I am Mick Garrison. I am with Gilbert Gottfried on the amazing Colossal Podcast.

Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried. This is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing Colossal Podcast.

I am here with my co-hosts, Frank Santopodri. Our guest this week is an occasional actor, a designer,

a guerilla expert, a self-described monster maker, an Emmy winner, and a seven-time Academy Award winner,

an arguably the most admired and celebrated makeup and special effects artist in the history of cinema.

His screen credits, send achievements and contributions to the art form were taken entire show to lips.

So here are just a few. The exorcist, it's alive, King Kong, Liv and Let's Die, Star Wars, an American Werewolf and London, Harry and the Hendersons,

Ed Wood, Men in Black, coming to America, Grimblance II, Guerillas in the Mist, the Nutty Professor, Planet of the Apes, Hellboy, the Wolfman,

and Dr. Seuss, how the Grinch-told Christmas, he even worked on a movie we'd love to talk about on this show, the Thing with Two Heads.

In a career that started way back in the late 1960s, he's worked side by side with some of the industry's most creative and accomplished filmmakers, including George Lucas, Tim Burton, Steven Spielberg, Brian DePoma, John Carpenter, John Landis,

Jim Jela, Guillermo, Guillermo Teltoro, Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg, and Peter Jackson as well as our one-time podcast guests, Joe Dante and Larry Cohen,

and his late mentor, the legendary makeup artist, Dick Smith. His brand new book, Rick Baker, Metamorphosis, is an elaborate full color, two-volume, 700-page, extravaganza,

highlighting his 40-plus-year journey through Hollywood. Frank and I were lucky enough to get a couple of copies, and our jaws are still hanging open,

where thrilled and excited to welcome to the show, an artist of unique vision and talents and a fellow monster kid, that we've wanted on this show from the very beginning, the ingenious Rick Baker.

Boy, I think I'm too good to be on the show after hearing this.

Well, who isn't? Now, we've had similar childhoods, because I think we were both pathetic kids, who fell in love early on with monsters, whether classic universal or beneath the monogram.

And I think we both would run to the candy store whenever the latest issue of famous monsters of film land came out.

Yeah, I had a hard time finding famous monsters. I don't know how it was with you, but for me, it was really hard to find.

Really?

Yeah, the first one I found, I was like a latch-key kid, both my parents worked, and we had no daycare.

So my mom would take me to the supermarket, and I always hated doing that. But I'd looked through the magazines, and one day there was an issue number three of famous monsters.

And it was like, this says monsters on it.

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