Speaker 1: Q and On is the world's largest online political conspiracy movement.
Speaker 1: Followers believe someone code named Q is provided them with
Speaker 1: secret information from inside the White House. No one really
Speaker 1: knows the real identity of Q, though we aim to
Speaker 1: change that. I'm Jake Hanrahan and this is Q Clearance
Speaker 1: podcast series aimed unmasking the true identity of Q. This
Speaker 1: is brought to you by i R Radio QU Data Media.
Speaker 1: In this episode, will be taking a look at the
Speaker 1: infamous Watkins family and their deep connections to Q and On. First, though,
Speaker 1: I want to take a look at some recent Q drops.
Speaker 1: These ones are specifically relevant, I think, as they come
Speaker 1: at a point of huge post election turmoil within the
Speaker 1: Q and on community. As we mentioned in the last episode,
Speaker 1: So after nine days of silence in which Q and
Speaker 1: on has made up new theories, lost faith, and turn
Speaker 1: up to a voting center with a rifle, Q posted
Speaker 1: his first post Biden victory drops on November twelve. The
Speaker 1: first was just a graphic of an American flag and
Speaker 1: the message nothing can stop what is coming nothing Q.
Speaker 1: The second was a little bit more detailed, though it
Speaker 1: reads as so quote, shall we play a game? Nothing
Speaker 1: can stop what is coming, and then he's showing the
Speaker 1: abbreviation of ncs W I C means nothing can stop
Speaker 1: what's coming. There's a link to the CSA dot gov website,
Speaker 1: and then he says who stepped down today? Forced he's
Speaker 1: referring to Brian s where there's a link to the
Speaker 1: CISA website. There then he says more coming. Why is
Speaker 1: this relevant? How do you show the public the truth?
Speaker 1: How do you safeguard U S elections post potus? How
Speaker 1: do you remove foreign interference and corruption and install US
Speaker 1: owned voter I D laws and other safeguards. It had
Speaker 1: to be this way. Sometimes you must walk through the
Speaker 1: darkness before you see the light. Q end quote. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go into what all of this
Speaker 1: is alluding to, because frankly, it's just a waste of time.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of nonsense as usual. But basically Q
Speaker 1: is now trying to form a new narrative that this
Speaker 1: was all part of the plan Biden was meant to
Speaker 1: win and everything is going smoothly. He's basically mirroring what
Speaker 1: the most hardcore Q supporters have been saying in the
Speaker 1: nine days of silence before these drops on November there
Speaker 1: was another drop that simply read Durham. Q. Durham presumably
Speaker 1: refers to a Justice Department lawyer named John Durham mcguy
Speaker 1: with a big kind of niets a look in mustache.
Speaker 1: He's been looking into possible corruption within the Clinton Foundation.
Speaker 1: Now I'm guessing here that Q is trying to insinuate
Speaker 1: that Durham will be investigating the election results or something.
Speaker 1: But at this point it all feels like whoever is
Speaker 1: behind Q and On is just playing for time. To me,
Speaker 1: it feels like they don't quite know what their next
Speaker 1: move is. As I said in the previous episode, everyone
Speaker 1: in the Q and On the universe was sure Trump
Speaker 1: would win the election. Now it's Biden. Q can't exactly
Speaker 1: keep the hopes going for four more years, so I
Speaker 1: think he's not quite sure what to do. This brings
Speaker 1: us back to the Watkins family, the people currently running
Speaker 1: eight con where Q posts all his drops. As you'll
Speaker 1: probably remember, the Watkins name has cropped up a lot
Speaker 1: in the last five episodes of Q Clearance. I've resisted
Speaker 1: diving straight into who they are so we could set
Speaker 1: the seed and get a grip on the Q and
Speaker 1: On extended universe. Now, though, it's time to look into
Speaker 1: who this family actually is. To do this, we have
Speaker 1: to start with Jim Watkins. Like I said, he's the
Speaker 1: current owner of a Kun and the former owner of
Speaker 1: a Chan before it was shut down. As we mentioned,
Speaker 1: h N was eventually pulled offline by its service providers,
Speaker 1: at which point Jim Watkins and his son Ron Watkins
Speaker 1: started Akun, which is essentially a clone of h H
Speaker 1: and Akun became and is currently still the place where
Speaker 1: Q posts his drops. Just want to repeat that as
Speaker 1: there are a lot of strange names going about, just
Speaker 1: to help you remember what's going on now. I've tried
Speaker 1: many times to reach out to the Watkins family. They
Speaker 1: ignored me each time until recently. I waited for Jim
Speaker 1: Watkins to go on a live stream on his YouTube
Speaker 1: channel where he reads out messages from the Bible and
Speaker 1: speaks about right wing US politics, all of that strange guy.
Speaker 1: I asked him that he come on and speak to
Speaker 1: us hit at Q Clearance because I have a lot
Speaker 1: to ask him about his role within Q and on. Finally,
Speaker 1: on this YouTube live stream, he replied telling me that
Speaker 1: he doesn't speak to people at Viace News. I haven't
Speaker 1: worked for Virus News for three years, and I'm quite
Speaker 1: sure that he knows that I am an independent journalist
Speaker 1: running my own platform, Popular Front. I explained this to Jim,
Speaker 1: but he ignored me, and within about two minutes of
Speaker 1: this exchange between me and Jim, he ended his live
Speaker 1: stream on his YouTube channel. I guess he just doesn't
Speaker 1: want to talk. Anyway, We'll look into it from the
Speaker 1: perspective of doing the research without even speaking to him.
Speaker 1: We tried to give him a go, he didn't want
Speaker 1: to speak tough. Look, so who is Jim Watkins. I'll
Speaker 1: be answering this question using research which I gathered from
Speaker 1: work by many different writers and journalists, including Travis Review,
Speaker 1: Rachel E. Greenspan, Jovis Littleton, Ethan Chill, and many more.
Speaker 1: Be sure to do your own research after this. If
Speaker 1: you're still interested, I suggest checking out the work of
Speaker 1: those people I mentioned. Anyway, let's begin, believe it or not.
Speaker 1: Jim Watkins is a fifty seven year old pig farmer
Speaker 1: who currently lives in the Philippines. He looks after the
Speaker 1: pigs whilst running a coun with his son, Ron Watkins,
Speaker 1: better known online by his moniker code Monkey. Ron recently
Speaker 1: claimed to have quit a coun on November three, But
Speaker 1: we'll get more into Roun later. So Jim Jim Watkins.
Speaker 1: He was born in ninety three and grew up mostly
Speaker 1: in Washington State. Aged eighteen, he joined the US Army
Speaker 1: as a helicopter mechanic. Later he'd become a recruiter and
Speaker 1: was eventually sent by the Army to Virginia to learn
Speaker 1: computing in nine seven. This started a life online for
Speaker 1: Jim Watkins. While still in the Army, he'd go on
Speaker 1: to launch some of the first porn websites. One now
Speaker 1: defunct site that he still owns the domain for was
Speaker 1: the Asian Bikini Bar. Jim began making money online via
Speaker 1: pawn He left the Army in to seize his opportunity
Speaker 1: amidst the boom of the dot com bubble that of
Speaker 1: course burst, which led Jim to relocate to the Philippines
Speaker 1: in two thousand and one. According to immigration records there,
Speaker 1: the Philippines is a place that's cheap to live, but
Speaker 1: also has a well established seed year side that would
Speaker 1: accommodate Jim's well documented over obsession with sex. This is
Speaker 1: something Frederick Brennan, the former founder of h N noticed
Speaker 1: a lot when he met Jim and began working for him.
Speaker 1: When I was in the Philippines working with Watkins, I
Speaker 1: have never in my life before or since, met a
Speaker 1: man who has a higher sex drive, never like he.
Speaker 1: It is just on his mind every every frigging minute.
Speaker 1: He cannot he can't help himself. And not only that,
Speaker 1: I've never met a man who sheets on their wives
Speaker 1: and doesn't feel bad about it and gets mad if
Speaker 1: their wife even complains about it. We mentioned it in
Speaker 1: a previous episode, But Frederick Brennan met Jim Watkins because
Speaker 1: Watkins made a move to take over h N in October.
Speaker 1: This is when the Watkins family really began to become
Speaker 1: known on the darkest parts of the Internet. Now, Brennan
Speaker 1: was struggling with the server costs of running the increasingly
Speaker 1: popular h and so Jim Watkins began to take over
Speaker 1: after his programmer's son, Ron Watkins, apparently brought the site
Speaker 1: to his attention. Brennan explains, had the Watkins is not
Speaker 1: swooped in and started hosting it, that would have been it.
Speaker 1: It would not have even made it into I would
Speaker 1: have moved on UH for sure, because I didn't have
Speaker 1: the money to keep this going, and not really even
Speaker 1: the will to keep it going, you know. So. But
Speaker 1: Ron Watkins contacts me in September and he basically very
Speaker 1: hypes up his association with two Channel. To Channel is
Speaker 1: a legendary site amongst image board enthusiasts. It was one
Speaker 1: of the most popular text boards founded in nine Now.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go too deeply into it, as
Speaker 1: it moves away from what we're looking at too much,
Speaker 1: but there are some very credible allegations that the Watkins
Speaker 1: family stole two Channel away from its owner after effectively
Speaker 1: cunning him out of it. As you can probably tell
Speaker 1: by now, Jim Watkins is by all accounts a particularly
Speaker 1: seedy individual. Whilst HM was at the height of its
Speaker 1: popularity when Q and on really began to emerge as
Speaker 1: a big deal, images of child abuse were allowed to
Speaker 1: be freely shared on h N. Neither Jim Watkins nor
Speaker 1: Ron Watkins chose to ban such horrific material. They claim
Speaker 1: to be free speech absolutists. Somehow, they think that means
Speaker 1: it would be against their morals to stop pedophiles abusing
Speaker 1: children and organizing via their web site. It's sickening and
Speaker 1: it's nonsensical. Their claims of being a free speech absolutists
Speaker 1: don't line up with their far right political beliefs either.
Speaker 1: Well they actually believe in is essentially we can say
Speaker 1: whatever we want, but you can't if it deviates from
Speaker 1: our ideas. Now, I'm not advocating for censorship. I am
Speaker 1: anti censorship, and I am very much in favor of
Speaker 1: free speech. And I do not like people that say, oh,
Speaker 1: free speech is just a code word for right wing
Speaker 1: populism or whatever it is people say now. But the
Speaker 1: idea that being a free speech absolutist means you allow
Speaker 1: people to be victimized and abused on your website is absolute, complete,
Speaker 1: fucking nonsense. This is not what it's about. The Watkins
Speaker 1: just want to steamroll people with their ideas and say
Speaker 1: whatever they want, whenever they want. This is most apparent
Speaker 1: with something called the gold Water that was Jim Watkins
Speaker 1: has failed. At Trump obsessed online talk show that posed
Speaker 1: as kind of right wing news media alternative news, Jim
Speaker 1: would spread conspiracy theories and populist right wing talking points
Speaker 1: with no evidence whatsoever, very similar to what Q was
Speaker 1: putting out at the time, and he's still doing now.
Speaker 1: Jim's undying sycophantic love for Trump was apparent for everyone
Speaker 1: to see any time you would watch the Gold War.
Speaker 1: Have a listened to this clip of Watkins talking about
Speaker 1: Trump from a video titled Hardline. God Bless the President
Speaker 1: that was published July. We have to see more and
Speaker 1: more of the president in the wild where he is
Speaker 1: actually changing lives and literally spreading love. Can't you see
Speaker 1: that his love for our country is overflowing. It's up
Speaker 1: spending his golden years enjoying the fruits of what he
Speaker 1: planted through his life. He is spending his fortune and
Speaker 1: quite honestly, we all know the last few years of
Speaker 1: his good health helping you and I keep our country great.
Speaker 1: This is real patriotism. It is genuine love of our country.
Speaker 1: The news is disreputable. This is why we need to
Speaker 1: have more of the President speaking and doing and just
Speaker 1: being lovable American guy. We all enjoy. God Bless our
Speaker 1: President in the United States of America. Right. I know
Speaker 1: it might sound like Jim is taking the piss there,
Speaker 1: but he isn't. That's just how he sounds when reading
Speaker 1: off of a script. It sounds like he's mocking someone
Speaker 1: It sounds very creepy, but that's just the way he sounds.
Speaker 1: Jim Watkins openly idolizes Trump. If you ask me, his
Speaker 1: language also sounds a lot like someone else who idolizes Trump. Q.
Speaker 1: We know for a fact that Jim Watkins is a
Speaker 1: Q and ON follower himself. It's no secret. I mean,
Speaker 1: even if you just click on the only website listed
Speaker 1: on Jim's YouTube page where you'll find many of these
Speaker 1: strange MAGA videos, it takes you to a website called
Speaker 1: is It Wet Yet, where he promotes Q and on
Speaker 1: websites amongst them are the following US, the que Patriots
Speaker 1: United Disarmed, the Deep State Q. The more you know,
Speaker 1: and JFK Jr. Is Alive, which that is one of
Speaker 1: the more wackier Q and on conspiracies where they think
Speaker 1: JFK Jr. Is alive, He's coming back. He's on the
Speaker 1: side of Q. It's all very crazy, but anyway, Jim
Speaker 1: clearly has a fascination with Q. This is also something
Speaker 1: Frederick Brennan witnessed himself firsthand when he went to work
Speaker 1: with Jim in the Philippines after Jim brought out now
Speaker 1: when Ron Watkins told Frederick Brennan that they would take
Speaker 1: over the servers. Jim Watkins got involved and said that
Speaker 1: they wanted Frederick to work with them, not just from
Speaker 1: New York, where fred Brennan was living in very hard
Speaker 1: circumstances because he has quite a serious disability, but they
Speaker 1: wanted to fly him all the way over to the
Speaker 1: Philippines that would look after him. This is exactly what
Speaker 1: they did, Frederick Brennan explains, So he offered hosting, that
Speaker 1: was the first thing, and I accepted that. So I
Speaker 1: moved the server, like all the contents to their host.
Speaker 1: And then after that, his dad offered for me to
Speaker 1: actually come to the Philippines. And they said basically they
Speaker 1: would roll out the red carpet, they would find me
Speaker 1: a place to live, they would pay a nurse to
Speaker 1: take care of me all the time. I could just
Speaker 1: work on h n all the time and it would
Speaker 1: be a sixty forty split a future profits. That was
Speaker 1: the deal. I mean, it sounded good to me. I
Speaker 1: had a really hard life in New York City. You know.
Speaker 1: Um my condition is osteogenesis and perfecta. I've had it
Speaker 1: since I was born. Uh clauses brittle bones. I've broken
Speaker 1: in my lifetime over a hundred ten bones or something
Speaker 1: like that. Just obviously the same one again and again mostly,
Speaker 1: but so I got emailed by them first they took
Speaker 1: over the hosting. Uh. They knew that my situation was
Speaker 1: kind of tough and that I couldn't do a lot anyway.
Speaker 1: Jim Watkins met me in Hong Kong and brought me
Speaker 1: to Manila on the last leg of the flight. My
Speaker 1: life was all different now, and I just worked on
Speaker 1: h N all the time. After a while working with
Speaker 1: Ron and Jim Watkins, Frederick Brennan began to realize that
Speaker 1: Jim was fully involved with Q. He says he thought
Speaker 1: he was going senile because he believed in these wild
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories. All of us it. And if you look
Speaker 1: at the days, the times add up at this time
Speaker 1: it would have been when I think Paul Ferber was
Speaker 1: controlling the Q. And on account I've listened to what
Speaker 1: Frederick Brennan has to say. The thing that I regret
Speaker 1: the most is not caring about Q when I worked there,
Speaker 1: like even when I resigned in December eighteen, I did
Speaker 1: not care necessarily about Q, like even enough to read
Speaker 1: the drops, you know, the only thing that made me
Speaker 1: start to care a little bit was I I became
Speaker 1: concerned because I thought Jim was going senile and kind
Speaker 1: of believing in it. The way Jim was talking at
Speaker 1: that time, he was already repeating a lot of q slogans,
Speaker 1: you know, and talking about the Clinton body count and
Speaker 1: how there could be mass arrests, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I was very concerned he was losing his marbles
Speaker 1: and being taken for a ride by these chan users,
Speaker 1: you know, because he was spending way too much time
Speaker 1: on H and two. This point, Frederick Brennan came up
Speaker 1: with a kind of pray where he had this big
Speaker 1: blue queue and he put it on the h and
Speaker 1: basically to try and prove to Jim that it wasn't
Speaker 1: all real. This is when Jim turned around and said
Speaker 1: the following. He kind of just flippantly was like, this
Speaker 1: represents so many users essentially, and it might not be real. Okay,
Speaker 1: fred you proved that. But it behooves me to take
Speaker 1: advantage of the fact that I'm CUES publisher. You know,
Speaker 1: I think that the super Pact plan was already in
Speaker 1: the making, even all the way in. I think I
Speaker 1: think that Q started on four Chune, Paul Ferber stole it,
Speaker 1: brought over to HUM and they very consciously either realized
Speaker 1: that this represented a lot of users, and just like
Speaker 1: they've done to two Channel, they decided to appropriate it
Speaker 1: as well. Yes, you did hear that right. Frederick Brennan,
Speaker 1: the creator of h CHAN, who worked physically alongside the
Speaker 1: Watkins family for years, thinks that Q and On is
Speaker 1: now under the control of Jim and Ron Watkins and
Speaker 1: has been since Paul Ferber had his Q and On
Speaker 1: account hijacked from him on h N shortly after he
Speaker 1: crossed over from Fortune. It's not just Frederick Brennan who
Speaker 1: thinks this either. I think this as the many Q
Speaker 1: and On researchers. To be clear, Jim and Ron Watkins
Speaker 1: are very likely behind the Q and On hoax. There
Speaker 1: will be a lot more on this in the next episode.
Speaker 1: But to end this one, I want to talk about
Speaker 1: something very interesting the crop Top online only this week
Speaker 1: in regards to Ron Watkins and his connections to Q
Speaker 1: and On. Remember earlier I said that Ron announced that
Speaker 1: he'd quit a coun on November three. He said this
Speaker 1: in a statement on Twitter. It reads as so quote,
Speaker 1: I am resigning as admin of eight coun effective immediately.
Speaker 1: Extensive battles have been fought tooth and nail during a
Speaker 1: self imposed civic duty protecting the final fortifications of online
Speaker 1: free speech. Guardedly navigating these tumultuous times, today, I bring
Speaker 1: ship to Doc Farewell. End quote. Interestingly, the formatting of
Speaker 1: this tweet is quite similar to the way that Q
Speaker 1: puts his stuff out. There are a lot of line
Speaker 1: breaks right in the middle of sentences. I think that's
Speaker 1: quite interesting. Anyway. On November this is when things went
Speaker 1: a bit mad. A verified account claiming to be Ron
Speaker 1: Watkins on that new no rules social media website Parla
Speaker 1: posted the following message quote, I'm burnt, can't say much more.
Speaker 1: Meet me on a con in two hours on the
Speaker 1: board Slash news plus Slash Yes Jim has posted as
Speaker 1: cube before fuck you Dad. End quote. Now. Of course,
Speaker 1: all this seemed like a bit of a smoking gun.
Speaker 1: The account on Parlor was verified after all. However, Ron
Speaker 1: quickly hopped on Twitter to say the following quote, I
Speaker 1: have seen screenshots of someone impersonating me on your Parlor website,
Speaker 1: he was adding the creator of Parlor, I have never
Speaker 1: used Parlor I don't have a Parlor account. I have
Speaker 1: never submitted any identification to Parlor. I have never asked
Speaker 1: to be verified on Parlor. What's going on? End quote.
Speaker 1: He also attached an image of an email to Parlor
Speaker 1: that said this quote, Hello Parlor, I am Ron Watkins
Speaker 1: at code Monkey's head on Twitter. I don't have a
Speaker 1: part her account and have never used parlor. Why is
Speaker 1: there an apt code monkeys that account on parlor posting
Speaker 1: as me that is verified. I have never submitted any
Speaker 1: identification to you, and I don't even have an account
Speaker 1: on Parlor. Thanks, Ron Watkins end quote. The email, for
Speaker 1: some reason I just read off appears to be a
Speaker 1: draft as opposed to an email that has been sent.
Speaker 1: Make of that what you will. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's relevant. It's just something people online have been pointing
Speaker 1: out when discussing this situation. After Ron refuted to claim
Speaker 1: that it was him on the Parlor account, Fred Brennan
Speaker 1: posted the following tweet quote. The Ron Watkins Parlor account
Speaker 1: Code Monkeys was registered on July one. Shortly before that
Speaker 1: Ron mentioned Parlor for the first time. I guess he
Speaker 1: reconsidered this is strong evidence the account is his and
Speaker 1: he's lying about a hacker. End quote. The accompanied screenshot
Speaker 1: that Frederick Brennan is referring to. That tweet was a
Speaker 1: tweet of Runs sent on July six, and it reads
Speaker 1: as so this is what Ron wrote on Twitter. Quote.
Speaker 1: I dislike how parlor set up all content behind the
Speaker 1: registration wall and require a phone number to register. It's
Speaker 1: a hard pass for me right now, but let's see
Speaker 1: where they are in a few months. I might reconsider
Speaker 1: end quote. Now, I disagree with Brennan that this is
Speaker 1: strong evidence of any kind. I don't know if the
Speaker 1: parlor account was run or not. Apparently it's not hard
Speaker 1: for verified parlor accounts to change their name and handle. However,
Speaker 1: I do think this is all very interesting in regards
Speaker 1: to the timing of it. Run Quit eight coun has
Speaker 1: allegedly had to flee the Philippines and then this parlor
Speaker 1: incident happened. If it is someone impersonating Ron, I think
Speaker 1: it's also deeply ironic. Considering like I said, I think
Speaker 1: he's part of the Q and On hoax. There are
Speaker 1: many dots to connect here. In the next episode of
Speaker 1: Q Clearance will begin peacing together the huge online coincidences
Speaker 1: that further connect the Watkins to Q and On, including
Speaker 1: trip codes, IP addresses, and fountain pens. We're not relying
Speaker 1: on flimsy evidence here, no, he says. She says. We're
Speaker 1: going to build a solid case that we show Jim
Speaker 1: and Ron Watkins are in fact, very very likely behind
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