Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHeartRadio.

My guest today is Ed Morrissey.

He is the managing editor of Hot Air and the author of Going Red.

Hi, Ed.

So nice to have you on.

Carol, it's great to talk to you again.

We've known each other a million years, like really a million in the internet world,

way before there was a Twitter or an ex.

We got to know each other in the blog world, and there's been one or two changes since

then.

Would you say that?

A couple.

There have been a few changes over the

years. Yeah, you know, it's, you know, it's been one heck of a ride, actually. You know,

it's, I wouldn't have traded it for anything else. This is, it's been a great experience.

You've always been very positive, and I always enjoyed that about you. You've been in hot air. How long now?

Well, I've been at hot air now. It'd be 17 years. Wow. And then Salem bought it.

17 years in Internet land is like 100 years. I'm ancient. I, Carol, I have reached the old man

shaking fist at Cloud stage of my life. And I am fully willing to come on here and say, get off my damn lawn and turn down your

radios.

But you don't say that very often.

I feel like, again, I think I see you as very like positive, optimistic, just, you know,

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