Our Last Conversation with Sonja Christopher

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🗓️ 27 April 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Sonja Christopher made history when she was the first person to ever be voted off of Survivor in 2000. In so many ways she was a trailblazer in her life. Liz Wilcox posted to twitter that Sonja had passed away on April 26th, 2024
Rob Cesternino and Josh Wigler got together to pay tribute to this Survivor pioneer and bring you an encore of Josh Wigler’s 2017 interview with Sonja. Josh spoke to Sonja as part of the FIRST ONE OUT podcast series that he created to preview Season 35 of Survivor.
According to Liz, Sonja’s family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations could be sent to Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church (Walnut Creek, CA), the Cancer Support Community of the San Francisco Bay Area, or the Sjogren’s Foundation.

No flowers, but donations may be sent to Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church (Walnut Creek, CA), the Cancer Support Community of the San Francisco Bay Area, or the Sjogren’s Foundation.
— Liz Wilcox (S46) (@TheLizWilcox88) April 26, 2024

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0:00.0	Hey everybody Rob Sesternino here with a special edition of Rob has a
0:06.1	podcast that we are here today because on Friday night the news broke that the first woman ever voted off of
0:17.4	Survivor Sonia Christopher had passed away Liz Wilcox actually from this current season of Survivor was the first
0:25.8	to break the news on Twitter and we have a special podcast for you here today and
0:31.7	with me is Josh Wiggler and Josh my long time
0:36.9	collaborator is here Josh how are you? I'm doing I was gonna say I'm okay. I'm very sad very sad to hear this I'm on the other side of the world right now as you Rob so this is how I woke up I woke up to this news so yeah, very sad to hear about something.
0:54.0	And you were one of the first people that I thought of, of course, outside of Sonia's family
0:59.2	because you and Sonia had a nice rapport that came about for the project that you did back in season 35 of Survivor on First One Out.
1:12.6	Yeah, First One Out, for those who are new to R.H.A.P. or don't remember.
1:17.3	It was a podcast series that I did for Rob, in which I went out to location and I interviewed the cast members and it
1:26.4	started with Heroes Healers and Hustlers and the journey was to if Survivor is the exploration of the person who wins, first one out was going to be the
1:37.3	exploration of, well, the first one out, the first person voted out of the game and what their
1:41.7	journey was like because coming
1:43.3	out to Survivor is such a big deal for everybody who gets to play. And the way it was
1:48.5	structured was I had interviewed all the castmates. We had interviews with clearly the first person who
1:54.5	would be voted out of that season, Katrina Radke, as well as various other people
1:59.3	who had been voted out first on their respective seasons of Survivor.
2:03.9	And I was so honored to get to sit down for about an hour
2:08.3	with Sonia, with Sonia Christopher,
2:11.0	in which she was as wonderful as you would want to speak with Sonia was such a pleasure.
2:18.0	You'd get a spontaneous ukulele from Sonia, she was still singing.
2:24.0	She had a razor sharp memory of everything
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