function tribe_is_truthy( $var ) {
		if ( is_bool( $var ) ) {
			return $var;
		}

		/**
		 * Provides an opportunity to modify strings that will be
		 * deemed to evaluate to true.
		 *
		 * @param array $truthy_strings
		 */
		$truthy_strings = (array) apply_filters( 'tribe_is_truthy_strings', array(
			'1',
			'enable',
			'enabled',
			'on',
			'y',
			'yes',
			'true',
		) );
		// Makes sure we are dealing with lowercase for testing
		if ( is_string( $var ) ) {
			$var = strtolower( $var );
		}

		// If $var is a string, it is only true if it is contained in the above array
		if ( in_array( $var, $truthy_strings, true ) ) {
			return true;
		}

		// All other strings will be treated as false
		if ( is_string( $var ) ) {
			return false;
		}

		// For other types (ints, floats etc) cast to bool
		return (bool) $var;
	}