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Ryan O'Neill

Ryan O'Neill

Co-owner of Keighley Cougars Rugby League Club (with husband Kaue Garcia) — the first openly gay couple to own a British professional sports club — and founder of AI Maestro.

Sep 15, 2026

1:00
And you could sing.
1:01
Kind of going into that, my, mine would be Why Does It Always Rain On Me by Travis, because so many times in my life [laughs] I've gone out with the best of intentions and I've had a bloody downpour on top of my head.
1:12
So yeah, that's, uh-
1:42
Very, uh, yeah, my-
1:44
I, I'm, I'm not gonna be so sad to say I, I had the same, but I kind of did have the same.
1:49
But I think mine was, um, I c- I'm gonna show my age, but Toby Anstis.
1:53
Don't know if people remember him.
1:55
He was in-
1:42
What should I know about you as a child or a teenager to understand the Ryan that sits in front of me today?
1:50
I think it goes back to from probably the age of seven.
1:54
So I was sent off to boarding school at seven.
1:57
And I was there for seven years.
1:59
That's all the sevens.
2:01
And it was a really old-fashioned traditional boarding school where we still got slapped in the gym shoe and that kind of thing.
2:10
There were 18 boys to a dorm.

38 MINS LATER

40:16
to pay people build a competitor team how have you found yourselves kind of balancing that to those two sides of the coin right balancing the we want to have these values and we want to build a certain vision but they're also the commercial reality of we own a football club and a
KieranHOST
1:25
You always can tell, can't you? You can.
1:28
Absolutely.
1:29
And I think for local radio as well, like, you know, traffic reports, stuff that's happening right now, you're never going to be able to.
1:36
For that kind of jukebox or Spotify type thing where you can, you know, you're just playing music.
1:41
Absolutely.
1:42
It may work.
1:44
But where I'm seeing huge challenges at the moment, I think, in terms of AIs, there's a couple of things.
KieranHOST
3:19
and really just ignore it.

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