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Up in the sky. Look,
it's captivating, it's energizing. It's Alliances
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heroes. Alliances is the destination for
entrepreneurs, investors, CEOs, inventors,
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leaders, celebrities and startups where our
heroes in business aligned. Now here's your
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host, flying in David Cogan,
founder of Alliances. That's right, Thank
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you so much money Radio. That's
right. This is David Cogan, and
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this is the Alliance's Heroes shows.
This is about today's heroes, those that
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are builders, those that are doing
something for the community. And today's lineup
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is absolutely amazing. We have the
finalist for the Pillsbury Contest and she's appeared
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on the Food Network. We also
have the CEO, Chief Experience Officer of
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the premier New York Style It's the
Place That's right NYPD. We also have
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tex Nista. She graduated get this, graduated with her master's degree in tex
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at the age of twenty one.
Unbelievable. But without further ado, our
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first hero on the show, you
all definitely know him. He is the
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star of the hit reality TV show
Storage Wars, Dan Dotson, who could
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be reached at Storageauctions dot net.
Now, Dan, you're the star of
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this hit TV reality show. My
family and I always watch it Storage Wars,
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which is on A and E.
You're the auctioneer of the show.
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How in the world are you able
to talk so fast? And where did
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you learn it from? Those are
great questions, David. First of all,
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just thank you for having me on
your show. I really appreciate because
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I have been an entrepreneur forever.
In fact, my mom, my dad,
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my grandfathers, my great grandfathers have
all been self employed entrepreneurs, thinking
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outside the box to make their money. I started auctioning. My grandfather was
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an auctioneer, and I used to
spend a lot of time at Arkansas and
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when I was seven years old.
In nineteen, when I was eleven years
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old and seventy four, I asked
him if he would teach me how to
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do it, and he cried like
a baby, And three weeks later I
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was an auctioneer and I have never
looked back since then. And it's just
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practice, you know, it's just
numbers. I used to ask my grandfather.
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I said, God, you know, if I ever sell phone for
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ten thousand bucks or one hundred thousand
dollars, it's going to be very intimidating.
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To me, and my grandfather said, you know, whether it's a
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nickel, or it's five bucks or
fifty bucks, or it's five million dollars,
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it's all relative. It's all just
numbers. So as soon as you
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get the dollar out of your head
and realize that it's just numbers, and
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you practice enough, and the numbers
all kind of become automatic, and you
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can in your time as a professional
auction you're looking at body language and thinking
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about the items that you're selling and
then the positive uppoints of those and things
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that will make it easier to get
people to get off their hands in bid
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So I learned from my grandfather and
my mother. So you're you're you're at
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the age around eleven years old,
right, and and this is when you
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did your one of your first auctions. That's truly amazing, amazing and courageous
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to do it in front of people
at such a young age. What do
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you recall me, It's got to
be it's got to be what so so
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tell us about that the memory that
you most recall from your first experience that
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really damn shaped who you are today? It did you know? It's all
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about making choices in your life and
it's all about facing your fears. And
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eleven years old. My grandfather had
been teaching me for three weeks and I
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heard my name on the radio.
We're doing a big auction down on the
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Buffalo River and northwest Arkansas. And
I see my name in print right next
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to my grandfather's. It's got a
comma. It says Auctioneer by Dan Dawson.
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And I am stoked, and I
am ready, and I have been
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practicing. I had been practicing every
minute, and finally it's my turn,
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and Grandpa puts me up on top
of this table and he introduces me,
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and there's I don't know, there's
like one hundred and fifty people there,
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and everybody was silent as mice.
And he introduced me and he told me
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to hit it. And I opened
my mouth and absolutely nothing came out.
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And I was terrified, and he
got a little frustrated, and he goes,
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Dan, you know, go.
He liked to reintroduce me and try
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to promp me up and told me
to go for it. And I again,
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I opened my mouth and nothing came
out. I was terrified. And
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then something he got pissed off.
Really he just said, you know,
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do this or get down and all
to it. And I knew right then
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and there, if I didn't face
that fear at eleven years old, that
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I would never do it again.
And so I just started spluttering and spattering,
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and I actually sold this antique dress
or the first item I ever resolved,
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for three hundred and twenty five dollars
and took forever, and the people
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were very kind and nice, and
and it gave me the confidence that I
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needed to do it for forty two
years now. Dan, that's amazing.
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And you could reach Dan Dotson at
storage auctions dot net storage auctions with an
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s dot net And you're listening to
Alliance's Heroes on Money Radio AM fifteen ten
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Are you a hero in business? Go
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So the first episode of Storage Wars
airs on TV. You see yourself and
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your incredible wife Laura, who is
also one of the stars. What's going
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through your mind as you're watching this? It's just it was really ironic.
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It's just kind of a trip.
You know, You've it's like you're in
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a dream. You're you're looking at
yourself and then you you try not to
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look at every flaw and everything that
you do wrong and every sound that you
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make wrong. You're you know,
I critique myself in live and I critique
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myself on TV. So I just
I just quit doing that right away.
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I got over that probably the first
or second episode and just said, you
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know, I am whoever I am, and and I am going to be
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whoever I'm going to be, and
I'm just not going to even pay attention
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to that camera. Luckily, Laura
and I had been putting cameras around it
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for a year and a half before
Storage Wars. Actually, you know with
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Storage Wars that Original Productions was the
third production company that we had actually signed
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a contract with, and they were
the ones that finally got it right.
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Everybody else was getting it wrong for
you know, so we went through about
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a year of going through production companies
and networks, and I mean we went
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through twenty seven different networks and production
companies before we finally found something that fit
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correct. But you didn't give up, and now it's a huge success.
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You could reach Dan Dots in the
auctionaire storage auctions dot net. He is
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the star of Storage Wars that errors
on TV, and you genuinely look like
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you're thoroughly enjoying what you're doing,
and you must be, having said you've
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done it for over forty years.
What motivates you though? What drives you?
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You know? I like the attention, Like like I like the art
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of the negotiation. It's kind of
a fast negoiation. I've got something,
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you want it, your buddy over
there wants it to and and I think
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it's worth a certain amount of money, and what do you think it's worth?
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And does your buddy agree with you? And let's just not mess around
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and figure out what it's worth right
now. Okay, that's what it's worth.
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Now we move on to something else. And so I just kind of
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like, I get really bored really
quick. So I just need to,
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you know, keep things moving fast. I just like it. I like
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the attention. I like the method
of auctions. The best method in the
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world to get a fair market value
on anything on the planet is to put
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it in a well advertised auction to
figure out what it brings, because it
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is absolutely on what it's worth at
that very moment in time. And you
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can go in front of God or
a judge or anybody who'll say that's that's
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what it was worth that day.
And and so I mean, I just
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love it. I just I just
love it. It's been very good to
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me. There was the best gift
that anybody ever gave me my life was
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the gift of auctioneering that my grandfather
game, I'm ut California, watch me
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in my twenties and thirties, and
he would critique me, and I would
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keep trying to improve. My mid
thirties, he finally came up to me,
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and you know, I was almost
forty, and he says, you
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know, I think you're a better
auctioneer than I was ever was. And
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so that was a big compliment coming
from him. And you know, I
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had that. I had the I
got to meet the man that taught him
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had auctioneer when I was a kid. His name was Detman Mitchell, and
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he taught my grandfather how to do
it in the mid forties after World War
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Two. And so he got to
me, and that little man had pulled
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my grandfather and he taught hundreds of
people in Northwest arkans owns as very how
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to auctioneer. Because that can't got
more potent shial than anybody. I've ever
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taught that You've I've ever seen so
Dave never forgot that that always motivated Dan.
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Absolutely amazing. You're a hero anyone
that could be on a reality TV
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show auction items for the high bidders
to sell, entertaining others at the same
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time, having a passion for what
they do, doing it so long,
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not giving up going through all twenty
seven plus production companies to get it aired
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as certainly a hero and Dan dons
Dan Dotson, star of the Storage Wars,
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certainly is storage auctions dot net.
This is David Cogan with alliances
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Up in the sky. Look,
it's captivating, it's energizing. It's Alliances
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heroes. Alliances is the destination for
entrepreneurs, investors, CEOs, inventors,
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00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:27.120
leaders, celebrities and startups where our
heroes in business aligned. Now here's your
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host, flying in David Cogan,
founder of Alliances. That's right, Thank
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you so much money Radio. That's
right. This is David Cogan, and
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this is the Alliance's Heroes shows.
This is about today's heroes, those that
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00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:46.679
are builders, those that are doing
something for the community. And today's lineup
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00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:52.719
is absolutely amazing. We have the
finalist for the Pillsbury Contest and she's appeared
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00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:58.119
on the Food Network. We also
have the CEO, Chief Experience Officer of
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00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:03.759
the premier New York Style It's the
Place That's right NYPD. We also have
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tex Nista. She graduated get this, graduated with her master's degree in tex
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at the age of twenty one.
Unbelievable. But without further ado, our
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first hero on the show, you
all definitely know him. He is the
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star of the hit reality TV show
Storage Wars, Dan Dotson, who could
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be reached at Storageauctions dot net.
Now, Dan, you're the star of
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this hit TV reality show. My
family and I always watch it Storage Wars,
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which is on A and E.
You're the auctioneer of the show.
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How in the world are you able
to talk so fast? And where did
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you learn it from? Those are
great questions, David. First of all,
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just thank you for having me on
your show. I really appreciate because
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I have been an entrepreneur forever.
In fact, my mom, my dad,
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my grandfathers, my great grandfathers have
all been self employed entrepreneurs, thinking
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outside the box to make their money. I started auctioning. My grandfather was
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an auctioneer, and I used to
spend a lot of time at Arkansas and
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when I was seven years old.
In nineteen, when I was eleven years
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old and seventy four, I asked
him if he would teach me how to
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do it, and he cried like
a baby, And three weeks later I
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was an auctioneer and I have never
looked back since then. And it's just
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practice, you know, it's just
numbers. I used to ask my grandfather.
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I said, God, you know, if I ever sell phone for
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ten thousand bucks or one hundred thousand
dollars, it's going to be very intimidating.
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To me, and my grandfather said, you know, whether it's a
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nickel, or it's five bucks or
fifty bucks, or it's five million dollars,
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it's all relative. It's all just
numbers. So as soon as you
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get the dollar out of your head
and realize that it's just numbers, and
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you practice enough, and the numbers
all kind of become automatic, and you
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can in your time as a professional
auction you're looking at body language and thinking
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about the items that you're selling and
then the positive uppoints of those and things
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that will make it easier to get
people to get off their hands in bid
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So I learned from my grandfather and
my mother. So you're you're you're at
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the age around eleven years old,
right, and and this is when you
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did your one of your first auctions. That's truly amazing, amazing and courageous
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to do it in front of people
at such a young age. What do
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you recall me, It's got to
be it's got to be what so so
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tell us about that the memory that
you most recall from your first experience that
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really damn shaped who you are today? It did you know? It's all
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about making choices in your life and
it's all about facing your fears. And
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eleven years old. My grandfather had
been teaching me for three weeks and I
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heard my name on the radio.
We're doing a big auction down on the
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Buffalo River and northwest Arkansas. And
I see my name in print right next
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to my grandfather's. It's got a
comma. It says Auctioneer by Dan Dawson.
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And I am stoked, and I
am ready, and I have been
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practicing. I had been practicing every
minute, and finally it's my turn,
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and Grandpa puts me up on top
of this table and he introduces me,
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and there's I don't know, there's
like one hundred and fifty people there,
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and everybody was silent as mice.
And he introduced me and he told me
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to hit it. And I opened
my mouth and absolutely nothing came out.
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And I was terrified, and he
got a little frustrated, and he goes,
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Dan, you know, go.
He liked to reintroduce me and try
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to promp me up and told me
to go for it. And I again,
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I opened my mouth and nothing came
out. I was terrified. And
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then something he got pissed off.
Really he just said, you know,
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do this or get down and all
to it. And I knew right then
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and there, if I didn't face
that fear at eleven years old, that
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I would never do it again.
And so I just started spluttering and spattering,
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and I actually sold this antique dress
or the first item I ever resolved,
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for three hundred and twenty five dollars
and took forever, and the people
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were very kind and nice, and
and it gave me the confidence that I
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needed to do it for forty two
years now. Dan, that's amazing.
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And you could reach Dan Dotson at
storage auctions dot net storage auctions with an
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So the first episode of Storage Wars
airs on TV. You see yourself and
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your incredible wife Laura, who is
also one of the stars. What's going
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through your mind as you're watching this? It's just it was really ironic.
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It's just kind of a trip.
You know, You've it's like you're in
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a dream. You're you're looking at
yourself and then you you try not to
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look at every flaw and everything that
you do wrong and every sound that you
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make wrong. You're you know,
I critique myself in live and I critique
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myself on TV. So I just
I just quit doing that right away.
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I got over that probably the first
or second episode and just said, you
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know, I am whoever I am, and and I am going to be
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whoever I'm going to be, and
I'm just not going to even pay attention
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to that camera. Luckily, Laura
and I had been putting cameras around it
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for a year and a half before
Storage Wars. Actually, you know with
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Storage Wars that Original Productions was the
third production company that we had actually signed
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a contract with, and they were
the ones that finally got it right.
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Everybody else was getting it wrong for
you know, so we went through about
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a year of going through production companies
and networks, and I mean we went
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through twenty seven different networks and production
companies before we finally found something that fit
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correct. But you didn't give up, and now it's a huge success.
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You could reach Dan Dots in the
auctionaire storage auctions dot net. He is
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the star of Storage Wars that errors
on TV, and you genuinely look like
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you're thoroughly enjoying what you're doing,
and you must be, having said you've
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done it for over forty years.
What motivates you though? What drives you?
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You know? I like the attention, Like like I like the art
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of the negotiation. It's kind of
a fast negoiation. I've got something,
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you want it, your buddy over
there wants it to and and I think
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it's worth a certain amount of money, and what do you think it's worth?
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And does your buddy agree with you? And let's just not mess around
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and figure out what it's worth right
now. Okay, that's what it's worth.
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Now we move on to something else. And so I just kind of
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like, I get really bored really
quick. So I just need to,
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you know, keep things moving fast. I just like it. I like
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the attention. I like the method
of auctions. The best method in the
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world to get a fair market value
on anything on the planet is to put
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it in a well advertised auction to
figure out what it brings, because it
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is absolutely on what it's worth at
that very moment in time. And you
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can go in front of God or
a judge or anybody who'll say that's that's
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what it was worth that day.
And and so I mean, I just
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love it. I just I just
love it. It's been very good to
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me. There was the best gift
that anybody ever gave me my life was
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the gift of auctioneering that my grandfather
game, I'm ut California, watch me
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in my twenties and thirties, and
he would critique me, and I would
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keep trying to improve. My mid
thirties, he finally came up to me,
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and you know, I was almost
forty, and he says, you
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know, I think you're a better
auctioneer than I was ever was. And
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so that was a big compliment coming
from him. And you know, I
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had that. I had the I
got to meet the man that taught him
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had auctioneer when I was a kid. His name was Detman Mitchell, and
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he taught my grandfather how to do
it in the mid forties after World War
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Two. And so he got to
me, and that little man had pulled
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my grandfather and he taught hundreds of
people in Northwest arkans owns as very how
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to auctioneer. Because that can't got
more potent shial than anybody. I've ever
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taught that You've I've ever seen so
Dave never forgot that that always motivated Dan.
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Absolutely amazing. You're a hero anyone
that could be on a reality TV
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show auction items for the high bidders
to sell, entertaining others at the same
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time, having a passion for what
they do, doing it so long,
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not giving up going through all twenty
seven plus production companies to get it aired
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as certainly a hero and Dan dons
Dan Dotson, star of the Storage Wars,
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certainly is storage auctions dot net.
This is David Cogan with alliances
