punching him? bad idea. calling the cops? stupid idea. responding the way you normally would if you weren't on a talk show & this had came up in a 1 on 1 conversation... not the worst idea. nobody would stop watching your show if you stood up for some kids that got sexually abused by this pervert. if anything, you'd probably get rewarded and more people would be interested in you. it did kind of come out of no where & i'm sure it was hard to fully think it through but, laughing it off and acting like it's no big deal is kind of strange. not saying you had to get in argument with the dude or flip shit but... you could have at least just said 'well, that's pretty fucked up' or 'wow, that's pretty weird man'. just something man, anything. nobody gave a shit about what this dude had to say to begin with, the only reason i clicked was because i saw rowley's name on there. you guys have gone out of your way to somewhat clown on berra before, or at least the ride channel has. and that was only for being a kook, he didn't stick a sharp object into a kid's asshole. i'm not hating on you or saying you handled this completely wrong... i'm just saying that most of us would have handled it differently.
lastly, you could have just not ran this part of the interview. that would have prevented this whole discussion from happening and kept this guy out of people's minds.... i'm sure nobody had ever put much thought into the guy before this interview was posted anyway.