What’s Trending: The JC Penney of Streaming
Trending today is a surprisingly positive statistic: we’re actually paying less for TV today than we did twenty years ago.
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What’s Trending: Things That Are Slightly Northern In Nature
Posted by Aaron Keck | Feb 25, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today is another negative side effect of Trump’s tariffs and trade wars: the collapse of the ginseng industry in Wisconsin.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Lara Croft, Master Chief, and Alan Greenspan
Posted by Aaron Keck | Feb 24, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a very nerdy new video game called Federal Reserve Simulator, where you can play as a Fed chair trying to save the economy.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: A Flamboyance of Flamingos
Posted by Aaron Keck | Feb 23, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a bill in the Florida legislature to make the flamingo the official state bird – with one dissenting voice in Pensacola.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Take Me Home, California Roads
Posted by Aaron Keck | Feb 20, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: Aaron spars with Michael Koh (filling in for Victor) on which songs the U.S. should use for the 2028 Olympic ceremonies.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Catherine O’Hara, and You
Posted by Aaron Keck | Feb 19, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: Victor and Aaron remember the late, great Catherine O’Hara – and Aaron offers advice that could help save your life.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Squishmallows v. Skoosherz
Posted by Aaron Keck | Feb 18, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: a high-level copyright lawsuit pitting Squishmallows against Build-A-Bear over their similar product, Skoosherz.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: Scams and Gambling
Posted by Aaron Keck | Feb 17, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: Meta takes steps to eliminate scam-based ads – until they decide that the scam ads are a lucrative source of revenue.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: The Grand Unified Theory of Trends
Posted by Aaron Keck | Feb 16, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: Americans are switching from bone-in chicken to boneless chicken – no surprise to Aaron, who never liked bones to begin with.
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Read MoreWhat’s Trending: A Man of Singular Focus
Posted by Aaron Keck | Feb 13, 2026 | What's Trending with Victor Lewis
Trending today: Victor revisits an earlier topic, about the decline of mass-market paperbacks as readers shift to e-books.
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