#623 - Gary Sinise

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

Theo Von

Comedy

4.8 • 24.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Gary Sinise is an actor, activist and philanthropist known for his work helping veterans, first responders and their families. Gary joins Theo to talk about what he’s learned from service men and women over decades of working with them, why he thinks the story of Lt. Dan is a hopeful one, and how his late son Mac is leaving a legacy of his own. Gary Sinise: https://www.instagram.com/garysiniseofficial/ The Gary Sinise Foundation: https://www.garysinisefoundation.org/ Outro music: “The Rise” by Mac Sinise https://www.youtube.com/@macsinise7489 ------------------------------------------------ Tour Dates! https://theovon.com/tour New Merch: https://www.theovonstore.com ------------------------------------------------- Sponsored By: Celsius: Go to the Celsius Amazon store to check out all of their flavors. #CELSIUSBrandPartner #CELSIUSLiveFit https://amzn.to/3HbAtPJ Acorns: Go to https://acorns.com/THEO to get your $20 bonus investment today! Terms and conditions apply. Good Ranchers: Head to https://go.goodranchers.com/theo and use my code THEO - all new subscribers get $100 off your first 3 orders with my code + free meat for LIFE when you subscribe. Landman: Don't miss Landman Season 2, streaming on Paramount+ November 16. Ship Station: Upgrade to ShipStation today to get a sixty-day free trial at https://www.shipstation.com/theo Perplexity AI: Ask anything at https://pplx.ai/theo and download their new web browser Comet at https://comet.perplexity.ai/ ------------------------------------------------- Music: “Shine” by Bishop Gunn Bishop Gunn - Shine ------------------------------------------------ Submit your funny videos, TikToks, questions and topics you'd like to hear on the podcast to: [email protected] Hit the Hotline: 985-664-9503 Video Hotline for Theo Upload here: https://www.theovon.com/fan-upload Send mail to: This Past Weekend 1906 Glen Echo Rd PO Box #159359 Nashville, TN 37215 ------------------------------------------------ Find Theo: Website: https://theovon.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theovon Facebook: https://facebook.com/theovon Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thispastweekend Twitter: https://twitter.com/theovon YouTube: https://youtube.com/theovon Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheoVonClips Shorts Channel: https://bit.ly/3ClUj8z ------------------------------------------------ Producer: Zach https://www.instagram.com/zachdpowers Producer: Trevyn https://www.instagram.com/trevyn.s/ Producer: Nick https://www.instagram.com/realnickdavis/ Producer: Andrew https://www.instagram.com/bleachmediaofficial/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's guest is an actor.
0:02.3	He's a musician and he's an activist.
0:05.3	You know him for some of his famous roles like Lieutenant Dan in Forrest Gump and Mack Taylor in CSI, New York.
0:13.0	But he's also known for his work helping veterans and first responders.
0:17.0	I had a great chat today with the one and only, Mr. Gary Senise.
0:40.7	Thanks for having me.
0:42.4	Yeah, thanks so much for coming in.
0:46.6	Yeah, so you bought in Nashville in... Well, we bought in 21, and then we moved in 23.
0:50.1	Okay.
0:50.7	So we had to do some renovating for our son and his, what was going on with him and everything
0:56.4	like that. But then we finally, I moved my foundation in 22 and then we moved out in 23.
1:02.3	And overall, has it been a, has it been a good experience? Fantastic. Yeah. I got no, I was in
1:08.1	Hollywood for 35 years. Wow. That's enough. Yeah. That's a lot of service, man. You kind of like... You did your service service. Yeah. It was good. You know, we raised our kids there and everything. Oh, yeah. Gary Seneas, thanks for joining me, man. Oh, it's great to be with you, but I appreciate it. And the Lieutenant Dan Bain, you guys are performing at the Ryman Auditorium on Veterans Day? Yep, yeah, at the Opry. Sorry, you guys are performing at the Grand Ole Opry. Yeah, that's right. Oh, that's going to be sick. There's more seats there, too, which is even better. I's, I think it's 4,000-something seats in there.
1:45.3	You know, we played there summer of 24.
1:51.3	They did a really fun thing.
1:53.5	They wanted, we were talking about having my band come there at some point to the Opry.
1:59.3	And it was the 30th anniversary of Forrest Gump coming out
2:04.3	that summer. So they did a, Opry celebrates 30 years of Forrest Gump and we went and we played
2:12.0	and we had a bunch of people on the bill and yeah, there we are. Did you guys play any songs from the movie?
2:18.8	Well, everybody did.
2:20.4	That's what was cool about the night is we had Gary LaVox from Rascal Flats.
2:24.7	He was on the bill.
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