North Florida voices, plainly spoken.
Panhandle Pulse is a North Florida interview show centered on people building, preserving, serving, and organizing across the region. Its conversations move from pest control and business acquisition to filmmaking, dyslexia support, redemption stories, faith, and conservative campus activity.
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Panhandle Pulse is an interview show built around the Florida Panhandle and the people trying to make a life, a business, or a public case there. Chuck Asbury leads the conversations in a straightforward style. The pacing is casual, but the subjects are concrete. One episode follows a pest control entrepreneur rebuilding in the area and talking through hiring, customer trust, acquisitions, and the lonely side of ownership. Another turns toward local storytelling, with discussion of Highway 331, the lake that built a town, Definiac Springs, land preservation, and why small films can give a community reasons to feel proud. The show also makes room for rougher personal arcs. A barber and skateboarder recounts California, jail, rehab, getting a GED, and finding a different path through work and creativity. Business acquisition gets practical treatment too, with talk of service companies, selling a business, brokerage, financing, partnerships, and replacing a job with an income-producing asset. Education is another lane. In a dyslexia-focused episode, the conversation gets specific about reading, writing, spelling, neuroactivity, classroom frustration, and step-by-step practice. Politics appears through a conservative youth activism lens. The episode with Owen Gerard covers Tallahassee, campaign volunteering, the Florida State Capitol, conservative media, Turning Point USA, college chapters, and organizing across the Panhandle. The show’s center of gravity is local pride rather than polish. It favors people with working knowledge over abstract commentary. The tone is friendly, blunt, and rooted in the idea that North Florida’s challenges are best understood through the people dealing with them directly. For listeners outside the region, it works as a window into local business culture, preservation concerns, faith-shaped ambition, and conservative civic organizing. For Panhandle listeners, it is closer to a community ledger: who is building, who is preserving, who is recovering, and what issues people keep bringing back to the table.
Made for: Panhandle Pulse suits listeners interested in Florida Panhandle business, local culture, faith, education, preservation, and conservative civic organizing. It is especially tuned for people who prefer neighbor-level interviews over national punditry.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by treating local entrepreneurs, filmmakers, educators, and organizers as primary sources on regional life. Its interviews stay grounded in work histories, community ties, and practical consequences rather than broad commentary alone.
“Real issues. Real people. No filters.”Welcome to Panhandle Pulse — the podcast that gives North Florida a voice.Hosted by Chuck Asbury, Panhandle Pulse dives into the real challenges and real conversations shaping our communities. From small business owners, farmers to veterans, healthcare workers, and defense professionals, we talk with the people who keep our region moving.Every week, we bring you candid interviews, frontline stories, and unfiltered insight on the issues that matter most — including agriculture, national defense, healthcare access, deregulation, and the fight to keep rural America strong.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical small-business conversation about licensing, buying a business, and keeping what already works.
Tony Carter's path from Atlanta to the Florida Panhandle gives the conversation a practical angle on buying a business and rebuilding it with care.
Local storytelling here feels like civic work.
This episode treats local storytelling as civic work. Carrie Parker talks through Highway 331 and The Lake That Built a Town, and the conversation keeps circling north Walton County, a place she wants seen more clearly in a region still framed by the 30A side.
A dyslexia discussion that stays grounded in method, not theory.
Russell Van Brockman turns dyslexia into a workable routine, not just a label. Chuck Asbury follows his path from a New York State Assembly internship to a neuropsychological evaluation that put his reading and writing at a first grade level, then into a method built around…
On Panhandle Pulse, Dave Fiore links his 25th year running a Tallahassee marketing firm to a shift from print and billboards toward digital campaigns.
Panhandle Pulse hosts Tony Carter, a pest-control entrepreneur from Atlanta who says he has vacationed on the Florida Panhandle for 25 years and has lived there for about 18 months.
Panhandle Pulse host Chuck Asbury interviews Florida governor candidate Paul Renner about property taxes, insurance, infrastructure, small-business policy, and artificial intelligence.
Kerri Parker built Highway 331 in September 2023 to “bridge the gap” between Walton County’s north side and the 30A communities.
Panhandle Pulse host Chuck Asbury interviews barber and entrepreneur Derek Asher about drug dealing, eighteen months in faith-based rehabilitation, county jail, and rebuilding his life through barbering and skateboarding.
Matt Uhler shares his journey from starting a service business at 17 to becoming an expert in business acquisition and helping others replace their 9-5 income.
Russell Van Brocklen says a New York State Assembly internship, a first-grade reading and writing level, and a later law-school breakthrough pushed him into dyslexia research and teaching.
Chuck Asbury interviews Owen Girard about his journey from volunteering on campaigns to becoming a Turning Point USA field representative, discussing faith, politics, and Gen Z leadership in the Florida Panhandle.