Welcome to Cut Up. A video series where I talk about specific scenes in movies and cut them up or constantly dive back into the Sandlerverse.

This time we’re talking about Jack and Jill released in 2011. I already talked about this film in my Ranking of Every Adam Sandler Movie videos, but I want to talk about what I think might be the worst Thanksgiving scene in a movie I’ve ever seen.

By the time the Thanksgiving scene is over in Jack and Jill I felt like I had lived a thousand lifetimes. The scene is only 6 minutes long, but this movie affects space and time.

You would think that it would be pretty easy to make a scene have a thanksgiving feel. It’s a pretty buy the books holiday with staples that everyone knows that make it easy to convey what you want to the audience. It’s so simple. All you need is family and food! Jack and Jill somehow gets both of these wrong.

Watch the video above for a full breakdown of Jack and Jill’s Thanksgiving day atrocity.

If you’re a regular patron of this space, it’s unlikely that you’ve heard of Pearson Sharp. If you think Pearson Sharp sounds like a made up porn star made name, you may be right.

The problem with journalism these days (yes, I consider this journalism) is that we on the Left – Liberals, Progressives, Socialists, Baby-eaters – are stuck in the mundane world of reality. It is not intrinsically exciting.

By comparison, those on the Right are free to disregard truth and facts in order to conjure up frightening, salacious and enraging nonsense palatable to an audience starved of reality.

As Hitler’s Chief of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels often said, The bigger the lie, the better.

Preston Padden (another made-up sounding name), former executive at Fox “News” highlighted the malignancy of Right wing media in a recent Raw Story article. You can read that HERE.

The fact is, crazy sells. Crazy is contagious. Crazy attracts more crazy.

Pearson Sharp is just one of a legion of interchangeable lying liars and Trumpster sychophants seeking approbation and viewership from the disenchanted.

Sharp works at One America News Network (OAN) which could reasonably be called WAN and I’ll let you decide what the “W” would stand for.

Let’s just say that TucKKKer Carlson would feel right at home on WAN.

To put it succinctly, Sharp delivered an impassioned plea in June calling for the execution of those who meddled in the sacred process of our elections.

I could not agree more whole heartedly.

Anyone who knowingly screws with our elections should be penalized severely, up to and including their vaporization. Number one on that hit list, since he brought it up, is Pearson Sharp.

Number two would be Donnie Trump, who has knowingly, fraudulently and relentlessly pushed his BIG LIE that someone stole an election from him.

Joseph Goebbels would be proud.

In his own interest, Donnie tried everything within the not insignificant power of the President of the United States to overturn a free, fair and secure election and that includes inciting an armed insurrection to stop the certification of the election.

An election that he lost.

Now, either Sharp is not too sharp and knows nothing about anything or he is deliberately lying. I’m not sure it makes a difference anymore.

Sharp and the empty barrels on the Right say that someone is trying to silence the voices of America and they are correct. THEY are trying to silence OUR voices.

81 million voices that shouted in harmony last year.

Why should Pearson Sharp’s vote count more than mine (and my 81 million besties)?

Sharp is not just screwing with an election, he is undermining our entire democracy, a form of government which is proving all too fragile in the 21st Century.

This whole stolen election thing started before the election was even held, with Trump, Giuliani, Bannon and their entire cadre of lying liars, Nazis and Fascists devising ways of hanging onto power in the event of an unfavorable outcome to the 2020 election.

Trump’s lawyer, John Eastman put together an entire plan to intimidate Mike Pence and overturn the election.

Those people comprise most of page one of the hit list.

Trump’s own Attorney General, his Departments of Justice and Homeland Security all said that after extensive review, the 2020 election was free, fair and the most secure in American history.

There is no basis whatsoever for any claim of widespread voter fraud PERIOD

With all the FACT BASED evidence coming from Trump’s own people, some would still rather believe the pillow guy, who has yet to produce one single shred of evidence of fraud, manipulation or…anything.

How sentient beings can believe that a dead Venezuelan president is somehow responsible for putting his finger on the scale for Joe Biden is beyond comprehension.

Trump lawyer, Sidney Powell said in her own defense that no reasonable person could have believed her bullshit, although she is now pushing conspiracies about dead people in Georgia.

There’s an old adage that says, You can’t make this stuff up. I beg to differ, they can and they do.

So, right on, Pearson Sharp. Let’s execute those who choose to mess with America and our elections.

The next tap on your shoulder may be the arrival of the justice you crave.

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You and your situation may not look the way you are hoping for, but it’s nothing to hide or be ashamed of when you know what you’re working with. If you keep at your goals, you will transform into that which is in you and meant to come out. What you see is not always what you get. Like the toy robots, Transformers, there is always “More than Meets the Eye.” Just because people don’t see it, does not mean you can’t be it.

The right time, the right place, and the right people in the right situation can be used as the catapult that transforms you into what is needed. You can be yourself now and, in an instance, transformed into the vehicle that drives change and brings success. Don’t cover your flaws; let them see where you came from, your growth and your transformation.

Freshman cornerback David Miller (3) has leaned on his skills from playing wide receiver to succeed this season for Southern Illinois. (Photo by SIUSalukis.com)

Whenever David Miller comes off the field for Southern Illinois, the freshman cornerback hears a familiar voice.

That constant, encouraging voice belongs to James Ceasar, the Salukis’ All-American cornerback who sustained a season-ending shoulder injury in September.

“I look at ‘Ceas’ like an older brother,” said Miller, a transfer from Navy. “He’s my guy. He pushes me every week just to keep going and keep playing. He’s going to be with me on my downs, and he’s going to be with me on my ups. He’s always going to keep me level-headed.”

Miller, who has started the past eight games in Ceasar’s absence, is certainly making his big brother proud.

On Saturday at Indiana State, Miller had two interceptions – giving him three picks in the past two weeks. He also had four tackles, including an impressive open-field stop in the red zone. Miller’s performance earned him the Missouri Valley Football Conference Defensive Player of the Week award.

Before he got to Navy, Miller mainly played wide receiver at Lincoln High School in Gahanna, Ohio, which is located in the Columbus area.

“He never started playing defensive back until he went to Navy,” SIU head coach Nick Hill said. “He was more of an offensive player.”

Miller said when Indiana State quarterback Anthony Thompson threw a deep ball his way in the first quarter Saturday, he reverted to playing his former position.

“Once he threw it, I saw that it was underthrown,” Miller said. “I used to play wide receiver, so I can tell where the ball is going to go. I attacked the ball.”

Reading the ball in the air is one of many positives that Miller offers the Salukis.

“That’s a huge trait that some people really take for granted,” Hill said. “To be an elite corner, you’ve got to catch the ball. (Pass breakups) are good, but picks change games.”

Miller now leads SIU with three interceptions, and he has collected three pass breakups and 49 tackles, which ranks fifth on the team.

The Ohio native credits his recent play to a more aggressive mindset.

“I’m just playing more angry and less hesitant, focusing on the ball,” he said. “I’m new to the position, so I was always used to looking at the wide receiver the whole time. Feeling the ball and where the quarterback is going to throw it has been a big help.”

Those same instincts from playing wide receiver have paid big dividends in Carbondale.

“David’s got incredible ball skills,” Hill said. “He’s just scratching the surface of what he can be. He came in here this summer and has really hit the ground running. He’s still so young in playing on defense. There’s a lot of bright days ahead. I’m excited about him – his length, his speed, his athleticism. He’s got the makings of being a good corner.”

Miller said being on the field regularly this fall wasn’t a surprise, but having to step in for Ceasar was unexpected.

“I was already expecting playing time coming in,” he said. “Seeing Ceas go down and that role getting put on me, it was more motivation. He gave me the torch to keep going.”

Despite being injured, Ceasar has been a regular at team meetings and position group meetings throughout the season.

“James has been incredible,” Hill said. “He’s like another coach for us. It’s important for (Miller) being a young corner to have an experienced guy there on the sidelines talking to him.”