What's going on, everybody? Welcome to another episode of The Vile Files. I'm your host, Nick, and we have a very fun popular guest today.

Claudia, girl with no job.

Hey, hey, hey, how are you?

I'm good. It's fun to have you on. It's nice to see you. Yeah, I always, I don't think it'll ever get old for me.

How far we've come as friends.

I mean, I feel like I really used our friendship as a foundation for my life because, you know, I'm 25 and I'm still growing up.

I still have a lot of growing up to do and I just feel like the person I've become over the last few years is so different than like the person I grew up as.

I feel like our friendship is really like a testament to that and also just like a testament to my whole mentality, like how I see the world.

You know what I mean? Nothing is really as it seems. Don't believe everything you read, things like that.

Yeah. Well, that's I'm glad I could have an impact on your life as a whole.

Whether some other maybe specific things in your life that you think in the past year, you've really evolved as a person.

Oh, I think I'm so much more empathetic. I mean, I'm still like kind of rubber on the edges, but for the most part I just kind of used to be like in my own shit and I didn't really care about other people or like if I did something that hurts someone.

But I just think I've kind of softened up a lot over the last few years. I don't know if that just has to do with like growing up or just random things.

I just I find myself carrying more about other people.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I mean, I I feel like almost you and I the way you talk about yourself, I feel similarities, especially, you know, I've always been even been criticized about sometimes lacking empathy with people.

But at the same time, I feel like I'm a very loyal person and when I when I if like if you're if you're in my my circle for me, like I'm a writer, die kind of person, right?

Same. And at the same time too, even with strangers, it's just like what I know I am is like different and how I express it, right?

Like, and I sometimes I don't know if this is the same with you, but sometimes I don't feel like it's a lack of empathy.

I just have a have a hard time understanding someone's point of view, like we were talking about like sometimes it seems to be so simple and chronic because we're not emotionally invested.

So we're just Kurt and direct and it comes across as a lack of empathy.

But I think you're right, especially for me is sometimes through that criticism of other people, you're like, you know what, I probably could be a little bit more aware or self aware.

Of course.

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