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Multi Award Winner Producer Actor, Singer, Songwriter and owner of Firecreek Entertainment LJ Ugarte discuss his latest projects and most recent Telly Award Win
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00:00welcome everyone to another episode of the candy show i am your host candy
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00:32very very special guest i tell you what now i he has a lot going on so i know he's gonna be very
00:40very very uh listen i can't wait to talk to him you guys ready because i'm ready too all right guys
00:46welcome welcome my very special guest multi-award winning producer actor singer
00:55and we gotta find something else we gotta find out what else he's got going on guys i want you to
01:01welcome lj ugarte what's up what's up what's going down lj when i tell you yes you said it you summed
01:12it up pretty much yeah it's i've been blessed with with uh so many opportunities and i'm always
01:18grateful for him awesome awesome what city and state are you coming from today i'm west palm beach
01:24florida okay all right south florida i know here in indianapolis indiana we have just about pretty
01:31much that same weather uh-huh it's hot humid man tell me about it like 90s 90s 90s 90s there's 100
01:40100 100 degrees today oh my gosh oh my gosh so lj we are live on one facebook we are live on
01:49instagram and we are live on youtube say hello to everybody what's up universe what's up what's up
01:57okay okay so i want to say first and foremost congratulations on your producer your telly
02:06award producer producer yeah hey hey hey and the same congratulations to you as well we're in the
02:13same uh we're in the same team and i didn't know that until i saw you with the same category i'm like
02:19it's the same you produce i produced that we were producers together that's amazing
02:24i do have to say i have to correct you so no i didn't do the producer raw okay okay yes that's right
02:33so i was the assistant to the director that's right mark is head of m head films one of my best
02:46friends yes yes okay so i did a little bit tell everyone what your role was and how'd you come
02:55about getting the telly award for you know the renowned great documentary yeah i was associate
03:02producer i'm also marcus is marcus heads uh consultant i do a lot of behind the scenes work
03:08for marcus um i've been in this business for 30 years so if he has any questions or anything he needs
03:15in regards to productions and setting it up and uh the logistics of producing he contacts me and i'm
03:23always there whenever he needs it as far as the legalities and the the paperwork the imdbs and
03:31all that stuff that we do as producers he always contacts me and that's how i got involved and prior
03:36to that i was also a producer and an actor in the movie can't get right that he uh wrote and produced
03:42and directed so that's how i come into the m head films universe well just a little bit now do you
03:51remember meeting me on but we're not gonna say that that we're not gonna say it just yet but do you
03:58remember meeting me i do and that's the funny thing is because i when i was going through your instagram
04:05and i was tagged in your it's like she looks familiar she i do know her i do you know because
04:12you don't forget her face you meet a lot of people and come in and out but i was like she looks familiar
04:16and there was a reason why our paths kind of intertwined again because i was like and then
04:23watching i started watching your program like i gotta i gotta get on this show after watching your
04:30other interviews and i'm like this looks like so much fun i gotta get on a show well thank you i
04:36appreciate you reaching out to me yes yeah so i'm gonna take it back i think it was 2022
04:42um 2022 2023 when we met uh you were on the set of another market head m head films yeah
04:52production we're not gonna say right now yeah but uh i don't know our past like i think i know you
05:00were at the church i think is when i seen yes i'm singing and and uh i try to keep a straight face
05:08because it was hard to do that scene you're talking about can't get right yeah so i think i'm so i
05:15wasn't on that set but i was on the other set yeah no so the can't get right was the barber scene so
05:23uh-huh so i believe i met you when he was shooting another up-and-coming project that he hasn't yet
05:32released yes he is doing uh yeah the other thing yeah yeah we can't talk about it yes i'm involved in
05:40that one as well so i was behind the scenes i had one of the cameras on my shoulder i was doing some
05:51bts uh-huh for that project i'm pretty sure i met you just like really quick you came in on that set
05:58as well yeah so but it's fun to do those type of things you get to meet so many different people and
06:06uh you never know because it's such a great universe that marcus has created and that was who
06:11that was his plan to kind of bring black filmmakers together and and create art create magic so
06:20it's just fun well that's the ronaldo ray documentary you have a telly award yeah i need
06:29to know what was your first reaction when you received that i um once marcus said congratulations
06:35you are a telly award winner and i my issue because i love to celebrate people i'm always honoring others
06:41i was like brother it's about time welcome to the club of award winners and he goes brother you don't
06:47get it congratulations you i'm like huh i still didn't get it and then i was like oh i won too
06:56so we just it was it was a thrill it's such an honor you know i always wanted one of those
07:04to be honest wow so congratulations now you said you said you've been in this business for 30
07:11something years old you don't even look a day over 30 thank you i started in the 90s 94 i don't want
07:18to age myself but i was in 1994 you know my first production i've ever worked on was spike lee's
07:24crooklyn you did yeah yeah i was an extra in that one i was an extra my first experience on a big you
07:34hollywood film and then went on to continue i just kept i just never stopped working
07:40yeah okay can we go back and rewind and find you in crooklyn you know what you gotta if you pause it
07:48what scene was all the kids running around and if you pause it just right you could probably see me
07:53like how old was i then i was 11 maybe wow i was a little boy yeah i've been doing this since i was
08:04a little boy i think around five right you know i was like 11 well you did that yeah but i was like
08:13probably was like 11 i was a preteen 12 maybe okay so that's when you did the spike lee but you've been
08:21in this business much longer than that yeah i was like nine when i first performed i performed
08:28at the statue of liberty in brooklyn new york i i did uh i sang oh it was like oh beautiful
08:36one of those and i and yeah long time ago so i take it yesterday oh really give me a little bit
08:48about what you remember from that time i remember that's amazing but that wasn't my first taste of
08:56the industry the first taste wasn't as an actor performer was as a spectator my older sister who's
09:03no longer with us she was a broadway nut she loved the theater um and she took me to see um it's 19
09:101989 she took me to go see a production of the wizard of oz at a radio city music hall
09:15in new york city because i'm originally born and raised in brooklyn new york and she still loved
09:20taking me to the theater and i promise you candy i could still remember the smell the taste the the
09:27the the feeling i had of of just watching the performers watch the wizard of oz live at radio city
09:35musical you know that that um that sound of applause of watching us applauding the actors on stage it was
09:42something about us applauding them that i wanted i wanted to be on the other end and feel that act
09:47you know that that appreciation i don't know what it was gonna lead me to but it's almost haunting it
09:55was it's almost like a haunting feeling and just looking around at that age watching the faces of the
10:04audience just you know and and i i said i want to make people feel like that i want to make you go
10:12you know and then i've discovered that it was an art form that i needed to work hard and i needed to
10:19study it i needed to respect it i needed to honor it and that's where it led me and it saved my life
10:25it took me on this journey it's still taking me on this journey and it's i'm in this business
10:33not because i have a spectacular voice so i think i'm an amazing actor because i think i have something
10:38more to contribute i have a lot to say and if i could use that platform to be able to convey what
10:45i'm truly feeling and maybe to inspire you to become greater then i i i'm i meant to do that because
10:53it's never been about look at me look at me look at me even though i've always been that child
10:59longing for attention like any any little kid but if i could use that platform to inspire others
11:06then i'm doing my job because i've never chased the fame i've never chased the awards i never chased
11:11the money i never chased the the invitations to things it was never about that it was escapism for me
11:18and it was my way also to escape being bullied and attacked and abused and maligned so if i could
11:26put on this character to i'm going to be tough today you know and put on that mask and it did save
11:32me it saved me from many things and i was able to inspire others because i still get letters in the
11:38mail today from strangers and they told me that hey your comedy and your film inspired me and it got me
11:45out of funk you know that's so satisfying it gets me emotional talking about it because it's just the
11:52way it's this this platform saved me i'm able to save them whoever it is you know i can definitely um
12:01i can tell you i had that same feeling um the candy show in the internet talk show it's never been about
12:11me or my previous partners it's always been about providing a platform right for others who aren't
12:21able to go out to go to some of these places or um you know because obviously a lot of times it takes
12:29travel right some people don't know how to start and some people do just need that platform like ours
12:40to showcase their talent um so i'm right there with you trust me yes i have to honestly say sorry
12:50to cut you off watching your show when i was watching i was binge watching episodes and hearing
12:55people's testimonies and people's journeys and i was inspired by them like wow it's it is definitely
13:01giving voice of the voiceless which is something that i i often love to use those who can't speak for
13:08themselves and hearing other people's perspectives of their careers in their lives it's very inspiring
13:14i'm often inspired i love books i love hearing people's stories and seeing where they come from and
13:20i love that it's fascinating yes i love documentaries so i love producing and just telling stories and
13:28inspiring again we're right there because i'm inspired because when you look on tv
13:35for me you look on tv i always wonder i wonder what made them get there how did they get there
13:42what was their path how was their path because all the time you were on the tv before all this reality
13:49stuff you were looking at things and you were looking at the final cut and it looked perfect right
13:56and so you know not everything not everyone is perfect and so i always wanted to know what was
14:02someone's backstory right how did they get to where they're at and so again you and i we're on the
14:07same page right there yeah it's i love hearing people's journey because my journey wasn't easy
14:12i my journey i got scars to prove it especially starting fire creek
14:17and it was whoo those scar i can still feel those scars i mean they're healed now but i can still feel
14:25scars and what i mean by scars i mean internally and outer scars starting a company from scratch
14:32with no money no support um everybody looking at you like you're gonna fail you're gonna fail you're
14:40so gonna fail and that's all i ever heard and and i had to put up a wall a defense like no i'm not
14:47gonna fail not today and i've i've had many flops i can tell you i had many flops i've had many uh i ran
14:57into the on the walls of oof but i had to pick myself up by my bootstrap and keep it moving
15:04that's exactly what you have to do especially in anything that we do whenever we're faced with a
15:11challenge and it's so challenging and you're ready to give up because i tell you well i can tell you so
15:17many times i wanted to give up you know yeah it's just it's it's definitely hard to do what we want
15:25to do because it's it's just you're constantly faced with the no's or you're constantly faced with
15:34rejections right yeah so but you you talked about fire creek entertainment right yes my my beloved
15:43my beloved baby yeah she's gonna be not she's gonna be 19 years old can you believe that
15:50my company is gonna be 19 years old nice and i understand that because of all of the rejections
16:00and and the unwillingness to give you chances you can keep going in your path this is what brought
16:08you to fire creek and in the creation of her absolutely it started with the um nose i was
16:14so sick and tired of the nose you can't act you can't sing you're not dark enough you're light
16:19you're brown you're you're too skinny you're too fat like where do i fit in here and then i moved to
16:26you know then in south florida ego driven and it's all about how cute you are it's not about the
16:32talent is about politics i just i got tired so one day my me and my black suitcase my beloved black
16:40suitcase that i still have proudly on display i have it in a storage warehouse where um it means
16:47more to me than anything it means to me more than the telly awards or any of the awards i've ever gotten
16:51that black suitcase which started it all and one day i was going to an audition finally got an
16:58audition and they got stuck in a railroad track to try to catch a train at the time i didn't have a
17:04car i didn't have anything and i fell busted my knee was bleeding you know i was praying to god i was
17:10like you know what just give me this one just give it to me just one time i promise i won't ask for
17:15anything again and get to miami i'm taking a train down there on a commuter rail and i got to miami
17:21and i got to that with that black little suitcase and from there on i just kept going going and
17:27growing and growing and growing and growing and growing and next thing you know it's a full-on
17:31full-on production company and i've i'm also um a subcontracted company other production companies
17:40um license us or hire us to produce along with them so most in association with i've done stuff with
17:49telemundo i've done stuff with other major corporations and companies in hollywood and
17:55i'm proud that my little baby the little company that wasn't supposed to be wasn't supposed to be
18:01anything worked alongside the big league in hollywood and i'm proud of that i started it with my own two
18:09hands no partners no investors just a dream you know and it's still going it's it's it's i've often been
18:17asked to sell it for its assets because the assets are in in the millions you know and i'm not selling
18:27that company at the end of the day i've had everything taken away from me i've been bankrupt
18:32i've been um evicted but guess what i've never once wanted to sell fire creek
18:39it's all i had it was all that i ever had at the time so you ain't taking us you're gonna take me
18:49feet first oh my goodness oh
18:52oh i love hearing stuff like that and i don't mean like really i you know get off on it but
19:02you sometimes feel or sign i want to speak for you but i know sometimes i feel like maybe some
19:10people don't understand or know because if you've done what you've done and you're still in it yeah
19:20oh yeah it's not about money i mean it's always about money let's be honest you know you got to
19:27make a living we're in show business yes of course but you know but it's the the passion the drive it's
19:36in your heart it's in your soul and it's so amazing isn't it it's amazing when you're able to provide
19:45that opportunity yeah for someone else yes and that's the whole premise after when i realized what
19:53i was getting myself into and what the premise of fire creek entertainment i said okay i proved that
20:00i can get the job i proved that i can stay here and i i proved that i could i could do this on my own
20:06that i realized there's going to be another little lj behind me with it's um i'm trying to stay without
20:14shaking up i'm trying to stay without getting emotional that's okay it's it's there's going to be
20:22another man behind me that's going to be like nobody's giving me a chance hopefully i would be
20:29that guy that's going to be like you know what i'm gonna i'm gonna give you that chance you know
20:35what i mean and every time i tell that suitcase story it always gets me choked up because people i want
20:41people to understand that it's something out there that's way bigger than us it's way bigger where
20:48where the blueprint right now and what we do and like i watch your show and i see how you inspire
20:55people and how we both do it's it's it's a lot bigger than us it's it's gonna be a point that
21:03somebody's gonna and i've gotten letters people say god thank you for even when i'm not okay and i get
21:11these emails and saying you uplifted me today and i'm like i did but i'm not feeling so great today
21:18i'm not okay today but i uplifted you you know what i think i'm going to be okay
21:25i'm going to be okay and when i told you i i still got that suitcase and people often say can i can i
21:32come in can i visit the suitcase i'm like under one condition you got to put on white gloves
21:36because that's a valuable little suitcase i got at ross with a broken wheel means so much more to me
21:43than um anything else and i even have insurance on it i tell you yeah i put insurance on that
21:51you did oh well oh my god policy on it just in case something happens to that that little suitcase
22:00but i i told marcus marcus saw the suitcase once before and he goes wow this is the famous
22:06suitcase but like yeah this is it i said you got to put on gloves though my brother i love you you
22:10one of my best friends but you got to put on gloves look you don't want anybody taking your you don't
22:16want anybody painting that no way thank you guys for sharing thank you guys for coming on the youtube
22:22page thank you caitlin thank you tyrus yes thank you so much hi caitlin she's uh my my work bestie
22:30she's got such a wonderful heart she's uh she's a ham just like me she keeps me sane at work at the job
22:42you know if someone did not know you and they were looking on your instagram page i could tell that you
22:48were a person or that you still are a person that loves to dress up and get in your costumes
22:53uh me too i like doing that you know i sometimes go to the comic cons and things like that but
23:01recently you attended a con yourself and was awarded an award too right yes um i i have been awarded
23:09there and it's ghoulie con i'm actually affiliated now with hell zone tv so shout out to my hell zone tv
23:16family they do um there are amazing horror content creators and what they're doing right now is
23:23remarkable we're in the process of going to the halloween horror nights at universal studios and we
23:28will be filming live at halloween horror nights i will be also filming content um at the hall at the
23:36halloween horror nights here in the west palm beach at the florida fairgrounds we're going to be doing
23:40a lot of behind the scenes documentaries of the the life behind the camera i'm also working on a new
23:47friday the 13th movie yes i am going to be in a jason movie i i could one thing i could share about that
23:56because i did promise the producer uh jacob bateman i'm going to be doing some running you you think
24:01you're gonna i'm gonna let jason boy he's come up to me like what you are you not what
24:06you have a run but it's such an honor to be chased by the famous
24:15okay don't tell me you're gonna be slipping and falling well we're not gonna give it away but
24:19no but one thing about me i'm not gonna run it this fall i'm gonna get back up and haul ass i know that
24:27but it's an honor to be affiliated with that film even it's a fan film um so it's part of the the
24:34universe and um when i was cast in that i'm going on simply as an actor but it's an honor you know i
24:41grew up with those films i grew up with jason you know freddy's and uh hell zone will be uh hell zone
24:49will have access to the behind the scenes and all that fun stuff just because we're having such a great
24:55time right now just scaring people i'm not huge fan of horror because i'm such a scary cat
25:03but i make horror films so that's what i'm pretty much known for and i'm also a comedian i'm in the
25:08movie can't um i'm in a movie um great people and i play um veggie thug
25:14veggie thug veggie thug one of my most famous roles people identify me as and shout outs to
25:22romelo blade from from uh and romelo blade he's uh one of my favorite directors
25:29and writers too that make a right man and the scripts be like thick
25:36okay you've been doing this for so long what is it that keeps you driving
25:44have i suspect you may have not accomplished everything you wanted to accomplish no i i'm
25:51slowly creeping into the world of television right now i've been auditioning for fx i've been
25:56auditioning for stuff on hulu um that's something that i want to venture off is actually television
26:02right now um because i've been in the genre of the independent films for so long in mainstream films
26:08i just did east in bloom not too long ago um god there's a lot i want to venture off and the goal
26:17is to break ground and build a studio like tyler perry i want to build my own movie studio and um i
26:24have the floor plans i have the blueprints already i just gotta buy the property i designed the studio
26:30myself and that's the goal that um i really am considering i've been talking to investors i've
26:36been talking to uh you know to buy a piece of land to build a small studio or even rent out a warehouse
26:43a movie studio but the goal is to purchase it just to get continue to grow and make stories and um
26:50even have you in one of the films candy i would love to see you dodge one of those monsters in
26:55one of my movies you know oh man listen i'm gonna tell you what as you could probably see i can cry
27:01real easily so you know if you need somebody hey but if i'm scary so i i don't like all those scary
27:10movies so i might be that one uh if you put me in a movie and something just come out oh yeah i'll give
27:15me that real and you and i you're friends with marcus you know he's always comping up something
27:21we got to put you in something you know i'm here i'm here let me know listen you know and it's it's
27:28what we do we're entertainers we're we at the end of the day especially with today's world you know the
27:34nonsense and shenanigans that's going on we oftentimes want to put a smile on someone's face and
27:40i i know i do i i know i do and and a lot of people that worked with me knows that i wear my
27:46heart on my sleeve they call me the male mary j blige because i'm just as i get older i've gotten
27:53more sensitive if that makes sense don't get me wrong i'm a tough businessman i would jack you up when
27:59it comes to business but i'm a softy too i'm human and i don't have an ego i never planned to have an
28:09ego because every time i feel like oh like i gotta tell you what i got a couple of enemies my knee
28:14starts to throb you know because that's a way of humbling myself like oh wait a minute don't don't
28:19get too cute now don't get cute because guess what the way it all came quickly god could take it all
28:25away he could smack you and take it out no humble yourself and that's the key to success stay humbled
28:33and stay consistent you start something finish it don't start something because it's cute or it's a
28:39fire a facade finish your journey otherwise you're gonna fizzle that is so true that's that's some great
28:49great advice i want to say thank you for those who are on the instagram page candy
28:55girl three one four nine guys while you're on this page please make sure you are following the
29:01official candy talk show page instagram again that's candy talk show just gonna chime over here real
29:07quick oh guess what entertainment in the house that that's a big company too in florida another production
29:14company they produced uh they produced um great people nice nice thank you guys for joining in
29:25color improv show said hey guys i think you know who that is yes indeed my brother my brother yes i gotta
29:35honestly say without getting choked up again because i'm so damn sensitive marcus saved me too
29:41okay he gave me he gave me a chance he didn't have to he could have been like i'm not casting you oh
29:49who the hell this kid think he is he gave me that chance he also gave me romelo gave me a chance to
29:54play veggie thug you know um come on these are parts that i get letters i get children i'm also affiliated with
30:04children the children's hospital especially these kids the disabled kids and they write me letters and
30:10they play because i send them the film and they watch it with the kids and what gets me and what makes
30:17me work harder is when i get letters from their parents nah i don't want to make nobody i don't want
30:22to choke anybody up but when they tell you your project was the last picture that they saw
30:28is what makes me work harder that makes me want to work harder like really you could watch michael b
30:36jordan you can watch anybody else but you want to watch one of my films like god why you know like
30:46i'm just a lousy actor you know what i'm saying but that's what they wanted to see they wanted me to be
30:50the imaginary friends bouncing around they wanted me to be big yeah you know and that's what makes
30:58me work harder so now i realize there's something bigger than us out there it always is it always is
31:06i know we only touched on it very little bit but i want to make sure you get out here and you promote
31:12yourself and you let everyone know not just your social media because we're going to get to that in just
31:17a second but how many total films movies projects are under fire creek entertainment um i want to say
31:3020 20 maybe i've done 44 films um but i didn't want to say 19 20 and commercially successful film that i
31:43have under us was attraction man which is a mosey mosey award-winning uh film and um um the goranos is
31:53one of our biggest films today it skyrocketed to an all-time high is what kind of made people go i
32:01didn't know you was a filmmaker and prior i was already in the industry 20 years at that point because of
32:08covid people started discovering it the goranos with ken sagos from a nightmare on elm street is in
32:13that movie oh cool the black guy who played kinkade he's in it and i was the producer can you
32:21god can you can you imagine that like as a kid watching those movies on vhs over and over and over
32:29and next thing you know you walk onto a set that's that you're the producer on and here comes mr ken
32:35sagos sitting in his director chair going hi how you doing i'm like i'm a fan you know and he became
32:44one of my closest friends now so i think that's so amazing that is amazing it's so wild and just
32:52that's how i got into the horror community too because of that movie when you when you do this
33:00are you writing these scripts no you have cold partners i i i i i'm not i'm not a script writer
33:06actually um they pitch us the script they send it to us and sometimes the films come with a budget
33:14already attached to it and they say we would like you to produce this film or contribute and if it's
33:22up to our standard or if it goes conflicts with scheduling we often accept i've turned down
33:31thousands of scripts some some were just way over budget for us to produce it some were just um i could
33:39produce something almost with next to no money and it'll still look like a million multi-million dollar
33:45production because we have the supplies we have the gear we have the permitting and the the the big old
33:51cranes we rent out our cranes and stuff that we own
33:57and and and oftentimes there's it's overwhelming for us to say yes we would love to accept all the
34:02scripts but we unfortunately we just can't at the moment so yeah all right i'm gonna ask this ever
34:11asking questions especially when you're multi-talented in a business like this uh which one do you
34:17what's which one is your go-to behind the camera or on the front of the camera um i i love behind the
34:25scenes um i've gotten a lot of success money making success award-winning success behind the scenes i
34:34always joke that i'm a much better producer than actor i promise you because as a producer i i'm
34:40contributing a lot more than as an actor acting is very limiting and the acting is limiting but the
34:47lines are really not yours but as a producer you can really jump in and make it yours and and and i love
34:54to work in partnerships with people because it's all a collaborative um job so just being able to
35:02brainstorm like we you and i could sit together we could come up with something really cool and be so
35:06exciting just that process it's building blocks and it's all planting a seed and then watching it
35:13grow and then when you see how beautiful it flourishes it's like wow this is uh this is
35:20this is something neat and plus it continues to test your ability you know when you're doing these
35:27multiple when you're wearing these multiple hats right you know it definitely tests you i have to say i
35:34i um enjoy behind the scenes as well not to say that i don't enjoy on the camera but it is the
35:42manifestation it is being able to assist someone to bring their their vision to life so that's what
35:51i truly truly enjoy it is and um i love i love being on the set i i love watching the crew work so hard
36:00they're the hardest working people even on an independent film you see them hustling bustling
36:05and they're just so excited to be there and they're just so grateful for the opportunity and
36:09you just and i just love looking at people's eyes i have a thing about looking at people's eyes
36:14because you know you can really tell the type of human like i can analyze just looking at you in your eyes
36:21and you see just the drive and some of them do it because they love it so much and then you got the i love to
36:28weed out the people who are just doing it for selfish reasons ego you know and and those who
36:35work with me know that i have a binder a huge binder people that i would never want to work with again
36:41it's called the do not cast or do not work with in my and it's gotten quite popular especially with
36:46casting directors i'm like look i'm a multi-award winner this is where i flex i'll have this award here
36:53and uh you kind of need us a little you know i kind of kind of i remember going to a sag board meeting
37:02with the screen actors guild and all the heavyweights here i am from florida going to warner brothers
37:07studios in los angeles i gotta say this real quick i'm there with my cute little tie and and um i don't
37:13i don't know where i put it i'll shoot my my briefcase i have my briefcase with a fire creek logo on it
37:18and i'm walking in smack my briefcase because you know i have to present penpoints and stuff
37:26and i'm like so sounded important at the warner brothers studio or you know so i have a list of
37:34people that i do not want to knowing that i could easily get asked to leave the room but you have to
37:38go on with confidence you got to know who you are you know and i remember telling these people okay so i'm
37:45from i'm from west palm beach florida i have a list of floridians who i don't want ever to cast and if
37:53they happen to come across your studio here's the thing i knew that i did something right when i made
37:59the executives these bowtie billionaires laugh and they were like you are funny and by the way we also
38:05have a list like this here in hollywood i'm like oh yeah i do okay oh lord that was bold i was hyperventilating
38:14when i left i just i just flushed my whole career down the toilet it's over but they they would
38:22contact me and be like you are ballsy i like that like i'm just being myself there's no agenda no uh
38:30it's who i am you know i'm a goofball at the end of the day and i just respect the art so much
38:36and i never want to take it for granted
38:38i'm right there with you i'm right there with you you think
38:46now tell me a little bit about that how how's that going for you how's it going well i recently
38:53performed at ghoulicon and i bounced up and down and did my thing i did my feeling the music which is
38:59also featured in the the soundtrack of um great people um uh my one hit single that i constantly
39:07will perform forever because i haven't recorded a full album yet i do i have been demoing a couple
39:14of songs and experimenting i'm also experimenting or should i say i'm going back to my pop dance
39:20roots okay i'm going back to the thing you know that style of music again um i i have my own studio
39:31here so i've been demoing stuff um but i am i would always i am always a performer first and foremost a
39:39live concert performer and i get booked to weddings and comic cons and ghoulicons and i'll just perform
39:47my song and give them the best show i can give them and sometimes i forget that i'm performing
39:53to an audience because i'm still that guy for this very day i'm still that guy that does this do you
39:58believe in us do you believe you know i'm still that guy that sings that i remember with a little
40:06but then i'm doing it for an audience i do too i do too i just got better mics now
40:12thank you to the horror horror let's see a horror craft podcast love this interview thank you so
40:20much they're part of the hell zone family oh man i tell you what listen i know you and i would
40:27definitely enjoy each other's company if we see each other because listen i'm all about the the
40:34what is it called i like the costumes i totally love the dress up
40:40so we're gonna have to get together one time soon yes really soon let's have some fun i got
40:46some angel wings here that i was um i was experimenting with to um both my show because
40:53you know i'm a correspondent with uh oh those are beautiful so every episode that i do it's with a
41:01different look so um this coming week i have angel wings the next week i have um i i don't want to give
41:08it all away but it's multiple different costumes i'm an army guy i'm a space guy i'm a i'm dressed
41:13as you know and it's for fun and my dream was to always host one of those horror shows like elvira
41:21or joe bob briggs had a show back in the 90s called a monster vision i don't know if you remember
41:27that on tnt and i'm actually living that dream now by doing it under the hell zone banner for hell
41:34zone tv and every episode and i'm there just you know what it is it's just i'm having such a great
41:39time and i'm hosting uh and and i'm presenting horror movies my my segments are usually a lot of 80s 90s
41:48horror classics a lot of like whatever happened to baby jane the house on haunted hill from the 60s
41:56hush hush we charlotte and i'm just living an old fantasy right now
42:00do you ever have nightmares all of the horror of um no you don't i i not of no i don't um because
42:12i'm i'm a classic horror fanatic i don't know about the newest horror movies like of today that creep
42:18me out a little bit like the song yeah that's great that that that that s&m joining porn horror
42:29stuff is kind of not my thing even though i made food movies but it's fantasy it's not reality
42:36it's entertainment well listen i know we can be talking and having a great conversation much longer
42:44but tell everyone your social media and how they can follow you well you guys can follow me on instagram
42:53lj.ugarte um you guys can follow me on um facebook under the same name lj yougarte you guys can find me
43:00on um gosh all over the internet just you can google lj yougarte and my whole body of work my history my long
43:08work history is available publicly you guys can discover uh films and the latest films i'll be
43:15working on music remixes music videos all the fun stuff okay i hope you guys enjoy i hope you guys
43:24enjoy my contribution all the the bit things you know the small stuff i've done and and hopefully you
43:32guys like listen there is an audience for everything and what you do is so animated it's fun it takes
43:43people away from some of the things that goes on in their personal life oh yeah and it's escapism like
43:49i said it saved my life i had many uh mentors and friends and people that i um still reach out to this
43:56very day just to say hi you know what i mean like my monthly check-ins with people that i've been doing
44:02to check in on your energy i i i'm a big texter and i'm just glad for the support and
44:09and i hope to continue to inspire you guys and any questions don't hesitate to ask you guys don't
44:15have to go through a whole army to just to say hello kindness comes a long way just a quick instagram
44:22hello hi or you guys could uh leave me your feedback but just be polite and bring positive energy
44:29and i'm going to bring you positive energy that's it that's it all right guys thank you so much for
44:35everyone tuning in to another episode of the candy show thank you for the ones that are watching on
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45:00tuned we have some awesome awesome guests coming up not to say that lj ugarte was not an awesome awesome
45:07guest but we have more awesome awesome guests come on so guys thank you so much for your time
45:12thank you next time lj bye bye