I fronted Sid Vicious Heroin and ate Burger King with him the Day Before Nancy's Murder – Ned Van Zandt's crazy Recovery Journey
00:00 – Bomb intro & “It’s Dopey Wednesday!” theme 00:41 – Welcome, theme song credit to Brayer Brian Homa, Five Days of Dopey update 02:00 – Recovery nugget: Gratitude as the antidote to fear in the new year 06:30 – Listener Spotify comments & social media shout-outs 13:30 – Guest intro: Ned Van Zandt (actor, counselor, Townes Van Zandt’s cousin, former sponsor to the late DJ/Don) 15:30 – Ned performs the opening rap from his one-man show “Lost in Del Valle' 18:00 – How Ned met Don/DJ, Ned’s 18 years clean 19:00 – Connection to Townes Van Zandt 21:30 – First time getting high (age 18, Warhol crowd, heroin) 24:00 – Moving to the Chelsea Hotel fall 1978 – same week as Sid & Nancy 27:00 – Life at the Chelsea: parties, Warhol stars, punk scene 30:00 – First heroin habit with Warhol superstar Katrina 34:00 – Sid & Nancy stories, Burger King, Nancy’s murder, Ned’s theory on who did it 41:00 – Sid’s overdose death 43:00 – Ned’s own habit escalates, gets mugged, leaves NYC for Austin 49:00 – Long Beach meth period, stealing Sudafed for meth labs 59:00 – Stevie Ray Vaughan’s sobriety inspires Ned 01:01:00 – Gets clean in 1987 in Hawaii, 13 years sober 01:11:00 – Relapses New Year’s Eve 1999, 7-year run ends with meth arrest 01:30:00 – Final surrender in treatment (day 9 flushes smuggled pills) 01:38:00 – 3 years in Hawaii sober living, returns to acting 01:43:00 – Develops one-man show “Delvalley,” Edinburgh Fringe success 01:45:00 – Running Transcend NYC sober house 01:55:00 – Wrap-up & outro song
Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
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On this Dopey Wednesday!
We get super spiritual about fear, gratitude and love! We read spotify comments which were super sweet. And then we dive deep with legendary actor and recovering addict Ned Van Zandt. Ned takes us from snorting heroin with Andy Warhol superstars in 1978, to living at the Chelsea Hotel the exact week Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen moved in, to fronting Sid heroin and eating at Burger King with him the day after Nancy’s murder. He shares his belief about who really killed Nancy, his years shooting heroin and meth, multiple relapses, jail, and finally finding lasting recovery.
Ned also talks about being Townes Van Zandt’s cousin, his acclaimed one-man show “Lost in Delle Valley" and now running the Upper West Side sober living house Transcend NYC.
All this and MUCH MORE on The Wednesday Dose!
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