Wouldn’t you want to meet the person responsible for The A.V. Club, the entertainment and culture sister publication of The Onion?

Stephen Thompson, who now works as a writer and editor for NPR Music, got in on the ground floor at The Onion, a farcical publication that mocks current events and media. He started writing there when he was just 20 years still a student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. It was the early 1990s and The Onion was a only a couple of years old at that point, but the staff had grand aspirations.

At NPR, Thompson helped launch the popular Tiny Desk Concerts and is also a panelist on the All Songs Considered and Pop Culture Happy Hour podcasts.