By Andrea M
Sad News. Even the iconic people have dark times.
Category: Podcast News
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Many Thanks
By A. Menzies
Many thanks to my friends and family that helped me pay my medical fees this week. I am feeling much better after getting medication for extreme body pain. I had to be hospitalized 8 times my first year when I was a baby for problems even when I was tiny. Due to a paper work glitch my insurance was cancelled right as several medications were due for refill. Other countries with less money than the United States have Universal Healthcare for all citizens as they don’t make people jump through hoops doing paperwork to stay alive. I think about that daily.
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Never Use Amazon Pharmacy
By Andrea M
Never use Amazon Pharmacy they are complete garbage with medicine and insurance. They claim they send prescriptions in the mail with no line waiting. They will not give you your doctor prescriptions, and the one customer service number they have has complete jerks working there that will scream at you. If there is a problem with your insurance they have no cash payment options. They lose your prescriptions in the mail and say you have taken too much of the medicine you did not get. If you have a problem at Walgreens or CVS you can complain to a manager, Google, and Yelp. Amazon pharmacy has disabled these complaint options, and has no local branches to review so they can do oceans of bad service unnoticed. Here is the one place I can warn people Amazon Pharmacy is garbage. #amazon-pharmacy-is-garbage
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Got Badge
By Andrea Menzies
I got my new badge from my teaching job this week. I have been asked by people why I quit my teaching job to do podcasting. The answer is I have not quit teaching! I currently work as a teacher, podcaster, author, and am going to Grad school at night where I have made A grades. However, the economy is so bad, and the cost of living is so horrible I am still broke. This may be the point that is confusing so many people. #costoflivingbad
New badge as I am still a teacher. 
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Episode 5 Season 1 – Throwback
By A. Menzies
*Updates on Tuesdays.
This is a throwback episode to the Podbean Podcasts before we were on Spotify. Check us out at the link below and like and subscribe. The full episode and blog text will be on Patreon for people in the know. The episodes are being reposted so they can go into the 2025/2026 book on podcasts being made for Amazon this month. The episode re-posted this week is on the series for Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children. It should be noted I bought this series one by one when they were far cheaper than the series has become as a collectors item.
The Patreon link is here:
Podbean Here:
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3czww-1ab7cd4
Throwback episode at FH7publishing.com
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New Puter
By Andrea Menzies
*Note the Tuesday review podcast is late by a day due to computer crash and reboot.
It was tax refund time, and my old computer crashed. I sprang for an HP Victus laptop. I have gone back to a master’s degree night school program, and have hundreds of reports to write. The same processors that can play games well can also write, type, and print better as I need that badly for grades. Grades get money, scholarships, and jobs eventually. Part of my brain says “no don’t spend money,” but another part says “if you buy cheap you get cheap, and buy twice.” I will write the full review later as I just finished unboxing the thing and it is charging.
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Drowning Out Night
By Andrea Menzies
I am glad I got to get tickets for the Friday music show. Yet I had to desperately save up cash to get tickets. Corporations have made every square foot of all downtown areas a money pit. The last few concerts I went to I only saw a tiny bit of music, and had to leave. One big problem is cameras on phones. If you have one bad night and fall on your rear everyone will have a photo they post for 20 years. If you have an abusive ex-boyfriend that is bitter they can take a picture of you dressed up for going out, and Photoshop a mistake into existence.
When my older relatives were in college going out was cheap. If you did a bit of babysitting or lawnmower work, and had 20 bucks you could do everything. Art gallery shows, poetry readings, and music concerts were everywhere and people met friends and could date constantly. Husbands met future wives that way. Food and drinks were cheap, and available in many flavors day and night. Cover-charge was rare, and only $2 now minimum $20. Pay parking was rare, and now is expensive everywhere downtown in every major town. Uber and Lyft are 50 or 60 bucks for small drives, and the app deactivates riders for tiny issues. Free ride home services never show up, and I used to drive for Uber so I heard people speak in horror of dangerous situations they were in when waiting for a non-existent free ride.
Then I saw the post below on Instagram. It talks about New York nightlife, but it is true of every city. Then people in comments said move to the country. Country rent is cheaper, but you still need massive down payment and rent. Next, to live in the country you have to have a vehicle to do anything and pay for insurance and repairs. That is before you buy super expensive gas and parking. Driving everywhere takes a long time so you will want a hotel room to rest in which has also gone up massively in price. I am not the one person to notice that art and nightlife are not just difficult it is nearly impossible to do anymore. The friends and happiness nightlife art created have gone forever with it. Congratulations corporations you have not made being non-lonely difficult you have made it impossible. #music #art #futureUSA
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Xymox Show Baltimore
By Andrea Menzies
I got tickets to Xymox a band I have two records and countless songs from on CD! I would like to thank the Baltimore Soundstage for putting on this great show of the band I have loved since I was a kid. Too bad it was almost too expensive to do, as corporations have made going out an expensive nightmare. The Xymox band are a big hit amongst Siouxie and the Banshees band fans as they are a famous European band.
I have also seen the Sisters of Mercy play at Baltimore Soundstage on September 17 of 2024, and VNV Nation April 1, 2024, and Depeche Mode September 7, 2017 in the area so I know it will be a good show. All the above listed bands are top 40 popular bands from Europe. Virginia only has horrible garbage music playing so I know I will have to get an apartment near Baltimore to hear any good music.
Full review https://www.FH7publishing.com
See Patreon link.
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2026 April Vote
By Andrea Menzies
Yes I have voted. I got nine letters of spam mail a day for weeks. I get it, they are reminding me the Virginia election is important today.
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Episode 4 Season 1 – Sims Spell-Caster Vampires
By Andrea Menzies
*This podcast now updates on Tuesdays.
Intro: Sims 4 is a popular video game with spell-casters and vampires. Did you know people can play a spell-caster mixed with a vampire and many other occult types? The FH7podcast reviews books and videogames with book connections. On Tuesdays we do a podcast at FH7 with videos. See more about how the story of Sims 4 mixes these two magical occult stories, and how to place food in nightclubs at https://www.patreon.com/cw/FH7Productions7 #Sims 4, #Spell-Caster mixed with Vampire.
Sims 4 is an ultra-popular video game where people can make a millionaire dream life and compare photos of it online with other users. If you buy the vampire pack you can play vampires. If you buy the spell-caster magic pack you can do magic. The problem is if you buy both they are so fun it is hard to pick what things you will give your main characters! Fortunately, you don’t have to! Here are a few tips and tricks that I wish I had known when playing spell-caster vampires. Use the cheat menu on a spell caster, and you can give it a vampire energy bar. They will be able to drink blood and order blood packs on the computer and drink them. The spell-caster vampires also never age, and burn in full daylight when not under an umbrella or tree. If you love vampire characters get the seasons pack so the characters can have umbrellas. Surprisingly the characters do not glitch out too bad, and use all the spells like Copypasto, and Repairo well using vampire energy to power the spells. Spell-caster vampires can no longer rise in vampire ranks, and cannot become master vampires. They can make vampire drinks at the bar, and know vampire secrets.
To make a spell caster vampire:
Press Ctrl + Shift + C (then enter)
Type testingcheats true (then press enter)
Type traits.equipt_trait_OccultVampire (then press enter)
Poof, vampire bar is now in the spell-caster menu!
If you have a vampire, you must have them cure their vampire state, turn them into spell-casters, and then re-add the vampire trait. In this way you can complete both the storylines in the game, and use all items in both packs. Unfortunately, if you try to put vampires in a house with non-vampire spell-casters they will try to eat them to death. Have a vampire reach high level vampire lore, gather 5 garlic, and make a garlic braid. This braid will protect non-vampires in the house from bites. Give all magic users brooms and set to “always use brooms” so they can power up magic spells. Vampire spell-casters can also eat food. You can place food at nightclubs by pressing edit when in night-club mode, and type in the search “stall” for food stalls to turn all night clubs to restaurants.
A good book to compare and contrast this video game’s details to is called “Press Stat The History of Video Gaming” by Erwan Cario. A visually stunning book available on Amazon that talks about the roots of video games from 1958 until modern day with details on Sims, Minecraft, and Fortnite.
*Note the audio part of this podcast is behind a pay-wall at Patreon.com listed at FH7publishing.com
This podcast video demo shows spell casters, and how to place food stalls at music clubs in the game. Fediverse Reactions
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Frozen History 7 Publishing Book Review Podcast 