The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
Hosted by Ben Maller · Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.9from 476 ratings
- 1,067
- Episodes
- 403
- Transcribed
- 476
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 419M
- YouTube views
About The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
Making the leap from radio to digital is now a reality for Ben Maller as he does it right before your eyes. The overnight host on FOX Sports Radio is double-dipping by featuring a weekly podcast with unique content and entertaining guests that can not be heard on his radio show. Not your garden-variety sports podcast, Ben mucks it up in a way that's not safe for work, but is sure to entertain. From sports to politics, science to trends, fascinating studies to prophetic parodies, this vehicle explores it all. A multimedia veteran, Ben helps solve life's problems one week at a time for all to consume.
- Publisher
- Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
- Category
- news · sports
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 Aug 2019
- Latest episode
- 17 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
403 of 1,067 episodes have a transcript.
17 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Fifth Hour: Fix It Maller
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Fifth Hour: The Anti-Momentum Maller Manifesto
11 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Fifth Hour: BLIND LEADING THE BLIND
Inside a recent episode
The Fifth Hour: Fix It Maller
Published 17 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] When I was a kid, I was told that. And even as a young adult, back in the day, I was told that. However, contrary to the popular myth, our friends in Italy, the Italians, were eating pasta long before Marco Polo returned from China later. In the late 1200s, Thomas Jefferson, we've talked about this on the podcast before, that Thomas Jefferson helped popularize macaroni in America. He really loved the macaroni. He encountered the pasta in his travels around Europe. And Thomas Jefferson is like, I got to bring macaroni. to the new world there, the United States. He actually brought a macaroni-making machine back to the United States, which must have been mind-blowing at the time. […]
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Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 419,108,275
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 447 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 29 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 84 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 93
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 95
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