Ep. 2053 - Ellen Page Is Furious No One Will Cast Her In Movies

September 4, 2026

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When Letting a Child Walk to a Pond Makes You a Child Abuser

A Virginia mother named Carrie Ann Parkinson was eight months pregnant, had four children already, and went on a bike ride with her five-year-old son Sam. They stopped at the community pond in their gated community to collect goose feathers. When they got home, Sam asked if he could go back to the pond for more feathers. She said yes. A passerby saw the boy walking alone, called security, who brought him home and called the police. Child Protective Services placed Parkinson on the state's child abuse and neglect registry for seven years. Her crime: letting her five-year-old walk half a mile in a gated community.

Meanwhile, Lindsey Clancy methodically planned and executed the murder of her three children—sending her husband out of the house, strangling each child, attempting suicide but surviving. The left's response, as Michael Knowles frames it, was compassion. Clancy became a symbol of women whose pain society ignores.

Knowles argues these cases are not contradictory. They are opposite sides of the same coin.

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2 (02:39) **Virginia Mother Convicted for Letting Child Walk in Gated Community** - Michael introduces the case of Carrie Ann Parkinson, an eight-months-pregnant mother of five charged with child abuse for letting her five-year-old son walk to a pond in their gated community
3 (05:10) **Left's Goal: Stigmatize Good Behavior, Incentivize Bad** - Michael argues the left consistently opposes letting children grow up and develop moral agency
4 (10:07) **Fourth Grader Testifies Against Transgender Ideology in Schools** - Lana, a fourth grader, speaks at a Wake County School Board meeting against having trans-identifying teachers
5 (15:04) **Ellen Page Complains About No Acting Offers Since The Odyssey** - Michael introduces Ellen Page's lament that she isn't getting cast in movies anymore
6 (21:31) **Why Ellen Page Is the Opposite of an Actress** - Michael uses Sanford Meisner's definition of acting to explain why Page can't get work
7 (24:27) **Abdul El-Sayed's Clever Answer on Hassan Piker** - Michael analyzes the Democrat Senate nominee's response to questions about his connection to the radical leftist streamer

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Show Notes

A mom is arrested for letting her child walk around their neighborhood, Ellen Page complains no one wants to cast her anymore, and a prominent libertarian makes the most bonkers argument for open borders you've ever heard.

Ep. 2053

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