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Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

Nighthawks (1942)

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

Alex Schmidt

Society & Culture, Comedy, History

4.7720 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why the painting "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper is secretly incredibly fascinating.

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0:00.0

Nighthawks

0:02.0

Known for being a painting

0:04.1

Famous for being a diner

0:06.6

painting spooky

0:07.6

Nobody thinks much about it, so let's have some fun

0:10.5

Let's find out why Nighthawks

0:12.4

is secretly

0:14.5

incredibly fascinating

0:16.2

The Hey there, folks, welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is. My name is Alex Schmidt and I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden, Katie.

0:46.1

Hey.

0:46.4

What is your relationship to or opinion of the painting Nighthawks?

0:52.0

I don't think this is true. I just Googled it because I had this memory of there being a version of it where it's all

0:57.9

wiener dogs.

1:00.3

And apparently I've just, I've imagined that, which...

1:04.7

That could exist.

1:05.7

There's a lot of parodies.

1:06.9

It should exist.

1:07.8

But maybe you also just wish.

1:08.9

I think it might just exist.

1:10.4

I know that there's the Gary Larson art book where he does a bunch of famous art with wiener dogs.

1:17.0

A quick Google does not result in a wiener dog version.

1:20.8

So that does seem like a missed opportunity for human society.

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