Someone called in the other day and said he owns a strip club, but he's willing to get out of the business. Let's help, Greg! And lest we get on our high horse because we don't own a strip club, we should all be like the people outside of Simon's house asking for Jesus' help.
Welcome to Politics by Faith. It's where we take the news of the day, we bring it to the Bible, so we can walk away with peace and perspective. New headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says it's not the new end of the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. The story of the day today, a call for help. At the end of my SiriusXM radio show on Friday, at the very end, last phone call, the segment before that, we were talking about rap music. And now, for the first time since 1990 no rap song is in the Billboard top 40.
And I just talked about that. It's great. Now, it's not that the other 40 songs are good. It's not like the Lawrence Welk Orchestra is knocking out the number one hits. Sorry, it's all trash. But at least rap's not in the top right. But I made the point that the peak of rap's popularity was only 30 market share. Usually, rap's like 20 25 market share. And there's just an impression that everyone's supposed to love it. Like, everyone does love rap and we're all supposed to love it. And no one likes it. So, I think we can stop pretending to like it. That was like a throwaway point at the end of the show, whatever. And some people called and they talked about rap music's changed. Like, oh, it used to be good in the 80s and now it's worse. You're like, okay. So, we had a couple of calls.
But some guy called in, Greg, in Michigan, Detroit. He said, Slater, let me tell you how bad rap music has become. He said, I own a strip club and the rap music today is so degenerate. That's the word he used, degenerate. I won't even play. It's so, rap music is so degenerate. I won't play it at my strip club. Is it sometimes? I strip club. He said, sometimes a song will slip through. Someone will pay 100 to the DJ and some modern rap song will pop through. He said, everyone sings along to it. He said, it's awful.
So we talked about rap music for a little bit. I said, now, Greg, hold on. You said something a moment ago. You own a what? And he shared a story. He said he's felt a pull really ever since he got into the business. That pull. I said, what do you mean a pull? You felt a pull. He's like, I, you know, the morality of it. I said, that's your conscience. People can sear their conscience. You should listen to it. He said he's a Christian. He said, You got to make money somehow. And he also said, We have free. I want to get back to that free will part in a minute. And then he went on in his rationalization and said, I protect these girls. I'm sort of a fatherlike figure and I'm a security and I'm sort of like a boyfriend. " I said, and pimp."
And he just, he went through like all these different excuses for how he's, how it's okay that he's in this industry. But I was encouraged By Greg because you could tell he still knew it was wrong. He said he has bad knees, owning a strip club is easier than he was a plumber for a long time. Bad knees, bad back or something. And I encouraged him that maybe he should do something else. And would you do something else if something else were available? And he said something like, I've been wanting to get out of the industry.
" Something like that. It was a call for help. Now I'm issuing a call for help. I bring this story up for two reasons. First, if you own a company or know of a company in the Detroit area and we can give Greg in Detroit an option and get him out of the strip club, how incredible would that be? Now. I challenge Greg with this. Not only will you be leaving the strip club, which is good for you, but you are in this unique position to be able to speak to the women, to rescue them out of what they're doing. I can speak about the whole thing from my high horse up here, but Greg, you know these people. You intimately know them. You know their names. You also know the places, you know the other owners, you know the girls. You can speak to them in a language that they understand, and you can rescue them. You can really help them. I'm not in a position to help these girls, but you are. Especially the ones that know you and trust you. But then also, after you rescue them, just girls.
Young women in the industry in general, you know what makes the whole thing tick and work and all. You can help people in such an incredible way. He says, Well, the money's good. So I asked him, I had to go. It was the end of the show. And I said, Greg, if you're interested. Send me an email. He did. He wrote me right away. And then I asked him back. I said, Greg, what are you making? What do you need to make in order for you to leave comfortably? He says, He makes just over 100000 a year. He's a plumber and he has a bachelor's degree. He's making pretty good money where he is. And Jesus said. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Greg is in a position to save souls he really can. He's the man to do it. Just need some help. If you're in the Detroit area and you can maybe help Greg out with a job or an opportunity, my personal email is slaterradiogmailcom Slaterradiogmailcom and if all of us.
The second reason I want to bring this up, if all of us can please pray for Greg in Michigan. And I pray that he makes a hard choice. That's not a hard choice. It's a monumental choice and acts on it. He says he's a Christian. So I pray the Holy Spirit speaks to him loudly and he can take these steps. And then I pray that he has zero regrets and instead feels this relief. I want Greg to, I would just love for there to be an opportunity. Someone listening now is like, oh, yeah, like I'll give Greg. I'll. Interview Greg, right? And then Greg's great. So we take on Greg, Greg leaves, and then he can help these girls. But the moment Leaves, I want him to feel this joy, this relief and this joy, like, Oh, I can finally, I'm doing what I know I should be doing."
And then I can go glorify God by spreading the word in a very dark place, a place that he used to spend a lot of time in. So if you could pray, again, you may be like, I'm in Alabama or whatever, I can't help Greg. " You can, if you can pray for Greg in Detroit, that would be amazing. And if you're in Detroit and you can help Greg, I got a lot of emails from people after that show, after that, who heard that. And they're like, oh man, it was moving for me and a lot of other people. We just need one person. One person to be in a position to help Greg do the right thing. It can be hard to do the right thing, but it is easier when people come alongside and help. My wife and I, to be personal here, my wife and I, when we were engaged We were living together. And we were going to this church.
And they confronted us on it. And it was as loving as it could possibly be done. I wasn't a Christian. I wasn't baptized at the time. I was studying the Bible. So I was studying the Bible with these men. So I remember the night, they're like, hey, come over and we'll study the Bible. And then my wife went with some women. And I went with some men. And the men were just ran through the scripture about living together. I forgot exactly the scriptures they used, but I remember being fully convicted and giving a lot of excuses, plenty of excuses, right? Oh, it's expensive, whatever, all the excuses people, but just couldn't deny the word of God anymore. I remember I jokingly, what's the right word? It was jokingly. But it was also like exhaustively frustrating. I don't know the right word, but I threw my pencil at. Guillermo. Guillermo was the leader of the church. I threw it at him as if to say, Well, I'm out. I got no other. I didn't throw it. I want to be clear. I didn't throw it at him. I was like, all right. Well.
