{"podcast":{"title":"On the Corner of Main Street","slug":"on-the-corner-of-main-street-602595","podcast_index_feed_id":602595,"rss_url":"https://plaza.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://plazahotelcasino.com/podcast","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/2/f/2/7/2f2791da670e7393e5bbc093207a2619/4920-Podcast-06.jpg","author":"Plaza Hotel and Casino","episode_count":177,"summary":"On the Corner of Main Street provides an inside scoop on downtown Las Vegas. From gaming and special events to new projects and the growing art scene, hear straight from the amazing people who are making downtown Las Vegas a unique and fast-growing destination. Recorded at the Plaza Hotel & Casino – on the corner of Main Street – Plaza CEO Jonathan Jossel will be joined by special guests, including gaming industry leaders, entertainers, local officials and downtown partners, who will share their own exclusive and often entertaining perspective on where Vegas got its start and where it's going now. Hosted by Lisa Melmed, Jonathan Jossel and Gary Vickery.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-the-corner-of-main-street-602595"},"episode":{"title":"Remembering Q","slug":"remembering-q","published_at":"2025-12-11T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-the-corner-of-main-street-602595/remembering-q","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-the-corner-of-main-street-602595","url":"https://plaza.libsyn.com/remembering-q","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/plaza/Remembering_Q.mp3?dest-id=1681652","summary":"On this special episode of On the Corner of Main Street, Plaza CEO Jonathan Jossel and hotel director Gary Vickery return after a brief break with heavy hearts to remember their friend and executive casino host, Aquarius \"Q\" Wilkinson. They open the show in a quieter, somber mood, sharing the news of Q's passing and reflecting on the shock that has rippled through the Plaza, downtown Las Vegas, and Q's extended family of guests. What was planned as a normal episode instead becomes a toast to a man who embodied hospitality and made everyone around him feel like a VIP. Before the replay begins, Jonathan and Gary talk about the last week at the Plaza and the overwhelming response from Q's players and friends around the country. They share messages from guests who still came in for planned trips, how the team rallied to make sure those visits stayed special, and why Q's presence is still felt on the casino floor. They also explain how listeners can support his family through the GoFundMe that Rachel, his wife, set up and mention future plans for a celebration of life at the Plaza in Q's honor. The episode then rolls back to April 2021, when Q first sat down with the podcast to tell his story. Listeners hear how a nineteen year old kid working in an arcade at The Lady Luck in Bettendorf, Iowa, fell in love with taking care of people and followed that feeling into security and then surveillance in St. Louis. Q explains what it was like watching the casino from a dark room, writing up errors, and realizing that he wanted to be on the floor with the energy, not behind the cameras. That decision would send him to Detroit in 1999, dealing dice at the first MGM Casino there while the action was nonstop and the line to get in wrapped around the building. From there, Q walks throug…","meta_description":"On this special episode of On the Corner of Main Street, Plaza CEO Jonathan Jossel and hotel director Gary Vickery return after a brief break with heavy h…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2407,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/on-the-corner-of-main-street-602595/episodes/remembering-q/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-the-corner-of-main-street-602595/remembering-q.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}