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The Ben Maller Show

The Ben Maller Show

The Fifth Hour: All Hail Dale Brown

Oct 30, 2026 · 48 min · 21 segments

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…

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 letter to college basketball’s lost generation: philosophers, dictators, lunatics, and carnival barkers! From sunrise workouts to mafia connections, these coaching characters had it all! Enjoy the Maller storytelling that you only get here on the Fifth Hour and share the fun with someone! **Follow, rate & review "The Fifth Hour!"** https://podcasts.apple.com/us/grpodcast/the-fifth-hour-with-ben-maller/id1478163837 #BenMaller See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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…

Speakers: Ben MallerHost

Top entities: Bob Knight×12 Ben Maller×18 Shaquille O'Neal×13 Digger Phelps×5 Rick Majerus×8

The Dale Brown Broadcast Experiment8:54 – 12:24

8:54

Let's get into it.

8:56

On this edition of the Fifth Hour with me, Ben Maller, a tribute to college basketball's lost generation of carnival barkers, philosophers, evil dictators, and absolutely freaking great lunatics.

9:11

Yeah.

9:12

I bet you didn't expect me to talk about college basketball today.

9:15

I was triggered.

9:17

By what? Well, I saw recently that a very prominent figure in college basketball had made the news.

9:30

And I want to get into it.

9:31

So I once worked with Dale Brown.

9:34

Yeah, that Dale Brown.

9:36

Now, if you know, you know.

9:36

You might not know who Dale Brown is.

9:38

Dale Brown was the legendary LSU basketball coach.

9:43

He is the guy that discovered Shaquille O'Neal, the man who turned...

9:48

Baton Rouge into something other than a football town.

9:54

For a little bit, it was a basketball town.

9:57

And for a little bit, in fact, approximately 48 hours, Dale Brown was my broadcast partner.

10:05

This is a true story.

10:07

Some of the names have been changed to protect.

10:10

You know what? So I'm not sure if...

10:13

This was a good idea.

10:15

I'm not sure anyone involved at the time thought about this.

10:19

And I'm reasonably certain that somewhere in the archives, in the bowels of Fox Sports Radio, there was a memo explaining how this happened and should have been destroyed years ago.

10:31

But it did happen.

10:32

And I wanted to bring it up today.

10:36

Part of the reason is this podcast is to help occasionally me remember people...

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99%12 mentions
Ben MallerPersonAmerican radio host
98%18 mentions
Shaquille O'NealPersonAmerican former basketball player and sports analyst
97%13 mentions
Digger PhelpsPersonAmerican basketball coach
96%5 mentions
Rick MajerusPersonAmerican basketball coach
95%8 mentions
John ChaneyPersonAmerican basketball coach
94%7 mentions
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93%8 mentions
Jerry TarkanianPersonAmerican basketball coach
92%6 mentions
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91%9 mentions
Walter IsaacsonPersonAmerican journalist and former president of the Aspen Institute
90%13 mentions
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89%5 mentions
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88%5 mentions
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87%4 mentions
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86%4 mentions
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85%5 mentions
Canada PostCompanyMail company
84%9 mentions
DetroitCityCity in Michigan
82%5 mentions
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81%5 mentions
Lefty DriesellPersonAmerican basketball coach
80%3 mentions
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79%4 mentions
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78%3 mentions
Orson WellesPersonAmerican actor and filmmaker
77%3 mentions
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74%2 mentions
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73%6 mentions
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72%3 mentions
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70%1 mention
Stanley RobertsPersonAmerican former basketball player
69%2 mentions
Lou CarneseccaPersonAmerican basketball coach
68%1 mention
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66%5 mentions
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65%1 mention
Fei-Fei LiPersonAmerican computer scientist
64%3 mentions
Palmer LuckeyPersonAmerican entrepreneur
64%3 mentions
Jim L. MoraPersonAmerican football coach
62%1 mention
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61%1 mention
Jim ValvanoPersonAmerican basketball player and coach
60%6 mentions
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59%3 mentions
AustraliaCountryCountry in Oceania
59%2 mentions
Frankenstein DayEntity
57%1 mention
Elon MuskPersonIndustrialist and former Senior Advisor to the President of the United States
56%3 mentions
The War of the WorldsEntity
55%2 mentions
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54%3 mentions
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53%3 mentions
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52%5 mentions
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51%2 mentions
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49%1 mention
PhilippinesCountryCountry in Asia
48%2 mentions
HaitiCountryCountry in the Caribbean
47%2 mentions

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The Dale Brown Broadcast Experiment8:54 – 12:24

8:54

Let's get into it.

8:56

On this edition of the Fifth Hour with me, Ben Maller, a tribute to college basketball's lost generation of carnival barkers, philosophers, evil dictators, and absolutely freaking great lunatics.

9:11

Yeah.

9:12

I bet you didn't expect me to talk about college basketball today.

9:15

I was triggered.

9:17

By what? Well, I saw recently that a very prominent figure in college basketball had made the news.

9:30

And I want to get into it.

9:31

So I once worked with Dale Brown.

9:34

Yeah, that Dale Brown.

9:36

Now, if you know, you know.

9:36

You might not know who Dale Brown is.

9:38

Dale Brown was the legendary LSU basketball coach.

9:43

He is the guy that discovered Shaquille O'Neal, the man who turned...

9:48

Baton Rouge into something other than a football town.

9:54

For a little bit, it was a basketball town.

9:57

And for a little bit, in fact, approximately 48 hours, Dale Brown was my broadcast partner.

10:05

This is a true story.

10:07

Some of the names have been changed to protect.

10:10

You know what? So I'm not sure if...

10:13

This was a good idea.

10:15

I'm not sure anyone involved at the time thought about this.

10:19

And I'm reasonably certain that somewhere in the archives, in the bowels of Fox Sports Radio, there was a memo explaining how this happened and should have been destroyed years ago.

10:31

But it did happen.

10:32

And I wanted to bring it up today.

10:36

Part of the reason is this podcast is to help occasionally me remember people...

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