# The Scott Adams School — Monday, August 17, 2026
How is it Monday again? Who authorized this?
The **Home Team** is back to kick off the week with a wonderfully random assortment of whatever the universe has thrown at us.
Today we’ve got:
* A clip from **Scott** to get our brains pointed in the right direction.
* The latest **Iran–Israel war updates**, because apparently geopolitics has no interest in taking the weekend off.
* **Mamdani is speaking Chinese now.** Sure. Why not. Let’s see where this goes.
* Plus whatever other news, clips, science, AI, nonsense, brilliance, or general weirdness wanders into the classroom before the hour is over.
As always, **please LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and SHARE the show** with a friend. Ring the notification bell, give us a thumbs-up, and help us keep building the community Scott created.
Please keep the chat **friendly, useful, and fun**. Disagreement is welcome. Personal attacks, endless fighting, and making the chat miserable for everyone else are considerably less charming. Leave the place better than you found it.
And, as always, **language and clips may get spicy.** We make no promises about maintaining delicate sensibilities before lunchtime.
Don’t forget to grab your **official Scott Adams merchandise** while supplies last. Once something is gone, it may actually be gone, so this is not the moment for your usual human procrastination. And yes, you still need a **Simultaneous Swaddle**.
Grab your coffee, settle in, and let’s start the week together.
**Welcome to The Scott Adams School.**
