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Welcome to the Inside Carolina podcast. John Siegley here with Don Callahan. Don, have you been able to successfully recover from the

48 hours of basically no sleep that was National Signing Day for you, man? I think so.

You know, to be honest, normally signing day is not a no sleep sort of situation for me, just because we typically do a really good job.

And a lot of credit goes to Ben Sherman for all this.

But we typically do a really good job of playing things out so that we don't get overwhelmed.

And there's actually a lot of preparation that gets involved in preparing for signing day that starts.

You know, it definitely starts within the two weeks before, but really kind of starts probably a couple months before that.

And typically, I usually stay home, or not home, but I stay where I'm out on the road, you know, on Sunday,

just because that

helps us to kind of ease the, any sort of unexpected occurrence on Sinai, which is

Sunday is always prone to have this sort of things. But this sign day, I actually went to

Florida. And I'm sure we can talk a little bit more with that. But because I went to Florida,

you know, I had to fly and there was a lot

of situations with that. And the main thing was, which actually kind of contributed to the lack of

sleep, you know, that last week was my wife, unfortunately, my wonderful, beautiful,

intelligent wife planned a date night on Sunday Eve, which normally people could be like,

oh, we'll change the date night. And that's what we would have done. Only she purchased

hockey tickets where Flyers are actually playing in Raleigh. And for those who know me pretty well,

know that I'm a huge, huge, huge, huge Flyers fan. so I couldn't turn that down. And so her and I had a

date night, didn't get home to close to 11, and had to catch a flight that departed RDU at

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