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

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.

Trending today: more Americans are investing in home gardens and chicken coops – which Victor thinks is obvious, but Aaron thinks is interesting. Also: the parent company of Nickelodeon trademarks the word “slime,” and authors sue Meta after unsealed emails reveal that Meta employees pirated huge numbers of books and used them to train their AI models.

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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.

Trending today: a report on the board game industry, which is now heavily dependent on Kickstarter to raise publishing funds. (Which might be okay, as it turns out: new board games actually do pretty well on Kickstarter.) Victor and Aaron discuss their own Kickstarter habits – and their own board game habits, including which games they own but still haven’t played.

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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.

Trending today: the fancy in-building restaurants in New York City’s high-end residential buildings – which are mostly empty because nobody eats there, but still exist because every luxury apartment building feels the need to have one as a perk for residents. (How are they paying for it all? Resident fees. Really, really high resident fees.) Also, Aaron takes aim at mixed-use developments that promise something nobody actually wants.

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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.

Trending today: a study finding that big-city pedestrians are walking 15 percent faster – and hanging out on street corners significantly less – than they did 30 years ago. Aaron and Victor discuss the unwritten rules of being a pedestrian in a major city – and Aaron’s counterintuitive-but-totally-correct theory that New Yorkers are in fact the most polite people in America. (Are they yelling and honking at you? That’s because you’re the one being rude.)

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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.

Trending today: social-media chatter over a photo of Bill Belichick and Jordan Hudson playing “airplane” on a sunny beach. Aaron and Michael Koh (filling in for Victor) agree that it’s cool and the haters need to chill, just in general – though Aaron’s not 100 percent sold on the fact that it’s clearly a staged photo with a professional photographer taking the picture. (There must be hilarious outtakes, right?)

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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.

Trending today: a spike in sales for “brandless” (store-brand) products – presumably due to inflation, but who can say? Victor and Aaron compare their shopping habits: for which products are they fine buying the store brand, and for which products will they stick with the brand names despite the higher price? (Also, Victor waxes nostalgic for Soviet-era grocery stores.)

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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.

Trending today: a survey that finds 38 percent of Americans read no books at all in 2024 – and 20 percent of Americans are responsible for three-quarters of the total number of books that got read last year. Victor and Aaron talk about their own reading habits: Aaron’s read a ton of books in 2024, but his consumption varies a lot from year to year. (Also, Victor disses Cormac McCarthy, and Aaron takes care of an errand.)

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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.

Trending today: technological improvements are making it easier to recycle steel, but not without a cost: the new technique is able to virtually eliminate waste (that’s good!), but it creates a highly toxic dust in the process (that’s bad!). Also, Victor’s attempt at a callback flies right over Aaron’s head.

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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.

Trending today: a gas station chain in the Midwest that’s selling more pizza than Domino’s, part of a food-focused trend for gas stations nationwide – not just as a money-maker, but also as a way to attract EV drivers who need a place to hang out for a while as their vehicle charges. (Why don’t malls take advantage of that? A new generation of mallrats awaits!) Also, Victor and Aaron agree that it’s good to be a regular customer, at as many places as possible.

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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.

Trending today: Victor is shocked to discover that Chick-Fil-A doesn’t make lemonade in house anymore – and not only that, it’s all made by machines at a plant in California. (California, of all places?!) Also, Victor learns about a famous old TV commercial, and Aaron discovers he needs to start boycotting Pledge.

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