Good evening, everybody. How you all doing? Midweek checking in. I hope you're all doing well,

taking care of yourselves. Oh, bless, bless, bless. What a strange time. We're going to spend

the show talking about some COVID stuff, getting over COVID anxiety. Yep, it's something I'm hearing

a lot about. Still coming to my office and coming in from family members, we'll be talking about that.

And also if you want to take a road trip, I'm all in support of that.

But I'm going to share with you some things you've got to consider based on the current state of what's going on in the world.

A little bit of news, Tinder.

They're planning to add an element to their app that will basically allow criminal checks.

A lot of people are like, oh, that sounds great.

Well, no, it doesn't. Number one, not everyone who has been convicted of something is actually guilty of something, right?

We know that the criminal often injustice system is often anti-trans, anti-LGBQIA, and also very racist at times.

Nonetheless, not everyone who's been convicted of something is guilty.

Also, there's people where it was a historical conviction.

Yes, it was something they did at a certain time in their life.

They've grown, evolved, and transformed, and no longer should have to be for lifelong, you know, for life associated can associated with that. You know, when people are

rehabilitated or went through treatment or whatever it is you want to save done their time, they're

allowed to move on with their lives. I bring that up all the time with everyone in any context,

but especially with people I work with in terms of addiction. In their use, they engage in a lot

of things that now as a sober person makes no sense for who they are.

And they have a right to not have to drag that forward with them.

Even someone who's not in recovery has a right to leave behind prior things that might have been a systemic issue.

Or, you know, sometimes crimes are committed for people to try to get their basic needs met,

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