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WELCOME TO GULF COAST RADIO!
With Rick McCann Behind the Microphone
THURSDAY JULY 2nd, 2026
We have the latest news, extended weather, events, and a whole lot of great music!
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EPISODE 380
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Good morning everyone. Welcome to Costa Alabama Highway 98 Radio Broadcasting once again live from Gulf Shores, Alabama. I'm your host, Rick McCann, and this is a production of Blue Ran Media Group LLC. Today on the episode, of course, we've got a lot of great new music brought to you from Nashville, Tennessee. We've got the latest news, the latest enhanced weather, upcoming events, and so much more. So let's sit back, relax, and enjoy some of this great music right now on Coastal Alabama's Highway Ninety Eight Radio.
SPEAKER_04I know what's way in on your mind, but you can be sure I know my part. You'll only cry those hand you and know a man. I'll never break your heart.
SPEAKER_08I swear by the I'll be there. I swear by the shadow. I'll be there. I'll be able to repeat I'll give you everything I can.
SPEAKER_04I'll build your dreams with peace to hang. We'll hang some memories. Won't have to ask you. No zest and pay.
SPEAKER_08My love major law vive. Like the shadow by words you'll get to heart. I'll know you ever repeated my heart. I swear. I swear.
SPEAKER_17I mean it takes a lot of work. Have you ever done it? Alrighty. In the middle of the beginning, we can enjoy it. Maybe fumble around and find something to eat. We don't have a whole lot in the studio. And I'll be back before you know it.
SPEAKER_08Fould you at back to a different time. Put your letter up, sing it loud and loud. Before a little ounce. Just a wake, just double leg, squeeze the little stone. Just do a song. I love the lighters. I love it. I love the lighters.
SPEAKER_05And you talk to an old friend. Right, wrong. I had to hear your voice again on written long. Protocol said to me as long I just wanted you to know. Sometimes I've all the time.
SPEAKER_08I let your memory take control. And you didn't find my time.
SPEAKER_05I turned up with the door. I just want to do it. I heard your line turned out well. You know it's really hard to tell. Now then what my thing and what might be I just want to know sometimes all the time. I had your dead last time. I don't know about it. I do all these don't cry.
SPEAKER_03Struggle some to found the word to convince myself that you were gone. Where we go to find all explanations. And on my pain there came a revelation. Hearts will break, we cry, we grieve, we die, we go, but never leave. We linger in the lives of those we love. We're flesh and bone and beams of light, a body breaks, a soul takes flight, and faith is left to heal what tears can't touch. You're not gone just as a sight. You're here with me wherever you want to.
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SPEAKER_08You want me to take me back once more?
SPEAKER_11You say you need a helping hand. But let's watch one more Walks off play on this arm.
SPEAKER_18If you think I'm gonna wait for you to settle down this one horse telling like the open range. If you want fast place, freedom boy better live. If you can follow the demons and you hold a bird to tip so many. If you want to steal my key like a little lonely desk, I don't see. If you can quit the saddle leaving Kick up if you boot for you can't do my heart. If you want to see my heart, take my face If you want to be slack out of the back of the gon'a love If you gonna love me Love me like me out loud you got another thing coming if you think I'm gonna wait for you to settle down this one horse telling like the open rain, and you're on the gold and no one.
SPEAKER_06Or you can email Rachel You're a local news and seven-day forecast coming up moment away You and my world, and without you I thought it would stop turning I felt par when you told me that it just wasn't working I replayed every word that you said Till I made peace with the pieces you left out it works out how it's supposed to sometimes Good Bye that you turns out somehow find a way Find out First out miseries Always don't always make forever Sometimes your heart breaks, but it breaks for the better Turns out the world keeps spinning around No matter how it turns out I found myself when I quit trying to be what you wanted It wasn't easy but I wouldn't change a thing if I'm honest If I'm honest No I can't even help you Yeah I really are thank you Works out how it's supposed to be good by the change turns out don't have fun no weight Fun out burns down there's a reason always don't always make forever Don't stop breaks but it breaks but it's out No matter how it works No matter how it's burning Turns out that it worked out how it's supposed to Sometimes it's the good by the channel Turns out that you somehow found a way through Find out when it burns down desert Always don't always be forever Sometimes your heart breaks, but it breaks for the better The world keeps spinning around No matter how it turns out No matter how it turns out Running scared Wondering what I'm doing so far from home Pretending not to care that I was so alone Then my eyes met hers And without one word I could tell what was gonna happen I could feel it in my mouth by the thought of the loan There's a fire in the night She took me to her room Why you know it felt so bright It keeps growing wider The flame of the sigh I can talk of the moon All there's a fire in the night Well she told me She didn't often do this kind of thing She said please hold me Hold me tight so I don't have to play Oh her gentle touch Really proved me so much The flames of love swell for us Like a burning light By the block of the moon There's a fire in the night She took me to her room Why you know it fell so bad So bad It keeps going higher The flame of the fire By the dark of the moon By the dark of the moon There's a fire in the night She took me to her room Oh you know it felt so right Oh yeah It keeps growing fire The flame of the fire At the top of the moon Oh that's a fire in the night That's a fire and star in the fire that's a fire and the It can happen any moment without reason all right It might be right around the corner Or it'll come up from behind a picture that I thought would fade But I still clearly see when a thought of you catches up with me It can happen on a Sunday drive Sky above a shade of blue Heading down some lonesome highway Then you come into view My aftermile goes by During You catches up with me When it's gone in you come to a better place in hell It can happen in the gentleman of the wind Sometimes you can find me When I'm in the fleet I'll have a dream about you I sure what I see When the thought of you catch up with me Winothea Cat is up with me Winna though she's up with me
SPEAKER_17Mobile Bay Patrol Service, public safety and law enforcement train with more than 30 years experience here along the Gulf Coast, protecting our people, our property, and our way of life. Give them a call at 251-264-2498. They offer mobile patrol services of churches, businesses, gated communities, condominiums, beach resorts, Yachton, and so much more. 251-264-2498. Call today, and you will feel better tonight. And once again this morning, we've got that extended weather forecast. We have been looking at this weather, uh, the extended weather, and we think we've got a pretty good handle on what's going to happen. Of course, we're sitting in the news and weathered uh office and the desk at the desk this morning, and uh we have really spent quite a bit of time trying to figure this thing out for the big weekend. So here's what we got. For the rest of today, we're gonna be hot. The high temperature for this Thursday, the second day of July, is about 90 degrees during the day. It's only going to cool down to about 78 degrees in the overnight. And for the rest of the day, it's gonna be partly cloudy. That just means, of course, partly sunny. And we're gonna be looking at uh the potential for a few sprinkles in some areas. We can't rule out maybe even the pop-up thunder boom boom, but it's not gonna be anything major. Uh it's not gonna last. We only have about a 20% chance of that happening for the rest of today. For tomorrow, Friday, the 3rd of July, it's gonna be mostly sunny. Believe it or not, it's gonna be even hotter than today on your Friday. It's gonna be 92 degrees. And of course, with the heat index and the field life, you're probably looking at about 94, 95, even. And that is really hot and muggy. Winds coming out of the east-southeast at about eight miles per hour. If we can even call that, right around 80 degrees in the overnight. As for sunshine, well, that's gonna be really prevail for the most of your day tomorrow, mostly sunny. But once again, we do have those chances of a few sprinkles or even a pop-up thunderstorm, about 15 to 20 percent on your Friday. Nothing really too rough. On Saturday, it's gonna be July 4th. Well, there was some question as to whether or not we were going to face some severe weather moving in, but it kind of is holding off. So for July 4th, it's gonna be mostly sunny and hot and humid. 90 91 degrees will be the expected high for Saturday, with the low dropping down to a while. Yeah, 80 degrees. Not so cool. But it's gonna be primarily sunny, very sunny. But we will have those pop up rain, maybe about 18 to 25 percent possible thunderstorm from you know very it could be in you know Baldwin County and not in Mobile, it could be along the Gulf Coast of Alabama and not in Mobile. We know we haven't lived here for quite many years, quite a few years, we know how that can happen. But all in all, it looks like things will kind of hold together and we'll have a great night to experience those fireworks. Sunday very much the same. Very hot and humid at about 89 degrees during the daytime. Wind coming out of the southwest at about 10 miles per hour, the overnight low, really not low at all, on Sunday, 80 for the overnight. But once again, we'll have mainly sunny skies with some rain chances later in the day. 19 to 25 percent. Nothing too serious, but we could hear some thunder booms along our area. Now, as we move into the new week, well that's gonna be completely different. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the 6th, 7th, and 8th day of July, you can experience morning time thunderstorms, quite severe, actually. About a 50% chance Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of that happening, clearing up later in the day, sunshine will come out. The temperature on all three days, right around 89 degrees during the daytime, 80 in the overnight, wind coming out of the west-southwest all three days, about 12 to 15 miles per hour. As we get back toward the weekend, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, again, isolated thunderstorms, 90 degrees for all three days, 80 in the overnight, and once again, we've got about a 35 to 40 percent chance of thunderstorms, winds coming out of the west-southwest at about 12 to 15 miles per hour. On Monday, as we get back into the studio, we'll have the latest up-to-dated weather, but we are looking quite a ways out, and all the way through the 20th of July. That's a long time, about three weeks. We're looking at thunderstorms at least part of the day, not the entire day. Uh, sometimes scattered, sometimes isolated. We'll better know about this on Monday. But as for the weekend, enjoy, enjoy the sunny weather, enjoy the fireworks, the music, the cooking out. I mean, just enjoy being with your family, and that is your extended weather forecast from Coastal Alabama Radio.
SPEAKER_15Rip 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 ruther-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.visitalbeaches.com slash safety.
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SPEAKER_09Hey baby, is that you? Wow, your hair got so long. Yeah, yeah, I love it, I really do. Norma Jean ain't that the song we sing in the car. Driving downtown, top down, baking the round, checking out the bands on Doge Avenue. Yeah, life through chicken, but you nervous word. Me, I swung in a mist, and the next thing you know, I'm in a missing dreamin' on dreams, wishing on wishes, like you would be bad again. Dream, that's what I'm doing. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. Someone told me, after college, you ran off to babies. You married her own cowboy! Me, I've been a few places mostly, but once a twice, I'm still sucking out, but I'm doing all right. Yeah, hey girl. But if you ever come back around and speak, stop being speaking on pretty much. That's what I'm doing.
SPEAKER_10I wake up and tear up before I put on the water song before we did. I wake up and tear up the fall.
SPEAKER_08Here we go again, another last resort, so help me, Jesus. The silence, so quiet, it's filled my mind with everything we were that wasn't once again. I found a piece. I gave up on the student stuff, it had to fall and wait to fall to fix this kind of feeling and I feel I tried to back feel that dirt, ripping every time, but they always hit the ceiling C do the only thing that don't make me feel empty Pull it by around and write upon a whiskey No chance to read that when there's no one distance Tryna keep my head above the water on my sticky.
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SPEAKER_08What if I never knew you? What if I never knew love?
SPEAKER_06Search in my soul The only answers I find are the useless ones. I already know it's gonna fall And whatever you can never love.
SPEAKER_08Just wanna think I'm feeling funny What's ever sure? Is this still no den? What if I never been born? I know that I wouldn't die.
SPEAKER_06What if I never knew you? What if I never knew love?
SPEAKER_10What if I never knew that?
SPEAKER_06And your path is free to walk. That makes me tend to leave my sleeping band. Roll the pants dashed from your couch. And it's knowin' I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bones. And the egg stains that are dry upon some line. That keeps you on the back road by the rivers of my memory. That keeps you at the channel on my line.
SPEAKER_08It's not clean to the rock tonight, you plan it on that column smell better by me. Because we thought we've been together.
SPEAKER_06When I'm about to lost our tracking on the back, that the rivers are not gonna make Ever Should's give him clothes, I've been junking always come between us And so her mother Cause she turned in our scroll Tell my brother, silence tears join my stay my face.
SPEAKER_10And the summer sun might burn me to love cannot see you, walking on the backwards, but the rivers flowing change along with the colour.
SPEAKER_02More than fine on your own. But if you ever change your mind, girl, I know a guy You got your routine now. You're tasty, girl's not hell. I yoga to a toe eat, ain't nothing else you need. But if you ever change your mind, girl, I know a guy. Let me tell you what your mentor. Let me be about something more.
SPEAKER_08There's a lens in the kitchen, let me open all your lords. Break the tear down on your walls, break my bread, watch and fall. No one got feels white. Girl, I know a guy for you and me Make you feel seventeen.
SPEAKER_02I listen to your dreams, wake up what's been asleep. So if you ever change your mind, girl, I don't forget.
SPEAKER_08Bendy open all your walls. Break my work.
SPEAKER_02Let me show you what you're missing. Let me be your son the moment. Do some dancing in the kitchen. Let me open all your doors.
SPEAKER_08Brick my brick, watch and fall. No one love feels like Girl, I know the God.
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SPEAKER_19And Texas is a place I nearly love to be, but all my exes live in Texas. And that's why I hang my head in Tennessee. Rosanna's down in Texas camera. Wanted me to push her breath. Sweet Eileen's never lean. She forgot I hung a murder. And Alison and Garrett's stone somehow lost her sanity. And then pose who now lives in Temple's got the loud looking for me. All my exes live in Texas. And Texas is a place I didn't love to be, but all my exes live in Texas. And that's why I hang my head in Tennessee. Where I learned to swim. But it brings to mind another time where I wore my welcome thing. By transcendental meditation. I go there each night, but I always come back to myself. Long before daylight, all my exes live in Texas. And Texas is a place I didn't love to be, but all my exes live in Texas. And therefore I reside in Tennessee. Some folks think I'm mad. But I'm alive and well in Tennessee.
SPEAKER_08So you picked your wrong poster in a cafe held in Phoenix. As for me and it looked, we still make certain and I want a horse train. She still asked about you. And the wind used to ride stones and you see winds with the sunlight on your head. But you know I just can't bear.
SPEAKER_04And certainly she does not know.
SPEAKER_08And we still need no day. There's something else. And we still send you sequence with the sunlight on your hair.
SPEAKER_00Steve, he's rumbling, bubbling, stumbling all over the place. And oh, that can't be good. Look at that soppy key action. That's gonna draw a penalty. Drinking, driving, possible $1,500 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.
SPEAKER_17And just like that, once again, we have to say Happy Trail. Happy Trail to you until we meet again here on the Airwave. And of course, uh the next time that we broadcast will be after the July 4th weekend celebration coming up in just another couple of days. I want to wish you uh a really happy, great uh July 4th, great weekend. I hope that you get out there with your friends and family and uh enjoy yourself and maybe do some barbecuing. I love that. I really do I love being out there putting me in the fire. I hope that you're gonna hear you.