Hank Goldberg stopped after two hours of dialysis Friday, rather than his customary three hours. He wasn’t feeling well and now wants some tea — “If I can get it,” he’s saying in a friendly way to a server — when he gets back to his dinner table from the mid-1970s.

He’s sitting there at La Familia in Beverly Hills, he’s now continuing. Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder and Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis are there. Dean Martin stops by.

“Jimmy and Dean knew each other from Steubenville,” he says.

Barbara Walters is there. Warren Beatty, too. Or maybe they’re in another story. Maybe the dinner table has turned into the hotel suite Jimmy The Greek got every Super Bowl — even the one in 1972, the Miami Dolphins Perfect Season, where Goldberg was part of the Dolphins radio team.

“They gave us lobster before the game and by the end of the game the radio booth smelled of rotting lobster,” he says.

The years keep changing as Goldberg talks, the names keep dropping, just as they did in his decades ruling South Florida’s sports radio market. Hank is still Hank, in other words, in the best of ways, even in some tough times.

It’s nearly 15 years now since Goldberg left WQAM in a signature manner. He was on his afternoon show and said, “something nasty,” about his boss, program director Joe Bell. This often was schtick for Goldberg, just as referring to a caller as an, “idiot” was.

“Or moron,” he says now.

Or jagoff.

His style made his “Hammer,” nickname fit. It also meant when Bell asked what Goldberg had said, he replied while still on the air, “I said, ‘You should not be running a radio station.’ “

Now, in Las Vegas, at 81, he says, “That was the end of me there.”

His contract wasn’t renewed in 2008. He moved to Vegas four years ago in part to be closer to his sister, Liz,, to further gambling ties and possibly improve chances for a kidney transplant. The kidney hasn’t worked out. His right leg was amputated below the knee last October due to complications. He goes to dialysis three times a week.

“You can live forever on dialysis,” he says.

He also just had his arm re-set this week from another injury. Another concern. But there’s good news, too, Hank-style.

“I bet $200 on [Odell Beckham] scoring the first touchdown in the Super Bowl and won $1,400,” he said.

He picked it on his weekly ESPN and CBS HQ gaming shows leading into the game — “plus the three field goals and tackles by Aaron Donald,” he says. He handicaps the major horse races, does NFL games and college basketball.

It tells of another era, another time, when Goldberg got his start ghost-writing Jimmy The Greek’s syndicated gambling column. They had a Coral Gables office. That’s how he ended up in South Florida. It’s how he started covering the Dolphins, how his connections with Davis got him inside information to help him become part of ESPN.

“When I got the show, Al said, ‘I made [John] Madden and Hank Goldberg,” he says.

They’re all going now. Many are gone. Davis. Madden. Don Shula, too, whom Goldberg covered for years. He broke Shula’s retirement story after the 1995 season.

“You finally got rid of me,” Shula said over the phone that night.

“Coach, that’s not a story I ever wanted to report,” Goldberg said.

Goldberg was introduced to sports by his father, Hy, a legendary Newark sports writer who covered the New York Yankees. That’s how Goldberg became friends with Yankee star Joe DiMaggio. It’s also explains how, when the 17-year-old Goldberg won $450 on his daily double in his first horse bet, his father said, “You’re in trouble now.”

A big life in sports and gambling followed. Goldberg only wonders where he’d be if gambling hit its stride as it is nearing today during his prime. But it’s been a good life, all the way, dinners with Dean Martin, parties with Warren Beatty — and a microphone to tell it all.

It’s been a tough day with the dialysis. But the tea tastes good. And something else is on his mind, something that always has been through the years: “Butler’s getting nine points against St. John’s,” he says.