KJLS-FM 103.3 10am Sundays

April 12, 2026

“Being Hopeful”

Part 1

Hello Central Kansas and around the world! Thank you for joining us this second Sunday of April of 2026. I hope your April has begun in a beautiful way and that the Spring weather is good to you. Thank you for joining us and 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 music, but studying their meanings as well. I am Fr. Mike, your host for MATT and it’s my pleasure to give you some great songs and some great messages. Get ready to listen to some songs from Imagine Dragons, Raye, Tal Bachman, Taylor Swift and many more.

Let’s talk about hope this morning,because of a song coming from a group whose leader has a birthday today. Brendan Urie, lead singer of the band Panic! At the Disco is 39 today. They disbanded in 2024. I did some checking on the idea of hope, and something I didn’t know came to light—in my mind anyway.

Elpis is Greek for “Hope” and it appears in ancient Greek mythology with the story of Zeus and Prometheus. Prometheus stole fire from the god Zeus which infuriated Zeus. In turn Zeus created a box that contained all manners of evil, unbeknownst to the receiver of the box. Pandora opened the box after being warned not to, and unleashed a multitude of harmful spirits that inflicted plagues, diseases, and illnesses on humankind. Spirits of greed, hatred, revenge, despair and other spirits scattered far and wide looking for humans to torment. Inside the box, however, there was also an unreleased healing spirit named Hope. From ancient times, people have recognized that a spirit of hope had the power to heal afflictions and help them bear times of great suffering caused by malevolent spirits and events.

Now I did not know that Greek mythology was the source of Pandora’s box and within it not only were bad things, but Hope was there also, and it had the power to heal from all the evil.

Well, I doubt that the band Panic! At The Disco had any idea about Pandora’s Box and Hope but they certainly see the importance of hope for the world. “Had to have high hopes for living,” they sing, “shooting for the stars when I couldn’t make a killing. Didn’t have a dime but I always had a vision, always had high hopes. Mama said, fulfill the prophecy, be something greater, go make a legacy, rewrite your history, light up your wildest dreams.” Smart Mama, indeed, who is inspiring him. And that is one of the elements of being hopeful—that you have some inspiration to turn to in order to give one hope.

We’ll make that our theme today. What are some elements of being hopeful? We will look into our songs and see some hints of the make-up of the virtue of hope together with the song. Starting us off, here is the song speaking our theme of “Being Hopeful,” from the year 2018 and their album “Pray for the Wicked”, Panic! At The Disco, their song “High Hopes” on MATT.

(double) HIGH HOPES / Panic! At the Disco

HEY LOOK MA I MADE IT / Panic! At the Disc0

Part 2

Even though they have disbanded, they have quite a sound, the band Panic! At the Disco from their album “Pray for the Wicked” again and their song “Hey Look Ma, I Made It” from 2019 on MATT. It was number 18 of all the songs of that year. It is a good song to study and one to learn from. They sing of a person who wanted to go to the top, he did, and now he finds that he is not satisfied. “All my life been hustling and tonight is my appraisal ‘cause I’m a hooker selling songs and my pimp’s a record label. This world is full of demons, stocks, and bonds, and bible traders, so I do the deed, get up and leave, a climber and a sadist. Are you ready for the sequel, ain’t ready for the latest? In the garden of evil, I’m gonna be the greatest in a golden cathedral. I’m be praying for the faithless. He look Ma, I made it, everything’s coming up aces, and if it’s a dream, don’t wake me.” And the result: some like him, many don’t. He made it, it seems, but doesn’t feel good about it because he has met evil up front and personal. Putting those thoughts into our theme, even though we have hope achieved in life, it doesn’t do away with evil, and we have to see that even with evil in our world and our lives, we still can have hope.

There are a number of songs on our playlist of the top 10’s since 1980 with the word “high” in their title, and I thought it would be interesting to follow the lead of our title, and play some of those songs. Let’s begin this triple play with a good song of meaning because it could be sung to nature—beautiful dawn, or to a girl that has made him so happy. “Beautiful dawn—lights up the shore for me. Thought I would die a lonely man,” he sings, “in endless night. But now I’m high, running wild among all the stars above, sometimes it’s hard to believe you remember me.” The person in the song was ready for despair and loneliness, but he feels the love of someone else, or something else if he is talking about nature, and he is fine again. In terms of our theme, one of the elements of being hopeful is the belief that someone else or something else loves us. From the album “Back to Bedlam”, James Blunt and his song from 2004, “High” on MATT.

(triple) HIGH / James Blunt

HIGH ENOUGH / Damn Yankees

10 TOO SWEET / Hozier

Part 3 Coming back into our countdown briefly, my number 6 of all the songs of meaning of 2025, from Irish singer/songwriter Andrew John Hozier-Byrne, better known simply as Hozier, and his song “Too Sweet” at number 10 this morning on MATT. It is a song about a man in a relationship talking of the lifestyle of each of the partners. His own is a late-night one along with a little too much relaxation / and the partner is an early bird with a cautious lifestyle. “It can’t be said I’m an early bird, it’s ten o’clock before I say a word. I can never tell how you sleep so well. You keep telling me to live right, to go to bed before the daylight, but then you wake up for the sunrise. But while in this world, I think I’ll take my whiskey neat, my coffee black and my bed at three. You’re too sweet for me.” We have mentioned before that opposites sometimes attract when people are discovering love, but not often, and what does the song say about “Being Hopeful” our theme today? Well, if the opposites are as hopeful as they could be, the relationship could work.

Before him, another “high” song from the group Damn Yankees, and their song “High Enough.” The group Damn Yankees was a group formed in 1989 and continued singing together until 2001. “I don’t wanna hear about it anymore,” they began their song, singing the thoughts of the man in the relationship, “It’s a shame I’ve got to live without you anymore. There’s a fire in my heart, a pounding in my brain. It’s driving me crazy. Don’t say goodnight, say you’re gonna stay forever. Can you take me high enough, to fly me over yesterday. Can you take me high enough? It’s never over, yesterday’s just a memory.” Apparently something happened to their relationship, and the song is sort of an apology and begging her to come back. In terms of our theme today, if someone makes a mistake, one of the elements of being hopeful in a situation like that is that there is a willingness to apologize.

Our theme song this week is from the band Panic! At the Disco and their 2o18 song “High Hopes.” I’m Fr. Mike inviting you to stay with us. Let me take you to break with a thought about communication from Harry S. Truman, one of our great presidents, and here talking about the principal problem of our world and why communication is so important to make everything better: “We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.” Everyone of us has to work at that and if we do, there is indeed hope for a good life. Hey, don’t go way. MATT will be right back.

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Part 4

You are in tune with “Message at the Top,” your top 10 show on Mix 103. Thank you for joining us this morning. We welcome you back to the songs that have been the most popular in this area during this past week. We take the top 10 and study their messages, and then call our show MATT. I’m your host Fr. Mike. It’s great to have you here. We began our show with a theme and title setting song from Panic! At the Disco and their song “High Hopes”. The theme that comes from it is: “Being Hopeful.”

We are playing some songs with “high” in their title, and here is one by the band Creed. They disbanded after their tour in 2010. It is a good song of meaning because it contains the message of going to a place which is in our dreams, a place of comfort and respite from the complicated world. “When dreaming guided into another world,” they sing, “time and time again, as sore eyes I fight to stay asleep, ‘cause I don’t want to leave the comfort of this place, ‘cause there’s a hunger longing to escape from the life I live when I’m awake. So let’s go there, let’s make our escape. Can you take me higher, come on, let’s go there, let’s ask, can we stay.” And a little later on, they sing, “I wish I could make the earth and my dreams the same.” We all want a better life because we see the horrible things that go on in our world. Therefore, it is a song of longed-for maturity, and a person who can take the person in the song there. Part of being hopeful, our theme today, is that we learn to look at the world with the possibility that it can be and will be better. From the year 2000 and from their album “Human Clay” Creed’s song “Higher” on MATT.

(double) HIGHER / Creed

SHE’S SO HIGH / Tal Bachman

Part 5

Another “high” song from our playlist of the past 46 years, from the year 1999 and a song from Canadian singer/songwriter Tal Bachman from his album named after him, and his song “She’s So High”on MATT. He sings of a person who does not have the self-confidence that he should have. His girlfriend who seems to like him, apparently has made an approach toward him, and he is “frozen” at the thought: “What could a guy like me ever really offer?” he sings, “She’s perfect as she can be. Why should I even bother? She’s so high, high above me.” He needs a good dose of self-confidence, and the way to build such self-confidence is to recognize that he has a lot to offer, even if he thinks that he is not as perfect as he thinks she is. Tying that thought into our theme today: part of being hopeful is to have self-confidence to show a little hope in life.

Let’s return to our current countdown now, and give us three in a row beginning with number 9 and a song that also comes back into our countdown briefly from Billie Eilish. It is a song about falling in love with a person that she wants to "stick together" with. The love to her significant other brings her to tears and begs the lover to never end their relationship. “I want you to stay 'til I'm in the grave”, she begins, “'til I rot away, dead and buried, ‘til I'm in the casket you carry. If you go, I'm goin' too / 'cause it was always you and if I'm turnin' blue, please don't save me. Nothin' left to lose without my baby. Birds of a feather we should stick together. And I don't know what I'm cryin' for; I don't think I could love you more. It might not be long, but I'll love you 'til the day that I die, ‘til the light leaves my eyes, ‘til the day that I die.” The lady in the relationship is truly committed to the other and therefore will have a lot of hope concerning their happy life together. This is Billie Eilish from her album “Hit Me Hard and Soft”, and her song “Birds of a Feather”, number 5 of my songs of meaning from 2024, and number 9 this week on MATT.

(triple) 9 BIRDS OF A FEATHER / Billie Eilish

8 THE FATE OF OPHELIA / Taylor Swift

7 BACK TO FRIENDS / sombr

Part 6

Number 7 in our countdown here on MATT: Shane Michael Boose, better known as sombr, from his album “I Barely Know Her” and his song “Back to Friends” on MATT. It is a song about the fact that the couple have given themselves completely to each other physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends, and that 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. It is unfortunately a common enough experience. In terms of our theme, usually a person who wants out of a true love relationship after a commitment has been made, does not understand the idea of commitment, and there is little hope, our theme today, that the relationship will work out in the end. Good song to study.

Before him, we heard from Taylor Swift, and a familiar song to our current top 10—she entered the top 10 last October with the song. It is the number 8 song from Taylor Swift and her album “The Life of a Showgirl,” and the song “The Fate of Ophelia”. As we have said over the months it has been in the top 10, it cleverly involves a study of one of the plays of William Shakespeare, namely his play “Hamlet” and Hamlet’s once-upon-a-time presumed future wife Ophelia. In the story, Mr. Shakespeare has Ophelia drown herself after a rejection from Prince Hamlet and after her father’s death at the hands of Hamlet. So a tragic situation, but the song writes a different ending. The song is a powerful anthem about being rescued from the brink of emotional and psychological collapse by an all-consuming lover. He brings about a true resurrection for her and according to the people who should know about such things, as I have said, resembles the likes of her famous current boyfriend. “Late one night,” she sings, “you dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.” It is exactly what is supposed to happen if there is a deep love of each other, and if the feelings are true, they have certainly found the love they desire, and they can be quite hopeful, our theme today, that things will work out between them.

That is the title of MATT this morning—finding different ways to be a little more hopeful in life. The song from Panic! At the Disco gave us the idea with their song “High Hopes.” Today is Brendan Urie’s birthday, the founder of the group who broke up a couple years ago. Our next segment of music and message will explore that theme with top 10 music from Alex Warren and Raye, as well as music from Taylor Swift again, Selena Gomez, Lauv, and the band Imagine Dragons. Let me close this segment with a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist who died in 1894: “Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.” Great thought--unfortunately. I’m Fr. Mike, listen to these great thoughts, and then I hope you come back for more.

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Part 7

Good morning, everyone. This is “Message at the Top”, on Mix 103. Thank you for joining us again on 100,000 watts of power. I am Fr. Mike, and our show gives you the top 10 songs of our area, as well as some top 10 of the past. And what is amazing about them is that with a little bit of help, those songs can actually teach us something about ourselves and about our behavior. The topic of our show today is the thought of being hopeful, a thought from a song from Panic! At the Disco, and we are giving you the songs of our show with the thoughts of “being hopeful”.

Let’s begin our second hour together with the number 6 song on our coundown right now. It is a song about the opposite of its title. The title of it is “Ordinary” and it is about what is not ordinary. It is a song which talks of an “ordinary” love relationship and says that what he has for a friend of his is not part of “the ordinary.” He begins with the thought that everything is pretty much ordinary: “They say ‘The holy water’s watered down and this town’s lost its faith. Our colors will fade eventually.” But he has a solution; he continues: “So, if our time is runnin’ out day after day, we’ll make the mundane our masterpiece.” Right there is a great description of how to make life a little more hopeful, our theme today—try to make the mundane happenings so special that they become masterpieces. As I have mentioned, the song came into the top 10 on May 11 of last year and is still there after spending a record setting 19 weeks at number 1. From his album “You’ll Be Alright, Kid” this is Carlsbad, California-born Alexander Warren Hughes or simply Alex Warren, and his song “Ordinary”, number 6 on our countdown this week on MATT.

(triple) 6 ORDINARY / Alex Warren

DELICATE / Taylor Swift

BACK TO YOU / Selena Gomez

Part 8

That was Selena Gomez and her song “Back to You” from the TV show “13 Reasons Why” soundtrack on MATT. It is the story of a girl who seems to want an old relationship to re-appear, and it speaks of what could happen if they get back together. “Took you like a shot,” she begins, “Thought I could chase you with the cold evening, let a couple years water down how I’m feeling about you. And every time we talk, every single word builds up to this moment, and I gotta convince myself I don’t want it, even though I do. You could break my heart in two, but when it heals, it beats for you. I know it’s forward but it’s true. I wanna hold you when I’m not supposed to, when I’m lying close to someone else. You’re stuck in my head, and I can’t get you out of it. If I could do it all again, I know I’d go back to you.” With a person who is this way—thinking of another when you are supposed to be in love with someone else, there will be very little hope for her, our theme today, until she finally decides what she is going to do.

Before her, we heard a former number 1 from Ms. Taylor Swift again, this time from her album “Reputation,” and her song “Delicate”. It is a song about a relationship that seems to be good at the moment, but the lady in the relationship realizes that their time together is for the wrong reasons.  She sings, “I like you; this ain’t for the best.  My reputation’s never been worse, so you must like me for me.  Yeah, I want you.  We can’t make any promises now, but you can make me a drink.  I know that it’s delicate, isn’t it?”  She wants the feeling of the man’s presence, but she wants it to be for the right reason—“you must like me for me” she sings.  Therefore, as she sings, it is a delicate situation, and if she is wanting love for the right reason, it is a hopeful sign, our theme today.

Right now, another triple play is directly in front of you. It begins with a song about permanent love, with a great video that shows that the young love was indeed permanent. “To be young and in love in New York City,” he sings, “To not know who I am but still know that I’m good long as you’re here with me. I like me better when I’m with you. I knew from the first time, I’d stay for a long time. I don’t know what it is but I got that feeling waking up in this bed next to you, swear the room it got no ceiling. If we lay, let the day just pass us by. I like me better when I’m with you. Stay here with me.” Making a permanent commitment and then keeping it is always a hopeful sign, our theme today, that the relationship will work out. This is from his debut album “I Met You When I Was 18”, Lauv or Ari Stapran Leff and the song “I Like Me Better” on MATT.

(triple) I LIKE ME BETTER / Lauv

NATURAL / Imagine Dragons

5 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND / Raye

Part 9

Continuing our countdown and continuing triple plays, a song about the desire for a partner in her life, or as she says in a traditional way, a husband, the lady who calls herself Raye, a British singer/songwriter whose real name is Rachel Agatha Keen from her album “This Music May Contain Hope,” and her song at number 5, “Where is My Husband” on MATT.“Where is my husband,” the lady sings, “Why is this beautiful man waiting for me to get old? Why he already testing my patience? I only fear he taking time with other women that ain’t me / while I’ve been reviewing applications. Wait til I get my hands on him. I’ma tell him off too for how long he kept me waiting, anticipating, praying to the Lord to give him to my loving arms. And despite my frustrations. And he must need me completely. Help me, Lord. I need you to tell me.” I describe it as a tongue-in-cheek desire to find where love is, the desire of a lady to find a person who truly loves her, a statement, I believe, of someone’s need for romantic love. In terms of our theme this week, searching for and finally finding that love is the hope of every relationship, being hopeful, our theme today.

Before her, we heard a great song of meaning from Imagine Dragons and their song “Natural,” from 2018 and from their album “Origins”. It is song as lead singer Dan Reynolds says, about finding yourself and being willing and able to stand up to whatever adversity comes your way. So, a song about being a natural in a positive sense in today’s world. “Will you hold the line when every one of them has given up and given in? Tell me in this house of mine, nothing ever comes with a consequence of cost, tell me, will heaven step in, will it save us from our sin? Will it? ‘Cause this house of mine stands strong. That’s the price you pay.” As one faces adversity, we must be able to adjust, and if he/she or they as a couple can do that, it is a very good thing, because it is one of the elements of hope, our theme today.

And once again, we have played our way to a brief pause. In our next segment, get ready for music from our top 4 right now as well as former top 10 music from Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber. Our quotation for this segment comes from Mark Twain, and a good statement about real romantic love, and no sarcasm here: “When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.” You know, he said good stuff as well as sarcasm, and if you do that…bait with your heart, you are pursuing love the way you should, and you will make things better and hopeful in your life. Don’t go way. I’m Fr. Mike, and this is “Message at the Top” on Mix 103.

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Part 10

My name is Fr. Mike and this is “Message at the Top” on 100,000 watts of power, today’s best music Mix 103, our only top 10 show that gives you the music of the 2000’s, some 90’s and even 80’s along with all of their messages. And we make the statement: enjoy the music and listen to the messages because the messages probably will help your lives. The title of our show this morning is “Being Hopeful.” It came from Panic! At the Disco’s song “High Hopes”.

Back to our countdown right now as we begin another triple play. At number 4 this week is the Academy Award winning Best Song of the Year. It comes from the Korean movie and music of Huntr/X, three talented Korean ladies and the theme of a Netflix film that follows a Korean girls group—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. “I was a ghost, I was alone, given the throne; I didn’t know how to behave, I was the queen that I’m meant to be. I lived two lives, tried to play both sides, but I couldn’t find my own place. Called a problem child ‘cause I got too wild. But now that’s how I’m getting paid. 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.” As I have said with the song, it sounds like a song of determination to do the right thing, and in terms of our theme, if one is always trying to do the right thing, that person will usually be a very hopeful person, our theme today. This is Huntr/X from the soundtrack of the best animated feature of this year according to the Academy Awards, “KPop Demon Hunters” the name of it, and their song at number 4, former number 1, “Golden” on MATT.

(triple) 4 GOLDEN / Huntr/X

THE A TEAM / Ed Sheeran

LOVE YOURSELF / Justin Bieber

Part 11

The song on my website today www.frmikescully.com, “Love Yourself”, Justin Bieber, from his album “Purpose”. It sounds like a good personality trait, namely loving ourselves in order to really understand love but the song is not that at all. The song is a statement to a girlfriend that all she does is love herself, and therefore it is the end of any love relationship. “For all the times that you rain on my parade,” he sings, “And all the clubs you get in using my name, you think you broke my heart, you think I'm crying on my own. Well, I ain't, and I didn't wanna write a song 'cause I didn't want anyone thinking I still care. I don't. But now I know. You should go and love yourself.” That last phrase says it all—she really should love herself, the proper way, that is, with no selfishness at all since true love of self is part of love of God and love of others. And the person who knows this—really understands—will be content with life, and quite hopeful as that person lives, our theme today.

Before him, we heard a tough song with a tough video, but good to think about from English singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran from his album “+”, and his excellent song “The A Team”. It is a song about a girl who has problems, and she won’t get out of them for a while because she is choosing not to / or can’t, maybe. She has problems with drugs and struggling to make ends meet. The refrain is: “And they say she’s in the class A team, stuck in her daydream, been this way since 18, but lately her face seems slowly sinking, wasting, crumbling like pastries. And they scream: the worst things in life come free to us ‘cause we’re just under the upper hand and go mad for a couple of grams, and she don’t want to go outside tonight, and in a pipe she flies to the Motherland or sells love to another man. It’s/ too cold outside for angels to fly.” And that thought of being too cold outside for angels says to me that it is a hopeless life for her. The lady he is singing about is hopelessly on drugs and committed to a life of prostitution. Thinking of our theme today, that of hope, it is quite difficult to find any hope in her life, but it is important to know that she can get out of the situation if she wants—and that is hopeful.

At number 3 this morning is the first of a double play of top 10 songs for Olivia Dean. This one is the statement of what I call the virtue which is most needed in any relationship, namely, communication. “Talk to me,” she begins her song, “looks like we’re making up for lost time; need you to spell it out for me. Don’t be shy, just come be the man I need. Tell me you got something to give. I want it. I kinda like when you call me wonderful, whatever the type of talk it is. Come on then, I gotta know you’re meant to be the man I need. Talk to me. I’d like to think you feel the same way, but I can’t tell with you sometimes. So, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication, and she gives the reason why. In terms of our theme this week, if a couple have achieved perfect communication, the couple can hope for—our theme today—a very good relationship. From London, England, the first song from her in the top 10, Olivia Dean, from the album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “Man I Need”, number 3 this week on MATT.

(double) 3 MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean

2 SO EASY / Olivia Dean

Part 12

The close of a double play of two top 10’s for her, Olivia Dean, also from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “So Easy”, number 2 this morning on MATT. 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, a person with this much love for another will no doubt be hopeful, our theme today, that things will work out.

And at number 1 for four weeks altogether is the song “I Just Might” from his album “The Romantic”, Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez. 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 usual with him—Bruno Mars—the song has quite a good dance video. In terms of our theme this week, if someone takes the time to learn to dance well, there is the hope that usually such a person will take the time to work at the relationship. How’s that for reasoning!

And there you have it, as Kasey Kasum used to say, the top songs of our land along with some songs of the past. Today we have spoken of some elements of hoping, a thought that we took from Panic! At the Disco’s song “High Hopes.” My prayer for you and me is that we honestly try to be hopeful people in everything that we do. If you want me to study a song, or if you would like to contact me, my e-mail address is: frmikescully@yahoo.com or the address at the radio station: KJLS-FM, Hays, KS 67601. My website is www.frmikescully.com where you will find meditations on Gospels, songs and movies and a transcript of the show. Thank you for your time today. My thanks to the producers of our show, and to our sponsors, especially Hays Car and Truck Alignment, Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays, Holy Family Elementary School in Hays and Auto World in Hays. Another thought as we leave. It comes from Socrates who died in 399 BCE, a long time ago, and a thought full of wisdom: “Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.” A profound statement of pretty good theology. Our number 1 song from Bruno Mars and his song “I Just Might” leads us out. From the beautiful state of West Virginia through the likewise beautiful downtown of Lawrence, KS, I’m Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good!

1 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars

April 5, 2026

“Helping Another”

Part 1

Good morning, Central Kansas and around the world, and thank you for joining us this morning; welcome to Mix 103’s unique top 10 show, “Message at the Top”. Happy Easter to you as the Christian world celebrates that feast today. I am Fr. Mike, your host; get ready for top 10 songs of the past 46 years. We here at Mix 103 continue to give you only the very best in radio entertainment, / and that includes not only the songs that we play, but their messages as well. This morning we have some great songs all warmed up on our computers, including our current top 10 here at Mix 103, the number one popular music station of Central Kansas. Our plea to you is to enjoy the music and listen to the message so as to allow that message to be somewhat of a guide for you. Last week, Bruno Mars had the number 1 song—we’ll see if he stays there. We will begin with a thought about Christian belief and the concept of “bleeding” on behalf of another. It is a fitting theme if we think in Christian terms of what Jesus did for us on Easter day. And interestingly enough, that is Lady Gaga’s thought in our opening song.

The song is truly a religious song in the sense that the lady in the song compares herself to Mary Magdalene at the death of her friend Jesus. I find it a very interesting way for a lady to say to her man that she will continue to love him no matter what happens, exactly what Mary Magdalene said to Jesus. “Love is just a history” she sings, “that they may prove and when you’re gone, I’ll tell them my religion’s you. When Punktious”—a reference to Pontius Pilate one would guess—“when Punktious comes to kill the king upon his throne, I’m ready for their stones. I’ll dance with my hands above my head like Jesus said. I won’t cry for you, I won’t crucify the things you do. See, when you’re gone, I’ll still be Bloody Mary.” That is, she is still bleeding for Jesus after he’s gone, according to her explanation.

“Bleeding for” another is a way of saying that the person will help someone else’s pain. It implies that the person is well aware of the suffering that another is going through, and will remain devoted to that person as he/she witnesses what is happening. So a lady can be bleeding for another as the man that she loves goes through pain; similarly, a man is bleeding for another or helping another as he listens closely to what is bothering his friend in the relationship he has with her. It is an interesting concept that we will take through the songs of our show today and see how it fits in with the situation of the song.

To start us off, this is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta or Lady Gaga, in double play, beginning with her song “Bloody Mary” from 2022 on MATT.

(double) BLOODY MARY / Lady Gaga

BORN THIS WAY / Lady Gaga

Part 2

Closing off a double play from her, Lady Gaga again, from her album “Born This Way,” the lead song from it from 2011 on MATT. It is a high song of meaning for me, what I call a 10+ category because of its stress on the importance of the individual, and the fact that God makes no mistakes. “My mama told me when I was young that we are all born superstars: ‘there’s nothing wrong with loving who you are’ she said, ‘‘‘cause he made you perfect. I’m beautiful in my way ‘cause God makes no mistakes. I’m on the right track. I was born this way. Don’t hide yourself in regret. Just love yourself and you’re set. There ain’t no other way. I was born this way. I’m on the right track. Don’t be a drag, just be a queen.” The message is that we should love who we are. In terms of our theme, can we say that we should help, that is care for ourselves. Yes, if it leads to a true love of self and not selfishness.

Let’s begin our countdown with this triple play. At number 10 is a song that speaks of a breakup which in my opinion as I study the circumstances, should happen. The lady in the relationship seems to have done things right in trying to establish whether the man is being honest with her or not. She has checked with a friend and then takes the time to talk to him directly. “Thought I might love you again,” she sings, “I’ll see how I feel. Now that you’re acting like that, I never will. Last night, she answered my call, it sealed the deal. Right now, I’m not even about you. The day I met you, I thought it was a blessing, In the heat of it, I always took your side. It’s a shame you out here tryna make it messy. We were good, I thought we made it through the ending. Could have picked it up exactly where we left it, took our future off your plate. Let’s go tit for tat, you asked for that. I was never as far away as you thought.” And then she breaks it off. In terms of our theme this week, we usually do not think of a breakup helping another, but sometimes it is the only thing that can help. From her album “So Close to What,” a song rumored to be a song that is in response to one her ex boyfriend wrote, the name of her song “Tit For Tat,” Tate McRae, number 10 this week on MATT.

(triple) 10 TIT FOR TAT / Tate McRae

UNTIL I FOUND YOU / Stephen Sanchez

UNHOLY / Sam Smith & Kim Petras

Part 3

A best Pop Duo Grammy award winner from a couple years ago, from British singer Sam Smith and German singer Kim Petras and their song “Unholy” on MATT. The song is named “Unholy” and it implies that making a firm commitment to love each other in marriage is a holy thing to do, and I think it is. It is from Sam Smith’s album “Gloria” and a song of cheating on a commitment. “Mommy don’t know daddy’s getting hot at the body shop,” they sing, “Doing something unholy. A lucky girl she got married to a boy like you. She’d kick you out if she ever knew. Dirty boy, you know everyone is talkin’ on the scene. I hear them whisperin’ ‘bout the places that you’ve been and how you don’t know how to keep your business clean. He left the kids at home so he can get that.” As I say, the song seems to be describing what some young couples do if their commitment is weak. In terms of the overall effect it has on the young family, it is certainly not good, and in general will cause real chaos all through their lives. In terms of our theme, there would be no helping the other in this relationship, and that is part of why it is such a difficult song.

Before them, we heard another top 10 song about commitment to a girlfriend. MATT presenting Mr. Stephen Sanchez and his song “Until I Found You”. “Georgia,” the man in the relationship begins his song, “wrap me up. I want you, in my arms, oh, let me hold you. I’ll never let you go again, like I did. I used to say, ‘I would never fall in love again, until I found her.’ I said, ‘I would never fall, unless it’s you I fall into’. I was lost within the darkness, but then I found her, I found you.” In an interview he says that he is singing it to his actual girlfriend, whom he left and then came back to again. As we think in terms of helping another, it certainly sounds like he will do it if she is in pain.

Our theme today is that idea of helping another which we took from Lady Gaga’s semi-religious song “Bloody Mary.” 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 band Parmalee, Olivia Dean for the first time, Taylor Swift for the first time, the duo MAX and gnash, and the band Coldplay. Here’s a thought about life from my quotebook, and this makes a lot of sense: “Life is like a camera. Focus on the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t work out, take another shot.” I’m Fr. Mike for “Message at the Top” on Mix 103. Why not stay right where you are as you enjoy your Spring Easter Sunday morning with us. We’ll be right back.

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Part 4

We are back for “Message at the Top” which gives you the top 10 popular songs of our area that have been most popular during the week which ends today, the first Sunday of April, 2026, Easter in the Christian world. Today we are playing our songs and studying them in the light of our theme which is “Helping another”, a theme taken from Lady Gaga’s song “Bloody Mary”. I’m your host, Fr. Mike. Thank you for joining us again this Easter morning. It is great to have you with us!

We begin this portion of our show this morning with a song about the decision for marriage even though it may be too soon, at least in other people’s minds. “Take my hand, let me make you mine,” they sing, “I’m through waiting, taking my time; never felt like this before, take my name and make it yours. I hope you don’t think it’s a little bit crazy saying this all so soon, but it’s the right time, knew it from the first time that I laid eyes on you. It’s okay, let ‘em say what they want; they might think I should wait, but I don’t wanna waste a minute, girl, I want you in it, every single part of my world.” One of the facts about love relationships of course is that they must begin sometime somehow. The band Parmalee sings in their song that the man in the relationship is pretty strong about feeling that the love is there right at the beginning, and that perhaps the lady might think it is crazy, but it is love at first sight for him, and that is guiding the relationship. In terms of our theme this week, no doubt with that feeling, there is also the desire to help with the cares of that person which is a pretty good way of saying that love is present. Usually a country group, this is the band Parmalee, and their song “Take My Name” from 2023 from their album “For You” on MATT.

(double) TAKE MY NAME / Parmalee

9 SO EASY / Olivia Dean

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The first of two top 10’s in the same countdown for her, Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “So Easy”, number 9 this morning on MATT. 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, a person with this much love for another will include the possibility of helping that other as much as possible.

Let’s go to another triple play this Easter Sunday morning. This first song reflects the thought that a person can love mineraloids. She says that she has always loved opals, a mineraloid. Opal is also Travis Kelce’s birthstone, Travis being Taylor Swift’s fiance. In the song, she took inspiration from the facts connected with opals, saying that opalite is a metaphor for the idea that happiness can be created voluntarily. Opal is also believed to symbolically represent hope, healing and positive energy. She sings: “Life is a song, it ends when it ends; I was wrong, but alright, you were dancing through the lightning strikes, but now the sky is opalite.” The song is about the lady’s state of mind and being perfectly content with what is happening in her life, and when that happens, it often means that that person will try to help others, our theme today. The first top 10 song for her in our countdown, at number 8 this morning, Taylor Swift from her album “The Life of a Showgirl” and her song “Opalite” on MATT.

(triple) 8 OPALITE / Taylor Swift

LIGHTS DOWN LOW / MAX f/ gnash

PARADISE / Coldplay

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A 10+ category of meaning song for me, the highest I get because of its statement about the possibility that paradise begins right here—this group really have some great songs of meaning: Coldplay, from their album “Mylo Xyloto”, and their song “Paradise” from the year 2011, and an interesting video by the way—as usual for them. The song tells the story of a girl who seems to be lost, and then she finds herself. “When she was just a girl,” they begin the song, “she expected the world, but it flew away from her reach, so she ran away in her sleep, dreamed of paradise every time she closed her eyes.” And, as I mentioned, she seems to find that this world really is paradise. They sing, “So, lying underneath those stormy skies, she said ‘I know the sun must set to rise. This could be paradise.’” It is a great message, I believe, which says not to run away from the problems and say that life is better someplace else when it really is better right here. One of the ways to help people and ourselves, our theme today, is to realize that we can make a paradise as we live right now, and certainly as we work with the one that we love.

Before them, we heard from Maxwell George Schneider, better known simply as MAX, and singing with him Garret Charles Nash better known as gnash and the song from 2016 “Lights Down Low”. It comes from MAX’s album “Hell’s Kitchen Angel”. The song is an infatuation song. “Can I stop the flow of time?” they sing, “Can I swim in your divine?  ‘Cause I don’t think I’d ever leave this place.  Turn the lights down low.  I’m feeling you breathing slow.  ‘Cause, we’re just reckless kids trying to find an island in the flood.”  They are both searching for love as they discover their love for each other and in life, and as we think of people that need help this morning, one group of people would be those who must get over the recklessness of growing up, and spend some quality time on understanding and then pursuing love.

Our theme this morning deals with that thought of helping people, that theme having come from a song from Lady Gaga. We are exploring the idea of what each of the songs of our show today say about caring for others. Still to come on MATT is music from people like Olivia Dean again and Shawn Mendes. Let me take you to break with this thought from John Wayne, no less. “Life is hard. It’s harder if you’re stupid.” Amen. And real “life” means staying away from intentional stupidity and trying to help others in the process. It is great to have you with us on 100,000 watts of power, today’s best music Mix 103, and MATT. We’ll be right back.

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Part 7

We are back for “Message at the Top” on Mix 103 on the first Sunday of April 2026, Easter in the Christian world. Thank you for giving a little of your time to us this Easter morning. I’m Fr. Mike, ready to lead you through the second hour of our show today, and during this segment, as usual, music of the top 10 from the present and the past. We urge you to keep enjoying the music but to listen to the message because that message may even help us a little, I believe. We are talking of helping others today.

We begin this second hour together with two triple plays, and this first one begins with our number 7 song, making it two songs in our top 10 from Taylor Swift. In this second song, as we have explained over the many weeks it has been in the top 10—it entered the top 10 last October—it cleverly involves a study of one of the plays of William Shakespeare, namely his play “Hamlet” and Hamlet’s once-upon-a-time presumed future wife Ophelia. In the story, Mr. Shakespeare has Ophelia drown herself after a rejection from Prince Hamlet and after her father’s death at the hands of Hamlet. So a tragic situation, but the song writes a different ending. The song is a powerful anthem about being rescued from the brink of emotional and psychological collapse by an all-consuming lover. He brings about a true resurrection for her and according to the people who should know about such things, as I have said, resembles the likes of her famous current boyfriend. “Late one night,” she sings, “you dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.” It is exactly what is supposed to happen if there is a deep love of each other, and if the feelings are true, they have certainly found the love they desire, and as we keep saying with songs with that message—if they have a deep love for each other, you can bet that they will help each other, “helping another” being our theme today. This is the number 7 song from Taylor Swift and her album “The Life of a Showgirl,” and the song “The Fate of Ophelia”, the second song from that album this morning on MATT.

(triple) 7 THE FATE OF OPHELIA / Taylor Swift

MY HEART WILL GO ON / Celine Dion

6 BACK TO FRIENDS / sombr

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Number 6 in our countdown here on MATT: Shane Michael Boose, better known as sombr, from his album “I Barely Know Her” and his song “Back to Friends” on MATT. It is a song about the fact that the couple have given themselves completely to each other physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends, and that 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. It is unfortunately a common enough experience. In terms of our theme, usually a person who wants out of a true love relationship after a commitment has been made, does not understand the idea of commitment, and will have a difficult time truly loving and helping that person, our theme today. Good song to study.

Before him, we heard Canadian singer Ms. Celine Marie Claudette Dion— that is, Celine Dion, and her beautiful and famous love song from the 1997 movie “Titanic,” winner of four Grammy awards “My Heart Will Go On”. “Every night in my dreams I see you, I feel you. That is how I know you go on far across the distance and spaces between us. You have come to show you go on—near, far, wherever you are. I believe that the heart does go on. Once more you open the door and you’re here in my heart, and my heart will go on and on. Love can touch us one time, and last for a lifetime, and never let go ‘til we’re gone.” It is one of greatest love songs of our era, and you can look at it as both helping each other’s pain, “helping another” being our theme today.

Continuing our countdown and continuing triple plays, let’s go into our top 5 right now, and a song about the desire for a partner in her life, or as she says in a traditional way, a husband. “Where is my husband,” the lady sings, “Why is this beautiful man waiting for me to get old? Why he already testing my patience? I only fear he taking time with other women that ain’t me / while I’ve been reviewing applications. Wait til I get my hands on him. I’ma tell him off too for how long he kept me waiting, anticipating, praying to the Lord to give him to my loving arms. And despite my frustrations. And he must need me completely. Help me, Lord. I need you to tell me.” I describe it as a tongue-in-cheek desire to find where love is, the desire of a lady to find a person who truly loves her, a statement, I believe, of someone’s need for romantic love. In terms of our theme this week, searching for and finally finding that love will be the beginning of hopefully a happy life that will be lived forever while they are alive, and certainly a relationship that will concentrate on helping each other, our theme today. This is a lady who calls herself Raye, a British singer/songwriter whose real name is Rachel Agatha Keen from her album “This Music May Contain Hope,” and her song at number 5, “Where is My Husband” on MATT.

(triple) 5 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND / Raye

STITCHES / Shawn Mendes

4 ORDINARY / Alex Warren

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From his album “You’ll Be Alright, Kid” that was Carlsbad, California-born Alexander Warren Hughes or simply Alex Warren, and his song “Ordinary”, number 4 on our countdown this week on MATT. The song is about the opposite of its title. The name of it is “Ordinary” and it is about what is not ordinary. It is a song which talks of an “ordinary” love relationship and says that what he has for a friend of his is not part of “the ordinary.” He begins with the thought that everything is pretty much ordinary: “They say ‘The holy water’s watered down and this town’s lost its faith. Our colors will fade eventually.” But he has a solution; he continues: “So, if our time is runnin’ out day after day, we’ll make the mundane our masterpiece.” Right there, as I have said, is a great description of how to make a love relationship be a necessary part of true love--make the mundane happenings so special that they become masterpieces, and if we learn to do that, we will be people who truly try to help one another, our theme today. It came into the top 10 on May 11 of last year and is still there after spending a record setting 19 weeks at number 1.

Before him, we heard the song on my website this coming Tuesday, that is www.frmikescully.com and the song “Stitches” from Shawn Peter Raul Mendes, a 17 year old singer/songwriter at the time he released the song in 2015, Shawn Mendes, from Toronto, Canada and his song from his album “Handwritten”. “I thought that I'd been hurt before,” he sings. “But no one's ever left me quite this sore. Your words cut deeper than a knife. Now I need someone to breathe me back to life, got a feeling that I'm going under. But I know that I'll make it out alive if I quit calling you my lover, (and) move on. You watch me bleed until I can't breathe. Shaking, falling onto my knees, and now that I’m without your kisses, I'll be needing stitches. Just like a moth drawn to a flame, you lured me in, I couldn't sense the pain, your bitter heart cold to the touch.” Tough words, and really painful thoughts. Thinking of our theme this week, sometimes helping another means that we have to let them go so that both can start again.

It is a theme that we took from Lady Gaga and her semi-religious song “Bloody Mary.” To take us to break, here’s a thought about cats of all things from Mark Twain, so be ready for sarcasm: “If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.” He must have liked cats, and from his life and work, we know that he was into helping others. 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.

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Part 10

Welcome back to the show that gives you the top 10 of today and yesterday along with their messages. We call it MATT. 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 of our songs in the light of the thought of helping others. Get ready for our segment 10 presentation which today features the top 3 songs of Easter in modern music, at least in my thinking.

And the first one speaks of what a Christian should be doing as a result of what Jesus did—that is, wake up to what is happening. Waking up is a way of describing what must happen to people who should change their lives around. Tim Bergling, a Swedish producer, musician and DJ better known by his stage name of Avicii, gives that message of a plea for transformation in his song from 2013 called “Wake Me Up”. The singer is Aloe Blacc with production contribution from Mike Einziger. Great words here: “Feeling my way through the darkness,” they sing, “guided by a beating heart, I can’t tell where the journey will end, but I know where to start. They tell me I’m too young to understand. They say I’m caught up in a dream. Well, life will pass me by if I don’t open up my eyes. So wake me up when it’s all over, when I’m wise and I’m older. All this time I was finding myself, and I didn’t know I was lost. Life's a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.” Incidentally the video with an extension of the message of the song is an excellent one to study as well. The theme of the song is the idea of finding out who we are by understanding the prize of true love. And once we do, we will be helping ourselves and others, our theme today. This is a super song from the recent past, one of my 10+ category songs, the highest I get, from Avicii’s album “True,” from the year 2013 and “Wake Me Up” on MATT.

(triple) WAKE ME UP / Avicii f/ Aloe Blacc & Mike Einziger

BRING ME TO LIFE / Evanescence

SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN / Poison

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Not an Easter song as such, but containing what I call “Easter thoughts,” a magnificent statement by the band Poison, from their album “Flesh and Blood,” “Something To Believe In” from 1990 on MATT, one of my 6 songs with the most meaning since 1980. The song was a statement of real concern on the part of heavy metal, a segment of our society, interestingly enough, who are a real concern themselves for some of that society. The group sings of almost insurmountable problems: church hypocrisy, the Vietnam-caused confusion of living, the death of a close friend, the homeless, the embarrassing chasm between the rich and the poor. And their plea is a prayer in their refrain: “Give me something to believe in; if there’s a Lord above, give me something to believe in. O Lord, arise!” What should we hold on to, that is, the something to believe in? Incredibly, it is the Lord, as the group Poison calls him, and to me, that is the Easter message—hold on to the Lord, and things will change for the better in our lives. And again the tie into our theme today—we do that and we will help others and ourselves.

Before them, another truly Easter song from the past, one of my 10+ category songs, the highest I get, and another great Easter transformation-type song from their album “Fallen,” Evanescence, “Bring Me To Life”. They sing about “waking up” again. Here, the thought of “waking up” is a way of describing what must happen to people who should change their lives around. “Wake me up,” they sing, “wake me up inside, save me; call my name and save me from the dark. Wake me up, bid my blood to run. Save me from the nothing I’ve become.” I really like the song. It is something like a prayer to our God to help us wake up. We have to wake up and really live—that is their message, and a great theme for Easter. And when we do that—wake up and really live—we will see that others need help, and will help them, our theme today.

And we continue to pursue that thought with our top 3 songs right now. At number 3 this week is the Academy Award winning Best Song of the Year. It comes from the Korean movie and music of Huntr/X, three talented Korean ladies and the theme of a Netflix film that follows a Korean girls group—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. “I was a ghost, I was alone, given the throne; I didn’t know how to behave, I was the queen that I’m meant to be. I lived two lives, tried to play both sides, but I couldn’t find my own place. Called a problem child ‘cause I got too wild. But now that’s how I’m getting paid. 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.” As I have said with the song, it sounds like a song of determination to do the right thing, and in terms of our theme, if one is always trying to do the right thing, that person will spend some time trying to help other people, our theme today. This is Huntr/X from the soundtrack of the best animated feature of this year according to the Academy Awards, “KPop Demon Hunters” the name of it, and their song at number 3, former number 1, “Golden” on MATT.

(double) 3 GOLDEN / Huntr/X

2 MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean

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From London, England, the second song from her in the top 10, Olivia Dean, also coming from the album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “Man I Need” on MATT. The whole song is the statement of what I call the virtue which is most needed in any relationship, namely, communication. “Talk to me,” she begins her song, “looks like we’re making up for lost time; need you to spell it out for me. Don’t be shy, just come be the man I need. Tell me you got something to give. I want it. I kinda like when you call me wonderful, whatever the type of talk it is. Come on then, I gotta know you’re meant to be the man I need. Talk to me. I’d like to think you feel the same way, but I can’t tell with you sometimes. So, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication, and she gives the reason why. In terms of our theme this week, if a couple have achieved perfect communication, they will certainly spend time helping one another.

And at number 1 for three weeks altogether is the song “I Just Might” from his album “The Romantic”, Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez. 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 usual with him—Bruno Mars—the song has quite a good dance video. In terms of our theme this week, dancing can be and usually is a good form of helping others, our theme today.

We have heard some thoughts about that idea of helping another with a secondary theme of Easter. My prayer for you and for me is that we will all understand the value of other people and be open to helping them. 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, Auto World in Hays and Hays Car and Truck Alignment. 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 and songs and some pretty good movies. You can join us on the web every Sunday morning at 10 CDT by tuning in your listening device to KJLS radio or your computer to www.hayspost.com and clicking on KJLS or Mix 103. My closing thought for you comes from a Filipino proverb as reported by my quote manual: “The hardest person to wake up is the person who is already awake.” Now, think about that—it is another way of saying that the people who think that they have it altogether in life are often the ones who need to wake up the most. As Bruno Mars and his song “I Just Might” leads us out, may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music Mix 103 and our advice to you among other things is to hold a good thought. From the beautiful state of West Virginia and beautiful downtown Lawrence, KS. my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good!

1 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars

March 29,2026

“Livin’ While We’re Alive”

Part 1

Hello Central Kansas, and happy Spring again, and thank you for joining us this morning; welcome to Mix 103’s unique top 10 show, “Message at the Top”. I am Fr. Mike, your host; get ready for top 10 songs of the past 46 years including the top 10 of today. We here at Mix 103 continue to give you only the very best in radio entertainment, / and that includes not only the songs that we play, but their messages as well. This morning we have some great songs all warmed up on our computers. Our thoughts will wander from life to love, from revenge to friendship, and from pain to happiness. It’s great to have you with us today.

I neglected to acknowledge Jon Bon Jovi’s birthday earlier this month—his birthday is March 2, now 64 years old—and so I wanted to remedy that with the lead song dedicated to him. It will lead us to talk a little about life. His group Bon Jovi had a song in 2000 that speaks of life. This reading about life is from an author by the name of Gail Kittleson and I can identify with this:

THE OLDER I GET

The more I notice outrageous beauty,

The less easy answers I have,

The less I know, the more I wonder,

The kinder I am with weakness,

The more honest I am with myself,

The less rigid I am,

The wiser I long to be,

The more I realize how impatient I’ve always been with life,

The less I think of what others think,

The closer I feel to old, old friends,

The more natural / prayer seems,

The longer I listen,

The greater my appreciation of harmony,

The more comfortable I am with solitude,

The more I see good coming out of difficulties,

The more grateful I am to be alive.

And Jon Bon Jovi would say the more I can say “It’s my life, and I’m proud of it.” “This ain’t a song for the broken-hearted,” they begin their song here, “no silent prayer for the faith-departed. I ain’t gonna be just a face in the crowd. You’re gonna hear my voice when I shout it loud: it’s my life. I just want to live while I’m alive.” They are saying: be aware that we have this life, and that we have to do something with it. We don’t waste it. To me, of course, that means that we should live it according to some guide in life—like a Christian one, or one based on love. But however we describe it, true life is as they sing, “living while we’re alive”. MATT presents our theme setter this morning. Happy birthday finally to Jon Bon Jovi—this is the group Bon Jovi and an interesting video to the song, “It’s My Life” on MATT.

(double) IT’S MY LIFE / Bon Jovi

LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER / Bon Jovi

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From the album “Slippery When Wet,” from 1986, Mr. Jon Bon Jovi and friends, their song “Livin’ On A Prayer”, as we wish happy birthday to the leader of the group Bon Jovi. It is a story of two people who are struggling to make it in this world, in fact, they are literally just living on a prayer. Tommy and Gina encourage one another with a refrain that speaks of love in the midst of poverty: “We’ve got to hold on to what we’ve got. It doesn’t make a difference if we make it or not. We’ve got each other and that’s a lot for love. We’ll give it a shot. Take my hand, we’ll make it, I swear.” They are absolutely correct, of course. They will make it, and love will bring them through it all. The problem comes in perseverance. It is not easy to continue to “hold on” in the face of a tough life. But if they do, life can happen, and it will be a good one, life, our theme today.

Let’s begin our countdown with this triple play. At number 10 this week is a song of a breakup which in my opinion as I study the circumstances, should happen. The lady in the relationship seems to have done things right in trying to establish whether the man is being honest with her or not. She has checked with a friend and then takes the time to talk to him directly. “Thought I might love you again,” she sings, “I’ll see how I feel. Now that you’re acting like that, I never will. Last night, she answered my call, it sealed the deal. Right now, I’m not even about you. The day I met you, I thought it was a blessing, In the heat of it, I always took your side. It’s a shame you out here tryna make it messy. We were good, I thought we made it through the ending. Could have picked it up exactly where we left it, took our future off your plate. Let’s go tit for tat, you asked for that. I was never as far away as you thought.” And then she breaks it off. In terms of our theme this week, sometimes a breakup is needed for personal growth in our personal lives. From her album “So Close to What,” a song rumored to be a song that is in response to one her ex boyfriend wrote, the name of her song “Tit For Tat,” Tate McRae, number 10 this week on MATT.

(triple) 10 TIT FOR TAT / Tate McRae

YOU RIGHT/ Doja Cat f/ The Weeknd

COLD HEART / Elton John & Dua Lipa

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Sir Elton John and Ms. Dua Lipa singing of a cold heart there, the name of the song from 2021 and Elton John’s album “The Lockdown Sessions” on MATT. The song says that life is not so good when a love has gone cold in a relationship. “It’s a human sign when things go wrong,” they sing, “when the scent of her lingers and temptation’s strong. Cold, cold heart hardened by you, some things lookin’ better, just passin’ through. And I think it’s gonna be a long time ‘til touchdown brings me ‘round again to find I’m not the man they think I am at home. And this is what I should have said; well, I thought it, but I kept it hid: cold, cold heart.” I interpret it to mean that the lady in the relationship caused the cold heart between them and he should have told her, but he didn’t. In terms of our theme, as I said, their relationship is going to cause a problem with their having a good life.

Before them, we heard from 2022, Doja Cat and The Weeknd, from Doja Cat’s album “Planet Her,” and their song “You Right”. It is a song about selfishness. In the song, the lady has a boyfriend, but she wants someone else. “I got a man,” she sings, “but I want you. It’s just nerves makin’ me think about someone new. You know, I got so much to say, I try to hide it in my face, and it don’t work; you see through that / I just wanna get with you. You right, got my guy, but I can’t help it, I want you.” And the man responds, “Girl, I want you like you want me too, I feel that energy.” It is a mixed up relationship, and it’s mixed up because of the selfishness involved on her part, and probably his too. She wants what she wants, and he’s fitting right into the pattern. When selfishness takes over relationships, the chances are that the good life both want, our theme today, will never happen.

That is how we are spending our time with these songs today—answering the questions concerning living the lives that we have. Let me take you to break with this thought from humorist Josh Billings, the pen name of Henry Wheeler Shaw who died in 1885, “The trouble with people is not that they don't know / but that they know so much that ain't so.” Yes, indeed. And if we manage to get everything correct, and know for sure, then we will be better people as we live our lives. In our next segment, we have in order of appearance: music from Chappell Roan, Olivia Dean for the first time today, sombr, and a double play from Adele. My plea to you: don’t even think of touching that dial. This is MATT on Mix 103.

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You, my friends, are in tune with “Message at the Top,” your top 10 show on Mix 103. Welcome back to the songs that have been the most popular in this area during this week that ends today, almost the last day of March 2026. We are giving you the top 10 of today and some top 10 songs of the past as well. I’m your host, Fr. Mike. It’s great to have you here. We have taken our theme from March birthday person Jon Bon Jovi and his band Bon Jovi, that theme concerning a line in one of their songs: “I just want to live while I’m alive.”

As promised, let’s go to a song about a place in LA, and her mother is not happy about it from Kayleigh Rose Amstutz better known as Chappell Roan, the best new artist of the year according to the Grammys last year. “I know you wanted me to stay, “she sings, “But I can't ignore the crazy visions of me in LA. I heard that there's a special place. I'm having wicked dreams of leaving Tennessee. Oh, Santa Monica, I swear it's calling me. Won't make my mama proud. It's gonna cause a scene. She sees her baby girl, I know she's gonna scream what have you done. You're a pink pony girl and you dance at the club. Oh mama, I'm just having fun on the stage in my heels. It's where I belong down at the Pink Pony Club.” In terms of our theme, she must decide on what kind of life that she wants to lead then and in the future. She probably ought to listen to her mother a little more, my opinion of course. Her song which was part of the Grammys last year and quite a dance routine, “Pink Pony Club”, number 6 of all the songs of 2025 according to me on MATT.

(double) PINK PONY CLUB / Chappell Roan

9 SO EASY / Olivia Dean

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New to our top 10 this week, and the first of two top 10’s in the same countdown for her, Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” number 9 this morning on MATT. 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, if a person is choosing another for life in love, one must be careful to choose correctly, even as the strong desire to be loved is present.

And yet another triple play now. It begins with our number 8 song as we speak. It is a song about the fact that the couple have given themselves completely to each other physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends, and that 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. It is unfortunately a common enough experience. In terms of our theme, once you find the romantic love you are looking for, it is important to keep it as a true guide, and to live your life with that fact, our theme today. Good song to study. Number 8 in our countdown here on MATT: Shane Michael Boose, better known as sombr, from his album “I Barely Know Her” and his song “Back to Friends” on MATT.

(triple) 8 BACK TO FRIENDS / sombr

SEND MY LOVE/ Adele

EASY ON ME / Adele

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Closing off a double play from her, from her album “30”, the highest selling album of 2021 and her song “Easy on Me”, Adele, on MATT. Its message is what a divorce does and the pain that comes from it. “There ain’t no gold in this river that I’ve been washing my hands in forever. I know there is hope in these waters, but I can’t bring myself to swim. When I am drowning in this silence, let me in. Go easy on me, I was still a child, didn’t get the chance to feel the world around me. I had no time to choose what I chose to do, so, go easy on me. There ain’t no room for things to change when we are both so deeply stuck in our ways. You can’t deny how hard I have tried. I changed who I was to put you first, but now I give up, go easy on me.” The lady is choosing to do a very painful thing, and in terms of our theme, she is facing the fact that her life is pretty messed up and she wants to do something about it.

Before that song, the beginning of the double play from her, Adele Laure Blue Adkins, that is, Adele, this time from her album “25,” “Send My Love” from 2016. It is a song of a relationship that has ceased, and she is saying it exactly as it is in her mind anyway. “This was all you, none of it me,” she sings. “You put your hands on my body and told me you were ready for the big one, I’d be your last love everlasting—you and me. Send my love to your new lover. Treat her better. I was running, you were walking. You couldn’t keep up, you were falling down.” So, the lady in the relationship is blaming the boyfriend for the breakup. My guess is that it is as much her fault as his, but be that as it may, the situation will easily give rise to very mixed up lives. Both of them will have to find a balance between what they want in life and what should be in life, our theme today.

Our theme this Spring Sunday morning deals with life and how we are leading it at the presenttime. We are exploring the idea with each of the songs of our show today. Still to come on MATT is music from people like Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran. Let me take you to break with this thought from Albert Einstein. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” Amen, Dr. Albert! It is great to have you with us on 100,000 watts of power, today’s best music Mix 103, and MATT. We’ll be right back.

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We are back for “Message at the Top” on Mix 103. Thank you for giving a little of your Sunday to us. I’m Fr. Mike, ready to lead you through the second hour of our show this almost last day in March morning, and during this segment, music inspired by habits all the way to the way people dance. We urge you to keep enjoying the music but to listen to the message because that message may even help you and me, I believe.

First to music inspired by different habits that we have, and the beginning of a double play from him. It is a song about a relationship problem, and it is not resolved yet. The man in the relationship’s problem is that the lady of the relationship has led him to her through bad habits: “Every time you come around, you know I can’t say no, every time the sun goes down, I let you take control. I can feel the paradise before my world implodes, and tonight had something wonderful. My bad habits lead to late nights ending alone, conversations with a stranger I barely know, swearing this will be the last, but it probably won’t. I’ve got nothing left to lose, or use, or do—my bad habits lead to wide eyes staring into space, and I know I lose control of the things that I say. I was looking for a way out, now I can’t escape. My bad habits lead to you.” He discovered that his life, our theme today, his life was not what it should have been, but he seems to be trapped, and his life will continue to hurt until he figures out something about his personal habits. From his album which is an equals sign, the first of two in a row from him, “Bad Habits” from Mr. Ed Sheeran on MATT.

(triple) BAD HABITS / Ed Sheeran

SHIVERS / Ed Sheeran

7 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND / Raye

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The close of yet another triple play with our number 7 song this morning. It comes from Raye, a British singer/songwriter whose real name is Rachel Agatha Keen from her album “This Music May Contain Hope,” and her song “Where is My Husband” on MATT. It is a song of desire for a partner in her life, or as she says in a traditional way, a husband. “Where is my husband,” the lady sings, “Why is this beautiful man waiting for me to get old? Why he already testing my patience? I only fear he taking time with other women that ain’t me / while I’ve been reviewing applications. Wait til I get my hands on him. I’ma tell him off too for how long he kept me waiting, anticipating, praying to the Lord to give him to my loving arms. And despite my frustrations. And he must need me completely. Help me, Lord. I need you to tell me.” I describe it as a tongue-in-cheek desire to find where love is, the desire of a lady to find a person who truly loves her, a statement, I believe, of someone’s need for romantic love. In terms of our theme this week, searching for and finally finding that love will be the beginning of hopefully a happy life that will be lived forever while they are alive.

Before her, we heard the close of a double play from Mr. Ed Sheeran from his equals sign album and his song “Shivers”. It is a song about strong feelings for another: “I took an arrow to the heart,” he sings, “I never kissed a mouth that tastes like yours—strawberries and then something more. I want it all. Lipstick on my guitar, fill up the engine, we can drive real far, go dancing underneath the stars. I wanna be that guy, I wanna kiss your eyes, I wanna drink that smile, I wanna feel like my soul’s on fire. I love it when you do it like that, and when you’re close up, give me the shivers. You wanna dance till the sunlight cracks, and when they say the party’s over, then we’ll bring it right back.” He is very much in love, and in terms of our theme, his life could be pretty good if he takes care to nurture that relationship.

Our number 6 song this week is the beginning of two songs from Taylor Swift in the top 10 as does Olivia Dean. In this first song, as we have explained over the many weeks it has been in the top 10—it entered the top 10 last October—it cleverly involves a study of one of the plays of William Shakespeare, namely his play “Hamlet” and Hamlet’s once-upon-a-time presumed future wife Ophelia. In the story, Mr. Shakespeare has Ophelia drown herself after a rejection from Prince Hamlet and after her father’s death at the hands of Hamlet. So a tragic situation, but the song writes a different ending. The song is a powerful anthem about being rescued from the brink of emotional and psychological collapse by an all-consuming lover. He brings about a true resurrection for her and according to the people who should know about such things, as I have said, resembles the likes of her famous current boyfriend. “Late one night,” she sings, “you dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.” It is exactly what is supposed to happen if there is a deep love of each other, and if the feelings are true, they have certainly found the love they desire, and something that will live as long as they do on this earth, living life to the fullest being our theme today. This is the number 6 song from Taylor Swift and her album “The Life of a Showgirl,” and the song “The Fate of Ophelia”, the first song that we’ll hear from that album on MATT.

(triple) 6 THE FATE OF OPHELIA / Taylor Swift

GOOD 4 U / Olivia Rodrigo

5 OPALITE / Taylor Swift

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The second top 10 song for her in our countdown, at number 5 this morning, Taylor Swift again from her album “The Life of a Showgirl” again, and her song “Opalite” on MATT. She says that she has always loved opals. Opal is also Travis Kelce’s birthstone, Travis being Taylor Swift’s fiance. In the song, she took inspiration from the facts connected with opals, saying that opalite is a metaphor for the idea that happiness can be created voluntarily. Opal is also believed to symbolically represent hope, healing and positive energy. She sings: “Life is a song, it ends when it ends; I was wrong, but alright, you were dancing through the lightning strikes, but now the sky is opalite.” The song is about the lady’s state of mind and being perfectly content with what is happening in her life, one that she is living well, our theme today.

Before her, we heard from Olivia Rodrigo from the year 2021 from her album “Sour,” “good 4 u” the name of the song. It is a story in song of a person who is very bitter about a breakup. The lady in the relationship is in pain because the man in that relationship decided to move on, and she is reflecting on it. At first it sounds like she is okay that he has achieved what he wanted after he left her, but as you listen, you hear how bitter she really is. “Well, good for you,” she sings, “I guess you moved on really easily. You found a new girl and it only took a couple weeks. Remember when you said that you wanted to give me the world. And good for you, I guess that you’ve been working on yourself. Well good for you. I guess you’re getting everything you want. It’s like we never even happened. What is up with that? Well, the heck with you. You will never have to hurt the way you know that I do. You look happy and healthy. Not me, if you ever cared to ask. Maybe I’m too emotional, but your apathy’s like a wound in salt.” I changed the words a little. So she is really angry at him even while she sarcastically says “Good for you.” In terms of our theme, unfortunately part of life that we must deal with is pain and disappointment. And we can learn from it.

I really get into these songs because their messages are such that they can help our lives. No wonder I keep telling you to enjoy the music—that’s just fine—but to listen to the message and learn from it. Our next 30 minutes of music and message will explore our theme of living while we are alive with people like the girl group Huntr/X and Demi Lovato. May I take you to break with this thought from George Bernard Shaw: “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” Ah, yes. In fact, we can accomplish quite a lot if we go into life with a stronger attitude. I’m Fr. Mike, listen to these words of wisdom, and then I hope you come back for more / wisdom.

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Part 10

Thank you for joining us this Spring Sunday morning. I am Fr. Mike and this is “Message at the Top” on today’s best music Mix 103. Our show gives you the top 10 songs of today and yesterday along with their meanings. And what is amazing about them is that with a little bit of help, those songs can actually teach us something about ourselves and about our behavior. With that in mind, we keep imploring you to enjoy the music AND listen to the message. The topic of our show today is the thought of life and living it as best as we can right now.

Number 4 in our countdown is a song about the opposite of its title. The name of it is “Ordinary” and it is about what is not ordinary. It is a song which talks of an “ordinary” love relationship and says that what he has for a friend of his is not part of “the ordinary.” He begins with the thought that everything is pretty much ordinary: “They say ‘The holy water’s watered down and this town’s lost its faith. Our colors will fade eventually.” But he has a solution; he continues: “So, if our time is runnin’ out day after day, we’ll make the mundane our masterpiece.” Right there, as I have said, is a great description of how to make a love relationship be a necessary part of true love--make the mundane happenings so special that they become masterpieces, and if we learn to do that, it will be the incentive to live our life to the fullest, our theme today. It came into the top 10 on May 11 of last year and is still there after spending a record setting 19 weeks at number 1. From his album “You’ll Be Alright, Kid” this is 25 year old Alexander Warren Hughes or simply Alex Warren, and his song “Ordinary”, number 4 on our countdown this week on MATT.

(triple) 4 ORDINARY / Alex Warren

NEON LIGHTS / Demi Lovato

HOW LONG / Charlie Puth

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The song featured on my website www.frmikescully.com last Friday. MATT presenting there Charles Otto Puth Jr. better known at Charlie Puth, a 34 year old singer/songwriter, the pride of Rumson, New Jersey from his album “Voicenotes,” and his song “How Long” from 2017.  It is a song about the man in the relationship who made a mistake, and his girlfriend wants to know whether it is the end of the relationship or not.  “She said, ‘Boy, tell me honestly.  Was it real or just for show?’  She said, ‘Save your apologies, I just gotta know.  How long has this been going on?’”  The man admits that it is his fault, and she is just about to leave if it is a real problem.  Exactly what she should do, I believe.  Again, part of life, our theme today, is learning difficult things, and part of those difficult things is that sometimes people lie, and we are caught in the process.

Before him, we heard from her album “Demi,” “her” being Demi Lovato and the song “Neon Lights” from 2013. The song is a statement of the lady in a relationship about her relationship with a friend, and her relationship is full of strong emotions. “Be still, my heart,” she sings, “cause it’s freaking out right now, shining like stars ‘cause we’re beautiful. You’re all I see in all these places, you’re all I see in all these faces. So let’s pretend we’re running out of time. You’ll be coming home with me tonight and we’ll be burning up like neon lights.” The lady has a good feeling about their relationship and that idea of feeling good about life is something that we want in the one life we live, our theme today, but we also have to remember—as I remind us all the time—love is more than emotions.

As usual, we close our show with the top 3 songs on our countdown at the present time. At number 3 this week is the Academy Award winning Best Song of the Year. It comes from the Korean movie and music of Huntr/X, three talented Korean ladies and the theme of a Netflix film that follows a Korean girls group—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. “I was a ghost, I was alone, given the throne; I didn’t know how to behave, I was the queen that I’m meant to be. I lived two lives, tried to play both sides, but I couldn’t find my own place. Called a problem child ‘cause I got too wild. But now that’s how I’m getting paid. 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.” As I have said with the song, it sounds like a song of determination to do the right thing, and in terms of our theme, if one is always trying to do the right thing, one will live one’s life as best as it can be lived, our theme today. This is Huntr/X from the soundtrack of the best animated feature of this year according to the Oscars, “KPop Demon Hunters” the name of it, and their song at number 3, former number 1, “Golden” on MATT.

(double) 3 GOLDEN / Huntr/X

2 MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean

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Falling from the number 1 position, now at number 2 from London, England, the second song for her in the top 10, Olivia Dean, also coming from the album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “Man I Need” on MATT. The whole song is the statement of what I call the virtue which is most needed in any relationship, namely, communication. “Talk to me,” she begins her song, “looks like we’re making up for lost time; need you to spell it out for me. Don’t be shy, just come be the man I need. Tell me you got something to give. I want it. I kinda like when you call me wonderful, whatever the type of talk it is. Come on then, I gotta know you’re meant to be the man I need. Talk to me. I’d like to think you feel the same way, but I can’t tell with you sometimes. So, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication, and she gives the reason why. In terms of our theme this week, if a couple have achieved perfect communication, and they are inclined toward love, they are living life as best as it can be lived.

And returning to the number 1 position is the song “I Just Might” from his album “The Romantic”, Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez. 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 usual with him—Bruno Mars—the song has quite a good dance video. In terms of our theme this week, dancing is not going to make life the best it can possibly be, but it might help.

We have looked at that idea today—the idea of living life to the fullest—”living while we are alive” is the way Bon Jovi described it. It came from birthday person earlier this month, Bon Jovi and his group’s great sounding song “It’s My Life.” My prayer for you and for me is that we will always try to live life well. If you would like to reach me, I hope you do. My e-mail address is: frmikescully@yahoo.com or the address at the radio station: KJLS-FM, Hays, America 67601, and my website www.frmikescully.com. Feel free to give me your thoughts about anything I have said. Thank you for your time today. My thanks to the producers of our show, and to our sponsors, especially, Hays Car and Truck Alignment, Auto World in Hays, Thomas More Prep-Marian High School in Hays, and Holy Family Elementary School in Hays. My closing thought for you comes from my favorite writer Mark Twain, and here he is not being sarcastic: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Ah, yes. That is absolutely great way to be stronger in our lives. As we listen to the number 1 song in our land, from Bruno Mars and his song “I Just Might”, may I remind you to hold a good thought. From wild and wonderful West Virginia through downtown Lawrence, KS, I’ll tell you that my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good!

1 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars

March 22, 2006

“What Can Make Us Happy”

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Good morning Central Kansas and around the world, and happy Spring to all of you as we celebrate the second last Sunday in March and the first Sunday of Spring, 2026. Thank you for joining us this morning and welcome to Mix 103’s unique top 10 show, “Message at the Top”. I am Fr. Mike, your host; get ready for top 10 songs of the past 46 years. We here at Mix 103 continue to give you only the very best in radio entertainment, / and that includes not only the songs that we play, but their messages as well.

This coming Saturday is Lady Gaga’s birthday when she will be 40 years old, and I thought it would be good to celebrate her birthday with a remembrance of a song from 2018. It was awarded a Grammy for best pop duo/group performance, and also nominated for Record of the Year, as well as Song of the Year and was from the artists and actors of the movie “A Star is Born.” “Tell me somethin’ girl,” the man sings, “are you happy in this modern world or do you need more?  I’m falling.”  And then the lady sings, “Tell me somethin’, boy, aren’t you tired tryin to fill that void?  I’m falling.”  So both are falling and both are searching.  Of course, then, they find each other and apparently their searching brought about happiness and commitment.

It brings up the question of what can make us happy. Well, there is such a thing as a Happiness Report. I’m fascinated by that idea, and I have mentioned this before. The Happiness Report is determined by 14 different variables, for example income, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, trust and generosity. The Index in 2026 showed that Finland is the happiest country in the world for nine years in a row, with Denmark, Iceland, and Switzerland holding the next top positions this year.

Of interest, the United States is at number 24, Canada is at number 18, and the lowest rating at number 147 is Afghanistan.

All of that can be interesting, of course, but probably the more important thing for all of us is how we can be more happy than we are right now. Let’s see what the songs of our show say about that. We will be asking the question of what can make us happy as we think of Lady Gaga’s birthday, and speaking of that happiness here is the Grammy award winning Pop Duo Group Performance for 2018, from the movie “A Star is Born”, this is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, that is, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, the song, “Shallow” on MATT.

(double) SHALLOW / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper

10 MUTT / Leon Thomas

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We’ll listen to our top 10 in countdown fashion this morning, and that was number 10 from Brooklyn-born Leon George Thomas III or just hip-hop artist Leon Thomas. He says of the song that the song along with the whole album named after the song was created shortly after a significant break-up. His ex had given him a dog and as he started working on the album, he began to notice similarities between his dog’s behavior and his own. Interesting. The album is called “Mutt” and the name of the song is the same. One of the things that he noticed was his desire for the feelings of love. “She said,” he begins his song, “’Take your time, what’s the rush?’ I said, ‘Baby, I’m a dog, I’m a mutt. Pardon my bluntness—I see pretty faces, so I got trouble trusting. But I’ll let my guard down for you, said I’ll be vulnerable so you can break my heart if you want to.” And, to his chagrin, she does. He’s using some chemicals to create the feelings of love, and it messes up his natural desires and actions. In terms of our theme, breakups will not make us happy, but it is something that we can learn from.

Let’s continue our countdown at number 9 which will begin a triple play. The song is “Aperture” and it is a song about emotional openness, vulnerability, and letting love and light into one’s life and a great song to study. The title—Aperture--refers to the adjustable opening in a camera lens that controls how much light enters an image, and in the song, it serves as a metaphor for the human heart and emotional openness. So, a song about personal growth, vulnerability and embracing the unknown. And the video acts out that message extremely well. And so the words reflect that journey. “It’s best that you know what you don’t,” he sings, “Aperture lets the light in. We belong together. It finally appears: it’s only love. I won’t stray from it: I don’t know these spaces. Time won’t wait on me. I wanna know what safe is.” His own explanation is that the song was inspired by his experiences, meeting new people, and immersing himself in music that encouraged freedom, openness and joy. He intended the song to reflect the power of embracing transitions, accepting flaws, and allowing positive change into one’s life. In terms of our theme this week, that is certainly a recipe for happiness. From his album “Kiss All the Time; Occasionally, Disco” this is Harry Styles at number 9 this week and “Aperture” on MATT.

(triple) 9 APERTURE / Harry Styles

HIGH HOPES / Panic! At the Disc0

YOU SAY / Lauren Daigle

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A beautiful sound, I believe, the song “You Say” from 2018 from Christian artist Lauren Daigle from her album “Look Up Child”, on MATT. Her song is an incredible song for the pop music charts. She begins her song: “I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I’m not enough. Every single lie that tells me I will never measure up. Am I more than just the sum of every high and every low? Remind me once again just who I am, because I need to know. You say I am loved when I can’t feel a thing. You say I am strong when I think I am weak. You say I am held when I am falling short. When I don’t belong, You (capital Y in the lyrics) say that I am Yours. And I believe what You say of me, I believe the only thing that matters now is everything You think of me. In You I find my worth, in You I find my identity.” So, a prayer actually to God full of hope in what God can do. You can easily see why a clergy person like me would like this song. I firmly believe that anyone turning to our Higher Being as she is there will bring about true happiness in their lives, our theme today.

Before her, we heard a number 1 song for a number of weeks, a great song about high hopes, in fact the name of the song from the year 2018 again. The group is Panic! At the Disco. Their song is an excellent song of meaning and excellent advice. “Had to have high hopes for living,” they sing, “shooting for the stars when I couldn’t make a killing. Didn’t have a dime but I always had a vision, always had high hopes. Mama said, fulfill the prophecy, be something greater, go make a legacy, rewrite your history, light up your wildest dreams.” Smart Mama, I believe, who is inspiring him. In terms of our theme, the way to be happy is to have great hope.

We have much more music and message to come on this second last Sunday of March Spring morning. In our next segment, we will hear more music from our top 10, of course, as well as music from Lukas Graham, Zayn Malik and his group One Direction. And here’s a thought about living from my quote manual and United States writer Ashley Brilliant: “Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.” Think about that! We may very well be living the best parts of our lives right now—that would improve our happiness level, to be sure. Our show is “Message at the Top”, I am Fr. Mike, and I hope your Sunday morning is a good one / and that we are making it even better. Don’t go way; “Message at the Top” on Mix 103 will be right back.

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Welcome back to the top 10 show of Mix 103—top 10’s from the present and from the 2000’s, and even 90’s and 80’s as well. Our theme this Sunday morning has come from birthday person on Saturday, Ms Lady Gaga, and that theme is the thought of what can make us happy in our world. I am Fr. Mike and our show is MATT, and our plea to you on the show is to enjoy the music and listen to the messages. Those messages can often bring us to a happy life.

As promised, let’s go to Lukas Graham, that is Lukas Forchhammer and band from Copenhagen, Denmark. It is a beautiful love song with some pretty deep meaning. “You still look perfect as days go by,” he sings, “even the worst ones, you make me smile. I’d stop the world if it gave us time. ‘Cause when you love someone, you open up your heart, when you love someone you make room. If you love someone, and you’re not afraid to lose them, you probably never loved someone like I do. I thought it would be hard to find the one ‘til I found you. And I find it bittersweet ‘cause you gave me something to lose.” I believe that is a great thought about love—when you love someone you are always afraid to lose them. As we think of what can make us happy, certainly as we are in love we will always want to count on the love, but we will always be careful that we keep it. This is the group Lukas Graham and their song “Love Someone” from 2018 on MATT.

(double) LOVE SOMEONE / Lukas Graham

8 THE FATE OF OPHELIA / Taylor Swift

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The number 8 song from Taylor Swift’s album “The Life of a Showgirl,” and the song “The Fate of Ophelia”, the first song that we’ll hear from that album. As we have explained over the many weeks it has been in the top 10—it entered the top 10 last October—it cleverly involves a study of one of the plays of William Shakespeare, namely his play “Hamlet” and Hamlet’s once-upon-a-time presumed future wife Ophelia. In the story, Mr. Shakespeare has Ophelia drown herself after a rejection from Prince Hamlet and after her father’s death at the hands of Hamlet. So a tragic situation, but the song writes a different ending. The song is a powerful anthem about being rescued from the brink of emotional and psychological collapse by an all-consuming lover. He brings about a true resurrection for her and according to the people who should know about such things, as I have said, resembles the likes of her famous current boyfriend. “Late one night,” she sings, “you dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.” It is exactly what is supposed to happen if there is a deep love of each other, and if the feelings are true, they have certainly found the love they desire, and something that will make both of them very happy, our theme today.

Let’s continue our countdown with another triple play beginning it with our number 7 song at the present time. It is a song about the fact that the couple have given themselves completely to each other physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends, and that 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. It is unfortunately a common enough experience. In terms of our theme, once you find the love you are looking for, it is important to keep it as a true guide, and to get out of it will not make the couple very happy, our theme today. Good song to study. Number 7 in our countdown here on MATT: Shane Michael Boose, better known as sombr, from his album “I Barely Know Her” and his song “Back to Friends” on MATT.

(triple) 7 BACK TO FRIENDS / sombr

STORY OF MY LIFE / One Direction

I DON’T WANNA LIVE FOREVER / Zayn/Swift

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Zayn Malik, once upon a time from the band One Direction who we heard before that song, and Taylor Swift, and their song “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” from 2017. It is from the soundtrack of the movie “Fifty Shades Darker” and the song of two people in love, and apparently both of them feel that they have really hurt the relationship, and wonder whether it will be something that can heal. It is the subject of meditation on my website on Wednesday. Both of them sing: “I don’t wanna live forever ‘cause I know I’ll be livin’ in vain; and I don’t wanna fit wherever; I just wanna keep callin’ your name until you come back home.” Sounds like they both have to bite the bullet and simply talk with each other, and that is without a doubt something that can make people happy, our theme today.

Before them, as we just said, we heard the five member and then four member group One Direction who were founded in London England in 2010 and went on a hiatus in 2016. It is from their album “Midnight Memories,” and their song “Story of My Life” from 2013. It is a sad song about how things sometimes do not happen correctly. “Written in these walls,” they sing, “are the stories that I can’t explain. I leave my heart open but it stays right here empty for days. She told me in the morning she don’t feel the same about us in her bones, seems to me that when I die, these words will be written on my stone. And I’ll be gone, gone tonight. The story of my life: I take her home, I drive all night to keep her warm, and time is frozen: I give her hope, I spend her love until she’s broke inside.” Like I say, a little sad, sounding like the person is close to despair. In answer to our theme question: what should make us happy, we would say: learn to work with the sadness that will be part of our lives.

The thought of what can make us happy is the title of our show this morning as we are looking at the top 10 and some top 10 songs of the past. Our next segment of music and message will explore that theme with music from the past in the persons of the bands 5SOS and lovelytheband and top 10 music at the present time from numbers 4, 5 and 6. Let me close this segment with a thought specifically about being happy. It comes from Goldie Hawn: “The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.” Pretty good stuff. I’m Fr. Mike, listen to these great thoughts, and then I hope you come back for more.

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Good morning, everyone. This is “Message at the Top”, on Mix 103. Thank you for joining us again on 100,000 watts of power. I am Fr. Mike, and our show gives you the top 10 songs of our area, as well as some top 10 of the past. And what is amazing about them is that with a little bit of help, those songs can actually teach us something about ourselves and about our behavior. The topic of our show today is the thought of what can make us happy. It came from birthday person on Saturday Lady Gaga and her song that she sang with Bradley Cooper, “Shallow.”

In our playlist today is the group 5 Seconds of Summer. They sing here: “Remember the words you told me, ‘love me till the day I die’, Surrender my everything ‘cause you made me believe you’re mine. Yeah, you used to call me baby, now you’re calling me by name. You push and I’m pulling away from you. I give and you take. Youngblood, say you want me out of your life, but you need it, all of the time. Youngblood, say you want me back in your life, so I’m just a dead man crawling tonight ‘cause I need it all of the time.” It is a song addressed to “Youngblood” which is probably a generic name for all young people saying a great message: if you say something you had better mean it. It is one of the most important ways to show that you actually are happy, our theme today. This is from 5 Seconds of Summer, or 5SOS and their song “Youngblood” on MATT.

(triple) YOUNGBLOOD / 5SOS

BROKEN / lovelytheband

6 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND / Raye

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The close of yet another triple play with our number 6 song this morning. It comes from Raye, a British singer/songwriter whose real name is Rachel Agatha Keen from her album “This Music May Contain Hope,” and her song “Where is My Husband” on MATT. It is a song of desire for a partner in her life, or as she says in a traditional way, a husband. “Where is my husband,” the lady sings, “Why is this beautiful man waiting for me to get old? Why he already testing my patience? I only fear he taking time with other women that ain’t me / while I’ve been reviewing applications. Wait til I get my hands on him. I’ma tell him off too for how long he kept me waiting, anticipating, praying to the Lord to give him to my loving arms. And despite my frustrations. And he must need me completely. Help me, Lord. I need you to tell me.” I describe it as a tongue-in-cheek desire to find where love is, the desire of a lady to find a person who truly loves her, a statement, I believe, of someone’s need for romantic love. In terms of our theme this week, searching for and finally finding that love will certainly make us happy.

Before her, we heard from the group lovelytheband from the album “Finding it Hard to Smile” and their song “Broken” from the year 2017. The couple in the relationship that they sing about are both trying to get over loneliness by spending time together. “I like that you’re broken,” they sing, “broken like me. Maybe that makes me a fool. I like that you’re lonely, lonely like me, I could be lonely with you.” They met at a party, and they sing “These aren’t my people, these aren’t my friends. She grabbed my face and said I like that you’re broken, broken like me, lonely like me.” So, both of them lonely and broken, but you get the feeling that they will not remain that way very long. In terms of our theme, the only way they will be happy in their lives is for both of them to work at that relationship in order to overcome the feelings of loneliness and brokenness.

Continuing our top 10, we go into the top 5 and a song that has been on our countdown for quite a while. It is a song which talks of an “ordinary” love relationship and says that what he has for a friend of his is not part of “the ordinary.” He begins with the thought that everything is pretty much ordinary: “They say ‘The holy water’s watered down and this town’s lost its faith. Our colors will fade eventually.” But he has a solution; he continues: “So, if our time is runnin’ out day after day, we’ll make the mundane our masterpiece.” Right there, as I have said, is a great description of how to make a love relationship be a necessary part of true love--make the mundane happenings so special that they become masterpieces, and if we learn to do that, it will make us quite happy, our theme today. From his album “You’ll Be Alright, Kid” this is 25 year old Alexander Warren Hughes or simply Alex Warren, and his song “Ordinary”, number 5 on our countdown this week on MATT.

(triple) 5 ORDINARY / Alex Warren

HAPPIER / Marshmallo

4 OPALITE / Taylor Swift

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Number 4 this morning comes from Taylor Swift again. It is from her album “The Life of a Showgirl” again, and her song “Opalite” on MATT. She says that she has always loved opals. Opal is also Travis Kelce’s birthstone, Travis being Taylor Swift’s fiance. In the song, she took inspiration from the facts connected with opals, saying that opalite is a metaphor for the idea that happiness can be created voluntarily. Opal is also believed to symbolically represent hope, healing and positive energy. She sings: “Life is a song, it ends when it ends; I was wrong, but alright, you were dancing through the lightning strikes, but now the sky is opalite.” The song is about the lady’s state of mind and being perfectly content with what is happening. And if she is perfectly content, you can bet that it is part of what makes her happy.

Before her, we heard from the man who calls himself Marshmallo, without the “w”, that is Christopher Comstock and his song “Happier”. It featured the English rock group Bastille. The video is an inspiring story, but the song uses the thought of a way to make a person happier, the name of the song. And it’s really a very sad song because the way he is going to make his girlfriend happier is to leave the relationship. “Lately, I’ve been thinking,” he begins the song, “I want you to be happier. With all that has happened, I think that we both know the way that the story ends. Know that means I’ll have to leave. Lately, I’ve been thinking I want you to be happier. So, I’ll go.” I look at it as the ultimate decision in romantic love—to let someone go since they want it. It is a valiant decision and my guess is that his life will indeed be happy our theme today, because of his attitude of love but only in the future.

Our final segment is up next for you with some music from another birthday person and also the top 3 songs in our land this week according to Mediabase 24-7. Leading us to break, here is a thought from Wilson Mizner: “Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.” Words of wisdom, there, and something that will make all of us happy. I’m Fr. Mike, our show is MATT, this excellent radio station is Mix 103, and we’ll be right back.

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If it is in the top 10, you will hear it here—on the MATT music network. Good morning, everyone. We are back for your top 10 show on Mix 103 that gives you the songs as well as their messages. I’m your host Fr. Mike. Thanks for taking the time to join us today. Our plea to you as usual is to enjoy the music—which you are doing, or else you wouldn’t be here, but to listen to the message so it can help you in life. Our final segment includes the talents of birthday person Mariah Carey, Olivia Dean, Bruno Mars and Huntr/X.

Besides Lady Gaga, there is another famous music person whose birthday is this week. Her name is Mariah Carey and she will be 57 years old this Friday. She is one of the best selling music artists of all time with over 220 million records sold worldwide. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and her accolades include five Grammy awards, 10 American Music Awards and 14 Billboard Music Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008. One talented artist, and let’s dedicate our segment 10 presentation to her this morning.

First in this triple play of her songs is a love song basically extolling the beauty of a young lady. “Hop on the back of my bike,” the man in the relationship sings, “Let the good wind blow through your hair. Ride on through the middle of the night, let the moonlight kiss your skin. You’re beautiful, and your mind is beautiful. And I can’t pretend that that doesn’t mean a thing to me. I like when you run red lights, don’t stop ‘til you thrill me. Take me anywhere ‘cause it’s beautiful.” Strong emotions caused by the feelings of the people involved. As we think with our theme of what will make us happy, good feelings make a person act and think better, to be sure, but we have to remember, as I say often, true love is more than simply feelings. Mariah Carey here singing along with American rapper Miguel, and their song from 2013 and her album “Me: I Am Mariah”, “#Beautiful” on MATT.

(triple) # BEAUTIFUL / Mariah Carey

LOVE TAKES TIME / Mariah Carey

WE BELONG TOGETHER / Mariah Carey

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Closing off a triple play from birthday person Mariah Carey, and her song “We Belong Together” from 2005 from her album “The Emancipation of Mimi” on MATT. “When you left,” she sang, “I lost a part of me. It’s still so hard to believe. Come back, baby, please, ‘cause we belong together. Who else am I gonna lean on when times get rough. Who’s gonna talk to me on the phone till the sun comes up. Who’s gonna take your place. There ain’t nobody better. We belong together.” The scenario is one that we frequently have in these songs. She is completely convinced that they belong together, but you’re not sure that he is. As we work with our theme this morning that we have called “what will make us happy,” one of things that we have to learn in life is that not everything that we want will make us happy and we simply must adjust to the circumstances.

Before her, her again—Mariah Carey and her song “Love Takes Time,” one of the top songs of 1990, from her album named after her. Time is one of the things that is so necessary when we really want to know another person. You can’t know a person overnight. The story line of this song is a common one: she sings of someone who has let the love of her life slip away, and now she is trying to cope with the pain, and it is extremely difficult to do, as you listen to her. It simply takes time, and she has to learn that. As we consider some things that will make us happy, the knowledge of the title of that song is one of them—love takes time, and we must allow for that time.

From 1990, we travel to 2026—March 22 of that year, today—and the top 3 songs as we speak. At number 3 is the Academy Award winning Best Song of the Year. It comes from the Korean movie and music of Huntr/X, three talented Korean ladies and the theme of a Netflix film that follows a Korean girls group—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. “I was a ghost, I was alone, given the throne; I didn’t know how to behave, I was the queen that I’m meant to be. I lived two lives, tried to play both sides, but I couldn’t find my own place. Called a problem child ‘cause I got too wild. But now that’s how I’m getting paid. 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.” As I have said with the song, it sounds like a song of determination to do the right thing, and in terms of our theme, if one is always trying to do the right thing, it will bring happiness . This is Huntr/X from the soundtrack of the best animated feature of this year according to the Oscars, “KPop Demon Hunters” and their song at number 3, former number 1, “Golden” on MATT.

(double) 3 GOLDEN / Huntr/X

2 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars

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Falling from the number 1 position, now at number 2, “I Just Might” from his album “The Romantic”, Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez on MATT. 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 usual with him—Bruno Mars—the song has quite a good dance video. In terms of our theme this week, dancing usually makes people happy.

And returning to the number 1 position, from London, England, Olivia Dean, coming from the album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “Man I Need”. The whole song is the statement of what I call the virtue which is most needed in any relationship, namely, communication. “Talk to me,” she begins her song, “looks like we’re making up for lost time; need you to spell it out for me. Don’t be shy, just come be the man I need. Tell me you got something to give. I want it. I kinda like when you call me wonderful, whatever the type of talk it is. Come on then, I gotta know you’re meant to be the man I need. Talk to me. I’d like to think you feel the same way, but I can’t tell with you sometimes. So, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication, and she gives the reason why. In terms of our theme this week, if a couple have achieved perfect communication, and they are inclined toward love, they will both be very happy.

Our thought today has revolved around that idea of what will make us happy. It came from a song of Lady Gaga whose birthday is Saturday, the name of the song being “Shallow” which she sings with Bradley Cooper. My prayer for you and me is that we will all develop lives that will make us truly happy. My thanks to the producers of “Message at the Top,” to the staff here at Mix 103, and to our sponsors, Hays Car and Truck Alignment, a great place for your car or truck, Auto World in Hays, my friends at TMP-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays, and at Holy Family Elementary School in Hays. If you have any suggestions for me, 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 meditations on the Gospels and these songs and some great movies and a transcript of the show. You can catch us on the web every Sunday morning at www.hayspost.com and choosing Mix 103 at 10 am CDT. One final thought leads us out. It comes from Wayne Huizenga: “Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.” Indeed. As Olivia Dean and her song “Man I Need” leads us out, may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music, Mix 103 and our final advice to you is to hold a good thought. As we celebrate Spring, my name is Fr. Mike Scully, and from the beautiful state of West Virginia through downtown Lawrence, KS, be safe, peace to you, and be good!

1 MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean