if you wanted to gauge the state of straight white men in America in the 80s and 90s, you could just watch Michael Douglas movies. The sixth part in a series about the films of David Fincher and Paul Verhoeven. Jessa calls Carmen Petaccio, PHD candidate at the University of Miami (and first official twitter guest!) onto the show to discuss Fincher's 1997 film, The Game.
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