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

Trending today: the inventive marketing ploy that diamond-mining companies are using to compete with lab-grown diamonds – which are equal in quality, more socially and environmentally friendly, and (most importantly) way, way cheaper. Victor and Aaron mock the ad campaign, but advertising can be really persuasive even when it’s easily mockable – so Aaron also plugs an old documentary that was made for kids to teach them how to see through deceptive ad campaigns. (Also, Aaron may or may not hit Victor with a yo-mamma joke. Your call.)

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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Today, Victor has the most Canadian trend ever: a study finding that maple trees in urban centers get much of their water from leaky underground pipes. Aaron takes this as cause for extreme optimism: even when human beings go out of their way to annihilate the landscape, nature will always triumph in the end. (Either that, or some shady folks are funding this study to try to convince people not to bother fixing their leaky pipes. One or the other.)

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 increased use of robots to produce sculpture, which begs the age-old question: what is “art,” in the first place? Aaron thinks it still counts if artists are designing the piece and programming the machine to do what they want, but your mileage may vary. (Also, a reporter from Bloomberg claims wayyy too much artistic expertise.)

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 news report that finds the tiny nation of Singapore owns about 5 percent of the land in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. (It’s forest land; they’re using it for timber harvesting.) Victor’s asking why the state of Michigan isn’t interested in harvesting those resources, but Aaron distracts him with fun facts about hard-to-pronounce cities in the U.P.

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: new data from Netflix finds that people tend to favor dubbed audio over subtitles, when it comes to anime shows. (Though is that evidence of a general preference, or is there something specific about anime or Netflix that leads us to prefer dubbing exclusively there? The debate will surely rage on.)

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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In honor of Halloween, Victor asks: which horror-movie villain do you think you personally could defeat or survive? Aaron’s answer is unorthodox but absolutely correct. Henry Taylor and Michael Koh join Victor and Aaron with their own answers – though in Michael’s case we demand a redo.

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 deep-dive study into young-adult literature discovers that main characters’ average age is on the rise – but why? The study (and Victor) think it’s because YA readers are trending older, so they’re seeking protagonists who are closer to them in age – but Aaron wonders if it’s not just a consequence of there being so many sequels. (Also, Victor wonders: what is it that causes a book to be labeled “young adult” in the first place?)

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: an interesting study of animal characters in children’s literature – and how they’re portrayed gender-wise. Cats tend to be portrayed as female, dogs tend to be male – and good luck ever finding a female frog. (It’s not impossible – just very, very hard.)

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: Texas Tech football fans are being ordered to “discard their tortillas,” lest the team get penalized for an odd fan tradition. (But not too odd: as a longtime Red Wings fan, Aaron thinks the folks in Lubbock are amateurs.) 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: Victor discovers that today’s kids are keeping their tonsils and their wisdom teeth, as opposed to previous generations. (What other generational differences are there, when it comes to routine medical procedures? Aaron offers one: the chicken pox vaccine.) Also: Aaron thinks everyone is the same age, Victor refuses to say why he had his wisdom teeth removed, and Aaron recounts a hilariously bad experience in the doctor’s office.

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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