KJLS-FM 103.3 10am Sundays
March 22, 2006
“What Can Make Us Happy”
Part 1
Good morning Central Kansas and around the world, and happy Spring to all of you as we celebrate the second last Sunday in March and the first Sunday of Spring, 2026. Thank you for joining us this morning and welcome to Mix 103’s unique top 10 show, “Message at the Top”. I am Fr. Mike, your host; get ready for top 10 songs of the past 46 years. We here at Mix 103 continue to give you only the very best in radio entertainment, / and that includes not only the songs that we play, but their messages as well.
This coming Saturday is Lady Gaga’s birthday when she will be 40 years old, and I thought it would be good to celebrate her birthday with a remembrance of a song from 2018. It was awarded a Grammy for best pop duo/group performance, and also nominated for Record of the Year, as well as Song of the Year and was from the artists and actors of the movie “A Star is Born.” “Tell me somethin’ girl,” the man sings, “are you happy in this modern world or do you need more? I’m falling.” And then the lady sings, “Tell me somethin’, boy, aren’t you tired tryin to fill that void? I’m falling.” So both are falling and both are searching. Of course, then, they find each other and apparently their searching brought about happiness and commitment.
It brings up the question of what can make us happy. Well, there is such a thing as a Happiness Report. I’m fascinated by that idea, and I have mentioned this before. The Happiness Report is determined by 14 different variables, for example income, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, trust and generosity. The Index in 2026 showed that Finland is the happiest country in the world for nine years in a row, with Denmark, Iceland, and Switzerland holding the next top positions this year.
Of interest, the United States is at number 24, Canada is at number 18, and the lowest rating at number 147 is Afghanistan.
All of that can be interesting, of course, but probably the more important thing for all of us is how we can be more happy than we are right now. Let’s see what the songs of our show say about that. We will be asking the question of what can make us happy as we think of Lady Gaga’s birthday, and speaking of that happiness here is the Grammy award winning Pop Duo Group Performance for 2018, from the movie “A Star is Born”, this is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, that is, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, the song, “Shallow” on MATT.
(double) SHALLOW / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
10 MUTT / Leon Thomas
Part 2
We’ll listen to our top 10 in countdown fashion this morning, and that was number 10 from Brooklyn-born Leon George Thomas III or just hip-hop artist Leon Thomas. He says of the song that the song along with the whole album named after the song was created shortly after a significant break-up. His ex had given him a dog and as he started working on the album, he began to notice similarities between his dog’s behavior and his own. Interesting. The album is called “Mutt” and the name of the song is the same. One of the things that he noticed was his desire for the feelings of love. “She said,” he begins his song, “’Take your time, what’s the rush?’ I said, ‘Baby, I’m a dog, I’m a mutt. Pardon my bluntness—I see pretty faces, so I got trouble trusting. But I’ll let my guard down for you, said I’ll be vulnerable so you can break my heart if you want to.” And, to his chagrin, she does. He’s using some chemicals to create the feelings of love, and it messes up his natural desires and actions. In terms of our theme, breakups will not make us happy, but it is something that we can learn from.
Let’s continue our countdown at number 9 which will begin a triple play. The song is “Aperture” and it is a song about emotional openness, vulnerability, and letting love and light into one’s life and a great song to study. The title—Aperture--refers to the adjustable opening in a camera lens that controls how much light enters an image, and in the song, it serves as a metaphor for the human heart and emotional openness. So, a song about personal growth, vulnerability and embracing the unknown. And the video acts out that message extremely well. And so the words reflect that journey. “It’s best that you know what you don’t,” he sings, “Aperture lets the light in. We belong together. It finally appears: it’s only love. I won’t stray from it: I don’t know these spaces. Time won’t wait on me. I wanna know what safe is.” His own explanation is that the song was inspired by his experiences, meeting new people, and immersing himself in music that encouraged freedom, openness and joy. He intended the song to reflect the power of embracing transitions, accepting flaws, and allowing positive change into one’s life. In terms of our theme this week, that is certainly a recipe for happiness. From his album “Kiss All the Time; Occasionally, Disco” this is Harry Styles at number 9 this week and “Aperture” on MATT.
(triple) 9 APERTURE / Harry Styles
HIGH HOPES / Panic! At the Disc0
YOU SAY / Lauren Daigle
Part 3
A beautiful sound, I believe, the song “You Say” from 2018 from Christian artist Lauren Daigle from her album “Look Up Child”, on MATT. Her song is an incredible song for the pop music charts. She begins her song: “I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I’m not enough. Every single lie that tells me I will never measure up. Am I more than just the sum of every high and every low? Remind me once again just who I am, because I need to know. You say I am loved when I can’t feel a thing. You say I am strong when I think I am weak. You say I am held when I am falling short. When I don’t belong, You (capital Y in the lyrics) say that I am Yours. And I believe what You say of me, I believe the only thing that matters now is everything You think of me. In You I find my worth, in You I find my identity.” So, a prayer actually to God full of hope in what God can do. You can easily see why a clergy person like me would like this song. I firmly believe that anyone turning to our Higher Being as she is there will bring about true happiness in their lives, our theme today.
Before her, we heard a number 1 song for a number of weeks, a great song about high hopes, in fact the name of the song from the year 2018 again. The group is Panic! At the Disco. Their song is an excellent song of meaning and excellent advice. “Had to have high hopes for living,” they sing, “shooting for the stars when I couldn’t make a killing. Didn’t have a dime but I always had a vision, always had high hopes. Mama said, fulfill the prophecy, be something greater, go make a legacy, rewrite your history, light up your wildest dreams.” Smart Mama, I believe, who is inspiring him. In terms of our theme, the way to be happy is to have great hope.
We have much more music and message to come on this second last Sunday of March Spring morning. In our next segment, we will hear more music from our top 10, of course, as well as music from Lukas Graham, Zayn Malik and his group One Direction. And here’s a thought about living from my quote manual and United States writer Ashley Brilliant: “Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.” Think about that! We may very well be living the best parts of our lives right now—that would improve our happiness level, to be sure. Our show is “Message at the Top”, I am Fr. Mike, and I hope your Sunday morning is a good one / and that we are making it even better. Don’t go way; “Message at the Top” on Mix 103 will be right back.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
Part 4
Welcome back to the top 10 show of Mix 103—top 10’s from the present and from the 2000’s, and even 90’s and 80’s as well. Our theme this Sunday morning has come from birthday person on Saturday, Ms Lady Gaga, and that theme is the thought of what can make us happy in our world. I am Fr. Mike and our show is MATT, and our plea to you on the show is to enjoy the music and listen to the messages. Those messages can often bring us to a happy life.
As promised, let’s go to Lukas Graham, that is Lukas Forchhammer and band from Copenhagen, Denmark. It is a beautiful love song with some pretty deep meaning. “You still look perfect as days go by,” he sings, “even the worst ones, you make me smile. I’d stop the world if it gave us time. ‘Cause when you love someone, you open up your heart, when you love someone you make room. If you love someone, and you’re not afraid to lose them, you probably never loved someone like I do. I thought it would be hard to find the one ‘til I found you. And I find it bittersweet ‘cause you gave me something to lose.” I believe that is a great thought about love—when you love someone you are always afraid to lose them. As we think of what can make us happy, certainly as we are in love we will always want to count on the love, but we will always be careful that we keep it. This is the group Lukas Graham and their song “Love Someone” from 2018 on MATT.
(double) LOVE SOMEONE / Lukas Graham
8 THE FATE OF OPHELIA / Taylor Swift
Part 5
The number 8 song from Taylor Swift’s album “The Life of a Showgirl,” and the song “The Fate of Ophelia”, the first song that we’ll hear from that album. As we have explained over the many weeks it has been in the top 10—it entered the top 10 last October—it cleverly involves a study of one of the plays of William Shakespeare, namely his play “Hamlet” and Hamlet’s once-upon-a-time presumed future wife Ophelia. In the story, Mr. Shakespeare has Ophelia drown herself after a rejection from Prince Hamlet and after her father’s death at the hands of Hamlet. So a tragic situation, but the song writes a different ending. The song is a powerful anthem about being rescued from the brink of emotional and psychological collapse by an all-consuming lover. He brings about a true resurrection for her and according to the people who should know about such things, as I have said, resembles the likes of her famous current boyfriend. “Late one night,” she sings, “you dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.” It is exactly what is supposed to happen if there is a deep love of each other, and if the feelings are true, they have certainly found the love they desire, and something that will make both of them very happy, our theme today.
Let’s continue our countdown with another triple play beginning it with our number 7 song at the present time. It is a song about the fact that the couple have given themselves completely to each other physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends, and that is a contradiction. He sings, “How can we go back to being friends when we just shared a bed? How can you look at me and pretend I’m someone you’ve never met?” It seems as though the lady in the relationship wants to have a breakup or at least a temporary time apart, but the two have already made it clear that they are committed to each other. It is unfortunately a common enough experience. In terms of our theme, once you find the love you are looking for, it is important to keep it as a true guide, and to get out of it will not make the couple very happy, our theme today. Good song to study. Number 7 in our countdown here on MATT: Shane Michael Boose, better known as sombr, from his album “I Barely Know Her” and his song “Back to Friends” on MATT.
(triple) 7 BACK TO FRIENDS / sombr
STORY OF MY LIFE / One Direction
I DON’T WANNA LIVE FOREVER / Zayn/Swift
Part 6
Zayn Malik, once upon a time from the band One Direction who we heard before that song, and Taylor Swift, and their song “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” from 2017. It is from the soundtrack of the movie “Fifty Shades Darker” and the song of two people in love, and apparently both of them feel that they have really hurt the relationship, and wonder whether it will be something that can heal. It is the subject of meditation on my website on Wednesday. Both of them sing: “I don’t wanna live forever ‘cause I know I’ll be livin’ in vain; and I don’t wanna fit wherever; I just wanna keep callin’ your name until you come back home.” Sounds like they both have to bite the bullet and simply talk with each other, and that is without a doubt something that can make people happy, our theme today.
Before them, as we just said, we heard the five member and then four member group One Direction who were founded in London England in 2010 and went on a hiatus in 2016. It is from their album “Midnight Memories,” and their song “Story of My Life” from 2013. It is a sad song about how things sometimes do not happen correctly. “Written in these walls,” they sing, “are the stories that I can’t explain. I leave my heart open but it stays right here empty for days. She told me in the morning she don’t feel the same about us in her bones, seems to me that when I die, these words will be written on my stone. And I’ll be gone, gone tonight. The story of my life: I take her home, I drive all night to keep her warm, and time is frozen: I give her hope, I spend her love until she’s broke inside.” Like I say, a little sad, sounding like the person is close to despair. In answer to our theme question: what should make us happy, we would say: learn to work with the sadness that will be part of our lives.
The thought of what can make us happy is the title of our show this morning as we are looking at the top 10 and some top 10 songs of the past. Our next segment of music and message will explore that theme with music from the past in the persons of the bands 5SOS and lovelytheband and top 10 music at the present time from numbers 4, 5 and 6. Let me close this segment with a thought specifically about being happy. It comes from Goldie Hawn: “The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.” Pretty good stuff. I’m Fr. Mike, listen to these great thoughts, and then I hope you come back for more.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
Part 7
Good morning, everyone. This is “Message at the Top”, on Mix 103. Thank you for joining us again on 100,000 watts of power. I am Fr. Mike, and our show gives you the top 10 songs of our area, as well as some top 10 of the past. And what is amazing about them is that with a little bit of help, those songs can actually teach us something about ourselves and about our behavior. The topic of our show today is the thought of what can make us happy. It came from birthday person on Saturday Lady Gaga and her song that she sang with Bradley Cooper, “Shallow.”
In our playlist today is the group 5 Seconds of Summer. They sing here: “Remember the words you told me, ‘love me till the day I die’, Surrender my everything ‘cause you made me believe you’re mine. Yeah, you used to call me baby, now you’re calling me by name. You push and I’m pulling away from you. I give and you take. Youngblood, say you want me out of your life, but you need it, all of the time. Youngblood, say you want me back in your life, so I’m just a dead man crawling tonight ‘cause I need it all of the time.” It is a song addressed to “Youngblood” which is probably a generic name for all young people saying a great message: if you say something you had better mean it. It is one of the most important ways to show that you actually are happy, our theme today. This is from 5 Seconds of Summer, or 5SOS and their song “Youngblood” on MATT.
(triple) YOUNGBLOOD / 5SOS
BROKEN / lovelytheband
6 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND / Raye
Part 8
The close of yet another triple play with our number 6 song this morning. It comes from Raye, a British singer/songwriter whose real name is Rachel Agatha Keen from her album “This Music May Contain Hope,” and her song “Where is My Husband” on MATT. It is a song of desire for a partner in her life, or as she says in a traditional way, a husband. “Where is my husband,” the lady sings, “Why is this beautiful man waiting for me to get old? Why he already testing my patience? I only fear he taking time with other women that ain’t me / while I’ve been reviewing applications. Wait til I get my hands on him. I’ma tell him off too for how long he kept me waiting, anticipating, praying to the Lord to give him to my loving arms. And despite my frustrations. And he must need me completely. Help me, Lord. I need you to tell me.” I describe it as a tongue-in-cheek desire to find where love is, the desire of a lady to find a person who truly loves her, a statement, I believe, of someone’s need for romantic love. In terms of our theme this week, searching for and finally finding that love will certainly make us happy.
Before her, we heard from the group lovelytheband from the album “Finding it Hard to Smile” and their song “Broken” from the year 2017. The couple in the relationship that they sing about are both trying to get over loneliness by spending time together. “I like that you’re broken,” they sing, “broken like me. Maybe that makes me a fool. I like that you’re lonely, lonely like me, I could be lonely with you.” They met at a party, and they sing “These aren’t my people, these aren’t my friends. She grabbed my face and said I like that you’re broken, broken like me, lonely like me.” So, both of them lonely and broken, but you get the feeling that they will not remain that way very long. In terms of our theme, the only way they will be happy in their lives is for both of them to work at that relationship in order to overcome the feelings of loneliness and brokenness.
Continuing our top 10, we go into the top 5 and a song that has been on our countdown for quite a while. It is a song which talks of an “ordinary” love relationship and says that what he has for a friend of his is not part of “the ordinary.” He begins with the thought that everything is pretty much ordinary: “They say ‘The holy water’s watered down and this town’s lost its faith. Our colors will fade eventually.” But he has a solution; he continues: “So, if our time is runnin’ out day after day, we’ll make the mundane our masterpiece.” Right there, as I have said, is a great description of how to make a love relationship be a necessary part of true love--make the mundane happenings so special that they become masterpieces, and if we learn to do that, it will make us quite happy, our theme today. From his album “You’ll Be Alright, Kid” this is 25 year old Alexander Warren Hughes or simply Alex Warren, and his song “Ordinary”, number 5 on our countdown this week on MATT.
(triple) 5 ORDINARY / Alex Warren
HAPPIER / Marshmallo
4 OPALITE / Taylor Swift
Part 9
Number 4 this morning comes from Taylor Swift again. It is from her album “The Life of a Showgirl” again, and her song “Opalite” on MATT. She says that she has always loved opals. Opal is also Travis Kelce’s birthstone, Travis being Taylor Swift’s fiance. In the song, she took inspiration from the facts connected with opals, saying that opalite is a metaphor for the idea that happiness can be created voluntarily. Opal is also believed to symbolically represent hope, healing and positive energy. She sings: “Life is a song, it ends when it ends; I was wrong, but alright, you were dancing through the lightning strikes, but now the sky is opalite.” The song is about the lady’s state of mind and being perfectly content with what is happening. And if she is perfectly content, you can bet that it is part of what makes her happy.
Before her, we heard from the man who calls himself Marshmallo, without the “w”, that is Christopher Comstock and his song “Happier”. It featured the English rock group Bastille. The video is an inspiring story, but the song uses the thought of a way to make a person happier, the name of the song. And it’s really a very sad song because the way he is going to make his girlfriend happier is to leave the relationship. “Lately, I’ve been thinking,” he begins the song, “I want you to be happier. With all that has happened, I think that we both know the way that the story ends. Know that means I’ll have to leave. Lately, I’ve been thinking I want you to be happier. So, I’ll go.” I look at it as the ultimate decision in romantic love—to let someone go since they want it. It is a valiant decision and my guess is that his life will indeed be happy our theme today, because of his attitude of love but only in the future.
Our final segment is up next for you with some music from another birthday person and also the top 3 songs in our land this week according to Mediabase 24-7. Leading us to break, here is a thought from Wilson Mizner: “Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.” Words of wisdom, there, and something that will make all of us happy. I’m Fr. Mike, our show is MATT, this excellent radio station is Mix 103, and we’ll be right back.
If it is in the top 10, you will hear it here—on the MATT music network. Good morning, everyone. We are back for your top 10 show on Mix 103 that gives you the songs as well as their messages. I’m your host Fr. Mike. Thanks for taking the time to join us today. Our plea to you as usual is to enjoy the music—which you are doing, or else you wouldn’t be here, but to listen to the message so it can help you in life. Our final segment includes the talents of birthday person Mariah Carey, Olivia Dean, Bruno Mars and Huntr/X.
Besides Lady Gaga, there is another famous music person whose birthday is this week. Her name is Mariah Carey and she will be 57 years old this Friday. She is one of the best selling music artists of all time with over 220 million records sold worldwide. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and her accolades include five Grammy awards, 10 American Music Awards and 14 Billboard Music Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008. One talented artist, and let’s dedicate our segment 10 presentation to her this morning.
First in this triple play of her songs is a love song basically extolling the beauty of a young lady. “Hop on the back of my bike,” the man in the relationship sings, “Let the good wind blow through your hair. Ride on through the middle of the night, let the moonlight kiss your skin. You’re beautiful, and your mind is beautiful. And I can’t pretend that that doesn’t mean a thing to me. I like when you run red lights, don’t stop ‘til you thrill me. Take me anywhere ‘cause it’s beautiful.” Strong emotions caused by the feelings of the people involved. As we think with our theme of what will make us happy, good feelings make a person act and think better, to be sure, but we have to remember, as I say often, true love is more than simply feelings. Mariah Carey here singing along with American rapper Miguel, and their song from 2013 and her album “Me: I Am Mariah”, “#Beautiful” on MATT.
(triple) # BEAUTIFUL / Mariah Carey
LOVE TAKES TIME / Mariah Carey
WE BELONG TOGETHER / Mariah Carey
Part 11
Closing off a triple play from birthday person Mariah Carey, and her song “We Belong Together” from 2005 from her album “The Emancipation of Mimi” on MATT. “When you left,” she sang, “I lost a part of me. It’s still so hard to believe. Come back, baby, please, ‘cause we belong together. Who else am I gonna lean on when times get rough. Who’s gonna talk to me on the phone till the sun comes up. Who’s gonna take your place. There ain’t nobody better. We belong together.” The scenario is one that we frequently have in these songs. She is completely convinced that they belong together, but you’re not sure that he is. As we work with our theme this morning that we have called “what will make us happy,” one of things that we have to learn in life is that not everything that we want will make us happy and we simply must adjust to the circumstances.
Before her, her again—Mariah Carey and her song “Love Takes Time,” one of the top songs of 1990, from her album named after her. Time is one of the things that is so necessary when we really want to know another person. You can’t know a person overnight. The story line of this song is a common one: she sings of someone who has let the love of her life slip away, and now she is trying to cope with the pain, and it is extremely difficult to do, as you listen to her. It simply takes time, and she has to learn that. As we consider some things that will make us happy, the knowledge of the title of that song is one of them—love takes time, and we must allow for that time.
From 1990, we travel to 2026—March 22 of that year, today—and the top 3 songs as we speak. At number 3 is the Academy Award winning Best Song of the Year. It comes from the Korean movie and music of Huntr/X, three talented Korean ladies and the theme of a Netflix film that follows a Korean girls group—Huntr/X—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “I was a ghost, I was alone, given the throne; I didn’t know how to behave, I was the queen that I’m meant to be. I lived two lives, tried to play both sides, but I couldn’t find my own place. Called a problem child ‘cause I got too wild. But now that’s how I’m getting paid. We’re going up, it’s our moment. You know together we’re glowin, gonna be golden. I’m done hidin’ now, I’m shinin’ like I’m born to be, oh, our time, no fears, no lies, that’s who we’re born to be.” As I have said with the song, it sounds like a song of determination to do the right thing, and in terms of our theme, if one is always trying to do the right thing, it will bring happiness . This is Huntr/X from the soundtrack of the best animated feature of this year according to the Oscars, “KPop Demon Hunters” and their song at number 3, former number 1, “Golden” on MATT.
(double) 3 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
2 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
Part 12
Falling from the number 1 position, now at number 2, “I Just Might” from his album “The Romantic”, Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez on MATT. It is a song of wanting another to show her love for him by good dancing. “It would break my heart,” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” It is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, but some general thoughts on dancing might be in order as we think of the song. As usual with him—Bruno Mars—the song has quite a good dance video. In terms of our theme this week, dancing usually makes people happy.
And returning to the number 1 position, from London, England, Olivia Dean, coming from the album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “Man I Need”. The whole song is the statement of what I call the virtue which is most needed in any relationship, namely, communication. “Talk to me,” she begins her song, “looks like we’re making up for lost time; need you to spell it out for me. Don’t be shy, just come be the man I need. Tell me you got something to give. I want it. I kinda like when you call me wonderful, whatever the type of talk it is. Come on then, I gotta know you’re meant to be the man I need. Talk to me. I’d like to think you feel the same way, but I can’t tell with you sometimes. So, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication, and she gives the reason why. In terms of our theme this week, if a couple have achieved perfect communication, and they are inclined toward love, they will both be very happy.
Our thought today has revolved around that idea of what will make us happy. It came from a song of Lady Gaga whose birthday is Saturday, the name of the song being “Shallow” which she sings with Bradley Cooper. My prayer for you and me is that we will all develop lives that will make us truly happy. My thanks to the producers of “Message at the Top,” to the staff here at Mix 103, and to our sponsors, Hays Car and Truck Alignment, a great place for your car or truck, Auto World in Hays, my friends at TMP-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays, and at Holy Family Elementary School in Hays. If you have any suggestions for me, or if you want to comment on anything I have said, feel free to write me here at KJLS-FM, Hays, KS 67601 or e-mail me at frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website is www.frmikescully.com where you will find meditations on the Gospels and these songs and some great movies and a transcript of the show. You can catch us on the web every Sunday morning at www.hayspost.com and choosing Mix 103 at 10 am CDT. One final thought leads us out. It comes from Wayne Huizenga: “Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.” Indeed. As Olivia Dean and her song “Man I Need” leads us out, may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music, Mix 103 and our final advice to you is to hold a good thought. As we celebrate Spring, my name is Fr. Mike Scully, and from the beautiful state of West Virginia through downtown Lawrence, KS, be safe, peace to you, and be good!
1 MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean
March 15, 2026
“Where is the Love”
Part 1
Hello, Central Kansas, and around the world. Thank you for being with us on our show, which we call MATT, this middle Sunday of the Spring month of March. Happy Spring as we begin that season on Friday and Happy March Madness if you are interested in basketball as I am. Welcome to Mix 103’s unique top 10 show. I am Fr. Mike, your host; get ready for top 10 songs of the past 46 years including today. We here at Mix 103 continue to give you only the very best in radio entertainment, / and that includes not only the songs that we play, but their messages as well. This morning, we have some great songs all warmed up on our computers, including of course our current top 10 here at Mix 103 and a thought to guide us from Mr. will.i.am.
Today is William James Adam Jr.’s birthday—the big 5-0 years old now. He is better known as will.i.am and founder of the Black Eyed Peas, and I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to play one of my favorite songs from them. "What's wrong with the world, mama?” they begin the song, “People livin' like they ain't got no mamas. I think the whole world is addicted to the drama, only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma. Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism, but we still got terrorists here livin' in the USA. But if you only have love for your own race, then you only leave space to discriminate, and to discriminate only generates hate, and when you hate then you're bound to get irate. Madness is what you demonstrate, and that's exactly how anger works and operates. Man, you gotta have love just to set it straight. Take control of your mind and meditate. Let your soul gravitate to the love. People killin’, people dyin’, children hurt and you hear them cryin’. Can you practice what you preach, and would you turn the other cheek. Father help us. Send some guidance from above ‘cause people got me questionin’ where is the love, where is the love.”
And so from the song may I say to all of us:
- our world is addicted to trauma in one way or another, and the job of leaders is to make sure that the trauma does not destroy our world or our neighborhoods;
- terrorism is a real problem, and one of the ways to stop it is to realize that discrimination leads to hatred, and we should realize that our first movement is to love people rather than automatically not trust them;
- we need to control anger, and not give in to it, and make the last state worse than the first;
- we should spend time meditating on life and how we can live a little better;
- we should say strong things when necessary, but we always have to practice what we preach, check our facts, and if we have to turn the other cheek, we should, but not allow ourselves to be too hurt in the process;
- most of all, we should pray, asking for guidance and most of all how to learn to love everyone, all the time, no matter what.
Yes, I know—a lot of that is difficult, and everyone else may not follow through with thinking this way, and so we have to be careful, but at least we must allow for guidance from others and God.
Such are the thoughts of a great song, and our lead today. Happy birthday, Mr. will.i.am--from their album “Elephunk”, a super song from 2003, the group Black Eyed Peas, our theme and their song: “Where Is the Love” on MATT.
(double) WHERE IS THE LOVE / Black Eyed Peas
I GOTTA FEELING / Black Eyed Peas
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Wishing Happy Birthday to will.i.am with another song from Black Eyed Peas, MATT presents from the year 2010, from their album named “The E.N.D.”, and their song “I Gotta Feeling”. “I gotta feeling,” they sing, “that tonight’s gonna be a good night. Tonight’s the night, let’s live it up, I got my money, let’s spend it up. Go out and smash it, let’s kick it off. I know that we’ll have a ball, if we get down and go out and just lose it all. I feel stressed out, I wanna let it go, let’s go way out, spaced out, and losing all control.” The people in the song are certainly going to have a good time, and as I have mentioned several times on this show, there’s nothing wrong with having a good time. And in terms of our theme today, one of the ways to find love is to be happy about life and ourselves. Incidentally, the performance of this song on YouTube with Oprah Winfrey is absolutely phenomenal, and you really ought to watch it.
Let’s go right into our countdown for today, March 15, 2026. At number 10 is a song of a breakup which in my opinion as we study the circumstances, should happen. The lady in the relationship seems to have done things right in trying to establish whether the man is being honest with her or not. She has checked with a friend and then takes the time to talk to him directly. “Thought I might love you again,” she sings, “I’ll see how I feel. Now that you’re acting like that, I never will. Last night, she answered my call, it sealed the deal. Right now, I’m not even about you. The day I met you, I thought it was a blessing, In the heat of it, I always took your side. It’s a shame you out here tryna make it messy. We were good, I thought we made it through the ending. Could have picked it up exactly where we left it, took our future off your plate. Let’s go tit for tat, you asked for that. I was never as far away as you thought.” And then she breaks it off. In terms of our theme this week, sometimes a breakup is needed for personal growth when no love can be found. From her album “So Close to What,” a song rumored to be a song that is in response to one her ex boyfriend wrote, the name of her song “Tit For Tat,” Tate McRae, number 10 this week on MATT.
(triple) 10 TIT FOR TAT / Tate McRae
9 THE FATE OF OPHELIA / Taylor Swift
8 APERTURE / Harry Styles
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Number 8 this week on MATT from his latest album “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally,” Harry Styles and his song “Aperture” and a great song to study. It is a song about emotional openness, vulnerability, and letting love and light into one’s life. The title—Aperture--refers to the adjustable opening in a camera lens that controls how much light enters an image, and in the song, it serves as a metaphor for the human heart and emotional openness. So, a song about personal growth, vulnerability and embracing the unknown. And the video acts out that message extremely well. And so the words reflect that journey. “It’s best that you know what you don’t,” he sings, “Aperture lets the light in. We belong together. It finally appears: it’s only love. I won’t stray from it: I don’t know these spaces. Time won’t wait on me. I wanna know what safe is.” His own explanation is that the song was inspired by his experiences in Berlin, meeting new people, and immersing himself in music that encouraged freedom, openness and joy. He intended the song to reflect the power of embracing transitions, accepting flaws, and allowing positive change into one’s life. In terms of our theme this week, when looking for true love, there must be a real love of self that is not selfishness.
Before him, we heard number 9, the first song from Taylor Swift’s album “The Life of a Showgirl,” and the song “The Fate of Ophelia”. As we have explained over the many weeks it has been in the top 10, it cleverly involves a study of one of the plays of William Shakespeare, namely his play “Hamlet” and Hamlet’s once-upon-a-time presumed future wife Ophelia. In the story, Mr. Shakespeare has Ophelia drown herself after a rejection from Prince Hamlet and after her father’s death at the hands of Hamlet. So a tragic situation, but the song writes a different ending. The song is a powerful anthem about being rescued from the brink of emotional and psychological collapse by an all-consuming lover. He brings about a true resurrection for her and according to the people who should know about such things, as I have said, resembles the likes of her famous current boyfriend. “Late one night,” she sings, “you dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.” It is exactly what is supposed to happen if there is a deep love of each other, and if the feelings are true, they have certainly found the love they desire.
We have more of MATT in just a second or two—well, maybe a little longer. In our next segment, we will be able to listen to sombr and Raye from our top 10, and also music from Billie Eilish, Charli XCX and Dean Lewis. / Leading us to break, here’s a thought from author Collin Powell: “Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.” Good thought, one of the important elements of showing love in our world. Our show is “Message at the Top”, I am Fr. Mike, and I hope your last Sunday of Winter morning 2026 is a good one. Don’t go way; “Message at the Top” on today’s best music Mix 103 will be right back.
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It is great to have you back with us. Thank you for joining us this morning, and we welcome you back to the top 10 songs of the present and the past on this almost Spring Sunday morning. I’m Fr. Mike, your host for the only top 10 show of its kind in this area, the show that takes the top songs and explains their messages, and then we call the show “Message at the Top.” Our continual plea to you is to enjoy the music and listen to the message because that message can actually help us change our lives for the better. The theme of our show this morning was given to us by birthday person will.i.am and his group Black Eyed Peas, that theme being determining what love would do with any situation.
Let’s begin this segment with 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. As we think with the theme of finding love, sometimes we have to give up a temporary feeling of love to find a real love. This is a singer / songwriter from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Mr. Dean Lewis and from his album “A Place We Knew”, his song “Be Alright” from 2018 on MATT.
(double) BE ALRIGHT/ Dean Lewis
7 BACK TO FRIENDS / sombr
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We are up to number 7 in our countdown here on MATT, and you just heard it: Shane Michael Boose, better known as sombr and his song “Back to Friends” from his album “I Barely Know Her,” and a song about the fact that they have given themselves completely to each other 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, once you find the love you are looking for, it is important to keep it as a true guide. Good song to study.
Yet another triple play for you now, and we begin it with our number 6 song this morning. It is a song of desire for a partner in her life, or as she says in a traditional way, a husband. “Where is my husband,” the lady sings, “Why is this beautiful man waiting for me to get old? Why he already testing my patience? I only fear he taking time with other women that ain’t me / while I’ve been reviewing applications. Wait til I get my hands on him. I’ma tell him off too for how long he kept me waiting, anticipating, praying to the Lord to give him to my loving arms. And despite my frustrations. And he must need me completely. Help me, Lord. I need you to tell me.” I describe it as a tongue-in-cheek desire to find where love is, the desire of a lady to find a person who truly loves her, a statement, I believe of someone’s need for romantic love. In terms of our theme this week, we need to keep searching for love in our lives. The number 6 song from Raye, a British singer/songwriter whose real name is Rachel Agatha Keen from her album “This Music May Contain Hope,” and her song “Where is My Husband” on MATT.
(triple) 6 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND / Raye
BIRDS OF A FEATHER / Billie Eilish
BOOM CLAP / Charli XCX
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British singer/songwriter Charlotte Emma Aitchison there better known as Charli XCX from the soundtrack of the inspirational movie “The Fault in Our Stars,” from 2014, “Boom Clap” on MATT. She sings: “Boom, Clap, the sound of my heart. The beat goes on and on and you make me feel good. Come on to me now. No silver or no gold could dress me up so good. You’re the glitter in the darkness of my world. Just tell me what to do. I’ll fall right into you, going under, cast a spell, just say the word. I feel your love.” True commitment to another is the theme of the song, and my thought from it is that if true love, our theme today, is present in a romantic relationship, the commitment will be real.
Before her, we heard from Billie Eilish from her album “Hit Me Hard and Soft”, and her song “Birds of a Feather”, number 5 of my songs of meaning from 2024. It is a song about falling in love with a person that she wants to "stick together" with. The love to her significant other brings her to tears and begs the lover to never end their relationship. “I want you to stay 'til I'm in the grave”, she begins, “'til I rot away, dead and buried, ‘til I'm in the casket you carry. If you go, I'm goin' too / 'cause it was always you and if I'm turnin' blue, please don't save me. Nothin' left to lose without my baby. Birds of a feather we should stick together. And I don't know what I'm cryin' for; I don't think I could love you more. It might not be long, but I'll love you 'til the day that I die, ‘til the light leaves my eyes, ‘til the day that I die.” The lady in the relationship is truly committed to the other and if it is true love, our theme today, presuming that the other in the relationship feels the same way, that commitment will stay there, and they will be happy together.
Our next segment of music and message will explore that theme of finding true love with top 10 music from in order of appearance The Weeknd, Hozier, Alex Warren, the trio Huntrix, the band Mumford & Sons and Pharrell Williams. Let me close this segment with a quote from D. H. Lawrence, one that I have used before and a quote about love to really think about: “Some people don’t know how to love, and that’s why they love so easily.” We have to really work at love for it to be real. I’m Fr. Mike, listen to these great thoughts, and then I hope you come back for more.
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Good morning, everyone. This is “Message at the Top” on Mix 103. Happy middle Sunday of March to all of you. Thank you for joining us again on 100,000 watts of power. I am Fr. Mike, and our show gives you the top 10 songs of our area, as well as some top 10 of the past. And what is amazing about them is that with a little bit of help, those songs can actually teach us something about ourselves and about our behavior. The topic of our show today is the theme we took from birthday person will.i.am and his band Black Eyed Peas and that theme is answering the question where is the love in the situation of our songs.
Beginning our second hour and another triple play is Abel Makkonen Testfaye, Canadian singer /songwriter better known as The Weeknd. He sings: “And I know she'll be the death of me; at least we'll both be numb. And she'll always get the best of me; the worst is yet to come. But at least we'll both be beautiful and stay forever young, this I know. She told me, ‘Don't worry about it’. She told me, ‘Don't worry no more. We both knew we can't go without it. She told me you'll never be in love. I can't feel my face when I'm with you, but I love it.” He is completely enamored with the lady in the relationship. That is a good thing of course for him, but one hopes that the lady shares the same feelings. If she does, it will be true love and both of them will experience love as truly influencing their lives, our theme today since their love is real. This is his song “Can’t Feel My Face”, a Grammy award winning song from a Grammy award winning album namely, “Beauty Behind the Madness” from 2015 on MATT.
(triple) CAN’T FEEL MY FACE / The Weeknd
TOO SWEET / Hozier
5 ORDINARY / Alex Warren
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Back to our countdown, from his album “You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1)” that was 25 year old Alexander Warren Hughes or simply Alex Warren, and his song “Ordinary”, number 5 on our countdown this week on MATT, and likewise a song that has been on our countdown for quite a while. It is a song which talks of an “ordinary” love relationship and says that what he has for a friend of his is not part of “the ordinary.” He begins with the thought that everything is pretty much ordinary: “They say ‘The holy water’s watered down and this town’s lost its faith. Our colors will fade eventually.” But he has a solution; he continues: “So, if our time is runnin’ out day after day, we’ll make the mundane our masterpiece.” Right there, as I have said, is a great description of how to make a love relationship be a necessary part of true love--make the mundane happenings so special that they become masterpieces, and if we learn to do that, we are ready for the commitment and we will have found true love, our Theme today. Before him, we heard my number 6 of all the songs of meaning of 2025, from Irish singer/songwriter Andrew John Hozier-Byrne, better known simply as Hozier, and his song “Too Sweet”. We are celebrating his birthday this Tuesday when he will be 36 years old. It is a song about a man in a relationship talking of the lifestyle of each of the partners. His own is a late-night one along with a little too much relaxation / and the partner is an early bird with a cautious lifestyle. “It can’t be said I’m an early bird, it’s ten o’clock before I say a word. I can never tell how you sleep so well. You keep telling me to live right, to go to bed before the daylight, but then you wake up for the sunrise. But while in this world, I think I’ll take my whiskey neat, my coffee black and my bed at three. You’re too sweet for me.” We have mentioned before that opposites sometimes attract when people are discovering love, but not often, and what does the song teach about love, our theme today? Well, the two had better do some compromising and if they don’t, they should move on in life.
Yet another triple play is up for us next beginning with a song that has been number 1 altogether for four weeks, and now is at number 4. It comes from the Korean movie and music of Huntr/X, three talented Korean ladies and the theme of a Netflix film that follows a Korean girls group—Huntr/X—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “I was a ghost, I was alone, given the throne; I didn’t know how to behave, I was the queen that I’m meant to be. I lived two lives, tried to play both sides, but I couldn’t find my own place. Called a problem child ‘cause I got too wild. But now that’s how I’m getting paid. We’re going up, it’s our moment. You know together we’re glowin, gonna be golden. I’m done hidin’ now, I’m shinin’ like I’m born to be, oh, our time, no fears, no lies, that’s who we’re born to be.” As I have said with the song, it sounds like a song of determination to do the right thing, and in terms of our theme, sometimes such altruistic thoughts will lead to true love. This is Huntr/X from the soundtrack of the movie “Kpop Demon Hunters” and their song at number 4 “Golden” on MATT.
(triple) 4 GOLDEN / Huntr/X
I WILL WAIT / Mumford & Sons
HAPPY / Pharrell
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The song featured on my website today www.frmikescully.com and the song “Happy” on MATT. It was from the soundtrack of the movie “Despicable Me, 2”. The only way to describe it is with its title. It is sung by Pharrell Williams better known simply as Pharrell. “Because I’m happy, clap along if you feel like a room without a roof. Because I’m happy, clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth. Because I’m happy, clap along if you know what happiness is to you. Because I’m happy, clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do. Can’t nothing bring me down.” One of the ways to work out a good plan in life is to adopt a basically happy attitude toward that life, and we put that together with our theme, we will be happy in love, and we will have found true love.
Before him, we heard the band Mumford & Sons from England from their album “Babel” and their song “I Will Wait”, and they are still active on the music scene. It seems to be a song of recognizing a problem of the past and now the man in the relationship is promising that the future will be different, and he will wait until she comes back. “Well I came home,” they sing the thoughts of the man, “like a stone and I fell heavy into your arms. These days of dust which we’ve known will blow away with this new sun. But I’ll kneel down, wait for now, and I’ll kneel down, know my ground, and I will wait for you. So break my step and relent. We forgive and I won’t forget. Know what we’ve seen. I will wait for you. I’ll be bold as well as strong and use my head alongside my heart.” That’s a good line—we often use only our hearts and that can cause problems. In fact, in terms of our theme, as we search for true love, we will find it only when our hearts and our heads agree on whether the love is present or not.
We have more of the top 10 songs that have graced the charts this week and over the past 46 years right after this break. Our quotation for this segment is attributed to Benjamin Franklin: “The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” Amen! And if you do, you will truly discover a love of country. Don’t go way. I’m Fr. Mike, happy St. Patrick’s day on Tuesday. This is “Message at the Top” on Mix 103.
My name is Fr. Mike and this is “Message at the Top” on 100,000 watts of power, today’s best music, Mix 103, our only top 10 show that gives you the music of the 2000’s, and even 90’s and 80’s along with all of their messages. And we make the statement: enjoy the music and listen to the messages because the messages probably will help our lives. The title of our show this middle Sunday of March morning is the question, “Where is the love”. We continue studying the songs of our show with that theme.
Another birthday that we are celebrating today is the founder and lead singer of the group Maroon 5. Adam Noah Levine was born in LA and will be 47 years old on Wednesday. Let’s dedicate our segment 10 to Maroon 5. We’ll begin with a song about a person saying to a friend, that “I won’t go home without you.” They sing: “I may not make it through the night”. It is a song of pain and speaks of a relationship that just didn’t work out, but the man in the relationship is determined to get it to work again. “I asked her to stay but she wouldn't listen. She left before I had the chance to say the words that would mend the things that were broken. But now it's far too late, she's gone away. Every night you cry yourself to sleep, thinking: ‘Why does this happen to me? Why does every moment have to be so hard?’ Just give me one more chance to make it right.” In the video to the song, he has to go home without her, and the video points out how difficult it is to work out the love relationship after something has happened—in this case, after something was said. The scene is not a happy one, and working it into our theme this morning, they could work on improving their love it would seem, but it will take some doing. This is Maroon 5 from their album “It Won’t Be Soon Before Long,” and their song “Won’t Go Home Without You” from 2007 on MATT.
(triple) WON’T GO HOME WITHOUT YOU / Maroon 5
DON’T WANNA KNOW / Maroon 5 f/ Kendrick Lamar
GIVE A LITTLE MORE / Maroon 5
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The close of a triple play from the band Maroon 5 as we celebrate Adam Levine’s birthday this Wednesday, from their album “Hands All Over”, and their song from 2010, “Give a Little More” on MATT. What makes it such a good song of meaning is their stress on giving. In the story of the song, the girl left the man in the relationship, and now he is feeling the pain of departure. “I’m all alone,” they sing the thoughts of the man, “I’m waiting for something, always waiting, feeling nothing, wondering if it’ll ever change, and then I give a little more. I’m not falling in love with you, ‘til I get a little more from you. You were wrong for turning me on and on and on, you make it so hard. I have no defense, I know you’re gonna get me in the end, and I cannot pretend I never want to feel this way again.” And so in order to get a little more, he is going to give a little more—and that is an important part of love. Tying it into our theme, there is love where there is a lot of giving.
Before them, them again—Maroon 5, this time with Kendrick Lamar and a song from 2017, a song of pretending that what is happening really isn’t happening, / and that is a disaster in a love relationship. Their song “Don’t Wanna Know” from 2016 from their album “Red Pill Blues”. “I don’t wanna know,” they sing, “who’s taking you home and loving you so / the way I used to love you.” He’s spending his time drinking which does not solve the problem, of course and he’s wondering whether she is thinking of him and whether she’s happy. But he continues to say that he doesn’t want to know. So, he is into denial, and it only causes more pain. Looking at the song from our theme, denial of what is happening can never help anyone find love.
And we go to our top 3 as of today, March 15, 2026, and number 3 comes from Taylor Swift again. She says that she has always loved opals. Opal is also Travis Kelce’s birthstone, Travis being Taylor Swift’s fiance. In the song, she took inspiration from the facts connected with opals, saying that opalite is a metaphor for the idea that happiness can be created voluntarily. Opal is also believed to symbolically represent hope, healing and positive energy. She sings: “Life is a song, it ends when it ends; I was wrong, but alright, you were dancing through the lightning strikes, but now the sky is opalite.” The song is about the lady’s state of mind and being perfectly content with what is happening. And if she is perfectly content, it is an example of the two having found love, our theme today. At number 3, the second song from her album “The Life of a Showgirl”, and “Opalite” on MATT.
(double) 3 OPALITE / Taylor Swift
2 MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean
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From London, England, Olivia Dean, coming from the album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “Man I Need” on MATT, number 2 this week on MATT. The whole song is the statement of what I call the virtue which is most needed in any relationship, namely, communication. “Talk to me,” she begins her song, “looks like we’re making up for lost time; need you to spell it out for me. Don’t be shy, just come be the man I need. Tell me you got something to give. I want it. I kinda like when you call me wonderful, whatever the type of talk it is. Come on then, I gotta know you’re meant to be the man I need. Talk to me. I’d like to think you feel the same way, but I can’t tell with you sometimes. So, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication, and she gives the reason why. In terms of our theme this week, if a couple have achieved perfect communication, and they are inclined toward love, they will have truly found the love they desire.
And our new number 1 is from Bruno Mars or his real name of Peter Gene Hernandez, and his song “I Just Might ”from his album “The Romantic”. It is a song of wanting another to show her love for him by good dancing. “It would break my heart,” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” It is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, but some general thoughts on dancing might be in order as we think of the song. As usual with him—Bruno Mars—the song has quite a good dance video. In terms of our theme this week, dancing can lead the couple to discover that there’s is the love they desire.
Today we have spoken about that thought of finding love in our world right now. It came from will.i.am and the Black Eyed Peas and their song “Where is the Love”. My prayer for you and me is that we will be able to work with love in whatever we do. If you would like to reach me, I hope you do. My email address is: frmikescully@yahoo.com or the address at the radio station: KJLS-FM, Hays, America, 67601. I invite you to join me on my website also at www.frmikescully.com where you will find a transcript of the show and some meditations on Gospels and these songs and some movies. Our meditation today as we mentioned is on the song “Happy” by Pharrell. Remember that you can always join us on the web by going to www.hayspost.com and choosing Mix 103—10 am CDT every Sunday morning. Feel free to give me your thoughts about anything I have said. Thank you for the privilege of your time today. My thanks to the producers of our show and to our sponsors, especially, Hays Car and Truck Alignment, Auto World in Hays, Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays, and Holy Family Elementary School in Hays. My closing thought for you comes from Scottish evangelical writer Henry Drummond who died in 1897: “You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.” Great words. And I hope your day is a wonderful one today and a day of love. As you listen to Bruno Mars and our new number 1 song “I Just Might”, may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music Mix 103 and our closing advice to you is to hold a good thought. From the beautiful downtown area of Lawrence, KS and the likewise beautiful state of West Virginia, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Stay safe, peace to you, and be good!
1 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
March 8, 2026
“When a Breakup Should Happen”
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Good morning, Central Kansas and around the world! Thank you for joining us this second Sunday of March Sunday morning, and happy almost Spring to all of you as we begin that season next week. I love it! And happy March Madness as we move into that basketball time in our lives. And I hope you are on time this morning, as we supposedly have another hour of daylight, sort of. Welcome to “Message at the Top.” Get set for the top 10 songs of our area as determined by the research from your requests, as well as our own research here at Mix 103 and in particular from Mediabase 24-7. Our motto is to enjoy the music and listen to the message so that the message can help us be better than we are. I am Fr. Mike Scully, and you have your dial set to Mix 103, the number one popular music station in Central Kansas. On our show today, we have music from Tate McRae, Taylor Swift and Pitbull among many others. And our topic will concern breakups.
As I have mentioned many times on this show, and after working with high school people most of my life, I know from my counseling that given the fact that most people do not celebrate a permanent commitment to someone after their first romantic meeting, 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 terribly, 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.
And so as we speak of breakups, we speak of what we do after we suffer them. Tate McRae has a song in our current top 10 about that thought. It is a song of a breakup which in my opinion as we study the circumstances, should happen. The lady in the relationship seems to have done things right in trying to establish whether the man is being honest with her or not. She has checked with a friend and in the song is talking to her once upon a time boyfriend directly. “Thought I might love you again,” she sings, “I’ll see how I feel. Now that you’re acting like that, I never will. Last night, she answered my call, it sealed the deal. Right now, I’m not even about you. The day I met you, I thought it was a blessing, In the heat of it, I always took your side. It’s a shame you out here tryna make it messy. We were good, I thought we made it through the ending. Could have picked it up exactly where we left it, took our future off your plate. Let’s go tit for tat, you asked for that. I was never as far away as you thought.” And then she breaks it off. Sometimes a breakup is needed for personal growth and she is doing it here. The song inspires the theme: when a breakup should happen. And here she is starting us off this morning. From her album “So Close to What,” a song rumored to be a song that is in response to one her ex boyfriend’s songs, the name of her song “Tit For Tat,” Tate McRae, hovering around our top 10 this week on MATT.
(double) TIT FOR TAT / Tate McRae
GREEDY / Tate McRae
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Tate McRae has taken five of her songs into our top 10 the past couple of years. Beginning our show with that in mind, let’s play all five. That last one was from the year 2o24, and a song from her album “Think Later,” her song, “Greedy” on MATT. “He says, ‘Are you serious,’” she begins her song speaking of the boyfriend in the relationship, “I’ve tried, but I can’t figure out; I’ve been next to you all night and still don’t know what you’re about.” But she says, “I would want myself. Please believe me. I’ll put you through hell just to know me, so sure of yourself, don’t get greedy—that stuff won’t end well.” I changed the words a little. She said of the song that it is about confidence and about female empowerment. And exactly what should be said to someone who wants to control a situation when he/she shouldn’t. In terms of our theme, when someone acts this way, it may be the time to consider some type of breakup.
Most of our songs will come in triple play throughout our show, and here is the first set, all from Tate McRae. It is a rather explicit song that I have a rough time with because I don’t think that something so important should be presented so casually. Hopefully she is describing a relationship that has grown into something that is a commitment, and they are expressing it as he drives his sports car with her. As she said in an interview, the “sports car” reminded her of the feeling of love. The spark of love is within all of us, and can be ignited to show love to all. Also from her album “So Close to What,” this is Tate McRae and her song “Sports Car” on MATT.
(triple) SPORTS CAR / Tate McRae
YOU BROKE ME FIRST / Tate McRae
WHAT I WANT / Morgan Wallen & Tate McRae
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Talking about having fun in life, that was Tate McRae again this time singing with Morgan Wallen from Morgan Wallen’s album “I’m the Problem”, and their song “What I Want” on MATT. As I say, it is a song about fun without too much of a commitment. “She said ‘You don’t want this heart, boy, it’s already broke’” they sing, “told me everything she touch / just goes up in smoke, only stay a couple nights, then she’s gonna be gone. I said, ‘Baby, that’s what I want. And you ain’t gotta worry ‘bout no trust issues with me. I got ‘em too; you ain’t gotta worry ‘bout no exes that’s crazy, I got ‘em too. If you’re in a hurry, nah, you ain’t gonna hurt me tonight and it won’t be the worst thing if this is all it is and in the middle of a kiss.” The couple is only beginning their relationship and it sounds like they are being totally honest with each other, and almost like they expect there to be a breakup, our theme today. And they are okay with that. Certainly a way not to get hurt.
Before them, we heard from Tate McRae by herself this time and her song from 2020, “You Broke Me First.” “You broke me first,” she sings, “Maybe you don’t like talking too much about yourself, but you shoulda told me that you were thinking ‘bout someone else. You’re drunk at a party or maybe it’s just that your car broke down. Your phone’s been off for a couple months, so you’re calling me now. I know you, you’re like this, when things don’t go your way, you needed me to fix it and like me, I did, but I ran out of every reason. Now suddenly, you’re asking for it back. But I don’t really care how bad it hurts. When you broke me first, you broke me first. Where’d you get the nerve.” In terms of our theme today, there is no doubt that it is time for the breakup.
Some interesting thoughts as we work with an interesting theme today, namely when is it time to have a breakup, that thought coming from Tate McRae and her song “Tit For Tat.” Popular music always seems to have an approach to life about it, and popular songs always contain something to talk about in one way or another. Let me take you to break with a thought from the current Dalai Lama: “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” Now I didn’t know he said that, but certainly my quotation book couldn’t be wrong. But it is one great truth. I’m Fr. Mike, inviting you to keep your dial right there as we continue shortly on MATT on Mix 103.
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We continue with the only show of its kind in this area as we celebrate a couple days before Spring in America. It is great to have you with us on the station that plays the very best in popular music, and the show we have labeled as MATT, the show that takes the top 10 songs of today and yesterday, and discovers just what their approach to life is, often giving us some thoughts with which we can guide our lives toward the good, the show where our motto is to enjoy the music and listen to the message so that the message can help us. My name is Fr. Mike, your host, and we are featuring the songs of our show today as they talk about breakups.
We’ll hear from Taylor Swift a couple of times this morning. Here is the first time. The lady and the man in the relationship described in the song are still beginning a love relationship. They have dated in the past, and both of them discovered that there were other people in their lives with whom they could have a relationship. Their own relationship was one that had magic moments in which they thought that they had found the perfect match for themselves. But there were other times when just the opposite was true, when they were going "round and round" trying to discover how their relationship together would be. Her words: “Midnight. You come and pick me up, no headlights, long drive, could end in burning flames or paradise. It’s been a while since I have even heard from you. I should just tell you to leave 'cause I know exactly where it leads but I watch us go 'round and 'round each time. When we go crashing down, we come back every time 'cause we never go out of style. He's taking off his coat. I say, ‘I heard that you've been out and about with some other girl’. He says, ‘What you've heard is true but I can't stop thinking about you,’ and I said, ‘I've been there too a few times.’” They are still growing up with understanding love, and probably should just quit this relationship, our theme today. From her album “1989”, Taylor Swift for the first time today and her song “Style” from 2015 on MATT.
(double) STYLE / Taylor Swift
10 MUTT / Leon Thomas
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We’ll look at our top 10 in countdown fashion this morning, and that was number 10 and new to our top 10 from Brooklyn born Leon George Thomas III or just hip-hop artist Leon Thomas. He says of the song that the song along with the whole album named after the song was created shortly after a significant break-up. His ex had given him a dog and as he started working on the album, he began to notice similarities between his dog’s behavior and his own. Interesting. One of the things that he noticed was his desire for the feelings of love. “She said,” he begins his song, “’Take your time, what’s the rush?’ I said, ‘Baby, I’m a dog, I’m a mutt. Pardon my bluntness—I see prety faces, so I got trouble trusting. But I’ll let my guard down for you, said I’ll be vulnerable so you can break my heart if you want to.” And, to his chagrin, she does. He’s using some chemicals to create the feelings of love, and it messes up his natural desires and actions. In terms of our theme, he doesn’t want the breakup to happen, but it did and it was not a good feeling, one would guess.
Right now, let’s go to another triple play and begin it with a song from maybe the most popular band in the world today. It has a very clever video which you might want to view, but the words of the song do not match it. The song is a statement of the man in the relationship to the woman who for some reason is away, and the man desires her companionship. “I'm hurting,” they begin their song, “I'm broken down. I need your loving. I need it now. When I'm without you, I'm something weak. You got me begging. I'm on my knees. I don't wanna be needing your love; I just wanna be deep in your love. And it's killing me when you're away, ‘cause I really don't care where you are, just wanna be there where you are. And I gotta get one little taste. Sugar, please, won't you come and put it down on me? I'm right here, 'cause I need a little love and little sympathy. Yeah, you show me good loving. Make it alright, I need a little sweetness in my life.” Thinking of our theme with the song, the man is feeling what might be called a “broken smile” and is hoping that she will help with that, and certainly not go into a breakup. This is the band Maroon 5 from their album “V”, their song “Sugar” from the year 2015 on MATT.
(triple) SUGAR / Maroon 5
ONE LAST TIME / Ariana Grande
9 THE FATE OF OPHELIA / Taylor Swift
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From Taylor Swift’s album “The Life of a Showgirl,” the first song from it this morning and the second song from her this morning, number 9 this week, and the song “The Fate of Ophelia”. It cleverly involves a study of one of the plays of William Shakespeare, namely his play “Hamlet” and Hamlet’s once-upon-a-time presumed future wife Ophelia. In the story, Mr. Shakespeare has Ophelia drown herself after a rejection from Prince Hamlet and after her father’s death at the hands of Hamlet. So a tragic situation, but the song writes a different ending. The song is a powerful anthem about being rescued from the brink of emotional and psychological collapse by an all-consuming lover. He brings about a true resurrection for her and according to the people who should know about such things, as I have said, resembles the likes of her famous current boyfriend. “Late one night,” she sings, “you dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.” It is exactly what is supposed to happen if there is a deep love of each other, and if the feelings are true, a breakup will never happen, our theme today.
Before her, we heard Ariana Grande Butera who began her singing career with children’s television shows and now is one of the premier female performers in America and Britain. It was from her album “My Everything” and her song from 2015 “One Last Time”. It is a song of admitting fault, and then begging a former boyfriend to come back to the lady in the song. “I was a liar,” she sings, “I gave in to the fire. I know I should've fought it. At least I'm being honest; feel like a failure ‘cause I know that I failed you. I should've done you better ‘cause you don't want a liar. And I know, she gives you everything. But, boy, I couldn't give it to you, and I know, you got everything. But I got nothing here without you. So one last time, I need to be the one who takes you home. One more time I promise; after that I'll let you go. I don't care if you got her in your heart, all I really care is you wake up in my arms. One last time I need to be the one who takes you home.” The lady is in very bad straits because she knows she has caused the problems. But since he has moved on, it just may be better for her to do the same instead of begging him. The situation is a good reason for the breakup to occur, our theme today.
We will continue with the thought generated by Tate McRae and her song “Tit For Tat” as we listen to and study top 10 music of the past and present from—coming up in order of appearance: Harry Styles, Ellie Goulding, Raye, sombr, Hozier and Olivia Rodrigo. To close off our first hour today, here is a thought from a great president, Mr. Abraham Lincoln: “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool / than to speak out and remove all doubt.” Therefore, be very careful before you open your mouth. Abraham Lincoln knew what he was talking about / even back then. I’m Fr. Mike for “Message at the Top” on Mix 103. Hey, why not stay right where you are. We’ll be right back.
Thank you for joining us this morning. We are back for the second hour of “Message at the Top” on Mix 103 which gives you the top 10 popular songs of our area as of this week ending today March 8, 2026, the week that is thinking of Spring. We take the top 10’s of today and the past 46 years, put them all together with a theme, and then call our show MATT. Our theme this week came from Tate McRae and her song “Tit For Tat”, and we are speaking about when a breakup should happen. I’m your host, Fr. Mike on “Message at the Top”.
As promised, let’s begin this second hour with our number 8 song in our countdown that was our theme last week when we spoke about personal growth. It is a song about growing into maturity, and a great song to study. I’ll just quote from the internet about the song. It is a song about emotional openness, vulnerability, and letting love and light into one’s life. The title—Aperture--refers to the adjustable opening in a camera lens that controls how much light enters an image, and in the song, it serves as a metaphor for the human heart and emotional openness. So, a song about personal growth, vulnerability and embracing the unknown. And the video acts out that message extremely well. And so the words reflect that journey. “It’s best that you know what you don’t. Aperture lets the light in. We belong together. It finally appears: it’s only love. I won’t stray from it: I don’t know these spaces. Time won’t wait on me. I wanna know what safe is.” His own explanation is that the song was inspired by his experiences in Berlin, meeting new people, and immersing himself in music that encouraged freedom, openness and joy. He intended the song to reflect the power of embracing transitions, accepting flaws, and allowing positive change into one’s life. In terms of our theme this week, as we think about when a breakup should happen, well, one time would be when we’re not real sure about ourselves, yet move into a relationship. Great song and video to the song. It’s number 8 this morning, from his latest album “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally,” Harry Styles and his song “Aperture”, number 8 this week on MATT.
(triple) 8 APERTURE / Harry Styles
LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO / Ellie Goulding
7 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND / Raye
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The number 7 song from Raye, a British singer/songwriter whose real name is Rachel Agatha Keen from her album “This Music May Contain Hope,” and her song “Where is My Husband” on MATT. It is a song of desire for a partner in her life, or as she says in a traditional way, a husband. “Where is my husband,” the lady sings, “Why is this beautiful man waiting for me to get old? Why he already testing my patience? I only fear he taking time with other women that ain’t me / while I’ve been reviewing applications. Wait til I get my hands on him. I’ma tell him off too for how long he kept me waiting, anticipating, praying to Lord to give him to my loving arms. And despite my frustrations. And he must need me completely. Help me, Lord. I need you to tell me.” I describe it as a tongue-in-cheek desire for love song, the desire of a lady to find a person who truly loves her, a statement, I believe of someone’s need for romantic love. In terms of our theme this week, if a relationship is moving toward commitment and one of them in the relationship still doesn’t feel that they have achieved real love, it is time for a breakup.
Before her, we heard from Ellie Goulding and her song “Love Me Like You Do” from 2015 from the soundtrack of the very popular and controversial movie, “Fifty Shades of Grey”. “You're the light,” she sings, “you're the night, you're the color of my blood, you're the cure, you're the pain, you're the only thing I wanna touch. Never knew that it could mean so much. You're the fear, I don't care 'cause I've never been so high. Follow me through the dark. Let me take you past our satellites. You can see the world you brought to life. So love me like you do, touch me like you do.” It is a high song of meaning because of the strong love said to another who has been the person’s strength, and therefore something that should be said in a commitment every day. One of the rules for romantic life, our theme today, is to make sure there is a strong commitment if you say there is without even the possibility of a breakup, our theme today.
Back to our countdown today, and we are up to number 6 and a song about the fact that they 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, one of the times in a relationship that should bring about a breakup, is when the relationship is only a physical one. Good song to study. This is Shane Michael Boose here, better known as sombr and his song “Back to Friends” from his album “I Barely Know Her,” number 6 this week on MATT.
(triple) 6 BACK TO FRIENDS / sombr
TAKE ME TO CHURCH/ Hozier
DRIVER’S LICENSE / Olivia Rodrigo
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The song featured on my website www.frmikescully.com tomorrow, the Song of the Year from the Grammys of 2022, from Olivia Rodgrio and her song “Driver’s License” from her album “Sour” on MATT. “Guess you didn’t mean what you wrote in that song about me,” she sings, “‘cause you said forever. Now I drive alone past your street.” The rest of the song displays the pain that the lady in the song feels: “I got my driver’s license last week,” she sings, “just like we always talked about ‘cause you were so excited for me to finally drive up to your house. But today I drive through the suburbs cryin’ ‘cause you weren’t around. And you’re probably with that blonde girl who always made me doubt. I know we weren’t perfect but I’ve never felt this way for no one and I just can’t imagine how you could be so okay now that I’m gone.” Tough situation for young love, and in terms of our theme, there is little doubt that the lady will not find love in that situation and therefore an instance when a breakup should happen, our theme today, and she should be prepared to move on.
Many of our extra songs today are taken from the most recent Sunday, August 8 before today in 2015. Such was the case with Hozier’s song, “Take Me to Church” from Irish singer/songwriter Andrew John Hozier-Byrne, better known simply as Hozier. As a clergy-person, you can bet that I was interested in that title, but it was not what I expected at all. The song is a love song, dedicated to the love of another, and it is not a happy song at all because it seems that the other is not as interested in the relationship as the man is. Hozier does make a couple criticisms of Church however, and so I looked up what he meant by the song. He said that the song was not an indictment against the Church as such. It is a song against institutions that undermine humanity, and in his mind, and I think it is true somewhat, the Church has undermined humanity in the actions of some of its members. Some of his words of criticism include: “Every Sunday’s getting more bleak, a fresh poison each week.” Be that as it may, the song is a song of wanting to be with another. “The only heaven I’ll be sent to,” he sings, “is when I’m alone with you. I was born sick, but I love it.” The man in the relationship is in very bad straits, it seem: he is worshiping this lady, but he knows that she is not worshiping him—because she is lying and offering only a deathless death. With our theme of breakups that should happen, this may be one of them unless they can find a way to truly communicate with each other.
We are studying the top songs of this week ending today March 8, 2026, and we are also studying some songs of the past top 10’s as well. And we have our last segment to go yet. First, a thought from Oscar Wilde on happiness: “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” Important lesson there. I’m Fr. Mike, and you’re listening to “Message at the Top” on Mix 103. I hope you stay right there.
Welcome back for our final segment of the top 10 popular songs of our area this week according to Mediabase 24-7 and our research. I’m your host, Fr. Mike on “Message at the Top” on Mix 103. Thank you for joining us again this second Sunday of March, the day on which we started saving an hour of sunshine, more or less. I hope your morning has gone well for you, and I hope we have added to it just a little bit. Our theme today has come from Tate McRae’s song “Tit For Tat” and the theme that we are using with the songs of our show is “When a Breakup Should Happen.”
Back to our countdown, let’s listen to our number 5 song as of this week, a song which begins this triple play. It talks of an “ordinary” love relationship and says that what he has for a friend of his is not part of “the ordinary.” He begins with the thought that everything is pretty much ordinary: “They say ‘The holy water’s watered down and this town’s lost its faith. Our colors will fade eventually.” But he has a solution; he continues: “So, if our time is runnin’ out day after day, we’ll make the mundane our masterpiece.” Right there, as I have said, is a great description of how to make a love relationship be a necessary part of true love--make the mundane happenings so special that they become masterpieces, and if we learn to do that, we are ready for the commitment and not for a breakup. From his album “You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1)” this is Alex Warren, and his song “Ordinary”, number 5 on our countdown this week on MATT. (triple) 5 ORDINARY / Alex Warren
Time of Our Lives / Pitbull f/ Neyo
4 OPALITE / Taylor Swift
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The third song from her this morning, the second from her album “The Life of a Showgirl”, and “Opalite”, at number 4 this morning on MATT. She says that she has always loved opals. Opal is also Travis Kelce’s birthstone, Travis being Taylor Swift’s fiance. In the song, she took inspiration from the facts connected with opals, saying that opalite is a metaphor for the idea that happiness can be created voluntarily. Opal is also believed to symbolically represent hope, healing and positive energy. She described the song as a song about forgiving yourself for having gone through something that didn’t pan out the way you wanted it to / and giving yourself permission to have it all figured out. So she sings: “Life is a song, it ends when it ends; I was wrong, but alright, you were dancing through the lightning strikes, but now the sky is opalite.” The song is about the lady’s state of mind and being perfectly content with what is happening. And if she is perfectly content, she is certainly not ready for a breakup, our theme today.
Before her, MATT presented Armando Christian Perez better known as Pitbull and Shaffer Chimire Smith better known as Ne Yo and their song from Pitbull’s album “Globilization,” “Time of Our Lives” from the year 2014. It is a song which is an answer to a problem which begins the song: “I knew my rent was goin' be late about a week ago. I worked, but I still can't pay it.” So, what does the man in the song do? They sing: “But I got just enough to get up in this club, have me a good time, before my time is up. Hey, let's get it now, I want the time of my life. Oh, give me the time of my life. Let's get it now.” The man is ignoring the problem and instead having the time of his life, and the rap part of the song spells that out—drinking, dancing, sexual pleasure, lust and partying. It seems like a good time for him, but in truth the man is in for very bad times because he is forgetting the other important things in his life—like paying rent. I should mention however that they sing a rather positive thought in the song—they sing: “This is for anybody going through tough times. Believe me, been there, done that. But everyday above ground is a great day, remember that.” Amen. Be that as it may, he’s also forgetting any relationship and it will only end up in a breakup, our theme today, if he keeps behaving the way he is.
As usual, we close our show with the top 3 songs in our land. At number 3 is a song of wanting another to show her love for him by good dancing. “It would break my heart,” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” It is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, but some general thoughts on dancing might be in order as we think of the song. As usual with him—Bruno Mars—the song has quite a good dance video. In terms of our theme this week, dancing doesn’t usually lead to a breakup, although I guess it could. This is Bruno Mars or his real name of Peter Gene Hernandez, and his song “I Just Might ”from his album “The Romantic”, number 3 this week on MATT.
(double) 3 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
2 MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean
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From London, England, Olivia Dean, coming from the album “The Art of Loving,” and her song “Man I Need” on MATT, number 2 this week. The whole 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, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication, and she gives the reason why. In terms of our theme this week, a couple will know exactly what to do—a breakup or a permanent commitment—if they have good communication.
And our number 1 song for four weeks altogether comes from the Korean movie and music of Huntr/X, three talented Korean ladies. It is the theme of a Netflix film that follows a Korean girls group—Huntr/X—who lead double lives facing off against a rival boys band, the Saja boys whose members are secretly demons. The words recall that story. “I was a ghost, I was alone, given the throne; I didn’t know how to behave, I was the queen that I’m meant to be. I lived two lives, tried to play both sides, but I couldn’t find my own place. Called a problem child ‘cause I got too wild. But now that’s how I’m getting paid. We’re going up, it’s our moment. You know together we’re glowin, gonna be golden. I’m done hidin’ now, I’m shinin’ like I’m born to be, oh, our time, no fears, no lies, that’s who we’re born to be.” I left out the Korean words, of course. As I have said with the song, it sounds like a song of determination to do the right thing, and in terms of our theme, such an attitude is necessary in a relationship because then the couple will take the time to determine exactly what they should do as they come to the possibility of a breakup or not.
Our theme today has been that thought of when we should break up which we took from Tate McRae and her song “Tit For Tat.” My prayer for you and me is that all of us will learn the value of friendship and really work at it. If you would like to contact me, my e-mail address is: frmikescully@yahoo.com or the address at the radio station: KJLS-FM, Hays, America, KS 67601. My website is www.frmikescully.com where you will find meditations on these songs and some meditations on great movies, and a transcript of the show. The meditation tomorrow is on the song “Driver’s License” which we played a couple minutes ago . We invite you to join us on the web every Sunday at 10 CDT by turning to www.hayspost.com and clicking on Mix 103. Thank you for your time today. My thanks to the producers of our show, and to our sponsors, especially Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, Auto World in Hays, Hays Car and Truck Alignment, and Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior & Senior High School in Hays. My closing thought for you is from author anonymous: “Dogs never bite me, just humans.” Whoa. Our number one song on March 8, 2026—today—is “Golden” from Huntrix and as we lead into it, may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music on Mix 103, and among other things, my advice is “Hold a good thought.” From the beautiful city of Lawrence, KS, by way of the beautiful state of West Virginia, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good!
1 GOLDEN / Huntr/X