The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller

The Fifth Hour mailbag welcomes two Maller Militia supervillains: birthday boy Mike the Leprechaun and Poppy from San Diego, fulfilling his lifelong dream. Aim higher, Poppy! Benny and the boys tackle personalized Starbucks, War of the Worlds panic, Vancouver outsmarting America, religious exemptions from AI, $500,000 Instagram gigs, food delivery wars, flying with dog pee, deep-fried turkey, Jake...

Trick or treat! The Fifth Hour Podcast celebrates Halloween with Benny Radio serving up spooky fun facts about witches, jack-o’-lanterns, and caramel apples. Like a pinball gone haywire, Maller bounces from Nevada to Mount Rushmore, saluting George Halas, Earl Lloyd, and the legendary Houdini. Plus, a never-before-told bedraggled Maller misadventure involving one soccer ball, two innocent ne...

The ghosts are howling, the candy’s disappearing, and Benny’s raising hell before a Devil’s Night! The Fifth Hour celebrates Frankenstein and the 88th "birthday" of radio’s most infamous broadcast. Plus, boxing’s greatest promotional name gets its flowers, and a tribute to one of Ben’s former broadcast partners and Fox Sports Radio alumnus. This sparked a love l...

Benny welcomes back Robbie the Mariners fan, while Scotty on the Pike makes his Fifth Hour debut. The Maller Mailbag overflows with technical disasters, tree-dwelling childhoods, unionized cheerleaders, NFL rappers, Weedman’s cellphone catastrophe, Super El Niño, Airbnb nightmares, influencer buffoonery, cafeteria cuisine, haunted mansions and the ancient art of writing checks. It's a...

The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller delivers three more classic chapters of Maller Misadventures South of the Border! Benny navigates Mexico City's chaotic floating fiesta at Xochimilco, complete with mariachi bands, taco boats and bumper-boat madness. Then it's ancient pyramids, mysterious civilizations and breakfast in a cave at Teotihuacan. Plus, Ben declares war on Mexican tap water, battles the fe...

The Maller Misadventures South of the Border! It's a Fifth Hour podcast exclusive! Ben Maller presents a nine-chapter audiobook chronicling his whirlwind weekend in Mexico City. From the thin air at 7,350 feet to the chaotic traffic, sizzling street tacos,  and the sprawling Zócalo, the Nocturnal Colonel trades his radio bunker for high-altitude hijinks. It's a Maller travelogue packed...

Step right up, Maller Militia! The Sunday circus is back, and America’s Favorite Homeless Guy, Billy Blanks, AKA Weedman Hippie, returns to invade the Fifth Hour mailbag! On today’s Drive-Thru menu: missing Militia legends, Big Daddy from Memphis awkwardness, 200 years of free chips with a ghoulish plot twist, a pharaoh hiding under your home, tomato-flavored cookies nobody requested,...

Another day, another mechanical middle finger! On this Fifth Hour, Ben revisits the Greybeard Fonzie Fix before unloading on a Maller Mobile headlight fiasco that triggered automotive PTSD. From mechanical stupidity to historical nonsense, Marco Polo gets busted for pasta fraud, while a Founding Father brings spaghetti to America. Along the way, there's a mulligan to take, something gaudy to wear,...

Momentum is a scam! Sports' favorite imaginary friend. The Bigfoot of athletics. Everybody swears they've seen it. Nobody can produce a body. Enough already! Benny unleashes The Anti-Momentum Manifesto in a therapeutic Fifth Hour rant before tackling more of life's absurdities. From "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" to who really said "Let Them Eat Cake"? And why was Benjamin Franklin trying to make...

Blind Scott from Boston has hijacked the Sunday Fifth Hour Mailbag! The legendary Maller Militia wackadoodle makes his debut as Benny's celebrity sidekick from the North End of Bean Town on a supersonic joyride through the absurd. On the Maller menu: mysterious pants bulges, getting Joe Rogan money, chocolate pumpkin lawsuits, Jed Who Fled intervention, missing audio drops, Tyreek Hill drama, and...

Fire up the Hot Tub Time Machine! The factory of pod is back in business with a tribute to Iron Mike Ditka! Ben revisits zany caller Doc Mike’s wild Chicago steakhouse encounters with the Bears legend, then reveals his own failed attempts to get Ditka on this podcast, landing Iron Mike alongside Maller Militia royalty like Genie in Medford. Plus, it’s a two-dog night at Fox Sports Radi...

Forget Kevin Bacon. Benny Radio is apparently two degrees from Dua Lipa, and all it took was a baseball game and a guy dressed like a traffic cone! On this edition of The Fifth Hour, Ben reveals how a random Yankees playoff game, a homemade taco feast, and the legendary Marlins Man somehow turned into a backstage drama-o-rama involving the pop superstar. Naturally! Marlins Man, the Forrest Gump of...

Ben Maller does a belly-whopper into the deep end of the mailbag, where good judgment goes to die. The Wheel of Maller Militia Legends lands on Doc Mike from Chicago and Mike the Leprechaun from the Commonwealth. Doc isn’t a real doctor—he just plays one on the radio and podcasts—but his résumé includes classic Maller bits like "marrying" Spin Cycle Regina in Minnes...

Benny Radio is back in the podcast dojo, providing the marginal weekend podcast content America never requested. The mind of Maller goes helter-skelter: MLB broadcasters get yearly emotional goodbye shows while overnight radio keeps spinning plates until someone builds the Panama Canal. Plus, a public-service announcement exposing Big Pumpkin and the annual slaughter of innocent vegetables. Then i...

Something has gone missing from the overnight airwaves—and a listener in Ohio wants answers. On the Friday Fifth Hour, Benny Radio investigates the disappearing Sweet Science of verbal boxing, taking the Maller Mobile down Memory Lane to revisit legendary audio heavyweights in the Verbal Octagon ™ . Big Ben reveals the secret sauce needed to develop the next generation of radio gladiat...

Against the advice of medical professionals and several respected audio engineers, Ben Maller crawls back into the remote audio sweatshop for another fresh Fifth Hour. Robbie the Mariners Fan checks in from Sasquatch Country, while Weedman Hippie beams in from the South Florida sunshine. The Mail Bag tackles Buckeye Benny Island Life, radio quality control, insect-soaked hot dogs, Instagram hiding...

Pack the car, lower your expectations and make sure your tetanus shot is current—the Maller Travelogue has returned! Benny goes wandering around the Golden State, proving California still has some gold left once you get far enough away from traffic, politicians and people charging $19 for avocado toast. It’s a “Darling” of an adventure featuring the Cathedral of Giants...

Mel Proctor invades this edition of The Fifth Hour! The legendary gasbag spins yarns about Earl Weaver, Mickey Mantle and a gaggle of sports characters like Earl Weaver and Mickey Mantle from his 40-plus years behind the microphone. Mel called games for among others, the Orioles, Rangers, Nationals, Bullets, Clippers, and even the Triple-A Hawaii Islanders, broadcasting from the legendary dump kno...

We went to the bullpen and called in a Hall of Fame closer to the weekend pod palooza! Hollering James from Minneapolis joins Ben for a rambunctious edition of the Fifth Hour Mailbag. Legendary for his thunderous snoring and undying love of the Ben Maller Show, James is one of the great larger-than-life cartoon characters of the Maller Militia. The boys rip open the mailbag and tackle listener que...

Ben is back in the audio sweatshop on a Saturday, because apparently relaxation is for other people. Wackadoodle Hollywood legend Robert De Niro triggers a trip down memory lane with some classic tales of unforgettable Dodgers legend Tommy Lasorda, including a legendary afternoon at the Smoke House where everything seemed perfectly normal until, naturally, it wasn’t. Ben also asks the import...

The band is back together! Eddie Garcia makes his triumphant return to The Fifth Hour as the dynamic duo reunites—and it sounds so good. Ben catches up with Eddie on how his metamorphosis into a full-time Pod Guy is going, life after the overnight radio grind, and the current temperature of his lukewarm Pittsburgh Steelers. The boys also crack open the Maller memory vault for stories about s...

“Mama, There Goes That Man!” Ben is back with a lukewarm edition of The Fifth Hour, joined by his Pacific Northwest pal and longtime senior member of the Maller Militia, Robbie the Mariners Fan! Grab the scuba gear because the boys are going way too deep into the Mailbag. On the menu: NFL inflation soaring 72% in a decade, artificial intelligence eventually killing us all, the ancient...

Benny returns for your Saturday audio needs—because apparently you have nothing better to do. He breaks down the must-see college football games and recklessly tosses in a couple bonus picks against the spread. Then, A Penny for Your Thoughts: Why is Benny vs. The Penny back on radio? Ben takes you behind the curtain for the TV negotiations, Hollywood nonsense and attempted resurrection. Plu...

On this edition of The Fifth Hour, Ben shares his memories of September 11th, including a visit to the World Trade Center just weeks before the attacks and, years later, the world’s most unfortunate hotel stay in Boston. What are the odds? Apparently much better than you’d like. But the star of the show is the great Ross Porter. The legendary Dodgers broadcaster, friend, and mentor joi...

It’s the first-ever Round Robin edition of the Sunday Mailbag—because apparently answering emails now requires a committee. Jay T "The Wingman" from the Smoky Mountains, Weedman Hippie from Hollywood, Florida, and his trusty sidekick Lisa from Long Island join Benny to chop down the mighty tree of P1 questions from the Maller Militia. The gang tackles Snoop Dogg’s ice-cream dream...