If This Doesn’t Work…

Justin Anderson

I’m just doing this podcast so people talk to me and I don’t become a domestic terrorist. It really doesn’t have a subject or through-line. It’s just chaotic rambling. Justin IG: thejustintimee

  1. 24 août

    His Bar Got So Popular He Bought the Competition | Melvin Daniels

    Melvin Daniels went from being one of Federal Hill’s most dedicated customers to owning Mugshots, Locals Only and Wanna Smash. He explains how he opened a bar with no industry experience, why Mugshots found an audience other bars were overlooking, and how its success changed the business around it.Melvin joins Justin and Najee to talk about hiring bartenders for personality and social pull, race in Baltimore nightlife, the real economics of owning a bar, franchising Wanna Smash, growing up around addiction, Justin’s history with heroin, the friend they lost to cocaine, homelessness, OnlyFans changing the strip-club business and why alcohol may be the most destructive legal drug.Subscribe to If This Doesn’t Work… for more conversations that probably should have ended an hour earlier.Melvin Daniels:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/im3llo/Najee Thrash: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/najeet410/Justin Anderson:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/__justin33__/Mugshots: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mugshotsbaltimore/Website: https://www.mugshotsbaltimore.comLocals Only: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/localsonlybaltimore/Website: https://www.localsonlybaltimore.com/Wanna Smash:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wannasmashbaltimore/Website: https://www.wannasmashbaltimore.com/Follow the Podcast:🔔 Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3Z0oA2RHRNXnK3OI4Pfpg🎧 Audio version: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-this-doesnt-work/id1366535800📱 Clips & BTS: https://www.tiktok.com/@itdw_clips#Baltimore #BaltimoreNightlife #Podcast

    His Bar Got So Popular He Bought the Competition | Melvin Daniels
  2. 17 août

    The “Rock Star Lifestyle” Came Before the Band | Nick Troisi of Omen Skye

    Before Nick Troisi ever became the vocalist of Omen Skye, he spent years living what he calls the “rock-star lifestyle” without actually having the band. He joins Justin and Mike to talk about addiction, getting sober, learning to scream in his car and finally using the musical potential he thought he had wasted.Nick takes us through the whole path: getting cut from Chesapeake JV football, receiving his first guitar, using music to process his parents’ divorce, auditioning as a vocalist with two weeks of practice, surviving his first show and selling 84 tickets at Omen Skye’s second performance.They also get into the reality of building a metalcore band in 2026: management, promoters, PR, distribution, international listeners, expensive Instagram advertising, synchronized stage production and the deeply annoying requirement that every musician also become a content creator.Omen Skye’s new single “Vanquish” arrives August 28. They’ll be performing at Metro Gallery in Baltimore on September 13.Omen Skye links and “Vanquish” pre-save:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omenskyeband/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091131224729&mibextid=LQQJ4dYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCGnWKACBlO2nSmMJRsI59nQ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@omen_skye?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pcVanquish: https://arsontheory.vyd.co/VanquishFollow Nick Troisi:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nomadic_fanatic/Subscribe for new episodes of If This Doesn’t Work… every Monday at 9 AM.

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I’m just doing this podcast so people talk to me and I don’t become a domestic terrorist. It really doesn’t have a subject or through-line. It’s just chaotic rambling. Justin IG: thejustintimee

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