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Rachel and Aviv are back for a holiday special ahead of their second season. To celebrate the holidays, they dive into the Christmas rom-com, The Holiday.

In this season finale, Eleanor Kagan joins Rachel and Aviv to revisit the late-90s teen comedy that carries the same name as this week's needle-drop, The Replacements' Can't Hardly Wait.

In 1992, Madonna was one of the biggest artists in music and Tom Hanks was a struggling actor (sort of). This week, Rachel and Aviv revisit the comedy-drama classic that gained the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League their well-deserved recognition.

To dive into the movie, writer and journalist Erin Carlson, author of No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood, joins the show.

A pop culture juggernaut, Shrek needs no introduction, but the movie itself launched Smash Mouth's second hit single into the stratosphere. Rachel and Aviv dive into the story of how All Star stands out from several amazing needle-drops and how Shrek still remains in the cultural zeitgeist.

In the midst of skyrocketing into fame during the mid-2000s, Paris Hilton took her shot at a music career, releasing the single Stars Are Blind. The track would eventually make its way to Emerald Fennell's 2020 directorial debut.

This week, Rachel and Aviv (inventors of the Post It!) road trip from LA to to Tucson to relive the needle drop from the 1997 comedy, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, featuring Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper.

This week, Rachel and Aviv journey back to 1998 to discuss one of the two asteroid movies to grace the big screen that year, of course focusing on the one with a chart-topping anthem. A renaissance for an aging rock band paired to a movie about survival, humanity, and oil drilling.

There are many needle-drops in Greta Gerwig's blockbuster success, Barbie, but Rachel and Aviv, joined by Rotten Tomatoes' Mark Ellis, take on the bro-anthem, Matchbox Twenty's "Push"

This week's needle-drops breaks a few rules – it appears at the end of the film, over the credits of a movie that is almost universally panned as the worst of its franchise. But it also changed the way we consume music in the digital age.

Back in 2000, Mission: Impossible 2 dropped with the track I Disappear over the end credits. To help explain the impact, culture writer Niko Stratis joins Rachel and Aviv, as they investigate Metallica's life-changing impact on the world of streaming music.

This week, Rachel and Aviv look back at the Wes Anderson classic, The Royal Tenenbaums, and dreamy needle-drop of Needle in the Hay.