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I am Mick Garrison, I am with Gilbert Gottfried on the amazing colossal podcast.

Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried, and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast. I am here with my co-host Frank Santopadre.

Our guest this week is an occasional actor, a designer, a gorilla expert, a self-described monster maker, an Emmy winner, and a seven-time Academy Award winner, and arguably the most admired and celebrated make-up and special effects artist in the history of cinema.

His screen credits and achievements and contributions to the art form would take an entire show to live. So, here are just a few.

The exorcist, it's alive, King Kong, Liv and Let's Die, Star Wars, and American Wherewolf and London, Harry and the Henderson's, Edward Menon Black coming to America, Gremlins II, Gorillaz and the Mist, the Nutty Professor, planet of the age, Hellboy, the Wolfman, and the Wolfman.

And Dr. Seuss, how the Grinch-Stole 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, Ryan Dupama, John Carpenter, John Landis,

G-Gilla, Guillermo, Guillermo Teltoro.

He's gonna get you for nothing if you're not seeing us live.

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

his slate-man and his slate-man tour, 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.

We're 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?

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