Real Coffee with Scott Adams

It’s Wednesday, August 19th, 2026, and today we’re going **Polling for Normal People** at The Scott Adams School. 📊

Erica and Marcela welcome **Mark Mitchell**, longtime pollster and former Director of Polling at Rasmussen Reports, who recently launched **The Honest Poll**.

We have questions. Lots of questions.

**Are polls real? Are they fake? How do they actually work?** Who gets polled? How do pollsters decide who is a “likely voter”? What happens when they weight the results? And just how much mischief can be accomplished before anyone technically has to call a poll “wrong”?

And then there’s one of Scott Adams’s favorite observations: **What about that roughly 25% of people who seem to be wrong about absolutely everything?** 😂 Mark may finally have some explaining to do on behalf of his profession.

We’ll also get Mark’s take on the upcoming primaries, what the numbers are telling him right now, what the media gets wrong about polling, and plenty more.

Owen returns tomorrow!

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Thanks for being here and helping us keep Scott’s lessons, ideas, humor, and community going.

**Welcome to The Scott Adams School.** ☕

Today Erica gets to have a little fun with Joshua Lisec and Owen! First, we’ll dig into **the Haitians in Ohio**, get a little **news on the bio**... and apparently we’re rhyming now, because professionalism has its limits.

Then, since Erica suddenly finds herself surrounded by two dads, we’re going to take advantage of it and talk about some **manly things**: men, women, relationships, marriage, fatherhood, traditional roles, what men and women misunderstand about each other, and whatever other dangerous territory we wander into. This should go smoothly. 😏

We’ll also catch up on whatever news demands our attention along the way.

**Marcela returns tomorrow**, so the Home Team will be back together again!

As always, thank you for joining us and helping keep the Scott Adams community going. Please **LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, SHARE the show with a friend, and ring the notification bell** so you don’t miss us.

And please help us keep the chat fun and welcoming. Disagreement is perfectly fine. Personal attacks, spamming, and making everyone else miserable for sport are considerably less charming.

⚠️ **Language and clips may occasionally be spicy.**

And don’t forget to grab your **official Scott Adams merchandise while supplies last.** Once some of these items are gone, they may be gone for good, so if you’ve been eyeing something, now would be the time. And naturally, every respectable household needs a **Simultaneous Swaddle**.

Grab your coffee, get ready for the Simultaneous Sip, and welcome to **The Scott Adams School!**

# 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.**

## 🎓 The Scott Adams School — Fri-YAY, August 14, 2026

It’s **Fri-YAY**, and we are wrapping up the week the way nature intended: with coffee, questionable headlines, useful conversation, and at least a few things that make us wonder how civilization got this far.

Today, **Owen and Marcela** have some fun current-event stories for us, maybe a little **science news**, and whatever else has wandered into the news cycle overnight.

Plus, **Jake Tapper is doing his very best Tapper Tilt over Donald Trump**, so naturally we’ll take a look at that. There will be news, opinions, laughs, useful observations, and probably a few stories we didn’t even know we were talking about until the show started.

So grab your coffee, settle in, and let’s have a **happy end to the week** before we all head off into a well-earned weekend.

☕ **Be useful. Be friendly. Leave the chat better than you found it.** Disagree all you want, but don’t make the experience miserable for everybody else. Nobody gets a trophy for being the most exhausting person in the comments.

👍 **Like the show, subscribe, hit the notification bell, and share it with a friend.** Every little click helps keep the Scott Adams School growing and this community together.

🛍️ **Official Scott Adams merchandise is still available while supplies last.** If there’s something you want, grab it sooner rather than later. Once it’s gone, we can’t promise it’s coming back. And yes, you probably still need a **Simultaneous Swaddle**.

⚠️ As always, **language, clips, and opinions may occasionally be spicy.** Opinions expressed are our own.

Happy Fri-YAY, everybody. Let’s have some fun. ☕🎉

**Good morning and welcome to The Scott Adams School!**

It’s **Thursday, August 13th, 2026**, and the **Home Team** is in the house.

Today we’re going back to school with a **Scott Adams whiteboard lesson we could probably all use a refresher on: AFFIRMATIONS.** Scott talked about them for years, and just yesterday we learned that **Joel Pollak swears by them too.** Coincidence? Programming? Magic? We’ll discuss.

Then we’ll get into the news, whatever fresh insanity the world has generously produced for us overnight, and wherever else the conversation takes us. As Scott taught us, sometimes the most interesting part of the show is the part we didn’t plan.

☕ Grab your coffee and join us for the **Simultaneous Sip**.

**A quick note about the chat:** We love disagreement. We love smart arguments. We even love a little sparring. But there’s a difference between challenging an idea and simply trying to make the room unpleasant. **Add something to the conversation. Don’t just add friction.** We have a terrific community here, so help us keep the chat interesting, funny, welcoming, and worth reading.

Please **LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, SHARE the show with a friend, and ring the notification bell.** Those little clicks apparently keep the internet machinery fed.

And don’t forget the **official Scott Adams merchandise**. Supplies are limited, and when some of these items are gone, they may really be gone. Most importantly, every sophisticated household obviously needs a **Simultaneous Swaddle**. We don’t make the rules.

As always, **opinions are our own**, clips and conversation may contain **spicy language**, and anything can happen when the Home Team gets rolling.

Thank you for continuing to show up, laugh, learn, argue intelligently, and keep Scott’s lessons alive.

**Let’s go to school. ☕**