Hey everyone, Dan here with another reheat and in honor of our 15th anniversary, this month

we are pulling especially old episodes out of the darkest recesses of the deep freezer.

Last Friday, we released the first ever sporkful episode, episode number one, along with a classic

one on sandwich science with Robert Krollwich.

Today, we're sharing my entire interview with Weird Al from 2014. I was so

excited to have Weird Al on the show. I was trying so hard for like two years to get him on the show.

Like every three months, I would email his manager. Hey, is he free now? How about now? The manager would

say no, right back in a few months. Two years. Finally, he said, hey, Al is doing a concert up in northern Westchester. This was like two hours from where I was living. And he says, if you want to get there early before the show, you can interview him backstage while he's hanging out and waiting for the show to start. I said, I'll be there. And having Weird Al on the show dissecting so many of his classic songs, it was a special memory. It felt like maybe the first really big

guest, not counting Rachel Maddow and Mark Marron, because I had worked with him in the past,

the first really big guest I got on the Sporkful, who I didn't know before. So it was a big milestone

for the show at one of my favorite episodes, and I'm excited to share it with you. And hey,

great news for all the Weird Al fans out there. He's going back on tour this year. For tour dates and tickets, check out Weirdal.com slash tour.

And as always, if there's an episode you want us to defrost and share, drop us a line at hello atsporkful.com.

All right, here's my episode with Weird Al.

This is the Sporkful.

Hi, who's this?

This is Joe calling from Post Falls, Idaho.

I'm 16 years old, and I've got a serious problem with onions.

Okay, tell me about it.

Well, ever since I was way younger, I've completely detested onions.

I mean, just hated them, but my mom's always been cooking for a bunch of other kids,

so she doesn't want to cook anything

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