South Korea Holds Three Meetings About GTA Nudity

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Good morning. Let's begin in South Korea, where a government committee has now met three times about nudity in a video game.

Grand Theft Auto Six comes out next week. Inven Global got hold of the minutes from Korea's game rating board, and the game came close to being refused a rating there. The crime and the drugs came up, but the board has no rule for refusing a game over those. The problem was genitals, appearing in the background, attached to no plot.

At the first review, in September, one member said, "It is not that genital exposure is completely forbidden, but it has never appeared this frequently without context." That's a regulator asking a crime game for more story. The vote tied. Three for an adults-only rating, three for refusing the game outright.

So the board got a playable copy, to examine it properly. At the second meeting a member reported "far too much genital exposure," and they postponed again, to allow more gameplay. Another meeting was canceled because not enough members showed up. Presumably they were still examining.

In October all nine attended and voted eight to one for adults only. One member had pointed out the burden of Korea being the lone holdout. Saudi Arabia had already approved it.

In Minnesota, voters just elected Matt Little to Congress, and he has spent orientation week insisting that he exists. HuffPost reports that TikTok has decided the congressman-elect is actually the comedian Nathan Fielder, and that winning a House seat is his latest bit. One comment read, "Girl I thought you were Nathan Fielder." Others noted the two have never been seen in the same room.

Little posted a video saying, "You all have to quit it," and that he is "a real person." It's the only thing he could say. It's also exactly what Nathan Fielder would say.

About a year ago, a raccoon broke into a liquor store in Ashland, Virginia, got into the inventory, and was found passed out next to the toilet. He slept it off at the county animal shelter and was released. The shelter then started selling T-shirts that say "Trashed Panda."

HuffPost, citing the Washington Post, says the shirts have now raised more than two hundred ninety thousand dollars. The shelter usually gets about twenty thousand a year in donations. The county's chief of animal protection said, "We never thought a raccoon would do this for us."

The money is going to body cameras for the county's eight animal protection officers. So one raccoon had a rough night, and now every animal in Hanover County is on video.

In Silver Lake, Wisconsin, there's a place called Benders Bar and Grill with dollar bills on the ceiling. WISN reports that just before six on Tuesday morning, a man broke in through a side window, and the security video shows him jumping for them. The owner estimates he left with four to five dollars. The whole take was limited by how high he could jump.

In Australia, a sixty-four-year-old farmer named Scott Gladman is trying to become the first person to swim the entire Darling River. That's sixteen hundred and fifty kilometers, about a thousand miles. ABC News found him on day seventy-two, past halfway, where he told them, "I'm not a great swimmer." Before this, his longest swim was eight kilometers.

He's raising money for motor neurone disease and Parkinson's, after two friends were diagnosed. His wife, George, says she suggested "a few other things and some other rivers." Then she joined the crew.

And an update on the two horses that boarded a Detroit city bus last weekend. The owner has come forward. Jordan Williams, of the Urban City Cowboys, told WXYZ he'd been giving kids rides at a fundraiser, saw a bus coming, and talked to the driver. "So we did, we walked on." He says he's done it on three other routes. So that wasn't curiosity. That's a habit.

Over on AskReddit, someone asked which animal could take down a large male polar bear. The top answer, by a wide margin: "A larger male polar bear."

After that it got technical. The elephant has broad support, on the grounds that it weighs about ten times as much. Several people backed the walrus, which is up to two tons with skin a bear can barely get through. Someone replied, "I bet I could hurt one's feelings."

A bear biologist said that when grizzlies and polar bears actually meet, the grizzly dominates every time. Polar bears, the biologist explained, are like "the grade school bully who has 50 pounds on the other kids but never actually got in a real fight." Another commenter's plan was to drop a sperm whale on it. And one nominee was just, "My mom. She's real mean."

Another thread asked who made the best use of their fifteen minutes of fame. The favorite was the man who skateboarded to Fleetwood Mac while drinking cranberry juice. People also liked Ken Jennings, who went from Jeopardy contestant to Jeopardy host. And one vote went to Anthony Scaramucci. "We named a unit of time after him."

Alright guys, That’s all I have for you today. Have a great day. Thanks for listening. See you tomorrow!