May 13, 2024 • 44 mins
Embark on an enthralling expedition with Jeremy Palko, the dynamic actor from "The Walking Dead," as he recounts the pivotal moments that shaped his acting journey.
From a third-grade play that sparked a flame, to the intense thrill of presenting a head to Negan's base, Jeremy's stories are nothing short of captivating. With anecdotes that include his time as a Disney entertainer and his climb from a background extra to a character with his very own narrative arc, this episode is a treasure trove of behind-the-scenes insights.
Completing this multifaceted narrative, we explore Jeremy's artistic side as he delves into his passion for painting, an endeavor that flourished alongside his acting career. The discussion also swings for the fences with Jeremy's lifelong love for baseball, providing listeners with a personal account of his fandom for both the Atlanta Braves and Seattle Mariners.
From his experiences on "The Walking Dead" to his evolving aspirations in acting and art, this episode is a home run for anyone intrigued by the stories that unite us in the shared human experience of chasing our dreams and celebrating our passions.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We don't know if they have an armory, or where it
even is.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, we've got a lot of good guesses.
We've done more of less.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
We go in at night while they're sleeping, Guards
won't be sleeping.
Like I said, I think there'sonly one way in and there's no
way to bust through that doorwithout waking up the rest of
them.
We don't need to.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
They're going to open it for us.
Let us walk right in they wantgregory's head right we're gonna
give it to them and hello andwelcome everybody to sound off
with sync off.
I am so excited to be joined byJeremy Palco, who played Andy
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in the walking dead.
Jeremy, welcome to sound offwith sink off.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Thanks for having me.
That was fun, Memory lane typestuff yeah absolutely.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
And you know, there are so many memorable scenes in
the walking dead and you were apart of one of them, and that is
the scene where you're holdingup this head and you're outside
of Rick's base, negan's base,negan's base, negan's base, and
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you're enticing him saying, hey,we did what you wanted us to do
.
How does it feel to be part ofthat scene?
We'll get into all the otherstuff in a minute, but just talk
about that iconic scene.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I mean, I guess at the time you don't realize how
you know, I mean the whole timeI was there, I was like this is
so cool just to be here.
But I do remember, kind of likeyou get your scripts kind of
week to week kind of thing andyou just hope that you are at
the end of every script.
And I remember Steven Young hadcome up to me at a previous
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episode and he'd actually saidto me he goes, man, that's
really cool what you get to donext episode.
And I was like what?
Like what are you talking about?
Are you sure?
Like I'm the right guy?
And he let me read a scriptwhich I don't know if that was,
you know, taboo or not, but Iread it and I was like, all
right, that's a pretty coolscene.
But uh, yeah, when it came out,I was very happy that, you know
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, there's so many characters inthat show.
Obviously, and just to get onthat show was amazing.
But to have that moment of youknow kind of you know of screen
time was just a really, reallycool feeling.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Jeremy of course, played Andy, had some great
scenes in the Walking Dead.
He battled Abraham, a big dude.
Right, daryl breaks your arm.
You have the uh, the riff withrick, uh, ultimately end up sort
of siding with them and andgoing to negan's base and
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holding up the head, um, andwe're going to talk about your
untimely death at the beginningof season eight.
But first of all, jeremy, tellus how you got started in acting
, how did let going to go back,and then we'll talk about
Walking Dead and all your otherprojects and your artworks.
How did you get involved inacting?
Oh, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah Well, I thought about that this morning and I
was like when did I really getinto acting?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And I had to go all the way back.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And I remember in third grade I was in a terrible
school production of Snow Whiteand the Seven Dwarfs and I just
I remember yelling a lot but Ihad a lot of fun.
And so from then on, and like,every Indiana Jones movie as a
kid made me want to be in themovie somehow some way, and I
just kind of never thought thatwas possible.
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Like I didn't know any actors,I didn't hang out with any
actors.
I mean, my sister was in atheater in high school and
college, but that was it.
And then I worked, for my dreamwas to work with Disney and so
I actually did an internshipwith Disney.
I wound up working on a cruiseship at a job that I didn't
really know what I was going todo and it wound up being a very
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entertainment-led job of hostingdeck parties and dancing like a
pirate and that really kind ofgot the acting bug.
I had done some plays incollege but it didn't strengthen
my love for the theater.
It actually kind of terrifiedme the thought of being in front
of people.
But again, disney really kindof shaped me as an entertainer
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and I did some work at UniversalStudios for a while.
That's when I started to pursueacting.
I started to be an extra inmovies.
I was an extra in a moviecalled Sidney White with Amanda
Bynes.
I was an extra in Magic Mike.
I worked next to MatthewMcConaughey and Channing Tatum,
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steven Soderbergh and OliviaMunn and I was just.
I remember I didn't do much, Isat on a beach throwing a
football all day, but likewatching them work, I mean this
became my classroom of justbeing an extra.
I was an extra in probably like50 or 60 commercials with you
know the Orlando community was,you know, still to this day day,
a great group of actors and yousee them working all the time.
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But that was a fun educationfor me and I got lucky enough to
start.
I got you know what I considerthe best agent in the Southeast
with Brevard Talent and I'vebeen with Tracy for a good 15
years now and she's wonderfuland she gets me, you know,
pretty good opportunities andthat's you wonderful and she
gets me pretty goodopportunities and you're lucky
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enough to get them the auditions.
But to book anything is justkind of icing on the cake.
So thus far I've been littlepart, little part, little part
and I can't complain.
But I chose this profession andthis road.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
So yeah, can't complain, but I chose this
profession in this road, so,yeah, um, of course.
Uh, jeremy had parts in pitchperfect three, the passage
unbreakable, live to tell, andmacgyver.
And then you were in tylerperry's ruthless as well,
obviously.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
In addition to walking dead, that was a pretty
cool gig, huh that was thecoolest gig because it was
during COVID and so auditionswere few and far between and
didn't even know a strike was onthe horizon.
But I remember getting theaudition and a call from Tyler
Perry's people and they werelike, hey, we want to cast you
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in like 26 episodes.
So in my mind I was thinkingI'm going to be shooting for the
next you know year or so.
Then I found out they shootextremely fast.
So it was kind of like thisacting boot camp that you know
was it was so much fun,everybody was great.
But I remember being completelystressed out, getting you know
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pages upon pages of dialogue.
I had probably 100 pages ofdialogue and I had like four
days to prepare and to me,that's like an actor's nightmare
.
I didn't sleep well, I was.
I was literally at the gymevery day, only to walk on a
treadmill and learn my lines,like I printed out all the pages
of kinkos and uh.
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But I remember, remember likeTyler Perry was just he was so
much fun and, like I said, itwas during COVID, so we stayed
on property, so I got to stay atTyler Perry studios for four
weeks and you know like it wasduring COVID, so everyone had
masks and we were getting testedevery like three days and I
just remember the food beingamazing, people being amazing
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and yeah, it was, you know, sucha great opportunity during a
downtime for acting, to just toreally just work.
It was.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
It was a lot of fun about actors, and I don't think
a lot of people realize thiswhen they're watching a movie.
But memorizing the lines andthen making them feel like
you're not acting, how tough isthat?
To not only memorize your linesand Tyler Perry, that may be an
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exception because you'recrunching it but, like for the
Walking Dead, like how much timedo you have to learn those
lines and how the heck do you dothat?
I mean, can you ad lib, or ithas to be exactly what is said.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I mean, well, that's that's debatable.
Certain people are like stickto the script, certain people
are very open.
Really depends on yourrelationship with a the director
, be the writer and just if itmakes sense for the character.
But I would say I mean it's noteasy.
I'll start there, likememorizing lines has always
terrified me, there, likememorizing lines has always
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terrified me.
I think most actors will agreeto some degree that it's, it's
tough but it's, you knowsometimes.
You know actors are veryemotional people to begin with.
I think.
I think it's for me personally,acting becomes, you know, a
study of you know people andtrying to feel what you know
people feel in those moments, ummoments.
But memorizing the lines is kindof it's the first necessary
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step.
But then you make it your ownand to anybody who thinks it's
really difficult, I kind of say,tell me your favorite joke and
then tell me your favorite jokeagain, and then tell me your
favorite joke and you start tobuild these kind of blocks in
your head of like this is thescene, this is the story, this
is what makes sense to me and ifyou can connect those dots with
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enough practice, for me it'slike I listen to it all day.
Every day I will speak it intoa recorder for like probably 20
minutes and then just let thatplay all day long and I'll find
myself almost like your favoritesong.
You're just kind of catchingmoments and then I go back and
reread it a hundred times andyou know that's within the first
48 hours and if I don't have itkind of off book by then I
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don't really deserve the partkind of thing.
Um, but really just timepractice, that's it.
Like you can't, I mean somepeople probably have you know
photographic, you know memories,and can just people probably
have you know photographic, youknow memories and can just read,
and you know I'm envious,envious of those people, but I
do know a lot of great actorsout there that that struggle
with that idea of you know,memorizing um but yeah, you want
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to get off book.
You want to get rid of thescript that way.
That's when you can start kindof playing and you know I equate
it to painting a lot, you know,like it's never going to be
what you want it to be.
But what you do is you justkeep.
You know, just keep going andsee what comes out of it uh,
jeremy palco, we're speaking to.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
It's sound off with sync off.
It's sponsored by the sync offrealty group full service real
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Albany, the capital region ofNew York.
Jeremy, your first gig, yourfirst speaking part, was the
movie Never Back Down.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
It was yeah, 2008.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I did my research on it, man yeah nice job.
How'd you get that gig?
Tell me about that and how thathappened.
That was fun.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
So like I really had the acting bug hard, Like I was
on sets all the time, I wasseeing people, all my friends
that I was making, they were allworking actors.
And you know, like I said, I'vebeen an extra but I, you know,
hadn't had dialogue in a movie.
And so I remember my agent sentme my first agent a wonderful
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agent just moved on for her whenI got bigger parts out there.
I do remember going into theaudition and it was a football
sequence To anyone who's seen it, I played the running back in
the first scene.
This was such a dream rolebecause I had played football my
whole life and I always wantedto play sports in a movie.
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But I remember the audition washilarious because clearly, the
script it just didn't make sense.
It was like a quarterbackyelling out lines that a
linebacker would say, kind ofthing.
And so I kind of just spoke up.
I said hey, listen, am Iplaying the quarterback or the
linebacker?
And they said quarterback and Isaid okay, and they were like
what, what's wrong?
And I said, oh, you know, justprobably wouldn't say this.
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And they were like, well, whatwould he say?
And I said, you know he wouldsay things like and I start
barking at quarterback lines and, next thing, you know, like
they're all talking amongstthemselves and we ran a couple
scenes, um, but they lookedbaffled because they'd been in
there all day and nobody hadsaid a word.
Um, right, but they kept methere.
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After a couple more peopleaudition, and then they asked me
about football, like realquestions, like could I run,
could I catch, could I pass?
And I said, yes, I can do allthat.
Um, and then it was like twodays later I went out with the
stunt team and we startedplaying football and I was there
with, like you know, jymonHonsu was there and you know,
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amber Heard stopped by and CamGigande, but all my fights were
with Sean Ferris, sean Ferris,and, yeah, we just rehearsed and
rehearsed and I was there withthree guys who they told me I
was competing with, but at theend of the day they were the
stunt guys.
No, no, no, you're, you're aguy.
We're just we're training you.
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Our scenes yeah because on theday we shot it was just three
football scenes and every timewe ran it I took real hits from
real stunt guys and I rememberit being the time of my life.
I I had so much fun and likethe next five days, like the
whole body was just black andblue.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
But yeah, that was I remember.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I remember going to theaters to to watch it too, and
my mom watched the whole movieand said where were you?
I said Mama, I was in the firstscene with the football helmet
on.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
That's funny.
So you're in that.
You're in that movie.
You obviously have a sportsbackground.
You're from the SeattleWashington area.
Right Went to University ofWashington.
You played sports in college,right.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Collegiately I played lacrosse.
I did a year and a half of aclub sport because I wasn't good
enough to make the footballteam.
But that's when I actually inhigh school.
I wasn't great but I wasn'tterrible.
I was planning on playingcollegiate football somewhere
and then my third game of mysenior year blew out my knee,
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kind of story.
Then I went to college thinkingI could continue to play sports
and I blew out my knee, kind ofstory.
Then I went to college thinkingI could continue to play sports
and I blew out my other knee.
That's actually, when I took myfirst acting class was after my
second injury.
So, being devastated as I was,I looked back and I was like
that was the biggest you knowfork in the road kind of moment
in my life that let me know.
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Hey, man, sports are just not.
I'm so happy man.
I've watched like sports nowand I see guys getting leveled
and I'm like I would be brokenin half right now, so I'm I'm
okay with it.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Um, jeremy, uh, what's for you?
What's the best part aboutacting?
What do you love about?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
it, it's just it's.
It's the only thing that's everreally kept my interest.
You know, like, like when Iwent to college, they always say
like you know, find what youlike and go for it.
A lot of people don't know whatthey want.
You know, and I remember thefirst day I went to cinematic
studies, I started learningabout movies and you know, I've
always wanted to be a director,which I've actually just shot,
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and I wrote, shot my first shortfilm and I've got a lot of cool
friends to help me out.
So we're in the editing processright now looking for a sound
mixer.
But yeah, that always had my,my interest and I never thought
about being an actor.
But you know, I just reallyenjoy it.
I think any actor will tell youthat it's just you know, you're
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a big kid and you get to play.
You know like I don't ever losesight of just how fun it could
be.
I think the more I do it, themore I realize it's more
therapeutic for actors thananything.
It is quite literally, you know, just expressing yourself and
putting yourself in other'sshoes, but ultimately it's just
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I love it so all right.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
So you get the spot in the walking dead and I'm, I'm
, uh, showing a shot here.
You got that here on yourscreen, right?
Yes, sir, you and you and jesus.
Um, jesus, not the biggest shotin the world, awesome actor um,
oh, oh, tom he's awesome, yeah.
So how did you get this gig?
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There you are with Rick.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
You know it's funny, andrew Lincoln, I was living in
Orlando at the time when itfirst came around and it was
called just the Zombie Show, theUntitled Zombie Show, and I
read for the first episode andit was for a young police
officer and it's been a while,but I do remember watching that
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first episode and seeing the guyhe's like up against the fence.
That would have been with Shaneright.
I think it was Rick and Morgan.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh, rick, rick, yeah, rick in the beginning.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, there's that one cop that he kills on the
fence post, and I rememberquestioning for that and I
didn't get it obviously.
And the show went on to be abig hit and then everybody in
the Southeast knew what theWalking Dead was.
Every time actors and I gotauditions, I was lucky enough to
just continue continuouslybeing seen as all you really
want as an actor.
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So I read for this part andthat part and this part and that
part, and I had never reallywatched the show.
I saw the first couple episodesand it was just kind of like,
nah, I'm not into it.
But then season six came aroundand castings went out and I
read for this part and Iremember it was like a liquor
store kind of hold up scene andlike most auditions, you give
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them two, you know two differenttakes and I try to give them
something as different aspossible.
And you know, and then you tryto forget about it.
As an actor, at least I try to.
I don't try to, you know, holdon to that idea that I might
book it.
And then one day I was workingat a bar and my, my boss knew
that I was an actor and he knewI'd read for the show and you
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know he was a huge fan of theshow.
So I got the call and I went inhis office and said hey, I
won't be at work next week.
And I told him which I wasn'tsupposed to tell anybody really.
But yeah, I went out my agentwas on the phone with and I kind
of celebrated for a good moment.
But then I got kind of likethis wave of terror of like man,
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now it's time to go, like it'sthe big league.
So I couldn't wait to get thescript.
I was in Orlando, like I said,I drove to Atlanta and I was
there for a few weeks shootingand you know I remember leaving
and my character was still aliveand well.
So I was very hopeful forseason seven.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
So so like explain how that works.
And here's you uh but it waswild.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Like I said, I hadn't seen the show and when I got
cast it was all available onlike netflix.
I watched five seasons and likea weekend, I mean, I I
literally went from reading thescripts and, just you know,
watching the series and thenwalking onto set, which was, you
know, kind of surreal in itself.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
So you get the gig and then how long do they give
you the script and say you'recoming out to Atlanta, like how
did that the genesis of that?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
They usually give you a preliminary script and a
shoot schedule of like what daysyou need to be there, and in my
case, they needed my hotels.
They provided, which is niceand it was just really a lot of
fun.
But yeah, you just wait aroundfor the script and then you
start memorizing as best you canand yeah, me personally, I have
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to get there as soon aspossible.
I'll be the first one on set.
You know like I really enjoybeing there.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
So so you were, how many you were in how many
episodes total four uh five.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I did uh okay yeah two in season six, two and eight
, and then there was one inseason six, two in eight, and
then there was one in seasonseven.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, and you had an untimely death right.
What was that in season eight?
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I remember we'd all come back.
It was kind of like summer camp.
I hate my dogs waking up.
It was kind of like summer camp.
They were shooting.
Episode one, one and episodeone was actually the 100th
episode of the show and Iremember there was it was like
the best summer camp ever.
There was like a hundred of us.
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Like for a week and a half weall went hiking and we went out
to dinners and we were shootingall day.
And then we got into likeepisode two and that's when,
like the phone calls startedgoing out of like did you get a
call?
Did you get a call?
Did you get a call?
And that was Scott Gimpleletting people know that you
know, the casualties are aboutto start happening in the Negan
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War.
And good old Andy was at thetop of the chopping block having
that conversation with ScottGimple and he was uh, you know
he.
I, you know, I I love thecharacters a lot to me, but I
understand that, like he has somuch to work with and little old
Andy is just, you know,whatever, but he, you know, he
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talked in depth about thecharacter and was, like you know
, we brought him in at thesavior's compound and we took
him out at the savior's compoundand we felt that was full
circle for him.
I really stepped back andnobody wants to die in that show
, but man, I was just sograteful.
But yeah, I got to set andtalked to a few of my friends
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and my friend Jordan he'd gottenthe call.
But yeah, one by one, juststarted.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
What was the cast of that show between you know?
Uh, andrew lincoln and normanreedus.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
I mean, what an unbelievable cast, huh and you
had a chance to really work withthose guys up close I was very
fortunate and I, you know,people had kind of mentioned
this to me and I'm, you know,very grateful to have my
character.
Every time I got to set, youknow, you always look at the
call sheet and you know, everyonce in a while you get a good
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name in there, and or a top name, I should say, and I was very
fortunate.
Every one of my scenes had, oh,you know, my day one, I was
toe-to-toe with Andrew Lincoln,you know.
And I, day two, I was, you know, on top of cutlets choking them
out, you know, sitting in theshade with Norman Reedus all day
thinking man.
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I watched Boondock Saints and,yeah, unreal, hold on one second
, whoa, I got my dude justbothering me.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Oh, what kind of puppy is that?
He's a beagle.
Oh, I have a beagle, shih tzu.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
So I'm in the same.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, very unique mix .
I got you buddy.
Yeah, what's his name?
Oh, this is Jonesy Jonesy.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Hi Jonesy, Indiana Jonesy.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Oh, welcome to Sound Off with Sync Off.
Jonesy, glad you're joining us.
I know it's boring.
It's boring to you, I get it.
So, yeah, you shared someamazing screen time with these
guys.
And how were they to you,jeremy, because I love this
interview, because it's raw andit's it's real, did you feel at
times like I'm pinching myself,like, oh like?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
every every 30 minutes.
Um, you know, they kind ofscare you, scare you with the,
the ndas.
You know the non-disclosure, nopictures on set, kind of thing.
And you know I remember sittingthere on, we were at the
Alexandria, one of the porches.
I'm sitting there and there'sAndrew Lincoln, norman Reedus
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talking to Greg Nicotero aboutthe day, and I just kind of
snuck in a shot and I justremember, like I didn't show it,
I didn't post it or anythinglike that, but like years later
I saw that and I was like man, Iremember that, like just
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sitting there just thinking how,how wild this was, because you
know, I was, you know I rememberbeing overseas and seeing like
posters for walking dead walkingdown the street and I was like
man, that's pretty cool, like I,I was a part of that.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
So yep, and of course , nicotero, a director, makeup
special effects guy.
I'm a huge george romero fan.
Uh, he was a big part of day ofthe dead, did the makeup for
that and he's done a ton ofmovies.
Um, I met him at that where,where I met you at the
providence uh the rhode islandcon.
Yeah, uh, he's.
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He's great and he's got a lotof stories.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
He was probably fun to work with and he directed
some of your scenes right or,yeah, some of your episodes,
let's say a good half of theepisodes I did.
Greg was the the director, ummichael satrazimus was also
there.
He was great.
But yeah, yeah, those days werereally fun.
I remember kind of just seeingsome of the chaos go down.
I remember it was season eight,episode one.
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We're in a field and there wasdozens of actors, extras, cars
being moved around, sun goingdown, there's a little bit of
chaos, but I remember watchinghim work and it was just, it was
fun.
It was a lot of fun.
Like I just try to stay out ofhis way, but they were like
literally moving cars andfilming at the same time.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
So and for me, like just you know, and one of the
things I'll give you some insidebaseball, jeremy when I
launched this podcast obviouslya real estate agent now, but my
past is sports, so this is asports-themed podcast, but I've
always been enamored withzombies and pop culture and
things of that nature, and Ithink one of the reasons why,
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for me, the walking dead was sogood is because it was like it
wasn't in front of a greenscreen.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Like it was real, it was raw right, I mean, and you
saw that, yeah, yeah.
So that, like as an actor, whenI got two sets like that, that
satellite station where I'mholding the head, that is like
out in the middle of nowhere,that's a real satellite station
we really shot there.
There was no cell service formiles, it was, it was out in the
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middle of nowhere and I lovedit because it was just like you
literally walked onto set andyou were in the apocalypse.
So it's, it was dirty, it wassweaty and it was so much fun um
, we got to.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Uh, I want to show you the the head again, because
it is just there we go.
It is just an iconic scene.
Now tell me about this head.
You're holding this head.
This was nicotero's head.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
This was yeah, in the previous scene we had three
lined up on the ground and Iremember, uh, one of them was
johnny depp's head from piratesof the caribbean and the only
reason I knew that and I foundthat out later was because it
was on some kind of cool, youknow, tmz type thing.
But I do recall this head whichI had to hold for about maybe
(26:48):
two, two and a half hours, youknow, just kind of doing the set
.
That thing weighed probably 15pounds and my shoulder, which
I've had multiple surgeries on,was hurting that day.
But it was, it was so worth it.
I didn't, you know, I didn'tcomplain, it was so much fun.
But what I loved about thishead is a lot of people ask
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about it.
But it was so detailed that,like, if you were like they
don't just build it just to holdit, they build it in case they
need to smash it.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
So if you were to break that thing open, it would
probably look as if, you know,it might have been a real head,
who knows, but it was, uh, itwas very, very cool to you know,
you know, and it's funnybecause when I tell some people,
um, I'm having jeremy palco onand I was like he was in the
walking dead, and I go, he's theguy that held the head outside
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of negan's compound and they'relike, oh my god, that scene,
dude, such an iconic scene.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I appreciate that, yeah there are certain cons
where people like I can seethey're.
They're coming up to me becausethey can't quite tell, they
just see yep walking dead guyand you know I'm never offended
by.
There's a billion characters inthis show and um, they come up
and they see that shot, or theone with, uh, daryl breaking my
arm, and sometimes the the truefans know they're like oh yeah,
(28:09):
I remember that scene.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Jeremy, we're going to get into your art in a minute
here.
But being on that show and youwere, you know, memorable scenes
and, as you said, in what sortof the main cast did that open
some doors for you being on thatshow and, and you know, because
acting is so competitive, it'sso difficult, it's so tough to
get gigs I think, yeah, I thinkanyone on that show kind of
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ultimately affects them in somesort of positive way.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I mean a it's on your resume which is always, you
know, just great as an actor.
But you know the amount ofpeople that I have met or
reached out to or across youknow, social medias with, yeah,
it's this umbrella of just, youknow, being part of this family
of, uh, you know, not only castand crew and you know, but the
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fan base is just it's, it'sawesome, it is really awesome.
And I know you asked me aboutthe cons and that kind of led to
.
You know I do travel every oncein a while to do walking dead
events, but, um, now that I aman artist kind of thing, um,
I've been able to cross thosekind of paths right now, so it
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allows me to audition and be anactor as well, as you know, kind
of start traveling the concircuit again.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Kind of start traveling the con circuit again,
and here we are hanging out ata con Yep In Providence.
A couple of years ago youmentioned how cool are these to
go to.
Oh man, going to these cons,they're so unreal Kind of.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
The very first con I ever did was in fact the Rhode
Island Comic Con and I hadn'tbeen on the Walking Dead yet.
I'd been on Vampire Diaries andBloodline and a friend of a
friend kind of thought hey Icould you know I'm an agent.
I would love to see if you knowyou want to come up to the show
and you know it was a very quietweekend, but I was sitting next
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to the entire Sons of Anarchycast, which I was obsessed with
still I'm to this day one of thegreatest shows.
Um, so that opened a you know adoor to a world where, for
instance, I remember meetingryan hurst for the first time
and I was so starstruck thefirst time I met him, and fast
forward eight years later likeI've.
(30:22):
I've seen ryan a handful oftimes, and then he got on the
Walking Dead and then we got toPaz and other kind of events.
And so, yeah, it's this weirdlittle world of like I mean I
was on a bus with Lou Ferrignotalking about you know lifting
weights one day and you knowflying home next to Joey Fatone
(30:42):
and yeah, it's, it's just funlittle world of you know.
The idea of celebrity is such abig thing and you know, every
time I'm at these things I doget like I met Kiefer Sutherland
once.
I get a little starstruck, butit's becoming less and less, I
found.
But it's still such a trip togo to these things.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
All right, so now you also do.
Your newest sort of passionproject is Art by Palco.
You're quite the artist.
This is one of your.
This is and I messaged you thisthis is one of your pieces.
You did and and I bought it atthe Rhode Island con last
October and it's prominently nojoke, jeremy prominently
(31:25):
displayed in the lobby of myoffice.
Yeah, and I get everyone asksme what is that?
Where did you get that?
So tell me about how you gotinto painting and I'm going to
show you some of the I'm goingto show you some of your works,
like I really do.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
It's, it's the weirdest thing Like this is what
I do pinch myself about.
It's like, literally, Irecently turned 40 and I had
never thought about painting aday in my life, never thought
about it, never picked up apaintbrush, never had any
inclination to paint.
And then COVID hit andeverybody was kind of just
(32:03):
sitting around twiddling theirthumbs and I remember painting
just out of sheer boredom oneday and I I enjoyed it and I put
it on my social media and Iswear, if it weren't for the
walking dead, like nobody wouldhave noticed, and kind of one at
a time people started reachingout to me saying, hi, can I, can
(32:25):
I purchase that?
I was kind of like, sure, youknow, and I introduced, I was
introduced to like Venmo andPayPal, and I just kind of
started, you know, painting onething at a time out of you know,
just kind of expressing myselfand, um, humbly, fast forward,
you know four years now.
Now I've probably painted over10,000 pieces, ranging in sizes
(32:50):
from four by four to much largerones behind me, but uh, I've.
I found myself being very proudthat every single piece.
I do is one of one.
You know, there's no prints,there's no duplicates,
everything you know it's awesomeit's just a hobby that is kind
of, you know, taken over myworld, obviously.
(33:12):
But you know, like I havehealth insurance now because of
painting and, you know, throughacting it has definitely taught
me more than you know I realized.
But yeah, it's become myobsession.
I do it like 90 percent of mytime.
Time I'm either painting orwith my dog, so, um, between
auditions, which has beenwonderful, so jeremy, had you
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painted before?
Speaker 2 (33:36):
like you know I, you have to have an art.
I'm looking at like your r2d2thing, right, you see on the
screen there's.
You have to have some artistictalent.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
You said I'm doing this during covid I updated my
art too, like you got an older,wow.
But I see, uh, I got bored oneday and I added a million little
things.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
But no, I've never, never painted.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
and um, we were talking before the show and like
I have like 17 art shows comingup, um, so I paint and I
literally go to shows and peoplekind of you know kind enough to
pick up some pieces and yeah,like it still blows my mind how
much I love doing it and howI've never done it before.
(34:19):
So, yeah, hobby turned intojust a complete obsession.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
And we're going to, I'm going to put on the screen
here, your, your website.
Give us the website and tell usa little bit about it and how
people can purchase items there.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I do have a webpage, artbypalcocom, and that is just
the easy place to go and thathas kind of a little bit about
me, a little bit about mybackground, but has a link to my
art, to uh.
It connects to a square siteand I try to update that as as
often as possible because Ipretty much paint every day and
so, like every week, I do mybest to have new stuff on there.
(34:57):
Um and again, I pride myself ineverything being one of one, so
I always tell people, you know,if they see anything they like,
you know, please know, it's theonly one out there.
Obviously, my social media, myInstagram, I keep everything up
to date, I think if you click onthe art link, it'll scroll down
(35:17):
.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yep, I'm just showing everybody.
You see the screen there.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
My good friend Jose made this.
I wish I had his websiteoffhand, but man, I believe it's
on there.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
So we click on art and I believe that's the link.
Yeah, probably go into yourstuff.
Yeah, I mean so art by Palco,oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
So, yeah, click on those.
Yeah, Click on any of those.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Explore my store here we go.
Of those explore my store herewe go explore my store.
I've never actually seen thator read that, but that sounds
funny um, so yeah, this is justall of your stuff here, which is
awesome.
Uh, there's your r2, right,yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
yeah, I gotta update the website, unfortunately, but
but yeah, so this is.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
This is really cool and anybody can go there and you
can.
You could check out the, youcould check out your, your art,
and can somebody request youknow, has anyone requested like
Walking Dead artwork?
Speaker 1 (36:23):
I'm working on a piece right now that I think I'm
going to bring.
I'm doing an event at the endof the month, which is in Senoi,
where we shot the Walking Dead.
I haven't told anyone yet whatI'm going to do, but I've had a
few requests and commissions andI've come to believe that I'm
not really an artist.
I say that hesitantly because,like I said, this is a new
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obsession, but I do love it andpeople have been very responsive
to it, which has been a veryhumbling and awesome experience.
Um, but I did have people sayhey, can you like paint my
grandfather holding my cat?
And I'm like no, I cannot dothat, so I've had to be very
kind of specific.
Oh, I forgot, this is a pieceI'm working on right now.
(37:08):
Oh, wow.
Kind of an R2 kind of a droidthing.
But I kind of tell people I'mlike you know, I appreciate the
interest, but you know, look atmy work and we'll go from there.
But I've started to get intocommission work but I
unfortunately will turn stuffdown if it's just not something
I think I can make.
(37:29):
So I would hate to disappointsomebody truly so art by
palcocom.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
You got the website.
We're putting it on the bottomof your screen there.
Um, all right, we gotta becausewe're gonna touch a little on
sports, because this is soundoff with sync off we gotta have
a little bit of sports here, ormy peeps will get mad at me.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
I was, I was ready.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Um, are you?
Oh no, Are you breaking outsome ridiculousness?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I'll give you the short story.
So I was.
I was born in LaGrange, georgia, all right.
And I?
Up until I was about five yearsold, I moved to Seattle
Washington.
So I grew up, I was Justice, Iwas Ron Gant, I was Terry
Pendleton, Fred McGriff Glavinand Smoltz Glavin.
I have one baseball glove.
(38:15):
My entire life I played for 25years.
I still play softball.
I have one glove I got when Iwas 12 years old, tom Glavin,
you still have it and still useit.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
It's still in my car.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
It's just always in my car for some reason.
So I grew up a diehard Bravesfan.
I remember my dad getting me myfirst baseball hat a
professionally fit which wasAtlanta Braves.
So I grew up, from the start, aBraves fan and then I moved to
Seattle.
When I was five my dad workedfor the Wall Street Journal, so
(38:46):
we grew up in the Seattle areaand then Griffey happened.
Oh boy.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Got my old school Griffey, my Mariners, but that's
when, as a kid, I startedplaying baseball like I played
like for AAU national teams.
I was very I wouldn't say great,but I got to be a part of great
teams and so you know Itraveled a lot for baseball.
But growing up in Seattle, youknow we were Mariner fans.
You know I got to.
You know I met Alex Rodriguezand he signed a baseball for me,
(39:21):
and Jay Buhner and Ichiro and Imet Edgar Martinez.
So this is the only sport I amdual fans, because now I live in
Atlanta, I literally live twomiles from the stadium and I
just love baseball.
So I'm a diehard Seahawks fan.
Falcons are growing on me, butwhen it comes to baseball, like
(39:42):
I love my braves and then I willalways be there for my mariners
all right.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
So the mariners are playing the braves in the world
series, probably wishfulthinking, although maybe not I
have who are you rooting for?
Speaker 1 (39:54):
that is tough.
That is really, really toughand I've hated that question
because seattle needs it and Iwould be so happy.
But, like I said, I live nextto the stadium for the Braves
and so I remember I moved herein 2019, so I was here for the
World Series run and that wasjust so much fun and energetic
(40:21):
and the town feeds off of it.
But we are a little spoiled man, Like the Braves, like we're
always good, Always good.
But that means nothing in theplayoffs now.
It really means nothing.
You can lose to the Philliesthe first round, you know, but
yeah, I think I would chooseSeattle In the seventh game,
bottom of the ninth, like it.
(40:42):
Better be historic If it's likea sweep.
Boring, you know, but that'snot fun.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Yeah Well, I'm an O's fan and we've suffered for a
very long time.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
That's so good though .
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Yeah, we're well.
I tell people and I put onFacebook.
When the Orioles hired Elias in2018 from the Astros, him and
Sig Meidel are the two sort ofbrain trust that put that Astros
team together.
That made their runs and Eliashas proved to be unbelievable.
I mean, jeremy, you look at ourdraft picks from when he
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started to now, he has notmissed on any number one.
You know, first round draftpicks which you know in baseball
, that you look at the numberone, the number one overall
picks the last 10 years, liketwo of them are in the majors,
right.
I mean it's unbelievable.
And what he has done withGunner and Adley, it's just
(41:36):
crazy.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Baseball drafts always baffled me with the AAA
system, so I kind of just assoon as spring ball comes around
, I pay any attention reallyyeah, it's uh.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Yeah, it's fun being an o's fan.
It's been a long time coming.
I'm so excited yeah, you guys,and you're, you guys are, you
guys are.
Atlanta is really tough.
Uh, there's no question.
You know, I think it would beawesome, dude.
I telling you right now, let'sthrow this out there If the O's
play the Braves in the series,you're getting us tickets and
(42:09):
I'm coming down and we're goingtogether.
All right, I'm not staying withyou, dude, but we're going to
go to the game together.
Because I said to my wife Isaid, francine, since I've been
an adult, twice in my life hasmy team been in a championship.
In 2002, maryland was in thenational championship.
(42:30):
I was 31, but I was doingtelevision at the time in
Norfolk, virginia.
And then, in 2018, my Capitalswon the Stanley Cup.
But you know, I want to go.
It's expensive, but I want togo to one of these games.
Well, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
I remember when the World Series was here, we were
looking at tickets to go and ofcourse they were first sold out,
but then they had the standingroom only, and for the World
Series, standing room only was$1,200.
And not only parking went from$45 to $250.
Now I live like I said.
I walk to the stadium and backevery once in a while because
(43:09):
it's a good hike but it's, youknow, nothing too bad.
But I mean it'd be fun just togo to Truist Park and walk
around because everything is so,you know, the atmosphere is
just cool.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
All right, before we let you go.
You're obviously still pursuingthe acting thing.
Uh, hopefully we see you insomething soon, right?
Speaker 1 (43:30):
we hope, I sure hope so.
Like I said, I had some, uh,some good stuff uh in the works,
but you know, as an actor youjust you can only do so much
until someone else has to makethat decision.
So I'm very hopeful you waitfor the phone to ring right
pretty much that's why the uh,the artwork is so much, uh, so
(43:50):
much fun to do in the meantimewell, jeremy played andy in the
walking dead.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Check him out.
You can watch the walking deadon on netflix, um, and you can,
uh, check out j's art.
Art by Palko Jeremy.
I want to thank you so much forcoming on, man.
I know we met a couple of yearsago and we've been in touch on
Facebook, but I really trulyappreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
My pleasure, Brian.
I appreciate it, man.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
All right, that is Jeremy Palko of the Walking Dead
, and an artist as well, so Iwant to thank everyone for
watching and listening to soundoff with sync off, until next
time.
This is Brian sync off, sayinghave a great day and we'll catch
you next time.
We don't know if they have an armory, or where it
even is.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, we've got a lot of good guesses.
We've done more of less.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
We go in at night while they're sleeping, Guards
won't be sleeping.
Like I said, I think there'sonly one way in and there's no
way to bust through that doorwithout waking up the rest of
them.
We don't need to.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
They're going to open it for us.
Let us walk right in they wantgregory's head right we're gonna
give it to them and hello andwelcome everybody to sound off
with sync off.
I am so excited to be joined byJeremy Palco, who played Andy
(00:48):
in the walking dead.
Jeremy, welcome to sound offwith sink off.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Thanks for having me.
That was fun, Memory lane typestuff yeah absolutely.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
And you know, there are so many memorable scenes in
the walking dead and you were apart of one of them, and that is
the scene where you're holdingup this head and you're outside
of Rick's base, negan's base,negan's base, negan's base, and
(01:23):
you're enticing him saying, hey,we did what you wanted us to do
.
How does it feel to be part ofthat scene?
We'll get into all the otherstuff in a minute, but just talk
about that iconic scene.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I mean, I guess at the time you don't realize how
you know, I mean the whole timeI was there, I was like this is
so cool just to be here.
But I do remember, kind of likeyou get your scripts kind of
week to week kind of thing andyou just hope that you are at
the end of every script.
And I remember Steven Young hadcome up to me at a previous
(01:56):
episode and he'd actually saidto me he goes, man, that's
really cool what you get to donext episode.
And I was like what?
Like what are you talking about?
Are you sure?
Like I'm the right guy?
And he let me read a scriptwhich I don't know if that was,
you know, taboo or not, but Iread it and I was like, all
right, that's a pretty coolscene.
But uh, yeah, when it came out,I was very happy that, you know
(02:18):
, there's so many characters inthat show.
Obviously, and just to get onthat show was amazing.
But to have that moment of youknow kind of you know of screen
time was just a really, reallycool feeling.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Jeremy of course, played Andy, had some great
scenes in the Walking Dead.
He battled Abraham, a big dude.
Right, daryl breaks your arm.
You have the uh, the riff withrick, uh, ultimately end up sort
of siding with them and andgoing to negan's base and
(02:53):
holding up the head, um, andwe're going to talk about your
untimely death at the beginningof season eight.
But first of all, jeremy, tellus how you got started in acting
, how did let going to go back,and then we'll talk about
Walking Dead and all your otherprojects and your artworks.
How did you get involved inacting?
Oh, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah Well, I thought about that this morning and I
was like when did I really getinto acting?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And I had to go all the way back.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And I remember in third grade I was in a terrible
school production of Snow Whiteand the Seven Dwarfs and I just
I remember yelling a lot but Ihad a lot of fun.
And so from then on, and like,every Indiana Jones movie as a
kid made me want to be in themovie somehow some way, and I
just kind of never thought thatwas possible.
(03:38):
Like I didn't know any actors,I didn't hang out with any
actors.
I mean, my sister was in atheater in high school and
college, but that was it.
And then I worked, for my dreamwas to work with Disney and so
I actually did an internshipwith Disney.
I wound up working on a cruiseship at a job that I didn't
really know what I was going todo and it wound up being a very
(04:00):
entertainment-led job of hostingdeck parties and dancing like a
pirate and that really kind ofgot the acting bug.
I had done some plays incollege but it didn't strengthen
my love for the theater.
It actually kind of terrifiedme the thought of being in front
of people.
But again, disney really kindof shaped me as an entertainer
(04:23):
and I did some work at UniversalStudios for a while.
That's when I started to pursueacting.
I started to be an extra inmovies.
I was an extra in a moviecalled Sidney White with Amanda
Bynes.
I was an extra in Magic Mike.
I worked next to MatthewMcConaughey and Channing Tatum,
(04:44):
steven Soderbergh and OliviaMunn and I was just.
I remember I didn't do much, Isat on a beach throwing a
football all day, but likewatching them work, I mean this
became my classroom of justbeing an extra.
I was an extra in probably like50 or 60 commercials with you
know the Orlando community was,you know, still to this day day,
a great group of actors and yousee them working all the time.
(05:07):
But that was a fun educationfor me and I got lucky enough to
start.
I got you know what I considerthe best agent in the Southeast
with Brevard Talent and I'vebeen with Tracy for a good 15
years now and she's wonderfuland she gets me, you know,
pretty good opportunities andthat's you wonderful and she
gets me pretty goodopportunities and you're lucky
(05:28):
enough to get them the auditions.
But to book anything is justkind of icing on the cake.
So thus far I've been littlepart, little part, little part
and I can't complain.
But I chose this profession andthis road.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
So yeah, can't complain, but I chose this
profession in this road, so,yeah, um, of course.
Uh, jeremy had parts in pitchperfect three, the passage
unbreakable, live to tell, andmacgyver.
And then you were in tylerperry's ruthless as well,
obviously.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
In addition to walking dead, that was a pretty
cool gig, huh that was thecoolest gig because it was
during COVID and so auditionswere few and far between and
didn't even know a strike was onthe horizon.
But I remember getting theaudition and a call from Tyler
Perry's people and they werelike, hey, we want to cast you
(06:20):
in like 26 episodes.
So in my mind I was thinkingI'm going to be shooting for the
next you know year or so.
Then I found out they shootextremely fast.
So it was kind of like thisacting boot camp that you know
was it was so much fun,everybody was great.
But I remember being completelystressed out, getting you know
(06:41):
pages upon pages of dialogue.
I had probably 100 pages ofdialogue and I had like four
days to prepare and to me,that's like an actor's nightmare
.
I didn't sleep well, I was.
I was literally at the gymevery day, only to walk on a
treadmill and learn my lines,like I printed out all the pages
of kinkos and uh.
(07:01):
But I remember, remember likeTyler Perry was just he was so
much fun and, like I said, itwas during COVID, so we stayed
on property, so I got to stay atTyler Perry studios for four
weeks and you know like it wasduring COVID, so everyone had
masks and we were getting testedevery like three days and I
just remember the food beingamazing, people being amazing
(07:24):
and yeah, it was, you know, sucha great opportunity during a
downtime for acting, to just toreally just work.
It was.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
It was a lot of fun about actors, and I don't think
a lot of people realize thiswhen they're watching a movie.
But memorizing the lines andthen making them feel like
you're not acting, how tough isthat?
To not only memorize your linesand Tyler Perry, that may be an
(07:58):
exception because you'recrunching it but, like for the
Walking Dead, like how much timedo you have to learn those
lines and how the heck do you dothat?
I mean, can you ad lib, or ithas to be exactly what is said.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I mean, well, that's that's debatable.
Certain people are like stickto the script, certain people
are very open.
Really depends on yourrelationship with a the director
, be the writer and just if itmakes sense for the character.
But I would say I mean it's noteasy.
I'll start there, likememorizing lines has always
terrified me, there, likememorizing lines has always
(08:34):
terrified me.
I think most actors will agreeto some degree that it's, it's
tough but it's, you knowsometimes.
You know actors are veryemotional people to begin with.
I think.
I think it's for me personally,acting becomes, you know, a
study of you know people andtrying to feel what you know
people feel in those moments, ummoments.
But memorizing the lines is kindof it's the first necessary
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step.
But then you make it your ownand to anybody who thinks it's
really difficult, I kind of say,tell me your favorite joke and
then tell me your favorite jokeagain, and then tell me your
favorite joke and you start tobuild these kind of blocks in
your head of like this is thescene, this is the story, this
is what makes sense to me and ifyou can connect those dots with
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enough practice, for me it'slike I listen to it all day.
Every day I will speak it intoa recorder for like probably 20
minutes and then just let thatplay all day long and I'll find
myself almost like your favoritesong.
You're just kind of catchingmoments and then I go back and
reread it a hundred times andyou know that's within the first
48 hours and if I don't have itkind of off book by then I
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don't really deserve the partkind of thing.
Um, but really just timepractice, that's it.
Like you can't, I mean somepeople probably have you know
photographic, you know memories,and can just people probably
have you know photographic, youknow memories and can just read,
and you know I'm envious,envious of those people, but I
do know a lot of great actorsout there that that struggle
with that idea of you know,memorizing um but yeah, you want
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to get off book.
You want to get rid of thescript that way.
That's when you can start kindof playing and you know I equate
it to painting a lot, you know,like it's never going to be
what you want it to be.
But what you do is you justkeep.
You know, just keep going andsee what comes out of it uh,
jeremy palco, we're speaking to.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
It's sound off with sync off.
It's sponsored by the sync offrealty group full service real
estate brokerage in del mar, newYork, located just outside
Albany, the capital region ofNew York.
Jeremy, your first gig, yourfirst speaking part, was the
movie Never Back Down.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
It was yeah, 2008.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I did my research on it, man yeah nice job.
How'd you get that gig?
Tell me about that and how thathappened.
That was fun.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
So like I really had the acting bug hard, Like I was
on sets all the time, I wasseeing people, all my friends
that I was making, they were allworking actors.
And you know, like I said, I'vebeen an extra but I, you know,
hadn't had dialogue in a movie.
And so I remember my agent sentme my first agent a wonderful
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agent just moved on for her whenI got bigger parts out there.
I do remember going into theaudition and it was a football
sequence To anyone who's seen it, I played the running back in
the first scene.
This was such a dream rolebecause I had played football my
whole life and I always wantedto play sports in a movie.
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But I remember the audition washilarious because clearly, the
script it just didn't make sense.
It was like a quarterbackyelling out lines that a
linebacker would say, kind ofthing.
And so I kind of just spoke up.
I said hey, listen, am Iplaying the quarterback or the
linebacker?
And they said quarterback and Isaid okay, and they were like
what, what's wrong?
And I said, oh, you know, justprobably wouldn't say this.
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And they were like, well, whatwould he say?
And I said, you know he wouldsay things like and I start
barking at quarterback lines and, next thing, you know, like
they're all talking amongstthemselves and we ran a couple
scenes, um, but they lookedbaffled because they'd been in
there all day and nobody hadsaid a word.
Um, right, but they kept methere.
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After a couple more peopleaudition, and then they asked me
about football, like realquestions, like could I run,
could I catch, could I pass?
And I said, yes, I can do allthat.
Um, and then it was like twodays later I went out with the
stunt team and we startedplaying football and I was there
with, like you know, jymonHonsu was there and you know,
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amber Heard stopped by and CamGigande, but all my fights were
with Sean Ferris, sean Ferris,and, yeah, we just rehearsed and
rehearsed and I was there withthree guys who they told me I
was competing with, but at theend of the day they were the
stunt guys.
No, no, no, you're, you're aguy.
We're just we're training you.
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Our scenes yeah because on theday we shot it was just three
football scenes and every timewe ran it I took real hits from
real stunt guys and I rememberit being the time of my life.
I I had so much fun and likethe next five days, like the
whole body was just black andblue.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
But yeah, that was I remember.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I remember going to theaters to to watch it too, and
my mom watched the whole movieand said where were you?
I said Mama, I was in the firstscene with the football helmet
on.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
That's funny.
So you're in that.
You're in that movie.
You obviously have a sportsbackground.
You're from the SeattleWashington area.
Right Went to University ofWashington.
You played sports in college,right.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Collegiately I played lacrosse.
I did a year and a half of aclub sport because I wasn't good
enough to make the footballteam.
But that's when I actually inhigh school.
I wasn't great but I wasn'tterrible.
I was planning on playingcollegiate football somewhere
and then my third game of mysenior year blew out my knee,
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kind of story.
Then I went to college thinkingI could continue to play sports
and I blew out my knee, kind ofstory.
Then I went to college thinkingI could continue to play sports
and I blew out my other knee.
That's actually, when I took myfirst acting class was after my
second injury.
So, being devastated as I was,I looked back and I was like
that was the biggest you knowfork in the road kind of moment
in my life that let me know.
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Hey, man, sports are just not.
I'm so happy man.
I've watched like sports nowand I see guys getting leveled
and I'm like I would be brokenin half right now, so I'm I'm
okay with it.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Um, jeremy, uh, what's for you?
What's the best part aboutacting?
What do you love about?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
it, it's just it's.
It's the only thing that's everreally kept my interest.
You know, like, like when Iwent to college, they always say
like you know, find what youlike and go for it.
A lot of people don't know whatthey want.
You know, and I remember thefirst day I went to cinematic
studies, I started learningabout movies and you know, I've
always wanted to be a director,which I've actually just shot,
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and I wrote, shot my first shortfilm and I've got a lot of cool
friends to help me out.
So we're in the editing processright now looking for a sound
mixer.
But yeah, that always had my,my interest and I never thought
about being an actor.
But you know, I just reallyenjoy it.
I think any actor will tell youthat it's just you know, you're
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a big kid and you get to play.
You know like I don't ever losesight of just how fun it could
be.
I think the more I do it, themore I realize it's more
therapeutic for actors thananything.
It is quite literally, you know, just expressing yourself and
putting yourself in other'sshoes, but ultimately it's just
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I love it so all right.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
So you get the spot in the walking dead and I'm, I'm
, uh, showing a shot here.
You got that here on yourscreen, right?
Yes, sir, you and you and jesus.
Um, jesus, not the biggest shotin the world, awesome actor um,
oh, oh, tom he's awesome, yeah.
So how did you get this gig?
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There you are with Rick.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
You know it's funny, andrew Lincoln, I was living in
Orlando at the time when itfirst came around and it was
called just the Zombie Show, theUntitled Zombie Show, and I
read for the first episode andit was for a young police
officer and it's been a while,but I do remember watching that
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first episode and seeing the guyhe's like up against the fence.
That would have been with Shaneright.
I think it was Rick and Morgan.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh, rick, rick, yeah, rick in the beginning.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, there's that one cop that he kills on the
fence post, and I rememberquestioning for that and I
didn't get it obviously.
And the show went on to be abig hit and then everybody in
the Southeast knew what theWalking Dead was.
Every time actors and I gotauditions, I was lucky enough to
just continue continuouslybeing seen as all you really
want as an actor.
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So I read for this part andthat part and this part and that
part, and I had never reallywatched the show.
I saw the first couple episodesand it was just kind of like,
nah, I'm not into it.
But then season six came aroundand castings went out and I
read for this part and Iremember it was like a liquor
store kind of hold up scene andlike most auditions, you give
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them two, you know two differenttakes and I try to give them
something as different aspossible.
And you know, and then you tryto forget about it.
As an actor, at least I try to.
I don't try to, you know, holdon to that idea that I might
book it.
And then one day I was workingat a bar and my, my boss knew
that I was an actor and he knewI'd read for the show and you
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know he was a huge fan of theshow.
So I got the call and I went inhis office and said hey, I
won't be at work next week.
And I told him which I wasn'tsupposed to tell anybody really.
But yeah, I went out my agentwas on the phone with and I kind
of celebrated for a good moment.
But then I got kind of likethis wave of terror of like man,
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now it's time to go, like it'sthe big league.
So I couldn't wait to get thescript.
I was in Orlando, like I said,I drove to Atlanta and I was
there for a few weeks shootingand you know I remember leaving
and my character was still aliveand well.
So I was very hopeful forseason seven.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
So so like explain how that works.
And here's you uh but it waswild.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Like I said, I hadn't seen the show and when I got
cast it was all available onlike netflix.
I watched five seasons and likea weekend, I mean, I I
literally went from reading thescripts and, just you know,
watching the series and thenwalking onto set, which was, you
know, kind of surreal in itself.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
So you get the gig and then how long do they give
you the script and say you'recoming out to Atlanta, like how
did that the genesis of that?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
They usually give you a preliminary script and a
shoot schedule of like what daysyou need to be there, and in my
case, they needed my hotels.
They provided, which is niceand it was just really a lot of
fun.
But yeah, you just wait aroundfor the script and then you
start memorizing as best you canand yeah, me personally, I have
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to get there as soon aspossible.
I'll be the first one on set.
You know like I really enjoybeing there.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
So so you were, how many you were in how many
episodes total four uh five.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I did uh okay yeah two in season six, two and eight
, and then there was one inseason six, two in eight, and
then there was one in seasonseven.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, and you had an untimely death right.
What was that in season eight?
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I remember we'd all come back.
It was kind of like summer camp.
I hate my dogs waking up.
It was kind of like summer camp.
They were shooting.
Episode one, one and episodeone was actually the 100th
episode of the show and Iremember there was it was like
the best summer camp ever.
There was like a hundred of us.
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Like for a week and a half weall went hiking and we went out
to dinners and we were shootingall day.
And then we got into likeepisode two and that's when,
like the phone calls startedgoing out of like did you get a
call?
Did you get a call?
Did you get a call?
And that was Scott Gimpleletting people know that you
know, the casualties are aboutto start happening in the Negan
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War.
And good old Andy was at thetop of the chopping block having
that conversation with ScottGimple and he was uh, you know
he.
I, you know, I I love thecharacters a lot to me, but I
understand that, like he has somuch to work with and little old
Andy is just, you know,whatever, but he, you know, he
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talked in depth about thecharacter and was, like you know
, we brought him in at thesavior's compound and we took
him out at the savior's compoundand we felt that was full
circle for him.
I really stepped back andnobody wants to die in that show
, but man, I was just sograteful.
But yeah, I got to set andtalked to a few of my friends
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and my friend Jordan he'd gottenthe call.
But yeah, one by one, juststarted.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
What was the cast of that show between you know?
Uh, andrew lincoln and normanreedus.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
I mean, what an unbelievable cast, huh and you
had a chance to really work withthose guys up close I was very
fortunate and I, you know,people had kind of mentioned
this to me and I'm, you know,very grateful to have my
character.
Every time I got to set, youknow, you always look at the
call sheet and you know, everyonce in a while you get a good
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name in there, and or a top name, I should say, and I was very
fortunate.
Every one of my scenes had, oh,you know, my day one, I was
toe-to-toe with Andrew Lincoln,you know.
And I, day two, I was, you know, on top of cutlets choking them
out, you know, sitting in theshade with Norman Reedus all day
thinking man.
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I watched Boondock Saints and,yeah, unreal, hold on one second
, whoa, I got my dude justbothering me.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Oh, what kind of puppy is that?
He's a beagle.
Oh, I have a beagle, shih tzu.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
So I'm in the same.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, very unique mix .
I got you buddy.
Yeah, what's his name?
Oh, this is Jonesy Jonesy.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Hi Jonesy, Indiana Jonesy.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Oh, welcome to Sound Off with Sync Off.
Jonesy, glad you're joining us.
I know it's boring.
It's boring to you, I get it.
So, yeah, you shared someamazing screen time with these
guys.
And how were they to you,jeremy, because I love this
interview, because it's raw andit's it's real, did you feel at
times like I'm pinching myself,like, oh like?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
every every 30 minutes.
Um, you know, they kind ofscare you, scare you with the,
the ndas.
You know the non-disclosure, nopictures on set, kind of thing.
And you know I remember sittingthere on, we were at the
Alexandria, one of the porches.
I'm sitting there and there'sAndrew Lincoln, norman Reedus
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talking to Greg Nicotero aboutthe day, and I just kind of
snuck in a shot and I justremember, like I didn't show it,
I didn't post it or anythinglike that, but like years later
I saw that and I was like man, Iremember that, like just
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sitting there just thinking how,how wild this was, because you
know, I was, you know I rememberbeing overseas and seeing like
posters for walking dead walkingdown the street and I was like
man, that's pretty cool, like I,I was a part of that.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
So yep, and of course , nicotero, a director, makeup
special effects guy.
I'm a huge george romero fan.
Uh, he was a big part of day ofthe dead, did the makeup for
that and he's done a ton ofmovies.
Um, I met him at that where,where I met you at the
providence uh the rhode islandcon.
Yeah, uh, he's.
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He's great and he's got a lotof stories.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
He was probably fun to work with and he directed
some of your scenes right or,yeah, some of your episodes,
let's say a good half of theepisodes I did.
Greg was the the director, ummichael satrazimus was also
there.
He was great.
But yeah, yeah, those days werereally fun.
I remember kind of just seeingsome of the chaos go down.
I remember it was season eight,episode one.
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We're in a field and there wasdozens of actors, extras, cars
being moved around, sun goingdown, there's a little bit of
chaos, but I remember watchinghim work and it was just, it was
fun.
It was a lot of fun.
Like I just try to stay out ofhis way, but they were like
literally moving cars andfilming at the same time.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
So and for me, like just you know, and one of the
things I'll give you some insidebaseball, jeremy when I
launched this podcast obviouslya real estate agent now, but my
past is sports, so this is asports-themed podcast, but I've
always been enamored withzombies and pop culture and
things of that nature, and Ithink one of the reasons why,
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for me, the walking dead was sogood is because it was like it
wasn't in front of a greenscreen.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Like it was real, it was raw right, I mean, and you
saw that, yeah, yeah.
So that, like as an actor, whenI got two sets like that, that
satellite station where I'mholding the head, that is like
out in the middle of nowhere,that's a real satellite station
we really shot there.
There was no cell service formiles, it was, it was out in the
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middle of nowhere and I lovedit because it was just like you
literally walked onto set andyou were in the apocalypse.
So it's, it was dirty, it wassweaty and it was so much fun um
, we got to.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Uh, I want to show you the the head again, because
it is just there we go.
It is just an iconic scene.
Now tell me about this head.
You're holding this head.
This was nicotero's head.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
This was yeah, in the previous scene we had three
lined up on the ground and Iremember, uh, one of them was
johnny depp's head from piratesof the caribbean and the only
reason I knew that and I foundthat out later was because it
was on some kind of cool, youknow, tmz type thing.
But I do recall this head whichI had to hold for about maybe
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two, two and a half hours, youknow, just kind of doing the set
.
That thing weighed probably 15pounds and my shoulder, which
I've had multiple surgeries on,was hurting that day.
But it was, it was so worth it.
I didn't, you know, I didn'tcomplain, it was so much fun.
But what I loved about thishead is a lot of people ask
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about it.
But it was so detailed that,like, if you were like they
don't just build it just to holdit, they build it in case they
need to smash it.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
So if you were to break that thing open, it would
probably look as if, you know,it might have been a real head,
who knows, but it was, uh, itwas very, very cool to you know,
you know, and it's funnybecause when I tell some people,
um, I'm having jeremy palco onand I was like he was in the
walking dead, and I go, he's theguy that held the head outside
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of negan's compound and they'relike, oh my god, that scene,
dude, such an iconic scene.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I appreciate that, yeah there are certain cons
where people like I can seethey're.
They're coming up to me becausethey can't quite tell, they
just see yep walking dead guyand you know I'm never offended
by.
There's a billion characters inthis show and um, they come up
and they see that shot, or theone with, uh, daryl breaking my
arm, and sometimes the the truefans know they're like oh yeah,
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I remember that scene.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Jeremy, we're going to get into your art in a minute
here.
But being on that show and youwere, you know, memorable scenes
and, as you said, in what sortof the main cast did that open
some doors for you being on thatshow and, and you know, because
acting is so competitive, it'sso difficult, it's so tough to
get gigs I think, yeah, I thinkanyone on that show kind of
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ultimately affects them in somesort of positive way.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I mean a it's on your resume which is always, you
know, just great as an actor.
But you know the amount ofpeople that I have met or
reached out to or across youknow, social medias with, yeah,
it's this umbrella of just, youknow, being part of this family
of, uh, you know, not only castand crew and you know, but the
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fan base is just it's, it'sawesome, it is really awesome.
And I know you asked me aboutthe cons and that kind of led to
.
You know I do travel every oncein a while to do walking dead
events, but, um, now that I aman artist kind of thing, um,
I've been able to cross thosekind of paths right now, so it
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allows me to audition and be anactor as well, as you know, kind
of start traveling the concircuit again.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Kind of start traveling the con circuit again,
and here we are hanging out ata con Yep In Providence.
A couple of years ago youmentioned how cool are these to
go to.
Oh man, going to these cons,they're so unreal Kind of.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
The very first con I ever did was in fact the Rhode
Island Comic Con and I hadn'tbeen on the Walking Dead yet.
I'd been on Vampire Diaries andBloodline and a friend of a
friend kind of thought hey Icould you know I'm an agent.
I would love to see if you knowyou want to come up to the show
and you know it was a very quietweekend, but I was sitting next
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to the entire Sons of Anarchycast, which I was obsessed with
still I'm to this day one of thegreatest shows.
Um, so that opened a you know adoor to a world where, for
instance, I remember meetingryan hurst for the first time
and I was so starstruck thefirst time I met him, and fast
forward eight years later likeI've.
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I've seen ryan a handful oftimes, and then he got on the
Walking Dead and then we got toPaz and other kind of events.
And so, yeah, it's this weirdlittle world of like I mean I
was on a bus with Lou Ferrignotalking about you know lifting
weights one day and you knowflying home next to Joey Fatone
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and yeah, it's, it's just funlittle world of you know.
The idea of celebrity is such abig thing and you know, every
time I'm at these things I doget like I met Kiefer Sutherland
once.
I get a little starstruck, butit's becoming less and less, I
found.
But it's still such a trip togo to these things.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
All right, so now you also do.
Your newest sort of passionproject is Art by Palco.
You're quite the artist.
This is one of your.
This is and I messaged you thisthis is one of your pieces.
You did and and I bought it atthe Rhode Island con last
October and it's prominently nojoke, jeremy prominently
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displayed in the lobby of myoffice.
Yeah, and I get everyone asksme what is that?
Where did you get that?
So tell me about how you gotinto painting and I'm going to
show you some of the I'm goingto show you some of your works,
like I really do.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
It's, it's the weirdest thing Like this is what
I do pinch myself about.
It's like, literally, Irecently turned 40 and I had
never thought about painting aday in my life, never thought
about it, never picked up apaintbrush, never had any
inclination to paint.
And then COVID hit andeverybody was kind of just
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sitting around twiddling theirthumbs and I remember painting
just out of sheer boredom oneday and I I enjoyed it and I put
it on my social media and Iswear, if it weren't for the
walking dead, like nobody wouldhave noticed, and kind of one at
a time people started reachingout to me saying, hi, can I, can
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I purchase that?
I was kind of like, sure, youknow, and I introduced, I was
introduced to like Venmo andPayPal, and I just kind of
started, you know, painting onething at a time out of you know,
just kind of expressing myselfand, um, humbly, fast forward,
you know four years now.
Now I've probably painted over10,000 pieces, ranging in sizes
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from four by four to much largerones behind me, but uh, I've.
I found myself being very proudthat every single piece.
I do is one of one.
You know, there's no prints,there's no duplicates,
everything you know it's awesomeit's just a hobby that is kind
of, you know, taken over myworld, obviously.
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But you know, like I havehealth insurance now because of
painting and, you know, throughacting it has definitely taught
me more than you know I realized.
But yeah, it's become myobsession.
I do it like 90 percent of mytime.
Time I'm either painting orwith my dog, so, um, between
auditions, which has beenwonderful, so jeremy, had you
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painted before?
Speaker 2 (33:36):
like you know I, you have to have an art.
I'm looking at like your r2d2thing, right, you see on the
screen there's.
You have to have some artistictalent.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
You said I'm doing this during covid I updated my
art too, like you got an older,wow.
But I see, uh, I got bored oneday and I added a million little
things.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
But no, I've never, never painted.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
and um, we were talking before the show and like
I have like 17 art shows comingup, um, so I paint and I
literally go to shows and peoplekind of you know kind enough to
pick up some pieces and yeah,like it still blows my mind how
much I love doing it and howI've never done it before.
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So, yeah, hobby turned intojust a complete obsession.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
And we're going to, I'm going to put on the screen
here, your, your website.
Give us the website and tell usa little bit about it and how
people can purchase items there.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I do have a webpage, artbypalcocom, and that is just
the easy place to go and thathas kind of a little bit about
me, a little bit about mybackground, but has a link to my
art, to uh.
It connects to a square siteand I try to update that as as
often as possible because Ipretty much paint every day and
so, like every week, I do mybest to have new stuff on there.
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Um and again, I pride myself ineverything being one of one, so
I always tell people, you know,if they see anything they like,
you know, please know, it's theonly one out there.
Obviously, my social media, myInstagram, I keep everything up
to date, I think if you click onthe art link, it'll scroll down
(35:17):
.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yep, I'm just showing everybody.
You see the screen there.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
My good friend Jose made this.
I wish I had his websiteoffhand, but man, I believe it's
on there.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
So we click on art and I believe that's the link.
Yeah, probably go into yourstuff.
Yeah, I mean so art by Palco,oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
So, yeah, click on those.
Yeah, Click on any of those.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Explore my store here we go.
Of those explore my store herewe go explore my store.
I've never actually seen thator read that, but that sounds
funny um, so yeah, this is justall of your stuff here, which is
awesome.
Uh, there's your r2, right,yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
yeah, I gotta update the website, unfortunately, but
but yeah, so this is.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
This is really cool and anybody can go there and you
can.
You could check out the, youcould check out your, your art,
and can somebody request youknow, has anyone requested like
Walking Dead artwork?
Speaker 1 (36:23):
I'm working on a piece right now that I think I'm
going to bring.
I'm doing an event at the endof the month, which is in Senoi,
where we shot the Walking Dead.
I haven't told anyone yet whatI'm going to do, but I've had a
few requests and commissions andI've come to believe that I'm
not really an artist.
I say that hesitantly because,like I said, this is a new
(36:48):
obsession, but I do love it andpeople have been very responsive
to it, which has been a veryhumbling and awesome experience.
Um, but I did have people sayhey, can you like paint my
grandfather holding my cat?
And I'm like no, I cannot dothat, so I've had to be very
kind of specific.
Oh, I forgot, this is a pieceI'm working on right now.
(37:08):
Oh, wow.
Kind of an R2 kind of a droidthing.
But I kind of tell people I'mlike you know, I appreciate the
interest, but you know, look atmy work and we'll go from there.
But I've started to get intocommission work but I
unfortunately will turn stuffdown if it's just not something
I think I can make.
(37:29):
So I would hate to disappointsomebody truly so art by
palcocom.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
You got the website.
We're putting it on the bottomof your screen there.
Um, all right, we gotta becausewe're gonna touch a little on
sports, because this is soundoff with sync off we gotta have
a little bit of sports here, ormy peeps will get mad at me.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
I was, I was ready.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Um, are you?
Oh no, Are you breaking outsome ridiculousness?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I'll give you the short story.
So I was.
I was born in LaGrange, georgia, all right.
And I?
Up until I was about five yearsold, I moved to Seattle
Washington.
So I grew up, I was Justice, Iwas Ron Gant, I was Terry
Pendleton, Fred McGriff Glavinand Smoltz Glavin.
I have one baseball glove.
(38:15):
My entire life I played for 25years.
I still play softball.
I have one glove I got when Iwas 12 years old, tom Glavin,
you still have it and still useit.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
It's still in my car.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
It's just always in my car for some reason.
So I grew up a diehard Bravesfan.
I remember my dad getting me myfirst baseball hat a
professionally fit which wasAtlanta Braves.
So I grew up, from the start, aBraves fan and then I moved to
Seattle.
When I was five my dad workedfor the Wall Street Journal, so
(38:46):
we grew up in the Seattle areaand then Griffey happened.
Oh boy.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Got my old school Griffey, my Mariners, but that's
when, as a kid, I startedplaying baseball like I played
like for AAU national teams.
I was very I wouldn't say great,but I got to be a part of great
teams and so you know Itraveled a lot for baseball.
But growing up in Seattle, youknow we were Mariner fans.
You know I got to.
You know I met Alex Rodriguezand he signed a baseball for me,
(39:21):
and Jay Buhner and Ichiro and Imet Edgar Martinez.
So this is the only sport I amdual fans, because now I live in
Atlanta, I literally live twomiles from the stadium and I
just love baseball.
So I'm a diehard Seahawks fan.
Falcons are growing on me, butwhen it comes to baseball, like
(39:42):
I love my braves and then I willalways be there for my mariners
all right.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
So the mariners are playing the braves in the world
series, probably wishfulthinking, although maybe not I
have who are you rooting for?
Speaker 1 (39:54):
that is tough.
That is really, really toughand I've hated that question
because seattle needs it and Iwould be so happy.
But, like I said, I live nextto the stadium for the Braves
and so I remember I moved herein 2019, so I was here for the
World Series run and that wasjust so much fun and energetic
(40:21):
and the town feeds off of it.
But we are a little spoiled man, Like the Braves, like we're
always good, Always good.
But that means nothing in theplayoffs now.
It really means nothing.
You can lose to the Philliesthe first round, you know, but
yeah, I think I would chooseSeattle In the seventh game,
bottom of the ninth, like it.
(40:42):
Better be historic If it's likea sweep.
Boring, you know, but that'snot fun.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Yeah Well, I'm an O's fan and we've suffered for a
very long time.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
That's so good though .
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Yeah, we're well.
I tell people and I put onFacebook.
When the Orioles hired Elias in2018 from the Astros, him and
Sig Meidel are the two sort ofbrain trust that put that Astros
team together.
That made their runs and Eliashas proved to be unbelievable.
I mean, jeremy, you look at ourdraft picks from when he
(41:16):
started to now, he has notmissed on any number one.
You know, first round draftpicks which you know in baseball
, that you look at the numberone, the number one overall
picks the last 10 years, liketwo of them are in the majors,
right.
I mean it's unbelievable.
And what he has done withGunner and Adley, it's just
(41:36):
crazy.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Baseball drafts always baffled me with the AAA
system, so I kind of just assoon as spring ball comes around
, I pay any attention reallyyeah, it's uh.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Yeah, it's fun being an o's fan.
It's been a long time coming.
I'm so excited yeah, you guys,and you're, you guys are, you
guys are.
Atlanta is really tough.
Uh, there's no question.
You know, I think it would beawesome, dude.
I telling you right now, let'sthrow this out there If the O's
play the Braves in the series,you're getting us tickets and
(42:09):
I'm coming down and we're goingtogether.
All right, I'm not staying withyou, dude, but we're going to
go to the game together.
Because I said to my wife Isaid, francine, since I've been
an adult, twice in my life hasmy team been in a championship.
In 2002, maryland was in thenational championship.
(42:30):
I was 31, but I was doingtelevision at the time in
Norfolk, virginia.
And then, in 2018, my Capitalswon the Stanley Cup.
But you know, I want to go.
It's expensive, but I want togo to one of these games.
Well, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
I remember when the World Series was here, we were
looking at tickets to go and ofcourse they were first sold out,
but then they had the standingroom only, and for the World
Series, standing room only was$1,200.
And not only parking went from$45 to $250.
Now I live like I said.
I walk to the stadium and backevery once in a while because
(43:09):
it's a good hike but it's, youknow, nothing too bad.
But I mean it'd be fun just togo to Truist Park and walk
around because everything is so,you know, the atmosphere is
just cool.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
All right, before we let you go.
You're obviously still pursuingthe acting thing.
Uh, hopefully we see you insomething soon, right?
Speaker 1 (43:30):
we hope, I sure hope so.
Like I said, I had some, uh,some good stuff uh in the works,
but you know, as an actor youjust you can only do so much
until someone else has to makethat decision.
So I'm very hopeful you waitfor the phone to ring right
pretty much that's why the uh,the artwork is so much, uh, so
(43:50):
much fun to do in the meantimewell, jeremy played andy in the
walking dead.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Check him out.
You can watch the walking deadon on netflix, um, and you can,
uh, check out j's art.
Art by Palko Jeremy.
I want to thank you so much forcoming on, man.
I know we met a couple of yearsago and we've been in touch on
Facebook, but I really trulyappreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
My pleasure, Brian.
I appreciate it, man.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
All right, that is Jeremy Palko of the Walking Dead
, and an artist as well, so Iwant to thank everyone for
watching and listening to soundoff with sync off, until next
time.
This is Brian sync off, sayinghave a great day and we'll catch
you next time.
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