NYC Radio: Anthony Weiner Teams With WABC's Curtis Sliwa

Anthony Weiner, whose serial sexting scandals upended his promising political career and ultimately sent him to prison, will team up with Curtis Sliwa in a weekly two-hour radio show on WABC 770 AM starting on Saturday, reports the NY Daily News.

Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels and last year’s Republican mayoral nominee in New York City, said that the show will touch on sports, politics and the publicly accessible penis photos that plunged Weiner’s career into chaos.

“He’s done talk radio — but that was right before he imploded completely,” Sliwa said of Weiner, a Democrat who was jailed in 2017 after prosecutors found he had sent sexually suggestive texts to a 15-year-old.

Weiner, 57, said he has a “very New York relationship” with Sliwa: They have long kept in touch privately, criticizing each other when they disagree. In 2016, they briefly worked together on the radio when Sliwa’s co-host Ron Kuby was on a break.

The show is set to air on WABC-AM’s 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. slot on Saturdays. Sliwa said Friday morning that the show had come together within the last 72 hours and compared the concept to CNN’s long-running TV series “Crossfire,” describing it as classic right-left debate.

Weiner described himself as “nervous” about the show, noting that he is rusty as a speaker and does not follow politics as closely as he once did.

“Curtis is good at radio. He’s probably one taco short of a combo, but he’s good at this,” Weiner added. “It’s me that I’m not so sure of.”

A charismatic cat-loving character who once faked crimes to boost the Guardian Angels, Sliwa was more bullish on the new project.

“Two Brooklyn boys: we know pretty much all the same people, so we know where the bones are buried and who buried them, on all angles,” Sliwa told The News.

“We’ll be discussing not only the politics of the city, which we know as well as anybody — from different perspectives,” Sliwa, 67, promised. “But also his own problems, the resurrection that he’s got to make.”

Armed with a roaring mouth and an ability to get in front of cameras, Weiner was a rising political star representing Brooklyn in Congress when he posted an explicit image to Twitter in 2011.

The reaction was swift and harsh, and he resigned from New York’s 9th Congressional District seat in the House.