Sharon: My next guest was so sexy when he played Hercules. For years he did Hercules, but now he lives 9,000 years in the future on Andromeda. Now please welcome the extremely tall Kevin Sorbo.

(Applause)

Kevin: How macho is this? [Holding Gizmoee]

Sharon: It's just divine.

Kevin: This Gizmoe is a Brussels Grifon. Her breed is made very famous in the movie "As Good As It Gets" with Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt.

Sharon: I saw that movie and I wanted to get one.

Kevin: And they're tough to get. They are not that easy to get. She is a good little puppy. She knows a lot of tricks. Can I show, quick trick?

Sharon: Please, come on.

Kevin: This is Gizmoe's impression of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Thank you very much. (Applause) there you go. Don't run away.

Sharon: Gizmoe, you are too cute! Before we get started, I wanted to see a picture of you as Hercules. Can we please do that? (Applause) stunning. Stunning!

Kevin: I had some guns back then. I'm a mere shadow of what I used to be.

Sharon: Did you pump iron before you went out to do scenes?

Kevin: I never did that, but we worked long hours, you know. The first two seasons was six days a week. The last five seasons we went down to five. We were working a lot of 12 and 16-hour days and then I would lift weights for 2 hours at the end of every day. I'm 20 pounds lighter than I used to be.

Sharon: You did that show in New Zealand.

Kevin: We shot 7 seasons down. There I was down there for over six years.

Sharon: So you moved?

Kevin: Yeah. I lived in Santa Monica, and then I moved down there. We were shooting nine months out of the year.

Sharon: Did your dog come from New Zealand?

Kevin: This dog came from Canada. Gizmoe and I met after I started my show down there, in the summer of 1996, so it was my wife with this dog before I was ever involved. And there she is right there, on the couch. She's 7 months pregnant right now.

Sharon: Congratulations. (Applause)

Sharon: This is your second child?

Kevin: This is the second child. I have a little boy, Braeden, and he is a little over 2 years old and we have another boy on the way.

Sharon: You know it's a boy?

Kevin: We like to find out. I mean...

Sharon: Why?

Kevin: Why not? You know, people do that a lot, they go, why did you find out? I'm not obsessed now.

Sharon: You're just prepared.

Kevin: It's the name thing, the color of the room, the clothing.

Sharon: When I was pregnant with Jackie boy, my last child, and they told me it was a girl, and when I actually gave birth to a boy, my husband was in the delivery room and he fainted. So, see, you might --

Kevin: I might get a girl with expensive surgery. (Laughing)

Sharon: Oh! All right. How is it Romancing the Missus when she is pregnant. Is she nice pregnant or mean pregnant?

Kevin: She says she never gets in a bad mood.

Sharon: Come on, truth.

Kevin: She is actually pretty even keeled. She handles things a lot better than I do. I get a little crazy. I get more nervous. With our first child, I was upstairs working out in our gym in the house and I had a couple of friends over and she walks up very casually and says how much longer you got on the stair master. I said I got about 18 minutes. She said no, you don't. Her water had broke and it was time to go. I was running around. She was like, relax, relax, we're fine. This is the first child.

Sharon: Finish your 18 minutes. It can wait.

Kevin: It was unbelievable. She was cool about it.

Sharon: We are going to go to a break. Gizmoe is going to go back to Mama.

[Commercial Break]

Sharon: Welcome back. I'm here with Kevin and being joined by his very beautiful wife Sam. (Applause) during the break, we were talking about New Zealand because you were there for six years.

Kevin: Yeah.

Sharon: And while you were busy filming, you, Sam, were busy taking pictures, and it's called Gizmoe. It's all about Gizmoe in different places in New Zealand. It's the cutest thing I have ever seen. I just love this book. It's so great and funny and the pictures are beautiful. You really did see the country in here, all the great tourist spots. How did you come up with this idea, Sam?

Sam: A friend of mine sent me a book that had some dogs on it, and I liked it, but I was, like, I take better photos of Gizmoe than these. A little bit of ego. That's how I started it. Then I found a publisher and we got it published. It was a lot of fun.

Sharon: It is fun. It is a great coffee table book. Love it. All right. I want to know about you designing furniture. Come on. Why?

Kevin: I live in -- we shoot Andromeda up in Vancouver. Our American residence is Henderson, Nevada, just outside of Las Vegas. The house we bought, we couldn't find furniture we liked for inside the house. We have similar tastes.

Sam: I'm too cheap! I see a piece of furniture that I really like -- like this, and say oh, I really like that and I look at at price and it's four grand, and I go four grand! I mean, I can make something like that for less than that, so we started designing entertainment units and wall sets.

Sharon: Do you do the carpentry work or not?

Kevin: No, no, no. I toyed with the idea of being an architect major in college. My godfather was an architect. I enjoyed that as a profession. She likes to design and designs well. She designed a house we have up in New York. It's just something we like to do together and we met a company that wants to work with us and everything will be coming up full force in the fall of this year.

Sharon: You guys are so busy doing all your work and I know you do a lot charity work, too.

Kevin: I have been a spokesman for A World Fit For Kids, a mentoring foundation where we train inner city teens to become coaches and mentors to younger teens in the community and to promote a healthier lifestyle, you know.

Sharon: I was going to say, you also teach them about choices and...

Kevin: We do. For me, I had a wonderful time growing up. I grew up outside minneapolis, I had great family, neighborhood, great coaches, everything. My world -- my eyes were opened up when I got into the college level because I was very well protected where I was. There are so many people out there that didn't have the breaks I had.

Sharon: And they're not shielded. There is nobody to shield them from the world. They're just thrown out there on their own.

Kevin: It really starts at the home, and we have to be better parents. Unfortunately, it is not something that is out of the woods all the way. It does start at home to teach the kids val use.

Sam: It starts up close. That's what this foundation is about, is getting to the kids by the people that would be their peers if they were the same age, but they are slightly older, so they are mentors that become kids in the same school system just a bit further on, and they learn to become -- they become stronger individuals and learn how to make the right choices.

Sharon: Don't you find kids, if they are really active in sports, especially boys, it is really good for them, because it basically gets out so much aggression.

Kevin: I played everything, football, basketball, baseball, hockey. I played them all up there and it certainly kept me out of trouble.

Sharon: And it does make you want to be the best.

Kevin: Sure it does.

Sharon: Because you want to win.

Kevin: Sure it does. I grew up in an athletic neighborhood. The high school sports, when I was in junior high, that was where you wanted to be. That was my world, and it certainly kept me out of trouble.

Sharon: So when the baby is born, you're not going to take it into a crocodile pit?

Kevin and Sam: No!

Sharon: And then dangle him over the crocodile pee. Is he insane or what, that guy?

Sam: I thought that was really unfortunate.

Kevin: On TV you try to defend what you do.

Sharon: He made it worse.

Kevin: You should just admit you made a mistake. I don't care how much he thinks he knows with alligators.

Sam: Sure the guy is a professional, but so was Roy. Where is Roy today, you know? Horrible things can happen. You shouldn't leave that up to a two-month-old baby.

Sharon: One-month-old baby and then he is bobbing it up and down like he is walking. There are nut cases everywhere! No, but it's true. Then his wife, did you hear what his wife said? She said, oh, it's essential that you introduce your children to crocodiles. I thought, are you nuts, woman!

Sam: He named his daughter after a crocodile, Bindy Sue and Sue was the name of their dog.

Sharon: You have directed?

Kevin: I have directed.

Sharon: And Andromeda is your baby?

Kevin: I am one of the executive producers. Gene Roddenberry created it. They did the pilot with John Saxon, the captain he played, a favorite of Gene Roddenberry. They brought it to me the last season the Hercules and said would you be interested? I said, yeah, I'd be interested. I basically gave them a list of things I wanted and learned a lot of things on Hercules and it opened up the door for me and it gave me a lot of leeway, and I am executive producer, but I don't fire people left and right. I don't do the Donald Trump thing.

Sharon: You make them do pushups, though?

Kevin: Yeah, I make them do push ups. Drop and give me 20! I definitely get my voice taken seriously and I appreciate that. I've learned a lot.

Sharon: You've learn a lot, but the thing is that what you have done on tv, you have so become that part. You really do. Even though we all remember you as Hercules, now you're not Hercules. Now you're Captain Dylan Hunt.

Kevin: I got to save the universe, a bigger charge.

Sharon: Of course. We have a clip. Do you know what the clip is?

Kevin: Me being a tough guy. I can't do it in real life.

[Clip From "Machinery Of The Mind"]

(Applause)

Sharon: Nobody points a gun at Kevin on his ship. Don't mess with him, okay, right?

Kevin: It's just acting.

Sharon: You're the boss. All right. All right. Look for Kevin. He's coming soon in the fifth series of Andromeda. Thank you, Sam, so much. Good luck with your new baby. Congratulations! (Applause)

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