Nighthawks
Painting by Edward HopperWikipedia
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Sep 28, 2026
TimHOST
They remade the famous painting.
TimHOST
It's Edward Hopper's Nighthawks.
DeanHOST
Yes, of course.
DeanHOST
They
Katie DozierHOST
Yeah.
Katie DozierHOST
I would argue that there's still like, first of all, I don't know that save the cat applies to, to paintings in general, but I would say with Nighthawks, there actually is a bit of save the cat going on because you know, the person is out late by themselves and they're trying, like they're trying to exist in the world and it's late and they're lonely and probably hungry.
Katie DozierHOST
So I would say that, but that, that ties into this poem even more.
Katie DozierHOST
I think with that, I just think it's, you know, I'm defensive of the Save the Cat thing because I think we have a huge problem in contemporary poetry of poems presuming interest.
Matt MiraHOST
Every night, you're in that diner with that lady who won't talk to you.
Matt MiraHOST
It's the Nighthawks painting.
Andrew SecundaHOST
[laughs]
Matt MiraHOST
I know you.
Andrew SecundaHOST
The Nighthawks painting is how I emotionally feel about my life.
Andrew SecundaHOST
[laughs]
Matt MiraHOST
That's my desktop on this monitor-
Andrew SecundaHOST
Yesterday, to continue the theme-
Emily WilsonHOST
Donna ended up at Compton's Cafeteria at Turk and Taylor.
Emily WilsonHOST
It reminded her of the famous Edward Hopper painting of a diner, Nighthawks.
Donna PersonnaGUEST
I sat with these beautiful ladies.
Donna PersonnaGUEST
They were gorgeous.
TheoHOST
We look at that.
TheoHOST
You know, what's that painting of the diner? And it's like Nighthawks.
TheoHOST
Nighthawks.
TheoHOST
Beautiful, but we can't see beauty in our own lives.
TheoHOST
I am seeing the beauty.
TheoHOST
I'm
LucyHOST
seeing Nighthawks at the Milton KFC.
AndrewHOST
It sounds to me, Lucy, like you have discovered at this KFC the spirit of the urinal.
Blake CrouchHOST
You had written this scene where they're standing in front of a painting, and they kept pushing us.
Blake CrouchHOST
They, they kept saying, "Use Nighthawks." And you didn't wanna use Nighthawks for some reason.
Jacquelyn Ben-ZekryHOST
I just didn't have anything to say about it.
Jacquelyn Ben-ZekryHOST
It wasn't like-
Blake CrouchHOST
No, no, that's a different one.
Jacquelyn Ben-ZekryHOST
Okay.
Blake CrouchHOST
But then they walk into this town, and they see this diner that's exactly the Nighthawks Diner.
Jacquelyn Ben-ZekryHOST
Mm-hmm.
TomHOST
No, no diner entrance or door.
TomHOST
But yeah, this is a famous painting called Nighthawks by Edward Hopper.
TomHOST
So it's kind of cool to see this painting kind of get featured and then tie it into the grander story of dark matter.
TomHOST
I thought was pretty cool.
JulianHOST
I love most of his other work, which I'll name at a different time and date.
TomHOST
I was going to ask.
TomHOST
This one's called Nighthawks.
TomHOST
Yeah, do you know of any of his others?
Sarah Urist-GreenHOST
In fact, most work is allowed to be reused in parody or commentary or for scholarly purposes, something that in the U.S. we call fair use.
Sarah Urist-GreenHOST
Like take this famous 1942 painting Nighthawks by American artist Edward Hopper.
Sarah Urist-GreenHOST
It's been parodied and memed tons of times.
Sarah Urist-GreenHOST
We know these aren't the real Nighthawks.
Sarah Urist-GreenHOST
The differences are stark enough that we don't confuse it with the original.
Sarah Urist-GreenHOST
But also because the original has been vetted, verified, and authenticated as a work by Hopper.
Andrew TischlerHOST
Mm.
Joe PaquetGUEST
Right? Because the reason Hopper's work, like Nighthawks-
Andrew TischlerHOST
Mm
Joe PaquetGUEST
... is so powerful, because he's got the perfect balance of optical truths with subjective choice making.
JeanHOST
That's right.
JeanHOST
I mean, I know, what is it, Nighthawks? Nighthawks, yes.
JeanHOST
That's the only one of his paintings I know, but I guess there was a second one, Portrait of Orleans.
JeanHOST
Oh, he
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