![]() He and his brothers had compiled a collection of baseball cards worth $5,000, and the owner of Sports Stuff said he could display the collection and sell cards in the store. As a teenager, Dave sold shoes at Sports Stuff in southern California. The Roberts parents divorced when the boys were mostly raised and out of the house.ġ5. Growing up, their dad owned a company that was a value-added reseller for HP. For Brett’s family Christmas card, they all dressed up in ugly sweaters and sent out the funny photo. “It sounds like history lessons for toddlers!” he says. “We throw those ideas out immediately.” But speaking of Kid History, Brett still isn’t sold on the name. “That one was so hard to get right!” he said.ġ2. The Kid History boys have been approached along the way to make a TV show and throw in adult content and swearing. At the time Brett declared that they were never making another Kid History episode again. ![]() They filmed parts of Episode 5 up in the mountains at 2 in the morning. Richard has a twin brother who once found a question online asking, “Is Richard Sharrah of Kid History married?” There were 200 comments below, but the answer is simple: No!ġ1. “His kids love Kid History, so they like having me around,” Richard says.ġ0. Now he lives in American Fork with the family of a producer he’s worked with on various acting projects. Then he yearned for big city life and moved to New York to study acting, which is where he met Randy and became part of the family. Richard Sharrah (the only non-Roberts in the group) grew up in Oklahoma and moved to Australia for 8th and 9th grade. One of the older brothers pulled Dave aside at one point when they were growing up and said, “It’s OK to do dumb things, but you can’t get caught. The four Roberts boys who star in Kid History also have two older brothers and two older sisters. “We were eating wheatgrass 36 years ago before it was popular,” Brett says.Ĩ. Mary Roberts Smith, the mother of the Roberts boys, fed them healthy food from the time they were little. Possible spoiler alert! The Kid History boys got excited, animated and giggly telling me about an eccentric piano teacher who was very particular with how he used his own fingers - he wouldn’t carry in groceries because it might damage his digits. “I can’t imagine any celebrity I would do that to,” Dave says.Ħ. People also approach when they are eating. Thirty minutes later, the Roberts family resumed their vacation. Episode 3 is a combination of their experiences in South America.ĥ. Dave Roberts was laying out on the beach with his family when a stranger stopped and wanted to talk about Kid History. The average length of “script” is one page.Ĥ. Brett and Randy both served LDS missions to Chile but were there nine years apart. Then they choose whichever one is best and use a list of bullet points to tell the story. The brothers went to New York to pick up Randy Roberts from dental school and filmed kids while they were out there.ģ. The Kid History guys use Google Docs to write up possible stories from their past. Episode 5 is the first time they used kids that weren’t their own offspring. She was getting angry - and it was hilarious!”Ģ. ![]() We were filming a Kid Snippet about basketball, and two kids were talking to each other when one of them refused to talk about basketball. But if you can get them to forget you are filming, that’s when entertainment comes in. Dave Roberts told her they didn’t care at all. Brett Roberts explained, “Using a kid voice when you tell them exactly what to say is minimally entertaining. The group’s attorney asked them how they felt about the Subway commercials that have adults mouthing with children’s voices. Here’s an insider’s look at some of our own “snippets” we learned about Kid History:ġ. The creative minds behind Kid History graced our cover for the Nov./Dec. Starting on the left is John Roberts, Dave Roberts, Richard Sharrah, Randy Roberts and Brett Roberts. ![]() Utah Valley Magazine Editor Jeanette Bennett interviewed Kid History for the Nov./Dec.
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