Radio voice of The Columbus Blue Jackets Bob Mcelligott

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Emin ms, em and MS. You know they like em
and ms.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Oh the candy eminem, candy eminem. I thought you were
talking about Marshall.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Em and MS introducing new white chocolate strawberries and cream flavor.
Let's talk really that interests you? Yes, the new white
chocolate strawberries and cream emin ms combining the taste of
fruity strawberries, huh, and white chocolate with a pink shell cover.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, pink, they had to be pink. I hate pink.
I eat those and feel manly.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Well, I don't know that you can. I don't think
they're meant for us. They're meant for your girly girl.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Well, I'm in touch with my feminine side. I mean,
I try not to touch it too often, but still
I'm in touch with it. And I enjoy white chocolate. Yeah.
I remember when we were kids, they had the Life
Savers lollipops. They were actually like big life savers on
a stick. And I used to love the strawberries and
cream Lifesavers lollipop.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
M bringing a guy who's incredibly sentimental, who may be
able to shed light on this, and I speak of
the radio voice of the Columbus Blue jaggets Bob mcgelligate
joining us. Now, Bob, how are you?

Speaker 4 (01:09):
I forgot about those big Lifesaver pops? And you're absolutely right.
The strawberries and cream or whatever it was was the best.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
See. I like this guy so much.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, yeah, I know you do.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
You sound I'm disappointed on it.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
So do you feel his girlfriend or something? Chuck? I
don't know what's going on here?

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Do you?

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Are you a guy who really goes all out for
Valentine's Day? Because that's what these are for, Bob? Do
you or do you just kind of like, yea happy Valentine?
Do you even say? Do you get a card for
your wife still or anything like that?

Speaker 4 (01:46):
My wife does not like cards. My wife will tell
me a card is a waste of money. Seriously. Yeah, okay,
and I love her for it quite frankly.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
That might be part of why you married her. Was
she like that at the beginning? Oh yeah, okay, that
might be it.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
You sent flowers and she's like they're just gonna die
while you send Wow? Yeah you married?

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Uh wow, that's that's incredible. Yeah, I guess is the
word you're looking for I guess that is That is
the word I'm looking for.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's that's what was when when you said, dear, what
would you like for Christmas? Own nothing? You can believe her.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Just get yourself something.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
That's nice because when when I hear oh nothing, I'm like,
oh lord, that's going to cost me.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yes, you know.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
You and this is true. And she'll say that and
if it was nothing, that would I really there wouldn't
be an issue. But I'd like to get something just
to be a surprise. If she's really expecting nothing, that
she's surprised she was expecting something, Well, I don't know
what it is anyway, So there we go.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Get her some hockey tickets. She's probably into that.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
All right. Yeah, Like I like a root canal to
give her one of those two while you're at it.
Uh so the white chocolate strawberries and cream M and
m's for me, I'm like, uh no, not so now,
I've never tried them. I give it a whirl, but
it's not towing my maato Like when I look at

(03:19):
it as wish they weren't.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
Well what yeah, I'm not even I could even get
by that chalk. It's just like to me a eminem.
It is just a chocolate the hard candy show. What
else do you need? We don't need to get fancy
on this crap.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, but man, how about some of the other Are
there any other flavors that you like that they offer?

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Because they have a million fight and one of two
or both, you might disagree with me, like even the
peanut ones. I'm like, come on, man, I don't need that.
I just need to just give me the regular eminem. Oh.
Now I was a kid. I used to love Reese's pieces.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I never liked those.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
I love those, never liked it.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
And I can tell you right now they still have
them in the press box in Boston. So like, I
got to get upstairs early before those things are gone.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
So what are the are they around? Like in the
individual boxes of them, But there's a finite amount of them.
So you're like, I gotta get.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
To because people take them and everybody reaches their hands
and it and takes it.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Wait a minute, they have like a big bowl. It
figures Boston does something like that. Nastiness is disgusting.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
It's in a bull that there's a Scooper. No, I
don't know if it's optional, but anyway.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
It's a suggestion the Scoopers pres pieces present cod bears.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
On the Scooper it's way easier to reach your hand.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
In, for sure, But they're they're a different whole type
of thing than the Reese's pieces. It almost reminds me
of like on a bar when you see like a
bowl of you know, not sitting there. I think probably
pre COVID they did, probably, but not now as much,
but that like that used to dinner. Yeah, I think

(04:57):
that's part of why people who didn't get the vaccine
or I don't even want to call it the shot,
not the vaccine, the shot, they ate those prior to COVID,
and that gave us what we needed to stave off anything.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh yeah, that would be that.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
And drinking out of those That's what it was, eating
out of those bulls in bars full of pretzels.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
And growing up tough enough to do it.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
Then you get what you deserve.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Drinking out of the garden hose, playing in the mud, look,
mama worm, that was life, man, and we are immune
to everything.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
You know, trying any board and dropping on a cinderblock
and get that bike going as fast as you can gosh,
I like it.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yes, I jumped over the whole kid. You know he's
laying under the bike. You jump a kid, that's cool.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Oh yeah, we used to do that. You think back
to that, It's like, how did nobody die in our neighborhood?
Really they don't.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
I don't understand who they were never going to die.
It's just today that everybody thinks you're gonna die. You're
never gonna die. You're always I guess, although you're always
waiting for the one guy that didn't make the jump.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Car seats back there were like two pieces of styrofoam
and a rebar.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Is it if you if you hit something?

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Oh? Well, man, now they've got what five I think
there's five points on them.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Now.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
I get pissed off when I get into an uber
or a lift and my phone's telling me make sure
you buckle up, and I'm in the back. I'm fine.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Plus, it's like, shut up, phone, you don't need to
tell me what to do. Yeah, what's this.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
Guy gonna do? Back into something?

Speaker 1 (06:28):
I'm fine?

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Depends on where you are. Some of them uber drives.
Wait a minute, there is a man behind me. I
do not like put it in on angle. Yeah, you
don't need that.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
I don't take you come out.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
I am putting on more drop car noir.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
That force field will save us around him, just the
pig pen the whole. Yeah, I like what do you have?

Speaker 4 (06:51):
I like what you have? Enough people where you say,
can you sit up front? They got to clear like
one hundred things off the seat.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Right, Yeah, that's always fun. You know what? What's going
to be fun as the CBJ tonight on a whole
mice versus well, I know, I don't know whatever. The
seventeen twenty one and three Seattle Kraken are in town tonight.
Jackets in the second wild card spot currently, Bob and uh,

(07:16):
we do know. We did get the bad news earlier
center Sean Monaghan is on injured reserve and uh yeah,
so emergency recall from the Cleveland Monsters. I think Cole
Sillander is going to be happy, is right? His big
brother is Owen is going to be on the ice tonight.
Is that fun for them? You think?

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, his brother's going to be on the ice in
place of him.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
In place of him.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yeah, he's sick.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Oh, I was thinking that he was coming in.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
For Sean no Luca del Bell Blues is coming in
for show.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Haha. Okay, sorry, see, that's why we have you on
to set it all straight.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Okay, No Cole could play that. When Dean Evison talked
this morning, he said, it's possible, but I'm I'm not
expecting Cole to be able to go tonight.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
So he's six like a cold or fell.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
And would go to which Dean said, will make it
easy for me because all I have to do is
call Cylinder and he's going to go. He said, in
the preseason when they were both here, I had to
use their first name. So now I can just say
Cylinder and I'm good.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
That's good man, good stuff. I love it. Man.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
Look at del Bell Blows is leading the American Hockey
League in points. He's a former second round pick and
he's going to come in here. And you know, so
many times there are guys that get called up from
the American League and even if they're skilled players, they
come to the NHL, these teams throw them on the
fourth line, they play with non skill players for eight
minutes a night, and then nothing happens, and then they
send them back to the minors. And it's really not fair.

(08:43):
And I talked to Dean Everson this morning about that
and he goes, I'm not doing that. He goes, this
guy's a skilled player. I need a skill forward. I'm
going to put him on the second line and give
him the the opportunity to go with it. Here he said,
if he's going to be a part of this franchise
in the future, it's going to be as top six
centerman and a skill guy, and that's the role I'm
going to put him in. So I was glad to

(09:04):
hear that. And you know, now with Cole Cylinder maybe
not playing, it's even easier to do because I think
Cole would have went up and taken on that role.
But it's gonna be a great opportunity for Lucadel Bell
Blues who you may remember, Blazer, because I know you're
into this. Last year he played in the game, he
scored his first NHL goal on his first NHL shot,
which ironically came right after he took his first NHL

(09:26):
penalty because he was in the penalty box. He came
out of the box, he joined the rush, shot the
puck and got the goal. His parents were in the elevator.
They hadn't made it to their seat yet, so they
missed it. But I play in the elevator, so I
was happy. But anyway, he's back in tonight.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yes, you do play in the elevator. I've heard many
times I get on there because I'll look around at
people and see if they're listening, and I go, yeah,
I know him. So I tell people I know you
when I'm in the elevator and your voices on there.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
But go ahead, Joe, you're talking about the elevator operator
every time that you have said Lucadel Bell Baloes, are
you you practicing for tonight?

Speaker 4 (10:02):
So yeah, I'm going to say his name a million
times because I.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
Well, I heard you a couple of months ago. You
were talking to Mark and they said something about you.
You were talking about complicated names, and you said, you know,
I got to practice before I go in there with
some of these names, because you know, oh and there's
number right with a go and you cause you don't,
you don't you know the name? If you don't, yeah, exactly,
You've got to practice him. And I just I just
noticed it's flowing out of you so easily, like okay,

(10:26):
he's he's like practicing for on air.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
I mean probably fine, Yes it is.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
I don't know. Hey, so I heard Ken Johnson earlier.
You used a uh, I know, God, how about that
guy's pipes? Gem and Christmas, a.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
Twenty year old kid with the.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
It's like James Earl Jones on stage. I was your.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
Boss, Michael McCoy, and he said, right, he could probably
be a voice guy on radio.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Oh he could. Oh yeah, he's got show. Yeah, you
know what I ask him if he'll do that any right?

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Anything?

Speaker 1 (11:02):
So Anyway, what I was gonna say is you had
him earlier a clip of him talking about how you
know the fact that they are in a second wildcard
spot currently, and you know that's something that it's been
let's just say it. It's been not they haven't been
able to say it very much the Blue Jackets, as

(11:22):
far as that goes pretty much anytime during the year,
let alone like right now, and to hear him kind
of mention that and the players are kind of paying
attention to stuff like that. It is pretty exciting what's happening,
especially given coming off of what just happened in Pittsburgh,
you know, going to shootout, I mean, how gutsy and
gritty and just downright, you know, hat Flims spit if

(11:46):
you will. Are the Jackets playing right now? I love it?

Speaker 4 (11:48):
Man, This is so great, well, it is, and it's
it's good to hear the players talk about being in
a playoff race and look, it's a long way away.
Look we're forty one games into eighty two. I get it,
I understand. I'm not you know, the reality of the
situation is a long way to go. Everything's going to
tighten up after that February break for the Four Nations tournament.

(12:09):
When you come back, it's going to be really intense,
and even leading up to that, you've got to get
every point that you can get. Okay, So that's all true. However,
right now, look at this situation with the team that
last year was dead last in the conference, the year
before that was dead last in the entire league. This
is just you know, it's an opportunity for these guys.
And Ken Johnson said, it's fun to come to the rink,

(12:32):
and that's the key. It's not fun to lose. Nobody
likes to lose, and especially as consistently as this team
has lost the last couple of years. So it's fun. Again,
it's a new group. It's a young group, there's energy.
You know, everybody outside of here, outside of Columbus, around
the league cannot believe where this team is, especially with
the Johnny Gutroux tragedy prior to the startup camp. You

(12:54):
know what, when you watch this team every day and
when you're around these guys and you see how they
interact and you listen to what they say, and you
you watch the belief that is in their faces as
this is this process is starting for them. It's fun
and I'm not surprised. I'm really not surprised. Like if
they were in this, if they were in a playoff
spot at the end of the year, there would be

(13:15):
an element of surprise for me. But where they are
right now, I'm shocked.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
It's fun. I'll take it and we'll ride that until
the wheels fall off. As they say, how long the playoffs?

Speaker 4 (13:25):
You need to buy them all those eminem's.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Okay, I will. I'll get them all the strawberries, the
white chocolate strawberries and cream m and ms, and I'm
sure they'll start throwing them at me if I go, hey, guys,
got you something, they might Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
I'm working on a trade deal right now, I know
you're not buying them.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
How long is Center Sean Monahan going to be? He's
on IR? As we know saw that hit the other night.
I was that more of a next thing or like
into the glass like I obviously he is a helmet
on and all, but it looked like his head kind
of was a weird kind But what are you hearing
as far as how long will you be on IR?

Speaker 4 (13:58):
I think it's more of the wrist and I'd say
probably three weeks.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Okay, So it was I don't know.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
That's just a that's a rough as I pulled around
this morning and tried to get somebody nailed down, that'll
be my my rough answer.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Right, Well, that's good enough. That's all we're really looking for.
For the most part. He's the radio voice.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
Five weeks, don't come and I'm not talking to you.
Two weeks I'll come back.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
On with you, all right. That's okay, fair enough. He's
the radio voice for the Columbus Blue Jackets. You're going
to be on our sister station tonight ninety of us. Yeah,
So so.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
I'm going to be on there. What time is it?
I'm gonna be on there starting at six o'clock to night.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Oh, that's right.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
Music can prep me for pregame.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
So you're actually djaying before? What don't Is there anything
you don't do? Migueligat chie Miny listen man, pay the bills.
I guess wow, that's you are a jack.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
Play the music that I that I love listening to.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Anyway, you know, see that's a win win.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
Where am I going to do? Bon Jovi Van Halen Queen?
You know I can do that and the Blue Jacke
at the same station, same night. I'm in.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
That's beautiful. That is beautiful.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
It's nice when you can enjoy what you're playing. Definitely.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Hey, I'll be in the house. I'll be in the
house again tonight, so i'll bug.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
You just warning.

Speaker 4 (15:11):
You'll be in that club, be kicked up, eating for free,
parking in the customized spot. I won't see you and
I won't hear from you.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Do you want me to bring you some food up there?

Speaker 4 (15:22):
No?

Speaker 1 (15:22):
No something.

Speaker 4 (15:26):
I think there's electric shock if you try to take
it outside that area, so I don't want that to
happen to you.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
You're probably right they'll tackle me. Go ahead, sir, put
that you got to keep that food in here. I'm
taking this up to the delegate. They'll say he makes
too much money. Let him buy his own food. That's
what they'll say.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
All right, I know you gotta do trapping the weather.
I see you guys later, Bob

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Thanks man, see you brother, Go Jackets.