Spiritually, Gabby Windey is all about Sundays in a hardcore, no-exceptions, day-of-rest kind of approach. The “Long Winded” podcast host grew to become the breakout star of “The Traitors” this yr after profitable the fact TV competitors with a collection of daring outfits and stereotype-smashing strategic strikes. Her stream-of-consciousness podcast monologues proceed to spice up her star, continuously going viral on Instagram and TikTok for his or her vocal fry realness. Now she’s booked and busy past perception, a combined bag for Windey.
In Sunday Funday, L.A. individuals give us a play-by-play of their superb Sunday round city. Discover concepts and inspiration on the place to go, what to eat and the right way to take pleasure in life on the weekends.
“You know I’m always begging for a break,” Windey says. “It’s things that I want to be busy with, so I can’t really complain. But yeah, I’m always looking for my next nap.”
That makes Sundays really feel like a “special occasion” for her, particularly because it’s when she will get gradual, high quality time along with her spouse, comic Robby Hoffman. Collectively, Windey and Hoffman spend their Sundays in essentially the most relatable approach potential: scrolling the web, watching TV and films, getting excessive with pals and snacking.
Sundays are additionally the last word instance of Windey’s well-known “business hours,” the time after 3 p.m. through which Windey’s confidence plummets and he or she’d slightly “gouge my eyes out with a dull chopstick” than FaceTime for work. Woe to anybody who would hassle Windey on a Sunday.
This interview has been edited and condensed for size and readability.
9 a.m.: Get away from bed, get again into mattress
We’ll sleep in till, like, hopefully 9 or one thing. Robby works nights, you already know, she’s a humorist. I’m like blaming [sleeping in] on her, however I can simply get 10 hours of sleep an evening. So yeah, we like a lazy morning.
We’ll go get espresso. We’re proper subsequent to Lamill now. Then we’ll come again residence and do the New York Occasions crossword, Connections, Wordle in mattress.
Usually, when Robby’s had her fair proportion of like exhibiting me YouTube clips or Reels, then I’ll begin to get antsy. I’m like, “Enough of this. Let’s go.”
11 a.m.: Groceries and tamales
We’ll stroll to the Silver Lake Farmers Market. Robby does numerous the grocery buying, and I’ll simply, like, get a tamale. They’re $5, and so they’re big. I like a purple sauce and a inexperienced sauce, so it’s like beef with the purple sauce and rooster with the inexperienced sauce, however I additionally like a dessert tamale, a candy tamale. I’m half Mexican, and my mother didn’t prepare dinner apart from tamales. So it’s a really comforting meals.
Robby’s actually good at grocery buying, so I simply sort of let her go. However we get contemporary berries. We’ll make veggie sandwiches all through the week, which is like romaine lettuce, mushrooms, tomatoes and cucumber. We’ll get these components and no matter bizarre meals there may be, you already know, there’s at all times like some hippie fermented factor that’s alleged to be good for you.
Midday: Again to mattress.
I’ve to take a break.
1 p.m.: Prerolls within the park
For [the weed holiday] 4/20, we met up with pals in Silver Lake Meadow. First I went to Botanica to get some snacks. They’ve good snacks, so I obtained this actually good carrot hummus. It’s like candy. I obtained some good crackers, some goat cheese wrapped in tea leaves. It sounds higher than it truly was. And I’m exploring NA [nonalcoholic] choices. So I obtained some Ghia. Individuals die for it. However I’m like, I don’t know. I wasn’t fairly bought. It’s not giving me a buzz. Surprisingly — there’s nothing in it! However I nonetheless need a buzz of some kind, which in comes the weed. So then we went to the park to identical to get excessive on Edie Parker prerolls, discuss s— with some pals for like three hours and eat good snacks. (Be aware: Windey has a partnership with style and hashish model Edie Parker).
4:30 p.m.: Catch a film
Then we’ll go see a film. We’ll f— with the Americana [at Brand] onerous. We love the popcorn, love the convenience. We’ll like sneak meals out and in, you already know, I don’t even suppose it’s essential sneak it in anymore. We haven’t gotten caught, however we at all times have the backstory of like that we’re gluten-free, or that we’re kosher, as a result of Robby grew up Hasidic. So she is aware of what it’s prefer to be kosher, and I suppose it’d be a very good excuse for sneaking in meals to the movie show.
7:30 p.m.: Eat special-occasion sushi
After the flicks, we’ll in all probability exit, like on a date evening. I like sushi, clearly, who doesn’t? So we’ll both go to Sugarfish, as a result of it’s such as you get the identical factor each time. You realize, it’s so dependable. Or Kombu Sushi in Silver Lake. They’ve an important baked crab roll that I actually crave. However I like to put it aside for a special day, for Sunday.
9:30 p.m.: Name it an evening
Again residence, I’ll possibly do some skincare if I’ve any power left, which after this Sunday it seems like I received’t. Apart from that, we’d simply watch a present, or I’ll do like a face masks. I’ll learn on the Kindle — I’m studying “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents.” I can’t wait to be finished with it. I’m like, “OK, I just need to get through this. And then I can start fun reading again.” I didn’t get a lot of the American lit class in class. So I’m making an attempt to sort of transfer my approach by way of that. I simply learn Joan Didion’s “Slouching Towards Bethlehem.” I’d go to the opposite e book that individuals suppose is her greatest one subsequent.
