Across the Seas but Forever Bees - An American Brentford Podcast
The forth 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.
Episodes
80 episodes
News from Chicago's Fan Fest...and Injury Bug strikes again!
We are lucky to coax Michel Cowdrey into the studios to talk about his weekend in Chicago. You have to listen to it to understand, but once again and for the millionth time it makes me proud to be a Brentford fan. Class, humility an...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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1:08:21
A Promising Start! (if we can just stay healthy)
New York's own Charlie Corr makes the trek to the ASFB studios to discuss life around the Red Lion and to weigh in on one of the most fun weeks of the Premier era. Yes, we lost one of the two matches this week...but there's losing and the...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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53:38
The Brentford Woman's Podcast!
I've wanted to talk about the Brentford Woman's team for a great while, so it was a thrill and an honor to have Gary Enstone and Richard Merritt in the studio to share their experiences and their passion. The woman are an exciting and eng...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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50:09
Southampton and Memories of Leyton Orient
Martin O'Brien agrees to return to the studio for a discussion of a very satisfying Saturday down at the Gtech. Southampton seemed determined to gift us goals and we were kind enough to accept. An upcoming Cup match against ...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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47:59
The Window SLAMS shut
Despite some headaches from the production crew, which will be dealt with internally at ASFB, we bring you the big Summer Spending Spree podcast!Martin O'Brien joins Greville Waterman and myself for a discussion of one of the most conse...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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36:32
Liverpool, ColU, Southampton...and a want-away striker
The season heats up fast, doesn't it?!? From the relative calm of a first week win we're suddenly playing three matches in 7 days. Liverpool and Colchester were lessons for Thomas Frank and warning shots for us all that there's a lo...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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50:29
Palace and 'Pool
What a first match. Palace was a perfect first opponent, and evidence from a small sample size is that...we're okay.Glenn Houlihan visits the ASFB Towers all the way from Ames, Iowa to look back and to look forward to a difficult ...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:07:54
Let the Games BEGIN!
I know it's the 4th time at this level, but I still get lightheaded looking at the schedule and seeing who we play on a regular basis. Lincoln City wasn't that long ago that it doesn't still feel like I'm in a dream.It starts agai...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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58:07
Summer Holidays...
Football, bloody hell. Greville Waterman and I look back at a tumultuous season. It promised so much in the heat and humidity of Washington DC in July, and in the end we hung on. 16th at Christmas and 16th at the end, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 35
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1:12:36
To Bournemouth...and Beyond!
Glenn Houlihan joins me as we look back at Fulham, and specifically...well, you know who we discussed. And we look ahead to Bournemouth. What a season it has been, but I'm proud of who Brentford is and how they've conducted ...
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Season 3
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Episode 34
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1:10:05
Fulham at home is like Christmas eve
Old friend Lev Riley joins Tim and Greville this week in the ASFB studios for a really fascinating conversation. Lev tells us of his first trip to the Gtech, with side-trips to The Griffin pub and to the spot of old Griffin Park.&nb...
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Season 3
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Episode 33
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1:00:39
Hatters get battered
What a season. The Luton victory says as much about this lost season of such high expectations as any match could. Now that we are back to a near first team (ok...without Rico, Norgaard, Toney and DaSilva!!) we are rampant ag...
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Season 3
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Episode 32
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1:30:34
Bring on Season 4!
Tempting fate, I'm declaring us 'safe' for another glorious season in the rarified air of the Premier League after a professional defeat of Sheffield United. Greville Waterman is along to tell me that Luton remains a 'must win' and if not...
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Season 3
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Episode 31
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59:06
3 Draws, but nothing boring about it!!
Could any three matches have such competing stories as the draws against ManU, Brighton and Villa? Each tell a different version of the season: So much ability and potential in the first, so much exhaustion in the second, so much c...
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Season 3
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Episode 30
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1:03:52
The Nashville NBC Fan Fest, with Marcus Gayle and Megan Bespolka
What a joy it was to speak with Marcus Gayle and with Megan Bespolka, who is the International Marketing Manger for Brentford Football Club. We talk the Nashville Fan Fest as well as about international membership for American fans - and ...
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Season 3
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Episode 29
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43:16
You Can't Always Get What you Want
...unless you're a "Big" club obviously. The rules aren't 'different', just malleable apparently.Brent James and Bill Ireland drop into the ASFB studios all the way from Boone, North Carolina to talk Arsenal and Burnley. &nb...
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Season 3
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Episode 28
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55:12
A valuable point, but maybe two dropped
Brentford plays a wonderfully topsy turvy match against Chelsea, a match we could have, and maybe should have, won. A match that Chelsea could have, and maybe should have, won. Yah, that sort of match. Greville Waterma...
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Season 3
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Episode 27
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52:13
Looking forward, staying positive
Brian O'Connell joins the podcast this week as we look forward to a tough West London derby against Chelsea. We're trying to stay positive and progressive, but some West Ham discussion was inevitable. Painful though it was.T...
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59:19
Silver Lining Playbook
Don't panic. We're okay. We've just come through a stretch of Spurs, Man City, Wolves, Liverpool, Man City...and we're fine. Lots of reason to be happy even!Glenn Houlihan visits the studios of ASFB from his Iowa locat...
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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1:11:13
Three Valuable Points at Wolves...and just Liverpool and City ahead (gulp)
Steve D'Amico was a sensational contributor last season and is back this time, being once again sensational. Along with Greville Waterman, we look back at a refreshing and encouraging three points away. So many talking points ...
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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1:03:23
Free Hit February is here
What a mad season. We get beat up at home and I'm...pretty pleased. We discover we might have a first-rate keeper, we have a team of character and grit, we gave an assembled all-world team a real battle. I do love supporting t...
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Episode 23
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56:18
Deadline Day is here again
We here at Across the Seas but Forever Bees have met so many fascinating people, all drawn to the Brentford story and to the ethos of the club. It just is a club that good people find naturally. This episode of the pod feature...
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Season 3
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Episode 22
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1:19:04
Banana and Foam
Beating Forest, and drinking from the cup of their salty tears, was amazing. The rising panic of no wins in what seemed like months has subsided. To have Ivan Toney back, along with a host of others, has cheered the Gtech right up.<...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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57:47
Winter Break is OVA'
We're back!The staff at Across the Seas but Forever Bees takes their winter holidays and it all goes south on the pitch. Brentford have lost five straight, and has spent what seems like hours on the pitch not getting out of the 3r...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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53:32
The rehab ward is starting to get crowded
Three wonderfully won points against Luton are drown out by the loss at Brighton on Wednesday. The hits keep coming, as another unreplaceable player heads to the list of long-term injuries. We give thanks that we're managed by such ...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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1:00:46