Welcome back to another edition of Five Minutes* You’ll Never Get Back, the occasional podcast wherein City Lights editor Mike Riggs and I probe the other’s psyche in an attempt to understand why the other person is the way that they are. I’m up first. Riggs goes next.

Topics discussed: Mike Riggs, Amanda Hess, narcissism, co-workers, Ernest, crippling embarrassment, horrific facial expressions, never smiling, worst part of Mike Riggs’ day, horrible screamo Soulja Boy musical outro that Mike Riggs chose and I had no involvement in.

* pretty close this time!

Welcome back to another edition of Five Minutes* You’ll Never Get Back, City Paper’s sex and politics podcast. This week, City Lights Editor Mike Riggs and I discuss the pros and cons of cinema’s most recent abstinence-only vegetarian tween vampire phenomenon, Twilight. (Our usual cohort, Intern Bobby, gets a pass this week).

Topics discussed: Jane Austen, morality, ballet studio, Pootie Tang, Edward Cullen, Zac Ephron unlike Edward Cullen, Mike Riggs unlike Edward Cullen, feasts of flesh

* okay, ten minutes.

* Admittedly: Even I am unsure how long the podcast is this time. You know, when City Paper’s resident libertarian and I get to talkin’, it’s anyone’s guess how long it will take us both to tire of speaking directly to the other. And yet, Mike Riggs and I brave the conversational waters again today in this, our post-election podcast! With us, as always, is intrepid City Paper intern and off-the-cuff interviewer extraordinaire, Bobby Allyn.

Topics discussed: Post-election sex, Prop 8, making nice, hugging it out, Larry Summers, innate mathematical ability, Democrats vs. Republicans, girls vs. boys.

Download the podcast here.

Welcome to another edition of “Five Minutes* You’ll Never Get Back,” wherein Mike Riggs and I delve ever deeper into the darkest corners of the other’s soul as we review the week in sex, media, and politics (but mostly sex). Today, five minutes* gets spooky as Riggs and I hash out our deeply seated views on the chilling phenomenon of sexy Halloween costumes. With us, as always, is intrepid City Paper intern Bobby Allyn.

Topics discussed: The Sarah Palin porn film, lost dinosaur outfits, sad children, presidential costumes, a nurse with a box and she takes the box of and…, latent homoeroticism, and Mike Riggs‘ tortured psyche.

* pretty close this time!

Welcome to another edition of “Five Minutes* You’ll Never Get Back,” wherein Mike Riggs and I evade the gotcha media to provide you our highly-edited, barely-rehearsed talking points on sex, media, and politics (but mostly sex). Today, presidential debate celebrity Sam “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher inspired us to spend five minutes* on the subject of plumbin’ in America. With us, as always, is plucky City Paper intern Bobby Allyn.

Topics discussed: William F. Buckley Jr., murder, Facebook relationship status, real Americans, exploitation, boredom.

Catch up on last week’s podcast here.

* not actually five minutes

Welcome to the new City Paper podcast, “Five Minutes* You’ll Never Get Back.” Each Tuesday, City Lights Editor Mike Riggs and I will go head to head on current issues of sex, media, and politics (but mostly sex). What will you get for your five minutes?

- Sexy/Unsexy, in which we praise, shame last week’s talking points.

- Intern Bobby, in which intrepid City Paper intern Bobby Allyn asks the questions.

- Hess v. Riggs, in which we disagree.

All in a handy downloadable widget! In this, our inaugural episode, spend five minutes with us on modern voyeurism. Topics discussed: Sarah Palin, hair, overseas wiretapping, pillow talk, amateur porn, and Ron Jeremy.

Or, download the podcast here.

* we round down.