The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller

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.

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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 ...

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 job—which Weedman has...

It’s the Saturday Fifth Hour, your audio tailgate before college football goes completely off the rails! Benny celebrates an 11-year-old girl bullying a key figure in American history into a makeover, then unveils Benny’s Big Board: Lane Kiffin Exit Edition. This is NOT a list! Two decades of HR violations, ranked for your listening pleasure. Plus, Vegas leftovers featuring the Mona Lisa of mutilated spuds, gastronomic ...

Benny takes you behind the curtain for The Post Game show from the Great Maller Meet & Greet in Sin City! The Maller Militia assembled from parts unknown, and Benny got perhaps the strangest gift in meet-and-greet history. There was also a postgame party plan involving aquaman that died on the operating table. Plus, more yapping about Kawhi Leonard’s Clippers punishment and the hodgepodge of Hollywood ...

The Sunday pod throws you a curveball—we’re putting the usual mailbag in mothballs for a week. Why? Because we’re still basking in the strange, slightly sticky afterglow of Saturday’s big Maller Meet & Greet in Las Vegas. Benny opens the case files from the Maller Bureau of Investigations, where an unofficially deputized P1 went above and beyond in the years-lon...

Ben Maller gets you ready for the Comic-Con for people with insomnia, otherwise known as the Maller Meet & Greet in Las Vegas—because apparently strangers from overnight radio gathering in a bar is considered a social event. Plus, Ben unveils The Gremlin Manifesto, a tale as old as technology itself. After another romantic dance with the tech gods ended with equipment going haywire, Ben was forced to launch a one-man coun...

For nine years, Bernie Fratto has been a granite countertop of weekend overnight radio on Fox Sports Radio — dependable, durable and somehow still standing after years of exposure to the radioactive waste known as the broadcasting business. A longtime pinch-hitter on the Ben Maller Show, Bernie drops by the Audio Sweatshop before taking a sabbatical from professional gasbaggery. Bernie and Ben unlock the Nostalgia V...

The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller sets sail into the murky waters of the Sunday Mailbag, with Robbie the Mariners Fan riding shotgun as the fellas swashbuckle their way through another hodgepodge of listener questions. On the menu: a Mike & Dogs invasion of the Ben Maller Show, the great Starbucks relocation mystery, Fake News, and the comedy stylings of Lucky Tony. Also, doggy diets, Piggly Wiggly problems, automobiles with enoug...

Ben spills the exclusive details of his long-overdue power lunch with former radio sidekick Eddie Garcia — the who, what, where, when and why of the whole operation. It required the Army Corps of Engineers, some highly questionable Maller Math and enough travel to qualify as a Lewis & Clark expedition. The destination? The Tabernacle of the Chicken Finger, where Benny reveals exactly how much power 25+ years at Fox Sports...

One random night watching a Yankees and Orioles game somehow turned Ben Maller into the executive producer and kingpin of "The Maller Matchmaker: Friend Edition," a completely spontaneous and unnecessary adventure some 2,300-miles away from the People's Republic of California, co-starring Marlins Man and Sports With Coleman. Because when you see Marlins Man behind home plate, naturally the next move is to start meddling in peo...

The rumors are true — the man, the myth, the legend, Marcel in Brooklyn escapes the mean streets long enough to punch the clock inside Ben’s audio sweatshop for another supersized Fifth Hour Mailbag extravaganza. The boys rifle through listener questions from across America and beyond, reminiscing about the annual childhood shakedown known as back-to-school shopping, the infamous day Ben Maller was excommunicated from F...

Benny cracks open the Fifth Hour vault for a never-before-told tale from a sultry afternoon at Shea Stadium, when an Egg McMuffin somehow owned Mr. Met and brought the usual pregame schmoozing to a screeching halt. It’s one of those wonderfully ridiculous “you had to be there” baseball stories, preserved in Benny’s memory for nearly three decades. From there, Ben reacts to the latest gold rush...

Benny opens the vault for a never-before-told tale of a spur-of-the-moment midnight ride aboard the legendary Maller Party Bus, rumbling through deserted desert wasteland on a pilgrimage to the Mecca of multi-pump refueling. Along the way, Ben conducts an “expansion draft,” bonds with his favorite rodent and somehow turns a simple road trip into another chapter of Maller Madness. There are twists, turns and a reunion wi...

The Sunday Mailbag is supersized because apparently nobody believes in portion control anymore, with Robbie the Mariners Fan returning to the No. 2 chair for another Odyssey through the warped mind of Maller. The fellas examine the mysterious power of Maller+, dig through the dusty archives of classic Maller Music, revisit the historic summit of Mr. T and Benny, and investigate the silent side hustle—because the best hustle i...

Saturday's Fifth Hour is another wicked pissah—a grab bag of beautifully unnecessary conversation. We go ghost hunting in the bowels of FSR, wonder whether a blocked caller ID apology from a celebrity is sincere or just another Hollywood magic trick, celebrate the lifelong curse of being the middle child, and somehow connect Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jan Brady's immortal "Marcia, Marcia,...

Friday's Fifth Hour is another spectacular waste of an hour you'll never get back, unless it's not. We've got Benny Buckets, the Human Bobsled, and proof that Maller's life has basically become a deleted scene from The Three Stooges. We'll explain how a booze shortage helped the Mayflower find Plymouth Rock, why brides are apparently named after beer, and why lighthouses have joined pay phones and newspapers in the Museum of Stuff ...

It’s that time again. For reasons science still can’t explain, you people keep showing up for the Mailbag. Robbie the Mariners Fan rides shotgun as we cannonball into a supersized cereal bowl of randomness. On the menu: constellations, baseball card scam artists, pet peeves, Roomba contraband, human trees, creative traffic-ticket excuses, fighting dogs, why prediction markets are under siege, density altitude, permanent...

On the latest Fifth Hour with Ben Maller, we ask the important questions that society has recklessly ignored. Why does Canada need a thing called Big Mustard? How did the Romans look at a toothache and think, "Yeah, this'll fix it"? Is disc golf an actual sport or just hiking with Frisbees? Why are clowns still employed? What's the deal with sticky sand? Sand isn't supposed to stick—that's the whole business model! We'll...