- Cock-a-doodle-do—Colin is woken up by roosters, which he's never heard before since he grew up in a city (Chicago, to be exact).
- Hassan is up too and the guys chit-chat while they get ready. It's the normal conversation between them: Colin ribs Hassan about going to college, Hassan finally has enough and snaps at Colin.
- The two decide they should have a mercy word for when their ribbing gets out of hand, and the word they choose is dingleberries. Colin likes it because it's an anagrammatic jackpot.
- They wait for Lindsey to get ready and Hollis tells them they'll be interviewing people around town about life in Gutshot.
- The trio are off, and Lindsey wants to be dropped off at the store so she can hang out with her boyfriend. When she calls him Colin, Hassan flips—that dude's the other Colin (TOC), thankyouverymuch. This is Colin—don't mix them up.
- Lindsey, Colin, and Hassan arrive at Starnes's house for the interview; he's got cancer and has a jaw missing, but greets them all kindly.
- As the interview gets underway, Colin thinks back to K-19 and what he calls the Rejection Minimization Theorem.
- This theorem says that in any relationship the person who is least likely to get rejected should make the first move when it comes to kissing. Usually this person is the girl, since guys always like kissing (Shmoop wonders how this applies in same-sex relationships).
- When he was first hanging out with K-19, he wanted to kiss her but didn't know if she wanted him to, so he waited and waited.
- One day they went to a movie and found themselves alone in the theater at the end, talking about why he's so smart and what he's good at. When he showed her his mad anagramming skills, she thought it was cool.
- Then she asked if there was anything else he was good at, and he told her kissing—very smooth, Colin—and we figure out by her last name that K-19 is actually K-1 as well.