The Ben Mulroney Show - *Canada's Favorite Gameshow! * News or Nonsense!

Episode Date: July 16, 2026

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All right, welcome back to the Ben Mulroney show. Drake's here from 102.1, the edge in Toronto covering for Ben for the next few days as he's on a little vacation with his mom, which is a very nice thing to do. Call your mom. Tell you love him. Trust me, it's good advice. Are you ready to play? News or nonsense? Oh, I like that.

Hear the headlines. Take a guess. Test your brain under duress. It's news or nonsense. Hang on, that's the intro. Did you come up with that? Yes. It's very good. Let's say hi to Mark on the line here.

Mark, welcome to the Ben Mulrudey show. How are you doing? I'm good, sir. I heard you just fresh off a visit from Costco. You got yourself a hot dog. Yes, I did. And I also have it on very good authority, too, that every couple of weeks you order

four to five party-sized Pizzaville pizzas for your card nights? Yep, for our, well, the sports card show, yes. Oh, sports car show. Sorry, I thought I heard card. Oh, sports cards, cards. Oh, sports cards? Yeah, like hockey cards, soccer cards. Oh, I see. I follow now.

Okay. Well, you are playing, I can tell you. You're playing news and nonsense for a $100 gift card from PizzaVille. They have just dropped by the way. Let me tell you. It's a smoky day at PizzaVille. Here's what they have, the ultimate combo. You can get fan favorites at a very sweet price.

Three large topping, three, sorry, large, three topping pizza, eight chicken wings, all poppers and two drinks for already 2799. You can order at pizaville.ca. So you can be winning that today. No, no, no. That's what everybody else can buy. he might be getting a $100 gift certificate. I'm saying if he wins the gift certificate,

he can buy like four of those. Does the map not to work out? Well, he can add a little bit on top. There you go. Right? You can get four of those, four of those packs. 2799 each, he throws in maybe an extra 20, 30 bucks. Boom, he's got a party happening.

It is a part. That is a party. That's how you should, Katie, or the soccer final, by the way. That's what you should get. We're doing that this Sunday. Never mind. All right, well, I have my fingers crossed for you to win this so you can get all of these pizzas.

But also, you're not going to roll over because you're so competitive. Yeah, because Angelo said if I win, I get a gift card. So that's kind of cool. Yeah. He also said he would steal yours, Mark. All right. So what are the rules? Do I need to step out?

You need to leave. You need to leave because nobody trusts you. Nobody trusts you. He's leaving. He's leaving. He's gone. And the door's not closed yet. And he's still peeking his head.

And no. Get out of here. All right, beautiful. Drex has left the building. All right, are you ready to go, Mark? Let's do it. You know what it goes? I read off, there's six of them.

You say news or nonsense right away. And bingo. We'll see how you do. Joy? Okay. It's the news or nonsense cage match lightning round. I'm proud of that one, too. All right, here we go.

Japanese woman accused of sewing her roommate's lips shut with needle and thread. News. Erdogan, that's the Turkish president. Turkey. Yeah, gifts NATO leaders revolvers with live ammo at summit. Nonsense. Local man banned from community pool after attempting synchronized swimming alone. News.

Alaska mall briefly shut down after bear enters, eats a peach, and poops on the floor. I'm going to say nonsense. Brazilian couple breaks Guinness record for most kisses in 30 seconds. News. Museum visitor banned for repeatedly trying to high-five historical statues. I'm going to say nonsense. Nonsense. All right.

There we go. Where is he? Is he coming back in? All right. You are good to come back in. I am just doing a quick tally here. How do you think you did, Mark? Yeah, Mark, how'd you go?

I'm licking my chops for pizza. You're licking your chops for pizza. Oh, my God, I think you've just given Angelo an idea. The lick your chops pizza. It's got lamb chops on a pizza. Maybe. I'm good with that, actually. Maybe that could work.

Okay, all right. Well, are you ready to go there, Drex? Yes, please. Let's go. It's the news or nonsense cage match lightning round. Oh, I don't. I love 70s imaging. It's great. Nice. Yeah, you like that. All right, Japanese woman accused of sewing her roommate's lips shut with needle and thread.

News. Erdogan gifts NATO leaders revolvers with live ammo at Summit. News. News. Local man banned from community pool after attempting synchronized swimming alone. Nonsense. Alaska Mall briefly shut down after bear enters, eats a peach, and poops on the floor. News. Brazilian couple breaks Guinness record for most kisses in 30 seconds.

Hey, he said Brazilian? Yes. Oh, they love that stuff. That's news. It's true they do. Oh, yeah. I made out with the Brazilian ones. It went for a long time. Yes, okay.

So long. Museum visitor banned for repeatedly trying to high-five historical statues. That's news. That's news for sure. That's great. I love it. All righty. How do you think you did?

Probably terribly, but whatever. I'm just trying to make sure he gets his $100 gift card. He's going to party this weekend. He's going to have some pizzas for. I get this. Okay, well, I got to say, you guys, while the Japanese woman accuses sewing her roommate's lips shut with a needle and thread, that was news.

Oh, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, Erdogan gives NATO leaders revolvers with live ammo at summit. That's definitely news because I talked about it on this radio station. Oh, that's not fair. Oh, man, oh, man. We might have to, like, we might have to strike that one. Might have to strike that one, because Mark got that one wrong.

Oh. Yes, you got it right. You knew, you knew. I already knew. Local. Who gives NATO leaders guns with live ammo? The Turkish guy. Of course.

Of course, it's the Turkish guy. Local man banned from community. Hang on, hang on. Hang on it. Before you go on, let's talk a little bit. Let's talk context here for a second. Do you remember the Paris Olympics? Yes.

So what was one of the things that we saw a lot of during the Paris Olympics? Oh, yeah, the crazy gun thing. Which is the pit. which is the pistol shooting. So there was two groups we're looking at. We were looking at the South Koreans. Yeah. Like how precision they were.

And there was this one dude who was a veterinarian, but also a Turkish war veteran. This guy didn't even wear a glass. He just looked at the thing, aimed his pistol, and pulled the shot. So that tells me that guns are probably a pretty normal part of Turkish culture, which is probably why Otegan gave those things. as a gift. Yes. Urduan. O'Don. Sorry, always good. Always said it. Yeah, there you go. A local man banned from

community pool after attempting synchronized swimming alone. That was nonsense. I made that one up. Mark, did you say that one was nonsense, too? No, he thought that was news. Mark? I think it was because it was him. Mark? No? No. Sorry.

Not the best swimmer. Alaska Mall briefly shut down after Bear enters eats a peach and poops on the floor. remarkably, that was news. I said that was news, yeah. Yeah. It sounds like it would be news. It sounds like something I would make up.

Brazilian couple breaks Guinness record for the kissing. Of course, that's news. I was right again. Oh, my God, am I going to win? Yeah, and museum visitor banned for repeatedly trying to high-five. That was nonsense. Oh, I said that was news. Oh, I got that one wrong.

And, Mark, you got three wrong. Dude. Oh, no. Yeah. Even if we strike that one, that's still three wrong. Yeah. Oh, man, I feel bad now. All right.

Enough of the gallery. Geez. Oh, my, oh, my, oh, my. All right. So, hang on, and I meant to hang up on him now and he doesn't walk away with everything. Stay on the line here. We'll see what we can do. Oh, my God.

Mark, hang on there. Jeez. We can't be that. You know what, though, you schooled him. Well, here's the thing. And it's not Mark's fault. I work in a news talk environment, so I understand what news and what may or may not be news. So I think I have a better read on it than Mulrooney does.

You know what, though? I have sort of figured out his way of thinking. And, yeah, I figured out to try to, of the things that he's going to get wrong, I've gotten a little bit better at that. But, you know, I haven't done it with you as many times, so here you go. I'm a bit of a doom scroller. Mark, I don't know whether you're a bit of a doom scroller. That's how you win this game, is you just ignore your children. and you just scroll on the internet until 3 o'clock in the morning,

and then you'll know everything. I guess it's because I stop it around 245, not three. Yeah, got to go to three, man. You've got to go to the distance, friend. That's it. Hang on the line there, Mark, all right? We're just going to chat to you off the radio, okay? Thanks, buddy.

There you go. Mark, I'll play this afternoon. I feel so bad that I won this afternoon. You're celebrating a little. Okay, maybe. That fantastic deal from PizzaVille once again, the ultimate combo, fan favorites at a sweet price, large three topping pizza, eight wings or paupers and two drinks for it at 2799. Order that at pizaville.ca.ca.