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Lars Janowski: Yay, episode three. Looks like I'm churning them out like... Yay! Episode 3 of Boxed and More. Things are running really, really smoothly. More and more guests are coming. I have a really good lineup. So I'm slowly getting the hang of the technology behind this and preparation and obviously preparing the questions. Not an easy feat, I have to say. I thought it'd be much easier to run a podcast, so but there we go. you'll learn and today my guest is John Wells and his container is not a home it's not a pop-up bar or modular office it's a golf driving range or I should probably pronounce this differently it's a golf driving range from one to four base either 10 foot containers 20 foot containers or even 40 foot containers and he calls it the whopper you will hear this with ball tracking technology, weatherproof and all condition and it fits in the footprint of a tennis court. So no permanent planning permission is needed, drop it, plug it in and you're open for business. Not surprisingly, John is a PGA professional, a qualified golf coach based in Weybridge, Surrey and he's been developing this concept going back to 2017 and has been doing tons and tons and years of testing. and launched his own company BoxGolf UK in 2025. He's got a demo unit which you can also see running up in Banatine Health Club in Weybridge and he's selling the model to golf clubs, hotels, leisure venues and landowners across the UK and I'm sure he wants to expand across Europe. This is how we got to know each other and this is what I love about this industry. You never know. where the next container application is coming from. So was a really cool discussion with John. He was actually at the British Open, tucked away in some changing room or squash court. I'm not quite sure. It's the depths of the cellars of the British Open somewhere, some office space, tucked away. And we did have some technical... ⁓ connection problems somewhere towards the end of the call so I tried to edit everything out but if that goes a little bit left and right you know why and that's life we are obviously recording life and there's nothing we can do and it's always remote and I'm sitting here in my office and he sits somewhere where he was and things happen but I think we managed very well and let's get started John Welcome to Boxster and more, my friends.