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With Rick McCann Behind the Microphone
THURSDAY March 12, 2026
We have the latest news, extended weather, events, and a whole lot of great music!
EPISODE 351
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Hello and welcome to Coastal Alabama's Highway 98 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_02Looking at you laying in the bed last night. I kiss you good night and you close your eyes. And I worry what's on your mind. Will you still be pulling me closer? Resting your head on me. And as time keeps making us older, I pray that I'll always be Still that cowboy that stole your home. Still that right one you chose from the stone.
SPEAKER_04When the nights get long and the years roll by, when you wake up and you look at me. I hope I'm still that cowboy thrown up in your dream. You were dressed in white on a champagne night. We were drunk on an eye to kiss. Funny how the honeymoon fades all of a sudden you're a kid with a couple kids. Yeah, the wits get a little bit less.
SPEAKER_02The missile less gets a little more. But I can't get you out of my head. Still that cowboy that stole your heart. Still that ribbon, you toast home first. I can alone in the ears walk by when you wake up. When you frame the battle warmest man, hold your hand wall by Still that cowboy that stole your heart. Still that ride one you chose from the star.
SPEAKER_16When I was three, drove a hundred thousand miles on my knees, hauled marbles and rocks, and thought twice before I hauled a Barbie doll bed for the girl next door. She tried to pay me with a kiss, and I began to understand there's something women like about a pickup man. When I turned 16, I saved a few hundred bucks. My first car was a pickup truck. I was cruising the town, and the first girl I seen was Bobby Joe Gentry, the homecoming queen. She flagged me down and climbed up in the cab and said, I never knew you were a pickup man. You can set my truck on fire and roll it down a hill. And I still wouldn't trade it for a good veil. I got an eight-foot bet that never has to be made. You know, if it weren't for trucks, you wouldn't have tailgates. I met all my wives. The traffic jams are just something women like a bite of pickup man. Most Friday nights, I can be found in the bed of my truck on an old Jake's lounge. Backed into my spot at the driving show. You know a cargo light gives off a romantic blow. I never have to wait in line at the popcorn stand. Cause it's toppin' whimin' like a byta pick-up man. You can set my truck on fire and roll it down a hill. And I still wouldn't trade it for a cookie bill. I got an eight-foot vet that never has to be made. You know if it weren't for trucks, you wouldn't have tailgate. I met all my wives. The traffic jams are just toppin' whimin' like a bide-pick-up man. Lucky new rust or a brand new machine. Once around the block, and you know what I mean. Set my truck on fire and roll it down a hill and I feel what's waiting for a good big bill. I got an eight-foot bed that never has to be made. You know if it works because you have to gate. I bet all my wives. Traffic jams, you just stomp them women like about a pickup man. Yeah, just stomping women like about a pickup man.
SPEAKER_15If you're holding your breath when your heart tells your head what you're feeling, if you're breaking your plans, cause you're barefootin' dancing on the ceiling.
SPEAKER_02If you're out of your body and you can't believe it, deeper than you've ever been. If your world's spinning faster than it ever has when Baby then I got you right where I want you. I never seen a star so bright. As the ones burning in your eyes. If you don't know, I put a feels just right. Well Baby then I got the ride well I want you. Wrapped in my arms tonight. Feelin' like I feel about you. I never felt more alive. I never still stop right. Else the ones burning in your eyes. If I can stop time, that's what I do. I got to ride a while, I want you. Right where we are, where we're supposed to be. Right where we are, baby, you and me. Can we never leave? Yeah, I got to ride a while, I want you. Wrapped in my tonight. Never felt more alive. I never still stop right. That's the ones burning in your eye. If I can stop time, that's what I do. I got you right away, won't you? Girl, I got you right away, won't you? Yeah, I do feel like I do.
SPEAKER_05I got you right away, won't you?
SPEAKER_07Looking back over the years, all the things I've always meant to say, but the words didn't come easily so many times through empty fields, through all the nights I tried to pick up the fun soul escape of the mighty answering.
SPEAKER_06You try to live your life from day to day and sing you close to room tonight. Excuse me, way of the harm of life, the land the heart of the move you're gonna be.
SPEAKER_02You can share your life The heart of night Long after the night, you still hear my voice through the radio science because I can see long after the night, after the fine, after the scale's quiet, the four wheels.
SPEAKER_06You can live in the back, you can see you lost the side, of course.
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SPEAKER_17I know what's way in on your mind, but you can be sure I know my part Cause I stand beside you through the years. You'll only cry those hands and no amazing space.
SPEAKER_02I'll never break your heart. I swear by the moon and stuff, you start I'll be there. I swear by the shadow, I'll be there for words, you take to his heart, I'll let you ever with you by heart.
SPEAKER_17I swear I'll give you everything I can. I'll build your dreams with these two hands, real hands and freezing, we'll walk and win. There's silver in Won't have to ask advice I'm trying to pay my love on a jack layout.
SPEAKER_12You better take it up. That boy is not a display. You better take the tool. It's just a better time.
SPEAKER_09In 2021, five of these deaths were on the Gulf Coast. Rip currents are the number one rudder-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_11Coming up. Real quick. The annual home and garden show in Mobile is coming back at the Arthur R. Center. You know where it's at. Right there on the river there. Thursday, March 19th. Sunday, March 22nd. So you can take quite a few days, four days, to get on down there and see all that there is to see and do. That's the home and garden show. It's a curated event of antiques, designs, inspired living, bringing renowned designers, artistics, and lifestyle experts all together from one of the kind experiences. Discover timeless treasures and state and pieces. From top collectors and dealers. And design yourself. Evaluate your living spaces. Yes, I need a little help with that. Explore beautifully designed landscape. Exploring unique creators. But if you like me, I'll be on the cheap and I'll be there just to see what it is to see. Probably spend about 28 bucks. But it's gonna be a fun uh kind of exciting if you're uh a home and garden kind of person. And I'm looking forward to it, so go on down and check it out.
SPEAKER_16I've seen a dozen text, and I ain't her jack. Yeah, I guess she's busy playing hard to get back.
SPEAKER_02So I bought roses and her favorite wine. Thinking we'd be making up in old time. But I'm parked out 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 walls. It's looking like my plan didn't work out at all, or break turning the broga.
SPEAKER_11So now I'm finding out how a hard break taste with a silver old 1998 Drinking cabin 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 Sitting here, I can't believe what I just saw Couple shadows kissing off the wall Looking like my brain didn't work out at all Hornbreak turned into broke up So now I'm finding how hell a hard break taste with a silver road I'm taking IA Drinking cow in a solo solo in the camp of my truth turn out the lights It's too many which she said goodbye Man I swear I can't believe what I just saw Couple shadows kissing on Bedroom wall Smoking like my brain worked out it all That break turned into broke up So now I'm finding out a home break taste with a silver oak 99 Drinking cabin a solo Solo in the cabin my truck Yeah I'm drinking Cabin a solo Solo in the cabin my truck And once again on this Thursday morning sitting here at the News and Weather Desk we've got your extended weather It's gonna be kind of an up and down situation warm and cool yesterday we hit almost 80 degrees in some places they did but this morning we have some disturbances you might see some early morning thunderstorms probably through uh general webinar it's gonna be cool yesterday 80 today we're only gonna make it up about to 55 degrees if we even make it there. And of course that we kind of brought on the onslaught of some uh thunderstorms in the area. 42 degrees overnight. Now that almost feels like late fall or early winter, but certainly not spring. I don't think many of our spring breakers are dipping in the golf right now, although I did see a few, and you know, there's some brave cold out there. We do have a 57% chance of rain for the remainder of the day, and winds are blowing pretty steady at 17 to 20 miles per hour. Now tomorrow will be a bit better, 72 will be your high, but it will be cool in the overnight once again. 51 will be the low. We'll see mostly sunny skies and a few clouds. So that's not so bad. You might as well say a drop maybe here or there wind 6 to 8 miles per hour. Saturday and Sunday looking a little better. Sunday and Saturday will be sunny. There will be some clouds in the area, the high for Saturday is 76 and 79 once again on Sunday. But there will be a chance of rain about 20%. That chance increases slightly on Monday, and the temperature decreases on the 64, and believe it or not, Monday we have a chance of some frost in the area. On the 34 degrees Monday morning, 27% chance of rain, and wind blowing 15 to 20 miles an hour, and that could decrease the morning temperature even more. Now, if you think that's gonna be cool on Monday, hey, Tuesday when you wake up, the temperature is gonna be right around 34 degrees, and we're only gonna see a high of 55 on Tuesday the 17th. We're gonna have hardly cloudy and hardly sunny. Wind once again blowing 11 and 15 miles an hour out of the fountain. And we have a light, only 4% chance of rain. Wednesday and Thursday. The temperatures are gonna reach about 66-67. The low will be 43 in the overnight, again, partly cloudy and partly funny. Friday, 30, and Sunday, things will be looking better. Temperatures will go up around 75. A cool overnight, down around 52 to 55, and about a 12 to 15% chance of rain through Monday the 23rd. Of course, we're gonna have the latest extended weather forecast for you when we get back here on Monday. And uh overall, you know, it's a little flexibility, we just gotta be flexible. Some days are gonna be a little bit more like fall, others will be definitely deep spring. Overall, we're kind of blast because there's some areas that still see snow falling, and uh even some icy conditions, so we're not there yet. And that's your extended weather forecast from Coastal Alabama Radio.
SPEAKER_04The online lights called in your head.
SPEAKER_05Every guy in here went quiet, like they knew you didn't care. You got that slow burn smile, like you send and been forgiven.
SPEAKER_08I don't come here looking for saving. I don't need a white night. I just like a man who knows better, but still looks me dead in the eye. I've been caught a couple things, some of them I won't deny.
SPEAKER_05If it's scared of getting burned, baby, you're too close to my fire.
SPEAKER_02Mama warned me about your kind, but you never said you look like her.
SPEAKER_00Together.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, bitch, you just arrived like a female dress and the last cockpit. Underbuts and bathroom lies to wear that thing. But I don't want to if all's wrong. I don't want to.
SPEAKER_08Never once looked back. Got a history with new lipstick on the edge of a man. I know I ain't the first mistake. Won't be a cleanest one.
SPEAKER_05But I've been bored of plants since I learned how to run. You don't flinch when I get quiet. Don't try to fix my past. You just lean in a little closer. Like you know it won't last.
SPEAKER_02I see the rip behind your eyes. Yeah, you dance with a grip.
SPEAKER_08Only how the most honest eyes are the ones we should again.
SPEAKER_02You're gonna cross that line. Don't pretend you don't know. You're like, so it's good, cut off We ain't talking about tomorrow.
SPEAKER_12Ain't playing for forever.
SPEAKER_02Just too sparkling and too close.
SPEAKER_08It's tall and kind of weather.
SPEAKER_02I don't promise I'll stay.
SPEAKER_08Don't promise I'll be kind. But I promise I'll feel real for one damn night at a time together.
SPEAKER_02If we crash, we crash, knowing why trouble looks good on you, like standin' on the moonlight, like knowing better doing words, and loving every second of the fight, do every danger like it's true. And I look better standing next to you if this goes up and spoken truth.
SPEAKER_12I take a breakfast Across Arkansas that's been a mist in the desert just to be together. For one nine toes. For one nine tons. We'll think about only is there's too much time to think. Like me lying here knowing. Let it was all to me. I write a lot of must be always across the inside of the day. Just to be so must hang. I take a barefoot walk. Across our kins all speak in the days. Just to be together. For one night and tosa.
SPEAKER_18For one night and tosa.
SPEAKER_08Just one night and tosa. Just one night and tosa.
SPEAKER_05I know what this is, I know what it's like. I know where it starts, I know where it starts. It ain't coffee in the moon.
SPEAKER_02Now it's a shot. I know what I'm getting myself into right now. But I just can't help it. I still wanna stick around. Till that shot starts telling me It's time to chase your nose to buy. Till the last time I'm better. Maybe I can do the chat too if you wanna I love you without my heart. Till don't do a spot I don't want to make a name. I don't want to be a good thing.
SPEAKER_11Antonio D Right. Remember all person that are arrested already for proven guilty in the quarterback.
SPEAKER_15Bows his head, bends his knee, only has blood in me. Jesus listen A little bread for today, a little art, a little shade to forgive just to see he's been forgiven. When a cowboy prays, it starts raining in Oklahoma.
SPEAKER_02Long lost sons come home to mama, and those stubborn horses break when a cowboy pray. It's as strong as it is humble. This whole world just ain't the same when a cowboy play.
SPEAKER_15Round a Bible bound leather Just as warm and just as weather As a line to the on its face All the horses in the stable, all his family around the table, all of him listen to every word he has to say. When a cowboy plays, it stops ringing and go home.
SPEAKER_02All lost on his gunbook. It is breaking when a cowboy play. Oh, it's doing it's brewing the humble. It's his time it's digging tumble. It's all work just like when the cowboy bleed. When the cowboy plays When a cowboy praises for green grace, get back up again. When a cowboy prays it starts with thanks in it, in Jesus' name, amen.
SPEAKER_15When a cowboy prays, all of heaven listens. When a cowboy prays, you don't wanna miss it.
SPEAKER_02When a cowboy prays, it starts raining in the tone. Long sunscreen hunger, mama, and those colour and host is breaking with the cowboy. It's the win. It's getting too worth the same with the cowboy.
SPEAKER_13When a cowboy and clean win and cowboy trails bisect the golden eye sky on the westbound beach town, golden state, highway drive. I could live right even this moment for the rest of my life.
SPEAKER_02Cause time won't slow down, so it's time we go now.
SPEAKER_13Sip a copy to the mountain sunrise. Say goodnight to the Colorado rain. Cataline, baby, use the love. I can stay forever, but forever ain't long enough. So wanna ride about you. Say all that we wanna say and do all we wanna do.
SPEAKER_02So it's time we go now. Treasure rising up the Catalina coastline Deep around all the windows and big Stiff and coffee to the mountain sunright. Speaking of the color out of the rain, Catholic baby, we use the hungry out of the time's colour.
SPEAKER_13I can stay forever before the rain long Jesus on the cutalina coastline Jeep around the way to Santa Fe Subit Sunday for the boy I to live with a long life scale I can say forever, but forever ain't long enough I can say forever, but forever ain't long enough.
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SPEAKER_13He said, What you've been up to late. I told him to send a dollar, and in between sips of coffee. He poured this wisdom out. Said if you want my two cents, I'm making a dollar count. Buy dirt. Following you can't live without Get a ring that you need, hit the ground. Do what you love but call it work. Throw a little money, play the church. Send your prayers up and your roots down. 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. You can buy dirt.
SPEAKER_02Before you get caught on that ladder, let me tell you what it's all about.
SPEAKER_15Find you a few things that matter. That you can put a fence around. And then he laid it out. By dirt, find the one you can't live without.
SPEAKER_02Get 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 can't buy happiness, but you can buy dirt.
SPEAKER_15Thank the good Lord for it. Cause he ain't making any more of it.
SPEAKER_02So buy dirt. Find the one you can't live without. Get a ringlet and eat the 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. Cause the truth about it is it all goes by real quick. You can't buy happiness, but you can buy dirt.
SPEAKER_18Always check the door before you lay down. Keep a blast of water by the way. Keep your nose from running. Little things like that she's always said. Give her back up farther than you have to. Pray for those that don't have a prayer. Honey, drive stealth. Still you do, you ain't no good for anybody. Else honey who's a gun. You don't find your heart. Love and heart. Bless your heart. Eat someone listen. That's why I leave a lot home in kitchen. Pancakes just taste better after midnight. You make friends, always be colorblind. Your freckles make you pretty. You feel fat, most need to mind. Some honey, trust yourself. You better have it death. Still you do, you ain't no good to anybody else. Honey for you to come. You gotta find you one. Love it more. Need someone to visit. That's why I lean that only in the kitchen. Trust yourself. Laugh at yourself. If something tries to hold you back, get up and give it hell. And for hell take always have a place where you can do some crying in the reaching. And always leave a lot on in the kitchen.
SPEAKER_02A couple tickets, all inclusive down in Cancun. I couldn't get my money back, so I'm in seats in an A. I'm getting drunk on a plane. I bet the belly only I thought I was crazy. Back right beside me. Now I've got it be any bottles filling both our trays. I'm getting drunk on a plane. So far, we got the seven 37 They don't know what I'm getting drunk on a plane. We had the state mark on the calendar for it. We take the new at least to give.
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SPEAKER_17One more day.
SPEAKER_02One more day. Ain't no sun, ain't no blue sky, the wind blows old. Now that you've gone away and tomorrow. Just like today, there's a hundred percent chance of rain.
SPEAKER_17Yes, you may go.
SPEAKER_02Said it hurt you to give us all my love. Oh, but look what it's doing to me. Ain't no sun, ain't no blue sky. The wind looks bold. Now let's take off the way. Just like that.
SPEAKER_03I got flowers on the table and sunshine on the bed. I can have a couple drinks and stay out of my head. I can hear a sad song and not even sing alone. So R I be with me. Smiling on the lake. Great. Tossing off my head. And I'm paying my respect. To the lake. Even if I got straight up. Yeah. I've been going through the emotion. Anger and now. I breathe right through the bitter. But acceptance took a while. Now I honestly hope that you're happy. Then you find what you're trying to find. I honestly I can finally breathe only other side of the way. Great, great, heartbreak.
SPEAKER_02I'm crossing off my head, and I'm paying my respect.
SPEAKER_03Giving it for God. I bounced right off the bottom with a two myself. I pick up all the pieces, put on back up. Great heartbreak. I'm crossing off my head. And I'm paying my specs.
SPEAKER_11Kind of a fun, quirky little event. And it's all to help support Ronald McDonald House Mobile. And that's the rubber ducky regatta, a fundraiser for the last three years. Being held in OA Park and Resort on March 21st of 10,000 sponsored rubber ducky will be released into the lake. And resort and kick off the race all the way to the finish line. The rubber ducky regarding the pick into the lemon. From Baldwin and Mobile County. Be there! It's gonna be a lot of fun.
SPEAKER_17Making money at 30 with a wife and a son.
SPEAKER_16Then a short five years later, it all comes under. She's gone back to mama with the boy by the side. Now I'm one drunk and running with them on my mind.
SPEAKER_02I'm on the back shot. And back on my house, don't feel like it.
SPEAKER_16And I just called and said I skipped work last Friday to drink this month's rain. And when my friends ask me, I tell up my mind.
SPEAKER_02But my eyes tell a story. I'm on the black shot. The short shot.
SPEAKER_11And once again, of course, it's that time again when we gotta back on out and get on down the road. I'll tell you what, I've got a laundry list. I think that's the second time I've actually used that phrase today. Just like everybody. Big list, unfortunately, right now. I needed to take care of some of that today. I'm sure you've got plenty of things to do as well. If you're listening at work, I'm not gonna tell a full. If you're listening, driving on the road, enjoying the music and whatnot. And we do have plenty, plenty of whatnot on the radio show. Well, we appreciate you listening. Please continue telling your friends, your family, co-workers, and anybody who will listen to come listen 24-7 streaming across the country and around the world. We are not a radio station. All right, I got it right that time. Until the next time, my friend, you all be safe. Be blessed, and I'll see you back on the radio.