Finding Nico

Welcome to Finding Nico.

The podcast where you follow me, comedy writer Nico Tatarowicz, trying to figure out who I am and what my purpose is in this crazy, unpredictable era of shifting tides, wonky career paths and general madness.

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Hello there sods

So after dragging my patreon subscribers through a pretty tough mental health moment with me a couple of weeks ago, I have been trying to piece myself together and get podding in the wild again after a very tough winter.

Tbh I was not quite sure where the ole Finding Nico spirit was going to start to flourish again, but the...

Welcome to Finding Nico (Formerly Known as Stupid Hearts Club)

The podcast where you follow me, Nico Tatarowicz, trying to figure out who I am and what my purpose is going to be, now that the TV industry has melted like a snowman in a volcano. Taking my career with it.

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One of the hats I am wearing as I figure out how to survive in the cruel hinterland of my TV writer comedy heyday is that of 'Music Dad'. A badge and idea that has become very dear to me as...

Welcome to Finding Nico (Formerly Known as Stupid Hearts Club)

The podcast where you follow me, Nico Tatarowicz, trying to figure out who I am and what my purpose is going to be, now that the TV industry has melted like a snowman in a volcano. Taking my career with it.

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Hey my angels

Summer has well and truly gone but I still have a few weeks to go until I move into a rented room for the winter. Last week I decided to set off slowly from Brighton to...

Welcome to Finding Nico: The Podcast (Formerly Known as Stupid Hearts Club)

The podcast where you follow me, Nico Tatarowicz, trying to figure out who I am and what my purpose is going to be, now that the TV industry has melted like a snowman in a volcano. Taking my career with it.

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Hullo there my loves

This week I found myself parked up near Basildon where I am helping to cut back and old lady's front garden (Stop it) for one of my lovely Patrons. I will kind of...

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Hey there me Stupid Hearties!

Here is the latest instalment of the adventures of me and Linda the camper van on the road. I did a house-sit in Frome for my cousin and looked after a dog that looks like Mike Tyson. It was quite something. Another update is coming up soon on me busking for coins to eat food with. It's been a bit of a week to be honest and...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted Angels

We are fast approaching the end of Lindas Hot Summer. As I write this she is on my cousins driveway in Frome, Somerset snoring while I dog, cat and house sit for my cousin 'Our Lawrence'. I think I'll do an episode on Frome, as I am going to busk here too before I leave.

Meanwhile the ep I just dropped is a beaut...

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Hello you lot

I am talking to friend and fellow exhausted comedy-writer Alistair Griggs.

If you have been following me a long time you will know that Griggs and I like to have quite, dark, explorative and sometimes bleak conversations. This one took place whilst sitting in the rather glorious gardens of a North London flat I was looking after while some other pals were away. Linda had a nice...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

Here is another installment of my very weird summer of house-sitting, slumming it in Linda and crossing my fingers for my house to get sold. This episode was recorded while I was on a flat-sit in London, and I write these notes, having been in the van for another week after that stint ended, sitting in yet another friends home while they are in Sri-Lanka. it's...

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Hey loves

Okay. It took a while to get my ducks in a row the last few weeks, but we are in business baby. Old uncle Nico Van Diesel is now officially on the road in Linda the camper van for the next few months having packed up his whole life into a storage unit in Shoreham.

The van is truly my oyster now. The trouble...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

This weeks pod is a Music Dad episode from when Ian from Oasis Supernova and myself drove from Tavistock to Southampton between amazing gig nights a few weeks ago. We chatted about getting off your arse and being creative with how to make your life interesting. And even increase the ways in which you make a living! And Music Dad will have some of that.

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

This week I have a lovely episode for you in which Linda and myself took ourselves off for a weekend playing not one but TWO paid music gigs in different towns! The first was a solo gig in Tavistock Devon, and the second was a 45 min support slot with my Indie UK Covers band British Indie Company in Southampton. Both gigs were supporting the fabulous and...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

Behold an audio diary (of sorts) of my 10 day trip to Vietnam with four old friends from Manchester (and I do mean old). I won't tee it up too much cos there are some lovely images and incidents along the way-

Just jump on in and join me in Hanoi, Ha Giang and beyond...

Enjoy

Nico

Stupid Hearts...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

Now looking at the title of this episode you would be forgiven for thinking that there's not a lot of mileage in this one. But you are underestimating my talent for getting emotional dramatic content out of being in Linda the camper van. I did that this time by putting the wrong fricking fuel in her, getting my long awaited trip to Vietnam off to an...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

Alice Lowe is possibly the most fruitful creative person I know. In fact, when I went to her house, even her actual fruit bowl contained turnips, bananas, peppers, a pomegranate and much much more. I think that image kind of works as a very strong analogy for her output. As the reigning indie queen of UK cinema Alice has already delivered three cult classics with Sightseers...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

This is the morning after the last one, in which I failed at being at a carvery near Stroud. Here I wake up and am all pleased with myself for sleeping in me van in a shit car park, before going off for a lovely chat with film-maker and personal hero Alice Lowe.

Part 2 of this will drop next week and is chat is...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

A couple of weeks back I took my darling Linda the camper van on another rain-sodden jaunt. This time in the direction of Cardiff, where I was to stay a couple of nights with my good pal Conor, before using 'Search For Sites' again to find somewhere to get my head down on the way back. First I headed to Porthcawl for a little admin errand...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

Hey you lovelies,

Am wearing my Music Dad hat this week to introduce you to Mookie, a fabulously confident young lady from the Brighton burgeoning music scene who is about to release her third single. Mookie is one of several new acts I regularly see playing around town who are very accomplished even though they are still babies (to me) coming through the music...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

Here is the third part of my trip to Manchester and back in Linda the Camper Van. It's a Freezing January Monday late aftertnoon on the M1 and I am very tempted to stay in a fancy BnB and do some laptoppin'. But then I remember what I am supposed to be doing. I'm supposed to be using my van to break up journeys. I'm supposed t...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

Here is stage 2 of my mid January trip North in Linda. Having slept at a pub in Bedford I headed north to visit family. Would I maintain my rogueish vanlife legend status there or go and have a shower in a Premier Inn and then go and kip at my mums because she thinks I've gone weird. Only the open road and my mum can decide.<...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

This episode marks the start of my concerted effort to use Linda the camper van in a more adventurous way when I am bobbing around the country. I thought I wouldn't be feeling the call of the road at least til the Daffodils are up but after feeling poorly and getting cabin fever, I thought I'd brave a pub car park stopover to break up my...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

This episode features meself and Flavour Fred, my wild food pal and collaborater from our forthcoming project The Wild Lunch Podcast, going for a New Year walk up at Devils Dike above Hove. It was a snowy very crisp day and the sloshy snowy paths made it quite an aggy little trek. But we pressed on because, as usual, Fred had a little mission for us...

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Hello sods

Like many of us, I have felt totally rinsed by this year as it winds down, even though it has been largely brilliant for me. The creeping winter and some personal shit has really done a number on me this last few weeks and I have not been at all productive. That's what this episode is about in a way, trying to get my head round a bit of a...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

This week I invited my newish pal Rob Dunkley, musician and long term Patron of SHC who lives quite near me, round for a cuzzer and a cuddle.

He's good value Rob and I think we will do some more strummy stuff together. I am very keen to see his band Rodge as soon as they are ready.

Here we are talking...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

Wow wow wow. What a lovely episode to be able to post. Last week, my friend Delphine and I put on the first official (ticketed) Sanctuary Sessions music event at The Sherriff Centre in West Hampstead, London and boy was it special. Todays ep starts with a bit of set-up, then you will all come with me in Linda the...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

Please enjoy this hourish of nonsense from me and Matthew following my star 2 hour appearance on the Matt Morgan Podcast a couple of weeks back. By god we laughed a LOT recording this and I hope you do too. The Keith and Orville stuff is I think us doing what we can only do together.

The Matt Morgan Podcast is on Patreon in the...

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Hello you lovely sods

This is a cracking, chatty episode with tv comedy actress and personal buddy Kerry Howard. You may know her from Him and Her, Witless, Young Hyacinth and many more shows on the lol-circuit. Kerry is currently earning her drama stripes in Waterloo Road, and is still very much a reliable, funny-boned comedy hire gun.

Over on Insta, her daily efforts to stay mentally and physically in...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

A few weeks ago Matt Morgan and I recorded a 'double-bubble' podcast for his show is exclusively on Patreon. The first two hours of our chat (we do like to go on) are on his feed and the third hour, which was very giggly I put on my Patreon. It was a pretty funny chat though so I have decided to share it out here in...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

I parked Linda the Camper Van next to a big BIN on the seafront everyone, but she is still the apple of my eye as our love affair begins to pick up pace. This week I am heading West to Wales to do a wee acting role in an indie film and I am taking Linda with me. She will be playing the role of business...

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Well, triple hello my beautiful babies. What a cracking episode I have for you this week.

Last week Linda the VW camper and I made our first trip away and met the Belter from Belper herself, Selina Mosinski, better known as Charity Shop Sue! Literally one of my favourite comedy characters of modern times.

And what a great, smart, chatty and straight talkin' delight she turned out to be...

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Heya kids! (Heya Nico!)

Today in the conversational gunge tank sees a second pod-visit from my friend, comedy writer and studio format wizard Ali Crockatt. Ali literally DEMANDED for this episode to happen at 4.30 at my gaff last Friday, like a gangster dropping in to give a lowlife grass one more chance before he cuts him a new face the dirty little ponce.

Here we chat about our middling careers in TV comedy...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

This week I offer to you an impassioned, deep and often troubling conversation with a stalwart of the London alternative comedy scene. Promoter, compere and agitator in chief Harry Deansway.

Harry has run some of the maddest, grass roots comedy night in London over the last decade and a half maybe and his principles are something that everyone is our community has come across...

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This weeks chat is very special and is a Music Dad Podcast episode.

Last week I took myself to off to a fancy-pants Rock Star hotel in Kensington, London to chew the fat with Scouse bass legend Russ Pritchard of Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds. Also formerly of the Zutons, and The Big Kids (who you MUST check out).

in this brilliant, insightful and beautifully honest...

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

What a wonderful, rich, musical treat I have in store for you this week as I drop my second ever official Music Dad podcast. This week my guest is a very very talented lad indeed who goes by the name of Christian Le Surf. I saw Christian NAILING his first ever headline gig the the other week and was blown away by how well arranged his songs were. This episode goes...

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Greetings my Stupid Hearted angels.

This episode of The Stupid Hearts Club Podcast features myself and anti-comedy king Mark Silcox enjoying a sumptuous Punjabi meal in central London on a sunny Friday afternoon and really getting under the bonnet of his comedy philosophy.

I knew I was going to love catching up properly with Mark (which it turns out is a stage name, um...what?) but I had no idea just how deep my admiration would...

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Happy June everybody.

I am BACK after a wee sabbatical after celebrating my 50th and boy do I have a good solid month of top poddingtons lined up for you. My various pod projects are starting to move apace and it's all getting rather exciting.

Today I am sharing the first episode of what will now be called The Music Dad Podcast. It's basically the same as 'The Busking Chronicles' in that I talk to a...

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Hello lovelies

Back in November my excellent comedy actor pal Laura Patch (from Netflix hit Afterlife) let me into her rather impressive kitchen for a chat about life, writing and processing trauma. That's episode 73 if you want to go back and find it. Now 6 months later, the play she was merely tinkering with back then is up on it's feet as Laura performs it and hones it into it's perfect shape. Last Friday I had a brilliiant catch up...

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Hey babez,

Just two days ago Alistair and I met in a bar in Victoria and had as troubling a conversation as we have ever had. I recorded badly on a Zoom recorder but luckily had my phone mic running.

Tech knobeadry aside, our vile conversation made me feel a lot better about the scorn I regularly spray in Griggs direction because once again he has proved that he has something remarkable and...

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Heyo my loves

I present to thee a nice solo catch up I recorded in my car over 2 seperate sittings. I know I am a week off the pace again, sorry. But I am dropping two more eps before the month ends so my heart is still true. In this episode I am telling you about all the little plans that are growing in my pod-world. It's quite exciting I tell thee. There's also a 'Cliff-Riff', which is...

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Hey You Smashing Persons...

Something a little different today. As you all know, since I moved to Brighton a year ago, I have been busking, playing live music gigs, meeting and collaborating with all kinds of musicians, which has made me very happy. This uptick in musical energy has also given rise to my Patreon Only Bonus Podcast Series 'The Busking Chronicles', a chatty pod where I interview musicians who are hustling to make a a bit of...

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Once in a while, a man comes along that is so full of wisdom, panache, and depth of character  that were he to pass you in the street, you would immediately hear a montage of echoey-whispers all going 'who is he?...who is he?...who is he?....who is he?......all overlapping each other and fading out...out...out. 

My latest guest, is no such man.  

'Mysterious Albert' is a fellow tired ageing comedy writer, whose nam...