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

Trending today: Victor continues a run of boring segments with a piece about an extremely slow chase between ocean animals. While Aaron brainstorms ways to make it seem more exciting, Victor offers praise for marine biologists – and their extreme devotion to absolute tedium. (Also, Victor has a billion-dollar idea – but he’s willing to give it to the masses for free. Just like Jonas Salk.)

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 species of tree in Panama that has evolved to the point where they actually benefit from being struck by lightning: not only are they resilient to lightning strikes, the lightning also kills harmful parasites. What’s your superpower?

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 York City’s effort to relax the rules for becoming a street-food vendor, to address an extremely long waitlist – prompting Victor to wonder whether we might be able to do the same thing and introduce food carts in Chapel Hill. Also, Victor and Aaron share their favorite restaurant/food cart names.

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 on the danger of touch screens in vehicles, which can be a major cause of distracted-driving crashes – so much so that Victor suspects it might even be more dangerous to fiddle with the screens than it is to text while driving (though you shouldn’t be doing that either). Also, with rising evidence that touch screens in general do more harm than good, Aaron wonders if our pendulum will eventually swing back – or if this is the rare moment in human history where we end up sticking with the less functional thing. (It has happened before…)

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: the “Hamilton” cast album breaks a 70-year-old record for Broadway longevity. Also, Aaron and Victor debate the merits of 1950s-era full-length albums: Victor thinks there were a lot of great ones, but Aaron points out that he can’t actually name any…

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: increased volcanic activity in Iceland, which is affecting development plans and driving residents from their homes. Aaron is especially interested because he has his own impending trip to Iceland later this summer – but Victor may or may not have something entirely different on his mind the whole time.

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 discusses the surprising ecological impacts of border walls – including one in Belarus that’s threatening a specific population of wild animals. Also, Aaron gets extremely cynical for about 15 seconds – and Victor’s attempt to diss the whole concept of border walls is met with Aaron’s imaginative engineering for modern castles with high-tech moats.

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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Filling in for Victor, Michael Koh comes in with a bone to pick about live-action remakes of animated classics: they hue too closely to their original source material. (Aaron qualifies: that’s actually fine when the original source material is really good, less so when the original film wasn’t actually ever that great to begin with.)

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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Filling in for Victor, Michael Koh runs down a recently-published list of 109 folksy sayings to describe how hot it is outside. (Why 109? Our thinking is because that’s what the heat index was projected to be, but your guess is as good as ours.)

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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Michael Koh steps in for Victor, not with a trend but a question: what should be on a Chapel Hill bingo card? Some ideas: a blue fire truck, an obscene anti-Duke shirt, a business that references UNC in some way – but what else? We’re taking suggestions.

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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