Brokeback Mountain
Pop Culture Happy Hour
NPR
4.5 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On the next through line from NPR. |
| 0:05.2 | People have real ethical and moral quandaries about this. |
| 0:10.0 | People are uncomfortable from the very beginning. |
| 0:14.5 | The business of migrant detention. |
| 0:17.3 | Listen in the NPR app, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:28.6 | It's been 20 years since Brokeback Mountain hit theaters. |
| 0:31.9 | The film starred Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as two sheepherters who fall in love in a place and a time that keeps them apart. |
| 0:39.0 | Before its release, Hollywood considered it a huge risk. It went on to be a critical in box office |
| 0:44.0 | success, but it also made a lot of folks so uncomfortable. They made cheap jokes about it for years. |
| 0:49.2 | Today, its legacy is a tough one to untangle, but we figured now was as good a time as any to try. I'm Glenn Weldon, |
| 0:56.0 | and today on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, we're looking back at Brokeback Mountain. |
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