Interview: Woody from the Point's Morning Show Team, A.K.A. Where Chris Dumped Ashley

By Annie Zaleski Tue., Mar. 2 2010 at 11:39 AM

Categories: WTF

[Update, March 4, 5:45 p.m. Woody and Rizzuto have posted the follow-up call. Check it out here!]

Last week, I found and blogged a clip of an on-air break-up between a couple named Chris and Ashley, which originally aired on the Point (105.7 FM) before Valentine's Day. The short post exploded on the Internet on Friday and on through the weekend -- and as of now, has been streamed nearly 800,000 times.

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According to Woody - one-half of the morning show team of Woody and Rizzuto, which aired the clip -- the rise to viral-audio status was slow and steady: The post took a week to get to 100,000 streams - and then received 100,000 a day for the next two days.

Chris is scheduled to be on Woody and Rizzuto's show tomorrow morning, to update listeners on what happened next. But only via a phone interview. "I was trying to get him to come in, and he's like, 'I am not coming in,'" Woody says. "He's like, 'No way, because then people will see me, they could be waiting for me outside the station.' It's gotten crazy, man -- he's gotten threats." Chatting yesterday afternoon after his show, Woody answered some questions about the call.

Annie Zaleski: First off, I cannot believe the amount of attention -- and shitstorm -- our blog caused.
Woody: I know, it's crazy, right? When the call happened initially, it was automatic - it's one of those topics that everybody has a very strong opinion one way or the other. When that first happened, it was just like, 'Oh my God.' The amount of email and the people going to the website looking for the [clip]... We initially did not even podcast it, but I was getting bombarded with emails and stuff. I had my producer go back and pull it real quick and throw it up there. It's crazy.

The biggest question/statement I've seen in our comments section and everywhere: A lot of people think it's fake.
Just like everything else on the Internet, I guess. I saw that too. It's so funny: you see how it is if you're online at all. Any YouTube video, the comments you can always count on - "fake," someone going, "fail!" or somebody with some kind of racial comment. It could be puppies playing with string , and it's like, "Yup, typical black behavior." It's like, "What? What does that have to do with anything?"

I understand - we have people call in for this stupid feature we do every Monday, called "My Weekend Sucked." People call in with stories about why their weekend was terrible, and we let listeners vote on which one they think is the worst. Whoever has the worst weekend story gets something. Some of them seem pretty crazy. [Yesterday] a woman called in and talked about how her house burned down on Friday. She didn't sound all that bent up about it, but sure as shit, we did the research, we called the town where the fire happened, she gave us the address - and sure as shit.

Or some guy called in a couple weeks ago, like, "Yeah, I went to go pick up this stripper friend of mine on the east side, and I got held up at gunpoint." He had this crazy story - and sure as shit, we had cops calling and saying, "Yup, that's dead to real. What's the guys' name?" We told the cop the guy's name, and he said, "Yup, that's the guy."

I don't think people realize - you have to vet things like this. You can't take things at face value.
People cheat all the time. You see about revenge stories and stuff like that all of the time. It just so happened that this guy was already planning to dump her anyway. But he's a listener of the show and knows this is the kind of thing that we'd be into. People think that just because we're a "guy's guy" kind of show that we're just all "guys stuff," that we would somehow be on the bandwagon of, "Yeah, go out and get yours, dude, go bang these whores." But we're not like that at all. I think he just had a stupid idea, maybe not even thinking that we would take him up on it, and we did.

How did it come about originally? Did he just call you guys?
We were going to this Valentine's Day segment, basically about how Valentine's Day is a bullshit kind of thing, it's only for women, guys don't really care about Valentine's Day. I was actually going into the segment, and the phone screener's like, "Dude, just take this call. This guy's got an idea." He was telling the phone screener off the air what his idea was. We went to the call. The part that's on the Twiturm file is the second part when we came back from break. It was a whole initial call when he first called in, where we were finding out the story as he's telling it to us.

We took a break, and we came back, I had to get the phone number from him, so we cold call her. It unfolded. You had that one little piece that's up on the site, but there's actually a little bit more to it. There's some random guy calling in.

Tags:

105.7 the point, ashley, audio, breakup call, cheaters never win, chris, rizzuto, woody

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Vince

Not Fooled: You're a retard. You can't fake hilarity like that. If you had actually listened to the show on a day-by-day, even a week-by-week or month-by-month basis, you would know that the sh*t they do on this show is real.It just shows you how reality can make an impact on somebody. On how life isn't roses and dandelions anymore.

moomoo

hey NOT FOOLED, just cuz your an actor doesnt make everything around you fake. your probably a shitty no name actor who failed to make it so you have to try to call out everything around you. haha that was the best break up though, way to go chris!!

Frambu

If this is real (and I think it could easily be) this guy doesn't know what he has done to himself, I think an apology on both sides is due, first to her, and then a big long one to him.

Cum Too Fast

I love how he fucked her before she got kicked out of the house.

WIN.

TAYLOR

THEY HAD HIM ON AIR TODAY.....HE SAID HE FUCKED HER THEN KICKED HER OUT OF THE HOUSE....LMAO

tknicol

Gimme a break. Its totally real. Easy to tell. Why is it not real? Because its a girl? Please. Bitches are whores, period. She failed & got caught. How is that so damn hard to believe? I'm on Chris's side all the way. Chick got caught cheating & people are complaining because she could have killed herself. Well what about Chris finding out she cheated on him? He could have gone & killed himself. SCREW THE HATERS. SUCK IT WOODY, RIZZ & CHRIS!!!!xoxoxo's

Dan

I heard it live. I called in immediately and spoke with Patrico, the phone screener. I told him them, and I've told everyone since, that this was by far the most brilliant radio segment of all time. Mind you, I was an avid Stern fan for a decade. The lead-in, the set-up of the woman, the whole 9-yards, a stroke of genius that had me telling people about it for a week. This isnt mean, this is a "drive-by whoring" of the most extreme nature. The guy got a proper exit by outting her. I was thoroughly entertained. The cheating whore got what was coming to her. WIN. WIN. FAIL.

Not fooled

I'm a man & I'm an actor. These are two bad actors playing "Chris" & "Ashley." These rest of you are rubes for falling for this.

But I guess that I should give props to the morning wood for fooling so many of you. Even I believed it for about .5 seconds.

RickRoss

It's definitely not fake, you can tell just by listening to it. Most likely women want to believe it's fake because they see a lot of themselves in Ashley.

The American woman is in a great state of decline. They're all hopped up on Sex And The City girl power and they have no respect for men or their relationships.

I'll have to admit that Ashley seemed like a nice sweet girl when she spoke. But this just makes her even more evil because she is able to put on such a false dishonest front. Who knows how long it would have taken her to cheat on Chris if they had gotten engaged or married.

To Chris, I feel for ya bro. But now you know the truth -- NO woman is worth your complete trust. At their core, women are just like children -- easily manipulated and lacking any real sense of loyalty.

For all the men out there in serious relationships, I advise you to take a look at your girlfriend's e-mail account, Facebook, and text messages. These tools have made it very easy for them to cheat and feed their constant needs for attention.

It's a bad time to be an American man.

Jessica

Woody has gotten fired from several of his previous radio gigs because of different things that have happened on air. I'm calling NO shenanigans and that this call is real.

Not fooled

Of course they are going to say, "No man, it's totally real." It's obviously fake. It's manufactured radio drama. If it were real, the girl would have hung up. And the fact that the guy absolutely CAN'T come in in person...c'mon. Are you really that dumb?

Radio 101 for sure. Come up with a bit or skit, sell it to the listener as "100% real drama" and then reinforce that w/ absolutely no real evidence. Russ Martin did it all the time. After he got fired, they admitted most of their bits were fake.

Matt

Nice follow-up. I'm still a bit skeptical when radio guys confirm that something is "legit," but if this one was a scam, they certainly put in a lot of legwork planning it out.

With this part - "I think he just had a stupid idea, maybe not even thinking that we would take him up on it, and we did."

I'm inclined to believe that this really was real. I can certainly appreciate that if a listener comes to you with a dumb idea that will get your show a lot of attention (without getting your show into legal hot water), you run with it. That's radio 101!