- We've been friends for over a decade.
- I feel like, I feel like by the time we're done
with like the podcast and all these interviews
someone's going to do like a super cut
of every time we've said,
over a decade, over a decade, over a decade,
- over a decade
- over decade, over a decade, I don't know, over a decade.
[soft music]
We met at the Willamstown Theater Festival.
We were both in a production of Our Town together.
And the first three days of rehearsals
we wore the exact same outfit and it wasn't just
like a normal jeans and t-shirt kind of thing.
They were very involved fashion choices that were too
bizarre to be so specific.
So on the last day, the third day, we both were
wearing a white like lace dress
with a flannel tied around it and red converse.
And we both clocked it, realizing that this was
the third time that this has happened
and we became best friends.
- It was exactly that, I mean,
I'm surprised I didn't walk right up to you
and go, hi, my name's Jessie, will you be my best friend?
Like it was the first day of kindergarten or something
but it was like that type of friendship.
It was just instant.
And, and yeah, we've been glued at the hip ever since.
[guitar music]
- Three words for Jessie.
Hilarious, stunning, thoughtful.
- That's nice. Thank you.
My three words for Brie are, curious, reliable and honest.
- Thank you.
[soft music]
- I remember wrapping Christmas presents
at Brie's house one year
and we were both really broke and couldn't afford heat.
And so we had my Christmas present to Brie that year
was a space heater and we sat in front of her fireplace
with a space heater in her fireplace to keep warm.
And we wrapped all these Christmas presents
and it's just a memory that I cherish and I'm grateful for.
- That's when we started getting really good
at wrapping and I still get compliments
on how good I am at gift wrapping.
- You are very good at gift wrapping.
- But you are too and I think it was that Christmas
because I think we were broke and so we had to spend,
we couldn't just like throw money
at gifts for our friends and family.
We really had to think about it.
It was like our first foray
at like being adults living on our own.
Like, and so we like crafted things.
We made things and we were super thoughtful.
I think about, we used to have a routine
of going to the farmer's market every Sunday
and buying stuff to have really long brunches.
And we would do the Sunday crossword puzzle together
and just hang out.
And it was just pancakes and scrambled eggs, always mixed
with whatever we could, we could get at the farmer's market.
And that was just a huge routine.
I also thinking about one time driving up north,
we were driving up to go to a mushroom festival.
We were like listening
to this band Love and their album Forever Changes,
which is like a huge staple in our friendship.
And we just pulled the car over
and blasted the music in the car and just like danced
like on the side of, of the edge of Northern California.
You know, we've been all over the place together and
in a lot of weird situations, through many fashion choices
through many partner choices, you know
when you're with friends, when you're friends
with someone for that long, you, you see a lot.
- Yeah. Another memory I really cherish is this one
time I was having a really, really terrible day
and Brie made time to come over.
She was able to actually reschedule something that was
happening at work so that you could come to my house
and she brought beads and craft equipment
and all these fun things.
And then she was like, what do you want to do?
And I was like,
all I want to do is watch a Mary-Kate and Ashley movie.
And so she spent at least 30 minutes trying to figure out
how to download this Mary-Kate and Ashley movie?
And by the time,
- You were nowhere.
- And by the time she got it uploaded, I had fallen asleep.
- And so then I was stuck
in bed next to her watching Passport to Paris by myself
which was not a situation I thought
I was going to be in that day.
But it wasn't a no, it was a good vibe.
- Not no.
[guitar music]
- Hey there little darlin.
- Which I don't even know where that came from.
But usually I feel like it's when we're
in like a not great situation, it's like,
hey there little darlin you're probably screwing up
this interview, but I still love you.
And you're my best friend, you know?
And we'll just like, make
up a song about whatever's going on, you know,
hey they're a little darlin,
this party's really lame, but I'm with you and it's okay.
You know, we'll just, we'll make up a song about it.
So, Hey there, little darlin has really
I don't know where it started, but it has not ended.
- I think it started on that same road trip up north.
I think we were going on a hike
and we just started singing it to ourselves.
And it's a catchy tune.
We got a copyright that.
- Hey, they're a little darlin
[guitar music]
- Oh no.
What if I misspell something?
It's going to be so embarrassing.
- I was already adding into this,
it's okay if you misspell things.
[laughter]
You're definitely going to have to have me read mine
because my cursive is, I have to write, when I write letters
to Jessie, it's like I have to send her an audio note
of what I said in it.
- That's true.
I wrote Brie, you are the most compassionate
and present friend.
You've made me a better person
and have brought an immeasurable amount of joy to my life.
You're welcome.
And thank you.
- I'm stunned.
I thought, where, weren't you going to misspell something?
- I think immeasurable is misspelled
and possibly compassionate.
- Okay. Here's mine.
I started writing like this on purpose so that
if anyone ever found my journals, they wouldn't know what
they said.
Jessie girl, you are my best friend.
That means seeing each other at our best, worst,
and sometimes even when we misspell things.
I love you forever and forever is a darn long time.
Thank you for listening, learning, growing
and holding my hand.
I love laughing, crying and doing both at the same time
with you.
Dang. How did I get so lucky?
Thank the heavens.
We had the same style in 2010. I love you.
- I love you too.
I've got more.
- What do you mean you got more?
- You wrote, you wrote a letter.
- Oh, tell me.
- I wrote Brie, You have great handwriting.
[Brie laughing loudly]
- Thank you so much.
[guitar music]
- Well, my hidden talent is how I put on eyeliner.
I roll it out really far and then I just stick it
in my eye and I go like this,
you just close your eye and go back and forth.
And then I go like this, stick it in my eye
and I just go like this.
I don't even need a mirror.
And that's how you get eyeliner and your water line.
- Lovely.
- You're welcome.
I do it on set and people are like, that's crazy.
Why are you doing that?
- Wait? So your eye is closed
and you just stick it in there and rub it around.
Does it get in your eyes?
- Yeah so you, I mean, it's in your eye,
but basically I start on the side,
close my eye and then go back and forth.
And then it gets both the top and the bottom.
- Nice. I can do this.
- Oh, wait. I can do that too.
- Okay. Then I have to come up with a new one.
The problem is that I'm so proud of myself,
whenever I have a talent that I just make everybody know
about it.
There are very few hidden talents of my I'm like
have you heard about my talent?
- You can do, you can do your clover, your clover tongue.
And I can be like, wow, how do I do that?
[guitar music]
- I'm taking a really abstract approach.
- Oh, good. Me too.
- I'm just looking at you and drawing
and drawing just without looking at the page.
- Oh, nice.
I'm not looking at you and not drawing you as a person.
- Oh, that's lovely. I'm in shock over,
in shock over my drawing.
I unfortunately looked down.
You honestly won't, you can't, you just
you can't believe what happened.
It looks nothing like you.
However, it does look like it could be a character
in some sort of new like indie cartoon.
- Oh yes.
She's ready for her indie cartoon moment.
- She's an indie cartoon.
- I like it.
I like it a lot.
- You look like you were,
cause you were looking down at the page.
It looks like you're going, which you weren't doing,
you were not doing that to be clear.
- I'm I'm proud of mine.
- I'll be sure to give you a compliment.
Oh my gosh. Yes. That's actually spot on.
- I helped, I helped explain who you were by writing,
Hi, I'm Brea.
- It makes sense. It makes complete sense.
And I appreciate it.
- And these might look like eyes, but they're really
giant ears.
- No, I knew that they were ears.
- Okay, good.
[upbeat music]
- Oh my gosh. Can you see me Okay Jessie?
- I can see you fine.
Just don't make me lift my arms, cause I'm really sweaty.
[funky music]
[Jessie laughs]
- Oh, there you go.
[inspirational music]
- The friendship game made me feel, seen, vulnerable,
deeply connected with Brea.
I feel like we just fit an entire extra year
of our friendship and to a mere few minutes.
And from now on, I think I'll say
that I've known her for over a decade plus
- Jessie. Honestly, how dare you?
You know that my number one vulnerability
in our friendship is I don't know if you're in a bit or not
and I don't know if that was a bit, so I'm just going to go
with the sincerity approach that you also taught me
which is if you're with a comedian
and you don't know if they're doing a bit, just be sincere.
[laughter]
I had a really great time
and I'm happy to teach you the eyeliner trick.
I mean, I just feel like I've learned a lot.
It's just amazing.
It's amazing.
You can know someone for so long
and still find new bits of information that you didn't know.
- Agreed.
- Thank you Glamor so much.
Thank you.
- Thanks Glamor. Thanks for having us.