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.

Trending today: two NBA stars try to game the skills challenge at this year’s All-Star Game, but get stymied by a rogue rule book. Aaron and Michael Koh (filling in again for Victor) use that as a jumping-off point to discuss all-star games in general – most of which, to be honest, we really don’t care about.

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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.

Trending today: a seal that got loose from an aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut, and turned up in New Haven – which is pretty far for a seal to travel. Also: Aaron discusses both Connecticutian geography and the general reputation of New Haven as a town. Michael Koh fills in for Victor.

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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.

Filling in for Victor, 97.9 The Hill sports reporter Michael Koh discusses the blockbuster Doncic-for-Davis trade that has the NBA buzzing. Everyone assumes it’s a terrible trade for Dallas (and Mavs fans are reacting accordingly), but who knows for sure? Also, Aaron remembers his favorite ‘bad’ trade, involving one of his favorite teams – a trade he’ll defend to this day.

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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.

Trending today: Victor stumps for homemade tortillas, in response to another Atlantic article that rubs him the wrong way. Also: Aaron gets picky about corn versus flour, Victor does a passable Hulk Hogan impression, and we decide that every corn scientist has the same last name.

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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.

Trending today: a report on which movies are available to watch on airplanes – and which ones are most popular. Turns out each airline has only a handful of people involved in selecting the movie list – just one guy at Southwest Airlines, in fact! – and while they always like providing fresh choices, flyers don’t always like it when their favorites get removed. The most popular in-flight movie? “Crazy Rich Asians,” at least in terms of the number of complaints that airlines receive when they try to take it away.

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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.

Trending today: the rise of digital advertising, which now comprises over 70 percent of the trillion-dollar ad industry. That’s coming with its own issues, though – including a couple shady companies that promise ‘ad blocking’ but actually just deliver targeted advertising directly to you. Also, Victor shouts out billboards, and Aaron rags on podcasts (even his own).

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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.

Trending today: the resurgence of bedbugs, after the U.S. succeeded at virtually eliminating them in the 1960s. Victor takes a deep dive into the effort to develop new methods of combating the increasingly pesticide-resistant bugs – and the push by a fringe group of scientists to just let them come back.

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97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck chats with government officials, UNC scholars, business and nonprofit leaders, area musicians, and others in our community as they share their thoughts, their experience, and their expertise on the central issues of today. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s conversations – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” at 7:30 a.m. on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

Trending today: Victor celebrates after learning (a little late) that we successfully eradicated murder hornets. Also, Aaron promulgates the theory of sensory-based morality: we’re a lot less squeamish about killing animals when they’re unattractive or have scary-sounding names.

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97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck chats with government officials, UNC scholars, business and nonprofit leaders, area musicians, and others in our community as they share their thoughts, their experience, and their expertise on the central issues of today. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s conversations – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” at 7:30 a.m. on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

Trending today: a report about a strange business that’s thriving in Utah – high demand for bearded, long-haired male models, to work as Jesus impersonators. This is popular in Utah specifically, which confuses Aaron: shouldn’t this be the sort of thing you’d see in more secular communities, where this level of irreverence is more to be expected? It takes all kinds, apparently.

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97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck chats with government officials, UNC scholars, business and nonprofit leaders, area musicians, and others in our community as they share their thoughts, their experience, and their expertise on the central issues of today. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s conversations – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” at 7:30 a.m. on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

Trending today: the surprising re-emergence of blimps, zeppelins and dirigibles, as a greener method of air travel. (They’re also faster than you think, with speeds over 100 kilometers an hour.) Only trouble is, blimp travel today is limited to high-end, high-priced luxury flights – but who can predict the future? (Also, Aaron and Victor discuss the best way to get up to DC for the weekend; Aaron thinks he’s got it figured out, but he doesn’t want to tell anybody.)

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