Speaker 1: Q and On is now the most prolific online conspiracy
Speaker 1: theory of the twenty one century. None of their predictions
Speaker 1: came true. Q has vanished and the storm never came,
Speaker 1: but Q and On is still alive. I'm Jake Hanrahan,
Speaker 1: and this is series two of Q Clearance, a podcast
Speaker 1: shedding light on the ongoing Q and On conspiracy theory.
Speaker 1: This is a production of Kudatar Media and I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Today we're going to be doing an update of sorts. Basically,
Speaker 1: whilst Q is no longer hitting headlines across the world anymore,
Speaker 1: there are still significant stirrings within the Q and On
Speaker 1: universe that you need to know about. So in this
Speaker 1: episode of Q Clearance will be going over them. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about the role of Q in regards to the
Speaker 1: death of John McAfee, the further fascist radicalization of Q
Speaker 1: and on, and the b drop. So firstly, cast your
Speaker 1: mind back to episode two of this series, when we
Speaker 1: were looking into how Q and On has become increasingly
Speaker 1: more extreme and its political worldview now that it's been
Speaker 1: forced underground onto apps like Telegram. Since recording that episode,
Speaker 1: one of the largest Q and On channels has begun
Speaker 1: sharing increasingly more anti Semitic and outright neo Nazi content.
Speaker 1: One of the worst is ghost Ezra. Ghost Ezra is
Speaker 1: a Q and On personality with a Telegram channel that
Speaker 1: is more than three hundred thousand subscribers in it. He's
Speaker 1: begun posting photo lists of Jewish people in the media
Speaker 1: that are all marked with small stars of David and
Speaker 1: he's been accusing them all of being members of the
Speaker 1: Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. He's also been promoting the far
Speaker 1: right film Europa the Last Battle, which claims Jewish people
Speaker 1: deliberately started both World War One and World War Two
Speaker 1: as a plot to form Israel. It's outright neo Nazi propaganda.
Speaker 1: Many many people in the channel, all of them supposedly
Speaker 1: Q and On followers, and now cheering on this Nazi
Speaker 1: vein within Q and On. When you think about it,
Speaker 1: it's quite bizarre that Q and On is evolving like
Speaker 1: this when you consider that they all actually worshiped Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: and Trump did more for Israel than many previous US presidents.
Speaker 1: He's the one that even okayed the move of the
Speaker 1: embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, effectively recognizing Jerusalem as
Speaker 1: the capital of israel I don't want to get into
Speaker 1: their deeper politics of Palestine versus Israel, but that is
Speaker 1: a very big win for Israel. Still, this Nazi vein
Speaker 1: within Q and On is the way it seems to
Speaker 1: be going now, with the sheer number of Q and
Speaker 1: on's becoming indoctor trinated by all this, it's a very
Speaker 1: big worry. There are hundreds of thousands of people, all
Speaker 1: Q supporters, in these underground telegram network channels, and now
Speaker 1: many of them lapping up neo Nazi propaganda, whereas only
Speaker 1: a few months ago they were died in the world
Speaker 1: hardcore conservatives. Now, whether you hate conservatives or are a conservative,
Speaker 1: that is irrelevant. There is no denying that the jump
Speaker 1: from conservative center right politics to far right neo Nazism
Speaker 1: is quite vast and very troubling. Now what's interesting is
Speaker 1: Ghost Ezra himself. Whoever it is, we don't know, but
Speaker 1: this guy hasn't been on the scene within Q and
Speaker 1: On for that long. There are some researchers that think
Speaker 1: Ghost Ezra is possibly a plant, as in, he was
Speaker 1: never a Q and On fan that somehow started turning Nazi.
Speaker 1: He was possibly a Nazi. The whole time and infiltrated
Speaker 1: Q and On. As we spoke about in episode two,
Speaker 1: the way he's going, the way he's pushing all this
Speaker 1: Nazi propaganda. I think that's quite possible to anyway, moving
Speaker 1: on to the next update, let me just say this
Speaker 1: queue is back, or maybe sort of or maybe not.
Speaker 1: Just just better with me. Listen to this. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk about the new que drop or what you
Speaker 1: could call the B drop. Now. Remember Q hasn't posted
Speaker 1: a single que drop since December, but something new happened. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get everybody's hopes up, but it
Speaker 1: felt like Q was back for a second. So let
Speaker 1: me just explain. So last month in May, there was
Speaker 1: a big Q and On conference in Dallas, Texas. It
Speaker 1: was absolutely mental. We will be talking about that next
Speaker 1: episode in detail, talking to someone that basically infiltrated it.
Speaker 1: It's all very strange. But what you need to know
Speaker 1: now is that one day into the conference, on May nine,
Speaker 1: there was a message put onto a coun posted directly
Speaker 1: to the Q and on Board, the exclusive Q and
Speaker 1: on Board. For Q to explain further, his researcher Sarah
Speaker 1: hi Tower, Remember hires Tower helps out with research and
Speaker 1: fact checking on this podcast. She's one of the very
Speaker 1: best researchers out there. She knows what she's on about.
Speaker 1: Have a listen. So, like a day into the the
Speaker 1: Yeehab God's Guns and Gravy Patriot Rodeo or whatever it
Speaker 1: was called, somebody posted to eight CON's que post board.
Speaker 1: And when I say that it's the Q post board,
Speaker 1: I mean like it's literally the board set up for
Speaker 1: a que to post. The que drops too, so I
Speaker 1: think it's the projected calms board. It literally only exists
Speaker 1: for the express purpose like que drops. Okay, regular users
Speaker 1: like they can't even post the or to be able
Speaker 1: to post to this board. You have to have the key,
Speaker 1: so you'd have to be like side owner or an
Speaker 1: admin or just someone who was given the keys to
Speaker 1: be able to post basically all right, So, as Sarah says,
Speaker 1: if something pops up on the qeboard on a coun
Speaker 1: it's not just somebody messing around. As far as Q
Speaker 1: and on's were concerned, this had come from HQ, from
Speaker 1: General Command, from the White House, from Q. So, as
Speaker 1: you can imagine, everybody got quite excited. But just have
Speaker 1: I listen to what happen next. So this post, it
Speaker 1: just appeared out of nowhere, but instead of Q, the
Speaker 1: post author was B, and B didn't have the Q
Speaker 1: trip code. Now, the Q trip code was already like
Speaker 1: explained it on the show, like at least once just
Speaker 1: to refresh your memory if you've forgotten. The trip code
Speaker 1: was essentially a signature attached to Q. So whenever someone
Speaker 1: posted claiming to be QUE, posting a Q drop whatever,
Speaker 1: Q and ons could confirm that it was actually Q
Speaker 1: using this trip code, the signature if you like, if
Speaker 1: you've forgotten all about it, maybe go back and listen
Speaker 1: to the episode on it in series one. But essentially
Speaker 1: the trip code would confirm that Q was Q. As
Speaker 1: we know, it got hijacked the trip code changed hands.
Speaker 1: But anyway, this new user turned up and it was
Speaker 1: a B drop, not a Q drop. So this B
Speaker 1: person they post this short drop and it sounds like
Speaker 1: somebody is trying to copy cues. Posting style accutes rhetorical style,
Speaker 1: but it just comes across is like I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've ever read like an Instagram influencer or like
Speaker 1: a TikToker who decides to like publish their poetry. But
Speaker 1: it's like that and it says fact versus fiction. We
Speaker 1: will not tell you which is which. The choice is yours.
Speaker 1: Who gave you the playbooks? Who helps you answer questions?
Speaker 1: And that's what the post hands And it's pretty short
Speaker 1: and interestingly enough, this b person they didn't sign their
Speaker 1: post at the bottom the way cue a sleeve signs
Speaker 1: the Q drops, So everybody on all sides of the
Speaker 1: Q and on thing, like they got all worked up,
Speaker 1: so like watchers and researchers started like immediately speculating, like,
Speaker 1: is this a troll who managed to hack the board?
Speaker 1: Is it like Jim and Ron engaging interest during the
Speaker 1: Patriot roundup thingy that? When was that? Or like, was
Speaker 1: it Ron trying to work shop the next phase of
Speaker 1: the Q grift or get people interested in his alien
Speaker 1: themed wiki leaks rip off? Yeah, Sarah did just say
Speaker 1: alien theme that wiki leagues rip off. That's basically what
Speaker 1: Ron Watkins is doing. Now. We think Jim and Ron
Speaker 1: Watkins were behind Q and On. If you've heard series one,
Speaker 1: I think it's quite clear that they were. But now
Speaker 1: Ron has moved on to this strange UFO situation. It's
Speaker 1: quite interesting. We're going to be doing a whole episode
Speaker 1: soon about what Jim and Ron Watkins did next. But
Speaker 1: just no is another Internet based grift that Ron is
Speaker 1: trying to create a community around. So Sarah said, there
Speaker 1: was a lot of speculation from Q and ons, from researchers.
Speaker 1: Everybody was wondering, who is this be, why is there
Speaker 1: a drop in the cue boards and what does it
Speaker 1: all mean? Well, it's possible that actually the b drop
Speaker 1: was just a disgruntled eight coon employee putting up some
Speaker 1: nonsense on the cue board before dropping out and saying
Speaker 1: fuck you Jim, fuck you Ron, see you later. This
Speaker 1: is what Jim Watkins had to say about it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Jim Watkins comes out and he said that an admin
Speaker 1: or a global volunteer who goes by the user name
Speaker 1: the Laughing Man posted it, which is like, it's Jim Watkins,
Speaker 1: so like take it with a grain of salt or whatever.
Speaker 1: But there actually is record of someone in his orbit
Speaker 1: in that orbit who went by the name like the
Speaker 1: Laughing Man. Now you might think, well, why would you
Speaker 1: trust what Jim Watkins has to say about Q and on. Well,
Speaker 1: because it's very clear to me, to a lot of
Speaker 1: people that him and his son Ron were behind it.
Speaker 1: So if he says, well, actually this isn't about Q,
Speaker 1: it's kind of true because he's the one that dictates
Speaker 1: what is about Q, because he's making it all up
Speaker 1: as he goes along. So Jim said that he fired
Speaker 1: the admin and that he cut the volunteer team over
Speaker 1: on eight coon and like half. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if any or all that last bit is true. Well,
Speaker 1: B hasn't posted, sense, and it kind of seems unlikely
Speaker 1: that we're ever going to hear from them again. So
Speaker 1: do with that what you will do with that, what
Speaker 1: you will Q and On's certainly did. Some are still
Speaker 1: considering this bee drop a genuine return of Q. Well others,
Speaker 1: mostly scenes who have sort of decided to ignore it.
Speaker 1: Whatever it was. The most interesting part of the B
Speaker 1: drop is what it shows in the plane light of
Speaker 1: day that anyone that's part of the admin team on
Speaker 1: a coun could post on Que's exclusive board. We all
Speaker 1: knew that anyway, but now it's been confirmed with the
Speaker 1: B drop. Jim Watkins basically said, yeah, this board is
Speaker 1: nowhere near as secure as we made out, and he
Speaker 1: has effectively backed up a lot of what we said
Speaker 1: in series one. That is it's not that difficult to
Speaker 1: commander or steer Q on the chan boards. Personally, I
Speaker 1: think the B drop is more relevant when it comes
Speaker 1: to exposing who is behind Q and on than it
Speaker 1: is of any evidence of a return anyway. Next final update,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the John McAfee drama. So if you're unaware,
Speaker 1: John mccafee was the entrepreneurial creator of the world famous
Speaker 1: anti computer virus software McAfee Virus Scan. This was the
Speaker 1: first commercial anti virus software. It was released in the
Speaker 1: eighties and eventually made McAfee a billionaire. Now, McAfee was
Speaker 1: not your average rich guy. To put it frankly, he
Speaker 1: was absolutely fucking nuts. Maybe all rich guys are like that,
Speaker 1: but they're not usually posting about on social media and
Speaker 1: having documentaries made about themselves. So, among many other bizarre
Speaker 1: twists and turns in his life story, McAfee was accused
Speaker 1: of allegedly murdering his neighbor, manufacturing his own bath salts, drugs,
Speaker 1: abusing women he paid to have sex with, and forming
Speaker 1: what was basically an armed gang or militia in Belize.
Speaker 1: It was somewhat of an Internet anti hero for some
Speaker 1: due to his antiques and open challenges to the US
Speaker 1: government on social media. Lots of found him funny, and
Speaker 1: in some ways he was. Ultimately though, McAfee was a
Speaker 1: compulsive liar, a fraud, and was once sexually involved with
Speaker 1: a sixteen year old girl in Belize. In twelve, McAfee
Speaker 1: died on at June one. He was seventy five years old.
Speaker 1: He died by what is very likely suicide in a
Speaker 1: Spanish prison cell. He was incarcerated on charges levied at
Speaker 1: him by the US government. The police in Barcelona agreed
Speaker 1: to arrest him for the US. The US claims he'd
Speaker 1: been evading tax by having his income paid into bank
Speaker 1: accounts and cryptocurrency exchange accounts in the names of other nominees.
Speaker 1: He was said to be extradited to the US when
Speaker 1: he was found dead. Now, what the hell does all
Speaker 1: this have to do with tu and on. We'll get
Speaker 1: to that, but for context, let's explain the suicide slash
Speaker 1: murder conspiracy that's brewing. So before mccafee died, he posted
Speaker 1: the following message on Twitter quote getting subtle messages from
Speaker 1: US officials saying, in effect, we're coming for you, McAfee.
Speaker 1: We're going to kill yourself. I got a tattoo today
Speaker 1: just in case if I suicide myself. I didn't. I
Speaker 1: was whacked. Check my right arm shacked available only at
Speaker 1: mccafee dex dot com smiley face end quote. This message
Speaker 1: was posted with an image of a new tattoo he'd
Speaker 1: gotten on his right arm that said shacked with the
Speaker 1: S as a dollar sign shwacked or whacked, meaning he
Speaker 1: had been killed. As you can imagine, this has caused
Speaker 1: a sensational conspiracy theory now that he's dead, especially on
Speaker 1: the internet. Now, I am definitely not saying that I
Speaker 1: think it's beyond the scope of the US government to
Speaker 1: assassinate people that could cast them in a bad light.
Speaker 1: But McAfee's claims in his life of knowing about shadowy
Speaker 1: government plots against him were all very over the top
Speaker 1: without any substance, and they were ultimately used as an
Speaker 1: excuse for his reckless, drug fueled behavior. I do not
Speaker 1: believe McAfee was murdered by the US government. It's my
Speaker 1: belief that he was plotting the ultimate post death mystery
Speaker 1: about himself, knowing that he'd soon take his life if extradited.
Speaker 1: After all, he was seventy five years old. He'd lived
Speaker 1: a mad life and was probably going to spend the
Speaker 1: rest of it in prison once sent back to the US.
Speaker 1: I think, as in life as in death, he wanted
Speaker 1: to court further contra versy around the legend of John
Speaker 1: mccafee after he was dead and gone to throw a
Speaker 1: fuel on this fire of his. There was even a
Speaker 1: big nod to Q and on. On June twenty three,
Speaker 1: roughly an hour after McAfee's death was announced in the media,
Speaker 1: there was an image posted to John mccafee's official, verified
Speaker 1: Instagram account. The image was the letter Q black in
Speaker 1: caps with a white background. I could not fucking believe it.
Speaker 1: McAfee briefly dabbled in Q and on talk whilst alive,
Speaker 1: but it was never a hardcore proponent of it, even
Speaker 1: when he campaigned to be US president on a batshit
Speaker 1: in saying quasi libertarian ticket Q and on was even
Speaker 1: two nuts for him. Really, what I'm saying is McAfee
Speaker 1: was not a Q and on guy. I think this
Speaker 1: post was done by someone close to him who had
Speaker 1: his logins to Instagram. I think McAfee told them to
Speaker 1: do this. I think he wanted to cause chaos, confusion,
Speaker 1: and further conspiracy even after he died. I do not
Speaker 1: think McAfee was at all linked to Q and on.
Speaker 1: There's no evidence to suggest this was happening behind the
Speaker 1: scenes or otherwise. McAfee's Instagram account has now been completely
Speaker 1: removed and the post is obviously gone, but the immediate
Speaker 1: reaction from Q and On's was as you can probably imagine,
Speaker 1: there was a frenzy one Q and on Telegram account
Speaker 1: with almost forty thousand subscribers that I checked quickly after
Speaker 1: this happened, when berserk one user posted the following with
Speaker 1: the image of the McAfee q Instagram post. Quote rumor
Speaker 1: confirmed McAfee cupic has a crypto graphic key in caps
Speaker 1: embedded in the image file. I was able to view
Speaker 1: this in photo shop instructions fb M D two three
Speaker 1: zero zero nine six zero one zero zero s and
Speaker 1: you know it goes on like that, A lot of numbers,
Speaker 1: a lot of zeros, some letters, dead man switch activated
Speaker 1: end quote. The alleged code that this user dug out
Speaker 1: from the image that the Q and On's immediately ran
Speaker 1: with without checking the code that they said means some
Speaker 1: kind of dead man switch has been activated. The alleged
Speaker 1: code that got them all riled up from this John
Speaker 1: McAfee Instagram Q post is actually an automatic International Press
Speaker 1: Telecommunications Council SLASH Information Interchange Model code that Facebook, who
Speaker 1: owns Instagram, bakes into uploaded images to essentially keep track
Speaker 1: of content uploaded to their sites is being shared elsewhere.
Speaker 1: The f b m D code that the Q follow
Speaker 1: up posted is just a Facebook member data code f
Speaker 1: B M D McAfee's plan to baselessly it's so further
Speaker 1: conspiracy and misinformation worked even after death, all thanks to
Speaker 1: the Q and ons. Q Clearance is brought to you
Speaker 1: by iHeart Radio and Co Data Media. I'm Jake Hanrahan.
Speaker 1: You can find me online at Jake Underscore Hanrahan. That's
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Speaker 1: episode was produced by myself, with fact checking and additional
Speaker 1: research by Sarah high Tower. The music is by Sam
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