Transcript
Speaker: Welcome to My American Hero. 12-year-old Liam is fascinated and baffled by his younger brother, Henry. Sometimes the people closest to us are the hardest to understand.
Speaker: My 11-year-old brother Henry says, there's a lot to know about skipping rocks on the lake. First, you have to find the right type of rock. Look for roundish rocks.
Speaker: that are about to stick as your pinky finger and as wide as the palm of your hand. Most important, you must learn the proper throwing technique to maximise the number of skips.
Speaker: According to Henry, you can't throw a rocket a down angle or it will just sink into the lake on impact. And you can't throw the rocket too much of an up angle or it will never skip across the surface.
Speaker: Henry says you must throw sidearm and in parallel to the surface of the lake. If you're not getting five to ten skips, you're not throwing properly.
Speaker: Henry is really smart about rock skipping, but for some reason he always has a visible booger in his nose. Mum says Henry is probably a genius, but I don't think a genius would ignore boogers in their nose.
Speaker: Do you? I'm having second thoughts about whether Henry is my American hero. Maybe he's just a booger face.
