Finding Nico

Welcome to the Stupid Hearts Club! The Club for everyone with a Stupid Heart

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At last, dreadful little lice-playground and morality vaccuum Alistair Griggs and I have created a follow up worthy of the Christmas Special we did back in 2018 for our first podcast 'Sick Minds' (Which is still out there in the podiverse)....

In this fetid long awaited sequel little Alistair seems to have convinced himself that he can somehow topple his master (Me) with predictable but still amusing consequences- We then try and put the issue of Christmas to bed to give you all a fucking break from the most hellish social obligations of the year and go on to discuss many foul non-festive things-

And then....well... ....Then we enter a conversation that is amongst the finest I have ever had with Alistair, when he produces a computer games magazine that contains a letter written by his 13 year old self...What follows is analysis of the Griggsian... character that neither of us planned, or has yet processed.

Unlike fucking Christmas, you will not to miss this one.

Love and dark-light to you all my pretty hens

Master and little Alistair

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If you like what I do and you want to support me financially, as well as get access to some cool extras, please take a look at my Patreon! And if you can't, or indeed just don't want to, then I'm still super happy you're here (but I will now ignore you if I see you in the street)

And if you want to hear more from me I'm always putting things up on my Instagram, come and say hello

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Editing by Oliver Connolly

Production support from Drew Toynbee

Copyright 2026 Nico Tatarowicz

Welcome to the Stupid Hearts Club! The Club for everyone with a Stupid Heart

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Before I start trying to justify the utter carnage that is this episode, I feel I owe you lovely people an apology for not delivering a pod since the 5th of December. As it goes I've got about 6 episodes recorded but I have been unwell and in a really spaced out zone the last couple of weeks, and my daily notes to myself about editing and posting ended up lost in a rotating list of shit that I haven't not even vaguely managed to do.

However, by the time the year ends there will be a wonderful bonus Patreon episode of Tea and Empathy with a lady called Denise, who is a therapist, but on a more conversational friendly level instead of as a taster of therapy. I have also rescued and embellished the amazing Griggs conversation I had the other week but messed up. That means that you will be getting a Griggs special Christmas episode, that I promise you is fucking hilarious.

Now back to this absolute fucking shambles. Every single time I have attempted to do a remote podcast with Miles Chapman, he has forgotten that he needs to be wearing headphone (and ideally is speaking into a proper mic), so that my voice does not come echoing out of the speakers at his end. And everytime I point it out and get frustrated he gets annoyed with me (as if it's my fault) to the point where it sounds like he might cry.

Luckily nothing in this world, makes me happier than hearing Miles getting angry at something that is his own doing, and actually in some ways it is the only feeling I am still able to access in this cess-pool of a world. So please revel in the joy of the first few minutes of this shamefullly, hate-filled dirge. For the record I actually had to send the sound files to be cleaned up by AI, and what is left is still a bit annoying. Look out for the sudden laptop scratchy noises towards the end for example. I honestly give up.

Still, enjoy the madness.

Captain Seaside,

Trigger warning: We talk about gruesome ways we would kill each other at the end and it is absolutely fine if you decide to bail out at that point.

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If you like what I do and you want to support me financially, as well as get access to some cool extras, please take a look at my Patreon! And if you can't, or indeed just don't want to, then I'm still super happy you're here (but I will now ignore you if I see you in the street)

And if you want to hear more from me I'm always putting things up on my Instagram, come and say hello

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Editing by Oliver Connolly

Production support from Drew Toynbee

Copyright 2026 Nico Tatarowicz

Welcome to the Stupid Hearts Club! The Club for everyone with a Stupid Heart

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OG Stupid Hearts Club listeners are in for a deeply awkward treat this week (while new listeners will be forgiven for wondering what the hell is going on) as I finally breach the walls of Herr Grigg's mountain retreat and take dinner with our fetid friend and is absolute firecracker of a long-term partner 'Helen' (actually called Lauren). Alistair I was amused to find out absolutely loathes having guests, which left me no choice but to make him as uncomfortable as possible. Mission accomplished.

I want it to be known that after our meal (no dessert or starter but thank you Helen) Alistair dutifully cleared our plates while Helen and I threw our heads back and chuckled cruelly. It's all he knows bless him.

Please enjoy the episode, I know I did.

Master'

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If you like what I do and you want to support me financially, as well as get access to some cool extras, please take a look at my Patreon! And if you can't, or indeed just don't want to, then I'm still super happy you're here (but I will now ignore you if I see you in the street)

And if you want to hear more from me I'm always putting things up on my Instagram, come and say hello

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Editing by Oliver Connolly

Production support from Drew Toynbee

Copyright 2026 Nico Tatarowicz

Welcome to the Stupid Hearts Club! The Club for everyone with a Stupid Heart

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Hello sods

Please enjoy this really funny funster episode of Stupid Hearts Club with hilarious voiceoverer and comedy actor Charlotte Morgan. We met in a moody little cafe in Hastings and sat upstairs in the bit where people who don't like people go and sit to hiss at each other during their horrible day out that both of them ruin by sniping at each other and then drinking too much.

Charlotte and I tried to keep that spirit up by talking to each other with a lack of respect bordering on toxic, and the result, I'm sure you will agree, is lots of fun.

This episode was slightly hampered by an SD card getting full and me being too much of a grandpa to know how to cope with it. I think we lost about 12 mins of golden bants, but at least you have this!

In the last few days I have also recorded with Griggs (also includes some SD card bollocks, but still got some good stuff) Miles Chapman, who's audio was as shit as it always is, and a lovely lady called Jillian, who joined me for an episode of Tea and Empathy.

Lot's of stuff lined up for you all so keep on listening and please don't be shy to comment or inbox/insta about the SHC world , I love hearing from you all

Awwwwoooooogaaaa

Nico

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If you like what I do and you want to support me financially, as well as get access to some cool extras, please take a look at my Patreon! And if you can't, or indeed just don't want to, then I'm still super happy you're here (but I will now ignore you if I see you in the street)

And if you want to hear more from me I'm always putting things up on my Instagram, come and say hello

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Editing and production support from Drew Toynbee

Copyright 2026 Nico Tatarowicz

Welcome to the Stupid Hearts Club! The Club for everyone with a Stupid Heart

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Enjoy this free snippet of Nico's new Patreon exclusive podcast, The Busking Chronicles, which he recorded with James Walsh of Starsailor fame.

I have made a really cool episode of The Busking Chronicles here for you guys. James and I met when we both played a fancy pants Soho clubs acoustic night after the last winter lockdown, with James headlining and blowing everyone away with his voice, while I held his beer and then caught Covid. It was a cool night though and we stayed in touch.

I was hoping recently that he would be up for doing the Busky Chrons when he actually messaged me saying we should get together and chat and try and think of a project, which we did. Over a slightly wrongly administered lunch order in Londons 'Troubador' club, which is full of Bob Dylan vibes and stories from when he played there many times.

This chat took place in a pals house in West London and features me marvelling at some of the shoulders James has rubbed with (?), his positive attitude to the selfie and sound advice on how to deal with knob'eads. The one thing we will never run out of.

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If you like what I do and you want to support me financially, as well as get access to some cool extras, please take a look at my Patreon! And if you can't, or indeed just don't want to, then I'm still super happy you're here (but I will now ignore you if I see you in the street)

And if you want to hear more from me I'm always putting things up on my Instagram, come and say hello

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Editing by Oliver Connolly

Production support from Drew Toynbee

Copyright 2026 Nico Tatarowicz

Welcome to the Stupid Hearts Club! The Club for everyone with a Stupid Heart

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You've seen her in Afterlife, you remember her from Star Stories, and you should watch her in Black Mountain Poets. Now you can hear Laura Patch being adorable, funny and open in her own kitchen sitting opposite a man with a ridiculous hangover. I love talking to Patchy so much, and I fully credit her with getting me through Sunday when i dropped in on her on my way up Nawf, to see me mam, having been a very silly boy indeed the night before.

This gorgeous conversation roams through the fields of therapy, relationships, tricky family stuff and Laura's apparently highly dangerous lack of driving ability. I later slept in a single bed in a travel tavern. The travelling pod'mun dream is alive.

Enjoyais'vous

Captain Seaside

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If you like what I do and you want to support me financially, as well as get access to some cool extras, please take a look at my Patreon! And if you can't, or indeed just don't want to, then I'm still super happy you're here (but I will now ignore you if I see you in the street)

And if you want to hear more from me I'm always putting things up on my Instagram, come and say hello

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Editing by Oliver Connolly

Production support from Drew Toynbee

Copyright 2026 Nico Tatarowicz

Welcome to the Stupid Hearts Club! The Club for everyone with a Stupid Heart

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Since I moved to sunny (actually quite windy and rainy) Hove, I have been rubbing my face around town trying to get my finger onto the local pulse in all sorts of ways (stop it). One shining piece of evidence that that is working a treat is this fine chat with marketing and hospitality/food blogger and man about town Mark McCulloch from @surpersonic_inc who a friend hooked me up with (I said stop it) and who I immediately got on with, in a pub. Drinking beer.

Sure, we may have hit of it as budding new lager pals, but here we are just being two healthy big lads talking each other up in a big tough world full of grown up decisions and self-activated opportunities, or something. Basically Mark is a smooth operator and I like his style and I am trying to learn from his energy for doing stuff.

Can we go for some more free meat now please Mark?

Enjoy the episode...

Captain Seaside

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If you like what I do and you want to support me financially, as well as get access to some cool extras, please take a look at my Patreon! And if you can't, or indeed just don't want to, then I'm still super happy you're here (but I will now ignore you if I see you in the street)

And if you want to hear more from me I'm always putting things up on my Instagram, come and say hello

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Editing by Oliver Connolly

Production support from Drew Toynbee

Copyright 2026 Nico Tatarowicz

Welcome to the Stupid Hearts Club! The Club for everyone with a Stupid Heart

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Hey babies

It me again. This week I wanted to do one of my intimate solo mindful chats so I recorded lying back on the sofa straight into my phone (so Punk). I have been thinking about how you feel kind of physically different in different places and can feel the place itself, so I wang on about that a bit.

At the moment I think we all just need a bit of gentle reminding that we are lucky to be alive and that we should try and find ways to enjoy being here.

Hope you enjoy and get something out of the episode

Peace and love

Ma'am

xxx

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If you like what I do and you want to support me financially, as well as get access to some cool extras, please take a look at my Patreon! And if you can't, or indeed just don't want to, then I'm still super happy you're here (but I will now ignore you if I see you in the street)

And if you want to hear more from me I'm always putting things up on my Instagram, come and say hello

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Editing by Oliver Connolly

Production support from Drew Toynbee

Copyright 2026 Nico Tatarowicz

Welcome to the Stupid Hearts Club! The Club for everyone with a Stupid Heart

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Cowabunga Dudes! (not just men, it doesn't mean that!)

This weeks episode is a beauty, as I talk and chuckle with telly/film director-extraordinaire Jim Field Smith, whilst sipping on session ale by the river next to Kew bridge.

I've know Jim for 20 years and have watched both proudly and bitterly as his career has steadily climbed all the way up to the point where any writer could be forgiven for getting what we in the trade might call 'major boxset envy'.

Here we discuss surviving in the telly biz, some of Jim's finest work from shooting a sketch up an alley-way with me to directing actual airplanes in the sky whilst directing Apple TV mega-drama 'Hijack'. There is also a LOT of fun making analogies out of bad grammar and deep sea fish.

So, fasten your seatbelts and press that button that reclines your seat and ruins the person behind you's day....

Bing Bong!

Mr Nicolas

x

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If you like what I do and you want to support me financially, as well as get access to some cool extras, please take a look at my Patreon! And if you can't, or indeed just don't want to, then I'm still super happy you're here (but I will now ignore you if I see you in the street)

And if you want to hear more from me I'm always putting things up on my Instagram, come and say hello

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Editing by Oliver Connolly

Production support from Drew Toynbee

Copyright 2026 Nico Tatarowicz

Welcome to the Stupid Hearts Club! The Club for everyone with a Stupid Heart

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Well hey there baby cats!

I am SO excited for you all to hear this special episode of my new monthly Bonus Series 'The Busking Chronicles'- It is I think, a thing of wonder.  

About three weeks ago I bumped into 'Beached Brass' on the seafront and could not believe how joyful their sound was. I asked band leader Gabriel Garrick if he would be up for a podcast chat and maybe joining me for a song in a rehearsal room.

A few days later I found myself in the room I had booked for 2 of us with a 6 piece Jazz band! One or two of whom were BRAND new to the line-up. Oh and a big dog called Jovis who attends all jams and gigs at all time. What happened next was nothing short of magical.

So please enjoy-

Many more Busking Chronicle adventures to come, with some really cool guests already lined up...

Nico

Bwt- Sorry it's a day late, my producer was being a hero and trying to sort out the mixed bag of dodgy audio files I provided him with, but we got there in the end.

SHC 4Eva baby!

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If you like what I do and you want to support me financially, as well as get access to some cool extras, please take a look at my Patreon! And if you can't, or indeed just don't want to, then I'm still super happy you're here (but I will now ignore you if I see you in the street)

And if you want to hear more from me I'm always putting things up on my Instagram, come and say hello

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Editing by Oliver Connolly

Production support from Drew Toynbee

Copyright 2026 Nico Tatarowicz