May 2026 Hallmark Preview Show

[00:00:03] This is a Bramble Jam Podcast Hi, I'm Brian and I love preview shows I'm Brian, I like preview shows I'm Dan and preview shows make Bran sick And this is the Deck The Hallmark Podcast Deck The Hallmark Podcast There he goes

[00:00:39] Oh boy If there was ever a sign If there was ever a sign Go ahead, Bran Well, it's just weird because You know, I was out for the I'll be seeing you episode And then came back later in the week It's crazy And now I'm back home this week You were out for the Heinz And then you were like, I can't do this I can't believe I was out for the Tyler Heinz up You came back in, you powered through And then you got sick again And you sound exactly

[00:01:09] I would say maybe a hair better Than you did during the Tyler Heinz episode Well, you know The body is a crazy thing Am I right, boys? Maybe it's God's way of punishing you For doing preview episodes Have we thought of that? I don't I don't think that's true I think whenever you're sick God's punishing you I've been firm on that What have you done, Brad? Do you have something you want to talk about? And I've said it for years And so now this is coming to fruition That's why I'm never sick

[00:01:38] Well, you almost died last year You did almost die that one time Yeah, that's true Yeah, I said I'm never sick as a joke But I appreciate you guys catching on I did, I did almost die in the emergency room And God was punishing me For doing preview shows as well It was also for doing preview shows Somehow I'm just skating through It's really the only All the other stuff that you think God doesn't like Yeah It's fine Right Preview shows are the problem Yeah Well, you know To each their own God I like them I like preview shows So I'm here for it We're paying the price

[00:02:07] We're talking about We're talking about May movies Hell yeah Are we excited about it? It better be for motorcycles That's all I'm saying You want to do motorcycles? Is there a theme for May? Or is it just Here's some movies that take place in May? There is a theme There's a theme for two movies What is it? That's what we did last month What? How many movies are there? There's five Movies But only two of them Are for moms May for moms Is the first two weeks

[00:02:36] Of your month Yeah, there it is We lost you for a second Can you say it again? Important information We didn't hear it No, yeah I appreciate that The first two movies Of the month Are for mom Okay They're May for moms May for moms And then the rest of the month Is not for moms It's just It's mysteries It's mysteries But they didn't theme that So I don't know I will say this I appreciate you doing me a solid And letting me know In advance So I didn't lose my ever-loving mind

[00:03:06] That there is another Swinson mystery coming out Oh yeah And I know that Yeah, we all know And I know I have to dispense a cream At some point Yeah And so now I know I can't wait for that You can't wait for that You can't I can't Because who knows That could be any of those last three weeks I've not looked at the calendar You probably have No, but some stuff has snuck up on me Through social media Okay And you can't avoid it anymore It's been really hard Yeah So we got two May moms Three May mysteries And one May preview episode

[00:03:35] Which we are going to rank out of Out of moms Out of moms I don't know Friends mom Should we pick them on? There's a lot There's a lot there I don't I don't think we should do moms I think moms would be difficult What about What about Flowers Mayflowers Mayflowers Like the boat? Yeah You can be one half of the boat Yeah Yeah We can Let's do Mayflower boats Mayflower compacts They're just boats Okay Just the boats One Out of Mayflowers

[00:04:04] Who captained the Mayflower? John John I don't think it was And then Pocahontas Yeah Pocahontas John I watched a movie Are we ready? As ready as we're going to be Christopher Jones Captain of the Mayflower Oh okay Not as fun as Just as generic Hey is John Smith available? No What about Chris Jones? Okay Book him Did Chris Jones know Pocahontas Or is the whole movie a lie? The whole movie is probably a lie

[00:04:34] Brandon I mean I'm not I don't remember the Pocahontas cartoon Do they take all the land at the end though? Yeah But they want it They want it Under credits You should have seen how they were dressed They give it away They give it away God almighty Alright Are we ready? Yeah man Mayflower's five movies preview Moms mystery Let's go Up first is Kentucky Roses It's coming out on May 2nd With Andrew Walker

[00:05:02] And boy is his PR team excited about this movie Andrew W. Walker Andrew W. Walker Andrew W. Walker Andrew W. Walker Andrew W. Walker Andrew W. Andrew W. Andrew W. Andrew W. Don't make him laugh Don't make him laugh Odette Annable How do you spell it? A-N-N-A-B-L-E Yeah Odette Enable Maybe Alright

[00:05:32] You're just switching up for no reason Annable Odette Annable Alright That's fine Odette Annable Sure why not Here's the synopsis A greenhouse worker And the son of Churchill Downs CEO God almighty What? Time out Stop He's the son of the CEO of Churchill Downs And he We don't know yet I'm sorry They're the It's his son Right? Did it? Yeah it said son So So we do know That would be he

[00:06:00] Just a real quick close up on Brian Just so you can get his full Debbie Downer Yeah God almighty man So Andrew's the son Of Churchill Downs CEO But he works at a greenhouse When you got money You can do whatever you need You gotta pay the bills Do you know what I mean? Well I don't think I said it Yeah I guess he's a greenhouse worker I did say that Okay Alright here it comes Do you reason for that Listen to yourself Right? You need a certificate or something A greenhouse worker And the son of Churchill Downs CEO

[00:06:30] Form an unlikely pair Oh Oh man We should have let it finish Yeah she's the greenhouse worker Are we getting close up on all of us Yeah That's on you Wow I'm sorry Coming together to save the Kentucky Derby Rose blanket Oh the blanket Cool Cool Cool Cool Just the blanket The derby's fine Rose blanket No the horse race is gonna be just fine The blanket is Is up for grabs That's right Oh boy You get very You get very emotional When it comes to the

[00:06:59] And uncovering a Generational love story Along the way A generational Fry guy Oh boy Yeah so much Press on this This is wild You didn't happen to catch Our Instagram DMs Did you? I have not Oh man Oh we getting hammered? No We're not getting hammered I'm sorry to just take your Thanks man Steal your thunder here But our boy Andrew W. Walker's PR team got a hold of his social media And it was something new

[00:07:28] And it was sending stock messages to a lot of his followers Yeah And it's in like a letter form Like hey I really want you to check out this movie So date at the top Dear sir or madam And we gave him such a hard time about it And to his credit He saw the message immediately And went I've been caught I've been had And I'm really really sorry guys This is my PR team But it was a fun time Like they're really pushing it hard They're really pushing the movie very hard Yeah So it's hard to not have really high expectations Well that's what you said for sure

[00:07:58] Yeah 100% So I'm gonna hold its feet to the fire I'm gonna go four Mayflower boats Four full Mayflowers Full of people Full of people Just jam packed Here to the new world And I'm taking it straight to Churchill Downs Straight to Churchill Downs Cream stays in your pocket Yeah Okay Braga can you take these notes for me? Oh that's a good point Oh yeah Yeah I know Come on guys I'm gonna go five But I will hold my cream This is Andrew Walker

[00:08:28] Holding the cream Yeah this is Andrew Walker Walking around the Kentucky Derby He will wear a hat And I will be And I will be here for every second of it Dan? Yeah so this is tough Because the movie sounds awful But Andrew Walker seems to be proud of it Per his form letter he sent us And also Brand's not wrong The You're gonna get Andrew Walker In Kentucky Derby attire Does it make me want to go get us All crazy hats? Yeah

[00:08:56] Can we afford it in the Bramble Jam budget? No If someone wants to Amazon them Just send them straight to us Door dash them Whatever You can do that I don't know who Odette Annable is But Apparently in the chat Jenna says she was in a movie A long time ago With Kristen Bell Jamie Lee Curtis And Betty White So She's got some acting chops A little conflicted here Because I don't I think I want to hold my cream as well There's three mystery movies Not all of them are Swenson movies So there may be some good ones

[00:09:25] I don't know what's coming next Two Two Two boats Two Mayflowers That's what I'm going with Yeah Very good Very good Way to work that out Way to work that out Dan Alright Up next is our only other movie Oh my dogs are barking There's an Amazon guy Woof Maybe they're delivering our hats Already Wow Wow They're fast So fast Up next is our final movie for mom Mom can turn off the TV After this

[00:09:54] We're not honoring mom anymore Not honoring mom This is Saturday May 9th This is All's Fair In Love In Mahjong Oh no And it's starring Fiona Goobelman The goob We love her Paul Paul Campbell The camp We love him And Yanke Crystal Lowe Okay here we go A school nurse Finds unexpected hope Through teaching Mahjong

[00:10:22] The centuries old Chinese game Yep Which helps her build community And Open her heart again That's all we got there Brian Yeah That's all that we got Oh my god Brian What do you think Brian I know Like I've I know what I'm supposed to How I'm supposed to feel about this Because It seems a little Like off They shouldn't be doing it I saw someone in our Facebook group

[00:10:51] Posted a thing where a tweet said Holy appropriation Yeah appropriation Which is really funny What a great tweet Really funny So lots of heat around this Yeah People seem like not happy at this So I'm going to give you some benefit of the doubt here Of course you are You got to When they zig you zag Or There also is a chance they might pull this off the schedule Who knows We'll see It's You think they're going to pull the movie off the schedule No because they only have two mom movies And you have You can't You can't not have a Mother's Day movie on May 9th

[00:11:20] I think they might have Feel like they maybe went with the wrong one But I'll go I'm going to go two and a half Mayflowers here Really hoping for the best Really fearful We're going to just get It's going to be the Dan show When we review this movie It's going to be brutal That'd be the worst case scenario Yeah It's going to be brutal Really rooting for this movie Nobody wants that As offensive as it seems like it's going to be So two and a half for me Yeah Yeah man What are the odds that the Mahjong That they are teaching And this is the

[00:11:49] Chinese version And not the American version Low Oh I think it's going to be I would hope it's zero I would hope it's zero But I doubt it I kind of Kind of get the feeling We're in for a penny In for a pound Of appropriation here Yes Yeah I'll go I'll go three right down the middle I like the pairing Look at you And I'm Hopeful They figure out a way To do it

[00:12:18] And Do it With You know Grace Dan I mean at least The Mahjong movie Features The two Whitest people On the planet In one movie I I will say I will say this I understand That Mahjong Is in other cultures Other than just Chinese culture But Boy howdy Is this an uphill battle To not be inappropriate I don't know how else To say it Like

[00:12:48] Am I saying You can make this movie And make it Okay I guess it's possible You know Like Doctor Strange Says there's like One outcome Where everybody lives In the Avengers I guess that does Apply to this movie Do I think They're gonna pull it off Considering what I've seen From Hallmark Over the last decade No I do not think They're gonna pull it off I love Fiona Goodwin She called into the marathon She's wonderful Paul Campbell Campbell is Very capable Very talented This Seems Like

[00:13:17] A mistake I would love To be wrong Feel like I'm gonna Be right though Big bag of zero And now I got A cream of mystery This is not Where I wanted To be Bran Wow Well Someone's gotta do it And I guess It's all three of us We're gonna take A quick break We're gonna do one today We're gonna take a break We're gonna come back Just one break We're gonna do our Just one break We'll come back For our mysteries Here on Deck the Hallmark

[00:13:53] You know what I learned Just now Bran Is that That music Not so easy If the button It is The button If the you That button If you don't Turn it off It'll just keep Playing over And over again I faded it out It is a lot of work I faded it out And then pushed The correct button And then was like Huh Then I faded it Back up And realized That that other one Was still playing So You know You know

[00:14:22] It's okay I'll make it It's okay It's a work in progress What's weird is I nailed it During the Tyler Hines movie It's crazy That I have a problem now You peaked Yeah You were ready for it Bran I wouldn't smoke cigarettes If I was you Like I wouldn't do it Like you should probably Not light up In your house While you're congested With the window shut They don't call it a habit For no reason It's a habit Alright Are we ready Dude Five May preview episodes Born ready

[00:14:53] This is crazy Everybody's got their Creams left I kind of forgot We had creams Eighth are wild This is out of hand I don't know why Eighth are wild But they are In this game Crazy eight Is what we'll call it This next one's Coming out on May 16th This is best served cold A Hannah Swinton mystery Starring the normal Zero We're going on Here we go Well hear it out Okay When a suspect When a suspect In a forgery case Is murdered What

[00:15:22] And the prosecutor Goes missing Oh boy Hannah and Chad Must uncover How the two cases Are connected And solve them In time For the trial Fry guy You hate these movies I do Last time Was almost a breaking point Yeah Just give it the floor That you give movies So two Go ahead Give it that two No Banish it to one and a half I dare you I'm ascending one Mayflower One Mayflower

[00:15:51] I'm just not They have an uphill battle here Yeah they do Win me back please It's a win back situation It's a win back It's a win back Yeah I gotta be honest You know what's crazy brain Is is we did this whole thing Where all three of us Are like enough's enough And a lot of comments Were people like I really love these movies So Oh well there you go As is the case With The Way Home Deck the Hallmark Not in touch With the With what appears to be The Matt The biggest mass Of viewing public We've changed

[00:16:21] We've changed They're right about us Brand You've changed At the very You've changed At the very least That's all that I know I know that I've I've become meaner And nicer Depending on who you talk to Yeah I'm gonna go one Because I don't want it But I will cream it To cover my bases Damn You're doing what Brand Wow It makes so much sense I'm going one One boat But I'm creaming it To cover my bases What does that mean? This does sound like a good So now you're giving it

[00:16:50] Three Mayflowers? In a sense To cover your base What does that mean? Like if they just Happened to like Fall off a cliff And stumble onto A good movie Somehow It might be a good case Here When's the last time There's been a good Hannah Swenson movie? Christmas Of what year? Of that one time They did it At Christmas time Yeah So like a decade That was before We started this podcast Guys Yeah so if they do That again I want to cover my base

[00:17:20] Is this just because You know the last two movies? This doesn't seem right No Something fishy here I don't think this is A valid cream We should look into The rules But this seems like It's a Fine Here are the last two This is a cream In name only It's a sign-o Oh you have to Oh you do Zeros Zeros all around Thank you Please and thank you For the record For the record Please and thank you Yes Alright Up next This is coming out On the 23rd This is True Justice Colon Eye for an Eye Now this is

[00:17:49] The second movie From that one That you guys did While I was on the cruise Oh is this The Nikki Deloach Ben Ayers They send the kids out Who are lawyers Oh that was a good one Dude This is exciting Now I have to watch That one before Sounds like it Yeah Or you can get sick again This is starring Catherine McNamara Cat Mac Marqueen Just names Whatever No no Tell me the names Our warriors Please

[00:18:19] Catherine McNamara And Marqueen Tara Suick Nikki Deloach And Benjamin Ayers Did you guys see Ben Ayers was hanging out With Drake over the weekend Did you guys see that Benjamin Ayers Yeah Yeah Did Drake know They were hanging out He looked like He was aware I don't know They got a picture They got a picture together At the very least Okay Our warriors Work to exonerate What's that mean Our warriors Is that what they call themselves So these are a bunch of Yeah They're a bunch of kids That have just become lawyers

[00:18:48] That Ayers and Nikki Help out Ayers from the police side Nikki from the teaching law side And they're called warriors I think I don't know if they came up With an official name or not But they are like Young attorneys Yeah I don't remember They had a name That was like three years ago Right Yeah It was a while Something like that Our warriors work to exonerate A mother wrongly accused Of murdering another mother In the parent school coalition That's all that I have We know that she was wrongly accused Wow Man Well That's what it says

[00:19:18] Well they're warriors They're warriors Sure Ultimate warriors We're just like weekend warriors I would say that They are ultimate warriors But they're not the ultimate warriors The ultimate warrior I got it I got it But I got it Unfortunately Yeah this was really fun last time So I'm definitely going four boats On this one You gotta You gotta I am gonna hold my cream This is risky And Risky business Dumb Just dumb AF usually

[00:19:47] But I'm gonna hold my cream The Saturday after Memorial Day movie Is the movie you're going to cream I can't wait to hear I'm gonna go four and a half As a consolation Four and a half You're cutting a boat in half And you're adding it to the pile That one's not making the journey But it's It's in his It's in his Captain's log It's in the water You get it That's right Bran I didn't see I didn't see the first one yet But I will beforehand You guys are very high on it Wilbur Forehand is a guy that plays He's a great dude As far as You see him play on the courts

[00:20:17] Oh my gosh Wilbur Forehand We'll call him Wilbur backhand No no no Wilbur is Man he's good But he'll let you know it too That's the thing about him Is he doesn't Well he gets a little You know Yeah he gets a little arrogant I'm sorry Back to you Bran You'll see it beforehand What were you gonna say Yes I'll see I will beforehand Shout out Will And You know You guys are really talking it up But I have to Go with my gut here And go three right down the middle Three right down the middle I'm gonna go right down the middle

[00:20:46] Two and a half Mayflowers I like this first one I thought this first one Had a lot of potential It didn't always work But when it worked You could see it being a series And the small role that Ayers plays He's having a blast Yeah Deloach offering sage advice And like coming alongside These youngsters Really good premise Two and a half right down the middle It's gonna be my Oh and a cream by the way Oh you're gonna cream it And a cream BT Dubs Uh oh And not to cover my bases Because this movie earned it

[00:21:16] It's a real Validated cream We're gonna try to cough over you None of it That's right He's just coughing over my cream It's crazy Oh man Sorry Choked up on my cream I just coughed up a cream I just coughed up a cream Yeah Thanks man All right Last one Are we ready? Sure Absolutely This last one's airing It's sneaking into May It's May 30th So just before the deadline Uh This is Haunted Harmony Mysteries Colon Okay

[00:21:45] Key to the Castle Did you happen to know this? I didn't I really didn't I still would've creamed the one I creamed But also the third one of these I'm excited Go ahead This is starring Tamara's sister Uh Risteered Cooper Marco Grazzini Here we go Here we go When a ghost hunter When a ghost hunter show Comes to town Dan It's up to See This proves You know that I would've creamed A ghost hunter show 100% Premise Had I known Dan

[00:22:14] What? Will you give me I'm sorry I'm saying my cream was honorable My cream was honorable Because Had you known This is a ghost hunter I You're right You're right You would've definitely creamed this Had you known it was a ghost hunter You would've definitely creamed it Thank you Still seems a little weird Thank you That you give it some You finally give something a one And then you do a cream To cover my bases Like you don't want anybody to think You're being too mean It just doesn't seem like It's above board Is all I'm saying Sounds like you figure out exactly Why I did it

[00:22:45] Crack the case All right Better than he could When a ghost hunter show Comes to town It's up to Gethsemane And Eamon To solve The unexpected murder What? You wanna say the I'm sorry Brian Brian's giving me the giggles Over here Say your name again For the record Her name? Yeah Gethsemane Gethsemane No? No? Hi my name's Gus Gus Enemi Nice to meet you

[00:23:13] Have you met my friend Wilbur Wilbur Forehand? Guys we're up We're up against it It's up to Gus And Eamon To solve The unexpected murder Of the host Allowing the brand new Spirit To cross over The Black Dahlia The Black Dahlia That's exactly Exactly right Dan Bri guy Yeah Alright So let's We're obviously

[00:23:43] Creaming this movie here Ghost cream You don't have a choice Bri Yeah I know But I picked a good one To wait it out This is risky You're over here Acting like you're all High and mighty Oh high and mighty Yeah Right choice So I'll go I'm gonna go Four ships And a cream Four ships And a cream Bold Yeah it sure is Yeah I will go five Just to cover my bases Dan Of course This cover my bases stuff Is absurd

[00:24:12] Brian You're here to rank The thing You're here to The preview show Is already absurd You cannot add Another layer Of just stupid To this By just saying I'm gonna do this To cover This is your one thing Just tell me what it is Don't cover it No Just tell me Don't act like Leave Gus and Will Out of this Don't act like You know how stupid I can be It knows no bounds As you're seeing Just like the preview show That's right Fair Yeah

[00:24:42] These movies Typically work for me Two and a half Right down the middle Two and a half Boats No cream left to give What about your bases I'm just gonna leave those Doing this Is covering We covered our bases By having a preview show I think that is beyond Covering our bases We're on our second lap I believe That's the problem You just don't wanna go A step beyond What you have to do This is multiple steps Brian This is He's a coward I had a dream The other night He's a coward We both got drafted By their Boston Red Sox Both of us Yes

[00:25:12] And it was hilarious Because obviously You're not a Sox fan What I got in the game Yeah And I was so faster On the bases I ended up scoring Good for you Congratulations They kept me on the team I don't know what happened to you Thank you It's a real S show over there In Beantown right now I don't know if I had the dream Maybe if they drafted you Alex wouldn't have gotten fired Maybe Could have changed history Could have changed history Just like that You gotta think about that We could have probably Helped them this year Should we go try We could Yeah Yeah All right We did it everybody Congratulations

[00:25:41] We're gonna be back tomorrow Here on the show Dan In case you've missed it We're kicking off Gilmore Girls Season 2 Season 2 That's already been out Over on the Gilmore The Marrier feed But for you all It's coming out tomorrow So enjoy that You sound great by the way Thank you I will I think I'll be better by then And so stay tuned for that Until then Maybe we're the first to wish you Merry Christmas Sorry guys Deck the Hallmark Is a Bramble Jam podcast Produced by Brandon Gray And yeah that Greenville South Carolina For more information on the show

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