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Elon Musk's Flying Car Has Glenn Speechless | Guests: Ryan Walters & Brad Meltzer | 10/16/26

The Glenn Beck Program

October 16, 2026

Glenn monologues on how banks are quietly denying services to customers who hold "controversial" political beliefs, labeling them "reputational risks.

Speakers Glenn Beck, Ricky, Trent McCotter, John Solomon, Ryan Walters, Brad Meltzer, Michaela

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Glenn Beck (0:00)

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It's Friday. Welcome. Glad you're here. We got a lot to talk about today. We've got some breaking news. We have the Deputy Attorney General on in just a little while. He's going to talk about what's happening in Florida. It's an exclusive, Why the DOJ is suing California over non-citizens on their voter rolls. That's coming up. You won't hear that anyplace else. Something else you won't hear anyplace else. Yesterday an update on what I told you about yesterday, about the wonderful, wonderful banking system and our federal government and how they have been tracking people. I have an update on that and a serious one. So we got that coming up. Don't miss that. We'll do that here in just a second. And I want to start with, I think the future is here. The future is now. When I was growing up, we were promised a few things. We were promised fat pills and flying cars.

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All righty. So yesterday, I told you what the banks were doing. Yesterday, I told you that the DOJ had released some information that looks like the banks were targeting people through the federal regulators. They were targeting people that were you know, buying MAGA hats, red MAGA hats. You bought a MAGA hat, you were on a list with the federal government and you could lose your bank account. They were tracking about 700,000 people in America.

It is the worst abuse of the Constitution I have ever seen in my lifetime. And I told you this is not something that you should care about as a conservative or a liberal or an independent. You should care about this because you're an American. This has got to stop because it will fall into somebody's hands, either the left or the right or the middle. It doesn't matter. Somebody who is craven for power, if this is not punished, we lose our republic and we lose it quickly. So yesterday I told you that I have a friend, a banker friend who is a vice president with US Bank. And I called him and I got an email back from him right away. And I didn't have a chance because I was in recording all day yesterday until about six o'clock last night. And so I didn't get a chance to talk to him. I'm going to hopefully talk to him today. I'll have more hopefully on Monday. But Ricky spoke to him and went back and forth in the email. And he said, look, consumer, this is on background. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for decades has reached out to the banks when they're investigating crimes. This happens throughout the years hundreds of times. They warned them subpoena records and let them know that they need to stop activity or they will be fined. 2025, they were doing this with conservative groups but interspersed with hundreds of other times that they reached out. Banks were not aware conservative groups were being targeted. They thought this was business as usual. In those instances, banks are told under the investigation for financial crimes. Publicized regulatory agencies using the power of government to enforce their beliefs. Banks would never be given details of the alleged crimes. But these were happening along with hundreds of other legit ones.

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