannot always bring about survival in our world, our theme today. They are Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber and their song “I Don’t Care” from 2019 from Ed Sheeran’s album “No. 6 Collaborations Project” on MATT.
(double) I DON’T CARE / Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber
7 RISK IT ALL / Bruno Mars
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Number 7 in our countdown this weekend, from his album “The Romantic,” his song of complete commitment to another, “Risk It All”, Bruno Mars or his real name Peter Gene Hernandez for the first time in our top 10 this morning on MATT. “For just the chance to win your heart, you could set the bar beyond the stars. 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.” The person in the song is coming to that conclusion of a sincere commitment to another, and as we are saying with these commitment songs, if we make a forever commitment, in order to survive well, we have to keep that commitment.
Most of our music comes to us in triple play, and we have a triple of “little” songs right now, titles who have the word “little” them. The first one comes from the group that was formed in 1970 in London, England, and are still on the music scene, a famous group by the name of Queen. The song is all about what the emotions of love do to a person. “It swings,” they sing, “it jives, it shakes all over like a jelly fish. I kinda like it.” It is a pretty straightforward statement that love makes a person feel great, and with our theme this morning, giving another the love they desire is a way for everyone to survive. This is Queen from their “Greatest Hits” album, and their song, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” from the year 1980—now that goes back a couple of years—on MATT.
(triple) CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE / Queen
DIRTY LITTLE SECRET / All American Rejects
GIVE A LITTLE MORE / Maroon 5
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Another “little” song from the popular group Maroon 5, from their album “Hands All Over”, and their song “Give a Little More” from 2010. It is a love song, and what makes it such a good song of meaning is their stress on giving once again. In the story of the song, the girl left the man in the relationship, and now he is feeling the pain of departure. “I’m all alone,” they sing the thoughts of the man, “I’m waiting for something, always waiting, feeling nothing, wondering if it’ll ever change, and then I give a little more. I’m not falling in love with you, ‘til I get a little more from you. You were wrong for turning me on and on and on, you make it so hard. I have no defense, I know you’re gonna get me in the end, and I cannot pretend I never want to feel this way again.” And so in order to get a little more, he is going to give a little more—and that is an important part of love. Tying it into our theme, as we are saying often on our show today, if you gotta survive, you gotta learn how to love well.
Before them, we heard the American group The All-American Rejects, and their song “Dirty Little Secret” from their album “Move Along” from 2005. The group sings: “Let me know that I’ve done wrong, when I’ve known this all along. I go around a time or two just to waste my time with you. Tell me all that you’ve thrown away, find out games you don’t wanna play; you are the only one that needs to know. I’ll keep you my dirty little secret, don’t tell anyone or you’ll be just another regret, hope that you can keep it, my dirty little secret. Who has to know when we live such fragile lives. It’s the best way we survive.” It is a secret relationship that the couple in the relationship does not want anyone else to know about. And, as such it is going to be a problem because you can’t usually keep things like relationships secret. They sing our theme today that is keeping a relationship secret is the best way to survive, but it really isn’t.
We’ll be right back with two more triple plays in the first part of our second hour together, and in order of appearance—listen to this line-up: Shawn Mendes, the band Of Monsters and Men, Rob Thomas, Taylor Swift, the trio Huntr/X and Sombr. Popular music always has a message and when you listen carefully, you hear some interesting stories and situations and sometimes pretty heavy commentary. We go to break with another thought, this time from author Leonard Klappant: “Look for a little bit of God in everyone.” We do that, and we will find a lot of good human beings, and that is a way to survive in life. I’m Fr. Mike, inviting you to keep your dial right there, as we continue shortly with MATT.
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This is MATT on today’s best music mix 103. We continue with the only top 10 show of its kind in this area, maybe, as we say, the whole world. It is great to have you with us on the MATT music network, our show being the show that takes the top 10 of today and yesterday, and discovers what the meanings of the songs are, often giving us some thoughts to live by. My name is Fr. Mike, your host. We began our show with the song “Numb Little Bug” from Em Beihold and we are looking for the different ways to survive in life.
This second hour begins with another triple play and the triple play begins with a song that is featured on my website tomorrow. It is a song of pain and asking for help, and then the person realizing that he must depend on himself. “Help me,” he sings, “it’s like the walls are caving in. Sometimes I feel like giving up, but I just can’t: it isn’t in my blood.” He sings all of the possible ways that he could go to make himself feel better, but he understands that he must help himself because he’s built that way—in his blood. Super thought: we may need help and we have to indeed search for it, but ultimately, it is up to us. In terms of our theme, we gotta survive in our world, and ultimately it is up to us. We have the power. This is Shawn Mendes from his album named after him, and his song, a 10+ category song, “In My Blood” from 2018 on MATT. Listen to the words!
(triple) IN MY BLOOD / Shawn Mendes
LITTLE TALKS / Of Monsters and Men
LITTLE WONDERS / Rob Thomas
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The final two “little” songs on our show today, that last one from Mr. Rob Thomas, and “Little Wonders” from the soundtrack of the movie “Meet the Robinsons” from 2007 on MATT. The person in the song is singing about some special time together, and how important it was: “Our lives are made in these small hours,” he sings, “these little wonders, these twists and turns of fate, time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. Let your troubles fall behind you, and I don’t mind if it’s me you need to turn to. We’ll get by; it’s the heart that really matters in the end.” For the person in the song, the intimate moments of sharing are really important to him. It is another song about communication, and a 10+ category song of meaning for MATT, and it terms of our theme, if a relationship gotta survive, the two must communicate well.
Before him, another “little” song from the group from Iceland, Of Monsters and Men, from their album “My Head is an Animal,” and their song “Little Talks” from 2012. “I don’t like walking around this old and empty house,” they sing, “so hold my hand, I’ll walk with you, my dear. Some days I can’t even trust myself; it’s killing me to see you this way ‘cause though the truth may vary, this ship will carry our bodies safe to shore. There’s an old voice in my head that’s holding me back: well, tell her that I miss our little talks. Soon it will be over and buried with our past. We used to play outside when we were young and full of life and full of love. Your mind is playing tricks on you, my dear.” The meaning is a little complicated, but it sounds like the lady in the relationship is in need of help, and the two of them will find that if they wanna survive, our theme today, again, we hear it, they gotta do some serious communicating.
Another triple play of top 10 songs is directly in front of us right now as we hear our number 6 song this morning. It was our theme last week when we concentrated on past love relationships. The song is the story line of the movie “Toy Story 5”, and in particular the journey of the character Jessie, depicting the concepts of reunion and memory, and the emotions that go with it. Taylor Swift wrote it after she had watched the movie. “I knew you through the daze of the blades of the grass in summer,” she begins her song, “parachutes for the free fall of being younger. I memorized the sound of your bare footsteps running wild. It’s been a long time; life has ways of leaving those days behind. But seeing you tonight, I remembered I loved you, came back when it mattered. I saw you, standing there in the light of the window, wearing that same smile. Man, it’s been a while, but I knew it, I knew you.” Remembering a past love is its theme, and in terms of our theme this week, one of the helps to survive in love relationships is to be very aware of past love relationships and the lessons they taught. This is Taylor Swift’s latest song from the highly ranked movie “Toy Story 5”, number 6 on our countdown this week, “I Knew It, I Knew You” on MATT.
(triple) 6 I KNEW IT, I KNEW YOU / Taylor Swift
5 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
4 BACK TO FRIENDS / Sombr
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21 year old Sombr, that is Shane Michael Boose from his album “I Barely Know Her” and his song “Back to Friends” at number 4 on MATT this week. It is a song about the fact that a couple have given themselves completely to each other physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends, and that, the artist concludes, is a contradiction. He sings, “How can we go back to being friends when we just shared a bed? How can you look at me and pretend I’m someone you’ve never met?” It seems as though the lady in the relationship wants to have a breakup or at least a temporary time apart, but the two have already made it clear that they are committed to each other. As I have mentioned, it is unfortunately a common enough experience. In terms of our theme, I believe that one of the evils of society is giving in to too much physical involvement because the physical involvement tends to dominate rather than thinking about what love truly is. And the way to truly survive, our theme today, is to be governed by what love truly is rather than our feelings about love.
Before him, we heard from three Korean young ladies named Huntr/X, and their number 5 song this morning, former number 1, “Golden”. It is from the soundtrack of the best animated feature of this year according to the Academy Awards, “K Pop Demon Hunters” the name of it. It is the theme of the Netflix film that follows them—namely Huntr/X—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.” This is the song of the year according to the American Music Awards singing about doing what is right, and in terms of our theme today, the only way to survive well in our world whether in love or otherwise is to do what is right.
Which brings us to a break in the action, as my friend Gerard Wellbrock says here on Tiger Radio. We’ll be back with more music in our final segment from our segment 10 portion of the show, giving you some songs of three birthday people. First, a leadership thought from Disney’s A Bug’s Life: “The first rule of leadership: everything is your fault.” You begin with that and you will also discover how to survive well in this world. Great quote. Stay with us—you have MATT on your radio dial this morning on Mix 103.
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Part 10
Every song has a message and most of the time that message can help us understand some things about life. Such is our philosophy on this show. This is the MATT music network, as we are apt to say here, as we play only the top 10 songs that have graced our airwaves over the past 46 years, and we talk about them from what they talk about—that is their meanings. Thank you for spending part of your Sunday with us. I am Fr. Mike, and I welcome you back to our show that is speaking about the ways to survive in our world, that thought have come from Em Beihold’s 2022 song “Numb Little Bug.”
As promised, let’s celebrate some birthdays during this segment 10 presentation. First of all, Selena Gomez who has a number of songs on our playlist. She was born in Grand Prairie, TX, a suburb of Dallas, and she will be 34 years old on Wednesday. The song we are using from her is a song of anger and disappointment toward a boyfriend. “Take away your things and go. You can't take back what you said, I know. I've heard it all before, at least a million times. I'm not one to forget, you know. I don't believe it: you left in peace, left me in pieces. I'm so sick of that same old love; it tears me up. My body's had enough. It feels like I've blown apart. I’m so sick of that same old love, the kind that breaks your heart. I'm not spending any time, wasting tonight on you.” The only way we can really understand love and life is to rid ourselves of the anger in our lives, and when we do, then we can show love. This is a high song of meaning because the lady has chosen to move on in her life after the man has been so harmful to her, exactly what she should do. With our theme of survival, one of the ways to survive in life is to discern that sometimes a love relationship will not work, and then leave. Happy birthday Ms. Selena Marie Gomez, from her album “Revival” and her song “Same Old Love” from 2015 and on MATT.
(triple) SAME OLD LOVE / Selena Gomez
INTO THE NIGHT / Santana f/ Chad Kroeger
A LOT MORE FREE / Max McNown
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Happy birthday to him, Oregon born Max McNown, and his song from his album “Wandering” and his song “A Lot More Free” from 2023 on MATT. He will be 25 years old tomorrow. It is a song that is almost thankful for the pain of leaving someone because it makes him more free. “Leaves start falling, my cold wind blows,” he begins his song, “Birds start singin’ when the spring rolls ‘round, flowers blooming through the thawing ground. When you love somebody and the love grows cold, the sun starts shining when you let it all go. There’s a certain kind of hurting only time can heal. I’m a little bit hurt but a lot more free. I ain’t saying that you never took a toll on me. For what it’s worth, I can finally see that I’m a little bit hurt but a lot more free.” It is exactly what should be done: take the negatives and make them a positive as you become more aware of what life is doing to us. In terms of our theme, it is a way to survive. He called the song a song that shaped his future and you can easily see why.
Before him, we wished happy birthday to the leader of the band Santana, Carlos Santana. It comes from their “Ultimate Santana” album, and the song “Into The Night” from 2007, with lead singer Chad Kroeger from Nickelback on that song. Carlos will be 79 tomorrow also. They are singing about the gift of a happy love relationship, and begins with good poetry: “Like a gift from the heavens, it was easy to tell, it was love from above, that could save me from hell. She had fire in her soul; it was easy to see how the devil himself could be pulled out of me. There were drums in the air as she started to dance, every soul in the room keeping time with their hands, and we sang and the voices rang like the angels sing, and we danced on into the night.” It is one of those “happily in love” love songs, like everything is just fine, and we’ll live happily ever after. And if that is the case, you know that they both will survive, our theme today.
To our top 3 now, beginning with a song falling from number 1 to number 3 this week. It is a song of wanting another to show her love for him 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.” It is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, but some general thoughts on dancing might be in order as we think of the song as we have done over the weeks it has been in the top 10. As usual with him—Bruno Mars—the song has quite a good dance video. In terms of our theme this week, we need to survive in life, and having fun by dancing is part of it, I believe. This is the song from his album “The Romantic”, “I Just Might”, Bruno Mars for the second time in the top 10 this morning on MATT.
(double) 3 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
2 DRACULA / Tame Impala
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Moving into the top 3 for the first time, this week at number 2, that is what is called a musical project called Tame Impala on MATT. It is the creation of Australian instrumentalist Kevin Parker and he is accompanied by South Korean singer Jennie. It is from the album “Deadbeat” and the song “Dracula”. According to the experts, the song is wanting a love connection while simultaneously facing vulnerability, portraying a person who feels safest in the shadows and most uncomfortable in the daylight. The lyrics are these: comparing himself to a vampire, “The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre,” they begin their song. “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.” It brings up the thought of hoping for true love midst all the problems and situations that come into our lives, and that is necessary in order to survive in life, our theme today.
And the number 1 song once again from London born Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “So Easy”, making it altogether 4 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 looking for love of a particular person. In terms of our theme, the way to survive in our love lives is to know with as much certainty as possible who is the person we truly love.
Our topic today has been that thought of the fact that we “gotta survive.” It came from Em Beihold and her song “Numb Little Bug”. My prayer for you and me is that everyone of us will recognize the virtues that we need in order to survive well in this world. My thanks to our producers here in the studio, and to our sponsors, especially Hays Car and Truck Alignment, Holy Family Elementary School here in Hays, Auto World in Hays and Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior and Senior High in Hays. If you want to contact me by mail, I hope you do so at KJLS radio, Hays, KS, 67601 or my e-mail address is frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website is www.frmikescully.com where you will find a transcript of the show and some meditations on the Gospels and these songs and some good movies. We are on the web every Sunday morning at 10am CDT as well. Go to www.hayspost.com and click on Mix 103.3. May I close with this thought from an anonymous author again: “Accept the fact that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue.” Now, that is something to spend some time thinking about. Yes, indeed. As you listen to Olivia Dean’s song, “So Easy,” may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music Mix 103, and among all the great things we have told you, here is another one: hold a good thought. Thank you for your time this Sunday. From the beautiful State of West Virginia through the beauty of downtown Lawrence, KS and into the beautiful city of Hays, KS and beyond, my name is Fr. Mike Scully; be safe, peace to you, and be good.
1 SO EASY / Olivia Dean