This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - All Roads Lead to Mr. Campbell

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

When one of your high school teachers is the basis for a popular TV character created by a celebrity you were briefly in school with. From our episode with Marnie and Nick

You know what we're all about? Ted Lasso? Have you seen the show? I have not, but my connection with Ted Lasso is I was actually in the same high school as Jason Sadekis. Really? And I actually know the man, he inspired most of that character behind. Okay. Is that Donnie Campbell? Donnie Campbell, exactly. Okay.

Yeah. Do you tell? Yeah, I'd love to hear about it. So Jason was a senior at Johnny Mission West during my freshman year at Set High School. And in addition to being the basketball coach at West, Donnie Campbell was a math teacher, specifically geometry. Right, right? I was a geometry teacher, so I'm a fan already. all right so so uh so uh even though i'm a tall guy myself it didn't play basketball but

at least not per at least uh not competitively for west but uh campbell i was so not because i had running him as coach as in uh football in particular as well but as a teacher this is campbell yeah you walk in hey what's going on Nothing. Stay out of trouble? Yeah. Who is she? Or who is he? Yeah. We being, golly.

That's another. That's another one. My favorites, though, is a quit cheating. Gone to start smacking. So, so yeah, Donnie Campbell is a very quotable individual, and obviously had an impact on me and on Mr. Siddakis as well. Okay. All right.

I don't know the answer to this question. Is he still with us, right? Is he still teaching? Dammle, yeah, from why I understand he's still here in the Kansas City area and still teaching. I think he's in the Lee's Summit School District now. Okay, okay. Yeah, I wonder how it's, so do you like going to the same school, like I went to the same school as Craig Vigio, right?

Not the biggest name, but he's a Hall of Fame baseball player, right? I've seen Craig Bichio play a person. Yeah, yeah, he's not a big guy. In fact, since you mentioned Craig Baggio, the last baseball game I went to prior to the player strike in 94, Rockies ad Astros at the Astrodome. And Bishio was a catcher. Yeah, yeah, yeah, before they moved in second base. and all over the place.

But anyway, I think about it. You know, I always kind of relate to the fact that, you know, I went to school with, he's probably the most famous person I went to school with. I mean, do the people that you went to school with? I don't know if you still keep in touch with them. And Craig Vigio was a couple years older and I was. Right. I didn't really know.

My sister and brother did. But do you kind of feel like our connection to Jason Sadekis going to that same school? Was he well thought of? What's, what's your? well well i actually have a uh example of this on my podcast uh i interviewed my very old friend jeff balochic um jeff i've known since i was eight years old and uh he is kind of a celebrity around here he was the drummer in a band called uh initially it was called thulium later became uh anything but joey okay and tying this back to campbell's class their singer matt groby

it was also in that class. Oh, wow. All roads lead to Mr. Campbell. Right, right. Listen to this and much more on this podcast is Uncalled for. Available now wherever you podcast. Thank you.