In January, comedians Ralph Barbosa, René Vaca and Ken Flores finalized the paperwork on a joint tour across the United States. It was a long-held dream for the three friends, a few of the hottest young names in stand-up, to hit the road together. The day the deal closed, Flores could not wrap his head around the amount of money he was about to make. He called his tour manager and said, “Our lives are about to change forever.”
The next day, the 28-year-old Flores died of cardiac arrest.
“It was really tough to talk about it after he passed,” Barbosa says. As he and Vaca mourned the
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