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Pat Ryan’s Plan to END Sports Blackouts

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Rep. Pat Ryan joins Tim to talk takeaways from big wins in New York, New Jersey and Virginia, the path to the House, and why costs still dominate. They also look at sports streaming chaos and why blackouts need fixing.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Tim Miller from the Bullwork here. We are back with Congressman Pat Ryan, New York 18, a veteran. He is the bro whisper inside the House caucus doing the best that he can for the Democrats. So maybe that I've not be needed based on the results yesterday with young men. It seems like a little bit better than in 2024. I want to talk to him about

0:22.4

the inshittification of sports television watching and how terrible it is to try to find the channels

0:27.8

now and what Congress can do about it. But first, man, I just, we're taping this on Wednesday afternoon.

0:33.9

I wanted to see if you had any big picture thoughts on yesterday's results and how

0:38.3

that might impact your view of the party or how things look for the battle for the house next

0:43.5

year. Yeah, thanks for having me. And my vow today, by the way, is that I will curse less. My wife yelled

0:48.6

at me last time I was cursing on your show. So I got myself in trouble. All right. Sorry,

0:53.6

Mrs. Ryan. Okay.

0:55.0

We're just trying to hang.

0:56.0

All right.

0:57.0

But on a more serious, very serious note, I mean, I really think it was like resounding message

1:03.0

yesterday.

1:04.0

So I think everybody needed that, not just even politically, like just morally a sense that when bad, wrong things are happening, both substantively and morally, like the American people will still come out and send a message.

1:19.1

I think that was just a super important moment.

1:22.3

And it's in all of the above strategy.

1:24.7

I think has to be the takeaway of authentic, punchy, change-oriented

1:32.6

non-status quo, younger, fresher.

1:35.9

We get your pain.

1:37.6

We are going to fight really hard for you, whether that's like being able to watch a sports

1:43.5

show and your sports team or major national

1:47.0

health care cuts, rising costs, all of those things.

1:51.0

But it's just the punchiness of it. And I think, you know, in my own state, we saw a version of that in New York that is very compelling and energizing.

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