Name: The Shift in Perspective from Your 20's to Your 40's
Uploaded: 2023-07-28T17:04:58.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Shift in Perspective from Your 20's to Your 40's' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-07-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Shift in Perspective from Your 20's to Your 40's' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-07-28. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience because I have a 19 year old daughter and she's
amazing
and she is not like if if if I brought up the idea of her pursuing a career
based
on financial security she would be offended and I and I say that with a
little bit of a joke because I also remember like the comedians people that
go into comedy are not like well you know we didn't know it was gonna be this
type of business we went into it because it was you know creatively
fulfilling to get on stage and make strangers laugh and but like there is
something at least for me I having five kids it's like I really didn't care
about
money you know in my 30s I remember my parents died and people were pick you
know like we all my siblings came around we were getting stuff and I was like I'll
take the immigration papers you guys can have the rest and so like
I was the youngest but like the point I'm getting to as you get older once
you get a taste for comfort mmm it's you know cuz I've tried to articulate to
my
children you know money is about freedom you know it's like the freedom to like
afford to go on a date you know yeah the freedom of independence like I don't
have
to ask mom and dad for my help for help and so but there is a you know the
perspective that changes I'm not saying all people but like when you're 20 all
right do I have enough money to get beer you know I mean as opposed to like
when
you're 40 you're like all right I might need knee replacement surgery do you
know what I'm saying yeah and like there is some you know comforts you like
comforts
right you don't want to struggle right you don't want to be scared as to where
your next paychecks coming from yeah I mean I I fly you know commercial and I
fly you
know business class and it's amazing and I don't you know like if I have a gig
and
they're like you know I'd you know I would have to fly and coach
I'm like I don't know if I want to do it do you know I mean like I'm kind of a
you know
it's like is it worth being really uncomfortable for a bunch of hours like I
have like I live in
New York and I work at um the Wynn has Wynn's a great casino right and they
have this theater and
it's a great thing and so there used to be all these direct flights from New
York that I mean
there's tons but there were some live flat things and they were like live flat
yeah so like where
you you know it's like the seat turns into a bed oh live flat and so from New
York it's like a five
hour flight and so they essentially started getting rid of those things and I'm
like I don't know if I
want to perform in Vegas anymore it's like I'm such a baby I'm like LA yeah no
there's live flat I'll do
that anyway I'm just trying to impress everyone with my uh my toughness my
mental grit baby can't if a
baby can't be uncomfortable for a couple hours you can definitely get used to
comfort yeah yeah but
it's probably not good for kids to grow up that comfortable no it's interesting
you know it's like we
all everyone that I know that's interesting had a pretty shitty childhood and
rough and difficult
and a lot of problems and but none of those people want that for their children
even though it made them
the most interesting people that I know because they got through some hard
times and difficult childhoods
and struggle and they develop discipline and character and you know the ability
to overcome
adversity I mean it is parenting is terrifying it is it's terrifying it's a
complicated world and
because you know you're going to suck at it but it's like how much damage can
you do yeah yeah and
how much damage does the world do yeah yeah it's not just you it's like what
are your children getting
exposed to at school what are your children getting exposed to on the streets
yeah because when they
they reach a certain age where like you can hear them actively not listening to
you and you're like
oh I hope your peer group is communicating some of this stuff because I've said
it six times and
you're obviously not hearing it you know I mean yeah it's really and it's when
you know when you have
young kids you think oh because I think our society we kind of portray you know
babies oh I couldn't
sleep last night my baby was crying I had to change poopy diapers and that's
the easy part
that's the easy part that's the easy yeah that's just lack of sleep yeah but
like when it's saturday
night and they're out you're like what where are they right going to parties it's
terrifying yeah and
who knows what's happening at these parties