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

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Trending today, technically, is a story about how the beloved character Lamb Chop is now one of America’s most popular dog toys. But forget that: today’s real question is, what is it that Victor Lewis has against the Atlantic Monthly? He’s got some beef, but he’s not telling. Inquiring minds want to know!

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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 mobile betting company Draft Kings, which could potentially be in real trouble if the Lions win the Super Bowl. (That’s because a huge percentage of the bets they’ve taken are on the Lions to win – many of which came earlier in the season, when the team faced longer odds.) As a Michigander, Aaron is fine with this; as a hater of all those inescapable ads for online betting apps, Victor is fine with this too. (Michael Koh joins the conversation once again as well.)

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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 takes a deep dive into Lord of the Rings-themed video games, which have not been doing well – despite an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars by one company in particular. Also, inevitably, a conversation about the movies, because Victor and Aaron are nerds and literally any conversation about any topic will eventually wind up there sooner or later. (Michael Koh joins the discussion as well.)

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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 woman on Reddit who’s trying to remember her boyfriend’s favorite NBA player – whose name sounds something like “Hector Banana-Bread.” Also, the logistics – and the psychological worries – of watching the film “Oppenheimer” a whole bunch of times every week. (Michael Koh joins Victor and Aaron.)

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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 gang in Colombia that stole $200 million worth of gold – by taking over a mine and mining it themselves. (Haven’t they just earned it, at that point?) Also, Aaron expounds on John Locke’s theory of property, and the Wall Street Journal finally gets the better of Victor.

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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 takes a deep dive into toilet paper – namely those so-called “mega rolls,” which are advertised as being X times the size of a “regular roll.” Did you know that a “regular roll” doesn’t actually exist? (Also, Aaron schools Victor on Seinfeld, and Victor makes Aaron laugh harder than he’s laughed all year.)

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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 study that found that there are fewer serenades on the Billboard charts today than there used to be. (What’s a “serenade”? That’s a very good question.) Aaron and Victor talk about what types of love songs are more and less popular today versus yesterday – and how certain complicated songs ought to be classified in the first place.

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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.

It’s real cold out there, so Victor’s thinking warm thoughts: trending today is a story about heat, specifically the still-open question of exactly when the temperature gets so high that air-circulating fans cease to have any cooling effect. Turns out there’s no scientific consensus: some studies say fans stop working when the temperature hits the low to mid 90s; others say fans still do some good even into the triple digits. (For better or worse, though, we’re nowhere near any of those points today.)

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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 story about the surprising re-emergence of Barnes & Noble gets Aaron and Victor waxing nostalgic about their own bookstore memories – and celebrating the purchasing of physical hard copies of books and movies – and urging everyone to support your local bookstores. (And Barnes & Noble too. You can do both!)

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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 on the rising demand for sake outside of Japan – and a decline in demand inside Japan. (It actually makes sense.) Also, Victor expounds on his love of grapeless wine, and Aaron expounds on his theory of why Americans drink so much. (It all goes back to the melting pot. Prove me wrong.)

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