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Coastal Alabama Highway 98 Radio with Rick McCann
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WELCOME TO GULF COAST RADIO!
With Rick McCann Behind the Microphone
MONDAY JUNE 29, 2026
We have the latest news, extended weather, events, and a whole lot of great music!
THIS PROGRAM IS PROFESSIONALLY PRODUCED!
EPISODE 379
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Hello and welcome to Coastal Alabama Highway 98 Radio. Rick again behind the microphone. We've got the latest breaking news, extended weather forecast, and great music coming up live, broadcasting from the Blue Ram media studios here in Golf Shores, Alabama.
SPEAKER_04I keep my cards close to my chest, ace of my sleep. I might be old fashioned, a little stuck in my ways. The closest thing to the real thing you'll find these days. Or I never heard me. One of those silver stream heroes, we know how to will The kind that always ran for more fake fail. Ain't a chance in the hill. I'm right in the stun still. Leave a water behind. Sunshine pouring down the rain. And when you whisper my name, I hear anything. But with the wheels and freight train. Ain't straight in my heart. Trigger are those echoes in the business. Used to hit me so hard. But when you lie by my side in peaceful dreams, moonline on your face.
SPEAKER_09That includes radio shows, newsletters, and all of our social media. Hundreds and thousands of people collectively visit us every day. And now they can visit with you for just one hundred dollars a month. Advertise your product, your business, your company, yourself. Contact us help desk at blue rammedia.com. And happy Monday morning to you everyone on this great day here. On the Alabama Golf Coast, we're gonna hand behind the microphone, of course, once more, as we are broadcasting live from the Blue Ram Media Studios in Golf Shores, Alabama. On the program today, of course, we're gonna have a lot of great music. Today is gonna be our double show today. We're gonna play Of course we're gonna have accurate weather. And uh this is gonna go well beyond July Fourth Weekend, which we're looking forward to. We know that we can have weather hopefully not, but we've got all the dragon for you. We're bringing it for you. We got some breaking you where you can go and enjoy the fourth of July, where you can do the firework of weather and running back. And um what else do we got here? We got as well. We'll be bringing that to you today. We bring the area to the head.
SPEAKER_03God made a start. Why can't he make me an unbreakable home in my blue wood? An unbreakable heart. I should know sometimes don't just comment and go, but I really we go once someone will come in her own. Remember this when you drop your girl. I can laugh in the face of all my insecurity Anytime, anywhere, anything I'm strong enough But when you're like this I'll sleep lost in your stuff, baby I'm felt asleep, asleep, felt asleep, falling in love So the consequence do what it will do us. I don't care Let the star stand as witness to it all Say the word and tonight I will follow you anywhere I just can't put it anymore. I'm too sturdy like this.
SPEAKER_09We've got your favorite new hits, some of those good old hits, indie music, gospel, bluegrass, and so much more here on Highway 98.
SPEAKER_14Slow down. Slow down and move over.
SPEAKER_09We're like to remind you of the special day, an annual event, actually that's been happening now for a number of years. The community safety day, we cannot for the 51st and our annual community safety day. And the community safety day will be downtown OATOUT. Meeting local first responders from across the area, watching can I train demonstrations, and of course enjoying a live DJ on OA Island. Don't miss the heroes hunger game where first responders go head to hand in a friendly competition. All coming together.
SPEAKER_04What if I don't wake up last time? What if I leave you without warning stop dancing? Oh, I'm scared to go to sleep tonight. Oh, I care even close my eyes. Even though I know we all gotta die. Oh, I'm scared to go to sleep tonight. What about these dreams that I hope? Are they the ones that the good Lord has shows for me? For me, I wanna see the light with ease. Oh, I'm scared to go to sleep tonight. Oh, I can't even close my eyes. Even though I know we all gotta die. Oh, I'm scared to go to sleep tonight. Close your mind, shut your damn eyes. Why am I scared to go to sleep tonight? Why can't I just close my eyes? I hope one day that I realize that it's okay to go to sleep tonight. Caffeine and naked teams, neon and whiskey drink, they're near the only thing keeping me in time. This road I want to When I run a day.
SPEAKER_09Does your company, church, business, or school need to get your employees certified in first aid CPR and baby alive? Well guess what? Armored Jack is here on the golf coat. They will bring the dream to you where every year. If you live in that area, you're living or no matter where you live. Come on down to the Gulf Shore to make fireworks of play on July the 4th.
SPEAKER_17Soon as I moved on, started missing me so bad. Saying maybe we should try again, try to get it right again. Saying do we have to be done? Don't know why I say goodbye then. And honestly, I get where you're coming from. Yeah, we'll go back to that we can downlay Bet that I'd tell that ain't ever been the same babe. Then when we were so good, then think of what we could have been if you d'a just tried Cause I've done what you were perfect What you had your time.
SPEAKER_16But you can't be too far gone.
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SPEAKER_11Rip currents cause an estimated 100 deaths each year in the United States. In 2021, five of these deaths were on the Gulf Coast. Rip currents are the number one ruthery-related killer at the beaches along the northern Gulf Coast. The number of rip current fatalities on these beaches is more than the fatalities of flooding, tornadoes, lightning, and tropical storms or hurricanes combined. Learn the facts. Before heading out to the beach, check current beach conditions and know what each flag means. Always swim near a lifeguard. Rip currents are narrow currents that flow away from the beach. If you notice you're being pulled away from the beach and are swimming and getting tired, you may be in a rip current. Think of it like a treadmill that you can't turn off. You want to step to the side of it. Don't swim against the current. Try to swim across it in a direction following the shoreline. Rip currents do not pull you under, but may take you as far out as a football field so people can tire quickly. The most important thing is to stay calm. If you can't escape the current, float or calmly tread water. Wave for help if you can. Rip current's strength eventually subsides and may even take you closer to shore. If you see someone caught in a rip current, call 911 or get a lifeguard and throw something that floats towards the victim. For more information, please visit www.visitaalbeaches.com slash safety.
SPEAKER_04Your home for a Christian country. Driving in the car or on the app. Thanks for listening. Play the guitar. I play the band on now.
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SPEAKER_09I don't know what happened to me, but uh lately uh I say lately, but really it's been a couple of years, I guess. But I have turned into a shopaholic. I have uh found it so easy. So convenient. Not necessarily cheaper, but sometimes it is never done that before. I've never done one order. And I do it quickly, I'm unable to get in mind and I have my locations where I can find one of them. I'm sure you probably use it on a regular basis as well. They have everything. And it's so easy to return to them. Easy to get that if you don't like it, if it doesn't or whatever, it's so easy to back up and pick it up. Very seldom do I go into the big door anymore. And uh another good place where we can compete computer pricing and yeah, you can actually get that word and delivered at your home or business. So if you're like me, send me an email and let me know I'm not alone.
SPEAKER_04Help it out at blue rammedia.com A tornado tore through Midwest Ham. Wasn't nothing in its path it didn't take down. Except the Baptist Church and a ball field. Then they rebuilt, talk about tough people. She was four years old when they got the news. It was in her little lungs, it was staged. Mama spent every night by her bed, and daddy shaved his head. Talk about tough people.
SPEAKER_16There were plenty of times she could have gave up, but she did.
SPEAKER_04When we find the people after that work based on good beats evil And tough times make tough people It's a table mom working through the job today And a farmer barely getting by the rain They're grammar wing table working through the thing They're top on the call Cause the two He was Dolph Text button Army Green Shipped off somewhere to keep us all free came back in a box with a flag on it It's home don't it Talk about tough people And talk about some tough people the time Yes John made some good people Let the ten roof keep catching that brain Let these old books stay by the door Let me lose it just hearing you say tonight baby I'm yours Let the knee on be on somebody else out there we wanna be on We ain't gotta go nowhere To get me gone like a nowhere Gone like a punch I don't get a little country Never let a terrible Yeah gone sink dress you head on Let me drink you in like whiskey Kiss me Get me gone Let your eyes cut me like a night Let you get down waterfall from Yeah you're already taking my breath While you're at a girl gon' take it all Like little waves keep on pulling me till I can't tell where I store Baby Way Get me gone like nowhere win Gone like on the final Black Bible and let's drink done in the right dress Let me drink you in like whiskey kiss me give me gone Oh baby give me gone Baby gimme gone and here's the exit you know Johnny he has six beers in already this is not gonna end well Steve he's rumbling bubbling stumbling all over the place and oh that can't be good look at that stock and key action that's gonna draw a penalty drinking driving possible fifteen hundred dollar fine and one year in jail yeah Steve that was a good call by the ref one bad decision totally changes the game you know what just goes to show if you drink and you drive nobody wins who knows what a child will grow up to be it's one of the great things about kids.
SPEAKER_09Learn how ator Hey folks thanks for joining us here on the coast of Alabama's newest radio show Highway 98 where everything is local and all about living on the coast we're bringing you great music news and local events every day right here on Highway98 And once again this morning I'm in our news and weather center working weather forecast for you coming up on holiday holiday weekend I would be eighty overnight it would be a little bit more Monday for you we're looking at three weeks period isolated thunderstorms because of the humidity and the moisture that continues coming in off the gulf.
SPEAKER_15That is your extended weather forecast from coastal Alabama Radio Just when I thought I got in the fall in love with Tennessee I should have known better than to take him back to Abilene Put him right back in her arms I wasn't a match for back up spark She's from Texas I can tell by the way he's two stepping round the room judging by the smile it's driven on his face There's nothing I can do It doesn't take a crystal ball to see A cowboy always finds a way to leave drinking jack all by myself He's choosing texts I can tell Well I guess he forgot about the smoky mountain rain The bowl hangs the Memphis blues we used to say He always loved More by morning I should have taken out and morning She's from Texas I can tell by the way He's too standing round the room Judging by the smile it's driven on his face There's nothing I can do It doesn't take a critical seat A cowboy always finds a way to leave Drinking jack all by my spell It's driven Texas I can test When I please bound to die can have a crack Cause I'm 40 with everything out I don't know that it's my one change Cause it's hard still belongs to all stars day she's from Texas I can tell by the way he's two stepping round the room judging by the smile that's trickin' on his face there's nothing I can do crystal ball to see a cowboy always finds a way to leave drinking jack all by myself He's choosing Texas I can tell Drinking Jack all by myself He's choosing Texas I can tell Come on baby Just when I thought I got in the fall in love trying to show I found you the lighter in my nightstand That's why I'm thinking of you I guess what part of all but don't I understand Cause damn I miss the taste of your cigarette Yeah your memory pulls me right back in It's like I forget I can't love you anymore Can't keep tasting you round Mama I can need you Can't keep sharing this bed with ghosts every night kids let fire on my lips don't baby how do I tell my party they go when I stay I can't love you Just when I think you let me let you go there's a picture of us covered in dust on face to see the small we trust you with the big on your back it's like I forget I can't love you chasing around I can meet you my lips chasing you round back on mama I can't need you anymore I can't need you can't keep sharing this panel with ghost everyone kids let the button so baby have a button all I can lie anymore every day we take steps to keep the people we love safe but some health risks are easy to miss hiding in the yard can spread germs like the ones that cause Lyme disease mice searching for food can spread bacteria that makes us sick.
SPEAKER_10Mosquitoes lay eggs in the hand in water and can spread wet nile virus and the cockroaches are drawing water in the home leaving behind allergens that can trigger asthma attacks. The common pests can threaten our health learn how to protect your family at hazardworld.org
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SPEAKER_09Hey everyone, you know this time of year is great. So much happening in our areas, festivals, cook-off events, musical events, and so much more. If your church organization or business is having some type of event, well, you can have us be your mouthpiece for free. Contact helpdesk at bluermedia.com. We'll push the word out, we'll tell them where it's at, what's happening, and all of that for free. Helpdesk at bluermedia.com. This is July the 4th. There are a ton of places to go and enjoy yourself. Eat some great food, see the fireworks, and one of those is the war. Right there in Orange Beach. Guess what? We're having a little early party, the Independence Day Street Party, presented by the City of Orange Beach, is being held on Thursday, July the 2nd, 2022, from 5 p.m. until 9 30. You can contact the Warp at 251-2241000. The Wharf right here on Canal Road in Orange Beach is gonna have a great local community party and they let freedom ring and let the celebrations begin. Activity start from five and will run until nine. There'll be fireworks at 9 p.m. The drone show at 9 15 and so much more! Guess what else is happening? Today's independence day street party. You don't wanna miss it.
SPEAKER_02He was sitting out back in the rock. He said what you've been up to late. I told him to use it, and in between sips of coffee, he poured this wisdom out. Said if you want my two cents, don't make it a dollar count. Find a one you can't live without.
SPEAKER_04Do what you love and call work. Throw a little money, play the church, send your prayers up in your roots down.
SPEAKER_02Add a few limbs to your family tree. Watch their pencil marks and the grass in the yard all grow up. Cause the truth about it, see it all goes by real quick. You can't buy happiness.
SPEAKER_04Before you get caught on that ladder, let me tell you what it's all about. Find you a few things that matter that you can put a fence around. And then he laid it out. Find the one you can't live without. Get a ring that you need, hit the ground. Do what you love, but call it work. And throw a little money in the plate of church. Sing your prayers up in your roots down deep. And add a few limbs to your family tree. And watch there been some marks in the grass in the yard. All grow up. Cause the truth about it is it all goes by real quick. You keep my happy ends, but you can buy dirt. Thank the good Lord for it. Cause he ain't making any more of it. Survivor. If I know when you can't live without Get a ring that you need to ground, do what you love, but call it work. And throw a little money in the plated church. Sing your prayers up and your roots down here. Add a few limbs to your family tree. Watch their pencil marks in the grass in the yard. All grow up. Cause the truth about it is it all goes by real quick. You can't buy happiness, but you can buy dirt.
SPEAKER_02You meet a girl in a bar the next thing, you know. You get her laughing, it's too late. Tellin' your butts.
SPEAKER_04Three months in, she ain't winning in the next thing. Busy, you haul tray the next thing you know. You roll the park, child's new plates.
SPEAKER_02There goes the carpet, but the deal hit stakes. Next thing you know, you save the money like never before. Just spit it all at a jewelry store.
SPEAKER_04Keeping down me on the mama's pose. Just pray she don't say no. Next thing you know, your best man is a half-drug speech in you. Sunbird on a honeymoon beach. Lift legs, get next to that array. Two three. Next day, you know. She's staying the cry, you're not gonna head. You half excited, half scared to death. We're so little funny. Doctor saying how you doing that daddy. Nobody's ever told you that drive on. Next day you know, it's first steps, first dates, first car. It's 1101, wondering where they are. Saying that it was seats, too phones.
SPEAKER_02Amazing how fast everything Next day you know Next day you know Next day you know, get to know your eyes again More in love than you've ever been with a lot of years, of a memorand, still some down Cause Next thing you know, gotta y'all do your kids give.
SPEAKER_04Then you take 'em to church, teach 'em to feel shit. Tell them stories every chance you get.
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SPEAKER_09I don't believe they will do this here. There's a restaurant right there on the door that may be opened. But the other thing they want to remind you is an alcoholic free event and personal fireworks are strictly prohibited and will be enforced by police. Find yourself a nice early, there is limited handicap parking available near the town. This is gonna be another one of those great events. Now, if you're down in the holy area, we also have a great event happening. They have food, fun, music, and a spectacular firework show on the island there. So if you're down in that area, you can go over and join their big festivities as well. But any place you look here along the Gulf Coast, July 4th, we're having a party! We're celebrating July 4th in America's 250th birthday. We want everyone to do it safely, of course. Don't drink and drive. Enjoy yourself. There's so much happening here. It's it's hard to be every place at one time, so you'll probably just have to pick one.
SPEAKER_04Got a picture of you, I carry in my heart. Close my eyes to see when the world gets dark. Got a memory of you, I carry in my soul. I wrap it close around me when the nights get cold. If you ask me how I'm doing, I'd say just fine. But the truth is, baby, if you could read my mind, not a day goes by that I don't think of you. After all this time, you're still with me, it's true. Somehow you remain not so deep inside, baby, baby, oh baby, not a day ago I do on the phone in the middle of night Thinking you might call me If your dreams don't turn out right Then it still makes it me that I lie here in the dark Which do you relax to me if your head gets my heart to me how I'm doing I'd stay just fine with this baby? Every time I rise me, this feeling inside me is almost more than I can take. Baby, when you touch me, I can feel how much you love me. It just blows me away. I've never been this close to anyone or anything I can hear.
SPEAKER_09And just like that, we're wrapping up the show already. It has gone by fast like it normally does. Hi Marches on, says Tracy Lawrence in one of his songs, and that is so true these days. I hope that you have enjoyed the program today. Please pass it on. Tell your friends, family, co-workers, and anybody who will listen. Because really, we have a great show going on, and it is broadcast on more than 40 platforms. Of course, we're an iHeartRadio station, and we are streaming almost 400 shows now 24 hours a day. So you can listen to the first show, or you can listen to all of them, and you'll hear that we've actually progressed from our uh beginnings. We have updated our equipment and uh whole bunch of other things, and uh I think we've got it down pretty solid now, and we appreciate people like you. Remember, you can contact us anytime with your comments or phone requests, or if you're an indie singer, you can send your music along to helpdesk at bluermedia.com. You can send a news. We'd appreciate that, of course. New desk at bluermedia.com. Remember, no matter where you're driving on the UK right hand, the back road Although they are becoming fewer and fewer and fewer. But wherever you are, behind the wheel of a vehicle, you have got to be to the right. And uh all of our first responders safe, especially coming up on this big weekend. And um, I'll be back before the weekend begins on Thursday with another great program. I'll tell you some more about what's happening in the area. But in the meantime, y'all stay blessed, be safe, and I'll be back on the radio here before you know it.