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

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 and Aaron (and AJ, who’s also here for some reason) discover that you’re no longer required to sign receipts – and in fact that requirement hasn’t existed since 2018. Also, everyone insults each other.

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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 yacht racing, with the America’s Cup just around the corner. While Aaron draws comparisons to the Food Network, Victor celebrates the “unstoppable” New Zealand team – and laments (laughs at?) Britain’s century-plus string of losses. (They’re investing a lot of energy to break that streak, but that may or may not just be making them worse at soccer.)

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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: brilliant scholars with little pop-culture knowledge discover that Spongebob is responsible for a heightened awareness of Leif Ericson. Also, Aaron offers important advice on how to navigate social media – and remembers a funny experience chatting with a researcher who knew a lot about their subject, but not quite enough about One Direction.

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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.

97.9 The Hill sports reporter Michael Koh takes over Trends, with a deep dive into this year’s weird bowl game sponsors – including individual people this year, like Snoop Dogg and Rob Gronkowski.

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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 significant increase in the ability of NFL kickers, who are way more accurate now from longer distances. (Also, Victor completely disses a guy without even knowing who he is.)

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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 Thanksgiving-parade appearance by the Santaverse, a manufactured ‘holiday tradition’ designed to make money. Not designed to completely break Victor Lewis’ brain, as far as we know, but it appears to have accomplished that too.

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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 global study attempts (unsuccessfully) to explain “the doldrums,” a part of the ocean where the wind doesn’t blow. Also: Victor shares his love of novels about sailing; Aaron one-ups Victor in his knowledge of One Piece; and Victor once again teases Friday’s Trends segment on the Santaverse, which hopefully will eventually happen.

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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 war between tennis and pickleball takes a new turn, as tennis attempts to reinvent itself to keep up. (The idea reminds Aaron of when bowling added bumpers to the gutters, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be successful.) Also, Victor teases Friday’s Trends segment, which is the one he’s really excited about…

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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 reporter who may have discovered the identity of the individual who paid a $7 billion estate tax last year – suggesting they were worth at least $17 billion when they died, which made it a little odd that nobody knows who they were. (Likeliest culprit: a Texas hedge fund billionaire who flew under the public radar.) Also, Aaron and Victor push for a tax on wealth – all the better to reduce taxes on transactions.

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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 emergence of “Spirit Christmas,” a new store from the folks who brought you Spirit Halloween. Aaron and Victor discuss the current state of the holiday retail market – and Victor’s adamant refusal to call Spirit Christmas a “pop-up shop,” for some reason.

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