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I gotta tell you something, this is one of the
most interactive shows I have ever jumped into. And I
have been a storage war fans from from the very
beginning on A and E because it just challenges me
to do research, to yell at the TV, to argue
with somebody in the house, and you know, it's like
playing a board game but it's on your flat screen TV.
Speaker 2: I love that era that you are this shaman.
Speaker 3: I mean, I love it.
Speaker 1: It's one of those situations where you've really got to
believe that one man's trash is another man's treasure. You
guys prove it on every single episode.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you boy. I sure love this.
Speaker 2: We love that.
Speaker 4: You know, when we hear people say, God, I've been
watching you since I was a kid, I always say
something like, well, I don't know whether to say thank you,
I'm sorry, you're going to get addicted.
Speaker 5: It is fun. Anybody can get out there and find
a treasure.
Speaker 3: You never know, you never know what's in.
Speaker 5: The box, so it is interactive. What a wonderful description.
Speaker 4: We have brand new shows coming on Yes the one
hour one hour episodes on Saturday, February twenty eighth on
the a ANDI Network.
Speaker 2: We're excited that.
Speaker 4: We're excited to throw us season seventeen at you. We
can't believe we're still here after all these seasons.
Speaker 3: Through all the units, through all the joke.
Speaker 2: Like the gift that just keeps on.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, treasures to be found.
Speaker 1: I can't drive by a storage unit anywhere in any
city without thinking about you, guys. I mean that's a
Beatles impact right there.
Speaker 3: Why thank you, and don't forget that family.
Speaker 4: We have a we have a nationwide online platform for
selling storages at storage auctions dot net. It's the only
one on the network Storage auctions dot Net. That's Laura
and our platform. We've had it since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 5: So you can, you know, get on a bed just
like a storage Warrior, yourself.
Speaker 4: Storage without the drama. And if you want a little drama,
you if you're im on the drama, if you're on
the West Coast, you can. You can always come and
visit us at one of our things and.
Speaker 3: You could cook.
Speaker 5: Yes, American Auctioneers dot com and if you want to come,
you might just come to a live one and get filmed.
Speaker 3: You might up on TV.
Speaker 1: Now with you with you guys being auctioneers. I mean,
I grew up in buildings, Montana. We had a lot
of auctioneers up there with the cattle and with the
different different events that took place up there. But see
when rap music first started taking you taking on a
staple basically in our lives. I looked at my dad
and I said, Dad, they're stealing from the auctioneers because
there's no such thing as rap music. They're auctioneers because
they are using their words for something that's going to
move people.
Speaker 3: You're one hundred percent right, that's true. Wow.
Speaker 5: You know Danny and came from a long line of
cattle auctioneers.
Speaker 4: Over We registered the first cattle brand in Ta Larry County,
California in eighteen forty seven.
Speaker 2: We used to bring cattle from Arkansas, Missouri to.
Speaker 4: California and feed the miners and help with the western expansion.
And my grandfather was an auctioneer and I used to
go see him in Arkansas.
Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy four, I.
Speaker 4: Said, Grandpa, I want to be just like you whow
as eleven years old, And he taught me how to
do it, and I never looked back.
Speaker 2: Best gift I've ever had.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, Danny, like you said, brought the
California spin kind of like wrapping. You know, we hear
it and he just brought it out like that, like
a gatlin gun. And he has a different flare about himself.
Speaker 3: And I think it's just a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: I think everybody you know has brought a little bit
of magic into people's lives to figure out what's in
the box.
Speaker 4: Laura, you have brought magic. Oh, you know it's true.
You know it's true. The best part of our couple
is her.
Speaker 2: Just ask me. She's very humble about it.
Speaker 3: Well, God, I love it.
Speaker 1: So now, I've always seen Storage Wars as being very scientific,
and it's not something you practice. You've got to learn
how to sculpt that gift and skill. Am I wrong
here in believing this?
Speaker 4: No, you've got to really, you gotta, you gotta. You
gotta tell what you can't see by what you can see.
So if you see something that's that's quality, what you
don't see is probably quality. If you only see junk
in there, then likely what's going to be in the unknown.
Speaker 2: Is probably junk. Also, that's the you know, that's kind
of how it works.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you open up a unit and you see the
first half of it and you say, god, I think
I could get five or six hundred out of the
first half. Then you know, maybe you could get five
or six hundred down to the back half. So maybe
you've got a thousand dollars potential unit that you might
want to you know, you might want have been three
or four hundred dollars for it.
Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Dan and Laura
Dotson from Storage Wars coming up next. Storage Wars on
A and E. We are back with Dan and Laura Dotson. Well,
where do you gain the confidence and courage to kind
of bid as quickly as you guys do, on on
on on on storage wars. And the reason why is
because we're talking about split second decisions and when when
it's wrong, Oh my god, I can read it on
their faces.
Speaker 3: Oh from that right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just you know, you just you just gotta get
the You gotta get the door up. You got to
give him enough time to look. And then when it's time,
it's time, and.
Speaker 3: Danny roars out like a gatlin gun with that bid.
Speaker 5: He brings up the frenzy excitement that they just want
to get their bidding and they'ld.
Speaker 2: A lot of units.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I sold a lot of units, and I usually
know our buyers pretty well, and so I you know,
if I've got a good one, I know that somebody
is just going to set it in cheap and go.
Speaker 3: We can read the room pretty well, and Danny is
a master of that.
Speaker 1: So as the auctioneers, though, I mean, do you have
to stay away from those that are placing the bidding,
because I mean I I would I would. I always
envision there's a separation between church and state. Don't get
too close because they're gonna look at you wrong when
they're bidding, and all of a sudden, people are gonna go, yo,
he's cheating. I saw his eye movement.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: One time I had a one time I had a buyer.
I'll try to make this quick as I can. I
had a buyer and he was standing right in front
of me. He was a good buyer. I knew him forever,
and he was bidding on something and the guy right
next to him. Every time he bid, this guy would
just crank his neck and look right after this guy
and then he would bid. Finally, he did it, and
I looked at this buyer that I knew, and I
could tell by his eyes he wanted it. So I
took his bid and went back to the other guy.
And the other guy started arguing, he never did bid.
You're about to find out he never did bid. Sold
your way, you didn't even buy. Then the guy just
put his card up and he did buy it, and
he never bid, but I knew he wanted it, and
it was just just.
Speaker 5: His eye and his eye turning straight at Danny and
getting an opener clothes like that, and it's like this
is my big.
Speaker 4: Sometimes they'll just take their pinky and flip it out,
you know. They good buyers don't want other buyers land
off of that, like using their judgment on something. They'd
rather be a little sneaky about bidding.
Speaker 3: Sometimes, you know, still go who's biddy? Who's biddying? Denny?
Speaker 5: Go okay, I got Dave in here for fifteen He's going,
thanks Dan, you know whatever.
Speaker 4: I always never waste him for pointing someone out. I
don't just point him out so somebody I'll drive. No, no, no,
what are you saying to keep it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, acting like.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, not at all. It happens. It happens.
You know.
Speaker 5: The excitement is that these buyers in they're hope and
do we have another unit?
Speaker 3: Where's the next sale? What's going on?
Speaker 4: It's pretty good about you're pretty good about shown and
lost units going to well how big they are and
whether they're sister units.
Speaker 5: You know, if you haven't noticed, I have a lot
of energy and I really can enjoy seeing what sonciety units.
Speaker 3: It's exciting for me.
Speaker 1: What what is that email address? One more time to
where people can go to you about everything that you
guys are doing beyond the show, because I want them
to fall in love with you. They already are, but
I want the newbies to know exactly who you are.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I just go to American Auctioneers dot com.
It's Dan and Laura Dotson and there's a that's that's
our that's our auction company website. And if you're on
the West coast, please come to an auction er. Let
us know that you're coming into town and ask where
Laura and I might be.
Speaker 2: And sometimes we'll tell you.
Speaker 3: Check out on YouTube. You get on our YouTube and stuff.
You can learn how to bid.
Speaker 5: You can see how you know units we open them,
how quick they are, and and just you know what's
out there and stuff, and it's a it's a fun,
good time. Anybody can be a storage bidder and they
can be a buyer.
Speaker 3: So I have a good time.
Speaker 4: You can find us on Facebook and you can find
us on Twitter.
Speaker 2: Uses that Instagram we use this.
Speaker 1: Hey the lady, Well, please come back to this show
anytime in the future. There's always going to be a
door open for the two of you.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: You know we love North Carolina. Thank you so much.
You're doing a great job here. Our family's there.
Speaker 5: And if someday we decide we're leaving California, we're coming
your way.
Speaker 1: Y'all come back, you're here.
Speaker 3: Find you guys, God bless you.
Speaker 4: Ten to twenty, but thirty fifty fifty, about seventy seventy
sevenywhere gonna go, get squad, pull it out your way.
Speaker 2: Sixty bucks Eero. Thank you for having us today.
Speaker 3: I don't forget to have a story.
Speaker 2: Tours February twenty eighth on the Anti Network,