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 gets upset over something cool – namely batteries, an incredible technology that we take for granted, consarn it. He’s responding to a story about a guy who pulled 130 discarded vapes from the trash at a music festival and used the remaining battery juice to power a vehicle. (Aaron sees an opportunity: can we get kids to stop vaping by appealing to their environmental consciousness?)

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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 rails against a study on exactly how long it would take a monkey to randomly type the works of Shakespeare. (Also, Aaron remembers acting in a short play in college, which revolved around that very topic. The monkeys didn’t finish there, either.)

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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 increasing popularity of Roblox, whose parent company is hoping to get to a billion total users. (Is that possible, when it’s mostly kids who play it and they outgrow it as fast as new kids start playing? Aaron thinks so – if you count the abandoned user accounts that people don’t bother to go back and delete.)

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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: fun (but intense) bickering by geography nerds over what exactly defines a ‘continent.’ Victor makes the case for New Zealand as a continent, while Aaron wonders about the largest contiguous piece of land that’s not cut in multiple pieces by water. (Also, the history of Boxing Day.)

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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: struggles for an Amazon-based website designed to help artisans in India sell their goods online. Victor and Aaron chat about the website and the larger ecosystem for craftmakers and artisans who want to make money on their products – and they discuss their own favorite international crafts, including Aaron’s cat’s favorite toy.

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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 sings the praises of Nerds Gummy Clusters, which has completely revitalized the Nerds candy brand. Also, Aaron injects himself into “Whamageddon,” an ongoing contest wherein people try to avoid hearing Wham’s “Last Christmas” between December 1-25. (Some local residents have made it interesting by betting on it – and Aaron could cue that song up at any time, so hey, if anyone wants to win that bet…)

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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 Quibi-style shortform film websites, from which Victor concludes that Quibi was just ahead of its time. (Also: fun facts about the money-saturated world of technology, where even a free app can be a billion-dollar multinational corporation…and Aaron flashes his crack marketing skills.)

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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 $6 million sale of “Comedian,” the artwork that consists of a banana duct-taped to a wall. (It gets Victor and Aaron talking about the meaning of art – so, hey, make fun of it if you want, but it did the job it set out to do.)

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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: researchers question whether speaking came before singing in human language – or the other way around. Also, some fascinating facts about the human brain, and Victor tries to remember the lyrics to “Lose Yourself.” (Aaron “AJ” Johnson cameos, for the second day in a row. We don’t know how to get rid of him.)

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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 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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