Josh and Justin open with a season-retrospective question — knowing what they know now, what would they have done differently? The answers: Reddick on everything, ditch Zilisch, and maybe think twice about Briscoe. From there, they recap a snooze-fest at Martinsville where Chase Elliott wins via pit strategy, Denny Hamlin dominates and finishes second (after walling Blaney), and Tyler Reddick posts his worst finish of the season — a P15 — while somehow still holding the top fantasy driver spot at a whopping 1.7 average points per race. The guys crown Elliott the Fantasy Winner and split the Fantasy Loser between Bubba Wallace (two straight weeks in the 30s, dropping from 2nd to 12th best fantasy driver) and Ty Dillon, who brings home dead last — with a fun reveal that the other Ty Dillon owner, Team Piston Cup, is actually sitting in the playoffs at 87th. The standings see a first-time shakeup at the top as rookie Rit Racing claims first place, while former leaders 2Z Designs and JLAS Racing tumble to 5th and 6th. The track set a new Martinsville record with a 49-point average — nearly the all-time low at any track. Swap talk highlights 17 more this week (83 total, closing in on all of last season), including two teams making the puzzling decision to drop Chase Elliott for Reddick and Blaney. Best swap of the season holds at Bowman-to-Gibbs (+85 points, worth 179 standings spots). Looking ahead to Bristol after the bye week, Norton takes Christopher Bell with the pit box advantage and Josh counters with Denny Hamlin. Series picks are now tied 4-4. They close with a PSA: starting April 20th, recording moves to Tuesdays because golf league.

Josh and Justin recap a solid-but-not-spectacular Darlington race — they compare it to a "6 or 7 out of 10" and debate whether consistent good racing is better than the boom-bust cycle of duds and classics. On the fantasy side, Brad Keselowski steals the show as the clear Fantasy Winner, with two stage wins and a P2 finish pushing him to 4th in the driver standings — all with a broken femur. Tyler Reddick wins for the fourth time and is somehow sitting at negative fantasy points on the season through six races. Joey Logano and Bubba Wallace are the Fantasy Losers, with Logano raising real concerns about his speed on ovals. The top of the standings remains a two-team arms race between 2Z Designs and JLAS Racing, who have swapped first and second three weeks running. The Bowman/Zilich swap exodus continues — 25 swaps this week alone, bringing the two-week total to 47, already half of last year's entire season volume. The bottom of the league gets a hard look at Fast and Flawless, sitting dead last with Larson, Logano, Bowman, and Kyle Busch. Josh closes with a shoutout to listener Tanner Crosley (Lap Dancers), who demanded his swap get called out on air. Looking ahead to Martinsville, Justin grabs Ryan Blaney with the pit box advantage, and Josh counters with Brad K. Series picks stand 4-3 in Josh's favor.

Denny Hamlin put on a masterclass at Las Vegas, and fantasy teams with him are finally feeling it. Josh and Norton are back to break down a race that rewarded the patient and punished the impatient — five weeks in, the cream is officially rising to the top.

The guys dig into a top 10 that got completely reshuffled, with four new teams crashing the party — including Tool Hangers and K-Stud making their top 5 debuts on the strength of the Hamlin-Byron-Elliott trio. Meanwhile, the teams holding onto struggling low-value drivers like Shane Van Gisbergen (dead last, 36 fantasy points) are now staring at some tough decisions.

Swap mania has officially hit the league. 22 swaps in a single week — more than half the season's total — driven largely by Alex Bowman's vertigo situation. Josh also makes his own swap live on air (Zilisch for Byron), and Norton barely keeps a straight face when he realizes the "listener question" was coming from his co-host all along.

Plus: RFK Racing is quietly becoming a fantasy powerhouse, Bubba Wallace is the most underrated player in the game at only 23 ownership teams, Brad Keselowski continues his quietly impressive top-10 streak, and the Connor Zilisch reality check is getting harder to ignore. Josh leads the season picks challenge 4-2, and both hosts make their calls for Darlington — a race the drivers are already calling a potential tire-shredding nightmare.

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