Long Winded with Gabby Windey

Episode: The Pitt, our honeymoon and Dv4d

Release Date: October 2, 2025
Host: Gabby Windey

Episode Overview

Gabby Windey takes listeners on a characteristically frank, heartfelt, and humorous journey through her latest obsessions, personal musings, and life experiences. In this episode, Gabby covers:

• Her struggles with medication and insomnia
• A critical (and comedic) analysis of the medical drama “The Pitt”
• A candid, storytelling recap of her “honeymoon(s)” with wife Robbie in the Hamptons and Fire Island
• A troubling true crime case involving teen Celeste Hernandez and the musician DV4D
  Throughout, Gabby blends her real-life expertise as a nurse with her unfiltered comedic voice, sparing no details on health, relationships, queer experience, pop culture, and millennial anxieties.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Seasonal Moods, Medication, and the Pursuit (or Avoidance) of Sleep

[01:00–07:45]

• Gabby humorously laments the END of summer, longing to “lay in bed all day” despite the lack of actual sweater weather.
• Shares struggles with vitamin D deficiency, resistant depression, and her new medication (repeatedly misnamed as “Nardo” – likely Nardil or a similar MAOI), revealing the side effects:
  • Insomnia: “A medication for anxiety keeps you up all night. Please, PLEASE, PLEASE...” (03:30)
  • Manages dosage herself, worries about telling her psychiatrist she's “dilly dallying” with the prescription before traveling abroad.
  • Jokes about the never-ending list of ailments (“I’ve only gotten down to the torso. You don’t want to know what’s happening below the pelvis...not much.” – 04:50)
  • Describes oral side effects from medication and cosmetic fillers, prompting criticism (“All for a little noises of the mouth? I have dry mouth from my medication. And you try not to make weird noises with your mouth. With a half a syringe of Juvederm in the upper lip and none in the lower…” – 05:40)
• Defends her on-air authenticity and persona:
  • “Drop the Jennifer Coolidge bit and be your authentic self? Well, you don’t know me. You don’t know what authenticity is like.” (06:30)
  • “You say you like what I say, but you don’t like how I say it. Well, it sounds like you don’t like what I say at the end of the day.” (07:00)

2. A Nurse’s Reality vs. TV Medicine: Gabby Reviews “The Pitt”

[10:00–25:40]

• Gabby dives into the new medical drama, “The Pitt,” noting its structure:
  • “It’s a genius concept because each episode is one hour of the day starting at 7am...I must watch until the end. Am I going to be able to go to sleep at night or am I going to be thinking of that patient that went pulseless after an egg sandwich?” (11:00)
• Her main gripe: Nurses are sidelined in favor of doctors.
  • “Where are all the nurses in this ER? We get to see them for five seconds maybe every 30 minutes. No, they have a bigger presence than that and you know it.” (13:00)
  • “I’ve never seen a doctor push any kind of medication. This is up to the nurse. When you’re pushing that calcium chloride really fast, of course, they’re dead, but let’s not make them any deader.” (14:15)
  • Details the reality of nurse responsibilities, from basic interventions to starting difficult family conversations about end-of-life.
  • “At a mere 22 years old, I was having these conversations. So what does the Pitt have to say about that? Not much, it seems. But we're running the show.” (19:55)
  • Wryly critiques TV’s “doctor heroics” vs. the thankless, physically exhausting, and emotionally taxing work of actual nurses, including “arches falling,” UTIs from not peeing all shift, and emotional trauma.

Memorable quote:

“The doctors, they write the orders, and that we need them for, but we’re the ones doing everything.” (17:55)

• Despite critiques, Gabby admits the show is addictive and gives lively, unfiltered opinions about the characters (“That girl intern…She is so annoying. The one who calls the other one Crash. It’s like, give it up. Why are you so eager? You’re inappropriate.” – 22:50)
• Shares moving nurse wisdom:
  • “One of the first things I’ve learned as a nurse is that after a patient dies, they can still hear for a long time. So you talk to them while they’re in their transition to the gates of heaven or hell. I’m not here to judge.” (24:20)
  • “Who holds the patient’s hand when they’re dying? Not the doctor…The nurse. I’ve sat with numerous patients as they pass away. No wonder why I’m maxing out my medication. I’m on all kinds of atypicals. I have the trauma, and I haven’t even started talking about my mother yet.” (24:55)

3. Lesbian “Honeymooning”: Hamptons, Fire Island, and Social Outcasts

[26:15–45:00]

• Gabby and wife Robbie embrace #DINK (dual income, no kids) life, taking multiple “honeymoons”:
  • Santa Barbara “mini moon” is underwhelming—“you’ll leave unsatiated and ready for a McDonald’s number two” (27:15)
  • Real honeymoon: 10 days in the Hamptons—“I don’t know what I thought of it…it’s for you to decide. We were the only lesbians within sight. No clear homophobia but maybe whispers behind my back—actually I don’t know. I shouldn’t say that.” (27:45)
• Captures the Hamptons’ quirks:
  • Their elderly neighbors, strict community silence, Robbie’s inability to stay quiet, and HOA micromanagement (“She sees a patch of grass, she has to walk on it…The woman sees her and loudly whispers: ‘you can’t walk on the grass!’” – 30:45)
• Epic (and comedic) retelling of sneaking into a Montauk beach resort, boogie boarding, and classic beach hijinks:
  • “She [Robbie] has them all over her body…three huge resort towels…We make it through…We peed in the ocean. It was a grand time.” (35:00)
• Gabby’s take on iconic pop culture landmarks:
  • “Of course, we drove by the Grey Gardens house. What, are we not supposed to?” (36:25)
  • Muses on the energy of “Big Edie and Little Edie.”
• Fire Island adventure, with biting, skeptical delight:
  • “Fire Island…you must not go. It has an air of confusion…It felt like a gay man’s Disney World, with the ghost of a gay man’s past haunting different bars.” (38:30)
  • Describes the island’s eccentricities (water taxis, no cars, “magic school bus that can drive on sand”), medical anxieties (“what are you supposed to do if you get sick? Take a ferry while hoping not to shit your pants from norovirus”), and the odd thrill of being out-of-place.
• Genuine moments of love and joy:
  • “My wifey continues to be the best thing that ever happened to me. Sure, I'm on a mood stabilizer and MAOI, but she's the real antidepressant.” (43:37)
• Surreal anecdotes about elderly neighbors, grilling, and blending queer culture in unexpected spaces.

Memorable quote:

“We bring our speaker down to maybe play some Justin Bieber, the new album…But instead we fell victim to the end-of-the-year mixer for the bridge competition team.” (44:30)

4. True Crime: The Celeste Hernandez & DV4D Case

[47:38–end (~57:30)]

• Gabby introduces the case:
  • 14-year-old Celeste Hernandez found dismembered in the trunk of a Tesla registered to “DV4D,” an emo singer with a premonitory song called “Romantic Hom...”
  • Gabby’s horror and outrage: “Already seems like a serial killer. He tried to do the Kesha thing, but he missed and now he should be a suspect. But he hasn’t even been arrested yet.” (47:50)
• Her frank experience as a woman fearing for safety, especially with male Uber drivers (“It only could take 251 rides to be sex trafficked and taken away…I must look alive. So I begin to plan my escape, beginning with the 911. Locked and loaded. I take a look at my shoes: how easy are they to get off? Pretty easy. Again, in a kitten heel.” (49:15))
  • Compares risks: human drivers vs. AI rideshares.
• More about Celeste:
  • Recounts her history of running away, online relationship with DV4D (met at age 11, possibly via Discord), and repeated police inaction.
  • Critiques social media platforms: “Discord…only bad things happen, I feel.” (51:40)
  • Directs frustration at adults who failed Celeste (“Why didn’t we tip off the police, go find this guy? First of all. What is he doing with an 11-year-old? Are you sick and twisted? Yes.” – 52:10)
  • Outlines how the car (with Celeste’s body) was discovered after being towed due to smell.
  • Points out DV4D’s incriminating song lyrics, lack of wider outrage, and lack of arrest.
  • “She was only 14. A young 14. This is…not even terrifying, but evil. Like taking apart the body after they’re already dead. I mean, please leave her alone. You’ve already done the most…just please leave her alone now. Let her rest in peace.” (48:30)
  • Laments society’s failures: “We failed her.”

Memorable quote:

“Don’t let her body rot like this. How she has to be remembered—know her spirit will be remembered—but...the trauma that comes with that…Please treat…” (54:15)

• Stresses need for justice, airs suspicions on why so little is being said:
  • “It seems like it’s going under the radar or something. I don’t know why more people are not talking about this—terrifying. But on that note, we will keep you abreast on this situation.” (56:20)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Time | Speaker | Quote | |---------|-------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 03:30 | Gabby | “A medication for anxiety keeps you up all night. Please, PLEASE, PLEASE...” | | 06:30 | Gabby | “Drop the Jennifer Coolidge bit and be your authentic self? Well, you don't know me…” | | 13:00 | Gabby | “Where are all the nurses in this ER? We get to see them for five seconds maybe every 30 minutes. No…” | | 14:15 | Gabby | “I’ve never seen a doctor push any kind of medication. This is up to the nurse…” | | 24:20 | Gabby | “After a patient dies, they can still hear for a long time. So you talk to them while they’re in their transition to the gates of heaven or hell..." | | 27:45 | Gabby | “We were the only lesbians within sight. No clear homophobia but maybe whispers behind my back—actually I don't know…” | | 30:45 | Gabby | “‘She sees a patch of grass, she has to walk on it…The woman sees her and loudly whispers: you can’t walk on the grass!’” | | 43:37 | Gabby | “My wifey continues to be the best thing that ever happened to me. Sure, I’m on a mood stabilizer and MAOI, but she’s the real antidepressant.” | | 47:50 | Gabby | “Already seems like a serial killer. He tried to do the Kesha thing, but he missed and now he should be a suspect. But he hasn’t even been arrested yet.” | | 54:15 | Gabby | “Don’t let her body rot like this. How she has to be remembered—know her spirit will be remembered—but…the trauma that comes with that…Please treat…” |

Timestamps for Key Segments

• Seasonal, Mental Health & Medication Talk: 01:00–07:45
• Authenticity, Online Critics, Social Media Rants: 07:45–10:00
• Nurses vs. Doctors & "The Pitt": 10:00–25:40
• Honeymoon Stories (Hamptons, Fire Island, Queer Life): 26:15–45:00
• True Crime/Celeste Hernandez Case: 47:38–end

Tone and Style

• Unfiltered, witty, and often laugh-out-loud funny—even as Gabby tackles trauma, tragedy, and queer marginalization
• Alternates between standup-like storytelling and real emotional candor; a mix of “let me make you laugh” and “let’s get real”
• Incorporates specific, lived-experience details (as an ICU nurse, a lesbian, a partner, a pop-culture observer) for credibility and heart

Summary Takeaway

This episode of Long Winded exemplifies Gabby Windey’s signature combo of humor, honesty, and deeply observant commentary. Whether taking on TV’s medical myths or the realities of living (and vacationing) as queer women, she effortlessly oscillates between irreverence and gravity—especially in her final, unflinching coverage of a chilling real-world crime. An absorbing listen, full of quotable moments and hard-won truths, for anyone who wants to feel seen and laugh about it.