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November 1, 2026

Commitments

Part 1

Good morning, Central Kansas and around the world! Thank you for joining us this first day and first Sunday of the beautiful Fall month of November 2026. I hope you had the time right this morning. Happy normal time, everyone. Welcome to MATT. Get set for the top 10 songs of our area as determined by the research from your requests, as well as the research of Mediabase 24-7 for the reporting date of today and get ready for some top 10 songs of the past as well. I am Fr. Mike, and you have your dial set to Mix 103.3, the number one popular music station in Central Kansas. Get ready now for a show dedicated to the thought of understanding the popular music of our day and helping our lives by means of it. Today we will talk a little about understanding the meaning of a permanent commitment.

The songs of our day speak about love an awful lot, of course, and almost always there is an idea of commitment that runs through them, and therefore we talk of that a lot. Our world doesn’t do well with commitments. I’ve mentioned before that we are often ruled by selfish human natures, and people of our world too often make what might be called “temporary permanent commitments.” Of course, such commitments are a contradiction, but they are so much easier than “permanent permanent commitments.” Granted that there are legitimate exceptions in which permanent commitments should be abandoned, but one wonders whether there should be as many exceptions as there are.

Of course, the answer to the problem of a permanent commitment comes before the commitment is made. People must spend time and study on questions like “Are you willing to say and mean ‘forever’?”; “Do you know what you are getting into?”; Are you aware of the scope of ‘for better and for worse’?”

The song on my website this Saturday speaks of a scenario in which that did not happen, and consequently they will have a failure in the relationship. The song is named “Unholy” which implies that making a firm commitment to love each other in marriage is a holy thing to do, and I think it is. So, it is a song about cheating on a commitment. “Mummy 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.” 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.

That, of course, is the major problem with lack of commitment in my opinion—what it does to every member of the family, and how it will affect especially the children as they grow up in that environment. So let’s talk about commitment today, with what makes a good permanent commitment in general. MATT presenting a song about lack of commitment and our theme setter today, English singer/songwriter Samuel Frederick Smith better known simply as Sam Smith and German singer/songwriter Kim Petras based now in Los Angeles, and their song from 2022 from Sam Smith’s album “Gloria” “Unholy” on MATT.

(double) UNHOLY / Sam Smith & Kim Petras

HOLY / Justin Bieber f/ Chance the Rapper

Part 2

If we play a song called “Unholy” as we did to begin our show today, in my mind we should play one called “Holy”, and we did right there. It came from Canadian singer Justin Bieber along with Chancelor Jonathan Bennett better known as Chance the Rapper. The song came from 2020 from Justin Bieber’s album “Justice”, the name of the song “Holy” on MATT. As he said in Vogue magazine, “I wanted to rededicate myself to God ... because I really felt it was better for the condition of my soul. And I believe that God blessed me with Hailey (that is Hailey Baldwin his wife) as a result." “I hear a lot about sinners;” Justin Bieber begins his song, “Don’t think that I’ll be a saint, but I might go down to the river ‘cause the way that the sky opens up when we touch. It’s making me say that the way you hold me, feels so holy. On God runnin to the altar like a track star, can’t wait another second ‘cause the way you hold me feels so holy.” The man in the relationship feels holy because he was blessed by God to have met his wife, and apparently have made the opposite of the song “Unholy”, namely a real permanent commitment. Good song.

Let’s begin our countdown this morning. And as I said before, there are a number of our top 10 songs since 1980 that can be called “commitment songs.” This is one of them at number 10 and comes from the fact that the couple have given themselves completely to each other, namely physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends. It 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, we have to understand that the physical part of marriage is really part of a permanent commitment, and I don’t think we understand that as much as we should. My opinion, of course. This is from Shane Michael Boose, better known as sombr from his album “I Barely Know Her,”and his song at number 10 this morning, “Back to Friends” on MATT.

(triple) 10 BACK TO FRIENDS / sombr

9 MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean

8 PATIENT ZERO / Taylor Swift

Part 3

At number 8 in our countdown, a song of revenge as the lady in a once upon a time relationship talks directly to the new girlfriend of that lover. It is from her album “The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore,” Taylor Swift and her song “Patient Zero” on MATT. She sings: “I’ve gotta be honest, I’ve been expecting your call.” She had heard that they were having difficulties in dating, and she tells her that she knows something about that: “If you wanna party with somebody who might know about the devil on his shoulder under his halo, when the toxins take their hold, you’d rather die than let it go. But if you’re sick of him, I got you, I was patient zero.” Patient zero is a person identified as the first to become infected with an illness or disease in an outbreak. Therefore in the song, the person who is singing was his first victim. In terms of our theme this week, she has gone through the breakup, and is advising his new girlfriend to have another one before any permanent commitment, our theme today, is made.

Before her, one of the songs of the Video Music Awards ceremonies this year that was nominated for song of the year from British singer/songwriter Olivia Lauryn Dean or simply Olivia Dean for the first time today on our show. It is from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her excellent song “Man I Need”. The song is the statement of what I call the virtue which is most needed in any love relationship or any relationship really, namely, communication. “Talk to me,” she begins her song, “looks like we’re making up for lost time; need you to spell it out for me. Don’t be shy, just come be the man I need. Tell me you got something to give. I want it. I kinda like when you call me wonderful, whatever the type of talk it is. Come on then, I gotta know you’re meant to be the man I need. Talk to me. I’d like to think you feel the same way, but I can’t tell with you sometimes. So, baby, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication and she gives the reason why. In terms of our theme today, namely commitments, that which can cement a relationship into a permanent commitment is real communication.

We are asking the songs of our show about that thought of the makeup of a permanent commitment. Let me take you to break with a thought from George Carlin: “No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you’re screwed because it’s all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain’t in it.” Now, that describes how we feel sometimes to say the least. But, working with our human nature, we will withstand that feeling and say that I WILL join the club, and we will be stronger. Coming up for us in order of appearance are commitment songs from Katy Perry, David Cook, Jason Mraz, Ed Sheeran and Rob Thomas. 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”.

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Part 4

You are in tune, my friends, with MATT, your top 10 show on 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 that ends today. We take the top 10 of the present and past 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 the song “Unholy” from Sam Smith and Kim Petras, and we are reflecting on permanent commitments.

Let’s begin a 5-pack of commitment songs and begin it by going to a statement by the girl in the relationship that if the man wants a commitment from her, she will give it, but he’d better be sure of what he’s doing. “I knew you were gonna come to me,” the lady in the relationship sings, “and here you are, but you better choose carefully ‘cause I’m capable of anything and everything. So you wanna play with magic, boy, you should know what you’re falling for. I’m coming at you like a dark horse. Are you ready for a perfect storm ‘cause once you’re mine, there’s no going back.” In terms of our theme today, if we are inclined to make a permanent commitment, we have to honestly mean it. This is a former number 1, a great song to talk about—another 10+ category of meaning for me—from Ms. Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson better known as Katy Perry singing along with Jordan Michael Houston better known as Juicy J and their song “Dark Horse” from Katy Perry’s album “Prism” on MATT.

(double) DARK HORSE / Katy Perry

COME BACK TO ME / David Cook

Part 5

From the album named after him, him being American Idol number 7 David Cook, and “Come Back To Me” from 2009 on MATT. It is another song of strong commitment. “You say you gotta go and find yourself,” he sings, “you say that you’re becoming someone else. I know there’s really nothing left to say. Just know I’m here whenever you need me. I’ll wait for you. So I’ll let you go, I’ll set you free, and when you’ve seen what you need to see. / When you find you, come back to me.” It is a great statement of how people should handle breakups when one says to another that he/she needs a temporary time away. Real commitment, our theme today, is shown in the fact that he will wait. But there is another side to this, of course, and that is the situation in which the man has made the commitment—as he has in the song, and then the woman finds someone else. It is the situation in which he has sung—“when you’ve seen what you need to see,” and what she has seen is that their relationship is over. Then it becomes a problem because it moves from a commitment situation, our theme today, to a breakup situation. And that is tough to work with.

Let’s continue with three more commitment songs in this triple play beginning with a great song to study for all of us, I believe. “I won’t give up on us,” the person sings of their commitment to each other, “even if the skies get rough. I’m giving you all my love; I’m still looking up. And when you’re needing your space to do some navigating, I’ll be there patiently waiting to see what you find. I don't wanna be someone who walks away so easily. I'm here to stay and make the difference that I can make. Our differences, they do a lot to teach us how to use the tools and gifts we got. And in the end, you’re still my friend; at least we did intend for us to work. We didn’t break, we didn’t burn. We had to learn how to bend without the world caving in. I had to learn what I’ve got, and what I’m not, and who I am.” To me, the song is a perfect teaching tool to the people who choose marriage as a way of life. One of the ways to help make a commitment real, our theme today, is that the couple will know what a permanent commitment is. This is 49 year old Jason Mraz from his album “Love is Four Letter Word,” and his song “I Won’t Give Up” from 2012 on MATT.

(triple ) I WON’T GIVE UP / Jason Mraz

THINKING OUT LOUD / Ed Sheeran

EVER THE SAME / Rob Thomas

Part 6

From his album “Something To Be”, Rob Thomas, number 3 of all the songs of meaning of 2006, “Ever The Same” on MATT. It is another 10+ category of meaning song for me. “We were drawn from the weeds,” Rob Thomas begins the song, “we were brave like soldiers, falling down under the pale moonlight. You were holding on to me like someone broken, and I couldn’t tell you but I’m telling you now—just let me hold you while you’re falling apart, just let me hold you and we’ll both fall down. Fall on me, tell me everything you want me to be, forever with you, forever in me, ever the same.” The idea of commitment that is sung about all the time is so important for our world, and I’m convinced that if we would all understand the idea of a permanent commitment better, we would have a much better world.

Before him, we closed off our special songs of commitment with Ed Sheeran and his song “Thinking Out Loud.” It was the Song of the Year from 2015 according to the Grammys from his album “X” or a multiplication sign. It is a song that speaks of a solid commitment between lovers, and he adds a characteristic that is extremely important for any romantic commitment, and also for any other commitment. The nuance that he adds is that not only has the commitment occurred at one particular time, but he says that he will "fall in love every single day." There is no time limit when it comes to love. If we love someone, we will love them "right where they are," that is, every moment, every day. "When your legs don’t work like they used to before,” he sings, “and I can’t sweep you off of your feet, I fall in love with you every single day, and I just wanna tell you I am.  I’m thinking out loud that we found love right where we are.” As I say, a great love commitment song, our theme today.

Good stuff being talked about here this morning, even as we offer some rather strong opinions. These songs make us really think about life and love. Our topic this morning is the thought of what a permanent commitment consists of. We will continue to search with that thought in mind on MATT in just a few moments with artists like Ariana Grande and The Kid Laroi. Let me take you to break with this thought. It is a challenge from author Charles Allen: “Remember that you are truly needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless YOU do it.” And my comment: take the time to figure out what we can do today that only we can do. Stay with us; we’ll be right back. You’ve got MATT on Mix 103.3.

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Part 7

This is MATT on Mix 103, and we welcome you back to the top 10 songs of our area as determined by our research and your requests. We call our show MATT because we take those top 10 songs and analyze their meanings and messages in the light of how we can live better in this complicated and complex world. I am Fr. Mike, your host for the top 10 show of today’s best music, and we are pursuing a theme from Sam Smith and Kim Petras and their song “Unholy.”

Let’s go back to our countdown as we begin our second hour together, and we are up to number 7. It is from Teddy Swims and he describes it this way: the song explores the idea of a love that fails. “When you believe you already know how it ends, you protect yourself by holding back and that distance becomes the reason it fails. But when you try to fight that fate and control every outcome, you can end up suffocating the connection.” And so, some of his words: “Should’ve told you I could see this coming like I’m lookin’ right into a crystal ball. When I fall in love, it’s with misfortune. Give you everything you say you wanted, see the future like it’s written on the wall. You’re the only thing that’s missing from it. Oh, I wish I wasn’t Mr. Know It All.” The love situation is failing mainly because he is not working with the situation the way he should. In terms of our theme, he is describing a breakup about to happen, and therefore a permanent commitment should never have been made. This is Teddy Swims from his album “Ugly,” and his song “Mr. Know It All”, number 7 this week on MATT.

(triple) 7 MR KNOW IT ALL / Teddy Swims

6 BABYDOLL / Dominic Fike

5 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME / Ariana Grande

Part 8

Our theme last week when we talked about breakups, Ms. Ariana Grande and her song at number 5 in our countdown from her album “Petal,” “Hate That I Made You Love Me” on MATT. She sings: “Just know that I will find my way from you, 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.” And she breaks up with him, and as one would guess, it was bitter—and the video shows it very well. It was a video that was nominated for best video of the year at this year’s VMA ceremonies. In terms of our theme this week, there’s no way the relationship could become a permanent commitment.

Before her, we heard number 6 in our countdown and a song of a person who cannot let go of a previous love relationship / perhaps because of a very difficult childhood. It comes from 30 year old Dominic Fike born in Naples, Florida, and his song “Babydoll”, on MATT. “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. In terms of our theme, he will never be able to make a permanent commitment until he straightens out the problems of his childhood. And that may be one of the major causes of messed up marriages in our world.

There are four songs on my website frmikescully.com this week. Besides our lead song from Sam Smith and Kim Petras and their song “Unholy” on Saturday, let’s play the other three in triple play right now. On Monday, the song is about the man in a relationship who no longer has the lady in the relationship around, it seems, and it is probably his fault, and therefore he will have to face the truth sometime. “I do the same thing that I told you that I never would,” they sing, “I told you I’d change, even when I knew I never could. I know that I can’t find nobody else as good as you; I need you to stay. I get drunk, wake up, I’m wasted still. I realize the time that I wasted here. I feel like you can’t feel the way I feel. I’ll be messed up if you can’t be right here.” I cleaned up the language a bit. In terms of our theme, before any permanent commitment can be made, the person in the song has some straightening out to do in his own life. The song we ranked at number 1 in 2022, this is The Kid Laroi or Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard, and singing with him is Justin Bieber, and their song ”Stay” on MATT.

(triple) STAY / The Kid Laroi f/ Justin Bieber

BREAK FREE / Ariana Grande

WHAT LOVERS DO / Maroon 5 f/ SZA

Part 9

The song on my website frmikescully.com on Friday, Rap singer Solana Imani Rowe, better known as SZA along with Maroon 5 and their song from Maroon 5’s album, “Red Pill Blues”, the song “What Lovers Do” from 2017. The song says what lovers have to do is to make up their minds about each other. “Tell me if you love me or not. I bet the house on you. Am I lucky or not? Been wishin’ for you. Are we too grown for games? Are we too grown to play around, young enough to chase, but old enough to know better? I can’t wait forever. Both of us should know better.” What lovers must do is study their relationship and determine whether it will last or not, and if they think it will, then the thought of a permanent commitment, our theme today, is in order.

Before them, we heard the song on my website this Tuesday, Ariana Grande-Butera better known as Ariana Grande and producer Zedd from Ariana Grande’s album “My Everything” and their song “Break Free” from the year 2014. It is a song that is initiating a break-up and the lady in the song feels good about it. “I should’ve said it before,” she sings, “I can’t pretend anymore. I only wanna die alive, never by the hands of a broken heart. Don’t wanna hear you lie tonight, now that I’ve become who I really am. This is the part when I say I don’t want ya. I’m stronger than I’ve been before. This is the part when I break free ‘cause I can’t resist it no more.” The video is very interesting, but goes another direction. In the song, she is determining the way to go after a bad relationship, and doing that well will actually make the breakup something good. Then she will be ready to make a permanent commitment, our theme today, in the future.

Ah, isn’t it interesting what these songs of popular music bring into our thought. “Commitments” is our thought this morning. We are asking our music to explore that idea which we will continue to do with our final segment in just one minute. Before that happens, we will have a break, and before that break, let me say this along with St. Sir Thomas More, the patron saint of one of our sponsors: “What you cannot turn to good, you must at least / make as little bad as you can.” What a great statement. I’m Fr. Mike, this radio station is Mix 103.3, this show is MATT, and we’ll be right back.

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Part 10

Hi again, everyone! This is “Message at the Top” on Mix 103.3. Thank you for joining us this morning. I am Fr. Mike, and our show gives you the top 10 songs of our area, as well as some top 10’s 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 permanent commitments, something that our world should do a little better in my humble opinion.

Let’s begin our final portion of our show with a song that is basically a love song hoping for the love of someone who apparently is with someone else. “He tried to domesticate you,” he sings, “just let me liberate you, you don’t need no papers, that man is not your maker. And that’s why I’m gonna take a good girl. I know you want it. Can’t let it get past me, you’re far from plastic. I hate these blurred lines, but you’re a good girl, the way you grab me.” Human feelings are complicated. The song calls them "blurred." He is speaking of a love relationship, of course, and the situation of the song is a difficult one. The lady seems to be in a relationship with another, and the man is singing that he would like her to come to him. Consequently, the situation is "blurred" in his mind because he does not know whether she is or will be with him or not. As we consider our theme today of commitment, a commitment should only be made once we truly know our partner. MATT presenting here Mr. Robin Thicke singing with Clifford Joseph Harris Jr, better known as rapper T. I. and singer Pharrell Williams, from Robin Thicke’s album “Blurred Lines” and the title song from it from the year 2013 on MATT.

(triple) BLURRED LINES / Robin Thicke f/ T.I. & Pharrell

AIN’T NO OTHER MAN / Christina Aguilera

4 DRACULA / Tame Impala

Part 11

Our number 4 song this week from Tame Impala, the musical project of Australian instrumentalist Kevin Parker and he is accompanied by South Korean singer Jennie. It is from the album “Deadbeat” and the song “Dracula” on MATT. The song is about a person who is wanting a love connection while at the same time not wanting to come out of his chosen hidden life. Comparing the person in the song to a vampire, they sing: “The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre. The night is almost over, I still don’t know where you are. The shadows, they keep me like a movie star, daylight makes me feel like Dracula. In the end, I hope it’s you and me in the darkness, I would never leave. Run from the sunlight, Dracula.” The man in the relationship is growing up trying to understand love, and part of that understanding means that he has to move out of his desire to be alone and will involve knowing that if he doesn’t do that, he will never be able to make a permanent commitment, our theme today.

Before them, we heard a 2007 grammy award winning song from Christina Aguilera and her song “Ain’t No Other Man” from her album “Back to Basics.” It’s a rather straightforward love song, praising her boyfriend to the highest heavens. “Ain’t no other man on the planet that does what you do. You’re the kinda guy a girl finds in a blue moon. You got soul, you got class, you got style, ain’t no other man, it’s true, ain’t no other man but you.” I’d say that the lady in the song is really, really in love with the man. That type of devotion is excellent and can be considered as one of the characteristics of true love—devotion to another and it can easily lead to a sincere commitment, our theme today—if the man agrees, of course.

And we have made it to our top 3, the top 3 songs of our area. They begin with a song that extols, according to the singer, her Swedish roots, and in particular a summer than never ends. “No nightmares when you can still see the light,” she sings, “can’t find me—I’m not in the city tonight. I like your playlist, boy, turn it up a little louder; road’s empty, so you drive a little faster. Ain’t taken nothing tonight, but I’m feeling so high. Show my tan lines, low-rise, rooftop down, it’s golden hour all the time. It’s that midnight sun-kissed skin under the red sky. Summer isn’t over yet, it’s my favorite part now. We ain’t gotta tell no one: a never-ending midnight sun.” Sweden is a land of literally a midnight sun at least during the summer, and the singer recalls that fact in her love of a friend. Truly being in love with another human being is a way to live life, and it will be defined as a permanent commitment to each other, our theme today. From the album of the same name as the song, “Midnight Sun” this is Zara Larsson at number 3 this week on MATT.

(double) 3 MIDNIGHT SUN / Zara Larsson

2 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars

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Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez, from his album “The Romantic” and his number 2 song right now, “I Just Might”, the R&B Song of the Year at this year’s Video Music Awards ceremonies on MATT. The song was a number 1 for a couple of weeks, a song of wanting another to show her love for the man in the relationship by good dancing.  “It would break my heart” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” As I have said, it is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, and in terms of our theme, can good dancing help with a permanent commitment, I think it most definitely can, but I say that with very little experience.

And the number 1 song is once again from British singer Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” the second time we have heard from her in the top 10 and the second song from that album, this time her song “So Easy”, making it altogether 17 weeks at number 1.  Just so you know the record is 19 weeks. 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 saying that their love would be permanent, our theme today.

Today we have considered some thoughts about that theme of commitments. We took the theme from the song on my website this week on Saturday, the interesting song “Unholy” from Sam Smith and Kim Petras. My prayer for you and me is that every one of us will understand love and when we make a permanent commitment, we will mean it. My thanks to our producers and to our sponsors, some of whom include Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, TMP-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays, Auto World in Hays and Hays Car and Truck Alignment. If you would like to comment on any of my comments, feel free to write me at KJLS-FM, Hays, America 67601 or e-mail me at frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website is frmikescully.com where you will find a transcript of the show and some meditations on the Gospels, these songs and some great movies as well. You can join us on the web also every Sunday morning at 10 regular Central Time now by clicking on hayspost.com and choosing Mix 103.3. One final thought before we go from humorist Arnold Glasow who died in 1998: “Success is not a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” That is, you got to do some work before success can happen. As you listen to the number 1 song 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 MATT’s advice to you, among the things that we have said already, is to hold a good thought. From beautiful downtown Lawrence KS through 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

October 25, 2026

Breakups

Part 1

Good morning, Central Kansas and around the world! Welcome to “Message at the Top,” and happy Halloween at the end of the week to all of you. May Halloween be full of treats, with no tricks at all for you. Welcome to Mix 103.3’s unique top 10 show, “Message at the Top”. I am Fr. Mike, your host and get ready for the top 10 songs of our area as determined by our own research and Mediabase 24-7 as of today, October 25, 2026. We here at Mix 103.3 continue to give you only the very best in radio entertainment, / and that includes not only the songs that we play, but their messages as well. This morning, we have top 10 songs from today and yesterday, concentrating on the current top 10 and top 10 songs of the recent past.

And we’ll begin our show with a 5-pack of Ariande Grande songs. The reason is her latest song at number 5 this week. First a couple thoughts about Ms. Grande. She is 33 years old from Boca Raton, Florida, and therefore American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Her awards include 2 Grammy Awards, 1 BRIT Award, 2 Billboard Music Awards, 3 American Music Awards, 13 MTV Video Music Awards and 36 Guiness World Records. Rolling Stone named her one of the greatest vocalist of all time. She began her career at age 15 and rose to fame for her role as Cat Valentine in the Nickelodeon series Victorious. She is quite an accomplished artist.

Her song is about a breakup, a common topic of these songs. And the reason why is that most people will not marry after their first romantic meeting, and therefore, there will be breakups. Breakups are very difficult, and we must be careful about what we do and say after we suffer through them. A romantic breakup disturbs a person's whole being and demeanor. People who suffer them feel terrible, at least for a while. But, the important thought with breakups is what we do after we suffer them. The feelings of a breakup will pass, but what we do as a result may not pass so quickly.

In Ariana Grande’s song here, she sings: “Just know that I will find my way from you, 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.” And she breaks up with him, and as one would guess, it was bitter—and the video shows it very well. By the way that video was nominated for best video of the year at this year’s VMA ceremonies.

Let’s make our theme simply the word “Breakups” and see what the songs add to that thought. We’ll hear a triple of specifically breakup songs a little later in our show, but let’s begin with this song from Ariana Grande and begin a 5-pack in her honor, number 5 in our countdown from her album “Petal,” “Hate That I Made You Love Me” on MATT.

(double) 5 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME / Ariana Grande

NO TEARS LEFT TO CRY / Ariana Grande

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The second song of a 5-pack of her songs, Ariana Grande from her album “Sweetener”, and her song “No Tears Left to Cry” on MATT. It is a really good song with a great message, I believe. That message is that she has to change her way of behavior to something more positive. “Right now,” she begins her song, “I’m in a state of mind I wanna be in like all the time. Ain’t got no tears left to cry, so I’m pickin’ it up, I’m lovin’, I’m livin’, I’m pickin’ it up. Oh, I just want you to come with me. We’re on another mentality.” She seems to have felt sorry for herself long enough, and now she is ready to move on. Good attitude, I believe. In terms of our theme today, one of the causes of breakups of relationships is the fact that we feel sorry for ourselves. Interesting video to the song by the way.

As promised we are playing a 5-pack of her songs, her being Ariana Grande and let’s go to a song about a problem, this time from Ariana Grande along with Iggy Azalea. It speaks of a love problem: “Hey, even though I hate ya, I wanna love ya, I want you! And even though I can’t forgive you, I really want to. Tell me, why can’t you leave me? ‘Cause even though I shouldn’t want it, I gotta have it. Head in the clouds, got no weight on my shoulders, I should be wiser and realize that I’ve got one less problem without ya!” So, a love problem, and the lady in the relationship realizes what she should do, but she really likes the guy. In terms of our theme, she is thinking correctly as she tries to solve the problem—she is spending time thinking about what happened and realizing that her life is better without the problem and will probably cause a breakup, our theme today, if she stays with the man in the relationship. This is Ariana Grande along with Iggy Azalea and their song “Problem” from the year 2014 from Ariana Grande’s album “My Everything” on MATT.

(triple) PROBLEM / Ariana Grande f/ Iggy Azalea

WE CAN’T BE FRIENDS / Ariana Grande

BREATHIN’ / Ariana Grande

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Closing off a 5-pack from her, Ariana Grande and her song “Breathin’” from 2018 on MATT. It is from her album “Sweetener”. It is an answer to the problems in our world, namely to just let them happen, and deal with them slowly. “Some days,” she sings, “things just take way too much of my energy. I look up and the whole room’s spinning. You take my cares away. I can so over complicate, people tell me to medicate, feel my blood runnin’, swear the sky’s fallin’. I know that all this stuff’s fabricated. Time goes by and I can’t control my mind, don’t know what else to try, but you tell me every time, just keep breathin’.” He is giving her great advice, I think. Just slow down and breathe deeply. In terms of our theme, one way to prevent breakups is to take the time to sit down and talk things out.

Before her, her again, Ariana Grande and her song from her album “Eternal Sunshine,” and, her song “We Can’t Be Friends”. The video is very good again, and you may need an explanation of it as you would find in Wikipedia. The song is about the demise of a relationship with the hope that an ex-lover will return and fall in love again. “I didn’t think you’d understand me; how could you ever even try?” she sings, “I don’t wanna tiptoe, but I don’t wanna hide. But I don’t wanna feed this monstrous fire. Just wanna let this story die. And I’ll be alright. We can’t be friends, but I’d like to just pretend. You cling to your papers and pens, wait until you like me again, wait for your love, I’ll wait for your love. We can’t be friends, but at least I’d like to pretend.” It sounds like she is in despair, and perhaps one of the things that could help her is to at least be thankful for some time that she had with her partner in the past; it might make the breakup, our theme today, easier.

Important words being said here, not because I said them, but because if people would know them, we’d be able to understand our life and breakups a little better, I believe. What great messages these songs have. Let me take you to break with a thought from Bonnie Prudden, a physical fitness pioneer who died in 2011: “You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” That is, we can work to make some more time for ourselves and some time to work out good plans to help ourselves and others, and in the process, stay away from breakups. Our show is called MATT; I am Fr. Mike, and I hope your Sunday of the weekend before Halloween is a good one for you. Don’t go way; “Message at the Top” on Mix 103.3 will be right back.

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This is MATT and it is so good to have you back with us. We welcome you back to the top 10 songs of our area as of the week ending today, and we welcome you back to some top 10 songs of the past as well. And with our music, we always give the meanings of the songs. I’m Fr. Mike, your host for the only top 10 show of its kind in this area, maybe in the world, the show that takes the top songs and explains their messages, and then we call the show “Message at the Top.” The topic of our show this morning was given to us by superstar Ariana Grande and her song “Hate That I Made You Love Me” and we are talking about breakups and how they affect our lives.

Let’s go back to our countdown right now and go to numbers 10 and 9. At number 10, a song of revenge as the lady in a once upon a time relationship talks directly to the new girlfriend of that lover. Taylor Swift sings: “I’ve gotta be honest, I’ve been expecting your call.” She had heard that they were having difficulties in dating, and she tells her that she knows something about that: “If you wanna party with somebody who might know about the devil on his shoulder under his halo, when the toxins take their hold, you’d rather die than let it go. But if you’re sick of him, I got you, I was patient zero.” Patient zero is a person identified as the first to become infected with an illness or disease in an outbreak. Therefore in the song, the person who is singing was his first victim. In terms of our theme this week, she has already gone through the breakup, and is advising his new girlfriend to have another one. From her album “The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore,” this is Taylor Swift at number 10 on our countdown, “Patient Zero” on MATT.

(double) 10 PATIENT ZERO / Taylor Swift

9 MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean

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Coming back into our countdown around here, one of the songs of the VMA ceremonies this year that was nominated for song of the year from British singer/songwriter Olivia Lauryn Dean or simply Olivia Dean for the first time today on our show. This is from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her excellent song “Man I Need” on MATT. The song is the statement of what I call the virtue which is most needed in any love relationship or any relationship really, namely, communication. “Talk to me,” she begins her song, “looks like we’re making up for lost time; need you to spell it out for me. Don’t be shy, just come be the man I need. Tell me you got something to give. I want it. I kinda like when you call me wonderful, whatever the type of talk it is. Come on then, I gotta know you’re meant to be the man I need. Talk to me. I’d like to think you feel the same way, but I can’t tell with you sometimes. So, baby, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication and she gives the reason why. In terms of our theme today, namely breakups, that which can keep a relationship from breaking up is real communication.

As promised, we wanted to play a triple of breakup songs from the past. We begin the triple with a great one. “I miss knowing what you’re thinking,” the boyfriend says in the song, “and hearing how your day has been. Do you think you can tell me everything? But leave out every part about him. Right now, you’re probably by the ocean while I’m still out here in the rain. Maybe it’s supposed to be this way. But oh, my love, I wanna say, ‘I miss the green in your eyes’ and when I said we could be friends, guess I lied. I wanna say ‘I wish you never left,’ But instead, I only wish you the best. I wanna say, ‘Without you, everything’s wrong’ and you were everything I need all along. I wanna say ‘I wish that you never left’, but instead, I only wish you the best.” To me it is an unbelievable attitude—he has broken up with her, our theme today, and it was difficult, of course, but he has accepted it and moved on with very good thinking. He still needs love but he has chosen to look for the romantic kind in another setting. Great song. This is Glasgow, Scotland-born Lewis Capaldi and his song “Wish You the Best” from his album “Broken by Desire to be Heavenly Sent” from 2023 on MATT.

(triple ) WISH YOU THE BEST / Lewis Capaldi

THE DEAD DANCE / Lady Gaga

THIS IS HOW A HEART BREAKS / Rob Thomas

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The close of a triple play of breakup songs, the leader of the band Matchbox Twenty, Mr. Rob Thomas, sings of real pain there from his album “Something To Be,” from 2005, and the song “This Is How a Heart Breaks” on MATT. “Life is like a mean machine,” he sings, “It made a mess outta me. It left me caught between; like an angry dream I was stranded. And I’m steady but I’m starting to shake, and I don’t know how much more I can take. This is it now. Everybody get down; this is all I can take. This is how a heart breaks. You take a hit now, you feel it break down, make you stay wide away. This is how a heart breaks.” Like I say, a song of pain, and there is no hope in the song—“never get what I want,” he sings. That’s probably not true, but it is how he feels. As I just said, breakups, our theme today, are difficult and cause a bunch of pain.

Before him, we heard from Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta or Lady Gaga and her song “The Dead Dance,” a song which fits into this season of Halloween quite well. Actually, it is a part of the soundtrack to the second season of the Netflix show “Wednesday” in which Lady Gaga appears. According to Lady Gaga, the inspiration for the song was a breakup, our theme today, and it is all about the way that we feel when it’s over—how a relationship ending can kill our ability to feel hopeful about love. But it is a happy song in that she’s having fun with friends after she has been through something tough. “Like the words of a song,” she begins, “I hear you call; like a thief in my head, you criminal. You stole my thoughts before I dreamed them, and you killed my queen with just one pawn. This goodbye is no surprise; this goodbye won’t make me cry. Yeah, I’ll keep on dancin’ until I’m dead. ‘Cause when you killed me inside, that’s when I came alive. Yeah, the music’s gonna bring me back from death. You’ve created a creature of the night—now I’m haunting your air, your soul, your eyes.” An interesting video also. In terms of our theme, it is doing the right thing to get over a breakup, and she’s doing that by dancing even though she is “dead.”

And, we have played our way to a brief hiatus, as we close off our first hour together. In the second hour, get ready for music from Zara Larsson and the band Train among others. We began our show with a song from Ariana Grande, and we are speaking of breakups today. Leading us into our break, here is a thought from Mr. or Ms. Anonymous: "Happiness is like jam. You can’t spread even a little without getting some on yourself.” And we can be happy even with breakups as Lady Gaga just told us. Don’t go way. I’m Fr. Mike, and this is the “Message at the Top” music network.

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Part 7

Hi again, everybody. This is MATT on Mix 103. I am Fr. Mike and this is “Message at the Top” on 100,000 watts of power, today’s best music, Mix 103.3, our only top 10 show which gives you not only the current top 10 but top 10 music of the 2000’s and some of the 90’s and even some 80’s and we give you the meanings of the songs at the same time. The title of our show this morning is “Breakups” and we are studying all the songs of our show asking them to shed some light on that topic.

Let’s go back to our countdown to start this second hour together, and go to number 8 from Teddy Swins. He describes it this way: the song explores the idea of a love that fails. “When you believe you already know how it ends, you protect yourself by holding back and that distance becomes the reason it fails. But when you try to fight that fate and control every outcome, you can end up suffocating the connection.” And so, some of his words: “Should’ve told you I could see this coming like I’m lookin’ right into a crystal ball. When I fall in love, it’s with misfortune. Give you everything you say you wanted, see the future like it’s written on the wall. You’re the only thing that’s missing from it. Oh, I wish I wasn’t Mr. Know It All.” The love situation is failing mainly because he is not working with the situation the way he should. In terms of our theme, he is describing a breakup about to happen. This is Teddy Swims from his album “Ugly,” and his song “Mr. Know It All”, number 8 this week on MATT.

(triple) 8 MR KNOW IT ALL / Teddy Swims

7 DRACULA / Tame Impala

6 BABYDOLL / Dominic Fike

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Number 6 in our countdown and a song of a person who cannot let go of a previous love relationship / perhaps because of a very difficult childhood. It comes from 30 year old Dominic Fike born in Naples, Florida, and his song “Babydoll”, on MATT. “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. In terms of our theme, breakups will come too easily if we do not learn to love well early on.

Before him, we heard our number 7 song from Tame Impala, the musical project of Australian instrumentalist Kevin Parker and he is accompanied by South Korean singer Jennie. It is from the album “Deadbeat” and the song “Dracula” on MATT. The song is about a person who is wanting a love connection while at the same time not wanting to come out of his chosen hidden life. Comparing the person in the song to a vampire, they sing: “The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre. The night is almost over, I still don’t know where you are. The shadows, they keep me like a movie star, daylight makes me feel like Dracula. In the end, I hope it’s you and me in the darkness, I would never leave. Run from the sunlight, Dracula.” The man in the relationship is growing up trying to understand love, and part of that understanding means that he has to move out of his desire to be alone and will involve knowing that if he doesn’t do that, he will easily fall into breakups with his romantic relationships. Because of its title, namely “Dracula,” its a good Halloween song.

Let’s take the time to play the songs on my website this week frmikescully.com and then wish a happy birthday in this triple play. First, a song on my website this Friday. I like to look at the song in as positive a way as possible, even though the lady in the relationship is being negative toward the man. From his point of view, he wants the love between her and him to be honest and good, savage in the sense of very strong. “If I woke up without you, I don’t know what I would do,” he sings, “Thought I could be single forever ‘til I met you. I just found out, the only reason that you lovin’ me was to get back at your ex-lover, but before you leave—usually I would never even care. Every night and every day I try to make you stay, but your savage love, I still want that.” In my humble opinion, the right thing to do is to move on in his love life, that is, he should break up right then, our theme today, but it doesn’t seem like he will. This is Jason Joel Desruleaux from the year 2020 with the song produced by Jawsh 685, and their song “Savage Love” on MATT.

(triple) SAVAGE LOVE / Jason Derulo & Jawsh 685

50 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE / Train

TALKING BODY / Tove Lo

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Happy birthday to her, Swedish singer Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson, that is Tove Lo’s birthday on Thursday when she will be 39 years old. In her honor we heard her song “Talking Body” from 2015. It comes from her album “Queen of the Clouds” and a song of begging another to stay with her. “Bed,” she begins her song, “stay in bed. The feeling of your skin locked in my head. Smoke, smoke me broke, I don't care: I'm down for what you want. Day drunk into the night, wanna keep you here ‘cause you dry my tears. Yeah, summer lovin' and fights. How it is for us, and it's all because now if we're talking body, you got a perfect one, swear it won't take you long. If you love me right, we act for life on and on and on.” I cleaned up the words there a little. If one finds him or herself begging another to be part of a relationship, as in the song, that is an introduction to a breakup, our theme today.

Before her, we heard the song that is on my website this Tuesday, the band Train’s song “50 Ways to Say Goodbye” from 2012 from their album “California 37,” and a former number 1. It is a song of how to deal with pain, and specifically how to deal with someone who has left the relationship with the person in the song: “My heart is paralyzed,” the group Train sings the thoughts of the man in the relationship, “My head was over-sized. I’ll take the high road like I should. You said it’s meant to be, that it’s not you, it’s me. You’re leaving now for my own good. That’s cool, but if my friends ask where you are, I’m gonna say,”—and he goes on to make up all kinds of things to say about her leaving—things like she fell into a cement mixer full of quicksand, met a shark underwater—and always ending with the words “help me, help me, I’m no good at goodbyes, I’m all out of lies, and ways to say you died.” Although it almost sounds like a happy song, it is a song of dishonesty since he will not face the truth about his situation. In terms of our theme, unless the person becomes honest, breakups will continue in his love relationships.

Our theme today is that idea of breakups. Our next set of music and message will explore that theme with a couple of Halloween songs and then the top 4 songs in our land. Let me go to break with this thought from the creator of Peanuts, Mr. Charles Schulz: “Life is like a ten speed bicycle: most of us have gears we never use.” Oh, so true. If we learn to use just a couple more of them, our world would get a lot better because we would probably learn a lot more than we know now. I’m Fr. Mike, listen to these words of wisdom, and then I hope you come back for more.

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Part 10

Hi, everyone! Happy Halloween in a couple of days and welcome back to “Message at the Top”, our top 10 show on Mix 103.3. I am Fr. Mike, and our show gives you the top 10 songs of today and the past 46 years. 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 breakups. The thought came from Ms. Ariana Grande and her breakup song “Hate That I Made You Love Me”, number 5 in our countdown.

And speaking of Halloween, let’s play a couple of songs that DJ’s are apt to play around Halloween time. The artist said of this song, “Writing this song helped me sort through lots of feelings of regret, anger and heartache.” And so, she sings, “Hate to give you the satisfaction of asking how you’re doing now; how’s the castle built off people you pretend to care about. Just what you wanted. I loved you truly, you gotta laugh at the stupidity ‘cause I’ve made some real big mistakes. I should’ve known it was strange. You only come out at night; I used to think I was smart, but you made me look so naive, the way you sold me for parts, as you sunk your teeth into me, oh, bloodsucker, dream crusher, bleeding me dry like a vampire.” Indeed, anger at the person that hurt her. This is the feeling after the breakup, our theme today, and as I have said with breakups, we really have to learn to control ourselves as we feel this much anger. This is 23 year old Olivia Rodrigo, and her song from the year 2023, from her album “Guts”, “Vampire” on MATT.

(triple) VAMPIRE / Olivia Rodrigo

THE MONSTER / Eminem f/ Rihanna

4 DROP DEAD / Olivia Rodrigo

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The talented artist Olivia Rodrigo from her album “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” and her song “Drop Dead”, number 4 this morning on our countdown. It is a song about being totally infatuated with someone as a beginning love experience. She begins her song: “I know that the bar closes at 11, but I hope you never finish that beer. You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven,’ and I know why he wrote them now that you’re standin’ right here. One night I was bored in bed and stalked you on the internet. It’s feminine intuition ‘cause I always had a vision of us standing like this. You’re lookin’ like an angel on the walls of Versailles, the most alive I’ve ever been, but kiss me and I might drop dead.” The person in the song is completely infatuated with the man, and portrays the intense feeling of an early romance, referring to a similar experience as described in the song “Just Like Heaven.” In terms of our theme today, being infatuated with someone leading to a relationship may seem like a good thing, but if the couple do not grow into a real love situation, it will easily end up in a breakup, our theme today.

Before her, we played another song that makes one think of Halloween more or less. It came from 2013 and is one of our very high songs of meaning, a really interesting song to study from Marshall Bruce Mathers III better known as Eminem and Robin Rihanna Fenty, better known as Rihanna, part of Eminem’s album “The Marshall Mathers LP 2” and the name of the song “The Monster”. It has a great video by the way. The words of the rap part of the song are difficult to catch, but it is the story of a mental sickness that has taken over the mind of the person in the song, maybe autobiographical—Eminem himself, who has given into the glory of the moment—“I wanted the fame,” he sings. Fame made him a balloon that finally blew. He calls it a monster that he has accepted. “I’m friends with the monster that’s under my bed,” the person sings, “get along with the voices of my head. You’re trying to save me, stop holding your breath; and you think I’m crazy.” His friend is trying to help him, knowing that that “monster” in his life has caused lots of problems, one of them, probably a romantic breakup, our theme today.

We continue our countdown now as we give you the final three songs of our countdown and the top 3 songs of our area. They begin with a song that extols, according to the singer, her Swedish roots, and in particular a summer than never ends. “No nightmares when you can still see the light,” she sings, “can’t find me—I’m not in the city tonight. I like your playlist, boy, turn it up a little louder; road’s empty, so you drive a little faster. Ain’t taken nothing tonight, but I’m feeling so high. Show my tan lines, low-rise, rooftop down, it’s golden hour all the time. It’s that midnight sun-kissed skin under the red sky. Summer isn’t over yet, it’s my favorite part now. We ain’t gotta tell no one: a never-ending midnight sun.” Sweden is a land of literally a midnight sun at least during the summer, and the singer recalls that fact in her love of a friend. Truly being in love with another human being is a way to live life, and and if we do it well, there will be no breakup in the future, our theme today. From the album of the same name as the song, “Midnight Sun” this is Zara Larsson at number 3 this week on MATT.

(double) 3 MIDNIGHT SUN / Zara Larsson

2 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars

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Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez, from his album “The Romantic” and his number 2 song right now, “I Just Might”, the R&B Song of the Year at this year’s VMA ceremonies on MATT. The song was a number 1 for a couple of weeks, a song of wanting another to show her love for the man in the relationship by good dancing.  “It would break my heart” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” As I have said, it is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, and in terms of our theme, can good dancing help prevent a breakup. Sometimes, I guess, although I have very little personal experience.

And the number 1 song is once again from British singer Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” the second time we have heard from her in the top 10 and the second song from that album, this time her song “So Easy”, making it altogether 16 weeks at number 1.  Just so you know the record is 19 weeks. 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 saying that their love would be permanent, and therefore would not break up, our theme today.

That theme of breakups and some reflections on them was taken from Ariana Grande’s number 5 song “Hate That I Made You Love Me.” My prayer for you and me is that we will understand what causes breakups and learn to love instead. My thanks to our producers and sponsors, especially our sponsors at Hays Car and Truck Alignment, Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, Auto World 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 frmikescully.com where you will find some meditations on the Gospels, these songs and some great movies and a transcript of this show. If you want to join us on the web, go to hayspost.com and click on Mix 103.3 at 10 am CDT. A final quote from Voltaire, a French philosopher who died in 1778 speaking of someone who had a lot of answers: “He must be very ignorant / for he answers every question he is asked.” Well said, Mr. Voltaire. Good stuff there. As we close with Olivia Dean’s very popular song “So Easy”, may I remind you to hold a good thought. Speaking to you from beautiful downtown Lawrence KS, and then through the likewise beautiful Hays, KS, and to the world, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good.

1 SO EASY / Olivia Dean

October 18, 2026

Breaking Down the Walls of Mediocrity

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Good morning, Central Kansas and around the world! Welcome to “Message at the Top,” and happy Fall again—such a beautiful time of year. Welcome to Mix 103.3’s unique top 10 show, “Message at the Top”. I am Fr. Mike, your host; get ready for the top 10 songs of our area as determined by our own research and Mediabase 24-7. We here at Mix 103 continue to give you only the very best in radio entertainment, / and that includes not only the songs that we play, but their messages as well. This morning, we have top 10 songs from today and yesterday, concentrating on the current top 10 and songs of the past top 10’s that include music from Taylor Swift and birthday people Doja Cat, Dean Lewis, Drake and Katy Perry.

And speaking of Katy Perry, her real name is Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson and she will 42 years old next Sunday. After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in Gospel music as a teenager. Then she signed with Capitol Records and has been successful ever since. She has received many awards, including 20 Guinness World Records, five American Music Awards, a Brit Award, and a Juno Award, and has been included in the annual Forbes lists of highest-earning women in music from 2011–2018. She is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold 151 million records globally throughout her career. So in honor of her birthday, we allow her to give us our lead song this morning, using an excellent song of hers and talking about the opposite of mediocrity.

That thought of mediocrity is the thought of one of her songs. It is one great song of meaning, certainly a 10+ song of meaning because it should make us realize what we are doing with our lives. Beginning with the words, “Are we crazy,” she then challenges us by saying that we may be simply “living our lives through a lens, trapped in our white picket fence, like ornaments, so comfortable, living in a bubble.” And she says what the real problem is, namely loneliness. But she wants to break through the distortion, break down the walls, inspire others to riot out of the rut. But the people don’t, they merely go back to doing what they always do without accomplishing the things that they could accomplish. Life goes on and on and on, like we’re chained to the rhythm, and we miss what life is really all about. We simply stick to our selfish feelings and problems, and do not open up to the people around us.

It is a statement of people who are satisfied with the way things are, and are not interested in going further in their lives. Or as they define it, they are satisfied with mediocrity. The song is a challenge because it is a statement to all of us. We are the people she is talking about. We are the ones who need to riot out of the rut of life. We are called to search for something higher than simply living out our lives.

I think that that gives us a pretty good theme for our show this morning as we think of Katy Perry’s birthday. “What are some ways to break down the walls of mediocrity” is the question we will deal with. That will bring up some interesting commentary, I believe. MATT presenting here a great song and video as well—this is Katy Perry singing along with Jamaican singer/songwriter who helped write the song as well, Skip Marley, from 2017, from her album “Witness,” her song “Chained to the Rhythm”, happy birthday next Sunday Katy Perry on MATT.

(double) CHAINED TO THE RHYTHM / Katy Perry f/ Skip Marley

BIRTHDAY / Katy Perry

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From Katy Perry again from her album “Prism”, and her song “Birthday” in honor of her own birthday next Sunday. It has a very interesting video in which Katy Perry does some pretty interesting acting. The song is a birthday wish for a boyfriend. “I heard you’re feeling nothing’s going right. Why don’t you let me stop by? The clock is ticking, running out of time, so we should party all night. So, cover your eyes, I have a surprise. Boy when you’re with me, I’ll give you a taste, make it like your birthday every day, I know you like it sweet, so you can have your cake, give you something good to celebrate.” As we think of how to stay away from mediocrity, a theme she gave us, one of the ways is to really enjoy our birthdays, even though we get older.

Let’s go to our countdown beginning with number 10 and give us numbers 10 through number 6. At number 10 is a song new to our top 10 from super artist Taylor Swift. It is a song of revenge as the lady in a once upon a time relationship talks directly to the new girlfriend of that lover. She sings: “I’ve gotta be honest, I’ve been expecting your call.” She had heard that they were having difficulties in dating, and she tells her that she knows something about that: “If you wanna party with somebody who might know about the devil on his shoulder under his halo, when the toxins take their hold, you’d rather die than let it go. But if you’re sick of him, I got you, I was patient zero.” Patient zero is a person identified as the first to become infected with an illness or disease in an outbreak. Therefore in the song, the person who is singing was his first victim. In terms of our theme this week, she is breaking down the walls of mediocrity by explaining to another the problems of the man in the relationship. Hopefully, somewhere along the line, someone will try to explain to him how he is coming across. From her album “The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore,” this is Taylor Swift at number 10 on our countdown, “Patient Zero” on MATT.

(triple) 10 PATIENT ZERO / Taylor Swift

9 MR KNOW IT ALL / Teddy Swims

8 GOLDEN / Huntr/X

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Continuing our countdown at number 8, that is a former number 1, three Korean young ladies named Huntr/X, and their former number 1 song “Golden” on MATT. It is from the soundtrack of the animated movie, “K Pop Demon Hunters” and the theme of the Netflix film that follows Huntr/X, the singers of the song—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “We’re going up, it’s our moment. You know together we’re glowin, gonna be golden. I’m done hidin’ now, I’m shinin’ like I’m born to be, oh, our time, no fears, no lies, that’s who we’re born to be.” I interpret it as a song urging people to do what is right, and in terms of our theme today, certainly if we really want that to happen—do what is right, we will be breaking down the walls of mediocrity in our lives.

Before them, we heard our number 9 song this week from Teddy Swims from his album “Ugly,” and his song “Mr. Know It All”. He describes it this way: The song explores the idea of a love that fails. “When you believe you already know how it ends, you protect yourself by holding back and that distance becomes the reason it fails. But when you try to fight that fate and control every outcome, you can end up suffocating the connection.” And so, some of his words: “Should’ve told you I could see this coming like I’m lookin’ right into a crystal ball. When I fall in love, it’s with misfortune. Give you everything you say you wanted, see the future like it’s written on the wall. You’re the only thing that’s missing from it. Oh, I wish I wasn’t Mr. Know It All.” The love situation is failing mainly because he is not working with the situation the way he should. In terms of our theme, he should get out of that relationship and in doing so, he will be breaking down some of the walls of mediocrity in his life.

We have taken that theme of breaking down the walls of mediocrity from Katy Perry and Skip Marley’s song “Chained to the Rhythm” and we will pursue some more thinking about that theme in just a couple of minutes with music from in order of appearance Dominic Fike, Olivia Rodrigo, the group Portugal.The Man, the band X Ambassadors and Taylor Swift. First, a thought from Vince Lombardi who knew something about football and life: “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.” That’s one of the major ways to bring about mediocrity. I’m Fr. Mike, this show is “Message at the Top”, this radio station is Mix 103.3, and we’ll be right back.

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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 because we take those top 10 songs and analyze their meanings in the light of how we can live better in this complicated world. I am Fr. Mike, your host for the top 10 show of today’s best music, Mix 103.3, and we are asking each song of our show how to break down the walls of mediocrity.

Let’s continue our countdown with numbers 7 and 6. First to number 7 and a song of a person who cannot let go of a previous love relationship / perhaps because of a very difficult childhood. “I can’t move on, babydoll, waitin’ on calls, flippin’ through stations. I’m outclassed and it’s outrageous, and I’ll take it all, babydoll, whatever’s been weighin’ you down. Find me on Miami concrete, lookin’ for somebody different ‘cause my daddy was a pimp; my mama had her issues, but I miss her anyway. Oh, babydoll, please don’t call me for the wrong reasons.” The man in the relationship is looking for love, and he may not have ever learned exactly what it is. Tough song, teaching the importance of a good childhood. In terms of our theme, a good childhood is close to being the only way to learn to break down the walls of mediocrity in a person’s later life. This is 30 year old Dominic Fike born in Naples, Florida, and his song “Babydoll”, number 7 in our countdown on MATT.

(double) 7 BABYDOLL / Dominic Fike

6 DROP DEAD / Olivia Rodrigo

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Olivia Rodrigo there from her album “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” and her song “Drop Dead”, number 6 this morning on MATT’s top 10 countdown. It is a song about being totally infatuated with someone as a beginning love experience. She begins her song: “I know that the bar closes at 11, but I hope you never finish that beer. You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven,’ and I know why he wrote them now that you’re standin’ right here. One night I was bored in bed and stalked you on the internet. It’s feminine intuition ‘cause I always had a vision of us standing like this. You’re lookin’ like an angel on the walls of Versailles, the most alive I’ve ever been, but kiss me and I might drop dead.” The person in the song is completely infatuated with the man, and portrays the intense feeling of an early romance, referring to a similar experience as described in the song “Just Like Heaven.” In terms of our theme today, being infatuated with someone is one of the walls of mediocrity that must be broken in order to pursue a real relationship.

Let’s talk about the 3 songs on my website frmikescully.com this week. Tomorrow, we have a former number 1 from a band from Alaska and now based in Portland, Oregon, the band Portugal.The Man. “Can’t keep my hands to myself,” they sing, “think I’ll dust ‘em off, put ‘em back up on the shelf in case my little baby girl is in need. Am I coming out of left field? I’m a rebel just for kicks, now I been feeling it since 1966, now might be over now, but I feel it still. Let me kick it like it’s 1986, now might be over now, but I feel it still. Is it coming?” It is a song in which the person is remembering what it was like before and what was now—then—is over, but he would like the feeling again. In terms of our theme today, one of the ways to deal with mediocrity is to identify how we feel and see whether it is for our good or not. From their album “Woodstock,” a song from 2017, the group Portugal.The Man and their song “Feel It Still” on MATT.

(triple ) FEEL IT STILL / Portugal.The Man

UNSTEADY / X Ambassadors

WILDEST DREAMS / Taylor Swift

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Saturday’s song on my website frmikescully.com from Ms. Taylor Alison Swift again, this time from her award winning album “1989”, and her song “Wildest Dreams” from 2014 on MATT. The lady in the relationship has broken up with the man, and she talks about how he is going to feel about her. “He said, ‘Let's get out of this town,’” she sings, “’drive out of the city, away from the crowds.’ I thought heaven can't help me now. Nothing lasts forever, but this is gonna take me down. He's so tall and handsome. I can see the end as it begins. My one condition is: say you'll remember me standing in a nice dress, staring at the sunset, red lips and rosy cheeks. Say you'll see me again, even if it's just in your wildest dreams.” She is anticipating the breakup, and she is feeling the pain. In terms of our theme, one of the ways to fight mediocrity is to have a pretty good idea of what’s really happening in our lives and to work with it as best we can.

Before her, we heard a super song from the band X Ambassadors from their album “VHS”, and their song “Unsteady”, the number 1 song of meaning of the whole year of 2016. It is a song that talks about the importance of Moms and Dads, and it should be required listening for everyone who decides to have a family. “Hold on,” the young person sings because he/she is a little unsteady. “Mama,” the child sings, “come here. Daddy, I’m alone ‘cause this house don’t feel like home. If you love me, don’t let go. Hold on to me.” In terms of our theme, this song should make every Mom and Dad know that they cause mediocrity in their lives by not paying enough attention to their children, and it sets up the young people for very difficult beginnings in their lives. Great song to study.

We will continue with that thought of what causes mediocrity in our lives in just a few moments. Get ready for a second hour which will continue to give us top 10 songs with their messages. Let me take you to that second hour with this thought from Mr. or Mrs. Google, and really the problem with communication. “The biggest communication problem is that we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.” And when we do that, we often think negative thoughts that lead only to mediocrity. Your dial is set for “Message at the Top”; may I implore you to keep it there. Like MacArthur, we will return.

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This is MATT on Mix 103, and we believe that every song has a message, and most of the time that message can make us do some serious thinking about life. Such is our thinking here. Hi again, everyone. You are in tune with “Message at the Top,” on Mix 103.3, your top 10 show that plays the top 10 songs in our land right now, and we also play great songs of meaning from past top 10’s. We take the top 10 of the present and the past, study their messages, and then call our show MATT. I’m your host, Fr. Mike. It’s great to have you here. We’re concentrating on the fact that there is mediocrity in our lives, and there are ways to break down its walls which our songs can help us with.

Let’s begin our second hour together with a song that comes from the problem of loneliness, a topic that is common to these songs, and we’ve heard it already. And what the person in the song needs is a connection with people. “These days my waves get lost in the ocean, seven billion swimmers, I’m going through the motions, sent up a flare, I need love and devotion, take me to the places and the people that know me, trying to just connect, thinking maybe you could show me. If there’s so many people here, then why am I so lonely? Can I get a connection?” And he’s trying to do something about it: “Right now, I’m switching to a new lane, foot on the floor, man searching for the real thing.” That which can keep us away from mediocrity, our theme today, is to recognize that we need connection with friends, and then work at it. This is the song “Connection” from 2018 from the band OneRepublic on MATT.

(triple) CONNECTION / OneRepublic

THE WAY I AM / Charlie Puth

5 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME / Ariana Grande

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Our theme next week when we will talk about one of the real problems of young love, namely breakups, Ariana Grande there at number 5 on our countdown from her new album “Petal,” “Hate That I Made You Love Me” on MATT. It is a song of a breakup: “Just know that I will find my way from you,” she sings, “Like flowers from a tomb while you decide who you are. And I can see right through like shadows on the moon and it’s all bad news. I hate that I made you love me, sorry if I made me your type. Yeah, I hate that I made you love me ‘cause I barely tried. What’s happening now? You studied my crown and borrowed my body, warm, kissed by the sun, then cold like the wind, a bee stuck in honey. Know that I will find my way from you. I hate that I made you love me.” In terms of our theme today, this love relationship is part of the mediocrity in her life, and she should indeed get out of it, and move on.

Before her, we heard from Charlie Puth from his album “Voicenotes,” from 2018, “The Way I Am”. It is the story of a man who is looking closely at his behavior and seems to be very honest—“Maybe I get a little anxious, maybe I get a little shy. I’m just trying to find a place to hide. All I wanna do is just hold somebody. I tell ‘em all / that you could either hate me or love me, but that’s just the way I am.” He wants people to accept him the way he is, and that’s just fine, but in order to overcome mediocrity in his life, our theme today, he must try to be a little better at being the way he is.

Most of our music comes to us in triple plays, and we have another one right now beginning with the band Imagine Dragons. It is song as lead singer Dan Reynolds says, about finding yourself and being willing and able to stand up to whatever adversity comes your way. So, a song about being a natural in a positive sense in today’s world. “Will you hold the line when every one of them has given up and given in? Tell me in this house of mine, nothing ever comes with a consequence of cost, tell me, will heaven step in, will it save us from our sin? Will it? ‘Cause this house of mine stands strong. That’s the price you pay.” As one faces adversity, we must be able to adjust, and when we learn to do that well, we will be finding a way to break down the walls of mediocrity, our theme today. This is a great song of meaning from Imagine Dragons, “Natural,” from 2018 on MATT.

(triple) NATURAL / Imagine Dragons

FAR AWAY / Nickelback

4 DRACULA / Tame Impala

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Our number 4 song this week from Tame Impala, the musical project of Australian instrumentalist Kevin Parker and he is accompanied by South Korean singer Jennie. It is from the album “Deadbeat” and the song “Dracula” on MATT. The song is about a person who is wanting a love connection while at the same time not wanting to come out of his chosen hidden life. Comparing the person in the song to a vampire, they sing: “The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre. The night is almost over, I still don’t know where you are. The shadows, they keep me like a movie star, daylight makes me feel like Dracula. In the end, I hope it’s you and me in the darkness, I would never leave. Run from the sunlight, Dracula.” The man in the relationship is growing up trying to understand love, and part of that understanding means that he has to move out of his desire to be alone and will involve knowing that doing that—coming out of his shell—is a wall of mediocrity that he must address, our theme today.

Before them, we heard a former number 1 song for a number of weeks in 2006, from the Canadian group Nickelback and their song “Far Away” from their multi-million selling album “All The Right Reasons”. The song is a high category song, all about forgiveness. The person in the song has been far away for far too long, they sing, and then he says, “I wanted you to stay ‘cause I need to hear you say that I love you and I forgive you for being far away for far too long.” He needs her to hear him say to her “I forgive you for being too far away.” Forgiveness is such an important part of life. We all mess up once in a while, and when we do, we have to say both / “I’m sorry,” and “I forgive you.” It is one of the most important facts about true living that we should be aware of, and when we are able to do it, we will conquer some of the mediocrity in our lives, our theme today.

Which brings us to our final break of the day. Our final session will include three birthday wishes and the top 3 songs in our land today. To break with a quote from author Marthe Troly-Curtin: “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” Now that is encouraging and a statement that some wasting time might be necessary for a good life and challenging the mediocrity of living. Our show is MATT, and we’ll be right back. I invite you to stay right where you are.

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We welcome you back to MATT as we celebrate the third Sunday of October together. We get closer to Halloween as all the stores around us keep reminding us. This show plays the top 10 songs of America, as well as some of the top 10 of the past, and we talk about their meanings, and how they can make us be a little better than we are already. I’m Fr. Mike, and we are ready to pursue our final portion of MATT together as we consider some thoughts about breaking the walls of mediocrity in life and love.

As promised, let’s remember some birthdays this week. First of all, Aubrey Drake Graham, better known as Drake, a Canadian rapper will be 40 years old this coming Saturday. We remember him with his song of a breakup that has happened, and the man in the relationship is not sure what really happened. “You used to call me on my cell phone late night when you need my love. And I know when that hotline bling that can only mean one thing. Since I left the city you got a reputation for yourself now. Everybody knows and I feel left out. You got me down, you got me stressed out, ‘cause ever since I left the city, you started goin' out more, glasses of champagne out on the dance floor, hangin' with some girls I've never seen before. Ever since I left the city, you and me we just don't get along. You make me feel like I did you wrong, going places where you don't belong.” So, a break up initiated by the lady in the relationship, one would assume, and it is extremely difficult for the man to handle. One can envision breakups as the result of mediocrity, that is, not giving the relationship the effort that must be, and the way to break it down, our theme today, is to learn from those breakups so we can improve in other relationships. This is the Grammy -award winning Best Rap Song in 2016 from Canadian singer/songwriter/rapper/actor Drake--Happy birthday, Mr. Drake, and his song from 2015, “Hotline Bling” on MATT.

(triple) HOTLINE BLING / Drake

I LIKE YOU / Post Malone & Doja Cat

BE ALRIGHT / Dean Lewis

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Happy birthday to him, a singer / songwriter from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Mr. Dean Lewis and his song “Be Alright” from 2019 as we celebrate his birthday on Wednesday of this week. He will be 39 years old. It is a song of wondering what to do when your girlfriend has cheated. “I look up from the ground to see your sad eyes. You look away from me, and I see there’s something you’re trying to hide. And then you say to me you made a dumb mistake. And I feel the color draining from my face. And my friend said, ‘I know you love her, but it’s over. It doesn’t matter, put the phone away. It’s never easy to walk away. Let her go, it’ll be alright.” Smart friend and a little later he sings: “Nothing heals the past like time. They can’t steal the love you’re born to find.” Great advice, and it will be alright, but he has to make the move first to move on unless she really means her love this time. Sometimes the only way to break down the walls of mediocrity, our theme today, is to admit mistakes and move on.

Let’s also wish happy birthday to Doja Cat. She will be 31 years old likewise this Wednesday. She sang with Post Malone in this song. It is from Post Malone’s album, “Twelve Carat Toothache” and the song “I Like You” and in parenthesis (“A Happier Song”) from 2022. The words signify some type of friendship, a song of feeling good about someone else. “I like you, I do,” they begin the song, “I wanna be your friend, go shoppin’ in the Benz, I like you, I do. I’ll hit you when I land, can you fit me in your plans? I need a good girl, I need someone to ground me, so please be true, don’t mess around with me. I need someone to share this heart with me.” I cleaned up the words a little; it is a statement of feeling love toward another. In terms of our theme today, one of the ways to break down the walls of mediocrity is to show true love to our friends.

And we have made it to our top 3 songs of this week ending today October 18, 2026. At number 3 is a song that extols, according to the singer, her Swedish roots, and in particular a summer than never ends. “No nightmares when you can still see the light,” she sings, “can’t find me—I’m not in the city tonight. I like your playlist, boy, turn it up a little louder; road’s empty, so you drive a little faster. Ain’t taken nothing tonight, but I’m feeling so high. Show my tan lines, low-rise, rooftop down, it’s golden hour all the time. It’s that midnight sun-kissed skin under the red sky. Summer isn’t over yet, it’s my favorite part now. We ain’t gotta tell no one: a never-ending midnight sun.” Sweden is a land of literally a midnight sun at least during the summer, and the singer recalls that fact in her love of a friend. Truly being in love with another human being and really working at it is a way to break down the walls of mediocrity in our lives, our theme today. From the album of the same name as the song, “Midnight Sun” this is Zara Larsson at number 3 this week on MATT.

(double) 3 MIDNIGHT SUN / Zara Larsson

2 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars

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Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez, from his album “The Romantic” and his number 2 song right now, “I Just Might”, the R&B Song of the Year at this year’s VMA ceremonies on MATT. The song was a number 1 for a couple of weeks, a song of wanting another to show her love for the man in the relationship by good dancing.  “It would break my heart” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” As I have said, it is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, and in terms of our theme, can good dancing help break down the walls of mediocrity in a person’s life? I think so, at least judging from the fact that people enjoy dancing.

And the number 1 song is once again from British singer Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “So Easy”, making it altogether 15 weeks at number 1.  It is a song of the desire for love of one particular person. “I could be the twist, the one to make you stop,” she begins the song, “The icing on the cake, the cherry on the top. It’s heaven in my heart, and we could find you some space. I could be the world to you, the missing piece, that extra kind of chemistry. Some people make it hard; with me, that isn’t the case ‘cause I make it so easy to fall in love. So, come give me a call, and we’ll fall into us. I’m the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life. Anyone with a heart would agree: it’s so easy to fall in love with me.” So, a rather straightforward statement to someone and it sounds like the lady is saying that she and he can break down any walls of mediocrity, our theme today, as they grow in their love.

That theme was taken from Katy Perry and Skip Marley and their song “Chained to the Rhythm”, as we prepare to celebrate Katy Perry’s 42^nd birthday next Sunday, and we have heard some great thoughts about how to break down the walls of mediocrity in our lives. My prayer for you and me is that every one of us will never fall into mediocrity in any relationship we are in. Thanks for your time today and thanks to our producers and to our sponsors, especially Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, Hays Car and Truck Alignment, Auto World in Hays, and Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays. If you would like to request a song to be studied or want to comment on any of my comments, feel free to write me here at KJLS-FM, Hays, KS 67601 or e-mail me at frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website is frmikescully.com where you will find a transcript of the show and some meditations on the Gospels, these songs and some great movies. A reminder that you can join us on the web every Sunday morning at 10 wherever you are: simply choose hayspost.com on your internet provider and click on Mix 103.3 at 10 am CDT for another couple weeks anyway. Before we take our leave, one final thought from Wayne Gretzky of hockey fame: “You miss 100 percent of shots you never take.” Yes, indeed. As you listen to the number 1 song in our area, from Olivia Dean once again, her song “So Easy” and as we lead into it, may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music Mix 103.3 and our advice to you is, among the other things we have said, hold a good thought. From beautiful downtown Lawrence, KS, through likewise beautiful Hays, KS and to the world, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good!

1 SO EASY / Olivia Dean