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

Trending today: new numbers suggesting that the push toward green energy is still ongoing, despite some people’s attempts to trump it. (So to speak.) Also, Aaron tries to liven up the party, Victor makes a gratuitous yo-momma joke, and Aaron offers an insightful and trenchant point about political rhetoric, if he does say so himself.

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 survey about what people did, and didn’t do, back when they were in high school. For example: 87 percent had a crush on someone; 83 percent had a group of friends; 68 percent went to a high-school football game; 67 percent lied to their parents (only 67 percent?! Yeah, right); and 10 percent said they were bullies – though let’s be honest, probably a lot more were bullies and just didn’t fully realize it or acknowledge it. Also: cranky old man Victor laments the loss of the high-school job.

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 very tired Victor talks about Deezer, an online streaming service that’s got a new approach to combating AI-generated music. Also: Victor struggles to stay awake, Aaron shares the philosophy of morning drive-time radio hosting, and Aaron annoys Victor with foreign-language grammar jokes.

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 brand-new Egyptian museum in Cairo, which is almost ready to open – though it took as much time to build as the original Great Pyramid. Also: Aaron and Victor discuss the juxtaposition of kitschy tourist traps across the street from great landmarks, and Aaron complains about a coffee shop.

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 scam hitting community colleges, where scammers use AI to pose as students and walk away with student-aid funds – elbowing real students out of class spots in the process. (Though sometimes the scammers even attend the classes. When does the scam stop and real, honest-to-goodness education begin?!)

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 salmon have an easier time navigating dams when they’re dosed with anti-anxiety drugs. (Which is a welcome relief, because humans flush quite a bit of those into the waterways.) Also, Aaron learns about the science behind anti-anxiety medication.

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 spike in caviar sales in the U.S., now that cheaper, eco-friendlier farm-raised caviar is becoming more and more available. This is big news for Victor, who’s a fan of the cheap caviar at his new favorite downtown Durham restaurant (now that his old favorite downtown Durham restaurant is sadly about to close). Also, Aaron celebrates (and laments) the state of the restaurant scene in downtown Durham – where there are so many fantastic places that it’s hard for any of them to survive.

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 energy-efficient appliances work just as well as their inefficient forebears and save Americans hundreds of dollars a year in the process. (Naturally the Trump administration scrubbed the study from federal websites, but a ProPublica reporter dug it back up.) Also, Duke Energy threatens Victor’s domestic bliss.

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: after receiving an email press release that’s clearly bot-written, Aaron wonders if AI has advanced beyond the Turing Test yet. (In other words: are we still consistently able to identify a machine as a machine when we’re talking to it, or is it advanced enough to convince us that it’s human?) Victor says maybe, maybe not – but there are other interesting things about AI (or LLMs, as the case may be) that are worth exploring too. (For instance: did you know some AI bots are less popular than others because their tone is too upbeat and optimistic? Apparently we humans like our robots dour.)

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 troubling new report on the decline of the U.S. honeybee population. (Fun fact: honeybees started as an invasive species!) Also: Victor does his part to promote pollinators – and then does his part to shut down 97.9 The Hill forever.

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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