Airlines: we hate them, and it feels like they hate us. Is our only choice to "ride in the fucking toilet"? A former airline employee joins us to help peel back the curtain at Gate 21. (Part 1 of 2)

Panelists: John Roderick, Jim Dalrymple, Lex Friedman, Brent Billings

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• Brent Billings survived the airline industry and now does photography and design.
• John Roderick makes music with The Long Winters, and shares custody of Roderick on the Line with Merlin Mann. Watch yourself, he might be elected Senator someday. #Supertrain
• Jim Dalrymple runs The Loop, The Loop Magazine, and hosts Amplified.
• Lex Friedman is EVP of Sales and Development for The Mid Roll, and co-hosts Not Playing with MacWorld's Dan Moren. Give us this day (Y)our Daily Lex.

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