Comedians must take time off from touring to live their lives in order to have new material for their acts.

“I was constantly on the road this and that the other I had no time to even live my life to extract any material so I said you know what let me let me take a beat here let me concentrate on other things whether it be a TV show the podcast let me spend some time with my family”

Modern comedians often start their careers with different incentives compared to previous generations, who pursued it out of necessity or lack of other viable options.

“I see so many people nowadays and I'm I'm I'm not [ __ ] on them I don't really care it's like I just have fun with your life ultimately but like it's so funny that the thing that we picked when we had no real like a a lot of options now seems like a very viable job for people”

Ricky Velez values the exposure and experience of interacting with diverse groups of people while growing up in New York City.

“my whole friend group my comfort with all these different cultures my kids last name is Velez they needed one of him yeah he needed to go get it he got it to the best school yeah native american and if you don't think this kid is going to the most exclusive [ __ ] private school boarding school wher”