Alright, so this is Clay's display case here. This is Main Street Coins display case, which is usually full. So Clay, man, I gotta ask you. Here's the time to panic. Everyone, Silver Joker here. Okay, so let me first start by saying that what I'm gonna talk about today or what's gonna be discussed in this video may not be what you're experiencing. You, your coin stores and bullion dealers and the people that you deal with for your physical bullion may be business as usual. But we're from where I am and the people that I know that buy a physical silver on a regular basis. There is absolutely a supply issue. Demand is outstripping supplied by far. And so I went down and talked to Clay and we talked a little bit about how he's dealing with it and some of the things that he expects is gonna happen here in the very near future and how he's conducting business as usual amidst this unprecedented demand for physical silver. So without any further ado, let's go talk to Clay. We're here at Main Street Coins and I just want to show you guys something here. This is a pyramid of Buffalo rounds. Buffalo rounds. And so just let you guys know right now this right here all belongs to one person. They ordered it two weeks ago. It took every bit of two weeks to come in. So definitely the supply chain is still running slow. I'm gonna show you guys something that you're not used to and probably I'm gonna take a second to get your eyes adjusted but this is Clay's case here. Main Street coin, this is their case. So that's where we are. But it's not gonna stay like that of course. I mean you'll have more silver. So by next week we'll have more shavings for the counter and we're still ordering for customers every day but I just explained to them that the lead times are bigger. Yes. What is going on and look the generic bin is empty folks. Yeah, it is. Wow, depleted. This is unprecedented. Okay, so main question. Clay, I gotta ask you man. Sit up, pan. No, I think I think we're gonna see supplies start to normalize in the next two to three weeks somewhat. I do think though that we've entered an era of permanently high demand. So we'll see what effect that has on the market as we go through. I got to. Yeah. All right, so what would you attribute to that? I mean I know there's things going on. You know, as we've discussed before, those of us that stack or work in this industry, this is very familiar to us. But for the other 99.9% of the consumers out there, this is a very foreign concept of holding money like this. So I think with the banking crisis beginning, we're starting to see that idea kind of move toward larger groups of people that want to protect their assets. And you know, a little bit of knowledge moving into those big groups of people create a ton of demand that just wasn't there a few months ago. It's as simple as that. And, but you're saying that, you know, this should this may be a temporary thing that this right here is. I think that we're gonna see supply start to normalize in the next few weeks somewhat. But like I said, I think that's going to be a permanently high demand for this metals one. So John, how long have you been working here, buddy? It's the first time I've seen you since last October. Like you like it? Yeah, they all love it. Yeah, great job. You have your own stack, you stack too? Yeah, yeah. I've got a little bit of center in my house. And then started recently. All right. If you don't mind me asking what I mean, I know my reasons for stacking. I know a number of other people's reasons for stacking. What's your reason? I mean, besides just obvious. It was beautiful. That's what I was about to say. It was beautiful. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's my secret that we go in the grocery stores and you know, our dollars were the whole lot less than it was a couple of years ago. Even I mean, my grocery bill is double if not triple what it was. And so, you know, just kind of in your face, like you got to do something to protect your money. I like silver, you know, I'm not an extremely wealthy man. So silver is a good silver. You want to clump with that, my friend? Right, so silver is a good thing. You know, I appreciate gold platinum and all that. So, silver is really good for the people. Right. That's how I feel. That's how I feel too, man. I mean, silver is affordable. Out of the precious metals is the most economical for my budget. Yeah. And like you said, it protects, you know, I go out and I earn my money. I like to keep it protected a little bit. I mean, everything seems to be coming at it. You know, groceries. It's the same. You know, fuel. Energy bills. Energy bills. Everything. It's happening out of control. Oh, yeah. And it doesn't seem like it's going to get any better anytime soon. But it will eventually get better, but until it does, you'll need something to kind of help you out a little bit. And I see silver doing that. And do you ever make it down to the other store to make it better? So I typically work at the fairfields. Okay. Because Larry's on vacation. Right. I've been out here helping for the past two weeks. That's good, man. That's beautiful. All right. Nice talking to you, John. Thank you. So anyway, this is like we said, this is for a customer who's going to come in. Now, he ordered this. You say he ordered this in advance. Two weeks is about what it took to get this customer's order in. All right. So what he did just came in and said, look, I want this amount of silver. We have clients come in. They write a check. We lock the price for them. Wow. So there's no volatility in what they pay. Well, smart. So it's just a matter of waiting a little longer than we usually do right now. But things are still accessible. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's good. So, um, daily supply, not so much shops, I'm sure. Well, yeah, that's all. I mean, I've never seen your display case this empty never since I've been coming here for the years that I've been coming here. This is, I've never seen it like this. Some of them, I haven't seen any constitutional silver in their cases in months. They just don't have any. We had a good amount yesterday. They had one customer come in and took it off. So we've been seeing that a lot. I'm definitely not a financial advisor. I do tell my clients though, to Google the silver, more as an insurance policy than investment. You know, I've had clients that come in and they say, you know, do you think the price will be lower higher in six months? And the answer is always, we don't know. Right. Should I wait to delay my purchase to see if prices come down? And I always tell people, you know, it's like, you need insurance when you drive. You don't wait to you're in an auto accident to call your insurance agent and say, hey, I just had access. I need insurance before. This stuff is the same. Yeah. I mean, you know, this diversifies your financial holdings, just in case something really bad happened. Absolutely. You know, or we have a serious currency depreciation or a world war. You know, so it's important just to have it. I tell people, you know, don't feel so concerned about, you know, five extra dollars for a piece of fractional goals. I think ten years from now, it's not going to matter. That's my point of view. That's my point of view too. Well, thank you for your time, I appreciate that. And, you know, I'll be back next time. So if we can't pick up some silver, times good does. Thank you. All right. So there you have it. But just to be clear in case it wasn't clear enough, this is not a shortage. It's not a lack of silver. It's just a demand is outpacing supply. And Clay tends to believe that you heard in the video that this is a temporary thing, that the supply issues are going to be worked out. And we're going to be back to kind of normal silver supply. Now, the demand I don't believe is going anywhere anytime soon. I believe the demand is only going to grow for physical bullying. So if you've decided that physical silver is going to be part of your financial health strategy, I mean, if it's part of your budget and you can sustain your physical silver stack without hurting yourself financially, I would say by as much silver as you possibly could when you have it. Because at least in my city until this supply issues are worked out, then it's always going to be silver is going to be first come first serve as you heard. But it does come up. And when it does, I'm going to try to be in the driver's seat to get it because it is that important to my overall financial health and my piece of mind. Anyway, I appreciate you guys stopping by. More good content coming up. I've decided to use the silver shorts feature here at YouTube because you only got a minute. So there's not a whole lot you can do in one minute. I get a lot of requests for people asking about certain things that I show you guys in my videos on necessarily going to detail about what those are. It's a simple show them to you. So maybe that's what I'll use the silver shorts feature to do. So anyway, I appreciate you guys stopping by. We just going to keep the silver train rolling. Keep stacking. Peace. Thanks for watching.