By Andrea M
Sad News. Even the iconic people have dark times.
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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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Health USA
By Andrea M
Countries with far less money in comparison to the United States have Universal Healthcare for all citizens. When people are sick they can NOT work a lot of hours so having health insurance tied to a job guarantees you will lose it when you most need it. I am dealing with this gem of a logic flaw this week.
Meanwhile the billionaires have seen record profits this year. Also they have record tax breaks.
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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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A Nightmare Poem About Virginia
By Andrea Menzies
Many times I have woken up from screaming nightmares to post emotional things about my hatred of Virginia and the rapist beaters populating the Fort Lee military base. I chickened out and deleted many of them. Not because they are not true, but because people in Virginia would rather torture me than understand the truth that rapists and beaters populate the Fort Lee military base in Virginia. This one I will not chicken out on, and I owe it to my constant nightmares to post it freely. Here is a simple poem about the constant anger I face as my family has tried to trap me in the garbage-pit that is Virginia. My phone was lit up like a Christmas tree with friends calling me, being nice to me, and inviting me to parties when I did not live in the disgusting pit called Virginia. In Virginia all I have known is anger and pain as they torture me daily for refusing to be a rape slave to military men. My only dream of joy is to go to enough night school, and make enough money to travel coast to coast, saying Virginia is the rapist beater pit I forever hate the most.
A Nightmare Poem
Rapists All Fort Lee
Rapist Rapist human sewage all Fort Lee,
Rapist Rapist my tortured eyes did see!
Military men disgust me,
every branch of military men disgust me,
they are all rapist beaters,
they are all sewage beaters.
That is all I ever-ever saw with my eyes.
All of Virginia rapist-hole sewage-hole,
All of Virginia rapist-hole hate it so.
Use you use you like toilet paper
Then they throw you away.
Have not had one single happy memory in ya
Ugly, ugly, sewage-sewage toilet hole called Virginia.
Sewage-rapists All Fort Lee!
Hate them all etern-ally!
Rapists, rapists all Fort Lee!
Nightmare, nightmare, human sewage.
They said they would train me
said they would give me a job.
They gave me no joy
soul and dignity they did rob.
I’m going to travel from coast to coast,
saying Virginia is the rapist pit
I forever hate the most!
My only dream and goal,
is to drive screaming from the nightmare hole,
hate you forever Virginia…
Hate you forever Virginia…
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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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Bonus Review: Friday at Xymox in Baltimore
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vp32u-1aa94c8
A bonus Podcast Review and Blog entry at FH7 on Patreon listed at FH7publishing.com
