Your listening to the Ringer podcast network, my name is Bill Simmons.

This podcast is called Flying Coach with Pete Carroll and Steve Kerr and one of the reasons

I want to do this is because they wanted to raise some money and raise some awareness

during the COVID-19 crisis. We have already raised some money. $100,000 is going to the

the Warriors Community Foundation and the Seahawks Charitable Foundation. They're going to disperse that

to a bunch of different COVID-19 causes within those areas, the Bay Area and Seattle. We're hoping

we can even raise a little bit more money than that. If you go to theringer.com slash WCK,

we're trying to help out world central kitchen because they are doing a bunch of great stuff.

They're working across America to safely distribute individually packaged fresh meals in communities

that need supporting hospital workers who are doing their jobs in wartime lake conditions.

They've also formed hashtag chefs for America and they have a bunch of different awesome

initiatives. You can directly help the heroes in hospitals and clinics. We're fighting for us and

help keep your local restaurants alive. Just go to theringer.com slash WCK. So this is a limited

edition podcast series. Steve Kerr and Pete Carroll and they're going to explain why they did this

right now.

Pete, here we go. First podcast. People are probably wondering what the hell are we doing

doing a podcast together. Let's talk about why we're here, what we want to accomplish and

what's going on in our situation here. First off, I'm fired up to be doing this with you just to

see if we can pull it off. Technically, we're here. We're rolling. So we've accomplished something.

Well, you won the first battle. You won the technological battle. This took me a little while to

get going here. But it's not that we were competing, but yeah, I did get started a little bit

cleaner than you did. So we were definitely competing. We're all really, you know, I was hoping

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