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Speaker 1: I'm Michael Barr, and welcome to the Bloomberg Business of

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Speaker 1: Sports podcast. We hear every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday for

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Speaker 1: But you know it's Wednesday, and you know what Wednesday means.

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Speaker 1: It means fantasy sports Football Wednesday. And the geniuses are

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Speaker 1: here and they really are Rich Truman and Damian sass Hour,

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Speaker 1: and I know we try to keep it to a minimum.

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Speaker 1: We talk about our league, but these two are going

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Speaker 1: Rich started out sounding like Belichick because I told you

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