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The Vergecast

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🗓️ 13 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Danny and Steven Sanicki are twins, competitive golfers, and suddenly the biggest names in online mini golf. They started making mini golf content on TikTok about a year ago, and it took off; since then they've been trying to ride the viral wave and also turn it into something that lasts. For this episode, the first in a miniseries we're calling How To Make It In The Future, we talk to the Sanickis about their journey to turn putt-putt into their life's work — without killing the fun in the process. Further reading: @dannysanicki on TikTok Twin Tour Golf on Instagram Twin Tour Golf on YouTube From Golf Digest: How college golf twins and some friends with time to kill accidentally created a viral mini-golf sensation Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Virgast, the flagship podcast of making this putt right now. I'm a friend David
0:10.6	Pierce and I am playing mini-golf. I am at the East Potomac mini-golf course in, I don't know, it's like an
0:18.3	island between Virginia and DC. There's really fun golf course over there there but the real fun is this mini golf
0:23.9	course and the key is if you get out here early enough in the morning a nobody
0:28.0	notices your missing work and b. there's nobody else here so I just, crush some 18, we're good to go.
0:34.8	Anyway, the reason I'm doing this here and right now is because the episode we're
0:39.7	about to do is actually all about mini-golf. This is the first episode in a two-part mini series
0:45.2	that we're doing that we've been calling
0:47.0	how to make it in the future.
0:48.8	And basically the idea is we want to talk to people
0:51.2	and tell stories about different ways people are trying to, well, make it.
0:55.3	Different kinds of creators, different kinds of businesses, different kinds of strategies on how to be successful
1:01.6	in this world we live in.
1:03.0	And for these two episodes, what we're going to talk about especially is content.
1:07.0	People whose businesses make content and people for whom that content becomes their business.
1:12.0	And then how you figure out how to make all of that. for whom that content becomes their business.
1:12.6	And then how you figure out how to make all of that
1:15.2	makes sense in a way that feels good and works well for you for a long time.
1:19.6	Today's story, believe it or not, is about mini-golf.
1:22.4	So I figured this is work today. Let's give it a whirl.
1:30.2	All right, we got a lot to get to, but first we're going to take a quick break.
1:33.4	Then it's mini-golft time.
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