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Hosted by 3 disc golf entrepreneurs and one professional trivia master, Unstable Discourse brings listeners behind the scenes of a highly active disc golf scene; the greater Chicagoland area. Each episode covers a topic that applies to disc golfers worldwide. You get to be a fly on the wall for conversations with influential personalities in the sport ranging from Paul McBeth to the local Chicagoland heroes. The show pairs serious topics like mental health and community building with a healthy dose of it's signature brand of 14 year old boy humor. Welcome in!
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Unstable Discourse reveals the organizing, construction, rulemaking, and volunteer work that keeps disc golf communities playing.
Unstable Discourse treats disc golf as a community built between rounds. Alex Seminary, Ryan Fancher, Sean Callahan, and Jason Callahan pair an easygoing roundtable with guests involved in leagues, events, course work, and administration.
Jump-putt rule debates meet Huey Lewis baby puns on your fairway.
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Loose disc golf banter that keeps finding the local story under the jokes.
It moves through disc golf and the rest of ordinary life with an easy local rhythm: a baby in the room, course business, hospice fundraising, concrete work, and jokes that only land because everyone already knows the people involved.
A loose, funny clubhouse hang that eventually gives Noah File Cabinet's story real weight.
The episode starts with Duolingo jokes, sponsor riffs, and enough banter to let everyone settle in before it turns toward Noah File Cabinet. From there, the conversation digs into running leagues, club history, and what it means to be the kid in the captain's seat.
A rules-heavy disc golf discussion that stays conversational instead of dry.
Unstable Discourse spends this stretch on a disc golf rules debate that is practical more than dramatic. The question is simple enough on paper: what should happen when a jump putt or stance call looks obvious on video but is still hard to police in real time?
A season finale built on banter, callbacks, and a guest who holds his own in the room.
Unstable Discourse's season finale keeps Mike Furkey in the middle of the room's chaos, and that works. The name joke, Movember chatter, and Chicago grind detours all hang together, with the best stretches letting small details do the lifting: Scouts with Big Bob, office strain,…
A loose disc golf hangout that makes tee pad design feel worth the debate.
This episode follows a silo-top hangout at Lake Arvesta and stays grounded in course design. Jim Schultz sits in with Alex Seminary, Ryan Fancher, Sean Callahan, and Jason Callahan for a long, practical conversation about tee pads, basket placement, and the choices that shape a…
Unstable Discourse episode 79 brings Steve Barron's into a six-year update on the disc golf course project connected to the old Joliet prison.
Unstable Discourse episode 75 features Mike Conley of Team Delwood Disc Golf and Team Latitude 64 discussing Heritage Park in Homer Glen, his Illinois Open Series record, and an undisclosed trophy-storage topic.
Unstable Discourse Season 6 Episode 7 brings Alex Seminary, Ryan Fancher, Sean Callahan, Sheila, and guest Tim Kelson together for disc golf community news, personal projects, and local youth programming.
Unstable Discourse episode 80 features Alex Seminary, Ryan Fancher, Sean Callahan, Jason Callahan, and guest Mike Stahulak discussing Team Link, Shanahan's course rehabilitation, and local disc golf events.
Season 6 Episode 1 of Unstable Discourse introduces Dana Vici of Climo Disc Golf for a discussion of Climo's new brand and Vici's move from House of Discs.
Unstable Discourse hosts Alex Seminary, Ryan Fancher, Sean Callahan, and Jason Callahan welcome back guests Nora and Brent Reuter after four years.
Unstable Discourse hosts interview 16-year-old disc golf prodigy Noah Feil.
Unstable Discourse hosts interview Mike Krupicka, the PDGA Illinois State Coordinator and Rules Committee chair.
Unstable Discourse hosts Alex Seminary, Ryan Fancher, Sean Callahan, and Jason Callahan welcome Mike Fierke for the season five finale.
The Unstable Discourse hosts record from a silo studio at Lake Arvesta Disc Golf Course in Michigan, interviewing course designer Jim Schultz.