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We're gonna go eat

and watch a movie.

You and Mike are gonna

go eat and watch a movie?

- Yeah.

- Just the two of you?

- Yeah.

- For real?

What?

That's awesome.

You guys are going on a date.

No, It's not a date.

We're just gonna hang out and eat.

You guys are gonna go eat,

the two of you, and go see a movie,

just the two of you,

and that's not a date?

No. We eat and watch movies

all the time.

That's different.

Jay, a guy and a girl decide to go out

and get dinner and see a movie?

What would you call that?

- That would be a date, sir.

- That'd be a date.

Let's try to get that date out of your head

and just shoot this scene.

- Can I have this?

- Yeah.

You can have as many

as you want, incidentally.

- Do you want this one?

- No.

- You can have it.

- No, your finger's been...

Here.

No, don't.

So are you from LA?

No.

I'm from Fontana.

It's an hour and a half

away from here.

You from LA?

No, I'm from Toronto.

Cool.

Do you live around here?

I don't want to tell you where I live.

I don't trust you.

Oh, okay. You don't have to.

I can look it up.

Look it up?

Is it on the internet?

I can ask someone.

- You would do that?

- Probably.

How did you know my name

when I met you?

I had seen your show.

And then when I saw you at Evan's

I knew your name.

Yeah, I was really scared.

I thought maybe...

I was like, "Do I know this guy?"

I'm, like, the worst at names.

You were like, "Hey, Charlyne,

come here."

- I normally wouldn't...

- I'm like, "I don't know you.

- Okay, I must know you maybe.

- Normally I wouldn't have even said hello.

Why?

'Cause, you know,

it's difficult to.

Yeah, but anyway,

that's how I knew your name

and I was excited to see you.

So you're leaving in a few days?

In two days.

I'll be gone for, like, four and a half.

- I'll call you tomorrow.

- Okay.

Talk on the phone,

have a phone chat.

- Okay.

- Okay.

Are you okay to drive?

- Do I...?

- You're not high?

- Do I look high?

- No.

Do you need to take

my microphone?

Yeah, thanks, Mike.

- You want me to turn around?

- All right, this is kind of awkward.

- Is it in your shirt?

- Just slip it off.

Okay.

It's caught.

It's caught. It's caught.

I'll call you. I'll call you.

Okay. Bye.

Do you remember

your first date?

Yes. I invited him

to my birthday party at 14.

What began as an infatuation

bloomed into full love.

And he proposed our junior year

in high school.

Do you remember

how you proposed to her?

- No, do you?

- No.

I'm sure I wasn't on my knees.

No.

My mom and dad were not

for me marrying that early,

but they knew that I loved him

and that we wanted to be together.

And they had to sign for me

to be married

because I was only 17.

- Oh, yeah?

- So they did.

I think the young love

can sometimes be

the most important.

I know that many...

people now are waiting

until later to get married,

but I think you lose something.

We could have chosen

not to marry before he went to college,

but waiting five years

would have lost

much of the magnetism

that we had for each other.

I'm not advising everyone

to get married at 17,

but it can work.

It sure is not for everybody.

We had a lot of friends

who got married young,

and it didn't work out for them.

But it did for us.

How did you guys know

that you were in love

if you've never been

in love before?

Wait for the lightning bolt.

I've been saying that

all of our lives.

Sometimes it's slow

and it grows

and all of a sudden

you realize it's there.

Many times it happens

in the beginning

like it did with us.

Yeah.

We'd like to share one thing

in asking what events

might have stuck out

in our mind through the years.

I was ready to deliver

our second son

when he had to go

to the reserve camp.

I was in the reserves

and I'd spent two weeks

at Fort Polk.

And even though we knew

our son was coming,

I still had to go to camp.

But they did send me back

when our child was born.

We had

a pretty dramatic birth

with several dangers involved

with myself and my son,

so I was especially excited

to hear the clomp

of his army boots

running down the hall.

I knew he was there.

We were all okay.

He runs into the room,

saw that we were okay,

and immediately passed out

on the floor.

And we will always remember

that birth.

We got laundry on the third floor.

That doesn't interest me.

You all ready

for the interviews today?

Uh, yeah.

You have a few basic

kind of questions?

Yeah, I have some

really good questions.

I was thinking about asking...

- I can't hear you, Chuck.

- What?

I couldn't hear you.

Oh, I just said...

Charlyne, Chuck,

you gotta turn it off.

What are you thinking?

I just want to know what you're asking.

I'm sorry. What?

You have a few basic...?

Do you have a few...?

Okay.

So are you all set

for the interviews?

Yeah, I have everything set, boss.

- Great.

- Thanks.

Good.

What are you gonna ask?

Romance is written for women,

mostly by women,

although we have male readers

and I have fan mail from guys.

But romance is really targeted

for women.

And it's the emotional bonding

that goes on

that women tend to enjoy

discussing

and hearing about and reading

and watching on TV

and in the movies.

And that's what romance is.

People think there's a formula

to romance novels and there's not.

The only thing

that romance has to have is,

they have to have a relationship

between two people

and they have to have

some kind of conflict or struggle

that they overcome and then they live

happily ever after, we call it.

It's an "HEA ending"...

happily ever after.

There's always something where

the characters are sacrificing...

one is sacrificing for the other

and that's their sign that they're

really in love with that person.

So at some point the character

has to make

some kind of a personal sacrifice

for the other character.

And that's the sign.

That's the sign that they're in love.

Hey, Charlyne,

will you tell the camera

what you told me

last night on the phone?

What did I tell you last night?

When we were on the phone,

talking about the shoot,

and then you said...

I don't know.

Remind me.

You don't remember what we were

talking about last night?

- No, remind me.

- We were talking about the shoot.

And we were both getting excited

and then Charlyne says,

"You know, Nick,

I'm starting to really like Michael."

- Did I say that?

- You did.

I did say it.

And I said, "Really?"

And she goes, "Yeah."

And I was like, "Like a boyfriend?"

And she goes, "Yeah."

And so we've made an agreement

that we're gonna have to start

filming everything

so we don't miss that,

because their relationship is definitely

part of the movie now.

Greetings, ladies.

What are you gonna get?

I think I'm gonna get the BLT,

minus the B, plus the PC.

Plus the PC?

Pickles and cheese.

- What?

- That's not a BLT.

It's BLT, minus the bacon,

plus pickles and cheese.

I think the whole fun

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