Happy Hour with John Gaskins

FULL WED. SHOW - Erik Thorstenson / Wolves Wrap with USF's Chris Johnson


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Capturing Victor Page weilding a broomstick during the middle of the sold out Christmas Night Skyforce game. Challenging synchronized swimmers, pickle ballers, and Stu Whitney to on-air athletic competitions. Calling local small town bars to get the high school football or basketball scores. 

Then, there's the incredible events, personalities, and history that flashed before his lenses. 

Erik Thorstenson has seen and broadcasted almost everything imaginable over the last 30 years for KSFY-TV and Dakota News Now as Sioux Falls and the sports landscape in South Dakota has changed dramatically.

Now a morning news anchor, the universally beloved "Thor" spends an hour telling colorful stories of those three decades on the air and pulls back the curtain of what TV shows and national sports celebrities are like off the air.

How rosy is Pete Rose? What backhanded remark did Sugar Ray Leonard make? How do you get past an NBA team's security to hang out in 20-year-old Mike Miller's hotel room?

And, what is life as an early morning news anchor like after 25 years of late night sports? Thor tells these stories in as easy-listening of a fashion as he tells stories you see on the tube. Or, nowadays, on your "device." 

And we start with fun stories about the outdated devices those in the TV industry used to have to operate.

Before Thor — 

A turnover carnival. ANT and Julius disappearing. SGA flopping his way to the foul line. It all added up to an Thunder thumping of the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals. As has become tradition on Happy Hour, our Sioux Falls Live Twin Cities Native & Die Hard Wolves Fan Analyst Chris Johnson — who happens to be the 17-year head coach of the University of Sioux Falls men's basketball team — provides unique day-after perspective from the brain of both a fan and a coach. There's so much to unpack. Will this series be as bad as it looked? How can Chris Finch and the Wolves staff adjust to the avalanche the Thunder threw on them on Tuesday? Brace yourselves for a half hour of unfiltered, seething candor tempered by a nuanced basketball mind.

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