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Across the Seas but Forever Bees - An American Brentford Podcast

Author: Tim Searls

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The fifth season of the Brentford Football Club podcast, by and for American fans. Each week guests will join us to discuss things around the GTech as we navigate a difficult forth season in the Premier League.

They're all difficult.

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Victory in Defeat

Victory in Defeat

2026-01-2001:00:36

I've been asking since the start of the season "who are we", and this week we found out: We're quite good. Has there been a more gloriously played defeat in our history? We battered Chelsea 0-2! The rest of this season will be a wild ride, but it's going to be fun supporting these players and this manager, and of course this club. Along to celebrate our success (all things are relative after all) is Brian Corrigan from San Francisco and the ubiquitous Greville Waterman...
Up for the Cup

Up for the Cup

2026-01-1201:11:29

Adam Bishop is in the studio with Greville Waterman and Tim Searls this week. What a week it's been. A thorough demolition of Sunderland, and a smooth win at Hillsborough in the FA Cup. Brentford is just so much fun to support. Shout out to the Seattle Brentford Supporters Club! Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me at timsearls@hotmail.com.
A Very Festive Season

A Very Festive Season

2026-01-0501:18:09

What a difference a few weeks makes. After the capitulations at Spurs and Man City it could have gone so wrong. Yet here we are in the new year 7th after the demolition of Everton in their new building. In the studio to discuss all these holiday gifts are Glenn Houlihan and Greville Waterman. What a time to be a Bee! Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me at timsearls@hotmail.com.
Forget it's Wolves, forget the capitulation at City. Three points, 12th, looking down at Spurs, 10 points from trouble. What blip? To discuss the changing emotions a win brings are Glenn Houlihan and Greville Waterman. Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me at timsearls@hotmail.com.
Knives out?

Knives out?

2025-12-1559:51

Blip? Worrying trend? Managerial crisis? All of those? Something entirely else? History only will judge, but to try to make sense of this draw with Leeds the pod reaches out to our expert from Iowa Glenn Houlihan. Along with Greville Waterman and Tim Searls the mini-crisis, or whatever this is, is unpacked. Go all-in again Man City Wednesday? Save it for a 'must win' against Wolves? We agree to disagree. Really entertaining talk about all things...
Burnley swept aside (though it didn't feel that easy for about 85 minutes!), we look ahead to the small matter of a week featuring Arsenal and "Thomas Frank's Spurs". Somehow the Brentford Miracle is rolling again, and we're starting to look up rather than down at this table. Which will never get old. Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me at timsearls@hotmail.com.
The Quarter-Pole Podcast

The Quarter-Pole Podcast

2025-11-0301:03:07

Greville and Tim have to discuss a disappointing Saturday down in South London, but then we're on to a bigger conversation about what we know about Brentford Football Club after a quarter of the season gone. Are we on the right track? Are we in a false position at 12th in the table, or is this who we rightly are this season? We try to make some sense of the most turbulent off-season and first ten matches in many years. Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as we...
What a week

What a week

2025-10-2901:19:55

You follow up wins against Liverpool and Grimsby Town with an amazing, fantastic, engaging guest who describes it all with insight and character. A podcaster's dream! Alison Roberts is in the studio to talk about her Brentford experience, and to add knowledge, humor and personality our summary of a wonderful October. Such a pleasure to talk to yet another amazing American fan, which I hope comes across. Greville and Tim are here as well, as we talk a big view of a team on th...
Liverpool next!

Liverpool next!

2025-10-2401:07:08

Abhi Goyal from the NYC Massive down at the Red Lion visits the pod to talk with Greville and Tim about the surprisingly comfortable win against West Ham, the state of the Bees, and a look forward to Liverpool and Grimsby. Just discussing Josh DaSilva again as a member of the club is the feel-good moment of the year. Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me at timsearls@hotmail.com.
A week of reflection and anticipation, as the international hiatus finally gives way to a Monday of Brentford. Greville and I are equal parts eager and anxious as we look ahead to West Ham. No question, after all the players out and with a new novice manager the questions as to our ceiling and floor dominate our thoughts. Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me at timsearls@hotmail.com.
Beating up on the Minnows

Beating up on the Minnows

2025-09-2901:16:11

Michel Cowdrey is in the studios to talk Fan Fest (with a bit of Josh DaSilva gossip thrown in!), and along with the ubiquitous Greville Waterman we get to glory in this great club taking it to the hapless Manchester United. They really don't like playing us! Another super-fun conversation with a knowledgeable and entertaining guest. I hope you enjoy the pod as much as we did making it. Studio editor: Tim, people can't be 'ubiquitous'. Please try to do better... Text t...
Who are we?

Who are we?

2025-09-2201:12:12

Glenn Houlihan checks in from Iowa to discuss the difficult transition that Brentford Football Club is making from the 'Thomas Frank Era' to who we are now. Along with Tim Searls and Greville Waterman an attempt is made to make sense of three matches that in sum tell a story. Who are we now? And what can we become? Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me at timsearls@hotmail.com.
STINKER!

STINKER!

2025-09-0301:02:40

Our long club-wide nightmare is finally over. Tarky and Rowlands now have a third musketeer of shame. Rob Pittman is the most Bees-tastic guest maybe ever! Rob and Greville and Tim look back at a frustrating evening up in Sunderland, and ruminate on one dramatic transfer window. Never dull. Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me at timsearls@hotmail.com.
What a week! A huge win at home versus Villa and a League Cup win at Bournemouth has the nay-sayers (and they are legion, aren't they?) suddenly claiming they never had us tipped for relegation. We know who you are! Jay Altair comes up the coast to join Greville Waterman and Tim Searls in Studio 2 for a superb discussion of a superb week. Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me at timsearls@hotmail.com.
Well. That was something. What it was hopefully was a glitch in the matrix and all will be right with the world again after Villa. 'Cause Jeez that was pretty terrible, Keith. In therapy talking it over with me is Alex Drake, all the way from North Carolina, and Greville Waterman, all the way from Norf London. Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me at timsearls@hotmail.com.
All of us to varying degrees are worried how we replace all those goals from last season. Steve D'Amico from Orlando and Greville Waterman try to talk Tim Searls off the roof as we consider the options and circumstances. The season is here! The Keith Andrews Era officially begins against Nottingham Forest on Sunday. Can't wait. Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me at timsearls@hotmail.com.
It starts again. Charlie Corr is in the house from New York City and Greville Waterman is here from North London to talk the state of the Bees. We're two weeks from the start of our fifth season in the Premier League, against ALL predictions from the 'experts'. Let it be ever thus under the radar. It's going to be a fun season and I hope you'll give the pod a listen. And if you'd like to take part please do not hesitate to contact me at timsearls@hotmail.com . ...
Close Season Chaos

Close Season Chaos

2025-07-0901:07:04

This Summer is breaking the mold for Brentford, who usually watch other club's close-season chaos with a bit of disdain. Well, madness has struck our club, with the manager gone and star players on the way out (or not!). Tim Searls asks the questions that need to be asked to Greville Waterman in a fascinating podcast about what the club is and what it might be in the upcoming season. I start the podcast far more concerned than I end it, which is nice. Text the pod! I'd love to hear fro...
It's what my Italian barber used to say to me when I was a kid. Still true, and never so much as when we, at almost whiplash speed, replace one quite good keeper with another who could be even better. Tom Colwell is up from Philadelphia and Greville Waterman calls in from North London to think about what it all means - in this first close-season podcast. Text the pod! I'd love to hear from you directly as well - please email me at timsearls@hotmail.com.
What a Ride that was!

What a Ride that was!

2025-05-2801:07:42

We're blessed to support this club. For going on a decade now, each season has been a wonderful adventure - each one different, each with it's ups and downs. But how many clubs have our ups/downs ratio??? To look back and to peak forward we have Iowa's own Glenn Houlihan back, along with Greville Waterman from North London. It's the final podcast of the season, a podcast that was started by our OG host Ryan Dull (Comic Book Guy to many of you). It's once again b...
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