Winter Solstice Said Drink Up, NYE Said Die

Welcome to January 1st, 2026 — same feral energy, same unhinged hosts, different calendar year. 🥂 If you’re listening to this while doing laundry or cleaning your house: STOP IT RIGHT NOW. You’re about to wash away your good luck, your good spirits, and probably your will to live. Go eat your black-eyed peas, your cabbage, your collard greens, or whatever leafy superstition you subscribe to and sit down.

 

Today’s episode is a little ✨special✨ because we’re ringing in the New Year by immediately spiraling.

 

First up: Winter Solstice, aka “Drunk Winter.” ❄️🍷 We take a chaotic world tour through how different countries celebrate the longest, darkest night of the year and why it actually matters in the Pagan world. Fires, feasts, rituals, rebirth, the sun dying and coming back like it pays rent — all of it. Is it spiritual? Yes. Is it historically important? Also yes. Are we respectful for more than 3 minutes at a time? Absolutely not.

Then we slam directly into the darkness (because balance ✨): We cover the 2021 New Year’s Eve shooting in Gulfport, Mississippi — a brutal reminder that even when the clock strikes midnight and everyone’s screaming “NEW YEAR, NEW ME,” violence doesn’t magically disappear. We break down what happened, who was affected, and why this case still matters.

So light a candle, don’t touch a broom, pour a drink (or six), and welcome 2026 the only way we know how — half pagan ritual, half true crime, fully unhinged. 🖤🔥🍾

Same chaos. New year. Let’s survive it together.