Mike: Our next Guest, one of the most recognized actors on television. He currently stars in Gene Roddenberry's "Andromeda". Let's take a look.

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Mike: Please welcome Kevin Sorbo.

Kevin: I got a flex-off going on over here.

Mike: How were the holidays?

Kevin: They were good. When I'm not in Vancouver shooting Andromeda I am living near Las Vegas. We have five kids in the family. My youngest brother couldn't make it this year, but everybody else was there with their spouses and kids.

Mike: So you had a good time?

Kevin: We did. We kind of do the same things we've been doing since we were little kids. Scrabble and whatever. But there's one game we play all the time that we've been playing. I'll give the TV version name. It's called crap on your neighbour. And it's a good family game to play. It is!

Mike: I play that, too!

Kevin: Really?

Mike: I've never heard of it, actually.

Kevin: It takes too long to explain. It's a card game.

Mike: Now, you're ling outside of Las Vegas?

Kevin: Yes, I am.

Mike: You're a big tv star and have many successes under your belt. Did you choose to live outside of Vegas?

Kevin: You know, I guess I picked it for the amazingly cheap breakfast buffets and Wayne Newton's my god! When I shot the first year of Hercules down in New Zealand, I came back and looked at my tax returns and I realized I spent an entire, you know, maybe five weeks in California but I paid them 10% of every single dollar.

Mike: The state income tax?

Kevin: There's zero state income tax in Nevada. So it's been a good move for me.

Mike: The way it works here, no matter which Province you're in, it's 40%. That's why we as Canadians are free to live anywhere we like.

Kevin: That's good!

Mike: Let's talk about Hercules. It's amazing what a phenomenon that became.

Kevin: Initially, it was going to be five two-hour movies. I was out of work and I looked at it as maybe nine, ten months out of new zealand and a chance to work with Anthony Quinn, because he played Zeus. We were halfway through and I realized just what was going on, that this was going to become a TV series. I said, you know, I think you guys can make this into a TV show and it just went crazy. It became the number one show in the world. We passed bay watch in '96 as the most-watched television show. We had a successful spin-off with Xena.

Mike: Do you ever feel guilty about the fact that a lot of high school students watched it instead of watching and studying greek mythology?

Kevin: C'mon!

Mike: No, it was like coles notes.

Kevin: That's true.

Mike: I also hear that you're a really good golfer.

Kevin: I hear you're not. That's what I heard back stage! I did, sorry.

Mike: I don't know who you heard that from but I'm a great putter. I'm really great at the putting.

Kevin: Then you'd be good for the scramble. I grew up with with the game. I'm from minnesota so I grew up playing hockey which is kind of the most canadian thing we have. It's a big sport. I'm sorry. I live in Vancouver now. I have adopted the Vancouver Canucks. Sorry. You're from there, right?

Police Officer Guest: I am.

Kevin: I don't have a gun in my pocket. Yeah, I just love golf.

Mike: You got a 5 handicap.

Kevin: Yeah. And my wife. [Ba-dum-dum] A bad old joke.

Mike: In Nevada, you get a lot of golf in.

Kevin: I live on a golf course there that Tiger Woods practices all the time on. That's where his Coach is.

Mike: So you live right on the golf course.

Kevin: I live on the 9th hole. So I go out there, I'm about 110 yards and for jokes, I'll put a dozen balls out there and putt a bunch of balls on the green as the group comes up and they're looking around and I'm back there sunning. I'm still a child!

Mike: I would just take one.

Kevin: They do. They just take all of them.

Mike: Now, I understand, too, that you're also a furniture designer.

Kevin: Scary, isn't it? Something new and different.

Mike: It's more of a Newton thing, not Hercules. What does the furniture say, the Sorbo line?

Kevin: The Sorbo Collection. My wife and I design it. It's something that my wife and I have always enjoyed doing.

Mike: what would an example be? What do you do differently with a bed?

Kevin: We need some pictures. It's a big meaty bed. One of the beds we have is a sleigh bed. They're very comfortable furniture. Very heavily carved wood. Isn't this fascinating?

Mike: Well, I mean, when you go to bed, do you have the strength of ten ordinary men? I want to know what my incentive is to buy this bed.

Kevin: Yes! Yes! That's why you should buy the bed.

Mike: Okay. Has it got carvings?

Kevin: No, no mythological carvings. It's based on old french country. It's a serious design.

Mike: Is it expensive.

Kevin: No, middle of the road. In Canadian dollars, it puts things between -- like, the beds and the dining room tables are around $1,500 and it lasts forever.

Mike: Do you have no payments until 2006.

Kevin: At least. We'll give you any kind of break you want.

Mike: I like that. Now, with Andromeda, as if Hercules wasn't good enough, you've taken the world by storm with Andromeda.

Kevin: I've been very lucky. Most actors don't work at all and I've been lucky to make a living at this for 15 years. To get two shows back-to-back is great. Andromeda is financed by Fireworks which is based in Toronto. It's in 115 countries. We're picked up for season 4 and they're already talking about season 5 and 6.

Mike: That's great. And a bit of a stretch for you. You play a 300-year-old Spaceman.

Kevin: Yeah.

Mike: You come out of it and your job is to save the Universe.

Kevin: The thing with Hercules, all I could do is save the world. I needed a bigger job.

Mike: A lot of good-looking girls on the show.

Kevin: It's part of the job, yeah. I was told we have the parents of one of the -- are they there?

Mike: The parents of one of the girls.

Kevin: Laura Bertram. She plays Trance and she's won how many Geminis? [They say three]

Mike: When she was on "Ready or Not" I couldn't call her a hot babe.

Kevin: Now you can. She's in her 20s.

Mike: I understand.

Kevin: All the girls are. She's also a very good actress, though.

Mike: She was very good as a kid and managed to have great success as an adult.

Kevin: She does.

Mike: Now, Andromeda is on every Wednesdays at 10 P.M.

Kevin: I thought it was Saturdays.

Mike: No, it's Wednesdays.

Kevin: It's on Saturdays in Vancouver.

Mike: Well, Saturday in Vancouver is Wednesday in Toronto. It's a time zone thing.

Mike: Thank you very much for coming by.

Kevin: My pleasure. I love your show. I catch it whenever I can and I'm a big fan. This is a big treat for me.

Mike: I've never seen yours.

Kevin: You should watch!

Mike: I want to thank you once again.