In this short episode, we step inside a small-town hardware store that still hums with the he past. From the click-click-fump of a manual pricing machine to a proudly embroidered name tag, this is a quiet ode to the shops—and shopkeepers—who still know their stock by heart and their customers by their needs. Not a megastore, but a haven of small quantities and big care.

Listen in for a nostalgic reflection on what it means to fix things, to know a place, and to be known.

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