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Bay Area toddler goes viral after crashing professor dad's live TV interview

Daniel Smith-Rowsey, a film historian and adjunct professor at St. Mary's College in Moraga, was in the midst of a Skype interview with Al Jazeera English Sunday when Smith-Rowsey's five-year-old son, Rainier,

Daniel Smith-Rowsey, a film historian and adjunct professor at St. Mary's College in Moraga, was in the midst of a Skype interview with Al Jazeera English when the live broadcast took a sudden turn. His five-year-old son, Rainier, walked in. Adorableness, as one may expect, ensued in abundance.

Host Sohail Rahman was probing Smith-Rowsey, a resident of Berkeley, about Sunday evening's Golden Globe Awards and the #MeToo and Time's Up movements, when a tiny face suddenly appeared on screen.

"Uh," says Smith-Rowsey, visibly caught off-guard. "That's my child, excuse me." ...

Read entire article at SF Gate