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Porch profile: 239 Stonemill
Back row, from left: seniors Bill Reinert, Kevin Degener, JJ Lastovich. Front row, from left: Chris Budin, Taylor Craig.
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Flyer News: How did you guys meet?

Chris “Budes” Budin: I met JJ through an intramural soccer game.

Kevin “Degs” Degener: I think we met before that though. We met through mutual friends.

CB: I met Bill my second day at Marycrest. I was walking back from the convocation with no shoes on.

Bill “Bootlegger” Reinert: I went to high school with JJ and TC. We didn’t hang out until Dayton.

JJ “Lasto” Lastovich: I met Taylor down the hall in Founders.

KD: I showed up on their doorstep one day.

JL: I met Kevin raining threes on him at the Rec one day.

KD: Not true.

JL:  Absolutely true.

Taylor “TC” Craig: We met Budes and Bill in Daytona.

JL: Freshman year.

CB: Don’t know how I met Degener to be honest.

BR: Me either.

 

FN: What is your favorite room in the house and why?

KD: Livingroom because it’s where I beat Bill in every video game.

 

FN: Why is this house nicknamed “The Stoop?”

CB: Because of the porch?

BR: Yeah, definitely the porch.

JL: It’s tradition.

CB: The legend of the first Daytonians coming through here sitting on the stoop.

 

FN: Do you guys do anything together as a house?

CB: Bonfire.

KD: That never happened.

CB: Karaoke and trivia.

BR: Dinners.

CB: Order Domino’s.

KD: Five mediums. Our special.

CB: Poke fun at Bill.

 

FN: What are your house rules?

KD: I don’t think we have one rule.

JL: An unwritten rule is only two guys on the couch unless it’s a desperate situation.

BR: We have three on the couch right now.

JL: It’s a special situation. We never have three guys on the couch when we don’t have to.

TC: Put your shirt on!

 

FN: What is the soundtrack to 239 Stonemill?

KD: Shook Ones Part II.

 

FN: If your house was made into a movie, what would it be called?

TC: We’ve always talked about this.

CB: A league of extraordinary stoopers.

KD: Super stoopers.

 

FN: What actors would play each of you?

KD: Me and Taylor would play ourselves.

JL: Gerard Butler.

CB: Keanu Reeves.

CB: Miley Cyrus would be Bill.

KD: No Bill would be Billy Bob Thornton or the “Eastbound and Down” guy.

JL: Kenny Powers.

KD: Danny McBride. Aka Kenny Powers.

JL: I was gonna say the guy from “Hot Tub Time Machine.”

 

FN: What does a typical Sunday morning look like at 239?

JL: About two to four pizza boxes.

TC: This is about 1 p.m. in the afternoon.

KD: Someone asleep on the couch.

CB: Battle dome is usually on the table.

JL: Some discussion of what kind of fast food we want.

 

FN: What is one word to describe your house?

CB: Inspirational.

KD:  Home.

BR: Stoopendous.

TC: Audacious.  I’m just thinking of FIFA and what kind of words they use to describe.

JL: Versatile.

 

FN: Any last words for Flyer News?

CB: Keep on truckin’.

KD: Flag football, team Ox, state. [An intramural team.]

BR: Don’t put that in there.

KD: Put that in there.

BR: 514 Lowes has no fun.

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