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The Joint Venture Show

The Joint Venture is the weekly sports, music, and entertainment podcast hosted by Grammy Award-winning rap icon Lil Wayne and Sports Talk Radio Hall of Famer Craig Carton.

What started as a genuine friendship has become one of the most entertaining conversations in sports and pop culture. Every week, Lil Wayne and Craig Carton bring their unique perspectives together for unfiltered discussions that blend sports, hip-hop, music, entertainment, and the stories making headlines. With their natural chemistry, quick wit, and honest opinions, no topic is off limits.

Whether they’re breaking down the biggest moments in the NFL, NBA, college sports, boxing, or the music industry, reacting to viral moments, debating hot takes, or sharing behind-the-scenes stories from their careers, Wayne and Craig deliver the kind of conversation that feels like you’re hanging out with two friends who have seen it all—and aren’t afraid to say what they really think.

Each episode features celebrity guests, professional athletes, musicians, coaches, entertainers, and industry insiders who bring fresh perspectives and unforgettable stories. From championship moments and locker-room conversations to life on tour, career-defining decisions, entrepreneurship, fatherhood, creativity, and the business behind sports and entertainment, every guest adds something new to the conversation.

Fans can expect honest sports commentary, candid interviews, funny stories, unexpected debates, and the kind of authentic conversations that happen when two people from completely different worlds genuinely enjoy each other’s company. Whether they’re discussing the latest games, the biggest names in music, trending topics, current events, or moments that simply make them laugh, The Joint Venture never takes itself too seriously.

If you love sports podcasts, hip-hop podcasts, celebrity interviews, music conversations, pop culture, comedy, or simply listening to great personalities having real conversations, The Joint Venture belongs in your weekly rotation.

New episodes drop every week with fresh guests, new stories, bold opinions, and plenty of surprises. Follow The Joint Venture on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts, and never miss an episode.

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#9
Wednesday · 33 min
Signing Nicki Minaj, the Yankees Lawsuit & His Son's D1 Offer
No guest this week — just Lil Wayne and Craig Carton, and some of the best stories Wayne has told on the show. He explains how he found Nicki Minaj, why the New York Yankees threatened to sue him over the Young Money logo, how he got taken advantage of financially early in his career and what it taught him, and why his son's Division I offer from Deion Sanders means more because the kid earned it himself. Plus rappers' real names, why Wayne has never been to the Met Gala, and NFL predictions. The Joint Venture Show is the weekly sports, music, and entertainment podcast hosted by Lil Wayne and Craig Carton. New episodes every Wednesday. Follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. For all business inquiries, partnerships, and sponsorships, please contact: theshowjointventure@gmail.com
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#8
September 11 · 13 min
25 Years Later: Remembering September 11th
This week marks 25 years since the September 11th attacks. In a special edition of The Joint Venture Show, Lil Wayne and Craig Carton share where they were that morning. Wayne was a teenager on tour, asleep in a Manhattan hotel room, when the phone rang, and his mother asked him what building he was in. Craig was on the radio, taking calls from people inside the towers who had been told to stay where they were. Both men describe a city of strangers who, for a few days, looked after each other completely. As Wayne puts it: it takes tragedy for people to be humane. The Joint Venture Show is the weekly sports, music, and entertainment podcast hosted by Lil Wayne and Craig Carton. New episodes every Wednesday. Follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. For all business inquiries, partnerships, and sponsorships, please contact: theshowjointventure@gmail.com
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#7
September 2 · 40 min
Kevin Connolly on Entourage, Directing Gotti & Lil Wayne's Moon Theory
Kevin Connolly — Eric "E" Murphy from Entourage — joins Lil Wayne and Craig Carton on The Joint Venture Show, and immediately walks into Lil Wayne's moon landing theory. Kevin talks about growing up as a child actor, life after playing one of TV's most recognizable characters, directing Gotti and screening it for a theater full of people connected to the Gotti family, filling in on sports radio, and the roles he came close to landing. Then he turns the tables on Wayne with a conspiracy question of his own. The Joint Venture Show is the weekly sports, music, and entertainment podcast hosted by Lil Wayne and Craig Carton. New episodes every Wednesday. Follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. For all business inquiries, partnerships, and sponsorships, please contact: theshowjointventure@gmail.com
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#6
August 26 · 41 min
From National Champion to the Cartel: The Owen Hanson Story
Owen Hanson won two national championships at USC. Then he became a bookmaker, moved cocaine internationally, lost $3.2 million of a cartel's money, and served nine years in federal prison. He tells Lil Wayne and Craig Carton the whole story on The Joint Venture Show: how a walk-on became one of the most connected men in illegal sports betting, the client whose losses pulled him into trafficking, the shipping method nobody suspected, the meeting in Tijuana he was certain he wouldn't survive, and the business he built from inside a prison cell. The Joint Venture Show is the weekly sports, music, and entertainment podcast hosted by Lil Wayne and Craig Carton. New episodes every Wednesday. Follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. For all business inquiries, partnerships, and sponsorships, please contact: theshowjointventure@gmail.com
#5
August 19 · 1 hr 1 min
Derek Fisher on 5 NBA Titles, the 0.4 Shot & Playing With Kobe
Five-time NBA champion Derek Fisher joins Lil Wayne and Craig Carton on The Joint Venture Show for a real conversation about a legendary career — and life beyond it. Fisher goes deep on the Lakers dynasty alongside Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal, the iconic 0.4-second shot that stunned the Spurs, coaching the Knicks under Phil Jackson, and a heartfelt look back at Kobe. He also opens up about the toughest decision he ever made as a father. Plus Lil Wayne on his son's new collaboration with North West, and what it feels like to hear the crowd roar for his kid. The Joint Venture Show is the weekly sports, music, and entertainment podcast hosted by Lil Wayne and Craig Carton. New episodes every Wednesday. Follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. For all business inquiries, partnerships, and sponsorships, please contact: theshowjointventure@gmail.com
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#4
August 12 · 46 min
Bart Scott & Willie Colon: Wild NFL Stories, Getting Fired & Locker Room Wars
NFL vets Bart Scott and Willie Colon join Lil Wayne and Craig Carton on The Joint Venture Show for a wild, unfiltered one — getting fired, coming up undrafted, and the brotherhood (and chaos) of an NFL locker room. Bart takes us inside the Baltimore Ravens with Ray Lewis, the Jets–Patriots rivalry and the art of trash talk, the Super Bowl that got away, and his jump from the field to TV and radio. Willie Colon pulls up for the stories that had the whole room going. Plus Lil Wayne on getting fired from The Masked Singer. The Joint Venture Show is the weekly sports, music, and entertainment podcast hosted by Lil Wayne and Craig Carton. New episodes every Wednesday. Follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. For all business inquiries, partnerships, and sponsorships, please contact: theshowjointventure@gmail.com
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#3
August 5 · 50 min
The Man Who Greenlit SpongeBob, UFC & Yellowstone | Kevin Kay | The Joint Venture Show #3
How does one person greenlight SpongeBob SquarePants, help save the UFC, and launch Yellowstone? Kevin Kay did all of it. The legendary TV executive joins Lil Wayne and Craig Carton on The Joint Venture Show for a wild ride through his career: how SpongeBob got its name (and what it was almost called), betting his job on the pilot, the check that brought creator Stephen Hillenburg to tears, the Spike TV lawsuit with Spike Lee, greenlighting The Ultimate Fighter and the fight that changed the UFC forever, launching Yellowstone — and getting let go right after. Plus Lil Wayne opens up about his secret writing process and a vault of unreleased music. The Joint Venture Show is the weekly sports, music, and entertainment podcast hosted by Lil Wayne and Craig Carton. New episodes every Wednesday. Follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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#2
July 29 · 47 min
Plaxico Burress & Matt Friend LIVE at Gotham Comedy Club
Plaxico Burress and Matt Friend join Lil Wayne and Craig Carton for a live episode of The Joint Venture Show, recorded at the Gotham Comedy Club in Manhattan. NFL Super Bowl champion Plaxico Burress opens up about the night he shot himself, jokes about his time in prison, and looks back on his game-winning catch in Super Bowl XLII with the New York Giants. Comedian and impressionist Matt Friend brings the house down with his impressions, including his viral Trump. Expect unfiltered stories, big laughs, and the honest chemistry the show is built on. The Joint Venture Show is the weekly sports, music, and entertainment podcast hosted by Lil Wayne and Craig Carton. New episodes every Wednesday. Follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts. For all business inquiries, partnerships, and sponsorships, please contact: theshowjointventure@gmail.com
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#1
July 22 · 1 hr 4 min
Fanatics Fest NYC | Guests: Eli Manning, Darrelle Revis & Amar’e Stoudemire | The Joint Venture Show Ep. 1
The wait is over. The Joint Venture Show officially launches with an all-star lineup, recorded live at Fanatics Fest NYC at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on July 19, 2026. Grammy Award-winning rap icon Lil Wayne and Sports Talk Radio Hall of Famer Craig Carton kick off the series with three legendary guests for an unforgettable premiere. Joining Wayne and Craig are two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning, Pro Football Hall of Famer Darrelle Revis, and six-time NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire. Together, they dive into football, basketball, championship moments, life after the game, leadership, friendship, and the stories that shaped their remarkable careers. Recorded in front of a live audience at one of the biggest sports and collectibles events of the year, the conversation is packed with behind-the-scenes stories, honest opinions, unexpected laughs, and the authentic chemistry that makes The Joint Venture Show unlike any other sports and entertainment podcast. If you love sports podcasts, celebrity interviews, football, basketball, hip-hop, music, pop culture, and authentic conversations, this is the perfect introduction to The Joint Venture Show. Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes drop every week.
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July 21 · 1 min
Coming This Week: The Joint Venture Show
Get your first look at The Joint Venture, the brand-new weekly sports, music, and entertainment podcast hosted by Grammy Award-winning rap icon Lil Wayne and Sports Talk Radio Hall of Famer Craig Carton. Built on a genuine friendship, The Joint Venture brings together sports talk, hip-hop, music, pop culture, current events, celebrity interviews, and unfiltered conversations in a way only Wayne and Craig can. Every episode features honest opinions, unforgettable stories, big laughs, and the kind of authentic chemistry that keeps the conversation entertaining from start to finish. The excitement begins with an all-star premiere featuring Super Bowl champions Eli Manning and Darrelle Revis, along with six-time NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire. From the NFL and NBA to music, entertainment, and behind-the-scenes stories, this is just the beginning of the celebrity guests, athletes, musicians, and unforgettable conversations still to come. If you love sports podcasts, music podcasts, hip-hop, sports commentary, celebrity interviews, pop culture, hot takes, and authentic conversations, The Joint Venture belongs in your weekly rotation. Subscribe now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts, and be ready for the first full episode. New episodes drop every Wednesday.
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