KJLS-FM 103.3 10am Sundays
September 27, 2026
“What Can Give Us Good Feelings?
Part 1
Hello, Central Kansas and around the world! Thank you for joining us this first Sunday of Fall, 2026, and welcome to “Message at the Top.” Get set for the top 10 popular songs of our country right now and some top 10 songs from the 2000’s, 90’s and 80’s as well. This morning, we have for you among others current top 10 music from Sombr and Tame Impala and the rest of the top 10; we also have some top 10’s of the past, including people like Lewis Capaldi and Miley Cyrus. I am Fr. Mike Scully and you have your dial set to Mix 103.3, the number one popular music station in Central Kansas. It is great to have you with us. Our motto continues to be the plea—to enjoy the music, and at the same time, listen to the message so that the message can truly affect our lives for the better. Today we will think a little about good feelings.
And the reason for that is a song from a young lady from Stockholm Sweden who rose to prominence after winning a talent show in that country. She is 28 years old and her name is Zara Larsson. The song is about the feelings of love. According to psychologists and sociologists, a good feeling is going to be a result of past experiences. What we do is analyze how we felt when something happened in the past, and because we liked it, we will want the feeling again, and so we will try to experience the same thing to bring about the good feeling.
Whatever—we like good feelings, and that is what Zara Larsson’s song is all about. It extols, according to the singer, her Swedish roots, and in particular a summer than never ends. “No nightmares when you can still see the light,” she sings, “can’t find me—I’m not in the city tonight. I like your playlist, boy, turn it up a little louder; road’s empty, so you drive a little faster. Ain’t taken nothing tonight, but I’m feeling so high. Show my tan lines, low-rise, rooftop down, it’s golden hour all the time. It’s that midnight sun-kissed skin under the red sky. Summer isn’t over yet, it’s my favorite part now. We ain’t gotta tell no one: a never-ending midnight sun.” Sweden is a land of literally a midnight sun at least during the summer, and the singer recalls that fact in her love of a friend.
Whether we are speaking about a night that has a midnight sun or being together, or golden hours, we are speaking of a “good feeling.” So, let’s concentrate on that idea today, and we’ll call our show the question: “What Can Give Us Good Feelings?” asking the songs of the show exactly what they have to say about feeling good.
We also have some of the top 10 songs of the past 46 years giving us the songs on my website this week along with two songs from birthday people Avril Lavigne and Halsey. And to start us off, this is from the album of the same name as the song “Midnight Sun” from Zara Larsson at number 3 on MATT.
(double) 3 MIDNIGHT SUN / Kara Larsson
BRAND NEW / Ben Rector
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Another song that speaks of the feelings of love, that was Ben Rector, 39 year old American singer/songwriter born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and his song “Brand New” which is the name of the album from 2016 on MATT. “I feel like new sunglasses, like a brand new pair of jeans,” he sings, “I feel like taking chances, I feel a lot like 17. Never thought I’d feel like this: like when I close my eyes and don’t even care if anyone sees me dancing, like I can fly, and don’t even think of touching the ground, like a heartbeat skip, like an open page, like a one way trip on an aeroplane. It’s the way that I feel when I’m with you, brand new.” So, a love song talking of good feelings, our theme today.
We have chosen a couple songs concerning love feelings today because of our theme from Zara Larsson. This next song is one of them. “I got this feeling inside my bones,” he sings; “It goes electric, wavey when I turn it on. All through my city, all through my home, we're flying up, no ceiling, when we are in our zone. I got that sunshine in my pocket, got that good song in my feet. I can't take my eyes off it, moving so phenomenally. You gonna like the way we rock it, so don't stop. I can't stop the feeling, so just dance.” So, a song about good feelings and in particular dancing. Feeling good is something that we’re supposed to do no matter what the situations we get in, but sometimes it’s not so easy. But there is little doubt that a person can become a better person if they always try to have “good feelings.” From the album “Trolls Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”, this is Justin Timberlake from 2016 again, “Can’t Stop the Feeling.” on MATT.
(triple) CAN’T STOP THE FEELING / Justin Timberlake
APPLAUSE / Lady Gaga
10 BABYDOLL / Dominic Fike
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30 year old Dominic Fike born in Naples, Florida, and his song “Babydoll”, number 10 in our countdown on MATT. It is a song of a person who cannot let go of a previous love relationship / perhaps because of a very difficult childhood. “I can’t move on, babydoll, waitin’ on calls, flippin’ through stations. I’m outclassed and it’s outrageous, and I’ll take it all, babydoll, whatever’s been weighin’ you down. Find me on Miami concrete, lookin’ for somebody different ‘cause my daddy was a pimp; my mama had her issues, but I miss her anyway. Oh, babydoll, please don’t call me for the wrong reasons.” The man in the relationship is looking for love, and he may not have ever learned exactly what it is. Tough song, teaching the importance of a good childhood. In terms of our theme, a part of good feelings later on in life is the fact that we have had a good childhood.
Before him, the song featured on my website today frmikescully.com, a statement of wanting to be appreciated. It is from her album “Artpop” and her song, from 2013, “Applause”, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, that is Lady Gaga. “I stand here waiting for you to bang the gong, to crash the critic saying, ‘Is it right or is it wrong?’ If only fame had an IV, could I bear being away from you. I found the vein, put it in here. I live for the applause, live for the way that you cheer and scream for me. Give me that thing that I love—I’ll turn the lights on. Put your hands up, make ‘em touch, make it real loud.” It is a rather straightforward song seeking praise. In terms of our theme, we often seek praise for the good feelings that it gives, our theme today, but if that is the case, we had better do some re-thinking of our situation in order to be really happy.
Our theme today concerns the good feelings that we seek in life. Get ready during our next segment for / in order of appearance: Ariana Grande, Lewis Capaldi, Flo Rida, Miley Cyrus and Huntr/X. As we go to break, here is a thought from British journalist Woodrow Wyatt. Ladies and gentlemen, listen closely to this one. “A man falls in love through his eyes; a woman through her ears.” Yes, indeed, something to be remembered as you are looking for the good feelings of romantic love. Great thought. I’m Fr. Mike inviting you to stay with us. Your dial is set for Mix 103.3 and you are listening to “Message at the Top”.
Good morning again, everyone. You are in tune with MATT, your top 10 show on today’s best music Mix 103.3. 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 which ends today, September 27, 2026. 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 Zara Larsson and her song “Midnight Sun”. The theme we are using for our show is “What can give us good feelings?”
And let’s go to number 9 in our countdown. It is a song of a breakup with some personal overtones about the singer’s career. According to the music critics, Ariana Grande here addresses regret over a relationship while also reflecting her conflicted feelings about fame and public scrutiny. “Just know that I will find my way from you,” she sings, “Like flowers from a tomb while you decide who you are. And I can see right through like shadows on the moon and it’s all bad news. I hate that I made you love me, sorry if I made me your type. Yeah, I hate that I made you love me ‘cause I barely tried. What’s happening now? You studied my crown and borrowed my body, warm, kissed by the sun, then cold like the wind, a bee stuck in honey. Know that I will find my way from you. I hate that I made you love me.” So, a relatively negative song, and in terms of our theme, we want to have “good feelings” especially in our beginning love situations. This is Ariana Grande from her new album “Petal,” “Hate That I Made You Love Me”, number 9 on MATT.
(double) 9 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME / Ariana Grande
SOMEONE YOU LOVED / Lewis Capaldi
Part 5
Lewis Capaldi there and his song from his album with the ominous title of “Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent”, and “Someone You Loved”, one of the top 10 of 2019, on MATT. It is a song of begging another to care for him. “I'm going under,” he sings the thoughts of the man in the relationship, “and this time I fear there's no one to save me. This all or nothing really got a way of driving me crazy. I need somebody to heal, somebody to know, somebody to have, somebody to hold. I guess I kinda liked the way you numbed all the pain. Now the day bleeds into nightfall. And you're not here to get me through it all. I let my guard down and then you pulled the rug. I was getting kinda used to being someone you loved.” Breakups are very difficult, as you can sense from his pain in the song and we must be very careful about what we do and say after we suffer through them. A person suffering a breakup often feels as though he/she will never have the good feeling of love again, our theme today, but we have to reason that that is simply not true.
Another triple play is up next for us, and it begins with a statement of our theme, a good feeling that the person in the song has. “Sometimes I get a good feeling,” he begins his song, “I get a feeling that I never had before, I get a good feeling.” And then his verses that are very hard to catch / talk about his own ambitions, saying “I got a brand new spirit.” His second verse is again his personal ambitions which will give good feelings—“You looking at the king of the jungle,” he sings, ending with “Sometimes I get a good feeling.” As I say, a statement of our theme today. This is Tramar Dillard, better known by his stage name of Flo Rida, a 47 year old American rapper and singer/songwriter, the name of his song being “Good Feeling” from his album “Wild Ones” from the year 2011 on MATT.
(triple ) GOOD FEELING/ Flo Rida
WRECKING BALL/ Miles Cyrus
8 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
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Our current number 8 song on MATT, three Korean young ladies named Huntr/X, and their former number 1 song “Golden” on MATT. It is from the soundtrack of the animated movie, “K Pop Demon Hunters” and the theme of the Netflix film that follows Huntr/X—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “We’re going up, it’s our moment. You know together we’re glowin, gonna be golden. I’m done hidin’ now, I’m shinin’ like I’m born to be, oh, our time, no fears, no lies, that’s who we’re born to be.” I interpret it as a song urging people to do what is right, and in terms of our theme today, that should give us “good feelings”, but sometimes doing the right thing is not easy to do.
Before them, we heard from her album “Bangerz,” Miley Cyrus and “Wrecking Ball” from 2013. “We clawed, we chained our hearts in vain” she sings. “We jumped, never asking why. I fell under your spell, a love no one could deny. Don’t you ever say I just walked away, I will always want you. I can’t live a lie, running for my life. I came in like a wrecking ball, I never hit so hard in love. All I wanted was to break your walls. All you ever did was wreck me. You let me burn, and now, we’re ashes on the ground. Instead of using force, I guess I should’ve let you win.” I think that that is a very good insight. When people are moving into romantic love, they can’t be bulldozers or wrecking balls. They have to be people who want the other person to win. I don’t agree that the other has to win in all of the situations that occur—we still have our own integrity to uphold—but there has to be a lot of give and take, and more often than not, giving is much more important than the taking. In terms of our theme, if we learn to do that well, we will experience the good feelings of love.
Ah, these songs often really capture the good feelings of life and what makes life work well, and sometimes one has to study a little commentary on that life. Our topic this morning is how to have good feelings in that life. It came from Zara Larsson’s song “Midnight Sun”. Let me take us to break with a thought from philosopher Thomas Carlyle who died in 1881: “The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.”
COMMERCIAL BREAK
This is MATT on Mix 103, and we believe that every song has a message and if you listen to that message, many times it will help our lives. We welcome you back to the top 10 songs of our area as determined by our research, your requests and Mediabase 24-7. We call our show MATT because we take those top 10 songs and analyze their meanings and messages in different ways--today from the thought of the good feelings in life. I am Fr. Mike, your host for MATT, and we begin this second hour of our show with yet another triple play.
And we begin that triple play with yet another song specifically dedicated to good feelings, this time about money. “Ask for money,” they sing, “and get advice, ask for advice, get money twice. You call it a moment, I call it life. One day while my light is glowing, I’ll be in my castle golden, but until the gates are open, I just wanna feel this moment. Now I make dollars, I make billions, I’m a genius, I mean brilliance. I lost a lot, and learned a lot, but I’m still undefeated.” So, a song extolling riches. Money is an interesting topic, of course, and people want it, but it is not everything, no matter what this song says. Money can always bring about confidence which is a good thing, but we have to watch that we do not equate money and confidence. Being confident involves much more than having money. Sometimes good feelings, our theme today, are brought about by material things and that’s just fine, but I believe too much concentration on material things will eventually hurt us. This is Armando Christian Perez better known as Pitbull and Christina Aguilera from Pitbull’s album “Global Warming,” and their song “Feel this Moment” from 2013 on MATT.
(triple) FEEL THIS MOMENT / Pitbull f/ Christina Aguilera
CIRCLES / Post Malone
FEEL IT STILL / Portugal.The Man
Part 8
From 2017, the song “Feel It Still” from the band Portugal. the Man on MATT. “Can’t keep my hands to myself,” they sing, “think I’ll dust ‘em off, put ‘em back up on the shelf in case my little baby girl is in need. Am I coming out of left field? I’m a rebel just for kicks, now I been feeling it since 1966, now might be over now, but I feel it still. Let me kick it like it’s 1986, now might be over now, but I feel it still. Is it coming?” It seems to be a song in which the person is remembering what it was like before and now it’s over, but he would like the feeling again. In terms of our theme today, one of the things that should be taught to all of us is to realize that the past was good, even if there were some negative feelings because you learn from them. That in itself makes them “good” feelings.
Before them, we heard from rapper/singer/songwriter Austin Richard Post, better known as Post Malone, from his album “Hollywood’s Bleeding” and his song “Circles”, a former number 1 for a long time. It is a song about a break-up that has occurred and you’re not really sure whether the man in the relationship feels it is worth working at it again or not. “Seasons change,” he sings, “and our love went cold, feed the flame ‘cause we can’t let go. Run away, but we’re running in circles. Run away. I dare you to do something, I’m waiting on you again, so I don’t take the blame. Let go, I got a feeling that it’s time to let go. I knew that this was doomed from the get-go. You thought that it was special. But it was just the sex though. I got a feeling that it’s time to let it go.” It is the situation of so many relationships, moving into the physical too soon, and then impossible to determine whether the relationship is real or not. Thinking in terms of our theme today, love relationships are full of “feeling good” situations, but the best ones are not the physical.
Let’s go to three of our top 10 songs right now, beginning with number 7. It was a number 1 for a couple of weeks, a song of wanting another to show her love for the man in the relationship by good dancing. “It would break my heart” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” As I have said, It is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, and in terms of our theme, it will give him a good feeling, but hopefully their love relationship will be a little deeper. This is the first song in the top 10 for him this morning, Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez, from his album “The Romantic” and his number 7 song right now, “I Just Might” on MATT.
(triple) 7 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
6 BACK TO FRIENDS / Sombr
5 RISK IT ALL / Bruno Mars
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The second song in the top 10 for him this morning, also from his album “The Romantic”, Bruno Mars, and his song of complete commitment to another, “Risk It All”, number 5 right now on MATT. “For just the chance to win your heart, you could set the bar beyond the stars” he sings, “I’ll do anything, anything you ask me to. Say you want the moon—watch me learn to fly, ain’t no mountain you could point to I wouldn’t climb. It’s crazy, but it’s true. There’s nothing I won’t do. I’d risk it all for you.” He describes a permanent commitment to another really well, I believe. In terms of our theme this week, being able to make a permanent commitment like this will no doubt give him a good feeling.
Before him, we heard from 21 year old Shane Michael Boose, that is Sombr, from his album “I Barely Know Her” and his song “Back to Friends” at number 6 this morning. It is a song about the scenario in which a couple have given themselves completely to each other physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends, and that, the artist concludes, is a contradiction. He sings, “How can we go back to being friends when we just shared a bed? How can you look at me and pretend I’m someone you’ve never met?” / It seems as though the lady in the relationship wants to have a breakup or at least a temporary time apart, but the two have already made it clear that they are committed to each other. As I have mentioned, it is unfortunately a common enough experience. As I have said with the song, I believe that one of the evils of society is giving in to too much physical involvement because the physical involvement tends to dominate rather than thinking about—say--what love truly is, and in terms of the song, what a permanent commitment consists of. In terms of our theme today, the situation of the song will not give the couple a good feeling, but that fact that it doesn’t should teach them a lesson or two about permanent commitments.
What can give us good feelings is what we’re thinking of in particular today, as we spin our songs this morning, as the old DJ’s use to say. We don’t spin them anymore, but it sounds good. We are asking our music to explore that theme which we will continue to do with our final segment in just a minute. That segment will include one other song on my website, some birthday wishes, and the top songs of our day. Let me take you to a break with this quote from inspiration-specialist Kim Hubbard: “The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.” And that will give us good feelings, at least for a moment of two. I’m Fr. Mike. Listen to these great thoughts, and then I hope you come back here for more.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
If it is in the top 10 now or since 1980, we will play it at one point in one of our shows, and give you its meaning. Such is the intent of our show. You are in tune with “Message at the Top”, on today’s best music Mix 103.3. I am Fr. Mike, and our show gives you the top 10 songs of our area right now, as well as 12 top 10 songs of the past. And what is amazing about all of our songs is that with a little bit of help, they can actually teach us something about ourselves and about our behavior. The topic of our show today concerns the thought of what can give us good feelings.
There is another song on my website frmikescully.com this week on Saturday. It was released according to her with the intention of still feeling sexy after having a baby, and she speaks of a lady in today’s world who wants to be noticed. “I’ll make you double take soon as I walk away,” she sings, “Call up your chiropractor just in case your neck break. Tell me what you gonna do ‘cause I’m about to make a scene, I’m about to turn the heat up, gonna make your glasses steam. When I do my walk, I can guarantee your jaw will drop ‘cause they don’t make a lot of what I got. I could have my Gucci on, I could wear my Louis Vuitton, but even with nothin’ on, bet I made you look.” As I say, she wants to be noticed, a necessary thing in our Western world, for people who want to get together, and in her opinion, it will make her life better when she is noticed. It is her way of “feeling good”, our theme today. Indeed, it is necessary to begin a love relationship. This is Meghan Elizabeth Trainor from her album “Takin’ It Back,” and her song “Made You Look” from 2023 on MATT.
(triple) MADE YOU LOOK/ Meghan Trainor
FALL TO PIECES / Avril Lavigne
SO GOOD / Halsey
Part 11
Happy birthday to her, that is Ashley Nicolette Frangipane better known as Halsey who will be 32 on Tuesday. The song was named “So Good” from 2022 on MATT. The lady in the song starts off with a relationship which has not gone well. “I’m here standing in the same dress, you’re in your apartment, I’m already gone. When you left, I bet you held her body closer, and I was hoping you would tell her it was over. You’re all I think about and everywhere I look, I know it’s bad, but we could be so good.” Then a couple years pass by, and she feels the same way saying “I never got to change your mind.” But the last verse seems that he finally did change his mind, and now, she feels so good, so that things really did get better: “When you left,” she sings, “I thought you held her body closer, I never knew that you would tell her it was over, ‘Cause I’m all you think about and everywhere you look, I know it’s bad, but we could be so good.” It worked out. Things really did get better. As a result, one could conclude that we need to hang in there with our situations, because things will get better. And that definitely will give us good feelings, our theme today.
Before her, we celebrated another birthday—Ms. Avril Lavigne who is 42 years old today. The song we used of hers was from her album “Under My Skin” and her song “Fall to Pieces” from 2004. “I don’t want to fall to pieces,” she sings, “I just want to sit and stare at you. I don’t want to talk about it and I don’t want a conversation. I just want to cry in front of you; I don’t want to talk about it ‘cause I’m in love with you. You’re the only one I’d be with till the end. When I come undone, you bring me back again, back under the stars, back into your arms.” We’ve heard this type of dedication a number of times in our love songs—here, she is the one who is totally dedicated to him and places all her faith in him. That’s fine, of course, if he feels the same way. And if he does, then there is no doubt some good feelings about their life, our theme today.
And we are up to our final songs of our countdown and numbers 4,2, and 1. At number 4 is a song about being totally infatuated with someone as a beginning love experience. She begins her song: “I know that the bar closes at 11, but I hope you never finish that beer. You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven,’ and I know why he wrote them now that you’re standin’ right here. One night I was bored in bed and stalked you on the internet. It’s feminine intuition ‘cause I always had a vision of us standing like this. You’re lookin’ like an angel on the walls of Versailles, the most alive I’ve ever been, but kiss me and I might drop dead.” The person in the song is completely infatuated with the man, and portrays the intense feeling of an early romance, referring to a similar experience as described in the band the Cure’s song “Just Like Heaven.” In terms of our theme today, being infatuated with someone carries with it some very good feelings, but they will certainly cease very quickly if things do not work out. This is Olivia Rodrigo from her album “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,”, and her song “Drop Dead”, number 4 on MATT.
(double) 4 DROP DEAD / Olivia Rodrigo
2 DRACULA / Tame Impala
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Our current number 2 song this week from Tame Impala, the musical project of Australian instrumentalist Kevin Parker and he is accompanied by South Korean singer Jennie. It is from the album “Deadbeat” and the song “Dracula” on MATT. The song is about a person who is wanting a love connection while at the same time not wanting to come out of his chosen hidden life. Comparing the person in the song to a vampire, they sing: “The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre. The night is almost over, I still don’t know where you are. The shadows, they keep me like a movie star, daylight makes me feel like Dracula. In the end, I hope it’s you and me in the darkness, I would never leave. Run from the sunlight, Dracula.” The man in the relationship is growing up trying to understand love, and such a person will want the good feelings connected with it, our theme today, but in order to get those good feelings, he has to come out of his hidden life a little.
And the number 1 song is once again from British singer Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “So Easy”, making it altogether 12 weeks at number 1. It is a song of the desire for love of one particular person. “I could be the twist, the one to make you stop,” she begins the song, “The icing on the cake, the cherry on the top. It’s heaven in my heart, and we could find you some space. I could be the world to you, the missing piece, that extra kind of chemistry. Some people make it hard; with me, that isn’t the case ‘cause I make it so easy to fall in love. So, come give me a call, and we’ll fall into us. I’m the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life. Anyone with a heart would agree: it’s so easy to fall in love with me.” So, a rather straightforward statement to someone and it sounds like the lady is saying that the man and her will have good feelings, our theme today, if they pursue the relationship.
Our theme today has been that thought of what can bring about good feelings in life. My prayer for you and me is that everyone of us will discover the best way to feel good as we live good lives. My thanks to our producers and our sponsors, especially Holy Family Elementary School and Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior and Senior High School, both in Hays, and to Hays Car and Truck Alignment, those who know best how to treat your car and truck, as well as Auto World, namely those who really know about the world of cars and trucks. If you would like to request a song to be studied or want to comment on any of my comments, feel free to write me here at KJLS-FM, Hays America 67601 or e-mail me at frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website is frmikescully.com where you will find meditations on these songs, and some great movies and a transcript of this show. You can always join us on the web every Sunday morning by tuning your listening device to hayspost.com and clicking on Mix 103.3 at 10 am. I hope you join us right here again next week on Sunday morning as we listen to the top 10 of today and yesterday. One final thought about life from Mr. Albert Einstein: “Force always attracts men of low morality.” Yes, indeed. As you listen to Olivia Dean at number 1 again with her song “So Easy”, may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music on Mix 103.3, and my advice to you among all the positive things that we have said to you today is to hold a good thought. From beautiful downtown Lawrence, KS, through likewise beautiful Hays, KS and to the world, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good!
1 SO EASY / Olivia Dean
September 20, 2026
The Desire to Control
Part 1
Good morning, Central Kansas and around the world; and thank you for joining us this second last Sunday of September 2026. Happy Fall to all of you as we begin that season Tuesday, and what a beautiful season it is. Welcome to “Message at the Top.” Get set for the top 10 songs of our area right now as determined by the research from your requests, as well as the research of Mediabase 24-7 for the reporting date of today, September 20, 2026 and get ready for some other top 10 songs as well including the music of Teddy Swims and Rachel Platten among many others. I am Fr. Mike, and you have your dial set to today’s best music Mix 103.3, 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. The music and message of 22 popular songs are directly in front of you for the next two hours.
Jaten Collins Dimsdale better known as Teddy Swims will be 34 years old this Friday. He was born and raised in Conyers, Georgia and known for his genre-blending music that includes elements of R&B, soul, hip hop and contemporary pop. The song that began his national career is our lead song this morning.
Most of his songs are “love songs” in one form or another as are most artists’ songs. Let’s think about that for a minute. When do you use force in love, or a more general question, when do we use force, that is force someone to do something instead of simply “suggest” and hope that the other person will follow through? Sometimes it may be necessary to force another to do something. A young child, for example, must be forced to stay away from busy intersections or not to play with fire, or the like. But, forcing another, generally speaking is not the way to bring about some desired end.
Be that as it may, the song “Lose Control” is an attempt on the part of the man in the relationship to control the situation. Some words of the song are these: “Something’s got a hold of me lately,” he sings, “No, I don’t know myself anymore, feels like the walls are all closing in and the devil’s knocking at my door. Outta my mind, how many times did I tell you I’m no good at being alone? It’s taking a toll on me, trying my best to keep from tearing the skin off my bones. Don’t you know I lose control when you’re not next to me. I’m falling apart right in front of you. You’re breaking my heart. You make a mess of me.” So, it is loneliness because one special person is no longer there for him. One of the problems of early relationships is that we get too serious too soon and when the situation breaks up for whatever reason, it causes loneliness for the person, and blocks the possibility of relationship with another.
So, let’s use a theme this week of “The Desire to Control” and to start us off, let’s listen to Teddy Swims, from his album with the title of “I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy, part 1”, “Lose Control” from 2023—happy birthday, Teddy Swims on MATT.
(double) LOSE CONTROL / Teddy Swims
THE DOOR / Teddy Swims
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Double Teddy Swims there, that last one called “The Door” from 2024 also from his album “I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy, part 1,” on MATT. It is a song about making a serious discovery about the love of someone else. He said of the song that it was a statement of how to save one’s own life and walk out of an abusive relationship. “I took a page out of your favorite book,” he begins his song. “You sold me lies just by the way you look, taught me a language that I’ve never speak. That ain’t for me. You took me higher that I ever flew, too many times, gave you a second chance. I’m just a man. No more thinking’ about you late night, no more runnin’ around with your friends now, done pickin’ up pieces of my soul up off the floor. I said I would die for you, but I can’t take this pain no more. I thought I was willing, but tonight I save my life when I showed you the door. I can’t play this game no more.” In terms of our theme, sometimes the only way to control a situation is to simply get out of it.
Now, let’s go to our top 10 right now, and give us numbers 10, 9 and 8. Number 10 is a song of a person who cannot let go of a previous love relationship / perhaps because of a very difficult childhood. “I can’t move on, babydoll, waitin’ on calls, flippin’ through stations. I’m outclassed and it’s outrageous, and I’ll take it all, babydoll, whatever’s been weighin’ you down. Find me on Miami concrete, lookin’ for somebody different ‘cause my daddy was a pimp; my mama had her issues, but I miss her anyway. Oh, babydoll, please don’t call me for the wrong reasons.” The man in the relationship is looking for love, and he may not have ever learned exactly what it is. Tough song, teaching the importance of a good childhood. In terms of our theme, part of a good childhood is coming to understand that we can’t control everything that happens to us. This is 30 year old Dominic Fike born in Naples, Florida, and his song “Babydoll” , number 10 on MATT.
(triple) 10 BABYDOLL / Dominic Fike
9 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME / Ariana Grande
8 BACK TO FRIENDS / Sombr
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21 year old Shane Michael Boos there, that is Sombr, from his album “I Barely Know Her” and his song “Back to Friends” at number 8 this morning on MATT. It is a song about the scenario in which a couple have given themselves completely to each other physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends, and that, the artist concludes, is a contradiction. He sings, “How can we go back to being friends when we just shared a bed? How can you look at me and pretend I’m someone you’ve never met?” / It seems as though the lady in the relationship wants to have a breakup or at least a temporary time apart, but the two have already made it clear that they are committed to each other. As I have mentioned, it is unfortunately a common enough experience. As I have said with the song, I believe that one of the evils of society is giving in to too much physical involvement because the physical involvement tends to dominate rather than thinking about—say--what love truly is, and in terms of the song, what a permanent commitment consists of. In terms of our theme today, the lady in the relationship is trying to control the love situation by weakening her understanding of a permanent commitment, and that’s not good.
Before him, we heard from Ariana Grande and her song at number 9 this morning, a song of a breakup with some personal overtones about her career, from her new album “Petal,” “Hate That I Made You Love Me”. According to the music critics, it addresses regret over a relationship while also reflecting her conflicted feelings about fame and public scrutiny. “Just know that I will find my way from you,” she sings, “Like flowers from a tomb while you decide who you are. And I can see right through like shadows on the moon and it’s all bad news. I hate that I made you love me, sorry if I made me your type. Yeah, I hate that I made you love me ‘cause I barely tried. What’s happening now? You studied my crown and borrowed my body, warm, kissed by the sun, then cold like the wind, a bee stuck in honey. Know that I will find my way from you. I hate that I made you love me.” So, a relatively negative song, and in terms of our theme, beginning romantic relationships may not always be smooth and one of the reasons just might be that we are trying to control the situation while not including the feelings of the other.
That theme of the desire to control a situation, especially love situations came from Teddy Swims. We have more top 10 music of the present and the past coming up, and before we get there, here is a thought from author John Aughey who died in 1911, “Lost time is never found again.” Therefore, let’s use the time that we have well, and learn perhaps that our desire to control may result in troubles. I’m Fr. Mike, this show is “Message at the Top” and your dial is set at Mix 103.3.
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We are back for “Message at the Top” on Mix 103.3 and we welcome you back to the top 10 songs of today and yesterday as determined by our research and your requests. We call our show MATT because we take those top 10 songs and analyze their meanings in the light of how we can live better in this complicated world. I am Fr. Mike, your host for the top 10 show of today’s best music, Mix 103.3, and we are pursuing the thought of our desire to control things, a thought that came from Teddy Swims’s song “Lose Control.”
There are five songs on my website www.frmikesully.com this week and the one recently passed that I call your attention to. The first one was on my website last Monday. It is a song that speaks of life, I believe—that is, trying to live it as best we can, but life is difficult at times. The person in the song is enjoying the ride, taking his/her time living, but it often feels like he/she is falling, that is without direction. During the life, the person thinks about what it means to be a friend of someone, whether he/she would die for the other or not. Then it seems the person in the song feels like he/she is thinking too much, saying “Help me” either to a friend or perhaps even to God. It is a very interesting song, and one that you can spend a lot of time analyzing along with the video. In terms of our theme, one of the things that we can control is being a friend to others. This is the duo Twenty-One Pilots, that is, Josh Dun and Tyler Joseph from their album “Blurryface”, and their song from 2016, “Ride” on MATT.
(double) RIDE / Twenty One Pilots
7 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
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Our current number 7 song on MATT, three Korean young ladies named Huntr/X, and their former number 1 song “Golden” on MATT. It is from the soundtrack of the animated movie, “K Pop Demon Hunters” and the theme of the Netflix film that follows Huntr/X—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “We’re going up, it’s our moment. You know together we’re glowin, gonna be golden. I’m done hidin’ now, I’m shinin’ like I’m born to be, oh, our time, no fears, no lies, that’s who we’re born to be.” I interpret it as a song urging people to do what is right, and in terms of our theme today, it is hardly ever the right thing to try to control other people when it comes to romantic endeavors—we simply should be concerned about ourselves.
Let’s continue with some songs from my website www.frmikescully.com. This Friday, we have a song of a person who understands that his partner in the relationship is not serious with him, and that all she wants, as he says, is attention. “You’ve been runnin’ around throwin’ that dirt all on my name ‘cause you knew that I’d call you up. I know that dress is karma, perfume regret. You got me thinking ‘bout when you were mine. You just want attention; you don’t want my heart. Maybe you just hate the thought of me with someone new. Yeah, you just want attention. What are you doin’ to me?” He knows what she is doing, but he still doesn’t want to let go of the relationship. In terms of our theme, he is trying to control the situation by getting the partner to understand what she is doing, and that’s not a bad thing to do. This is Charles Otto Puth Jr., that is Charlie Puth from his album “Voicenotes” and his song from 2017, “Attention” on MATT.
(triple ) ATTENTION/ Charlie Puth
EYES CLOSED / Ed Sheeran
6 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
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The first song in the top 10 for him this morning, Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez, from his album “The Romantic” and his number 6 song right now, “I Just Might” on MATT. The song was a former number 1, 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, and in general, that is the problem with people trying to control others, our theme today.
Before him, on my website last Wednesday, Ed Sheeran and his song “Eyes Closed” from 2023. It is a song which reflects, as he says, losing someone, his friend by the name of Jamal, saying music helps heal, and he’s dancing with his eyes closed to try to get through it. “I know it’s a bad idea,” he begins his song, “But how can I help myself? Been inside for most this year, dealing with the cards life dealt while my friends are somewhere else. Every song reminds me you’re gone, and I feel the lump in my throat cause I’m here alone. Just dancing with my eyes closed ‘cause everywhere I look I still see you and time is moving so slow, and I don’t know what else that I can do, so I’ll keep dancing with my eyes closed.” He’s feeling the pain of loss, and in trying to control the situation, he is simply putting up with the time of pain as he goes about his life.
We are looking at the songs of our show from the point of view of our desire to control a situation. During this next segment, we will give you songs in order of appearance from Olivia Rodrigo for the first time today, Miley Cyrus, Pink, birthday person Bruce Springsteen, Olivia Rodrigo again, and Mat Kearney. First, a thought about courage from my favorite author, Mr. Mark Twain: “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” It takes real courage to know what is right, whether you are with the majority or not, and we can be thankful that we have the wherewithal to think, no matter what the situation. I hope your first week of Fall turns out to be a great one, and I hope our music and message is making it even a little better. I’m Fr. Mike, your dial is set to today’s best music Mix 103.3, and I hope you keep it right where it is.
This is MATT on Mix 103 and we welcome you back to the top 10 songs as of the reporting date of the second last Sunday of September 2026 together with some other top 10 songs. We call our show MATT because we take all of our songs and analyze their meanings in the light of how we can live better in the complicated world we live in. I am Fr. Mike, your host for the top 10 show of Mix 103.3 where our plea is for you to enjoy the music and listen to the message, allowing that message to make us better than we are. This still Summer Sunday morning, we are pursuing the thought of looking carefully at controlling a situation, a thought we took from birthday person Teddy Swims and his song “Lose Control.”
Let’s begin this second hour with the first song from Olivia Rodrigo on our show today—we have three of them. This one 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, she is trying to control the situation by her anger, and it never will. This is Olivia Rodrigo from the year 2021 from her album “Sour,” “good 4 u” the name of the song on MATT.
(triple) GOOD 4 YOU / Olivia Rodrigo
USED TO BE YOUNG / Miles Cyrus
TRY / Pink
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Pink, there, that is, Alecia Beth Moore Hart, and her song “Try” from 2012, an excellent song of meaning from her album “The Truth About Love” on MATT. It was on my website last Tuesday and is an excellent song because it illustrates the leadership principle of “Never Stop Trying to do Your Best.” “Ever wonder,” she sings, “about what he’s doing, how it all turned to lies. Sometimes I think that it’s better to never ask why. Where there is desire, there is going to be a flame. Where there is a flame, someone’s bound to get burned. But just because it hurts don’t mean you’re gonna die. You gotta get up and try.” She is singing of a failed love relationship, but it is a very good principle of living. In terms of our theme, she may have the desire to control the love situation in her life, but she is going about it the correct way. Good song.
Before her, we heard a former number 1 from Miley Cyrus from her album, “Endless Summer Vacation”—digital reissue, and her song “Used to be Young” from 2024. She says of the song: “This song is about honoring who we’ve been, loving who we are and celebrating who we will become. I feel proud when reflecting on my past and optimistic when thinking about the future.” So, the past for her is a good thing, and her future is likewise good. She sings, “The truth is bulletproof. There’s no fooling you. I don’t dress the same, me / and who you say I was yesterday have gone our separate ways. Left my living fast somewhere in the past ‘cause that’s for chasing cars; turns out open bars lead to broken hearts and going way too far. I know I used to be crazy, I know I used to be fun; You say I used to be wild, I say I used to be young.” I consider it to be a 10+ category song of meaning because she will not look at the past or present or future as a negative, and being positive is essential for any relationship and it means that there will be no desire to control, our theme today.
Right now, let’s remember another birthday, this one from Mr. Bruce Springsteen, the Boss ,who will be 77 this coming Wednesday and a great statement about the waste of time, some of which is not bad. We need to relax, / and remember the good old days—the “Glory Days” as he sings—but we don’t want to dwell too much on it, because time will slip away someday, and we need more than glory days to show accomplishment in our lives. The hope connected with the song is that we will all have glory days, and that they will continue throughout our lives. As we think of our theme concerning controlling a situation, if we could control every day to be glory days, that would be a good thought. This is Bruce Springsteen and his song “Glory Days” from 1985—happy birthday to him-- on MATT.
(triple) GLORY DAYS / Bruce Springsteen
GET HIM BACK / Olivia Rodrigo
NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE / Mat Kearney
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Mat Kearney there, a 47 year old American musician born in Eugene, Oregon and his song “Nothing Left To Lose” from 2006 from his album named after that song. He speaks of hope in a romantic life in the song. It is a love song about a girlfriend that he is hopeful that he will meet. “I’ve held your hand through the darkest night,” he sings, “don’t know where you’re coming from, but you’re coming soon. Come on and we’ll sing, like we were free. I’m off the floor one more time to find you, and here we go: there’s nothing left to choose, and here we go, there’s nothing left to lose.” And he goes out in search of her. There is a certain confidence in his song as he sets out on his love life and such an attitude may or may not lead to the desire to control the situation, but he has to find the relationship first.
Before him, we heard the second song of our show from Olivia Rodrigo, a song of true revenge, from her album “Guts” and her song “Get Him Back”. The words are quite explicit with regard to revenge. “I met a guy in the summer and I left him in the spring. He argued with me about everything; he had an ego and a temper and a wandering eye. So I miss him some nights when I’m feeling depressed til I remember every time he made a pass on my friend. Do I love him? Do I hate him? I guess it’s up and down. If I had to choose, I would say right now: I wanna get him back. I wanna make him jealous, wanna make him feel bad. Oh I want sweet revenge, and I want him again. I want to get him back.” And as I say, the lady in the song is quite explicit as to how she will get revenge. In terms of our theme, there is little doubt that she wants to be in control so that she can get back at him.
And we have made it to our final segment of our show before Fall begins. During that final segment, you will hear and hopefully enjoy the artistry of in order of appearance of Rachel Platten and then the top 5 songs in our country right now. I take you to break with this thought. It comes from Katherine Hepburn: “You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.” Super quote about what is really happening in life and control of others is not part of it at all. I’m Fr. Mike, and you’re listening to “Message at the Top” on Mix 103.3.
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We are back for our final segment of a show that gives you music and their messages. I hope the wonderful season of Fall which begins this week will begin well for you. I’m your host, Fr. Mike on “Message at the Top” on Mix 103.3. Thank you for joining us again this morning. It’s great to have you with us as we have taken our theme from birthday person Teddy Swims and his song “Lose Control.”
Let’s begin our final segment with one great song of real commitment to a friend. “Hands,” she sings, “put your empty hands in mine, and scars, show me all the scars you hide, and if your wings are broken, please take mine so yours can open too, ‘cause I’m gonna stand by you. Even if we’re breaking down, we can find a way to break through. Even if we can’t find heaven, I’ll walk through hell with you. Love, you’re not alone, ‘cause I’m gonna stand by you.” The lady in the relationship is not trying to control the other, our theme today, because it seems like this friendship will last no matter what. From her album “Wildfire,” 45 year old Rachel Platten, and her song of commitment to a friend, great song and great video, “Stand By You” from 2015. Listen to the words on MATT.
(triple) STAND BY YOU / Rachel Platten
5 DROP DEAD / Olivia Rodrigo
4 RISK IT ALL / Bruno Mars
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The second song in the top 10 for him, also from his album “The Romantic”, Bruno Mars, and his song of complete commitment to another, “Risk It All”, number 4 right now on MATT. “For just the chance to win your heart, you could set the bar beyond the stars” he sings, “I’ll do anything, anything you ask me to. Say you want the moon—watch me learn to fly, ain’t no mountain you could point to I wouldn’t climb. It’s crazy, but it’s true. There’s nothing I won’t do. I’d risk it all for you.” In just a couple of words, he describes a permanent commitment to another really well, I believe. In terms of our theme this week, he is trying to control himself in the romantic relationship, and that is exactly what we should be interested in.
Before him, we heard the number 4 song on our current chart, and the third one from her this morning. Olivia Rodrigo from her album “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,”, and her song “Drop Dead”. It is a song about being totally infatuated with someone as a beginning love experience. She begins her song: “I know that the bar closes at 11, but I hope you never finish that beer. You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven,’ and I know why he wrote them now that you’re standin’ right here. One night I was bored in bed and stalked you on the internet. It’s feminine intuition ‘cause I always had a vision of us standing like this. You’re lookin’ like an angel on the walls of Versailles, the most alive I’ve ever been, but kiss me and I might drop dead.” The person in the song is completely infatuated with the man, and portrays the intense feeling of an early romance, referring to a similar experience as described in the band the Cure’s song “Just Like Heaven.” In terms of our theme today, being infatuated with someone carries with it the desire to control the situation, and that is not good.
And we are up to our top 3 songs of our week. At number 3 inching a little closer to number 1 is a song that extols, according to the singer, her Swedish roots, and in particular a summer than never ends. “No nightmares when you can still see the light,” she sings, “can’t find me—I’m not in the city tonight. I like your playlist, boy, turn it up a little louder; road’s empty, so you drive a little faster. Ain’t taken nothing tonight, but I’m feeling so high. Show my tan lines, low-rise, rooftop down, it’s golden hour all the time. It’s that midnight sun-kissed skin under the red sky. Summer isn’t over yet, it’s my favorite part now. We ain’t gotta tell no one: a never-ending midnight sun.” Sweden is a land of literally a midnight sun at least during the summer, and the singer recalls that fact in her love of a friend. In terms of our theme, a personal pride in loving is fine, but too often we human beings try to control the love situation which eventually destroys the relationship. This is “Midnight Sun” from the album of the same name from Zara Larsson at number 3 on MATT.
(double) 3 MIDNIGHT SUN / Zara Larsson
2 DRACULA / Tame Impala
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Our current number 2 song this week from Tame Impala, the musical project of Australian instrumentalist Kevin Parker and he is accompanied by South Korean singer Jennie. It is from the album “Deadbeat” and the song “Dracula”. The song is about a person who is wanting a love connection while at the same time not wanting to come out of his chosen hidden life. Comparing the person in the song to a vampire, they sing: “The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre,” they begin their song. “The night is almost over, I still don’t know where you are. The shadows, they keep me like a movie star, daylight makes me feel like Dracula. In the end, I hope it’s you and me in the darkness, I would never leave. Run from the sunlight, Dracula.” The man in the relationship is growing up trying to understand love, and one of the problems with that understanding as we grow is that we will often try to control how we feel the situation should go, and it should be a matter for both to develop.
And the number 1 song is once again from British singer Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “So Easy”, making it altogether 11 weeks at number 1. It is a song of the desire for love of one particular person. “I could be the twist, the one to make you stop,” she begins the song, “The icing on the cake, the cherry on the top. It’s heaven in my heart, and we could find you some space. I could be the world to you, the missing piece, that extra kind of chemistry. Some people make it hard; with me, that isn’t the case ‘cause I make it so easy to fall in love. So, come give me a call, and we’ll fall into us. I’m the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life. Anyone with a heart would agree: it’s so easy to fall in love with me.” So, a rather straightforward statement to someone and it sounds as though she is trying to control the situation, our theme today, and that is okay for her, but both of them have to discover what’s best.
And so, we have the answer to the question of what the top songs of America this almost last day of summer say about the desire to control. My prayer for you and me is that we will always be people who will act well when it comes to controlling ourselves or others. Thank you for being with us today. My thanks to the production staff here at Mix 103, especially Jeff, 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. If you would like to request a song to be studied or want to comment on any of my comments, feel free to write me here at KJLS, Hays, KS 67601 or e-mail me at frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website for a transcript of the show, and meditations on some Gospels and songs and movies is www.frmikescully.com. We invite you to join us on the web if you happen to be away from your radio by choosing www.hayspost.com and clicking on Mix 103.3 at 10 am Central time every Sunday morning. One last thought comes from one of my favorite presidents, Mr. Abraham Lincoln who had some amazing quotes that can still help us, and a pretty amazing president: “And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” Amen, Abe. As you listen to the number 1 song in our land from Olivia Dean and her song “So Easy,” may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music, Mix 103.3 and as we get ready for the season of Fall on Tuesday, we urge you to hold a good thought. From beautiful downtown Lawrence, KS to the likewise beautiful city of Hays, KS and to the world, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good.
1 SO EASY / Olivia Dean
September 13, 2026
When One is Too Proud
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Hello, Central Kansas and around the world. Happy second Sunday of September, almost the season of Fall, and happy football to those who you who enjoy that sport. I hope all is well with you. Right now, welcome to Mix 103’s unique top 10 show, “Message at the Top”. I am Fr. Mike, your host. We play the top 10 of today and yesterday and give you their meanings at the same time. Today we continue that tradition, giving you the songs that have been most popular as of this week, ending today September 13, 2026. As promised, we will give you the meanings of the songs so that they can inspire and/or challenge each of our lives. During our show today, we not only will give you the top 10 as of today, but we will choose a song from 2010 as our lead song, and we will use the top 10 of that date as well as the songs popular today on our show.
The song from 2010 that is our lead song is on my website www.frmikescully.com today, and concerns “pride”. It was the number 3 song on September 13, 2010 and was from Mike Posner, a Detroit MI-born singer-songwriter who is still on the music scene, and his song is an interesting one to study from a spiritual point of view because it deals with the subject of pride. But it is also good to see what pride does to romantic relationships which the song is dedicated to, and that will be our quest this morning—to see what happens with the circumstances of the song that we play with regard to being proud, or as we will call it today, “When One is Too Proud.” Before we get to his song, let me say something that comes from my website.
The sin of pride is a preoccupation with self and the only way to determine it is by taking the time to study our motives, why we do certain things. It comes out in the way that we look at our own abilities, and especially in the way we look on others. Mike Posner in his song sings about a person who is taken up with herself, and therefore a victim of pride.
Is there a remedy to pride? I believe so. It begins with recognizing our own problem. In the romantic world, as Mike Posner sings, a relationship will go nowhere when there is too much pride involved. It is a fact of life as well. The first sin is pride: it destroys everything. Once we have fallen into it, it will destroy our lives. We must understand the noise that it makes by analyzing ourselves.
His song? Well, it is all about a relationship that is troubled. “If I could write you a song and make you fall in love,” he begins his song, “I would already have you up under my arm. I used up all of my tricks; I hope that you like this. But you probably won’t, you think you’re cooler than me. You got designer shades just to hide your face and you wear them around like you’re cooler than me. And you never say, ‘hey’, or remember my name. It’s probably ‘cause you think you’re cooler than me. You got your high brow, shoes on your feet, but you don't know the way that you look, when your steps make that much noise." Like I say, a troubled relationship with both thinking that each is better than the other because of too much pride.
He gives us a great theme this morning since it is very interesting to see how pride plays or could play a part in the different songs of our day. We’ll entitle our show this morning: “When One is Too Proud” and find out how each of the songs work with that question. This is Michael Robert Posner, giving us our theme this morning, from his album “31 Minutes to Takeoff,” the name of his song “Cooler Than Me” at number 3 in the top 10 of September 13, 2010 on MATT.
(double) 3* COOLER THAN ME / Mike Posner
COOL / Gwen Stefani
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The number 5 song of meaning from 2005, a 10+ category song of meaning, another song of “Cool”, and the name of the song is “Cool”, and in true teenage language, it indeed is “cool”—from Gwen Stefani and her album “Love, Angel, Music, Baby” on MATT. MATT placed the song high in meaning because I think that Gwen Stefani presents the perfect picture of what should happen in life as we work with past love relationships. It is generally known that we will not marry the first people that we fall in love with. Granted there are a few exceptions, but for the most part, the fact means that we will have a temporary falling out with people that we like a whole lot at some time in our lives—either they will leave us, or we will leave them. However we say it, it spells / breakup. Many times that breakup is hostile and angry, and leaves people out of sorts for a long time. Well, Gwen Stefani sings about a good life after the breakup. She begins by talking about the once-upon-a-time relationship and says that it is hard to remember what it was like now that she has found the true love of her life. She sings, “After all the obstacles, it’s good to see you now with someone else, and it’s such a miracle that you and me are still good friends. After all that we’ve been through,” she sings, “I know we’re cool.” It is a great attitude and the best way to handle any past love relationship so that we can remember it with a good feeling. What happens when a person is too proud in this situation? No doubt, they will follow the path of a lot of people, and hold a grudge against the person they once had the relationship with.
We will give you the songs of this date in 2010 and the songs at that number right now on September 13, 2026. That means we owe you number 3 right now that comes from Bruno Mars. It was our theme last week when we spoke about what a true permanent commitment means. “For just the chance to win your heart, you could set the bar beyond the stars” he sings, “I’ll do anything, anything you ask me to. Say you want the moon—watch me learn to fly, ain’t no mountain you could point to I wouldn’t climb. It’s crazy, but it’s true. There’s nothing I won’t do. I’d risk it all for you.” In just a couple of words, he describes a permanent commitment to another really well. In terms of our theme this week, it is okay to be proud of the fact that he keeps a permanent commitment; he has to watch though that he can become too proud of himself. This is from his album “The Romantic”, Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez, and his song of complete commitment to another, “Risk It All”, number 3 right now on MATT.
(triple) 3 RISK IT ALL / Bruno Mars
5 BACK TO FRIENDS / Sombr
5* SEPTEMBER / Daughtry
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Number 5 on September 13, 2010, Chris Daughtry and his band’s song from their album “Leave This Town”, and their song “September” on MATT. It is a song of reflecting on the past, a past that never did work out, but nonetheless was a good experience for the man in the relationship. “How the time passed away, all the trouble that we gave,” he begins his song, “Has it all gone to waste? All the promises we made one by one, they vanish just the same. Of all the things I still remember, summer’s never looked the same; the years go by and time just seems to fly, but the memories remain. In the middle of September we’d still play out in the rain—nothing to lose but everything to gain, reflecting now on how things could have been, it was worth it in the end. Now it all seems so clear, there’s nothing left to fear, so we made our way by finding what was real. We knew we had to leave this town, but we never knew when and we never knew how.” The man in the song had memories and applying our theme to the song—if he has too much pride in those memories, the chances are that he will be self-centered in his approach, which is not a good thing at all.
Before them, fulfilling our promise to give us the songs of September 13 of both 2010 and 2026, we heard from number 5 right now. It is a song about the scenario in which a couple have given themselves completely to each other physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends, and that, the artist concludes, is a contradiction. It comes from 21 year old Shane Michael Boose, that is Sombr from his album “I Barely Know Her” and his song “Back to Friends”. He sings, “How can we go back to being friends when we just shared a bed? How can you look at me and pretend I’m someone you’ve never met?” It seems as though the lady in the relationship wants to have a breakup or at least a temporary time apart, but the two have already made it clear that they are committed to each other. As I have mentioned, it is unfortunately a common enough experience. As I have said with the song, I believe that one of the evils of society is giving in to too much physical involvement because the physical involvement tends to dominate rather than thinking about—say--what love truly is, and in terms of the song, what a permanent commitment consists of. In terms of our theme today, too much pride may bring about the desire to temporarily put the commitment on hold.
Our theme this Sunday morning is the thought of looking how too much pride affects a person. We will continue to pursue that thought in a couple of minutes with music from in order of appearance Bruno Mars again, John Mayer, Ariana Grande, Rob Thomas and Taylor Swift. First, here is a quote to lead you into break from Anne Frank: “Think of all the beauty around you and be happy.” She could say that after all she had been through and what she knew would probably happen to her at the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in 1945. Super lady, super thought. I’m Fr. Mike, this show is “Message at the Top” and your dial is set at Mix 103.3.
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We are back for “Message at the Top” and we welcome you back to the top 10 songs of today and yesterday as determined by our research and your requests. We call our show MATT and analyze their messages in the light of how we can live better in this complicated world of ours. I am Fr. Mike, your host for the top 10 show of the best mix of music, Mix 103.3, and we are pursuing the thought of discovering what too much pride does to a person, that thought having come from Mike Posner’s 2010 song “Cooler Than Me.” And we are playing the songs of September 13, both of 2010 and 16 years later, today.
At number 7 today is another song from Bruno Mars. The song was a former number 1, 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, and in general in terms of our theme, he just may be too proud of his own dancing ability. This is the second song in the top 10 for him, Bruno Mars, also from his album “The Romantic” and his number 6 song right now, “I Just Might” on MATT.
(double) 7 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
7* HALF OF MY HEART / John Mayer
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That was John Mayer with the help of Taylor Swift at number 7 on September 13, 2010, and his song “Half of My Heart” from his album “Battle Studies” on MATT. He began his song: “I was born in the arms of imaginary friends, free to roam, then you come crashing in, like the realest thing, trying my best to understand all that your love can bring. Half of my heart’s got a grip on the situation, half of my heart’s got a right mind to tell you that I can’t keep loving you with half of my heart.” The person in the song is not loving his current fiancée because of something that has happened in his past and he sings correctly that he can’t love with only half of his heart. Later on, he correctly sings: “You will hate that I never gave more to you than half of my heart.” He is correct with those words—she will hate that she was never given more than half of his heart because such a love is doomed to failure—very simply, one cannot love with only half of one’s heart. In terms of our theme today, he may be too proud to admit that he must take the time to love the person completely. That is what happens when you only love with half of your heart.
Let’s go to number 9 right now in our top 10. According to the music critics, it addresses regret over a relationship while also reflecting her conflicted feelings about fame and public scrutiny. “Just know that I will find my way from you,” she sings, “Like flowers from a tomb while you decide who you are. And I can see right through like shadows on the moon and it’s all bad news. I hate that I made you love me, sorry if I made me your type. Yeah, I hate that I made you love me ‘cause I barely tried. What’s happening now? You studied my crown and borrowed my body, warm, kissed by the sun, then cold like the wind, a bee stuck in honey. Know that I will find my way from you. I hate that I made you love me.” So, a relatively negative song, and in terms of our theme, beginning romantic relationships may not always be smooth and one of the reasons just may be the pride of one of them. This is a song of a breakup with some personal overtones about her career, from her new album “Petal,” “Hate That I Made You Love Me” from Ariana Grande, number 9 on MATT.
(triple ) 9 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME / Ariana Grande
9* MOCKINGBIRD / Rob Thomas
10 I KNEW IT, I KNEW YOU / Taylor Swift
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That was number 10 right now, a former number 1, in the top 10. It came from Taylor Swift “I Knew It, I Knew You” speaking the mind of the character known as Jessie in the movie “Toy Story 5”. It talks of the concepts of reunion and memory, and the emotions that go with it. “I knew you through the daze of the blades of the grass in summer,” she begins her song, “parachutes for the free fall of being younger. I memorized the sound of your bare footsteps running wild. It’s been a long time; life has ways of leaving those days behind. But seeing you tonight, I remembered I loved you, came back when it mattered. I saw you, standing there in the light of the window, wearing that same smile. Man, it’s been a while, but I knew it, I knew you.” Remembering a past love is its theme, and in terms of our theme this week, if our minds are clouded by our own pride of what we do, chances are that we will not remember that past love as we should.
Before her, we heard from Mr. Rob Thomas from his album “Cradlesong” at number 9 on September 13, 2010, his song “Mockingbird”. He begins with this thought: “Here we stand somewhere in between this moment and the end. Will we bend or will we open up and take this whole thing in?” One is led to believe that the relationship really could work out, but you’re not sure that it will. “Maybe you and me got lost somewhere,” he sings, “we can’t move on; we can’t stay here. Maybe we’ve just had enough, well, maybe we ain’t meant for this love. You and me tried everything, but still that mockingbird won’t sing. I don’t wanna love you now if you’ll just leave some day. I don’t wanna turn around if you’ll just walk away.” Up to that point in time, the love had not worked out, and the man in the relationship is ready to move on in life because his fiancée has not been true to him in the past. In terms of our theme, if he were too proud, he would have blamed everything on that situation in his past—and blamed the other person, and would probably look at the future with a chip on his shoulder.
We are exploring that theme of “when one is too proud” today. During this next segment, we will hear from people like Tame Impala and Katy Perry. First, a thought from an anonymous author: “We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.” Yes, indeed, and learning to live together is a way to overcome pride. I hope our music and message will help you live a little better. I’m Fr. Mike, your dial is set at Mix 103.3, and I hope you keep it right where it is.
We are back for “Message at the Top” on Mix 103 and I am Fr. Mike. We call our show MATT because we take the top 10 songs and analyze their messages in the light of how we can live better in the complicated world we live in. Welcome back to the top 10 show of Mix 103.3 where our plea is for you to enjoy the music and listen to the message, allowing that message to make you and me better than we are. Today we are enjoying the music of September 13, both of 2010 and 2026. We begin hour number 2 together on this almost Fall Sunday morning, and we are pursuing some thoughts about what happens when a person is too proud, a thought which we took from Mike Posner’s 2010 song “Cooler Than Me.”
We played our current number 10 just before break, so in keeping with our format this morning, let’s give us number 10 of the year 2010. It is a love song with an excellent message not only for the discovery of love, but also for life. The thought is that there are reasons why love will not be present, but eventually we will find love. They tell the story: “When I was younger,” they sing, “I saw my daddy cry and curse at the wind. He broke his own heart and I watched as he tried to reassemble it. And my momma swore that she would never let herself forget. And that was the day that I promised I’d never sing of love if it does not exist. Well, you are the only exception.” And the girl in the relationship closes the song with hope: “I’m on my way to believing,” she sings. As we consider the song with our theme, a person will have a problem with pride if they think that they are hurt so much that they will never be able to love—and the person in the song finally realizes that. This is the band Paramore formed in Franklin, Tennessee in 2004 and are on a brief hiatus right now from their album “Brand New Eyes,” and the name of their song “The Only Exception” at number 10 on September 13, 2010 on MATT.
(triple) 10* THE ONLY EXCEPTION / Paramore
2 DRACULA / Tame Impala
2* MISERY / Maroon 5
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Number 2 on September 13 2010, the band Maroon 5, and their song “Misery” from their album “Hands All Over” on MATT. It is a song of begging the girlfriend in a relationship to respond to the man’s desires. "So scared of breaking it," they sing, "but you won’t let it bend. And I wrote two hundred letters I won’t ever send. Somehow it cut so much deeper than they seem. You’d rather cover up, I’d rather let them be, so let me be, and I’ll set you free. I am in misery. There ain’t no other who can comfort me. Why won’t you answer me? Your silence is slowly killing me. Girl, you really got me bad; I’m gonna get you back. I’m desperate and confused, so far away from you. Why do you do what you do to me?" The man in the relationship is in very bad straits, and his girlfriend is not responding. Consequently, he is about to make matters worse--he is threatening revenge. That is not the way to work with misery. In fact, a person who works with misery by showing revenge is a person who is probably too proud to try to do anything about his problem.
Before them, we heard our current number 2 song this week, from Tame Impala, the musical project of Australian instrumentalist Kevin Parker and he is accompanied by South Korean singer Jennie. It is from the album “Deadbeat” and the song “Dracula”. The song is about a person who is wanting a love connection while at the same time not wanting to come out of his chosen hidden life. Comparing the person in the song to a vampire, they sing: “The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre,” they begin their song. “The night is almost over, I still don’t know where you are. The shadows, they keep me like a movie star, daylight makes me feel like Dracula. In the end, I hope it’s you and me in the darkness, I would never leave. Run from the sunlight, Dracula.” The man in the relationship is growing up trying to understand love, and one of the problems with that understanding as we grow is that we become too proud to force ourselves to make any changes that must be made, being “too proud”, our theme today.
Now, let’s go to number 4 on our current chart. It comes from Olivia Rodrigo. It is a song about being totally infatuated with someone as a beginning love experience. She begins her song: “I know that the bar closes at 11, but I hope you never finish that beer. You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven,’ and I know why he wrote them now that you’re standin’ right here. One night I was bored in bed and stalked you on the internet. It’s feminine intuition ‘cause I always had a vision of us standing like this. You’re lookin’ like an angel on the walls of Versailles, the most alive I’ve ever been, but kiss me and I might drop dead.” The person in the song is completely infatuated with the man, and portrays the intense feeling of an early romance, referring to a similar experience as described in the band the Cure’s song “Just Like Heaven.” In terms of our theme today, being infatuated with someone can be studied as a form of pride because often we might feel that no one can love that person the way he/she can, and that is not true. This is from Olivia Rodrigo’s album “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,”, and her song “Drop Dead”, number 4 this week on MATT.
(triple) 4 DROP DEAD / Olivia Rodrigo
4* CALIFORNIA GURLS / Katy Perry
6 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
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Our current number 6 song on MATT, three Korean young ladies named Huntr/X, and their former number 1 song “Golden” on MATT. It is from the soundtrack of the animated movie, “K Pop Demon Hunters” and the theme of the Netflix film that follows Huntr/X—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “We’re going up, it’s our moment. You know together we’re glowin, gonna be golden. I’m done hidin’ now, I’m shinin’ like I’m born to be, oh, our time, no fears, no lies, that’s who we’re born to be.” I interpret it as a song urging people to do what is right, and in terms of our theme today, we can be proud of what we try to do when it’s the right thing, but when we become too proud, we can easily lose sight of the good that we can do.
Before them, we heard the number 4 song on this date in 2010, a former number 1 from Katy Perry from her album “Teenage Dream”, “California Gurls”. She talks about physical beauty. Now, I think that we are all called to enjoy the beauty of God’s creation, respecting at all times what God has done. That is my premise as I listen to Katy Perry’s song. She sings about a journey in her song: “I know a place where the grass is really greener, warm, wet and wild—there must be something in the water, laying underneath the palm trees. You could travel the world, but nothing comes close to the golden coast. Once you party with us, you’ll be falling in love. California girls, we’re unforgettable, sun-kissed skin so hot.” It is a journey to a California beach, and as you listen to it, it is a pleasant journey indeed. It is a song dedicated to the beauty of the female body. My fear is that too many people use the beauty of the female body for their own enjoyment, and that is a misuse of something created by God. Tying that thought into our theme today, it is easy to feel too proud about our looks, and we have to make sure that we are realistic in our thinking about ourselves.
Which brings us to our final segment that will begin in just a few moments with a birthday wish and the remaining top 10 songs of September 13, 2010 and today. To break, let me give you this thought from my anonymous collection: “A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.” You bet, and being truly happy is something that will make us proud of the proper things in life. Yes, indeed. Don’t go way, we’ll be right back on the MATT music network.
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We are back for the final portion of the show MATT, a show that takes the top 10 songs from the past 46 years including today and studies their messages in the hope that those messages can truly help our lives. Our motto therefore is to enjoy the music and listen to the message. The theme of our show today deals with the thought that we can be too proud in the way we go about life.
Let’s begin this final portion of our show with the song at number 6 on our chart 16 years ago today in 2010. It is a song in my opinion that sounds happy, but the message is a direct statement of things not going right. The lady in the relationship is telling her boyfriend exactly what she thinks of his behavior, and she doesn’t think very highly of it, to say the least. “So many things I’d say if only I were able,” she sings, “but I just keep quiet. You got opinions, man, we’re all entitled to them, but I never asked. So let me thank you for your time, and try to not waste any more of mine; get out of here fast. I hate to break it to you, but I’m not drowning: there’s no one here to save. Who cares if you disagree. You are not me. Who made you king of anything? So, you dare tell me who to be? Who died, and made you king of anything?” And she goes on to make it perfectly clear that he hasn’t done real well in the relationship, and he has to get out of her life. As we think of the theme of using the question of what happens when a person is too proud in this situation, it sounds as though the man in that relationship is too proud to admit that he is making some mistakes. From her album “Kaleidoscope Heart,” Sara Bareilles, and “King of Anything” on MATT.
(triple) 6* KING OF ANYTHING / Sara Bareilles
8 MIDNIGHT SUN / Zara Lasrson
8* HOME / Goo Goo Dolls
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The song at number 8 on September 13, 16 years ago in 2010, the Goo Goo Dolls, from their album “Something For the Rest of Us”, and their song “Home” on MATT. Their song is a song of missing someone and the desire to be with that someone, in a place the man in the relationship calls “home,” the name of the song. “Crowded rooms full of empty faces,” they begin their song, “our deepest conversation full of lies, another night with all my friends, the kind you’ll never see again. I wonder if they’ll see through my disguise. And I want to say that I can’t hold back, and it might be wrong, but it’s all I have. Come take me home tonight. Oh, I need you now. I’m lost without you. A million miles but I will find you, so take me home.” The person in the song is remembering a past experience, and because it was a pleasant one, they want it back. As we ask our question of what would happen in the situation if the person were too proud, well, most probably, the person would blame the other for ruining the relationship, refusing to look at his part in the problem.
Before them, we heard the number 8 song on our playlist right now. It is new to our top 10 and extols, according to the singer, her Swedish roots, and in particular a summer than never ends. The name of the song “Midnight Sun” from the album of the same name from Zara Larsson. “No nightmares when you can still see the light, can’t find me—I’m not in the city tonight. I like your playlist, boy, turn it up a little louder; road’s empty, so you drive a little faster. Ain’t taken nothing tonight, but I’m feeling so high. Show my tan lines, low-rise, rooftop down, it’s golden hour all the time. It’s that midnight sun-kissed skin under the red sky. Summer isn’t over yet, it’s my favorite part now. We ain’t gotta tell no one: a never-ending midnight sun.” Sweden is a land of literally a midnight sun at least during the summer, and the singer recalls that fact in her love of a friend. In terms of our theme, a personal pride in loving is fine, but too often we human beings lose sight of the importance of others as we congratulate ourselves.
Now, let’s wish a happy birthday right now. Alexander Warren Hughes better known simply as Alex Warren will be 26 years old this Friday. This song has the honor of spending most weeks at number 1 in our top 10–19 weeks—since 1980. It is another song of sincere commitment, at least from the man’s point of view. He sings, “They say, ‘The holy water’s watered down and this town’s lost its faith. Our colors will fade eventually’. So, if our time is runnin’ out day after day, we’ll make the mundane our masterpiece. I take one look at you. You’re takin’ me out of the ordinary. I want you layin’ me down ‘til we’re dead and buried. You got me kissin’ the ground of your sanctuary. At your altar, I will pray. You’re the sculptor, I’m the clay. You take me out of the ordinary.” As I say, he is pretty taken with his friend, and it could very well be real love, but one would have to know how she feels. In terms of our theme, one has to control his/her pride if he really wants to make the mundane a masterpiece. That is probably the best line of a song that I have studied during this past year—our call is to make the mundane which we live every day a true masterpiece. This is Alex Warren—happy birthday to him, his song from his album “You’ll Be Alright, Kid,” and his song from last year “Ordinary” on MATT.
(double) ORDINARY / Alex Warren
1* IF IT’S LOVE / Train
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The number 1 song on September 13, 2010 from the group Train from their album “Save Me, San Francisco” and their song “If It’s Love” on MATT. They sing: “While everybody else is getting out of bed, I’m usually getting in it. I’m not in it to win it. But I’m afraid when I hear stories about a husband and wife, there’s no happy endings, but you are the greatest thing about me. If it’s love, and we decide that it’s forever, no one else could do it better. If it’s love, and we’re two birds of a feather, then the rest is just ‘whenever’. We can be two birds of a feather that flock together. Got to have something to keep us together. Love, that’s enough for me.” And obviously, the two seem to love each other, and will do things for each other—at least, he will do things for her. Tying it into our theme today, if either of them are too proud, the chances are very strong that the relationship will not be one of love for very long.
And the number 1 song this date of September 13, 2026 is once again from London born Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “So Easy”, making it altogether 10 weeks at number 1. It is a song of the desire for love of one particular person. “I could be the twist, the one to make you stop,” she begins the song, “The icing on the cake, the cherry on the top. It’s heaven in my heart, and we could find you some space. I could be the world to you, the missing piece, that extra kind of chemistry. Some people make it hard; with me, that isn’t the case ‘cause I make it so easy to fall in love. So, come give me a call, and we’ll fall into us. I’m the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life. Anyone with a heart would agree: it’s so easy to fall in love with me.” So, a rather straightforward statement to someone and it’s pretty easy to see what could happen if one is too proud in this situation, our theme today—he/she just may think too much of their ability to love so well.
We have worked with that thought throughout our show today—what does pride do to a person in our world, a thought that Mike Posner gave us two hours ago. My prayer for you and me is that we will be people who control our pride and recognize the imortance of everyone. My thanks to our producers and our sponsors, especially our sponsors at Hays Car and Truck Alignment, Auto World in Hays, Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, and Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays. If you want to contact me by mail, I hope you do so at KJLS radio, Hays, KS, 67601 or my e-mail address is frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website is www.frmikescully.com where you can find some meditations on some Gospels, our music and some movies along with a transcript of the show. You can join us on the web every Sunday morning by clicking on www.hayspost.com and then choosing Mix 103.3 at 10 am. A final thought as we lead into the number 1 song, this thought from Mae West who died in 1980: “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” You bet. The most important word in that quote is “if”. As we close with the number 1 song once again from Olivia Dean and “So Easy,” may I remind you that right now you are listening to today’s best music, Mix 103.3, and part of our advice to you is to hold a good thought. From beautiful downtown Lawrence through the likewise beautiful city of Hays, and to the world as we prepare for Fall next week, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good.
1 SO EASY / Olivia Dean