Former professional skateboarder Danny Gonzales recalled thinking at the time: "At 17 the dude was already a wastoid."

For today’s female stars, pop is the medium, but the modes of delivery are convoluted, even counterintuitive: Lady Gaga’s moody, dizzying performance art; Kesha’s wastoid slacker rap; even Katy Perry’s doe-eyed stumbles toward complexity.

This slab of syncopated stupidity is receiving the heaviest of heavy MTV rotation and can be seen to fullest advantage bookending slurred appearances by that station's in-house West Coast wastoid, Pauly Shore.

Fogle recounts, in often humorous detail, his epiphanic conversion from the adopted pose of a nihilistic "wastoid" (ostensibly just to appear cool) into a man on whom it dawns that he is in fact a thoroughgoing nihilist (i.e., he really does not believe in anything whatsoever).