What's Trending with Victor Lewis (This Morning with Aaron Keck)

We never actually get to today’s trend: Victor starts to set up a trending article by expressing his dislike of autograph collection (specifically, buying autographed items without having had the experience of interacting with the signer directly), but Aaron jumps in with a counterpoint related to modern abstract-expressionistic art. (It makes sense, trust me.) Also, Victor loses a friend.

Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.

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Trending today: a college student sues Everclear’s manufacturer after a party mishap that led to a serious injury. Victor’s a little offended, though Aaron points out that civil lawsuits tend to go after the folks with the deepest pockets – whether that’s conducive to justice or not. (Also, Aaron digresses into a fond memory about an old 1980s-era local commercial.)

Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.

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Trending today: Meta goes public about their efforts to push you into endless short-video scrolling – and not interacting with your actual friends. Great for short-term profits – but won’t that nudge us away from social media in the long run, since we only got on social media in the first place to interact with people we actually know? Aaron thinks that might be the future, but Victor’s not yet convinced. (Also, Victor drops a reference to the Shelley poem “Ozymandias,” because of course he does.)

Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.

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Trending today: Aaron gets criticized online, but he’s taking it as a huge compliment – triggering a deeper conversation about the importance, the role, the purpose, and the proper strategy for really good trash talk. (Victor is kind of an expert on the subject, but he’s not even tops in his own house.)

Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.

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Trending today: a new twist in stock trading, as investors are now trading bonds backed by music catalogs. Victor and Aaron are a little wigged out at the idea of treating art like any other commodity, but are they ready to embrace just how radical a critique that is? (Or the amount of work it’ll take to follow through?)

Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.

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Trending today: blue cheese? Beets? Liver? Anchovies? Licorice? A new poll asks Americans to rank their most hated food. (Fun result: there’s a big generational divide on blue cheese, with younger people liking it and older people strongly opposed. Aaron’s theory: maybe that has something to do with how old you are when you really like eating wings.)

Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.

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Trending today is the Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit that’s tasked with standardizing emojis across all operating systems. (So an iPhone user can send smiley faces to an Android user, for instance.) They’ve just approved a new set of emojis – but will people use them for their stated purpose? (Also: Aaron sings the praises of emojis, and Victor alters his approach to personal communication – but not in the way you’d expect.)

Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.

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Trending today: a big drop in price for the Black Lotus, a notoriously rare and pricy Magic: The Gathering card. Aaron and Victor talk about the ever-changing market for collector’s items, from comic books to baseball cards – and along the way Victor drops some of his dad’s wisest bits of accrued wisdom.

Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.

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Trending today: a study finding that ChatGPT is actually more effective and accurate when you treat it rudely. Surprising? Maybe not: Aaron says that revelation dovetails nicely with a commentary he recently saw – arguing that humans will deliberately program super-advanced AI to act cowardly and sycophantic (think C3PO) so we’ll feel better about ourselves when we interact with them. (Michael Koh fills in for Victor.)

Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.

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Trending today: Tom Brady clones his recently-deceased dog, which is just about the richest thing we’ve ever heard of anyone doing (though it’s no more expensive than an upscale car). Also, Aaron quotes Montaigne and Hitchcock, Michael brainstorms punny dog names, and Aaron reiterates his hottest take: he doesn’t believe adults exist.

Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.

What’s Trending is made possible by Dynamic Electric. Listen now:

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