10X For TRUE Gold?! June's Biggest Trends And News | SX Insider #18

It's another Insider show And it's number 18 this time here at Slapsox on Fanatics Live. And we've got two box breaks of tier one and Top Spinus along with a June recap and July preview coming up. So let's go. Slabs, how was your fourth of July weekend training you? Awesome. I hope everybody else's was as great as ours was. It was a great family weekend. We had a good time. It was a good time. Once again, I was gone for a personal commitment to a wedding, and I guess this guy decides to pull another Nadal one of one. What the heck? I was gonna open that case for you guys and I said, you know what? Papa Slaps can open it. And I guess it work. It's the second time. Both times Aaron was gone, I was gone to do something. And he hits on the doll. One of one again. So Papa Slabs and thank you. Good job for center court for hitting that. Me and Rafa have a special thing going. I can tell that. All right, so this week on Insider 18, let's see what we got coming up. Each month we do one of these breaks where we give you guys great deals on product and we talk about the market and the hobby and what's been changing. And a lot of nice coverage this month coming to you. If you guys want to know how you get in on these breaks, this one sold out very f. There's only 22 spots is a random first letter breaks. You'll get a letter A through Z. Some are combined together and is $36 per spot with two of the best releases of the month and sold out very fast. But guess what? You can Text join to 888-425-1089 to get notified of the next time we do one of these streams during a month. And on top of that, we have an extra break to list tonight. So stick around, do it, and get ready for tonight's break or the live listing. And it's gonna be a good time. So couple sports news. Knicks won the finals finally. You know, I thought the Bucks drought was long. Yeah. Really? Yeah, I thought the Bucks drought was long. The Knicks was 53 years, so that's two years longer than the Bucks was. And with all that, you know, all those free agents and stuff like that that they were hoping to get, they finally did it with the most unexpected of all with Jalen Brunson, who obviously had a great last couple years with the Mavericks and then parlayed that into becoming one of the best players in the NBA. And You've watched him play in person. I watched him play in person. We've seen it come and he's been beaten up on the Bucks for a long time. I think for like a three year stretch he averaged like 38 points a game against the Bucks, which is crazy. That's insane. And every single time he's just cash money. So you know, smaller dollar. I say smaller, although it's not that cheap. But in NBA terms, I guess it's a little cheap. $1,500 for a red Sapphire auto. Out of five on card from this year. Sapphire NBA sold for 6,236 after the Knicks won the title. Or actually I think maybe right before they actually won the title and got the Nebula which did $97,000, which I think to a lot of people felt like a lot. Prism Nebula 1 of 1 Jalen Brunson 11 to 2024. Then it's over $312,000 after they won the NBA Finals. Big bounce, Big bounce. Massive increase. I heard that the rumor is that a card sold for like $300 back in 2019. This is like you know, before the market exploded. Yeah, but around $300 I think is the rumor. Back in 2019. End up doing $97,000 now 312. So it's actually even crazier that the second time it resold. The gap was bigger and you're talking it was $300 to start. It's wild. So really crazy there. Next up, a couple other things happened in June. One is that Mira Andrea won her first ever Grand Slam and that is her First French Open. First Grand Slam at 19 years old in her market. Got really hot again. She's had some up, she's had some downs. That was the highest of highs for her. Wimbledon's going on now and it's been a great watch. So make sure you guys watch the rest of the into next week for the finals. And then Lewis Hamilton won his first F1 race with Ferrari. So his super short print really refractor variation PSA 10 from 2020 tops chrome really low PSA 10 con that really hard to pull. February 25th it did $9,000. Now May of 26 it did $19,000. Huge gains there. Massive. Massive. Good question on the Insider for people who are not in the US you do have to have a one phone number which is either US Canada to join the list. Unfortunately is not available for international subscribers right now. Unless you do know a way to open up. Like I think there is a chance you might be able to open up an area code with that while still living outside the us but you might need to do some Googling for that. So I, unfortunately I don't have the, the technical capabilities tell you exactly how to do that. But I will say make sure you guys follow along here at Slap Stocks. If you are international, you'll at least get to know when the insider streams are and we list the breaks on the same day of the stream themselves. So that's a little bit more insight that can help you if you're international. But good race today. I won't say who won. Papasab is going to watch the recap tonight of the race, so we'll let him watch it. We can talk about F1 next time. Sorry, didn't know I had Apple TV. He did, playing in the air and I go, I don't have Apple tv. He goes, yeah you do. Well, I signed in my account on your TV the last time there was a race on. But other sports news. Probably the biggest sports news of this month is the World Cup. We are now into the round of 16. Norway just beat Brazil. I would say that's a big upset just because of, you know, past pedigree with the teams. Brazil being the most, you know, winning team in World cup history from like a title perspective. But I do have to say Brazil did not look very good. A lot of their games, their roster wasn't as good as it should have been. And Holland is on another level and he scored two goals for them to win right at the end too. It was tied going into like the 80th minute. Tell you one thing, stars are showing off. That is the point. The stars are showing up. Holland and Bobby Messi. Even Ronaldo's got three goals now. Um, it's been quite an amazing World Cup. $966 for the Kaboom PSA 10 of Holland from 2024. Donrus. It's over $4,000 on June 17th. We're now into July. If that card resold, I'd be shocked if it didn't sell for more than let's say $6,000 or something like that. Mbappe is only one off the all time leading list for goals in World cup history behind Messi, who set the record during this World cup. Messi's at 20 and Bobby's at 19 now, I think after yesterday's penalty kick goal. So he's going to destroy that record. This is likely Messi's last World Cup. I mean, maybe he plays in the next one, but Mbappe is already right there for the most ever and he's only his third World cup and he's still in his 20s. So he's going to pass in this World Cup. He could. I mean, it just depends on if Argentina gets eliminated before France. I mean, he even could. He even could pass him even if they don't, you know, he just. With how much he's scoring. But yeah, I mean, awesome matches the last couple days and today as well. England plays Mexico tonight in Mexico at the Azteca, which that place was absolutely rocking for their last win with England going there. Being who England is, I could see just one of the craziest crowds of all time there. So we know that fan base is insane. Yeah, that fan base comes to. They come to the United States during like, you know, Gold cup games, which aren't even that even close to the caliber of World cup game, just go insane in the U.S. stadium. So I think you might see a lot of stuff on the field. Let's just say that we can't not talk about the U.S. men's National Team. Won the first two games, lost a third, but didn't matter, already won the group, ends up winning in the round of 32. Going up against. I can't even think of. Oh, I don't know why I can't think of it. Who is being in the round? Three, two. Herzevina. Yeah, Bosnia. There we go. I was like, what the heck? I can't think of it. We beat Bosnia. 2. Nils Belgian gets right card. Oh, Max. Well, welcome. Glad you made it. Belgium gets a red card somehow. Now is rain state to play against Belgium. I don't think that maybe we've ever seen that in a World Cup. Someone get a red card and then they take it away and say that if he gets another red card again, they'll suspend him. That was very odd. But either way, bell again. In the first game, he scored two goals against Paraguay, who only gave up one against France yesterday as a penalty. But the thing I want to say about Baligan is that back when he scored those two goals he only had, it was like. It was like 20 or it was like 15 sales in June that were $100 or more. And that was for like the first, like 13 days of the month. Right. That single day that he scored those two goals, over 100 sales of 100 plus dollars has happened. The US Men's National Team has now made the round 16, has the opportunity to beat Belgium to go to their first quarterfinal since 2002. I'd say, this is definitely the most talented US men's national team we've seen in a while. Not only most talented, but also the coaching actually matters. I wasn't really a big fan of Pochettino when he coached Chelsea, but compared to what Bert Halter was, who was terrible for the U.S. men's National Team, it's a night and day difference. Malik Tillman, bang that free kick home to make a 2 nil against Bosnia. Blackout number 10. Did $22 in November of 2025, now $350. And that's the Black Wave, not the true black. It's the Black Wave. Did $350 in 2026 in July. That is a massive game. Do you see that free kick? Goal. That goes. I did that live. It was so crazy because he hit the center of the ball. Normally when you see him kick it, it's got some diagonal curve to it, just straight top spin up and over. It was awesome. It was really cool. Seems like the US Team has some swagger this year. They definitely do. Yeah. But on the other side, got to stay realistic here. They haven't played one of the superpowers of the world yet. Even if they beat Belgium, it was kind of an aging team with a couple of good young players. They'd end up having to play the winner of Spain or Portugal, which I think will for sure be Spain. I don't think Portugal has been that good. And then it's, you got to play France and then likely Argentina in the final. So you're talking the three best teams in the world with Spain, France and Argentina. And I just, I love to see it happen. If it does, we're obviously going to go crazy. But you got to stay realistic. The path is extremely, extremely hard to win. It's the hardest it possibly could be, really. Maybe get a little bit of help along the way, though. Maybe Portugal wins and upset and maybe France loses early. I mean, who knows? But yeah, I thought it was going to be overhype of the US team. And truthfully, they've actually lived up to the hype that we've seen in the United States so far. Let's see if they can exceed it. The other difference, too, is that when they made it to the round 16 last World Cup, I don't really feel like the team is playing that good. Like they're playing way better than they have in the last couple World Cups. I mean, they're playing very well. So I'm excited to see what they can do next. Other hobby news before we get Onto our first break. Guys, I want to bring this up. Max, you're my favorite. I want to bring this up. I did a little data dive here thanks to cardladder guys. Card ladder. Best data source there is. Sign up if you want to see all the different sales history from 17 different auction platforms. It's the only way to do it, in my opinion. If you really want to learn the sports card data game, I want to look at all the differences between the gold refractors out of Topstrom NBA, because I saw that the TruGold LeBron PSA9, not even a 10 sold for 10 grand. The 2025 Topshop NBA. When was that? That was just June 20th. So that's the first licensed LeBron Lakers top scrum car, if you want to think about that way. Trugal did 10,500 PSA 9. It did like 5 grand at the release or something like that. Somewhere around there, there's like, let me just go and see what the others are selling for. And this just goes to show you how much the more, you know, how many parallels are these days and how you got, you know, 10 different types of golds. There's actually seven different types of golds and tops from MBI. I'm like, well, each time that they make another gold out of 50, it really, I mean, those cards, like, they still sell for a lot of money, but only makes that true gold more valuable. And 10 grand for the true gold. $3,000 for PSA 9 Sapphire, which is still a softer set, you know, sapphire gold, like, that's a good set. Geometric gold, $1,500. Pulsar gold, $1,150. And the other three are all below 1,150. So you're talking, you know, for some of these, a 10x difference. Yeah. And as you know, if you're coming to into the hobby, let's say as a new sports card collector and you look at these seven in front of you, they say, which one's the best? And then you tell them, oh, well, guess What? One's worth ten grand. One's worth $1,000. It's just hard to understand that, you know. Yeah, yeah, well, you know, I kind of was a novice coming in right now that I rip more and more product. I appreciate a true gold way more than I used to. And even before seeing these numbers, like, there's so many different variations. After a while you just kind of get like, okay, that's cool. But I'm kind of out when I see a True gold. I'm like, wow, that's cool. And I think the market's reacting to that. It definitely is reacting to. And then just for like, for some reason why the true gold is so sought after. So that gold refractor 50 has been in every single tops Chrome release, you know, since like 2003 when LeBron has rookie type of thing. Maybe actually even some before that, probably before 2003. I'm sure it goes back to like 99 or something, but that one's been in every set. You know, then they add all these different ones and they all look sort of similar, sort of different, but like the same as, you know, all the other ones that look different. And when you think about it really, if there's seven of them at 50 parallels, it's 350 total golds. 50 of the 350 are the good one. Good. I still would love a $1,000 Carla Brown if I could. But the best, I should say the best ones and the rest of them are almost noise in a sense if you think about it. They're all kind of priced around the same other than the sapphire. That one its own set. But the real reason why it's so different is it's so much harder to pull the true gold. Also they come in hobby and they come in jumbo and maybe sometimes in a blaster box. But they make so much more of that product than they do of like a sapphire or like the geometric than they do of like a delight where you can only pull that out of the light or you can only pull the gold sapphire of, you know, sapphire. Right. It makes so much less that product that just pulling that card is way easier. Still a great card. Not saying those cards are bad, but when you look at 10, 10,500 versus 1500 and those delight boxes are not cheap by the way. Those are still expensive boxes. It's just crazy. It really is. It's a great comparison. It really does tell a story. It was honestly probably our most engaged post is over 100,000 views I think in June. I think it was the most viewed post in June, so I had to bring that one up. I thought you guys would enjoy that here on the insider show. So if you guys have any thoughts on this on the parallel counts of the seven gold 50. You know, it's probably just like this in top stream NFL as well. We'll probably see something like this in topstrom MLB this year as well. I mean I think we already see it in MLB probably, but pretty crazy nonetheless. So with that being said, one quick thing before we do get into our first break for the night. I know you guys have had to wait like 14 minutes or so, is that we do have our camp cast some charity event going on this month now. So we're in July now, which means that the national is here, which means that at the national we will have likely two dedicated showcases once again to Camp Kessem Cards, where we bring cards that we either bought at the Midwest Monster thanks to Carlier sponsorship, where we spent $5,000 at the Midwest Monster, or like IndyCar Exchange, who donated an extra fourteen hundred dollars for us to spend as booth more cards to sell at the national. Or like DC Sports 87, they just donated $10,000 to our camp Custom charity page in which now we are up to like $370,000 in the last six events or this our sixth event this year. So a lot of really good stuff happening. We have some more sponsors coming in soon that we'll be announcing soon. We will be doing a live stream here on Fanatics Live, which will actually replace our insider show for number 19. We did that last year. It'll be maybe either a little bit before the National, a little bit after that. I'll make up a date, you know, here in the. In this month, and it'll be published. And we'll do some breaks here for you guys with all the money going to the kids, all the. All the net proceeds. So, yeah, visit us at the National. Yeah. Come see the Cassim showcases. Yeah. Papa slabs will. 95% of the time I'll be standing there by the QESM showcases telling you the story, sharing the story of everything great about Kessim and sending these kids to camp whose parents have cancer or they have to live with cancer with a family member. So, yeah, it's a great story. It's been, I don't know, a highlight of what we do every year, really. Yeah, it definitely is indeed. And we should do around $20,000 again this year, which is what we did about last summer. So really excited to, you know, do it again this year and hopefully see you guys at the National. Booth 498 and 596, I think right around there. I should probably verify those booth numbers really quick because I don't want you guys to go to the wrong place. You're invited, Wis. Cubby. The invite goes straight to you. Booth 479 and 580. So I was a little off there. 479, 580. They're right next to each other. You're not looking for two different booths. They're a combined booth. They're combined booth on two different row or in the, you know, different rows right next to each other. That's it, guys. Insider show number 18. Make sure you guys come back next month. It will be scheduled, let's hope in the next couple of weeks. I'll have some on the schedule. We're going to nail down some dates that we'll do the custom stream where we do our box breaks to donate the money to the kids. And can't wait for that show. So, Papa Slab, thanks again for being here. Thank you. With the Sal Stewart. And we'll see you guys all this week on Fanatics Live, Wednesday Finance Friday, Tops from Black. And we will see you guys all very soon here on Fanatics Live. Take care.