Episode 230: Helen Hulick Takes the Stand

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Music

  • Hallway Rug and a bit of Watering Plants by Omni Gardens
  • Dripping Icicles from Lalo Schiffrin's great score to The Fox.
  • Girl Talk by the Howard Roberts Quartet
  • Jules et Therese from the score to Jules et Jim
  • Franz Waxman's main title theme to Woman of the Year
  • Your Love from the legend, Frankie Knuckles
  • Then we go back and forth between Joe Morello's Timeless and Lara Downes playing Leonard Bernstein's Big Stuff.
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