Hello, and welcome to the something, something, something metaverse episode of Slate Money,

your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Hammond of Axios.

I'm here with Emily Peck, who's also at Axios.

Hello.

And I'm quite excited about this.

My old mucker, Robin Pine, Timothy, is here joining from an undisclosed location somewhere in Madrid. Robin, welcome.

Thank you so much, Felix and Emily. I feel honored and privileged to be here.

Who are you, Robin? Introduce yourself. Unlike most of your other, of your illustrious guests, I am fairly

ordinary. I like the fact that you're getting the man in the street perspective. It's not just a

bunch of highfalutin types. I am an ex-banker, management consultant. It's currently doing a

stint in an undisclosed location but most importantly

for our purposes you are also a big sports fan i am a big sports fan but if i'm your go-to sports

person you are that's a bit of an indictment on your sports acumen, I have to admit. I have two go-to

sports people. There's you and Mina Kimes. You're the only people I know who understand sports.

And I'm very happy that you're on because it's the Olympics this week. So we're going to talk

about the Olympics. We're going to talk about this massive lawsuit that has been filed against the National Football League by a coach who was or was not, we don't know, racially discriminated against.

We are also, of course, going to talk about Facebook or meta, as they're known, and their terrible earnings report.

We have a slate plus segment on a gold cube in Central Park, because obviously,

and yeah, it's all coming up on slate money. It is the Olympics this week. We are going to

talk about sport because Robin is my go-to person for everything I ever need to know about sport.

But we're not going to start with sports because we did have the largest one-day evaporation of stock market value in the

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