The six hogs in the trailer hitched to the back of the 1963 Ford pickup truck were going nowhere, whether they liked it or not.

It was 1971. Top-ranked Nebraska was battling No. 2 Nebraska in the Game of the Century on Thanksgiving Day, still regarded as the best, or one of the best, college football games in the 125-year history of the sport.

The game was on the old AM radio as 14-year-old Mike Henriksen's dad was driving through Iowa on the way to an auction. But the truck and the pigs pulled over to the shoulder of the highway because there was no way the Henriksens were going to drive out of the radio's coverage area and miss the end of an epic thriller (The Cornhuskers won 35-31, by the way).

That was one day that helped hook Henriksen on radio and broadcasting. It was a symbol of the world he grew up in would not be the world he would make his mark on. He knew he did not want to sweat with the swine in the mud his whole life. He wanted to be on a microphone.

And so he was, for 50 years and still going. Thursday at Gib's Sports Bar in Sioux Falls, Mike shared a mic with fellow former KWSN Radio sports talk host John Gaskins for Happy Hour, literally over drinks during happy hour.

Naturally, 80 minutes of stories in broadcasting flew by, with plenty of laughter and poignancy along the way. Henriksen regaled with stories of his stand-up comedy career — one which led to landing a job on the airwaves in Sioux Falls, where he has lived nearly 40 years ever since.

Henriksen retired from his prestigious SDPB-TV state football and basketball championship perch several years ago, and from daily radio not long after. Does he miss it? Does he miss opining in real time about the major sports topics of the day?

You'll have to hear the answer yourself, but it came after Henriksen and Gaskins let their opinions fly about the sports news that had just broken before they flipped on the mic — the Minnesota Twins trading Carlos Correa to the Houston Astros, signifying the waving of the white flag from an organization that just two years ago had re-signed Correa to a whopper deal to lead them to their first playoff series win in over 30 years.

Henriksen's take on the matter was as sharp and lucid as those he provided in the mid-afternnons  during his his run on "Sports Talk with Craig & Mike" from 2001-06. The rest of the conversation was vintage Mike — an easy stroll through a variety of stories of his life, laced with plenty of laughter.