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Kim and Christian Salerno from Las Vegas, NV
Unstoppable, unshakeable, but it rolls out for town unbreakable, it's unavoidable, you saw a little berry between the lines, start to loosen up your mouth. And welcome again to Shark Farmer Radio. Hey, I'm your host Rob Sharky. We're in the studio today just outside of Bradford, Illinois, studio powered by Bex Hybrid. It's cool. They are, they're inspecting the wind turbines with a drone. Are you seeing behind the house, sir? Yes, that's like a whole new world for them. I mean, they used to have to bring these huge cranes in just to check things. That's kind of save a ton of money. I mean, those cranes are not cheap. They said they were doing them for the like stress fractures on the wings, but they're really looking at the main stem of it too. So I don't know what they're doing, but it's fun to watch. And it's like one of the big drones, like the ones they spray the fields with. It's not the little fella. See, I think that's kind of a cool job. You know, that has to be part of your job description. I have to get a neat drone and it has to do certain things and I have to learn how to work it. Oh, you can get one. I always thought it would be a good idea to get one with the infrared camera. So like when the if the hunter shoot a deer and we can't find it to go up there, but I think I think Illinois made it illegal, which doesn't mean, I know why they did because they don't understand it, but it banned that would. Well, that would. I mean, nothing worse than shooting a deer and then not finding it. It is. But you know, then people would use them for the wrong purposes too. So I suppose we have cool guests today. I love it when we have in studio guests. That's right. Straight from Sin City, we have Christian and Kim Salerno. How you guys doing? Good. We're doing pretty good. Yeah. Thanks for having us. Oh, yeah. Live out in Vegas. Like what part of Vegas? In Las Vegas. We live in the Northwest area. It's in an area called Centennial Hills. So it's not if you didn't live there, you wouldn't really know because it's not actually on like your address, but it's like an understanding when you live there. You know your neighborhood. The inside. Yeah. We had you on the TV show because you guys own and operate a horse hotel. Yes. How'd that thing get started? Well, I don't know. We just had a friend that was doing our insurance and she we never we have 24 stalls on our property. And we were never planning on filling them. We had bought the property for some other purposes. And she said, man, you guys got a lot of stalls here. We have friends in Texas that run a horse hotel. And we were like, and she's all we could set you up, get you some insurance and everything like that. And you could have a horse hotel for overnight guests because we are we're not a big fan of boarding. We don't want we like our privacy, but having some people come in, you know, and stay overnight meeting new people and stuff like that was kind of interesting. So we just kind of took it and ran with it. Well, she did. That's her jam. Yeah. That's that's hers. That's her baby. That's my project. My baby. The hotel. The hotel motel. Yeah. Well, with like the NFR and I'm sure there's other stuff that comes of Vegas that. Yeah, I mean, we definitely make we do we are the most successful during NFR. We've been really blessed with some really wonderful family that basically rents our entire facility now. So we have like a standing reservation with a family that takes the whole place. And that makes it a lot less stressful and just one check to collect. Yeah, she probably she has a friend with she rents one side of the motel one side of the Mary Motel and her friends renting the other side. And it's just them. They bring their trainers and everybody and they take it last year. They took care of the entire. We don't have to do anything. No, we just loaded them in and then we obviously we offer like our equipment like if you need the forklift to get stuff off the top, but you know, things like that, minor stuff, but we're there to help them whatever like some nights when they weren't there, you know, we'll feed for whatever they need. But for the most part, they're very self sufficient and kind of did their own thing. And we just kind of don't want people messing with their horse. They're a little sensitive. Those horse people want to say crazy, but you know, yeah, and they come in with a pretty their horses are let's just say they from what we've learned, they are not cheap horses. We had no idea the value of those horses if they started bringing into our place. In fact, it's a little scary. Yeah, it's daunting. It's over a hundred bucks. Just a little just a teeny bit. I don't get I have like a for sale, not on sale. But and they probably love you, Kim, because you know your horses and so you know when a horse isn't feeling well, because didn't you save a horse one time that was staying there? Because you called and said, you know what, I don't think this horse is feeling great today. Yeah, that was an issue because when you're your horse is traveling from different distances, you know, they're in a trailer for a long time and you just don't know if they've been they don't get access to water. Some of them have mangers, so they can graze, but you just you just don't know. And then they get there that first night is the most important because you want to make sure that they've drank water and they've had they've peed and pooped. So those were definitely signs that I keep keep on track. I'm I'm monitoring people come from exiting from their body. When people come from thousands of, you know, literally thousands of miles, you could say they came and had come from Canada, that's a long drive for a horse in a trailer and a lot of different, you know, everything. So they get when they get out, they're a little stressed and sucked in or something like that. So she was able to catch that pretty good and caught the horse kind of, I think she was what he was pying and trying to go down. Yeah, he was trying to lay down. Yeah. And they late want to lay down and they're biting at their stomach. That's a sign and hint and a half. And they had in that horse hadn't drank any water. Yeah. So we we made a phone call first thing in the morning, and I walked that horse for a while. I was like, do not lay down on it. I don't want him to lay down because that's when you're going to keep them moving. A hint and a half. Yeah. I think it's very cool what you guys have created. I loved having to show out there and just showing people because I mean, it is agriculture. It is ranching, but maybe not your your typical type. Well, absolutely. And they have an amazing arena because, you know, when you think of Las Vegas, you think so rocky and that it wouldn't be a great place to have an arena. Oh gosh, their place is awesome. Yeah, it is. All right. Today, we're actually in studio talking with some friends Christian and Kim Salerno. They're from Las Vegas. We're going to talk more about the horse hotel and gambling. Why not? We'll be back right after the break. This segment is brought to you by Common Ground. Are you looking for an easy way to buy, sell, or lease your land? Well, check out Common Ground where they connect landowners and farmers and hunters too, by the way, go to commonground.io that's commonground.io. Hey, hey, if you missed a shark farmer TV, Tuesday, which is brand new, don't worry. Relax. It's okay. Encore presentation is on Saturday, 130, a central on RFD TV. Like I always say, you know, three times more people watch on Saturdays anyway, and then people DVR it. So hey, watch whenever you want to. That's right. That's the best thing is just DVR it and then play it on a loop so we can get some. All right. Today, we're actually in studio. We're talking with our French Christian and Kim Salerno. They are from Las Vegas. We're talking about the the horse hotel. And this is mainly a one night, two night type of thing, but you aren't. It's not worse. I'm kid neighbor kid wants a horse and they need a place to put it. No. Yeah. I mean, if they want to stay, I think we've had some people stay even up to like what, three, four, five days? Yeah, I mean, during the off like in the other parts of the year, other than NFR, which is like a standard two week. People stay, but yes, the main people we get are people who travel between seasons from, let's say they come from Washington and Oregon, and then they'll come down into they have places in Arizona or they'll spend some time down in Arizona during the winter and then vice versa. So we get that we're we're on a route more or less, and that's who we get. Yeah, you get a lot of people who have two homes, which is nice. So we have just people that come back over and over. So it's really nice. So we have regulars. Yeah. And I just we just kind of send them through to you. We're like, you know where everything is, go for it, you know, so which is also nice. What's it like living in Vegas? Besides the heat, it's nice with the heat brutal. Yeah, summer with this summer was this summer was brutal. I was I was cranky. He's very cranky. Was he cranky? He was meant to live with. Does that make you cranky and when he's cranky? No, because if we're both cranky, it's really bad. So I try to like just be the I'm the sponge and just take it. The basket and you try to be the basket of none. I'm trying to be half full and he's always on half empty in the summer. He's like that. Well, it was 10 degrees hotter on average a day this year. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah, that's like 120. Like that's not that we basically live in the third. We've been there 13 years and it has never been that bad. Like we were all having break. My daughter had a breakdown. I think I had a breakdown. It said Al Gore multiple. Al Gore is doing it. Yeah, he probably is. Everything was fine. So he started flapping his gums. So it's 90 here today in Illinois. Is it is a they always say it's a different kind of heat? Is it is? I mean, my skin's loving it. It's humidity. We live on more moisture. Oh, yeah, we're forcing the humidity. Yeah, that's okay. So tell me about the business where you guys are what's has to do with the gambling tables and that. Oh, yeah, we, well, she and I, she came, she started coming into the office and stuff like that now full time for the past what year and a half at least. Yeah, at least year and a half. She and I just want to do the we do the printing of the table felts. Okay. So on the blackjack tables and poker tables, we do the graphics and stuff like that. That is our main, our main printing business. That's our main source of it. Yeah, let's just put it that way. Yeah. So my father runs runs where we have building side by side and he runs the furnishing side. We do a lot of stuff like the TV tables for poker after dark. We've done a world series of poker TV tables. I don't know what a TV table is. It's got cameras in the table. Oh, I gotcha. So, you know, when you ever watch it, flip the cards up just a little bit. So you give me the cards. Yeah. And like that. And we put the RFID, we put the RFID sensors in there. What's RFID? Radio frequency ID. I think I don't know. I just sold that out of my seat. So people can cheat. They can. But I mean, it is monitored. But yeah, you don't want to, it's all mob run. And you don't want to mess with them. They're still around. You've seen that? That movie where the guy was cheating in a, was it the took a hammer to his hand? Casino, I think it was a movie. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Watch that movie in a long time. Well, I thought you guys have to watch it every week in Vegas. It's a requirement. It was like, it was actually in my job interview. So you guys get down to the casinos and stuff for work. No. No, you don't, you don't go there. No, I hate going to the strip. No. It's a, it's a mess. I ship everything. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. I don't, I mean, we go, I mean, I go for me, we go for meetings and stuff like that when we have to go see the managers, but honestly, the managers actually come out to us. Yeah. You just hate tourists? Is that what it is? Everything. Literally. Yeah. You hate everything. I hate everything on the strip. There's nothing nice about it. It's like just overpriced. It's it is a little crowded. It's costly. You can't even park for free as a as a native Nevada resident. Zero 15 to 20 bucks. But they we got of Elon's tunnels. Yeah. I haven't been in those. You guys have. Yeah. Yeah. They, I thought they were pretty slick, really. They don't drive themselves. No, that's the thing. Like the Tesla tunnel was fantastic, because you know, they had it all multicolored and lit up and you know, you feel like you're really doing something, but you still have a driver. You know, it's not like when we were in San Francisco and we had an autonomous car come pick us up. No one was in it. No. I mean, you could send an autonomous car to go get your kid from school and take take your child home. I could have taken an app. It was really something, but the tunnels aren't that way yet because you have to pop out of the tunnel on top. You can't get signal underground. Exactly. Yeah. So it's a little flawed, but it, you know, it keeps more drivers off of the strip. So I mean, it's working. You just still need a driver. Well, for the NFR, you know, it's like, hey, where do we go out to eat down here? You guys had no clue. No, it's so expensive. And the funny thing is we talked to a lot of people that are like, tell us that they're going to go try a restaurant. And even my, my dad just went to a, he went out to, gosh, I can't even remember. It's at Arby's. Yeah. He probably would have probably would have been better than what he got. He ended up, they went for a burger somewhere. Oh my gosh, I can't remember where it was, but it just wasn't good. And for the cops, he got a bird. They got a burger. They each got burgers and then like a drink and like a soda. And it ended up being like 150 bucks where they went to go eat just for a couple burgers. That's crazy out there. He said it wasn't even, it wasn't even good. And we've had a couple people go to like, Oh my gosh, I can't even remember the names of the restaurants. But we get, we get hosed at Gordon Ramsay's place. Oh, I mean, it was, it was awful. Where was it? Which one did you go to? It wasn't the, it was a fancy, the fancier one. He's got like a cafe or whatever. But no, this was the all. Yeah, they're all bad. It's just, it's just disappointing. You know, you would think, I know for that type of price. All right, we do got to go to break today. We're in studio today. We're talking with a Christian and Kim Salerno from Las Vegas. We're going to learn more about Vegas. We're going to talk more about gambling felt. Do you ever think about that? Where the felt comes from on the poker tables? We'll be back. All right, after the break. This segment is brought to you by Common Ground. Are you looking for an easy way to buy, sell, or lease your land? Well, check out Common Ground where they connect landowners and farmers and hunters too, by the way, go to commonground.io. That's commonground.io. It's time for Sin City's favorite radio segment. Where in the world is Will? Will you feeling lucky? I'm feeling lucky. I'm high-rolling today because I'm in Las Vegas. Nice. Las Vegas is often known as Sin City or simply Vegas. And it's the most populous city in the US state of Nevada, as well as the seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the Greater Mojave Desert and the second largest in the southwestern United States. Las Vegas was founded as a city in 1905 when 110 acres of land adjacent to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks were auctioned in what would become the downtown area in 1990. I bet it was a bargain then. In the desert, come on. In the year 1931 was pivotal for Las Vegas. At that time, Nevada legalized casino gambling and reduced residency requirements for divorce to six weeks. This year also witnessed the beginning of construction on nearby Hoover Dam. The influx of construction workers and their families helped Las Vegas avoid economic calamity during the Great Depression. It's a fun word. Some notable films shot in Las Vegas include Rocky 4. Heat. Who was in heat? Pachino. Oh, I got you. I got you. Rain man. Definitely. Leaving Las Vegas with Nick Cage. Have you ever seen that one? No, I have not seen it. That's one that's good for the whole family. Mars attacks. No country for old men as well. Mars attacks is great because they eliminate our government. I got a notable people section, but I kept it to Las Vegas natives only. These people are born and bred LV heads. We got the rock band, the killers, front man, Brandon Flowers, NASCAR drivers, Kurt and Kyle Bush. Oh, there you go. Everyone's favorite. YouTuber Tana Mango. See one of those muckbangers? No, no. Slipknot guitarist Jim Marute. Some slipknot, yeah. Yeah, and extreme wheelchair athlete Aaron furthering him. What's he play? He was the first person to do a backflip, a double backflip, and a frontflip in a wheelchair. Oh, my gosh. I can't even do a somersault. That's it. That's it? All right. Well, thank you well. Did you guys learn something about Vegas? We did, actually. That divorce thing was kind of like a weird fact. Why are you winking at me, right? Well, isn't that why there's all those like wedding chapels? I mean, like the driver ones. People were just drunk all the time and made bad decisions. Right. But also it's like you can get divorced really quick, right? Yeah. Oh, so like, you really want that on your record. We've all seen the hangover. All right. Today, we're actually in studio. We're talking with Christian and Kim. So learn. Oh, they are from Las Vegas. They own a horse hotel, also the business where they are you're printing on the felt like a blackjack. I suppose it's more than just where you put your cards. Now you probably got advertising and all that stuff. Yeah, the casinos do. They usually put their logos and advertise. Some put like, some casinos put like, we'll put beer logos or even, you know, they advertise their like, their shows, you know. Oh, yeah. Like rouge it to the strat or something like that. They have special pits that they put in there, like RedRock, all UFC stuff. How long did they turn stuff over? Depends. You're like not as soon enough. Yeah, it could be a little bit faster. It just depends. A lot of, you know, if you're a higher end casino, they keep it really crisp and clean, like Venetian. They don't let their felts get dirty. They don't let their felts wear out. They keep them changed. They keep them in rotation. Like a month a year? It depends. It can be anywhere from two months to four months is probably going to be your average turn. Some will let those sing some of the other casinos. They'll maybe like, still remain nameless. Like Bob's casino. Bob's casino and bait. You'll really let those things stay on there. So some don't, some don't turn them as fast as they, as they need to. Yeah. But yeah, it's usually about cheap performance. And it depends, you know, cigarette burns. If there's, if there's a non-smoking pit, those will stay on longer. Sure. Yeah. So, but if there's smoking or anything like that, a lot of casinos have gone to non-smoking pits. Some casinos aren't even, I think some of the couple casinos up in Reno, like Peppermint, I don't even think they'd have smoking anymore. So they'll go to a higher quality felt that lasts a lot longer too. I can sell them a higher quality felt. They'll spend a little bit more money and buy a felt that lasts a lot longer. Yeah. Same with poker rooms. There's no, there's no smoking in poker rooms. So they'll go for a higher quality felt that we've been able to leave on. She's, we had the Orleans, because we, we do a special service that we'll launder their felts for them. We actually take their felts back, launder them, wash them for them, and then reinstall them for them. Oh, it's like close. Yeah. It lasted a little too long. They did, it was like two and a half years. Yeah. And so that was like, that was a pretty long time. I'm like, yeah. Do you up sound like when you buy a car they offered to do, what is that called? It starts with a V. Now it's like the coding or whatever. Do you upsell your, your felt felt upsell or do you have like different fabrics that they have options? Yeah. So like they can buy certain fabrics that have like last longer or something like that. And it's just, it just depends. Yeah. And it depends on the game. So like some of the games aren't worth putting the more expensive fabric on. Yeah, scraps, scraps, we don't normally put a more expensive fat. We use a special type of fabric, but we don't put the expensive stuff on because dice will cut dice, cut the fabric. Dice will cut fabric. Yeah, the corners of the dice, when they throw them, it cuts them, it cuts the fabric. You're kidding. Can't stop it. Yeah, the old school, there used to be like an old school wall felt kind of like pool table felt that they used to silk screen. Now that stuff would last for other because it was dyed straight through. I'm going into like, why don't you make stuff out of like soybeans and corn? You could be buying it from you. Yeah. Well, I got a question. You two are very curious about agriculture. Why? Oh, man. We're nerds. I don't know. We want to know where our food comes from. We wanted and that's how it all started is just because of when the organic and the GMO and stuff like that started to come about. We wanted to know the truth, I guess you could say, because there was a lot of what we've a lot of just Google BS. What? I know, can you imagine stuff on the internet? Yeah. So we've just kind of taken a dive into it and it became very interesting and she's the one that started it to that too. I'm nerd. She nerd it out and then I just followed her. Yeah. Well, I mean, what the horse is is kind of natural on that. Well, it's just like, you want to have a conversation with a bunch of people who looked up fake information or do you just want to go ahead and get online, which is like the most amazing tool right now? I mean, it's got its downfalls, but the positive is you could just go right to the source and ask. That's real quick. Where are you on social media, Kim first? I'm on Instagram at the Dolly Momma. Dolly Momma, Christian. My mom, I guess I'm on social media, actually. Okay. Thanks for playing along, Christian. Kim and Christian, thank you very much for coming in. Don't go anywhere. Sean Haney, he's coming up next. Now that, that's a gamble.