Thankful Sunday: From Football’s End To Fresh Starts

It's Thankful Sunday. The heart of the episode beats in our thank-yous. Moving states takes stamina, and we spotlight the people who made it happen: southern Utah’s Sonya Stauffer and Northeast Ohio–Pennsylvania’s Malinda Koncar, two realtors who navigated details, deadlines, and the unexpected with calm and care. We also shout out Letters by Lantern Light for bringing weekly cozy mysteries to our community, proving that storytelling and small businesses can lift podcasts and listeners together. Then we zoom out to our listener map, celebrating California, Pennsylvania; Austintown, Ohio; Council Bluffs, Iowa; and Huntsville, Ohio. Every pin marks someone choosing us during a commute, a chore, or a quiet night in—and we feel it. And because gratitude lands best when it leads to action, we’re championing the American Heart Association this February: heart health basics, real tools, and CPR skills that save lives. Hit play to hear the stories, meet the people behind Kerry's move, and add your city to our growing map. If this episode made you nod, laugh, or message a friend, share it, subscribe, and leave a review—then tell us: what your Thankful for?

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:07

Welcome to Thankful Sunday, a special edition of the Dysfunction Junkies Podcast. Where we may not have seen it all, but let me clean it up. And now, here's your host, Chrissy and Carrie.

SPEAKER_02 0:21

Well again, hello, junkies. I'm Carrie.

CHRISY 0:26

And I'm Chrissy.

Cold Weather And Sports Banter

SPEAKER_02 0:27

It's Thankful Sunday. Yay! Thankful Sunday. Well, the one thing I'm not thankful for is this cold and snow. It needs to go away.

CHRISY 0:40

Football season's over.

SPEAKER_02 0:42

Yay! That's thankful.

CHRISY 0:44

Yay! I'm thankful. I don't have to hear things like uh screaming loud sounds of where's the flag? And I saw that all the way from here. And I'm thinking, yeah.

unknown 0:58

Yeah.

CHRISY 1:00

So I'm thankful for that. Sorry, all you football fans. I actually do enjoy football and watching it. And I do understand it, believe it or not. Thank goodness, thank God for my husband who uh helped me. But I growing up even before him, I was with people who enjoyed it very much. So I got a good idea of what the game was about. But I am happy when it's over. Yeah, yeah. So expectations of it.

SPEAKER_02 1:23

Of course, we're getting into March madness, which that to me is madness. That all you hear is the tennis shoes squeaking on the floor every time you flip the channels because of all the basketball and the squeak, squeak, squeak. Now does Jim watch basketball? Thank God he is not into like if we ever watch if there's anything really legit as far as sports on our TV, it would be baseball, which I'm all in on. But yeah, so we don't have to watch too much sports, which is good.

CHRISY 1:48

Nick does enjoy sports in general. Yes. All sports. Uh but really football is the one that he's very, very involved with. Yes. Okay. And I actually have to get it. He's moving in. He's like, I gotta get in on this.

SPEAKER_00 2:01

I've never been no, go ahead. No, I I love as a younger person to play baseball. Yeah. And softball. Yeah, me too. And then I love to play basketball. But I I don't like to watch it as much as I like watching football. Yeah. Now, if there's nothing else on, I'll I'll watch it. I'll watch basketball.

SPEAKER_02 2:20

It literally for me is those squeaky shoes that you hear the squeak, eek, eek. And you know, I I can't. I can't listen to that.

Live Games Versus Watching At Home

CHRISY 2:26

So yeah, it's a it's I just before we move on to our thankful stuff. Speaking of basketball, like I've never been to a professional football game. High school, we were at all the time. All the time. And I've gone to college games. But never now, Nick's been to a couple Pittsburgh Steelers. Yes. Uh him and my dad were both Steelers. Yes. He's a Steelers friend. My father was a Steelers friend. They got to go to two games together. I'm thankful for that. Yeah. If we want to be thankful for anything, I'm glad they got a chance to do that together. But I did have the opportunity to go see the Cavaliers. Boston. Oh. Celtics in Cleveland. Okay. And I have to say that watching it live was better. It's so much better. Now, see, football for me would be insane because you're so far away. Yeah. But basketball and freezing. Yeah. It's just usually the elements aren't great. Right. But basketball was was way better. I could see that. I could see that. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:18

I mean, basketball and baseball are are definitely better sports live. Yeah, I disagree with baseball.

SPEAKER_02 3:25

I love watching baseball. Professional baseball. I love watching it on TV. I like watching it, you know, going to the stadiums and watching. I have no problem with that. I can watch at any time. But football, you had your fill of football too. I did. Yeah, way too many times on the sidelines and freezing and well, I I do prefer bet football actually on a TV.

SPEAKER_00 3:47

Not just because I'm freezing my butt off in a stadium. But you can see better. Well, you could see things better. And then, you know, obviously the the you know, the networks that the commentary NFL or college football games, those networks know what they're doing, so they make it a good experience to watch it. So I'm thankful for that. We're thankful for this sports.

CHRISY 4:07

And we're thankful when they come to an end.

SPEAKER_02 4:10

Yay. Well, I have a lot to be thankful. Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 4:15

Chrissy's least favorite word is overtime.

Gratitude For Realtors And Helpers

SPEAKER_02 4:17

Yes, we've had that on the episode. She's talked about that. Yeah, yeah. Yes. Well, some of the things I just need to give a quick shout out when I'm thankful for. As you all know, I'm in the process of moving, and I just have to say I have to give a shout out to my amazing realtors. So if you happen to be in the southern Utah area, my amazing realtor, Sonia Stoffer, S-T-A-U-F-F-E-R, she's uh your southern Utah realtor. Amazing. This lady went above and beyond to help us with this move and the purchase of our new home. So if you are in the southern Utah area and need an amazing realtor, uh, she's your gal. Now, over here on the east side of the country, Melinda Konkar is our realtor. And again, equally amazing young lady. Her last name, K-O-N-C-A-R, absolutely amazing. So these two ladies both helped us with this move, both buying and selling. So I have to say a huge shout out and thank you to both of these ladies. So if you're looking for some great real realtors in uh northeast Ohio, Pennsylvania area, or in southern Utah, those are the two to look up.

SPEAKER_00 5:29

There you go.

SPEAKER_02 5:30

So now, show related, we have to give a huge shout out and thank you to Letters by Lantern Light. Uh, they have us on their website because uh we've talked about them a few times. So thank you to Dawn and your amazing Letters by Lantern Light Company for sharing our show and for your amazing products. So you're if you want a nice cozy mystery sent to your home every week, they're they're the ones to contact. You can look them up, letters by lanternlight.com. Wonderful. Yes, thank you so much.

CHRISY 5:57

What do you got for us? I got some new cities can uh talk about here. Yeah, we have California, uh, Pennsylvania. Yeah, I never knew there was a California, Pennsylvania. There is, and they uh gave us some downloads, so thank you. Yes, absolutely. Now this one is such a connection for us. And we're not exactly sure because I don't understand the whole download game, but this one popped up. Uh it's so funny. Austin Town, Ohio. Austintown, Ohio, my hometown where I was born and raised. And my husband, Nick and I lived there for about uh 14 years, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 6:36

As adults, yeah.

CHRISY 6:37

As adults, yeah. That's where we lived before we moved here to Worcester.

SPEAKER_02 6:40

So I will have to say, I am certainly surprised that this little town did not show up sooner. But that's where we were trying to figure out how the algorithm of the downloads and stuff was it just getting shuffled over to the big umbrella of Youngstown or whatever. But yay, Austin Town showed up. Yeah, you showed. Good job. Good way, good way to go, way to go.

CHRISY 7:02

This one's interesting. Council Bluffs, Iowa. Yeah. Do you know somebody in Iowa? I I I'm lucky to know anybody on my in my development in another state.

SPEAKER_02 7:14

Hey, wait, Iowa, Ida. Yeah, I don't know anyone in Iowa. I know some people in Idaho.

CHRISY 7:20

Right. But not Iowa. They must talk. Huh? Maybe they talk and said, listen to this.

SPEAKER_02 7:25

Hey, an i state to an i state. I don't know. Thank you. Yeah, so thank you, Council Bluffs. Iowa.

CHRISY 7:31

And Huntsville, Ohio. Yeah, where's this at?

SPEAKER_02 7:34

What part of the state does it? We did check it out.

CHRISY 7:36

Yeah, we did. We're we were just talking about it yesterday, Nick. Where did I say it? Is this southern?

SPEAKER_00 7:41

It's what what part?

CHRISY 7:43

What's it's a village. It only has like 400. It's a very small population.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

Oh, it's in the southeastern part of the state. In Logan County. Oh.

Upcoming Video Plans And Support

Heart Health And Closing Thanks

SPEAKER_02 7:52

Like probably near um It's near Bellafontaine, and I feel like I might know somebody in that area. Awesome. Yeah. Well, anyway, Huntsville, Ohio. There you go. I see you on the map. Near Oh, yeah. Okay, very good. So awesome. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, little town there in Ohio. We have to, you know what? I know we track our states and we track our cities, but I'm almost getting to the point for Ohio. I there's 88 counties in Ohio. I wonder if we're in all 88 counties. We might be. There's a lot for we we should probably take a look at that. I'm gonna have to take a look at that and see. Yeah. So yeah. So thank you for our listenership. I I know that you know, this time of year it's kind of hard. We're all coming off the holiday, you know, hangover of that. And but for those of you that are consistently listening, we sure do appreciate all the love and support. Yes, we do. Thank you. So we do have some things coming up here, hopefully coming up in March. We will be transitioning to also having video. Um so we'll have to see. We're we're working hard on that. Um, so hopefully you'll be able to start seeing our smiling, happy faces. Look to Carrie for that more than you'll see, I'll try. You'll see Chrissy's scrunchie face as she is. Yeah, especially if I don't have my glasses on. So so yeah, so that's gonna hopefully be coming up in March. Lots of things coming up. Awesome. All right, everybody. I know this was short, but we appreciate each and every one of you. We are so thankful for all of you. Please be sure to check out our Facebook page, dysfunction junkiespodcast.com. We are still in the month of February, so we are still supporting the American Heart Association. They do some amazing work, not only in the United States, but internationally. So please check that out. It's always good to have your healthy heart. And uh, if you don't know CPR, always good to know too. So definitely check out their website. Thanks, everybody. Bye-bye. Bye.