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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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Music With Wayne: Millions of Unreleased Songs, the Drake Tapes & the Prince Vault

2026/10/21

No guest this week. Just Wayne on music. He says he has millions of unreleased songs. He also has an unreleased Prince catalogue that was given to him. The Drake material people have speculated about for years is, in his words, beyond true, and he's still editing it and sending it to Drake's phone. He explains why he doesn't choose a single one of his own singles, where he actually writes his albums, and why a man from New Orleans needs to look at a snowy mountain to do it. Plus: the rap battle DVDs that led him to Nicki Minaj, the letter from the New York Yankees, getting fired on television and what his mother had to say about it, watching his son perform from the side of the stage, and the moment his Aunt Zelda realised his voice had changed. Tyra Banks is here too, on the song she made with Kobe Bryant, the video where Kobe met his wife, and the Michael Jackson shoot Wayne has no memory of. 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: [email protected]

Every Game We've Ever Played: Psychopath Tests, Blind Ranks & Real Names

2026/10/14

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, ending exactly where you think it ends. Along the way: Professor Wayne gives advice to a man heading to federal prison, Amar'e Stoudemire builds a starting five to save humanity, Plaxico Burress explains the juice bar franchise, Bart Scott settles urinal etiquette, Kevin Connolly admits what he bought at one in the morning, and Wayne explains how Swizz Beatz came to buy him a camel. 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: [email protected]

DeSean Jackson on the Punt Return, Getting Cut & His Own QB

2026/10/07

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 quarterback publicly said he didn't deserve a Pro Bowl selection that no player in NFL history had earned before. And he goes back to the Giants punt return, where Wayne spots something in the footage that DeSean doesn't deny. Plus: why he turned down a first-round baseball career, what Wayne said to Skip Bayless to vouch for him as a coach, and what he found when he went to Auschwitz. Before that, Wayne answers your emails. Unreleased Drake material, whether his abs are real, and the mafia dinner where he learned to wait. His documentary Go Deep is out now on Amazon Prime. 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: [email protected]

Tyra Banks on Kobe, Michael Jackson & Her First Lil Wayne Collab

2026/09/30

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, and thirty years later it still makes her emotional to talk about. She has turned down three enormous jobs she still lies awake regretting, and one of them was with a legend who is no longer here. She also ignored a message from Lil Wayne asking her for a verse. That gets settled on air. Plus Wayne ranks the athletes who tried to rap, confirms the unreleased Kevin Durant track is coming out, and explains how his aunt worked out what his voice was before he did. 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: [email protected]

Best Of: Cartels, SpongeBob & Impressions

2026/09/23

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 Friend running through impressions until the room gives up. Plus Lil Wayne on getting voted off The Masked Singer first, and the three people he'd have dinner with. 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: [email protected]

Signing Nicki Minaj, the Yankees Lawsuit & His Son's D1 Offer

2026/09/16

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: [email protected]

25 Years Later: Remembering September 11th

2026/09/11

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: [email protected]

Kevin Connolly on Entourage, Directing Gotti & Lil Wayne's Moon Theory

2026/09/02

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: [email protected]

From National Champion to the Cartel: The Owen Hanson Story

2026/08/26

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: [email protected]

Derek Fisher on 5 NBA Titles, the 0.4 Shot & Playing With Kobe

2026/08/19

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: [email protected]

Bart Scott & Willie Colon: Wild NFL Stories, Getting Fired & Locker Room Wars

2026/08/12

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: [email protected]

The Man Who Greenlit SpongeBob, UFC & Yellowstone | Kevin Kay | The Joint Venture Show #3

2026/08/05

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.

Plaxico Burress & Matt Friend LIVE at Gotham Comedy Club

2026/07/29

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: [email protected]

Fanatics Fest NYC | Guests: Eli Manning, Darrelle Revis & Amar’e Stoudemire | The Joint Venture Show Ep. 1

2026/07/22

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.

Coming This Week: The Joint Venture Show

2026/07/21

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.