Ladies and gentlemen, the following segment of the podcast is presented exclusively by Hillsdale College.

For over 175 years, four purposes have defined Hillsdale's mission, learning character, faith and freedom.

Thank you for listening and my sincere appreciation to our brothers and sisters at Hillsdale for their great sponsorship.

This is Hillsdale. Now broadcasting from the underground command post deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-distrib building.

We've once again made contact with our leader, Mike. Love them.

So Joe Biden's up for pairs with COVID. Seems like this virus is shutting down Biden instead of vice versa.

Good old Andrew McKayden, he says some supporters who treated like domestic terrorists as if the MAGA movement were an Islamist caliphate.

And the CDC says that COVID isn't as deadly as they said it was, but being fat and unhealthy is as deadly as they said it was.

Plus, there's a pilot that's being chastised for not having the right decorum or the right emblem on his luggage tag.

And of course it said, let's go Brandon and we're going to get into that stuff. But first, I want to get into what Mark Levin had to say because he's got a bone to pick what United Airlines for delaying his flight to the bunker this afternoon.

Mark is fine and he asked me to hold down the fort. What's up America? I am Rich Val Des Valdes with an S. Some of you guys know me as Mr. Call screener. Some of you guys have seen me on Newsmax.

And many of you, hopefully, are subscribed to my podcast. This is America with Rich Valdes. You guys might hear me on talk radio. It's my pleasure to be with you guys tonight.

The phone number 877-3813811-8773813811 and relationships. I want to talk about relationships and a lot of things. But in particular relationships because they require compromise. Right.

Imagine telling your wife, you must do what I say. And that's it. My way or the highway. How do you think that would work out for you? Exactly. Right.

For some of you are saying that's exactly what I do every day, Rich. And others are you saying, man, that wouldn't work out too good. But compromise is a constant in relationships and America and our government and the relationships we have are no different.

But being uncompromising on certain non-negotiables is critical. For example, the notion of destroying America to build her back better. What do you say to that? I could tell you what I say to that. I say, hey, no.

That's a non-negotiable. We don't destroy that which we love. And this is something that I posted on social media last week because I hear too much of the chatter from so many people that say, no, we got to bring it all down. Bring it all down from economic systems to this to that to government systems.

They want to destroy everything to build it back as if that's a possibility. And I don't think that it is. And what I put on Twitter was one does not destroy something that they love. We cannot destroy America so that we can rebuild her better.

We must protect and defend the United States. From every last enemy that wants to destroy her. We have to plug the holes in the sink and ship.

You don't sink the ship and try to rebuild it. You see, the Democrat party seems to be growing. I mean, I don't know. What do you think is the Democrat party growing?

Or is it just the pro crime progressive movement within the party that's growing? My point exactly.

You see, the radicals on the left, they're taken over the once cooler heads that used to prevail in government where compromise was actually a thing. And people governed with America's best interest in the forefront.

...