The Daily Companion — Audio Edition No. 31 (Thursday, November 5, 2026)

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The Daily Companion — Audio Edition No. 31, for Thursday, November 5, 2026. Tullio the Lagotto conducts the dawn truffle survey at the market stall — and the parish departs shod, eleven socks inventoried — in the lead story, "THE TRUFFLE HUNTER, AT WORK WITHOUT TRUFFLES." Day four of Calder — the work, weighed — with the hammer carried rather than swung, and Ruby holding its weight in the hand. All eighteen readings, with Calder starred on day four, plus the Tales (Livia, Enzo, Suki, and Nello), the Dog Weather Watch for Gulfport, Naples, and Valparaiso, and the Freeze Game. The Police Report blotter, the featured report "The Treat Bag, Solved Sideways" (Gio), and the Barketplace ticker and stories. Madame de Pamplemousse reads the editorial "The Validation, Declined.", the letter from DANTE the Lagotto, Point and Counterpoint on accepting praise from strangers, Ask Bruno, Corrections, and the Editorial Policy. The Book Page reviews You Decided to Get a Lagotto Romagnolo — FIVE PAWS. Bruno's Blog: "On the Love That Asked for Nothing," with the moral and Born Today (Calder). Music: one minute of "Golden Hour Raga" after Weather and the Game, and one minute of "Golden Sunsets Over Aragon" before Bruno. Both are first airings in this podcast, drawn from the house instrumental pool under the November 2 fresh-music rule — the song-library pool is exhausted. The tipping disclosure (No. 3, British III) sits at MID, after the front-page block and before the Tales. Disclosure: The Daily Companion is narrated by AI-generated voices.