S9, Ep5 How to Fail: Ovie Soko

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.7 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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I'VE GOT A TEXT...MESSAGE. This week's guest is Ovie Soko, a man who entered the Love Island villa in 2019 and rapidly became iconic by uttering this phrase. But he's so much more than a reality TV star: famed for his laid-back charm and wise advice, Ovie is also a professional basketball player and a soon-to-be-published author. His debut book, You Are Dope, is out next week.Ovie joins me to talk about almost getting expelled from school, cheating on a girlfriend and being caught stealing from his mother. Along the way we discuss Black Lives Matter, and his experiences of being pulled over by police in America, Love Island, Nigerian families, faith, relationships, social media and what it means to channel your difference as a super-power.What. A. Dude.*PLEASE PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK, THANK YOU! Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong is available here*To celebrate the publication of Failosophy, I am doing a LIVE show at the newly Covid-secure London Palladium. It is also live-streamed online. If you'd like to buy tickets for either option, you can do so here.*You Are Dope by Ovie Soko is available for pre-order here.*How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. We love hearing from you! To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com You can buy our fantastic PODCAST MERCH here.* Social Media:Elizabeth Day @elizabdayOvie Soko @oviesokoHow To Fail @howtofailpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of How to Fail is sponsored by Bezier London. Bezier London is a
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1:06.4	Hello and welcome to How to Fail with Elizabeth Day. The podcast that celebrates the things
1:24.5	that haven't gone right. This is a podcast about learning from our mistakes and
1:30.1	understanding that why we fail ultimately makes us stronger. Because learning how to fail
1:35.8	in life actually means learning how to succeed better. I'm your host, author and journalist
1:42.2	Elizabeth Day and every week I'll be asking a new interviewee what they've learned from failure.
1:49.3	When he was a child, Ovisoko's mother gave him the nickname Motorola because he talked so much.
1:55.2	As he recalls in his new book You Are Dope, most of his chatter came from a desire to question
1:59.8	the rules. He felt like an outsider for much of his adolescence, not prosperous enough to fit
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