Timestamps:

00:00:00 Dopey Greatest Hits introduction
00:01:25 Ned returns and promotes Lost in Dell Valley
00:02:29 Acting lessons for the Texas Aryan Brotherhood
00:04:08 Practicing Lost and Prison Break scenes in jail
00:04:53 Ned lands a role on Lost after leaving prison
00:05:20 Trading acting lessons for OxyContin
00:07:18 Prison drugs, commissary and Seroquel
00:08:15 Why Ned believes Sid Vicious didn’t kill Nancy
00:09:00 Seeing The Police’s first American show with Sid
00:13:05 Plato’s Retreat and 1970s sex clubs
00:18:57 A French diplomatic connection smuggling kilos of cocaine
00:20:05 Growing up with cousin Townes Van Zandt
00:22:30 Lost in Dell Valley and the Soho Playhouse run
00:27:45 Original Ned Van Zandt interview begins
00:32:29 Heroin with Andy Warhol’s circle
00:34:43 Shaka Khan, a Bulgarian model and murder in Ned’s apartment
00:36:57 Moving into the Chelsea Hotel
00:41:41 Punk, disco and New York in the late 1970s
00:44:04 Ned’s first heroin habit and withdrawal
00:48:32 Living alongside Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen
00:50:45 The drug dealer Ned suspected in Nancy’s murder
00:53:06 Sid gets out of Rikers and sees The Police at CBGB
00:55:28 Sid’s fatal overdose and Ned’s worsening heroin habit
00:57:47 Heroin markets on the old Lower East Side
01:00:00 Ned is cut with a knife during a cab robbery
01:02:16 Leaving New York and temporarily rebuilding his life
01:04:17 Meth addiction and exotic-bird smugglers in Long Beach
01:06:39 Rejected from a Christmas party because he needed help
01:08:49 Dave’s disastrous attempt to score heroin in Austin
01:12:52 Stevie Ray Vaughan inspires Ned to consider sobriety
01:15:00 Treatment in the Hawaiian jungle
01:18:51 Thirteen years clean—and the relapse that followed
01:23:27 Arrested while cashing a forged check
01:25:50 One drink leads to a cocaine overdose four days later
01:28:04 Treatment, relapse and a seven-year run in Austin
01:30:28 Kevin Spacey confronts Ned about his deterioration
01:32:47 Supplying Sudafed to a meth lab
01:34:59 Stealing DVDs to support his addiction
01:37:14 Set up by an informant and arrested with meth
01:39:32 Returning to treatment in Hawaii
01:41:49 Smuggling OxyContin, Vicodin and Valium into rehab
01:43:10 Flushing the drugs and enduring withdrawal
01:44:03 Rebuilding his life in Hawaii
01:46:20 Returning to acting and moving back to New York
01:48:40 Turning his memoir into a 19-character one-man show
01:50:59 Transcend NYC and helping other people recover
01:55:24 A former sober-house resident surprises Ned in Edinburgh
01:57:45 Buddhism, spirituality and alternatives to AA
02:00:03 Helping people who resist twelve-step recovery
02:02:12 Closing thoughts and listener voicemail request

Five ad-break placements

These land at clean changes in subject:

00:27:45 — After the new interview and before the original episode
00:55:28 — After Sid Vicious’s death; before Ned’s deeper addiction
01:12:52 — Before Stevie Ray Vaughan and Ned’s first recovery
01:28:04 — Before the story of Ned’s seven-year relapse
01:44:03 — After flushing the smuggled drugs; before rebuilding his life