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LISA NOWAK AND THE ASTRONAUT LOVE TRIANGLE: WHO IS TO BLAME?
Who’s to blame for Lisa Nowak & The Astronaut Love Triangle?
This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) welcomes back Sequoia Holmes (host of the podcast Black People Love Paramore) to discuss the curious case of Astronaut Lisa Nowak who drove 14 hours straight from Houston to Orlando to confront her ex-lovers new girlfriend. They’re joined by Fact Checker Chris Smith and Producer Clayton Early. Can a 70+ hour work week break a person? How can you top anything on earth once you’ve been to space?! And what kind of pressures are these Astronauts truly exposed to over at NASA? No matter where we land, I think we’ll all agree…Houston, we have a problem!
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