The Joint Venture Show
The Joint Venture Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil Wayne and Sports Talk Radio Hall of Famer Craig Carton. Each episode blends sports, hip-hop, music, entertainment, and pop culture discussions. The hosts share unfiltered opinions on the NFL, NBA, college sports, boxing, and the music industry, often reacting to viral moments and hot takes. They also interview celebrity guests, athletes, musicians, and industry insiders, bringing behind-the-scenes stories from their careers. The show aims to feel like a casual conversation between two friends who aren't afraid to speak their minds.
Episodes
Every Game We've Ever Played: Psychopath Tests, Blind Ranks & Real Names
No guest this week. Just the games.Craig has been running bits on Lil Wayne for thirteen episodes, and this is all of them in one place. A personality test that returns a genuinely alarming result. A blind rank of five songs Wayne has now promised to sample. Rappers' legal names that sound nothing like their stage names. And the five worst New York Jets moments, ranked with Darrelle Revis
DeSean Jackson on the Punt Return, Getting Cut & His Own QB
DeSean Jackson spent fifteen seasons in the NFL, made three Pro Bowls, and still holds the record for touchdowns of sixty yards or more. He is now a head coach at an HBCU, doing it, in his words, with a lot less.He tells Lil Wayne and Craig Carton what actually happened in Philadelphia when the Eagles let rumours about his friends stand without correcting them. He explains why his own qua
Tyra Banks on Kobe, Michael Jackson & Her First Lil Wayne Collab
Tyra Banks joins Lil Wayne and Craig Carton.She recorded a song with Kobe Bryant in her twenties. He coached her through the vocals in a studio on Santa Monica Boulevard, and then met someone on the set of that music video who would change his life.She was one of the morphing faces in Michael Jackson's "Black or White." She was the first Black woman on a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover,
Best Of: Cartels, SpongeBob & Impressions
Ten episodes in, here are the moments people keep coming back to.Owen Hanson on becoming a bookie, losing $3.2 million of a cartel's money and driving to Tijuana to face them. Kevin Kay on what SpongeBob's creator actually earned while the show made billions. Plaxico Burress on whether prison or the Jets was worse. Derek Fisher taking a personality test he did not see coming. And Matt Fri
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 ea
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
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
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 traff
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
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 an
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
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
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
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
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