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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

I fronted Sid Vicious Heroin and ate Burger King with him the Day Before Nancy's Murder – Ned Van Zandt's crazy Recovery Journey

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dave & Chris

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Comedy

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Bam, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum,

0:07.0

bum, bum, bum, bum.

0:09.0

Hello to the members of the nation, we greet you with elation, because we have a brand new show for you,

0:19.0

with all that stuff we do

0:21.3

Drug addiction and some dumb shit

0:23.8

So grab a chair and come sit

0:26.0

And listen to the show

0:27.9

It's dopey Wednesday

0:29.2

It's Doty Wednesday

0:31.4

It's Doty Wednesday Toopi dopi doopi dopi doopi doi doi doi doi dopi doi dopi doi dopi doi

0:47.8

Hey it's dopei Wednesday it's topey Wednesday it's to be Wednesday it's to be Wednesday it's dopey Wednesday it's dopey Wednesday

0:57.0

it's dopey Wednesday uh hello and welcome to dopy dose of Wednesday a Wednesday dose of

1:08.2

dopey dopey dopey dose of Wednesday might be better than Wednesday dose of dopey.

1:13.6

Hello and welcome to Dopey, the podcast on drugs addiction and dumb shit.

1:17.2

My name is Dave.

1:18.6

And for those who didn't know, that theme song was done by Dopey genius in residence.

1:26.2

Hold on.

1:27.1

Brear Brian Homa. It's Dopey Wednesday. Fucking. dopey genius in residence on brayer brian homa it's dopey wednesday fucking a usually brian will not

1:33.8

write the lyrics and want me to write the lyrics but this week he was this with this tune he wrote

1:40.3

it like a month ago for the beginning of the five days of dopey.

1:44.9

And it looks like the five days of dopey are going to go on for a long time, for a while.

1:51.4

At least I think for months we're going to do five days of dopey.

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