It’s a shame that I have to spend the time on Grassroots Truthcast and dedicate an episode to pedophiles,

sex trafficking, and the abuse of our children that’s being caused now through

a new technology of online gaming and websites geared toward the the salacious

activity by the deep state in trying to ruin the culture and character of our

children. We’re going to meet Brent Dusing this morning. He’s the CEO and founder of True Play. It’s a subscription-based

Christian gaming platform for kids 5 to 12 years of age. uh and he’s reacting to

reports that are now u in his eye and publicly uh published throughout the nation that should be raising the eye

and par parental concerns that these platforms like Roblox and um and and others that are out there that are

nothing more than platforms manipulated by sexual perverts and predators and testing intending to message wrongdoing

to our children, our vulnerable children of age that are trying to find their way in this very precarious life we live in

today. He’s presenting guard rails and guidelines for online uh activity for

and and and entertainment for our children. Folks, meet Brent Dussing. Brent is here today. Welcome aboard, Brent.

Thanks, Jean. Good to be with you.

And I have so much uh to ask you. You’ve come up with a company called True Play.

It’s a gaming platform literally intended to in allow children to have decent decent cultural Christianbased

ethical play activity online so that they can spend their time off of this

device and get back to school. We’ve got plenty to talk about with Brent Ding right after this message.

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Give him a call today. You’ll be glad you did when you do. We’re back here with Brent Dussing. He’s uh owner and

CEO founder of True Play, a great gaming platform. Brent, I have a ton of questions to ask you. We met at a

conservative think tank conference recently in Dana Point, California.

Since then, we’ve had the chance to get to know each other. I regret there’s not more platforms like yours out there

helping parents steer the direction of their children. Explain.

Look, the reality is things have never been worse for children than they are today. Anxiety, suicide, depression rates are all-time highs for kids. The

average male is exposed to pornography when he’s 12. There’s all types of reports of sexual predators, child pornography, uh, you know, people coming

at children, uh, only 32% of children believe in God without a doubt, and only 2% of children have a biblical

worldview. Now, it’s all because kids are inundated with toxic content everywhere they turn. Whether it’s Roblox, which is where a lot of the source of the predators are coming from,

whether it’s Tik Tok, whether it’s toxic content pushed on them by Disney, or various video games that are made. I’m not here to tell you that every every

movie or every TV show, every video game that a child has access to is toxic. They’re not. Some are like bubble gum.

But I am here to tell you there are a lot of things that are harmful for kids.

And we’re seeing their effects now in the data and in the lives in the stories of children that I know that I’m sure you know that if you’re listening I’m

sure kids you know and at True Play we’re doing something about it.

What’s happening exactly? Why did you have to take on Google and um Tik Tok?

What what was what was your reaction to them?

So So for some context, True Play is a platform. You can download it on your phone, on your tablet. It’s a bunch of games. Uh it’s an fun entertainment

experience where every piece of content video games, digital comics, videos contain God’s truth. Every piece of content we make has God’s truth in it.

Now the thing is when you run a digital product, you have to advertise on social media platforms. That’s the unfortunate truth of the economy today. You know,

people don’t really watch TV much anymore. You can’t we can’t really advertise effectively on the radio because it’s a very visual product. So we advertise on social media platforms.

That’s how we grow. The three biggest that are the most effective are Tik Tok,

Google, and the Meta platforms. Now Meta hasn’t given us any problems. Have no complaints about them. But Google and Tik Tok won’t allow us to advertise.

Now, you may be listening and thinking,

“Wait a minute. You’re a Christian kids gaming platform and you can’t advertise on Tik Tok and Google.” No. They explicitly block us. And to get a

question out of your mind, it’s not that we’ve said anything inflammatory. We’re not out condemning people or saying we hate such and so. We’re literally run

ads as benign as fun Christian games for your kids to play. Um

save turn, you know, turn game time into God time. Save family-friendly content that parents can trust. Endless adventures. All those ads were banned.

We had Kim Walker Smith endors us. That ad was banned. Uh Riley Gaines endorse us. That ad was banned. every ad that we’ve run and Google’s excuse is their

stated reason is you can’t push your religious beliefs on people in advertising.

Here’s the thing. They allow satanic content to advertise. They have run ads on from Roblox with literally pentagrams

drawn in blood with blood all over the floor and dismembered bodies saying, you know, letting letting millions of people see those ads with no restraint. They

allow a game called Diablo, literally a game about Satan, to advertise.

Satanism wants to be qualified as a religion. Well, if it’s a religion, then they shouldn’t be allowed to advertise on on uh Google either. They Google allows Buddhist content to advertise.

Many Buddhist products, whether it’s,

you know, yoga, Buddhist meditation, or uh statues you can buy, they advertise without restraint. Transgender content,

you know, to me that’s the new religion of the day is this idea that you can convert one one sex into another, one gender into another. They allow

transgender content for kids to be able to advertise. And so the the issue is that Google doesn’t actually have a problem with religion. It’s that Google

has a problem with Christianity and explicitly is discriminating actively against us. And it shows you that Google

hates the things of God. Tik Tok, very similar story. Tik Tok actually sent us an email saying, “You can no longer advertise content that is dangerous or harmful to our users.” And by the way,

we’re we’re advertising, you know, video games about kids who go on adventures and learn the value of the Bible, about King David and his, you know, battle

against Goliath, about the story of the Old Testament. So meanwhile though,

again, Tik Tok allows Roblox and Diablo to advertise, which are promoting satanic content, and again, transgender content for kids is allowed to be

advertised. So it shows you the deeper agenda is actually dark and evil. And that’s the decisions that people at

Google and Tik Tok are making that they actually hate the things of God. Why do you think that’s so?

Why are they picking on on um on you uh with such a meritorious agenda

uh at True Play. Uh it’s not that it’s just Christianbased. It’s it’s fun and good entertainment for the kids as well.

It’s more than just spreading Christianity, which other religions have clearly been allowed to do on both Tik Tok and Google. I’m trying to come to

some defense for Google and Tik Tok so we we don’t get this show banned from them either. So, what would be the logic behind um their treatment of you?

Well, it’s it’s what I’ll tell you is that there are other Christian organizations who have also had problems. So it’s not first of all I’ll tell you it’s not just us but I will

tell you it is because we’re Christian because again it’s and and the reason is there the a everybody’s talking about AI

and LLMs and you know AI models the mo you know the model that Google uses to allow ads to run right it’s not like

somebody sits there and punches a button they don’t have enough people to do that they they run you know billions probably trillions of of impressions you know

every day what they what they have is machines that decide what’s dangerous and harmful content. So what I want you

to understand as a listener, those of you who are using Google Gemini, those of you who are using Google products,

those of you who are watching what AI AI is doing to our society, I want you to understand that one, number one, Google is ahead in the AI race, the things that its model can achieve and its reach,

right? Google controls television essentially with YouTube. It controls um a lot of internet browsing, 40% of mobile phones, most of internet search.

Google’s ahead in the AI race right now.

Google’s AI model hates the things of God. It hates Christianity. If it didn’t, it wouldn’t block us and then

allow Satanism and Buddhism and transgender content for kids to advertise. Right? So, very clearly there’s a dark and sinister agenda. Why

is that true? Because honestly, there’s some pretty wicked people in positions of power right now. Right? And that’s been well documented by a lot of people.

I’m not the first people to say the first person to say it. In fact, Jesus said that. He said, you know, think about think about the temptation of Christ when uh he’s out in the desert for 40 days and the devil says, “Listen,

I I’ll give you all the kingdoms if you’ll kneel to me.” Jesus doesn’t say,

“You don’t control those kingdoms.” He just refuses to bow. Later on, Jesus goes on to call him the the the prince

of this world. So, there’s there’s a sense in which, and it’s not everywhere,

but there is a sense in which uh there really is evil that control these gates of power. and Google and Tik Tok have pretty clearly shown their hands. You

know, you and I were at a conference that was focusing on that theme. the thought that um this deep state initiative that’s going on by the likes

of George Soros and all his agents and proxies around the world are um are have

been orchestrly set into certain areas of the of the world including the United States with

agents and proxies underway to cause harm not only to children but to other uh sex sectors of our societ. society

and uh so if you’re talking about a platform, what is unique about the True Play platform that uh stands you apart

from the other platforms that would be good for parents to know about to subscribe to? Here’s what’s unique about True Play.

It’s one app with over a 100 hours of content, over a dozen games, dozens of entertainment choices, videos, digital

comics. We put out new content uh as well. And so every piece of content we make is made to be fun. It’s made to be

beautiful, but it also contains biblical truth. So our guarantee to you as a parent, our commitment to you is if your child’s going to invest their time, if

you’re going to invest your money in true play, you can trust that the content that you’re getting is based in God’s truth. Some of our games are Bible stories, King David’s Battles and

Stained Glass. Other games that, you know, you you go to our website, you’ll see these characters that are animals wearing different animal costumes.

They’re these characters in the rim verse. They live in a world where God is real and the Bible’s true, but there’s real evil that exists in their society and they go on these big adventures and

explore this mysterious forest and go out into space and there’s spaceship battles and there’s monsters and there’s sword fights. But there’s also real heart issues the kids deal with. Uh, one

of the kids is uh adopted. One of them her parents are divorced. One of them is autistic. One of them uh is a very strong believer in Jesus but is very

headstrong and kind of leaps before she looks. So, every single one of the children, one of them is the youngest and doesn’t get taken seriously by

anybody else. If you have more than one child, you’ll you’ll empathize with that. Or maybe if you’re listening, you were a youngest. The point is the characters deal with things that

children deal with today, but in a healthy, constructive way that points them back to Christ, that points them back to the Bible, that points them back to their reality that God made them and

loves them, and that they’re a child of God. I’m always interested in talking about how that these meritorious issues

might relate to issues of subtrafuge and subliminal activity. Your site was taken down recently and um this was quite

suspicious on your part as to how and why it happened. Do you have a sense as to why your site came down and why you had to work so aggressively to getting it back up so quickly?

Well, yeah. So, so what happened was we had a vendor failure. So, not to over complicate this, but when you run a tech

product, you pay different people to do uh third parties to do different work for you. You know, you have you have online servers that you use in the cloud

as one example. We had a vendor who failed for us, which caused uh you could still download it, but there were

certain things you couldn’t use inside the product. We fixed that very quickly,

but it actually took Apple two weeks to approve our fix. So, uh, that meant that quite a few people had had problems, uh,

using the service, and that was what that was about.

Friends, we’re talking with Brent Dussing. He’s the owner, founder of True Play, a subscription-based Christian

gaming platform that I think you ought to you ought to subscribe to, but I’m going to incentivize it. Gene Valentino has the Grassroots Truthcast mug. Brent,

you you let us know that you’re interested in one of these mugs. We’ll ship it to you. uh become a subscriber of Grassroots Truthcast and while you’re

at it, check out this episode with Brent and uh we’ll we’ll make sure you get to Brent directly if he hasn’t received

direct contact from you himself. So Brent, uh give us your contact information. How do people find out about True Play?

Yeah, the best thing to do to to connect with True Play is go to trueplayames.com.

Uh you can download, you can buy the product, you can go to the the app store or the Google Play Store. Just look for Trueplay. you. We are still on uh Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. So, X,

so you can follow us on any of those platforms. Um, look, we’d love for you to get involved. Check out the product.

Uh, if you have grandkids, you can buy a gift for your grandchildren. Um, we have merchandise you can sell, and if you want to get involved in a deeper way,

there’s ways on our website, uh, if you look at at contact and support, uh, to get involved even further. We have a lot of exciting stuff we’re doing right now.

We’re building new content. We’re growing and getting in front of more people uh because we are able to grow,

you know, using meta and using some other ads inside inside other people’s games. And also, we’re building new stuff. We have a lot of building. You’re allowing more people to get on.

But my what turned me on about this is that this is not open to strangers. It’s a private network, is it not? I mean,

you no open chat rooms for strangers to get on with your kids.

That’s right. You’re Yeah. No chat rooms, no ads, uh no hidden purchases.

Yes. There is a onetime there’s a subscription that you pay for, but that’s very transparent. That’s it.

There’s no extra charges. There’s no ads you have to ask questions about. Uh there’s no there’s no strangers. There’s no ability for people to interact with your child. Right now,

you let Brent know that we uh that you became a subscriber with True Play. And Brent will let me know and we’re sending you one of these mugs as well if you don’t come to us directly. Brent Ducing,

this is very exciting. I want to continue with this conversation because I think um you know we’ve got an Iran

Iraq war we’ve with um with Israel and the United States. We’ve got uh issues in

Venezuela that just preceded it. Who knows what happens tomorrow in Cuba.

We’ve got world issues going on. And this is one of those 3Ds of Gino. Gino’s three Ds. divert, deflect, and distract.

While you’re watching the news and all this national insanity going on to take out the Middle East by Iran,

subversive groups that are already here in the United States, as Brent said, are perpetrating

perverted, immoral activities against our children that need the protection

necessary to understand the beauty of our constitutional republic. for um for

platforms like his to survive. Do you think Brent would be able to post this platform in other nations of the world?

Uh yeah, I think it’s more likely he’d be shot than um than than that be able to be done. And that’s a regret because

uh we as a constitutional republic allow for freedom of expression and the liberties that go along with it and also

differences of opinion. But when your differences become so actionable as to

take a sight down because of a Christianbased what happened to Sunday morning on the TV channels there was Christian-based uh

programming on all the time uh and many other faiths as well. Well, the same thing has to now extend by legislative

act to the social media platforms of the world. And it requires a a a Congress with intestinal fortitude.

Jump in, Brett. A Congress with intestinal fortitude to step up and um quash these impotent legislators that

are pushing an an extreme left Marxist socialistic agenda.

That is not consistent. Here’s what I would say to that. So, you know, we just talked about all the discrimination that we’ve experienced by Tik Tok and Google.

We need two things to happen. First, we need active legislation that these that these tech platforms can’t discriminate

against Christianity because yes, it’s affected true play. And mostly though, it’s affected kids,

but it’s also discriminate against any any uh religious faith. It should be Well, yeah, but right now it’s Christianity that’s suffering. It’s not anybody else.

They’re in focus. You’re right. They’re not they’re not they’re not preventing any other religious uh you know they’re not prevent the Satanists or the Buddhists. I have the receipts from

advertising and I’m pretty sure they’re not preventing other major religions too. But they are preventing Christianity. Why? Because Jesus said they’re going to hate you because they hate me. Because that’s the real threat.

The real threat is the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it. So the first thing is yes it’s affected us. Secondly, yes, it’s

affected other Christian groups because they they’ve reached out to me. But the third thing is it’s really hurt children, right? Think about this,

Jean. If if the school let out at 3 in the afternoon and a bunch of kids between the ages of 5 and 12 filed out of school and they go down a dirt road,

they hit the the road at the intersection, there’s a three-part split. The first split takes you to a fun afterchool Christian program that

kids actually enjoy. The second one takes them to a satanic temple. The third split takes them to a pornography store where you can watch porn and also

there’s adults in there that assault the kids. Okay?

So the kids watching the porn and then um and the adults are nearby to get just to finish the metaphor. Imagine

two men stand in the middle of the intersection and they won’t allow the kids go to go down path one which is the fun after school program and they force

them to either go to the satanic temple or the the porn store. If that happened in real life, if that happened to one school and two people did that to 30 children, those men would be restrained,

arrested, beaten up, or maybe killed.

That is happening at scale by the millions, by Tik Tok and Google every single day. Google and Tik Tok are the

villains. They’re the corporals because they’re the ones who control platforms.

And they’ve told you now they’re showing you. They’re showing their hand. If you’re listening, they don’t care about you. They don’t care about your children

and they actually exist to exacerbate the destruction of Christianity and American and and

children, right, and the American family. Because interestingly, Tik Tok when it was owned by communist China wouldn’t allow the vast majority of the

garbage that goes on Tik Tok to be shown to their own citizens. Yeah.

They know it’s toxic and they’re happy to push it on us, but they don’t want to have it happen to their own people. So,

what what you need to do if you’re listening is get involved. Um, write to your congressman, write to your senator and say, “Listen, we can’t have these

tech platforms discriminated against us.” And furthermore, we need guardrails for AI, right? AI. It’s because it’s AI systems that are actively discriminating

against us. These systems, if you look at the biggest companies, if you look at Dario Amade who runs uh anthropic, he

came out and said there’s a 25% chance that the AI models that we’re building are going to eventually kill us. Uh Elon Musk famously started open AI because he

had a heart-to-he heart conversation with one of the founders of Google.

Walked away thinking, “This guy wants to destroy humanity by just building this AI machine.” started Open AI, then realized Sam Alman was kind of doing a same version of what he was afraid of,

and so he built Grock. My point is,

we’re building these very systems that these leaders are telling us out in the public, there’s a real chance they’ll destroy us, and yet we don’t have any

congressional action to protect American citizens and protect the American values that make our country great.

How did a Harvard grad uh majoring in economics into venture capital activities, making your millions in all

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Give them a call today. You’ll be glad you did when you do. Hi friends. We’re we’re having a ball here with Brent Ducing on uh True Play. Uh True Play.

He’s the founder of And this is very interesting. Uh Brent, I have I asked you a question before the break. How did

a Harvard grad with an economics background similar to my background who’s still in venture capital stuff when he’s not doing this stuff on

podcast, how did you end up doing such a meritorious thing uh in a Christian-based environment for these

children? And I got to tell you be go ahead answer that question first and it’s been the answer is it’s been a journey. The answer is that you know you

you know I heard I didn’t invent this phrase but you know life makes sense looking backwards. I was called to this but you know when I was a kid I when I

got a Nintendo when I was eight or nine years old in my house that very first Nintendo Entertainment System it was a step function. It was night and day what

video games could do. Visav the old Ataris and the Commodore. Um, you know,

the Nintendo was to video games what Star Wars was to movies. It was a completely different thing that changed the way the whole genre worked. So, uh,

I grew up playing video games. I grew up making board playing board games, making board games. My friends would actually come over and and play them and actually ask to play. So, I knew that game design

was something that I I enjoyed. um I didn’t think that it was much of a career path and uh you know graduated

from Harvard in 2001 got a job at a venture firm which which was a good first job you know it was a good good job out of school uh I had an idea to

start a company that it was back in 2005 if you remember uh before the iPhone there was the Motorola Razer there was

the the Blackberry uh and people were just starting to download things on their phones they were just starting to uh play video games. So, we realized

wherever there was a screen, there was going to be an ad. And so, we started a company called Cellfire uh that we eventually sold that was coupons on cell phones at grocery stores. So, if you’ve

ever shopped at a Safeway or Kroger affiliate and they say use your cell phone to save money, uh that’s uh that’s Sellfire. And so, that that wound up uh being a nice outcome. God bless that.

and then really felt called after that into uh making games into reaching people with God’s truth into building

excellent worldclass products that really had the ability uh to change lives for the kingdom. You know, that’s the last thing Jesus said is, you know,

go forth and disciple all nations. And he talks a lot about sharing his truth and and telling people about who he is.

And, you know, we’ll all be we’ll all stand in front of God one day and be asked that by the Lord. you know, what did you do with your your your talents and you know, did you deny me or did you

you know, did you speak about me? Did you stand up for me? And and all of those things, he makes it very clear.

And so, uh, this is something that I was called to, as well as the rest of my team. You know, it’s not just me. We have a world-class team of of fantastic

people with all types of backgrounds and skills that are part of this, too.

You know, it’s very interesting you brought I’m glad I asked the question because you’re at the same point in your life I think I’m at. You’ve done so much

9 to5. You’ve been checking off the box every day on your to-do list and you reach a point in the last what third of

your life where you’re wanting to do more for others and give back. And um I look at my grassroots truth cast, if I

can be personal for a minute, I look at it in that light. Helping you help others is kind of it’s a lot of fun for

me. It’s um it’s a way of giving back after a journey of having tried to figure out where I was going. And uh it

you know in that regard I think of my grandchildren. I have two grandchildren and they just love uh this uh game out

there called and these figures called action figures called Paw Patrol. And you’ll forgive me but I cannot help but

notice these animated characters on the screen behind you. Why why don’t you pull out and explain what Paw Patrol

would be analogous to to this I’m looking at.

So, let me kind of take you through our characters. So, this is um this is a a banner uh in our office uh that that

shows off a little bit of detail about our characters and kind of who they are.

So, I’ll take I’ll take the viewers through that. So, on the left is Lumi.

So, Lumi is just a a little flame and Lumi has two different games on the True Play platform. One is uh based on the on

the uh children’s song this little light of mine. So you fly through and you light up these little torches. Uh another one is a word game, Lumi’s Words

of Light, where um you spell words and then eventually some of those words connect into scripture. Um our main characters in the rim verse are right

here. And so there’s a little girl who’s a firefox who’s in a butterfly costume.

Her name is Isabella. She’s about six years old. She is the uh youngest of the group and she’s the one who is not taken

seriously at all because they all think that you know she’s too young, she doesn’t know what she’s doing. Uh if you have kids or maybe you were that kid,

you can probably identify with with the travailes of the youngest. Um she has a very deep Holy Spirit gifts um but also

has a real independent streak and doesn’t like the older kids bossing her around and so she learns more about who her spir what her spiritual gifts are in her journey. Right next to her is Ava.

Uh Ava is a girl who is a uh fawn who wears a Lynx costume or sorry, a Lynx that wears a Fawn costume. So Ava, her

parents are divorced. She’s getting bullied at school. And her journey is about learning that you aren’t who

people say who you are. You’re who God made you to be. So it doesn’t matter if people say negative things. Um what matters is your identity in Christ.

She’s our only character who wears a costume of another animal that’s less fierce than who she is because she’s had

she’s learned through, you know, the the difficulty she’s been through in her life to to kind of be silent and she learns to stand up for herself uh and to speak back against the negativity. Um,

our biggest male hero is next. This is Lucas. Lucas is a skunk. He wears a crocodile rocket suit that he built himself. It flies. It shoots laser

beams. Lucas is autistic and as you know if you’re listening there’s a lot of children today who are autistic. Uh about a third of my close male friends

are on the spectrum. So it’s something that I uh connect with pretty deeply. Lucas,

his brother died a year ago and he doesn’t get it. His mom’s a Christian.

He’s not uh so his mom says he’s up there with God and he says great. I’ll just go fly in a spaceship and go bring him back. But of course your mom’s like,

“No, no, that’s not what I meant. That’s not that’s not what we’re talking about.” but he takes off and so he goes on a journey and learns more about the

reality of God and who God is. Our biggest female star is Maple. Maple is a bunny rabbit who wears a tiger costume. Uh she’s a very strong believer in God.

She’s she’s uh very earnest and sincere about her beliefs. Uh knows her Bible well. Her her life verse is God Joshua

16. God tells me to be strong and me to be strong and courageous. She’s also though not always right but never in doubt. She leaps before she looks and

gets herself uh into uh a little bit of trouble as she rescues Oliver. Uh Benjamin is our warrior. He’s a hockey

player. Uh he’s a Wolverine. He um he’s a a good athlete, but he’s also a fierce protector. His job is to protect

Isabella, who’s the younger one. Um he’s a very strong believer in God and learns more about uh the spiritual gifts. In

fact, his game Benjamin and the armor of Logos is really about Ephesians 6. And so it takes you through that in a very artful way. This is Noah. Noah is

Lucas’s best friend. Again, Lucas is the the skunk uh who lost his brother. Uh Noah’s an outdoors guy. He’s a kangaroo that wears uh a shark costume. In fact,

our our uh audience voted for him to be a kangaroo in a shark costume. And he likes to uh rock climb and paraglide and

longboard and surf. And he’s a very strong believer. and is trying to kind of help Lucas cope with the loss and and

bring Lucas along in faith in God as he goes on this big journey. The last but certainly not least is Oliver. Oliver is

a fox who’s in a bear costume. Oliver is adopted. Uh Oliver is a scientist. He’s

a botonist. And he um uh his parents were very respect his biological parents, his fox parents were very

respected biblical scholars. uh his bear family adopted him and now he reads a lot of science books and he tries to understand uh the meaning of faith and

when we pray who are we speaking to um so in his story he Maple rescues him very early on and they’re in this forest

of words and they learn the forest is getting darker and the forest is deteriorating because this evil queen has stolen all the Bibles out of their

society so they have to learn uh they uncover this plot and then they have to wind up uh overthrowing the queen and restoring truth back into their society.

Uh this is Eve. Uh this is a very different take on Eve than probably a lot of what a lot of people have seen.

But uh you know the first thing about Eve is that she is uh the mother of all people. Secondly, I think Eve was gorgeous. Why? Well, Eve was God’s gift

to man. And so uh we drew Eve to be beautiful. And uh Eve is the first character in our game stained glass. In

the game Stained Glass, you play through the story of the Bible and you can see some elephants in the background over her shoulder and some birds flying at a

waterfall. So in stained glass, you collect these stained glass pieces. The stained glass pieces form a stained glass window. The stained glass pieces come to life and then a character from

the Bible tells you their story, but from a first-person viewpoint. So Eve talks about what it was like to live in the garden and then what it was like to look God in the eye and he says, “Where

are you?” Not that God didn’t know where she was physically, but where are you in your heart? Where have you gone? You she the separation from God caused by sin

and the grief and the loss that she and Adam experienced having to had leave the garden. Then after that in the stained glass game, then you go to uh Noah’s

story. Then you go to Sarah’s version of the of the Abraham event and her point of view. Then we go on to Moses and so forth. So the stained glass is really an

an artful fun way that we take you through the Old Testament.

I’m having trouble understanding why a platform like um Google or Tik Tok would

have a problem with this notwithstanding what they’re allowing elsewhere to be to be on your on your on their platform is

amazing to me and is why I had you on today. I think there’s got to be some reformation in the way we allow access

to free speech and um and uh expression to occur on these platforms. It’s more

than a radio station or TV station FCC license that one group of

broadcasters are u complying with and then free reign. It’s like the gold rush

going west. there were no rules uh with the whole social media and platforms that are existing out there outside of

the United States which adds more difficulty for uh legislative oversight and management. Where do you go in an

environment with true play where you have the world in such disarray? Uh they

can’t govern their own nation, let alone worry about a social uh a a pure platform like this.

Well, look, Jean, the world’s in disarray and and you know, there are sadly a lot of uh innocent people suffering right now uh in the Middle East and and that’s that is a shame.

There’s a lot of innocent, you know,

women and children who are who are being hurt. Um,

look, and I’m sure there’s a lot of people in America, you know, they they’re starting to feel this already with things like inflation and gas prices. And so, look, unfortunately, you

know, we don’t control that. But, you know, what we can do as as Christians is try to make the best and biggest impact on the world as possible. I I I will say

I think as as American Christians, we got lulled into a s a false sense of security that we were the home team cuz we were the home team for a long time.

We were the majority. We’re clearly not anymore. That doesn’t mean though that that can’t change again. Uh there are

have been things like revivals. There have been people like Billy Graham who you know many of you listening or watching I’m sure remember caused really

the the biggest revival probably in the history of the United States when he started less than half of Americans went to church and then by the time he was

done it was it was certainly a strong majority and it wasn’t just him you know there were a lot of people who worked with him a lot of other pastors God you

know deserves the m all the credit but at the end of the day I’m saying this if you’re listening look there is hope uh

God is moving. There are people out there doing great work. There are great uh things to explore. Uh and I’d also encourage those listening to get

involved to uh you know, what is God calling you to? You know, I too often I think as Christians, we think that well,

let me just, you know, go to church and I’ll just work my job and as long as I don’t kill or steal, I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing. No, you can

actively pray. You can get involved in what God’s called you to. It might involve taking risk, but kind of like you were talking about a few minutes ago, Gino, you kind of get to some point in your life where you say to yourself,

what do I want my life to be about? Yes.

You know, as a parent, you’ve got to provide for your children, but at some level, what’s the legacy you’re leaving behind? Where and and God’s very clear

about telling people, you know, you’re going to stand in front of God one day and account for the things you did with your life. And so, that’s something that all of us have to be thinking about.

you’ve touched on something and you’ve brought it forward for the world to see during a very precarious time. You know,

Grassroots Truth Cast and and these episodes. So, you’ll be featured uh 70% of our viewers are in the United States.

The remaining 20 30% are worldwide. Uh but of those 70% in the United States,

I’d say 80% of them are in the Southeast United States according to our numbers.

And uh so you get a more conservative draw in general uh from the southeast states of the United States and a

subscriber base that follows along as well. Although that’s being disrupted in a positive sense for us by a reach

that’s going worldwide. So as you what would you say to the world right now if

you’d like them to become part of your team? Yeah, I’d say if you’re if you’re listening and you want to be part of True Play, please, you know, go to the app store, download it, try it,

subscribe to it. You know, if for those listening, if you’re tired of awful toxic content, you know, woke agendas being pushed on your children when

they’re young, then come support something that’s doing something different. Come support something that’s standing with you, that was built for you by parents who are just like you.

We’re most of the people who work here are Christian parents and we care about children and we care about the society that we live in. Uh and we built

something that we that not just teaches Christian values but frankly that is built to be enjoyed and is enjoyed by a lot of parents and children all over the country. Secondly, follow us on socials.

Get involved. Um there’s further ways if you’d like to further support True Play, you can go on our website and and do that on the

support of the contact tabs. Uh, you can also write to your congressman, write to your senator, tell them, “We don’t want

AI systems, especially run by Google and Tik Tok, to block and centric Christians. We don’t want AI machines to

destroy the Christian worldview. We don’t want AI machines to destroy the very fabric of the American society that’s largely made this country work.”

So, those are different ways.

Yeah. Do you think Congress has the will to um impose those uh restrictions?

Here’s what I’ll say. I’ve met with some people with some senators and congressmen who I was impressed by. I’ve met with some of their staff as well,

many of whom were very, very strong Christians. And I was pleasantly surprised by that. I’ll just tell you if you’re listening that that I would I’ve been pleasantly surprised by some of the

people that I’ve met in Washington DC and the the strength of their faith. So,

look, I’m hopeful that Congress will take action. I’m hopeful that this is something that people can get behind. I frankly feel like this is a pretty unifying issue. You know, if you’re if

you’re American, you don’t want to live in communist China. You don’t want to live in a version of the Soviet Union.

You don’t want to live in the situation outlined in the Terminator movies where the the machines come to kill you.

Nobody wants that, right? So whether you have a Christian faith or you have any faith or maybe if you’re agnostic and you just feel like, hey, I kind of agree

with values that human life should be respected and people should be able to speak, then that means you should be on our team. That means that you don’t want

AI to control and manipulate and silence and destroy. And that’s what the stakes are right now. Gene,

your cause is so uh pure and so good. But it’s more than an app, isn’t it?

It’s more of a of a movement of uh focusing on um ethics and morals and

Christian faith and good behavior and um what I would call the disciplines of a of a good life, an entrepreneurial life.

I don’t see this as being a compromise to any uh free speech or any um uh behavior. Uh it certainly wouldn’t be

appreciated by socialistic Marx Marxist governances where they need to control the messaging. Uh in this case,

yeah, but almost nothing good is ever appreciated by them anyway. So that’s not really a loss. And their track record proves it.

Yes. Exactly. Yeah. You you have an ex a failure rate internationally of exactly 100%. which is you know that’s funny because you were you were talking about

my experience at Harvard and so I had a lot of professors who had espoused communism and then when somebody would eventually

somebody raise their hand and say yeah but what about you know Russia when it failed and killed all these people the Soviet Union what about communist China and you know chairman Mao killed more

people than Hitler or Stalin everybody realizes that but the two biggest mass murders of the 20th century were communists Stalin and and and uh Mao uh

well what about you you know, this this country, you know,

what about how bad Cuba is versus when they, you know, before the revolution? And essentially the response is, yeah,

yeah, but they did it the wrong way. I mean, it’s like, how many times do you get to have a failed state and kind of

wave your hands and say they just didn’t do it the right way? It’s very simple.

And Sultaniten said this, he was the one who exposed all the evils going on in the Soviet Union first. When you remove God out of the equation, everything else

eventually gets destroyed. And that’s why we do what we do at True Play,

right? If you take God out of entertainment, if you take God out of the conversation, if you take God out of social media, you wind up with anxiety,

suicide, depression rates at all time highs for kids, you wind up with child children getting exposed to porn, you wind up with, you know, satanic content

and imagery and the destruction of human life and sanity. Because when we turn away from God, that’s the only road you can go down.

You you bingo. You hit the nail on the head, which is where I hope you were going. And now in the last few minutes,

uh Brent, give us where True Play is now and where you want it to be.

Yeah, so with True Play, we’re building new stuff all the time. We’re excited. We’re we’re growing. As I said, we’re,

you know, Meta’s been fine for us. We’re advertising on some other gaming platforms. Um we’re building new content. We have a lot of cool stuff

coming out. We have a new game coming out called True Play Trains where you can uh do a do a train battle uh with using some of our characters in kind of

a fun way, fun, exciting way. We have um other games coming out uh that we’ll be building later. We have new video

content uh some things in the works we haven’t announced yet that we’re really really excited about. We’re going to continue to make great content that’s

fun, that’s beautiful, that contains God’s truth, and more and more entertainment options. If you’re listening for you and your family,

I saw a message somewhere on one of your links indicating you’re also looking to hire some good talent. Is that still true? Are you busy?

Yeah, you’ve done your homework. Yes, we are. We do have some some job openings.

And uh so yeah, if you think you’re qualified, take a look at us on uh take a look at our website or on on LinkedIn and check it out.

Yeah. Trueplay. We’ve got We’re at the end of our time. Throw out your links again, Brent, so they people can subscribe.

Go to trueplayames.com. Traya Y, drop the e. Trueplaygames.com. Go to our app store. Go to the app store and just look

for Trueplay or go to our website or go to the Google app, the Google Play Store. Uh, you can also follow us on socials on Meta,

Instagram, and uh, Twitter. Okay, I want to pump this up now. So,

there’s nothing greater than watching mom and dad sip a cup of coffee when uh the kids are enjoying their episode on True Play. I’ll throw you a mug from the

Grassroots Truthcast podcast. I’ll ship it out to you if I get your address. You can do it by coming directly to me and subscribing on grassroots.com or as Brent just said, go to his site.

Let them know you’re interested in the messaging section uh and express your interest in True Play. Um,

this is a constitutional republic and it means something unlike the rest of the world. It means from the bottom up, from

the grassroots up. The governance is from we the people, not from the select few at the top trickling down. That’s

what makes us different from the rest of the world. And True Play’s success in this environment is testimony to the

fact that we must carry the torch to continue this decency that the world yearns for. Get on Trueplay and

subscribe. Do it with them directly or come through me at genevalentino.com. Grassrootscast.com.

Brent, a final closing comment. Yeah, look, great to be with you today.

If you’re listening, uh, check out True Play. We built it. We’re parents. We’re Christians just like you. We built it for you to stand alongside you because

like you, we’re tired of evil encroaching upon our children. And uh,

we’ve seen so many parents and children with their lives changed and having fun.

We hope it’s something that you’ll consider. Thank you for joining me today, Brent.

Uh, this has been a real great time. And thank you ladies and gentlemen for joining all of us on another episode of Gene Valentino’s Grassroots Truth Cast.

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