Coastal Alabama Highway 98 Radio

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With Rick McCann Behind the Microphone

THURSDAY    JULY 30, 2026

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EPISODE 387

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Transcript

SPEAKER_11 0:09

Hello and welcome to Coastal Alabama Highway Ninety Eight Radio. Rick McCand behind the microphone. We've got the latest breaking news, extended weather forecast, and great music coming up live, broadcasting from the Blue Ran Media Studios here in Golf Shores, Alabama.

SPEAKER_03 0:57

Wish I could save bartender. Close me out when you can. A girl like that won't get away. I tend to keep on coming. Wish I could tell you I'm the luckiest guy who every step put into this bar. Thinks I hung the moon and stars. Wish I could tell you she's home waiting for me now. I need to be home my way. And how it's all gonna be okay. Wish I could say it won't be long and she'll be home. God, I love the sound of that. There's a whole lot more that I wish I could say.

SPEAKER_06 7:55

And I never saw it come in. Shook from a dream, woke up alone, feeling betrayed, tears are running down my cheeks as I screamed down the hall. No one there to break my phone. I gave my heart in home my love. And one day my best wasn't good enough.

SPEAKER_05 8:27

It's hard when you find that sometimes you must let love die. I never expected so much pain. But one I thought would never change. He went and left me behind. I'm bound in to let love die.

SPEAKER_06 8:59

I face the world with hollow eyes. Just going through the motions. I pray for strength to get through the day. Try to find a way to keep on going towards the light. Ever through the rain. Wait for the sun to find me again.

SPEAKER_05 9:26

I gave my heart in all my love. And one day my best wasn't good enough.

SPEAKER_06 9:37

It's hard when you find that sometimes you must let love die.

SPEAKER_05 9:45

I never expected so much. But the one I thought would never change. He went and left me behind. Now I'm lying. It's a let love time. Not staring at my cell phone, stuck in the bathroom mirror. And if I was a cowboy, I'd just throw some blue jeans on. I'd be somewhere on a dance floor. I'd already be moved on. Cowboys don't cry. Cowboys can lie to themselves and to everyone else where it's over. Cowboys be fragile, live back in the saddle. Don't wear for them to unbreak. They just ran away. They just ran away off in the sunset. In a shabby Silverado. Go to church and give a drink. For some girl from Colorado. Cowboys say they'll never marry. So you go and set them free. Mister, I ain't getting married. Just didn't wanna marry me. Cowboys don't cry. Cowboys can lie to themselves and to everyone else when Cowboys ain't fresh. Don't wait for the I do want to break.

SPEAKER_04 12:24

They just ran.

SPEAKER_05 12:39

Can't have her hurt under her head. Cowboys don't cry. Cowboys can lie to themselves and to everyone else when it's so Cowboys so fresh up on the back of the step. Don't wait for the one break.

SPEAKER_04 13:03

They just spanned that she said she said it over to see your mama. Try to clear heads she needed a little time. Said we could talk more about it later if you wanna walk down the door so everything was gonna be alright. I ain't heard a word from her, and that's what gets me. So tell me how does a good bite go is it down to a cold boy? Rabbit down in the giveaway call. If it's all mouth is cowboys, gotta know. To the couple mouths away, come from the road to roll with my train on the road away, train. How far does it do that? Go to the don't come back to the word. To get out past where the radio just came. Pass the river breed with a rope swing, and a mailbox paint it all, John Green. Out here doing our own thing. I'm in the middle where the hard one means hollow living. I'm in the middle where we grown till we gone gotta win it. Just a good old good old girl's done. Don't stay having it like the high hangin' on like it's in the pole. You can hear the head clear across the next one. Just to get off the good off, girls.

SPEAKER_11 21:32

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SPEAKER_07 24:11

Miles of dry ground. I swear it's been nothing but months of a burning sun. Don't sound alive now. This wedding used to fit like a glove back when love was a while with this hotel cake. It's taking me to the storm that I made deserted. Every job on my skin downs. I've been trying to reckless eye, even if it's a wrong, baby, bring it on. Y'all the midnight rush, I've been missing my body begging to be baptized today. So feel me a help, too, touch with your breath, and pour it out. She's awake with the best in place. Every job with under rose brings me to my knees. Like a suit prayer. Hits me like a holy ghost taking over my soul, coming drag me dead. Every drop on my skin male Making out my senses. There ain't no decision. Even if it's a wrong, baby, bring it on.

SPEAKER_04 25:36

Y'all need my brush, I've been missing with my body, begging to be baptized. So fill me up with your touch, with your breath, and pour it out. She's away with the battery It's wately used to fit like a club back when love was a while.

SPEAKER_07 26:11

But this hotel cave, just my baby take away to the only heaven I'll ever see.

SPEAKER_04 26:27

There ain't no doubt. Even if it's wrong, baby bring it up.

SPEAKER_07 26:39

I've been thinking to be baptized today. Sit for me at the time with your breath before it out.

SPEAKER_04 26:47

She's already put the dance with your dance bread The sweaty creek used to fit like a glove back when love was wild.

SPEAKER_02 27:25

I've seen a dozen texts and I ain't heard Jack. I guess she's busy playing hard to get back. So I bought roses and her favorite wine. Thinking we'd be making up in old time. But I'm parked down here on her street. Looks like the joke's on me. Sittin' here, I can't believe what I just saw. Couple shadows kissing off her bedroom wall. It's looking like my plan didn't work out at all. Or break turning the broga. So now I'm finding out how a hard break taste with a silver road 1998 Drinking cabin solo. Solo in the cab of my truck Yeah, I thought about taking it back to the store. Cause it's the nicest bottle that I ever paid for. But then again, if I had that money back, I'd just find a bar and go run up a tap. I could go for a whiskey, I could go for a beer. But hell I'm already here. Still here, I can't believe what I just thought. Couple shadows gets an all the wall. Looking like my brain didn't work down at all. Arbre turned into broke up. Now I'm finding down the hard break. We'll just do a rogue 1998. Drinking candle stone. Just turn out the light. It's two minutes, which is damn goodbye. Man, I swear I can't believe I just saw Couple shadows pissing off bedroom walls. Looking like my brain didn't work out it all. That break turned into broke up Now I'm finding out a home break date with a still rogue 1998 Drinking Cabinet Solo. Solo in the cabin my truck. Yeah, I'm drinking cabinet solo. Solo in the cabin my truck.

SPEAKER_11 31:03

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SPEAKER_02 34:24

This is for all you sophisticated ladies out there. She grew up in the city in a little subdivision. Her daddy wore a tie, mama never fried a chicken. Mallet, straight aids, most likely to sleep. They bought her a car After graduation sent her down south for some higher education. Put her on a fast track to a lot of green. Holding the hands of a wildfire boy with a farm.

SPEAKER_04 38:08

It spreads the day up, and the time well spent, and time just thrown away.

SPEAKER_03 38:18

I wish my heart would please make up my mind.

SPEAKER_04 38:24

I'm wasting so much time.

SPEAKER_03 39:30

Playing mind games with the ground. Can we stop this time or must we go again?

SPEAKER_04 39:41

I see you standing waiting just outside. Come and get me off this round. I look inside your eyes and see perfections on yourself and me. The way you always said it would be so easily, and it came to me always.

SPEAKER_15 41:47

Smoking cigarettes, nicotine and whiskey, always on his breath. He kept a fresh pack open right beside his bed. Some of them things will kill you. That's what that doctor said. When we go fishing, trying to catch him all. She tore my clothes in the washing machine. Cuss my daddy scrubbed the hell right out of me. On the love he showed the jokes he told, found a way to seep into my soul. I pray every day. I find a way to pass it on to these children of mine. Live second-hand smoke. Thinking they'd hurt me. Never crossed his mind. He was right there with me. Not the wrong kind. He played it real cool when we disagree. Man, we were old school. My old man and me. Ain't life fun. How the world goes round. Make all of that money. Still put you in the ground. Man, I'd love to see and watch you burn one down. You smoke it up in heaven with those angels now. Over life, show the joke he toe. Found a way to seep into my soul. Every day I find a way to pass it on to these children of my own. A little second hand smoke. A little second hand smoke.

SPEAKER_04 45:14

Driving in the car or on the app. Thanks for listening. I'll be the manual now.

SPEAKER_11 45:26

Once again, this morning I've got that extended weather forecast for you. But first, let me just say we have had a number of heat-related emergencies here along the Gulf Coast over the last few days. Yes, it was hot yesterday. It's definitely gonna be hot today. And um, we're gonna tell you about some thunderstorms moving in. But remember, if you're working outdoors, if you are uh here on vacation, laying out on the beach, you can quickly, your body can quickly heat up well beyond what you could imagine. So please, you know, drink a lot of water, stay away from the alcohol, um, get under the shade trees, not much of that on the beach, of course. Get inside where there's anything. And if you feel like, you know, you're really your body is heating up, you need to get in where it's cold. If you're beginning to lose consciousness, maybe you're waiting in and out. That is a heat emergency call 911. For the rest of today, we're looking at about 93 for a high on this Thursday. We'll have mostly funny remaining, but we're gonna have some clouds and possible rain showers or even storms later in the day. The temperature high today, 93 degrees, the overnight around 80. And for the weekend, tomorrow, Friday, we're gonna see about a 50% chance of thunder, storms, scattered in some areas and severe, in others. 91 will be the high for tomorrow. Wind coming out of the west 15 miles per hour, so there'll be a breeze. But it'll also be hot and humid. The overnight is right around 80 degrees. On Saturday and Sunday, we definitely have thunderstorms in the mix. In fact, on Saturday, 75% chance of those thunderstorms. We're not gonna see much in the form of sunshine, but it's still gonna be hot and humid. Overnight and Saturday, 78 degrees. Winds coming out of the west southwest is about 15 to 18 miles per hour. Sunday, more, more serious thunderstorms, almost 100% chance of thunderstorms for your Sunday August. We have severe storms moving in for the afternoon and evening temperatures about 88 degrees for Sunday, uh the overnight about 78. Wind coming out of the west-southwest once again, 15 to 20 miles per hour. Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday uh unfortunately doesn't look a whole lot better. We are gonna have a Monday more rain chances and possible thunderstorms. The temperature high for Monday will be 88 degrees during the daytime, 78 in the overnight, with 55% chance of uh rain and about a 20% chance of thunderstorms. On your Tuesday, well, showers will remain in the area in the morning. The temperature high will get up around 89, possibly even 90 degrees, and that overnight low, 78 degrees. Rain cannot be ruled out. But then in the afternoon, it's gonna probably clear up and we'll have some sunshine. Wednesday will be a complete duplicate of Tuesday. We'll probably have some morning uh rain showers, and then later in the afternoon clearing up percentage of rain, 55% for Wednesday. The high will be 88 during the daytime, and 78 in the overnight. Wind coming from the south-southwest, 9 to 12 miles per hour. Once again, unfortunately, on Thursday, that rain's gonna hang around for most of the day. 66% chance to rain for your Thursday, the sixth day of August. 90 degrees will be the high on Thursday next week. And uh about 79 will be the low in the overnight winds coming out of the east, southeast, 10 to 12 miles per hour. Of course, when we get back in the studio, we're gonna have the latest, most up-to-date, accurate extended weather forecast. But as I say all the time, in this area, you definitely need a weather box, you need a weather app on your phone to get those alerts when that weather changes and the storms move in. And that's your extended weather forecast for today's weather from Coastal Alabama Radio. Hey 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 blue rammedia.com.

SPEAKER_04 51:27

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 two. Mama spent every night by her bed, and daddy shaved his head. Talk about tough people. There were plenty of times she could have gave up, but she did. Tough towns make tough people It's the table mom working through the job today. It's a grammar, waiting table working through the thing. It's a time. Came back in a box with a flag on it. It's home on it. Talk about tough people talk about some tough people. Keep catching that brain. Let these old boots stay by the door.

SPEAKER_07 55:24

Let me lose it just hearing you say tonight, baby, I'm yours.

SPEAKER_04 55:31

Let the me on, be on somebody else out there. To get me gone like a no way. Gone like a bunch of like a no country. Some in the red dress you had on. Let me drink you in like whiskey.

SPEAKER_14 56:11

Kiss me. Get me gone.

SPEAKER_07 56:22

Let your eyes cut me like a knife.

SPEAKER_04 56:25

Let your ear down waterfall from.

SPEAKER_07 56:29

Yeah, you're already taking my breath.

SPEAKER_04 56:33

While you're at a girl, gon' take it on. Do the waves keep on pulling me. Baby wave. Give me a gold like nowhere. Go like a bunch of bottom. Let me drink you in like whiskey. Kiss me, get me gone.

unknown 58:10

Let me go.

SPEAKER_04 58:12

Oh baby, give me gone. Let me go. Baby, give me gone.

SPEAKER_11 59:00

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SPEAKER_04 59:48

Don't take her she's all I've got. Please don't take her love away from me. I'm begging you, friend. Don't take her she's all I've got. She's everything in life I live and she is life when I wanna live. She's everything to me in life that life can give. She's my water when I need a drink. She's the first thought in my mind each time I try to think. She's the only thing in life to me that's really real.

SPEAKER_15 1:01:21

She is love, she's all the love I know.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:27

She could kiss the ground in the winter time and make the flower grow. Let the kidney now free. Don't make her she's all up gone. Please don't take her love away from me. I'm begging you friends. Don't take her she's all out gone. She's in the taking line. I'm the hip of thumb and knee. The hippetalkin now free. But don't take her she's all I've got. I'm a big too free. Don't take her she's all I've got. Don't take her she's all I've got.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:28

I know it is hard to believe. But all really yours. I got a big sale. Back to school. I can remember when I was a kid about a hundred years ago. Looking so forward to getting new clothes every school year.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:33

Every day we take it out of the people we love to see unhealthy residents are easy to miss. Like the ones that cause Lyme disease, the mice surging for food into red bacteria that makes us sick. Mosquitoes lay eggs in the standing water, and the red wet Nile virus, and more. Cockroaches are drawn to water in the home, leaving behind allergens that can trigger asthma attacks. Common pests can threaten our health. Learn how to protect your family at pestworld.org.

SPEAKER_09 1:04:04

Rip 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.visitalbeaches.com slash safety.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:39

With entity. God made a style. Why can't he make me an unbreakable home in my blue room? And let me cry. I should know. Sometimes don't just come and go. But I we only someone will come to the eyes in her remembrance.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:01

When you drop your gun breakable house, are you alone?

SPEAKER_13 1:14:22

Can you talk to an old friend? Right wrong. I had to hear your voice again. I'm written along. Oh, said to me as well I just want you to know. Sometimes that all the time. I bet you're dying.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:54

I've done.

SPEAKER_13 1:15:08

I just don't know. I've got your life and down. And don't we are not big and white.

SPEAKER_11 1:17:32

Federal police charged the driver with DY and eluding officers when they attempted to pull him over. The police said that the driver refused. Police activated blue lights and sirens, but the driver continued on until they got him stopped. Police arrested Dwayne Adams Steiner, 63. He's been charged with driving under controlled substance and fleeing law enforcement, and he was taken to the Baldwin County Detention Center. Police said that there were no serious injuries, but several were transported to the hospital. In the last few weeks, we've noticed across Baldwin County many accidents occurring just about everywhere. As more and more visitors are coming and more people are living here, obviously the traffic volume is also increasing. Damage federal businesses just occurring on state highway 181 Tuesday just before 8 a.m. According to uh fire officials, several people called 911 saying that they observed smoke and fire rolling out of the building. Multiple fire departments, including the Bell Forest, Afghanistan, Fairhold, Marketing, and others responded. It took them uh half an hour to get it under control. According to the fire department, it is under investigation. Many of those businesses within that building will remain closed. Police investigating a shooting that has left one person dead. According to authorities, they responded to 44-54 Holland Mill Road and Mobile that autoglass in reference to a shooting. They found one person deceased. The shooter had fled, but he turned himself in soon afterwards at the Mobile Police Department's second precinct. He was taken into custody and interviewed and then released. The victim of the shooting was identified as Evan Bagley, 25. Authorities said they had a confrontation. Bagley pulled a gun. That's when the other person pulled his and fired. At this time, the case had been handed over to the DA for further decision whether or not to prosecute. A brand new and first for you know, first time ever, really. A brand new beachfront rooftop lounge is coming to Orange Beach. According to a news release, a brand new hotel, restaurant, and rooftop lounge will be built and where it was once a church that was destroyed. Orange Beach, a six-story one-room Marriott Hotel expected to feature a 3,500 square foot rooftop lounge that will be open to the public visitors. According to um what the news release said, they hope to open it by the second quarter of 2028 at the Marriott Brandon Hotel. According to the information that we received, the Romar Beach Baptist Church is where it's gonna be located. It was destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in 2004, rebuilt in 2008, and then heavily damaged by Hurricane Sally in 2020. According to the Orange Beach Council, uh City Council, they're uh pretty in tune to approve this. They just want to make sure that the noise level doesn't disturb others in the area. According to police in Daphne, they are looking for a suspect in an early morning uh stabbing. This occurred yesterday morning. Authorities at about 12:30 was called to a location on Adams Avenue. One person suffered multiple stab wounds. Robert Merion of Daphne has a felony assault warrant out for him, and police are searching for him. If you know his whereabouts, please contact the Daphne Police Department. An Irvington man is locked up after sending new pictures to himself to a teenager on social media. Sacramento, California law enforcement notified Mobile County police, they began an investigation, and authorities served a search warrant on the home of the suspect, Kobe Lee Palmer. And after observing the search warrant, they took him into custody. He's been charged with transmitting outscene material to a minor to council solicitation, electronic solicitation for sex. He's currently locked up at the Mobio County jail being held without a woman will spend four years in prison for tampering with evidence. Natalia Mitchell Farrell was sentenced to 48 months for tampering with evidence in a federal drug conspiracy. Federal authorities charged her with a federal crime, and she was found guilty. She'll be spending those forty-eight months in a federal prison. A former Baldwin County School employee has been sentenced to ten years in prison after a child sex sting. Authorities say that Christopher Glover when he did arrive at a sting operation in Pensacola, it was police that he met. Not a child, and he'll be spending ten years in prison for that. A large house fire over the weekend in Rosington brought in twenty-two fire departments because there was no fire hydrant. It was a major fire, but they all worked together to extinguish it. Authorities don't know what started it, and it is under investigation. A definite man has been charged with rape. Rachel Bullard is in the Baldwin County Detention Center. As you can hear, we have a lot going on here in the newsroom this morning. He's in the Baldwin County Detention Center locked up for strong arm rape. And authorities said that he will not be released at the time. According to Aleah. Remember when you see news happening.com It was just another Friday, nothing special about it.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:04

A field fire party, truck circled around it. Me and the guys with no damn plants, moon in the sky, crushing some cans, nothing going down. Yeah, the kind you forget about. And then you lit up my phone. See you were coming a little later on. Can't imagine a word when you don't. Cause leaning on the side of my chevy. I was feeling like the luckiest guy. Like the stars were falling just a right. You could have been just me and the guys winning the trunk bed full of empties. But you took the same old night. I've lived a thousand times and made it a memory. Cause the window you were smiling, dancing up on the tailgate. Got me thinking I wish that you'd look at me that way. I was done. That was us making the first one. I can't forget about. Yeah, I still remember now. When you lit up my phone. See you coming on a little later on. Can't imagine a world where you don't just lean it on. Stop my debt. I was feeling like the luckiest guy. Like the stars falling to the right. So you were coming a little later on. But I can't imagine a world where you don't. Cause I leaned in and girl, you let me. I was fit up the guy. Like the star is just a right. I left the found. And made it a memory.

unknown 1:28:15

You made it a memory.

SPEAKER_11 1:28:25

Boy, that music track ran out quickly, didn't it? You caught me drinking. Coffee, of course. But that is unfortunately um gonna wrap it up for us today. We have a lot going on. Uh, we're checking in some breaking news stories even as we're on the air talking to you today. And uh we've got um just so much happening here along the Gulf Coast, and we're gonna try and keep up the speed for you and get all that broadcasted out on our newsletters, um, our breaking news alerts, social media. If you're not you know part of that, or you should be, contact helpdesk at bluermedia.com and they'll definitely give you a whole laundry list of how to do that. In the meantime, no matter where you're driving, whether it's on the interstate, which you know these days, it's a slowdown. And if you're on the back road, I was gonna say a country road, but there's not too many of those left, and there's not that many back roads, and they're all becoming four-lanes. No matter where you are, actually, if you're driving and you hear sirens, you see light, red or blue, you gotta pull to the right as swiftly as possible. Let's get all of our first responders to where they're going. And of course, if they're already on the side of the road, you gotta move to the left as swiftly as possible, or whatever direction that they send you. Well, brother, sisters, thanks for being with us today. As you can tell, we're really stupid. So much happening and so much to tell you, and so much to do. Welcome. Don't drink and drive.