Port Chester Radio Show Gets Scoop on the 'Smut List'

The Zedalza New York webcast on Tuesday night was moving along as planned until a caller named Brian dropped a bombshell scoop—a “” with the names of 99 girls in the Westchester area was going viral on BlackBerry Messenger and Facebook.

The list ranked the “smuttiest” high school girls from Harrison, Port Chester, Greenwich, Scarsdale, Rye, New Rochelle and Yonkers, complete with first and last names and brief descriptions of their alleged transgressions. 

“This is ‘Mean Girls’,” said one of the show’s hosts, Mike Alonzi, referring to the 2004 movie starring Lindsay Lohan about back-stabbing high school girls.

The Zedalza New York radio show, founded in 2006 by Frank Valbiro, Anthony Valbiro and Alonzi at Manhattanville College, now appears live on Ustream.com every Tuesday and Thursday night starting at 9 p.m. The show is an open-forum talk format that covers entertainment, music, the hosts’ personal lives, and hot topics in the news. Audience members can call in and interact in the chat room.

Initially, the hosts joked about the smut list, but as they watched the Facebook page add dozens of fans by the minute Tuesday night, the reaction shifted.

“At first, just thinking about stuff we did in high school, you’re like, ‘Oh my God,’ and you joke about it,” said Frank Valbiro, 25. “When I saw the enormity of it, though, you think, ‘This is actually not funny.’”

The joking came to a screeching halt when a 16-year-old named Alexa called in and said she and some of her friends were on the list. 

“One friend who’s on the list, her mother just called me and said she’s taking her to the hospital right now. She just walked in on the girl slitting both her wrists,” Alexa said on air.

 Zedalza will revisit the topic on the show tonight. Valbrio said guests will include his cousin Amanda, an 18-year-old student at Manhattanville College, and some of her friends who were on an earlier Port Chester-only version of the list. 

Valbrio said his cousin and her friends are “laughing it off,” and they want to provide some support and a "voice of strength" for younger girls who have been hurt by their inclusion on the list.

Zedalza has another scoop in store, Valbrio said. Someone named Sergio Siano wrote on Zedalza’s Facebook page, (retaining punctuation:) "i didnt make the list. i made a facebook page with the list on it because people kept asking me to message them the list and i got tired of it. if anyone is mad at me because of this, then be angry because im not apologizing."

Siano is scheduled to call in live via Skype to the Vinny Brusco show, which airs at 10:30 p.m., after the Zedalza show.

But as 16-year-old Alexa said on Tuesday’s show, Facebook allows something like the smut list to grow without anyone having to take responsibility for it. “There’s not just one person to blame, everyone is to blame, everyone is forwarding it, everyone is logging on to it,” she said.

Valbrio said that Thursday’s show will be Zedalza’s last word on the matter of the smut list. “We’re wrapping it up,” he said. “The story is not going to have legs for very long.”

Perhaps that’s one thing the girls named on the list can take solace in—no one will be talking about the smut list once another scandal comes around. And these days, they seem to come around very fast.  

To watch Zedalza’s live streaming show tonight at 9 p.m., click here.
The Vinny Brusco show appears at 10:30 on the same station.

Note: The broadcasts contain profanities.