YouTuber Rosanna Pansino smokes hashish grown from her father’s ashes

A YouTube baking influencer made her late father the star of the primary episode of her new podcast by smoking hashish grown in a pot of his ashes.

What seemed to be an attention-grabbing stunt by Rosanna Pansino – a social media star with greater than 14.6 million followers – was supposed to be a critical examination of grief and its results on family members, she insisted throughout the 54-minute episode of her Rodiculous podcast.

She titled the opening episode Smoking My Lifeless Dad.

“The blunt we smoked was scrumptious – it tasted so good,” Pansino, whose actual title is Rosanna Reardon, declared after taking a number of hits of the joint, the primary of which prompted a prolonged match of coughing.

Pansino’s father, Michael Reardon, who appeared in a lot of her baking movies as Papa Pizza, died in December 2019 after an extended battle with leukemia. Her sister Molly and mom, Jeanne, joined her on-camera to toast his reminiscence with the remnants of a bottle of whiskey he brewed.

“Earlier than he handed, he advised me and my mother what he would really like us to do together with his ashes, and at first my mother was just a little bit hesitant,” Pansino stated.

“She thought: ‘That is type of hippie – individuals are going to guage us.’ However as time’s gone on we simply actually assume that it’s the proper time to do what dad wished and to honor him the best way he wished.”

The podcast featured a prolonged interview with an internationally acknowledged skilled on grief and grief counseling, David Kessler.

“Shedding dad, simply because he was one in every of my finest associates, it was simply totally different,” Pansino stated. “I believed over time the unhappiness would fade, however grief is at all times with me – it feels prefer it’s completely hooked up to me.”

Pansino, 39, described her father as “a type of Willie Nelson” character and recalled how they shared a cigar collectively on her 18th birthday. That shared second, she stated, resonated with smoking hashish grown in his ashes.

“I feel I’m identical to my dad,” she stated. “He was a social butterfly – I feel that positively rubbed off on me.

“He taught me to respect life and never be wasteful. Don’t take shit from anybody, and simply since you’re small doesn’t imply you’ll be able to’t make a distinction. My dad was a badass and fairly just a little insurgent, and I might be following in his footsteps.”

Pansino rose to superstar along with her YouTube channel referred to as Nerdy Nummies, which she launched in 2010 and named for her struggles with dyslexia in addition to being a “nerdy, awkward child” in class. She stated following chapters of her new weekly podcast have been unlikely to be fairly so dramatic.

Addressing her followers as “little rebels”, she stated: “This episode goes to be totally different than my future episodes, however I wished to dedicate my very first episode to my dad, Papa Pizza.”

The podcast additionally featured outstanding ads for Pansino-endorsed merchandise, together with cocoa and hashish gummies.