The Ben Mulroney Show - News or Nonsense BMS game show! It's a real thing. Pizzaville approved.

Episode Date: July 10, 2026

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Only till July 15th. Shop in store or online at metro.ca. snack on these savings with woes of deals at food basics get 144 to 200 gram christie cookies or crackers for just one 98 each shop in store and online until july 50th food basics always more for less well the story of this new version of news or nonsense is entering the legendary phase of its evolution because our week one winner rick frane heard that brad uh brad smith from No BS with Brad Smith was raising money for the food bank. And he came down here to pick up his prize. He donated half of it to Brad Smith's initiative. And when they pointed out, like, you had 100 bucks to buy pizza. It goes, 50 bucks still buys a lot of pizza.

So congratulations to Rick Frane for doing that. That is wonderful. All right. So this is how the game goes. PizzaVille has got you covered. If you win, you win a $100 gift card from PizzaVille. but maybe you have a watch party or something special. You want to feed the crew.

You get a one-topping party-sized pizza feed six to eight. I always, I'm dubious about that number because I could eat. I could take down half of one of those myself. 24 chicken wings or poppers, and their poppers are good for only $466.com. You can order at pizaville.com. Call 416-736-36-36. That's if you aren't playing. That's if you're not playing.

Because if you're not playing, that's what you do. But if you are playing, you could pause. So we get $100 bucks. Yep. And if you lose next week, $200. All right. So who is my competitor this week?

This week we've got Lanka. Lanka. Hi, Lanka. Happy Friday, guys. What's going on? Where are you calling from? I'm calling from Markham. You're calling from Markham, and you want yourself some pizza, huh?

Yeah, all that pizza talks making me hungry. I may have to make a stop at the Pizzadville later on this evening. Now, Lanka didn't talk any smack, which I was a little disappointed with, but it was okay. but he did say that it was his lucky day that he'd had some good fortune recently that he held the hot hand and I felt good I felt this was my champion today

oh you you feel that all right all right so so that people know at home I'm going to leave the room and Alenka is going to hear a whole bunch of headlines that are going to be read by Intrepid and he has to decide pretty quickly if it's news or nonsense then I come back in

answer the same questions and then we're told who wins So on that note, do you want me to leave the room intrepid? I really do. All right, I'm out of here. Get out. Leave. Lanka, you don't have to be here and staring at these feet of these.

So you're lucky. Yeah, very, very lucky. All right, Lanka. Oh, you see, Ben's doing this back and forth. And I have to make sure that the door closes that there is, he is being put into this soundproof room. Joy, can you confirm Ben has left the building? Yes, Ben has left the room, not the building. Come on.

Well, that's the, it's an expression. Oh, good. Anyway. All right. And he's on his phone. He's not paying any attention. All right. Blankar, are you ready to go? I'm ready. I'll give you the old college try here. Hear the headlines. Take a guess. Test your brain under duress. It's news or nonsense. There we go. All right. Headline. I saw you just say news or nonsense at the end of this.

And we move on. All right. Headline number one. Texas giraffe escapes. Wanderes for two weeks. walks home. I'm going to say news. Viral Buffalo, nicknamed Donald Trump, spared from Eid sacrifice in Bangladesh. I'm going to say news.

Didn't seem so certain about that one, but okay, Ottawa man sues neighbor after being repeatedly mistaken for a garden gnome. Nonsense. Japanese town spends $228,000 on a giant squid statue to boost tourism. Ooh, I'm going to go with that's news.

Okay. Couple discovers Bear living in their couch after months of strange smells. I'm going to go with that's nonsense. Winnipeg woman says her smart fridge keeps ordering cheese. She never approved. I'm going to go with that's nonsense.

All righty. All righty. There was well done there. Okay. I'm not going to tell you how you did. Okay. Cannot do so. We will, Ben is coming in now.

He's got a swagger to him today. This is obnoxious. It's obnoxious. Don't, yeah, he's, he thinks he already won, Lanka. He thinks he already won. I hope I won. You hope you won. He's got his feet up on the desk now.

Let's do this. Oh, unbelievable. Okay, Joy, hit it. It's the news or nonsense. Cage Match lightning round. You have no idea. He is so self-satisfied. Every time he hears one of his little AI

little trinkets, bobbles, audio trinkets. Cage match, yes. All right. Okay, headline number one, Texas giraffe escapes, wanders for two weeks, then calmly walks home. News. Viral Buffalo.

named Donald Trump spared from Eid's sacrifice in Bangladesh. Geez, there's a lot that I, there's lots of layers that I just don't know. I'm going to say, I'm going to say nonsense. Ottawa man sues neighbor after being repeatedly mistaken for a garden gnome. Nonsense. Japanese town spends $228,000 on a giant squid statue to boost tourism. Repeat, please. Japanese town spends $228,000 on.

a giant squid statue to boost tourism. News. Couple discovers bear living in their couch after months of strange smells. Living in their couch? Correct. Nonsense. Winnipeg woman says her smart fridge keeps ordering cheese she never approved of. News.

All right. There we go. All right. All right. Get to know, Lanka, for a second, as I tally this up. Lanka, why are you having such a good day? Well, you know what? I've been having a couple of wins recently on my lotto tickets, on my lotto max on my lotto 649.

I've kind of been on a roll, actually. Like my last three tickets have been winners. I was like, man, you know what? When I heard you guys were doing this contest, I was like, I feel like I'm on a roll. I should just try and see if I can ride the hot hand. Yeah, no, I like that. But you realize by telling everybody that you have been winning the lottery,

they're going to be people you haven't heard from in quite some time reaching out going, hey, buddy, how are you? I want to take you out for a beer and tell you about this incredible business opportunity I have for you. It's a multi-level business that I really think you'd like to get in on with me. Get in on the ground floor. Are you prepared for those phone calls? Yeah, yeah. I have a feeling those calls are going to be flooding in now any minute.

Have you tallied the score? We have tallied the score. All right. Let's go, Lanka. All right. Would you like to know, should we go through the list to see which ones are news and nonsense? Here we go. Texas draft escapes, wanders for two weeks, then calmly walks home. That's news.

Viral Buffalo, nicknamed Donald Trump, is spared from Eid's sacrifice in Bangladesh. Again, news. I didn't get that one. Surprising. I was blown away by that, too. Ottawa man sues neighbor after being repeatedly mistaken for a garden gnome, which you just quickly said. You were like, well, that's nonsense. Japanese town spends $2,000 on a giant squid statue to boost tourist.

That's news. Okay. And a couple discovers bear living in their couch after months of strange smells. Surprisingly, that's news. What? Yeah. Is there? Yeah, I'm telling you.

You got to send me the link. All right. Well, hold on. We got a second here. Find that story. Because how the hell does a bear live in a couch? That's what I want to know. How does a bear live in a couch?

It was an L.A. man's house. What's it even? in there? I'm not sure. It was a 550-pound bear. There's a picture of it. How big is it? Yeah, he's coming out.

How big's the couch? I don't know. It's a 550-pound? This is a large bear. Well, it's got to... I don't know a couch big enough to house. Here's the thing. They got rid of the bear.

They shot it with paint balls to be able to get in the move. I need to see the couch. He was underneath... He was underneath the couch, which is in the crawl space. They said the couch. and yeah

All right They were It's there it is There's pictures And there's the guy who owns the house Is a Oh he looks like a grisly kind of guy himself All right

It's there's some truth there And also The pictures of the bear walking away With paintball marks on its butt All right So I know I can't remember I enjoy that

All right And the last one Winnipeg woman says Her smart fridge Keeps ordering cheese She never approved of That was nonsense Oh I got at least three wrong

Yes not do well today. What? No, all right. So here we go. Ben, you, sir. I didn't well,

I did not do well today. You did three out of six. Yeah, 50%. 50%. He'll get you in the Hall of Fame in baseball. Yeah. Use your nonsense. Not so much.

Oh, Lanka. Missure Lanka. Yes, sir. How do you think you did? Can you even remember? Yeah, you know what? I'm hoping I got at least four. You, sir.

I got a least four. You, sir, we're doing the reality show thing here. You, sir, got five out of six correct. All I do is win, we, we, no matter what. Got money on my mind. I can never get to know. Everybody hands go up. Yeah, both of you.

And they stay there. Both of you got the bear living under the couch wrong with strange smells. By the way, intrepid. First of all, Langelike, congratulations. And stay on the line, Lanko. Hold on, yes. No, we're not leaving. Point of order. Point of clarification. Were you to be the host of a reality competition?

That's not exactly. You're close. But here's what you would have said. Oh, please. We've tabulated the votes. And the winner of news or nonsense. Week three. Stop talking. I'm in the middle of something here. I got to start over. Jesus. We've tabulated the votes. And the winner of this week's. news or nonsense will be revealed after the break. That's what you would have said. That's how it works.

We're not revealing after the break. We're jumping in now. So, yeah. So, like, there you go. Hey, Pizzaville party. What do you think you're going to order there? Hmm. And you're inviting us over?

No, he's got friends that. He's got friends. They all know. I'm saying friends, stragglers, hangers on. Mooches, if you will. They're all coming for you, man. They're coming for your lotto and they're coming for your pizza. I'm going to be Googling that bear story right after I get out.

the phone line with you. I got to see those pictures. Yeah, you can say this is the, what, you got it wrong, but it's still the winner. Yeah, you know what? You can have that party-sized pizza, which, I'm sorry, PizzaVille. Six to eight people? No, no, no. That's one. That's maybe one and a half mics, one and a quarter bend. And it's barely enough for that bear. Oh, yeah, that bear would, he would tear through that PizzaVille pizza. Langa, thank you so much. Stick on the line. Intrepid's going to get your information. And thank you very much. Thank you for PizzaVille for having fun with this. on this stuff.