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 takes a deep dive into banana trivia, after getting intrigued by a recent story in the Times. Also: Aaron gives Victor a really, really, really good idea for a future Trends segment – and asks the important questions about how banana experts become banana experts. Seriously, you don’t, like, start out with that specific goal in mind, right?

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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 planned expansion of Las Vegas’ Neon Museum – which Victor is excited about because it’s really cool, and Aaron is excited about because it’s moving to a district in Vegas that really needs more stuff in it in the first place. Also, Victor brainstorms a new personal brand name, and Aaron offers Vegas travel tips.

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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 life of Mary Anning, a once-neglected 18th-century paleontologist whose work is now getting its due. (She’s also rumored to be the inspiration for the tongue twister “she sells seashells by the seashore” – but that’s unconfirmed. The paleontology part is absolutely true.)

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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 rise of “sea wool,” a new fabric made partly from oyster shells that actually feels nice and wears pretty well. It’s also made partly from plastic waste pulled from the ocean, so it’s eco-friendly as well. (At least according to the makers of sea wool. They’re believable for sure, right?)

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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 sustained success of Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” – possibly a product of the consolidation of big faceless radio conglomerates? Also, Aaron and Victor encourage listeners to prank Andrew Stuckey – but for a great musical cause.

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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.

Our resident gremlins, Skratch and Snif, take over Trends to plug 97.9 The Hill’s Halloween programming tonight – with three hours of uninterrupted Halloween music from 5-8 p.m., followed by scary stories to take you into the night. (Also, Skratch tries to claim Halloween for Die Hard.)

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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 Virginia man who just bought a collection of 20 million sports cards and other memorabilia – far and away the largest private collection of baseball cards ever amassed, a collection so large that its value literally cannot be measured. (But Aaron’s not impressed.) Also, Victor has flashbacks to his time working in a comic book store.

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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: military veterans are in demand with shipping companies like FedEx and Amazon, and the U.S. Army leans on Microsoft to lower the price of combat goggles. (Also, a brief Aaron rant about how the most necessary and important jobs are so often also the lowest-paying.)

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