By Andrea Menzies 09/19/26
I am going to be out of contact with the public for a while. My mom is going into chemo therapy this week and my family has to help her go to doctors appointments. I will not be doing calls, book clubs, podcasts or anything non-essential while this goes on for a while.
By Andrea Menzies 09/01/26
This week I am obsessed with the Palia game on Steam. All of the apps named Discord and Twitch are obsessed with it so I wanted to understand the hype. Palia is a game which somehow manages to have the good parts of many other top ranking MMO games while having none of the problems. It fully mimics World of Warcraft at many sections so I will compare and contrast it with a Warcraft book for a video-game and book-review video this week.
By Andrea Menzies
My Twitch ID has changed. The Twitch drops for games got better. I am now Poedaughter with nothing after it. Not Poedaughter7, or PoedaughterFH7, or Poedaughter777 those are old accounts I don’t get into anymore. Now that it has finally let me into my normal account again I will resume playing video games on there. I was hating Twitch as it locked me out of my account, but now the game rewards have brought me back.
By Andrea Menzies 08/11/2026
Welcome to the FH7 Publishing review podcast. I am the main host Andrea Menzies and I am back from a break. My mom Anne Brockett was sick this month, and needed many rides to the hospital for surgery. In addition, I helped to feed her dogs and get her mail while she was sick. I am now back from the break, and I am taking classes and doing podcasts again.
Welcome to the Frozen History Seven Publishing book review podcast. I am your host Andrea Menzies here to talk about the FH7 book club’s latest book reviewed. This is the Season 1 Episode 7 of the new season that has restarted distribution on Spotify. The advertisements are on Spotify, but the main show as always is on Patreon at the URL https://www.patreon.com/c/FH7Productions7 and the name on Patreon FH7books.com to look up our information. For low fees like 1 dollar you get the podcast, but at the higher tiers you get access to Udemy classes on Discord links. In addition all 20 dollar donations get 1 free page of advertisement in our upcoming book on podcasts for the 2025-2026 year of podcasts. The staff of FH7books.com makes a book on tips and tricks for making your own podcast. It is a class on how to make your own podcast work best. We use our year of podcasts as examples for your own work.
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By Andrea Menzies 07/21/26
The Unofficial Pokemon Go Field Guide by Ivy St. Ive
Note: FH7 Publishing does not just do book reviews, but reviews of games based on books. Pokemon is a game that has books and comic books associated with the product.
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This month every person who plays video games has one soap opera question on their mind, and it is what the heck happened with Palworld and Pokemon’s Nintendo? Nintendo has beautiful art and games it has made, and it sued another company for making a game called Palworld like their games. Can they do this? There is a phrase that fits the issue at hand, and that is the legal phrase “fair use” in art. The famous author Immanuel Kant once famously said. “The dilemma of postmodernism is that all art is collage.” This means all art has a bit of other art in it, and we are all standing tall on the shoulders of giants. How much can one work of art look like another before it is just basic copying? Fair use is defined as the following idea. “Reasonable and limited use of copyrighted material so as not to infringe upon copyright.” (Dictionary.com, 2026). I find this interesting because when I first posted a few of my favorite pictures and drawings online in blogs, internet trolls said “that is not yours” if it looked anything like another drawing. If you make it with different paint and changes to it YES, it is your own work even if it is styled like another drawing. Art has stylized techniques used frequently, and very untalented people like to put artists down saying their art is basic copies. This month Palworld won the lawsuit against Nintendo, and video game fans rejoice at being free to play the version they like best.
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This is the promotional clip for the Episode 5 Season 1 full episodes at https://www.patreon.com/posts/163861975?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=android_share
By Andrea E. Menzies 07/14/26
Season 1 Episode 5 – Campaign Against Facebook
A podcast book review on The Campaign Against Facebook a book about the many huge lawsuits against the Internet giant. Here are just some of the Facebook lawsuits addressed inside.
This episode addresses the 2012 and 2014 Facebook Emotional Contagion Study and the related lawsuit.
Note that in my class this semester we studied the Facebook Emotional Contagion Study conducted in 2012. Facebook conducted a study on hundreds of thousands of people with no consent. It was found guilty of this in court. It claims fake news that changes election results is a mistake, but practiced manipulation willfully right before-hand of the same type.
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By Andrea Menzies 07/14/26
New free poll for paid members and free non-members of Patreon. What the heck is wrong with Facebook? It seriously used to be very fun, and now has so many issues. Do the free three questions poll here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/163757245?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=android_share
By Andrea Menzies 07/13/26
I just got the email I passed another class! I am taking a masters degree at night school, and passed three classes at the new school. I passed 2 classes at another school, but they were charging double the tuition I agreed to so I transferred. 5 classes in a masters degree program have been passed by me in 2025 and 2026. It is a stressful program, but filled with great information. I wish con-artist scumbags had not tried to destroy my ability to go to school when I first moved to Virginia. I would have loved to have gone back sooner. I am a lifelong learning fan.
By Andrea E. Menzies 07/09/26
I noticed that I forgot to re-post Mother’s Day photos for my family at Waffle House and Applebee’s restaurants for the dinner celebration. These were originally posted on the Foursquare Swarm app as check-ins. My review is Waffle House is not just for skits on Saturday Night Live, and actually has good brunch food in the Virginia area. Applebee’s is always yummy for not too much money.
Anne Brockett left, and Andrea Menzies at Applebee’s Grill for Mother’s Day 2026.
