OZY Daily Dose

Every Wednesday, we’re debating hot topics in the lead-up to our next TV show, Third Rail With OZY, launching on PBS in less than a month. Last week we asked, “Should publishing fake news be a crime?” You answered. Here are some reader responses and perspectives, condensed and edited for clarity. Check back tomorrow for our next question. It would be lovely if promoting fake news were a crime.

In this occasional series, OZY takes to streets and neighborhoods across the globe to ask a simple question: "How was your day?"Herman GromanLas VegasI was in the bureau for 25 years. My first office was in Pittsburgh and then West Virginia. I transferred to Detroit and stayed there for 12 years. I ended up in Las Vegas and that's where I retired.

After using a pump fake to get Derrick Byars up in the air, Rashad McCants drained the game-winning 3-pointer in Week 4 of the inaugural season of Ice Cube’s BIG3 league. He then snuck up behind a sideline reporter and shouted “Big Baller Brand!” Though not endorsed by LaVar Ball’s athletic apparel company, which caught flak for the owner’s ludicrous comments (boasting he could beat Michael Jordan one-on-one back in the day, for example), he condones its mission.

In this occasional series, OZY takes to streets and neighborhoods across the globe to ask a simple question: "How was your day?"Francisca "Captain T" BarnettSeward, AlaskaI had the Cracker Jack Voyager for a full day, for salmon and halibut sportfishing. The trip departs the dock at 6 a.m., so I get up at 4:30. I open up the engine room, check the fluid, turn on all my breakers, start warming up the mains - the engines.

It was late and the drugs had run dry.Everyone assumed the house party was over. Then Javier, a garrulous Colombian friend, volunteered to walk down to the Bronx to buy more."The Bronx!" jeered the others. "¿Estás loco? At least go with someone," they pleaded."I'll go," I said without hesitation. Javier laughed and shook his head dismissively. "Come on, brother," I continued. "I'll wear a hood. And I won't say a word.

EUGENE, SIR: My boyfriend and I were having sex the other night and he had his laptop by the bed. At one point, a pillow fell off the bed and onto the laptop, stopping the screen saver and revealing that he had been filming us. That wasn’t strange — he and I have filmed ourselves before. Him filming without telling me, that’s strange. So I mention it, thinking it wasn’t that big a deal since if he had told me, I wouldn’t have objected.

America's foremost drag queen, RuPaul - his last name is Charles, in case you're wondering - hit superstardom with the 1993 CD Supermodel of the World. He has spent nine seasons hosting the Emmy-winning reality competition RuPaul's Drag Race, which has become an LGBT cultural touchstone.While appearing at OZY Fest in New York City's Central Park, RuPaul sat down for an interview to discuss activism and why Judge Judy is the best role model. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

Jason Derulo knows you're watching him. With his dreadlocks, white jacket and pants, and ruby red boots, it's hard not to. The look is a big part of his appeal - even before he removes his shirt to flash his famous abs for gaga fans at OZY Fest.

Adam produced a large baggie of dusty organic chunks, chalky with hints of red, reminiscent of the Arizona desert it came from. The shriveled, disintegrating flesh of a divine mushroom. The fly agaric, amanita muscaria. It's administered ritually as an entheogen in parts of Siberia. There are rumors that this was the Hindu gods' soma, and I have even heard it whispered that early Christianity rose out of a fertility cult devoted to the amanita."I got this from the Navajo," he said.

EUGENE, SIR: I really don’t know how to have this question answered without me feeling stupid for having asked it, and my man’s been shy or maybe even untruthful when I ask him, but how can I improve the quality of the oral sex I give? — Head Start Dear Yo, Ho, Blow the Man Down: I don’t know that you’d ask a guy who owned a car and had driven a car what it’s like to fix a car, but being that I own a penis and have used the penis that I own, I’m more than happy to advise on how to work it from the business end. That’s even if I, myself, have only the most scant...