We watch A WINTER PRINCESS (2019) and confess: I went to a Mets game, and this movie made me come down with something ... THEME ... Happy Father's Dave! ... Preemptively apologizing ... Summer power outage ... The Expositional Challenge ... Dee's Nuts ... Zealous pro-family convert ... A double-guitar tuned to John Gielgud ... Happy Hour ... Ontario's #1 Michael York ... BREAK ... Echoes of "The Sweetest Christmas" ... A latticework pie-crust plot ... The Princess-to-Mom Party-Planner Axis ... Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson's birthday party ... Brendon Zub Appreciation Station ... Spot the Angel: A relay race of angels ... Romantic après-ski Dave and Busters ... Eat Your Heart Out: Nashville hot chicken; mostly food-free; jump-scare cookie; Snowden Peak Yogurt ... No, Donnie, these are event planners ... BREAK ... The Hallmark Expanded Universe: Katrina Bowden accidentally breaking a royal story vs. Denver Medley or Balkan PUA Prince ... Happy Birthday Sara Kate! ... We all know janissaries ... Overdetermined: "What is overdetermined?" vs. "The Emile Arc" ... The Hallmark Bechdel Test: Introducing the concept of work exhaustion and alienation ... This miserable lady gets it ... BREAK ... Partner Chat: Early negativity on Natalie Hall; "circle back"; peekin' rolls; begrudging for; toe-parries ... LINK TO GOFUNDME FOR SIMON MALOY ... DAJAM: The only podcast AND inhalant available ... Rating: 2 ... Is she aware she's being filmed? ... The Leftovers: Not romantic fog, dangerous fog ... Jesse tries to suicide-by-car ... Building darted out in front of me ... Guess I forgot to put the fog lights in ... Is Chris McNally a good actor? ... Rick Ankiel ... BREAK ... IMDB dive ... Mystery Seizures and Sex Sent Me to the ER ... Autopsy ... Three kiss fakeouts ... Put it in your mouth or let him have it ... "Please wear the goggles" ... Decontextualized snowball fight ... Mackenzie Gray's incredible IMDB ... Christopher Lloyd ... Metallica videos ... Talkin' 'bout chemtrails ... No band help ... Is this a long story? ... Iron sharpens iron ... Merry Christmas • MUSIC: "Fuck You If You Don't Like Christmas," from Crudbump, by Drew Fairweather • "Mucha Muchacha," by Esquivel • "Punch Drunk," by Lock Up • All other music by Chris Collingwood of Look Park and Fountains of Wayne, except: "Orchestral Sports Theme" by Chris Collingwood and Rick Murnane