OKC’s Past is Criminally Underrated, Part I with Robert Fightmaster

The Dry Line Podcast · Aug 20, 2026 · 1h 57m · transcript

Tell me what the following three places have in common: Crystal’s Pizza, The Wilds, and Laserquest.

For one, they were all awesome, unique, and legendary.

For two, they are all now defunct.

We grieve with every second we must live in Oklahoma City without their presence, but the stabbing pain of their memory didn’t prevent Ryan and his father Robert from calling up more ghosts of decades past. They thoroughly combed through the 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s for the bars, restaurants, shops, venues, people, and sports that they desperately wished still existed.

Then, in Part II—dropping…