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Welcome to the Undercenter podcast, presented by St. David University.

On this episode, we're fortunate enough to be joined by former Kansas City Chief Office of Lyme and Joe Valerio, co-host of Believe in the Chief Podcast on a Believe

Network, followed him at Joe Valerio 73.

How are you doing today, Joe?

I'm doing great, Kenneth. How about yourself? It's Super Bowl Week. You know, regardless to whether the Chiefs are in it or not, I'm still excited. So, listen, me and a group of friends

of mine have this joke about side booze. And we apply this to football, though, right?

Because you have your local team,

but sometimes like the Bears, your local team lets you down often. And what's the point of being

faithful to someone that's consistently letting you down? So I have this joke that Kansas City

is my side boo, but therefore the streets, meaning everyone has them because of just the amount of star power that you have.

Yeah.

But I'm a huge Patrick Mahomes guy.

I nicknamed him baby goat years ago, all right?

So just so, for disclosure of my affinity for your team, just so you know.

But getting to that team and how it applies to our team here in Chicago, the Bears hired

Ryan Poles, all right? Give me your thoughts of the progression of Ryan Poles through the chief

organizations. Like, when did you first start hearing about Ryan Poles? And can you tell us when

he started really making a name and how he started making a name within that organization? Well, I mean, you know, the chiefs organization, Andy, well, first

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