"Back then, like, you didn't want to sell out, and then of course now it's everyone sells out."
90s coming-of-age television star Rider Strong is using his platform to amplify a message core lords have been trying to push for years. The now-46-year-old burst onto the screen in 1993, playing Shawn Hunter on the sitcom Boy Meets World across from Fred Savage’s younger brother Ben who, if I recall, was the boy meeting the world. The series stretched five years and was reprised for another three, from 2014-2017, as Girl Meets World.
Ten years ago, Strong was honored with the Young Artist Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award, won last year by Melissa Joan Hart and two years ago by Mario Lopez, but will likely be inducted to surfing’s Walk of Fame, soon, after revealing the one thing he’d like to bring back from the 90s.
Namely, shaming sell-out kooks.
“You know what I would love is, I think the whole notion of selling out was like a joke, you know, back then, like, you didn’t want to sell out, and then of course now it’s everyone sells out,” Strong told People Magazine, adding that everyone would get shamed hard for selling out and he wants to bring that bit that.
“Just a little bit of shame,” he continued. “Like, we could bring that back because I realized that the ’90s were too extreme about that, but I also think that now we’re too far in the other direction of just everybody’s a commercial for everything.”
Now please enjoy a song by a band that sold out ska, which might have already been sold out to begin with.
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Bring that beat back hey.
No but I show respect for the probably 2026 Champ
Probable
if ir doesn’t killya ,it makes you stronger!
can’t wait..not sure ya know but I did a couple of years in Max security Pentridge…called it the blue stone college…..learnt a lot…ever here of Chopper??
ha so was I !!
Doesn’t matter. Luana’s gonna dominate.
i’m not even gunna go there
Never underestimate yourself !
and on the seventh day God said let SC return to the Grit.
Good to see you out of the pokie
So what happens on release day ?
Do ya get a personal message from the moderator informing you of the fact ?
Or an AI one ? (i don’t mean that AI from beyond the grave)
Is getting your account back kind of like signing for your personal belongings on release from jail ?
Unless Dognuts has been getting conjugal visits, I’d say the first thing is a proper bum hole fingering at some cheap motel
I think ya takin this convict shit too far……LOL………be careful when ya laptop starts talking back,LOL!!!
“Not selling out” is a luxury most people can’t afford these days.
Eeey it’s the kid!
G’day cunt
Aussie Treble wouldn’t be the same without you.
If you do a music video you’ve sold out.
I thought selling out was the actual goal in capitalistic society. Shouldn’t it be applauded? So confusing.
I think with proper capitalism that you only sell out when the price is right.
Like how much would you have to pay Nirvana to get Smells Like Teen Spirit into a rom-com in 1993? The answer is likely more than any movie has budgeted for music. So it’s not that the song is not for sale, it’s just that nobody is willing to pay what the bands needs to justify selling out.
I get that. That would be a travesty really. But for shits and giggles what if they did pay? Wouldn’t Nirvana be the winners in that?
Welcome back. Hold a downvote, as they are so rare.
Edit: while you were gone someone downvoted me for admiring the massive teeth on some lady (Basque, me thinks) who had just qualified for the tour for the first time. Told me off and reminded me that this wasn’t some sort of beauty contest. Had me backtracking faster than a Blowin, deleted comment. That commenter is no longer around, though. One look at the comments was all they needed to realise they had stumbled into the wrong part of the internet. Welcome back, SC.
Negs is a benevolent overlord. I would have banned you until Bells for that thing you said about my Sally, that one time last year 😉
Hahaha Sally untouchable !
Don’t start me about Layne Beachley
Good ‘ol shit tits fitzgibbons
Long range forecast for the first 7 days of Bells looks horrible
Easter is relatively early this year. Always fucks it up.
Xox
how’d you do with the rain/flooding these past two weeks?
I don’t live there anymore.
It looks horrible in Waialua. Worse than 2006
Spoke to Eric A yesterday for an update……and yeah pretty wild with so far a $1B in damage……cars floating around Haleiwa /Sugar Mill…..houses knocked off their foundations …the big question is now how many people had flood insurance….it looks like very few….ahhhh
Them Hawaiian islands getting a big chunk of this climate change chaos already. Fair to say that very few tropical islands have gotten that level of development and alteration of the natural environment ; due to the excessive mass of money that has been invested by the military and by yanks who can just move there with their millions, willy nilly. They’re getting it all.
I wondered the same. Crazy high property values but no insurance is probably a common situation
yeah having flood insurance……not something one normally associates with Hawiia…..bit like here…we have never had a flood in history!
Tough times there. Cost of living is already psycho. Traffic was already richter now there will be road projects island wide non stop.
It’s a grind to live there but as a surfer you end up scoring that one or three magic sessions a week/month that keep you fired up
It’s gunna be pumping ! 6 to 7 and a half foot!
Good memory.
it’s not horrible , but small for the start….looks like Winki, to start the contest for the fist couple of days…small Easter weekend…with a 6 ‘ swell after Easter….but the forecasts are changing every day….
Thanks Brutus i appreciate the insight
I want to see Cole in big Bowl. Gonna be Occ all over again
keep hitting me up for a forecast….
Kiss ass
Pffft
que , would you also like to know about the surf report at Bells??
You can no longer stop selling out.
The money is TOO good.
Imagine that some Nirvana-adjacent band wrote a hit song that crosses over into pop territory. In the 90s they may have chosen not to license that song out to a Hollywood movie and some ad campaign for a car or a truck.
Now, in 2026, you get that song onto 4 or 5 media possibilities, make enough money to buy a 3 bedroom condo in LA and that shit will double in price in the next 10 years. Everybody selling out, and while i do agree it’s bizarre the levels it has reached , I can’t say that I wouldn’t do the same.
When The Smiths and Radiohead songs are everywhere then you know that nobody really cares anymore.