How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Gabby Windey

Spiritually, Gabby Windey is each astir Sundays successful a hardcore, no-exceptions, day-of-rest benignant of way. The “Long Winded” podcast big became the breakout prima of “The Traitors” this twelvemonth aft winning the world TV contention with a bid of bold outfits and stereotype-smashing strategical moves. Her stream-of-consciousness podcast monologues proceed to boost her star, often going viral connected Instagram and TikTok for their vocal fry realness. Now she’s booked and engaged beyond belief, a mixed container for Windey.

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“You cognize I’m ever begging for a break,” Windey says. “It’s things that I privation to beryllium engaged with, truthful I can’t truly complain. But yeah, I’m ever looking for my adjacent nap.”

That makes Sundays consciousness similar a “special occasion” for her, particularly since it’s erstwhile she gets slow, prime clip with her wife, comedian Robby Hoffman. Together, Windey and Hoffman walk their Sundays successful the astir relatable mode possible: scrolling the internet, watching TV and movies, getting precocious with friends and snacking.

Sundays are besides the eventual illustration of Windey’s celebrated “business hours,” the clip aft 3 p.m. successful which Windey’s assurance plummets and she’d alternatively “gouge my eyes retired with a dull chopstick” than FaceTime for work. Woe to anyone who would fuss Windey connected a Sunday.

“God forbid, if anyone emails you connected a Sunday, artifact and delete, occurrence them all,” Windey says. “On Sunday I americium closed for business. You volition not perceive a peep from me.”

This interrogation has been edited and condensed for magnitude and clarity.

9 a.m.: Get retired of bed, get backmost into bed

We’ll slumber successful until, like, hopefully 9 oregon something. Robby works nights, you know, she’s a stand-up comedian. I’m similar blaming [sleeping in] connected her, but I tin easy get 10 hours of slumber a night. So yeah, we similar a lazy morning.

We’ll spell get coffee. We’re close adjacent to Lamill now. Then we’ll travel backmost location and bash the New York Times crossword, Connections, Wordle successful bed.

Normally, erstwhile Robby’s had her just stock of similar showing maine YouTube clips oregon Reels, past I’ll commencement to get antsy. I’m like, “Enough of this. Let’s go.”

11 a.m.: Groceries and tamales

We’ll locomotion to the Silver Lake Farmers Market. Robby does a batch of the market shopping, and I’ll just, like, get a tamale. They’re $5, and they’re huge. I similar a reddish condiment and a greenish sauce, truthful it’s similar beef with the reddish condiment and chickenhearted with the greenish sauce, but I besides similar a dessert tamale, a saccharine tamale. I’m fractional Mexican, and my ma did not navigator but for tamales. So it’s a precise comforting food.

Robby’s truly bully astatine market shopping, truthful I conscionable benignant of fto her go. But we get caller berries. We’ll marque veggie sandwiches passim the week, which is similar romaine lettuce, mushrooms, tomatoes and cucumber. We’ll get those ingredients and immoderate weird nutrient determination is, you know, there’s ever similar immoderate hippie fermented happening that’s expected to beryllium bully for you.

Noon: Back to bed.

I person to instrumentality a break.

1 p.m.: Prerolls successful the park

For [the weed holiday] 4/20, we met up with friends successful Silver Lake Meadow. First I went to Botanica to get immoderate snacks. They person bully snacks, truthful I got this truly bully carrot hummus. It’s similar sweet. I got immoderate bully crackers, immoderate goat food wrapped successful beverage leaves. It sounds amended than it really was. And I’m exploring NA [nonalcoholic] options. So I got immoderate Ghia. People dice for it. But I’m like, I don’t know. I wasn’t rather sold. It’s not giving maine a buzz. Surprisingly — there’s thing successful it! But I inactive privation a buzz of immoderate sort, which successful comes the weed. So past we went to the parkland to conscionable similar get precocious connected Edie Parker prerolls, speech s— with immoderate friends for similar 3 hours and devour bully snacks. (Note: Windey has a concern with manner and cannabis marque Edie Parker).

4:30 p.m.: Catch a movie

Then we’ll spell spot a movie. We’ll f— with the Americana [at Brand] hard. We emotion the popcorn, emotion the ease. We’ll similar sneak nutrient successful and out, you know, I don’t adjacent deliberation you request to sneak it successful anymore. We haven’t gotten caught, but we ever person the backstory of similar that we’re gluten-free, oregon that we’re kosher, due to the fact that Robby grew up Hasidic. So she knows what it’s similar to beryllium kosher, and I conjecture it’d beryllium a bully excuse for sneaking successful nutrient to the movie theater.

7:30 p.m.: Eat special-occasion sushi

After the movies, we’ll astir apt spell out, similar connected a day night. I emotion sushi, obviously, who doesn’t? So we’ll either spell to Sugarfish, due to the fact that it’s similar you get the aforesaid happening each time. You know, it’s truthful reliable. Or Kombu Sushi successful Silver Lake. They person a large baked crab rotation that I virtually crave. But I similar to prevention it for a peculiar occasion, for Sunday.

9:30 p.m.: Call it a night

Back home, I’ll possibly bash immoderate skincare if I person immoderate vigor left, which aft this Sunday it sounds similar I won’t. Other than that, we mightiness conscionable ticker a show, oregon I’ll bash similar a look mask. I’ll work connected the Kindle — I’m speechmaking “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents.” I can’t hold to beryllium done with it. I’m like, “OK, I conscionable request to get done this. And past I tin commencement amusive speechmaking again.” I didn’t get overmuch of the American lit class successful school. So I’m trying to benignant of determination my mode done that. I conscionable work Joan Didion’s “Slouching Towards Bethlehem.” I mightiness spell to the different publication that radical deliberation is her champion 1 next.