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does it really like to work on the front lines

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of a grocery store? Ooh ooh, the liars, the steelers,

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the beggars, the people that you think you know, and

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C tcs only on Ero dot net A r r

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o e dot net. Enjoy your exploration, Dan and Laura,

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I gotta tell you something, this is one of the

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most interactive shows I have ever jumped into. And I

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have been a storage war fans from from the very

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beginning on A and E because it just challenges me

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to do research, to yell at the TV, to argue

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with somebody in the house, and you know, it's like

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playing a board game but it's on your flat screen TV.

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Speaker 2: I love that era that you are this shaman.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I love it.

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Speaker 1: It's one of those situations where you've really got to

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believe that one man's trash is another man's treasure. You

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guys prove it on every single episode.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you boy. I sure love this.

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Speaker 2: We love that.

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Speaker 4: You know, when we hear people say, God, I've been

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watching you since I was a kid, I always say

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something like, well, I don't know whether to say thank you,

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I'm sorry, you're going to get addicted.

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Speaker 5: It is fun. Anybody can get out there and find

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a treasure.

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Speaker 3: You never know, you never know what's in.

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Speaker 5: The box, so it is interactive. What a wonderful description.

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Speaker 4: We have brand new shows coming on Yes the one

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Speaker 2: We're excited that.

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Speaker 4: We're excited to throw us season seventeen at you. We

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can't believe we're still here after all these seasons.

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Speaker 3: Through all the units, through all the joke.

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Speaker 2: Like the gift that just keeps on.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, treasures to be found.

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Speaker 1: I can't drive by a storage unit anywhere in any

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city without thinking about you, guys. I mean that's a

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Beatles impact right there.

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Speaker 3: Why thank you, and don't forget that family.

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Speaker 4: We have a we have a nationwide online platform for

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selling storages at storage auctions dot net. It's the only

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one on the network Storage auctions dot Net. That's Laura

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and our platform. We've had it since twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 5: So you can, you know, get on a bed just

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like a storage Warrior, yourself.

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Speaker 4: Storage without the drama. And if you want a little drama,

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you if you're im on the drama, if you're on

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the West Coast, you can. You can always come and

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visit us at one of our things and.

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Speaker 3: You could cook.

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Speaker 5: Yes, American Auctioneers dot com and if you want to come,

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you might just come to a live one and get filmed.

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Speaker 3: You might up on TV.

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Speaker 1: Now with you with you guys being auctioneers. I mean,

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I grew up in buildings, Montana. We had a lot

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of auctioneers up there with the cattle and with the

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different different events that took place up there. But see

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when rap music first started taking you taking on a

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staple basically in our lives. I looked at my dad

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and I said, Dad, they're stealing from the auctioneers because

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there's no such thing as rap music. They're auctioneers because

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they are using their words for something that's going to

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Speaker 3: You're one hundred percent right, that's true. Wow.

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Speaker 5: You know Danny and came from a long line of

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Speaker 4: Over We registered the first cattle brand in Ta Larry County,

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Speaker 2: We used to bring cattle from Arkansas, Missouri to.

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Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy four, I.

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Speaker 4: Said, Grandpa, I want to be just like you whow

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as eleven years old, And he taught me how to

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Speaker 2: Best gift I've ever had.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, Danny, like you said, brought the

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California spin kind of like wrapping. You know, we hear

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Speaker 3: And I think it's just a lot of fun.

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Speaker 5: I think everybody you know has brought a little bit

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Speaker 4: Laura, you have brought magic. Oh, you know it's true.

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Speaker 2: Just ask me. She's very humble about it.

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Speaker 3: Well, God, I love it.

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Speaker 1: So now, I've always seen Storage Wars as being very scientific,

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and it's not something you practice. You've got to learn

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how to sculpt that gift and skill. Am I wrong

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here in believing this?

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Speaker 4: No, you've got to really, you gotta, you gotta. You

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gotta tell what you can't see by what you can see.

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So if you see something that's that's quality, what you

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don't see is probably quality. If you only see junk

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Speaker 2: Is probably junk. Also, that's the you know, that's kind

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you open up a unit and you see the

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first half of it and you say, god, I think

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I could get five or six hundred out of the

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first half. Then you know, maybe you could get five

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you've got a thousand dollars potential unit that you might

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Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Dan and Laura

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A and E. We are back with Dan and Laura Dotson. Well,

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where do you gain the confidence and courage to kind

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of bid as quickly as you guys do, on on

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on on on storage wars. And the reason why is

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because we're talking about split second decisions and when when

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it's wrong, Oh my god, I can read it on

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Speaker 3: Oh from that right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I just you know, you just you just gotta get

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it's time, and.

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Speaker 3: Danny roars out like a gatlin gun with that bid.

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Speaker 5: He brings up the frenzy excitement that they just want

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I sold a lot of units, and I usually

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know our buyers pretty well, and so I you know,

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Speaker 3: We can read the room pretty well, and Danny is

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Speaker 1: So as the auctioneers, though, I mean, do you have

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to stay away from those that are placing the bidding,

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too close because they're gonna look at you wrong when

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he's cheating. I saw his eye movement.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: One time I had a one time I had a buyer.

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of me. He was a good buyer. I knew him forever,

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and he was bidding on something and the guy right

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next to him. Every time he bid, this guy would

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your way, you didn't even buy. Then the guy just

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Speaker 5: His eye and his eye turning straight at Danny and

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getting an opener clothes like that, and it's like this

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Speaker 4: Sometimes they'll just take their pinky and flip it out,

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you know. They good buyers don't want other buyers land

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off of that, like using their judgment on something. They'd

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Speaker 3: Sometimes, you know, still go who's biddy? Who's biddying? Denny?

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Speaker 5: Go okay, I got Dave in here for fifteen He's going,

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thanks Dan, you know whatever.

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Speaker 4: I always never waste him for pointing someone out. I

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don't just point him out so somebody I'll drive. No, no, no,

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what are you saying to keep it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, acting like.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, not at all. It happens. It happens.

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Speaker 5: The excitement is that these buyers in they're hope and

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do we have another unit?

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Speaker 3: Where's the next sale? What's going on?

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Speaker 4: It's pretty good about you're pretty good about shown and

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whether they're sister units.

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Speaker 5: You know, if you haven't noticed, I have a lot

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Speaker 3: It's exciting for me.

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Speaker 1: What what is that email address? One more time to

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where people can go to you about everything that you

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guys are doing beyond the show, because I want them

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to fall in love with you. They already are, but

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I want the newbies to know exactly who you are.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I just go to American Auctioneers dot com.

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It's Dan and Laura Dotson and there's a that's that's

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our that's our auction company website. And if you're on

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the West coast, please come to an auction er. Let

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us know that you're coming into town and ask where

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Laura and I might be.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes we'll tell you.

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Speaker 3: Check out on YouTube. You get on our YouTube and stuff.

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You can learn how to bid.

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Speaker 5: You can see how you know units we open them,

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how quick they are, and and just you know what's

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out there and stuff, and it's a it's a fun,

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good time. Anybody can be a storage bidder and they

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can be a buyer.

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Speaker 3: So I have a good time.

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Speaker 4: You can find us on Facebook and you can find

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Speaker 2: Uses that Instagram we use this.

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Speaker 1: Hey the lady, Well, please come back to this show

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anytime in the future. There's always going to be a

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door open for the two of you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: You know we love North Carolina. Thank you so much.

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You're doing a great job here. Our family's there.

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Speaker 5: And if someday we decide we're leaving California, we're coming

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your way.

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Speaker 1: Y'all come back, you're here.

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Speaker 3: Find you guys, God bless you.

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Speaker 4: Ten to twenty, but thirty fifty fifty, about seventy seventy

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sevenywhere gonna go, get squad, pull it out your way.

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Speaker 2: Sixty bucks Eero. Thank you for having us today.

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Speaker 3: I don't forget to have a story.

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Speaker 2: Tours February twenty eighth on the Anti Network,