It's Friday, May 1st, 2026 from Peachfish Productions. It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska.

I'm thinking and talking a lot about California politics. In fact, on Substack, which is Mike

peska.substack.com, I have an article about the rerouting of a train around Caesar Chavez's

final resting place, the National Monument.

Now that he's been exposed to have been guilty of statutory rape, no one's really precious

about this, and they don't want to reroute the train. But beforehand, so as to avoid the very

remote grave in Keene, California, the state was spending a billion dollars to avoid the grave site.

A billion dollars. There was already a train there. It was a freight train.

Wouldn't really add much traffic. Wouldn't really add much noise.

But it was seen as a good expenditure of a billion dollars so as not to go within any

reasonable distance of a man who died decades ago.

But what I really want to talk about is what I was talking about yesterday, Prop 36, and the

idea of mass incarceration.

So you should know, as I said, that in California, it is the lowest rate and number of incarcerated

individuals in the last 30 years.

But as I talked about yesterday, this still doesn't preclude activists, public defenders,

from alleging mass incarceration is right around the corner or, in fact, here.

So I was doing a lot of digging and a lot of research on the story.

And one of the major organizations that is against mass incarceration is the Vera Institute.

And I'm against mass incarceration in a more tangible way than just saying, I'm against this thing.

I've really done a lot of research into it.

I've talked about it a lot on the show.

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