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December 2, 2020 • 21 mins

In this episode we take a closer look at yet more "coincidences" that link the Watkins family to QAnon.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Q and On is the world's largest online political conspiracy movement.
Followers believe someone code named Q is provided them with
secret information from inside the White House. No one really
knows the real identity of Q, though we aim to
change that. I'm Jake Hanrahan and this is Q Clearance,
a podcast series aimed unmasking the true identity of Q.

(00:25):
This is brought to you by I R Radio and
Q Daytaur Media. Last episode, we pinpointed and named who
we think the biggest players are behind the Q and
On hoax. That is Jim Watkins and his son, Ron Watkins.
In this episode will be building up the case of

(00:46):
evidence that strengthens this accusation. First, though, let's take a
look at what's been going on in the Q and
On universe in the last two weeks. So, in a
twist so ridiculous I almost thought it was a joke
when someone sent it to me, Donald Trump has retweeted
a video with Ron Watkins in it on November What's more,

(01:12):
Ron Watkins was presented as an expert and cited as
a large systems technical analyst in the video, which technically
probably isn't inaccurate, But what they left out is very telling.
We'll get onto that later. Anyway, let me explain this video.

(01:33):
So Trump's new favorite channel seems to be this network
called O A n N, which stands for One America
News Network. The channel vaguely presents itself as news media,
but in reality, it's built to spread part of analyzes
and propaganda. Now that's not me being biased about their content,

(01:57):
by the way, that's just the presentation of what they're doing.
You can fact check O A n and yourself if
you want. Is mostly bullshit, and that's what you'll find there.
They talk nonsense, they presented as fact, get everyone riled up,
and then move on to the next segment. Unfortunately, it's

(02:17):
a tried and tested model within US news media recently
for both Republicans and Democrats. OH A n N is
just taken the disinformation a step further, turning it up
to eleven. If you like, have a listen to the
piece Trump retweeted. It will give you a feel for

(02:38):
what OH A n N is about. Well. Voter for
Our deniers continue to proclaim the perfection of the U
S election system. Skeptics are looking at irregular patterns in
vote data, in particular software irregularities that would switch votes
from President Trump to Joe Biden. Dominion voting systems. There's

(02:58):
one such software that's seemed to have a pattern of
switching votes from Trump to Biden. How easily could bad
actors have used Dominion to switch thousands of votes and
alter an election county by county. The answer is shocking.
One American News spoke with Ron Watkins, a large systems
technical analyst who has been pouring over the Dominion Systems

(03:21):
manual of so I was looking at this manual with
the mindset of a penetration tester, but which I am.
I'm reading the manual with the discerning iron. Now, within
this supposed news segment, not one scrap of actual evidence
was presented. Please remember, I am not pro Biden, I
am not pro Trump. I don't care about politicians. However,

(03:44):
I do care about the truth, and what O A
n N is trying to do is just spread misinformation.
I think that's probably why they got somebody like Ron
Watkins on to talk about this, because at the end
of the day, Ron Watkins is going to completely a
e with the pro Trump line that they are trying
to put out. Funnily enough, in the segment. Obviously you

(04:07):
can't see it. Ron Watkins is wearing a cowboy hat
as they speak to him. Anyway, So, as you just
heard in that segment that Trump retweeted, O A n
N claims to have found all sorts of vulnerabilities with
the voting systems that millions of Americans used to vote

(04:27):
in the recent election. Oh A n N is of
course extremely pro Trump, and they're refusing to accept that
he lost the election to Joe Biden. Ron Watkins, the
former admin of eight Con until very recently, is also
extremely pro Trump. He is a huge MAGA fundamentalist. Neither

(04:49):
Ron nor his father Jim can accept that Trump lost
the election. They're saying that the dominion voting system machines
were corrupted somehow. There is several differ theories, all of
which have been disproven. The segment of the O A
n N piece is largely irrelevant. Actually. What is relevant, though,

(05:09):
is how the Internet underworld and the political elite have
begun to merge for a small moment in time. It's
almost as if Q and on has become a self
fulfilling prophecy. Here. Donald Trump, the former president of the US,
retweeted a piece where Ron Watkins, the former admin of

(05:30):
a KUN, was cited as an expert looking into the
alleged stolen election. If you don't see the irony, and no,
I really don't know what to tell you, I don't
think the relevance of Trump retweeting Ron Watkins can be overstated.
He's basically given a lot of attention and credibility to

(05:53):
Ron Watkins and therefore a con and h Chan because
obviously that's what he's associated with now. I doubt Trump
even watched the full thing or knows about Ron Watkins,
but the fact he has even retweeted this wildly says
a lot. I think it might embolden the Q and
on people, and you never know, this might be the

(06:14):
first step for Trump to lean into the Q and
on theory a little bit more. Obviously, he's going to
have to leave the White House soon. The Q and
On theories are not coming to the storm is not coming,
and he's going to need a new career. No doubt
he'll start something like Trump TV, or he'll be on
oh A and and all the time. But I do

(06:35):
wonder if this is his first step to leaning into
Q and on a little bit he basically has a
pre paid audience already they're waiting for him, which is
even more sticking in when you consider what Ron Watkins
has been the admin of now. As I mentioned before,

(06:56):
the real reason this is noteworthy is what oh A
in and left out of the detail. When citing Ron
Watkins as an expert, they said Ron Watkins is a
large systems technical analyst. What they failed to mention is
that Ron Watkins allowed the sharing of child abuse images

(07:19):
whilst he was the admin of h chan and the
admin of a coon. It wasn't just the odd pedophile
posting here and there through the cracks either. H n
had its own board for sharing images of young, fully
clothed girls in suggestive poses. H Chan allowed pedophiles to

(07:41):
discuss their horrific acts of child abuse as if they
were war stories. All of this happened whilst Ron Watkins
was in control as the admin and his dad, Jim Watkins,
owned the site. I find it hard to believe that
the people of O A N, then what unaware of

(08:01):
all this. They've known about h chan for well over
a year. They'd had Jim Watkins on as a guest
in September, the sharing of a child abuse material on
h Chan and a con is something we've mentioned time
and again at Q Clearance. It might seem repetitive, but

(08:24):
I think it's important to be regularly reminded that the
Internet image board the QUE posts about pedophile cabalson is
in fact host to several pedophile cabals is completely contradictory
and it's sickening. Anyway, moving on, it's time now to

(08:50):
look into Jim Watkins and why Fountain pens and yoga
might connect him further to Q. Now, before we expand
on all this, remember I am not saying that this
is all binding proof. You can make your own mind
up on whether it's relevant or not. But I'm not saying, hey,

(09:11):
this is one proof. What I'm saying is I think
this all stacks up as further evidence that Jim is
in fact behind Q. So if you weren't aware, Jim
Watkins has a niche interest in fountain pens. On his

(09:32):
bizarre YouTube channel Watkins Xerxes, there are many videos of
him reviewing fountain pens, cleaning fountain pens, talking about fountain pens.
Have a listen here to the audio from one of
Jim's videos titled making certain the Pennies clean, Let's join

(09:53):
the pen fifteen club. It was from a live stream.
He talks about the state of governments of Aidens briefly,
which I think is interesting, and then he goes into
talking about his pens. I would listen, Domina, I think
for a moment that the five Eyes people are on
our team anymore. They have thoroughly invested and been invested

(10:17):
in by veg Aisia. So I'm going to clean pensively
and relax. What I have here first is a Viscountry
van Go and it actually is my favorite pen. And
then it's a beautiful fan. Now you might be thinking,
what the fund does Jim's fountain pens have to do

(10:39):
with Q? Well, it just so happens that Q is
also quite interested in fountain pens. In fact, in several
Q drops, Q uses the phrase follow the pen and
shows a photo of a fountain pen laid out on
some White House letterheaded paper. It's all very vague, but

(11:02):
the insinuation is that the photo of the fountain pen
is some kind of confirmation that Q is in fact
sat with his feet up in the White House. There's
also some Q drops saying follow the pen with a
letter that's been signed by Trump and various other people. Again,
the insinuation is yet Q is on the inside, and

(11:24):
you can see this if you just follow the pen.
Of course, anyone could just print this paper up and
take an unclear shot with their fountain pen next to it.
I mean, if you look at Jim's YouTube video I
just mentioned a minute ago, the one titled making Certain
the pen is clean, Let's join the pen fifteen club.

(11:45):
There are many moments where you see the desk he's
working at. It could very easily be the same as
the cryptic shot you posted with the fountain pen. There's
even a moment at five thirty two in the video
where you see a fountain pen next to a black
ledger with a stack of papers nearby that's very similar

(12:08):
to the photo from the follow the pen que drop
I was just on about now. Of course, anyone with
a home office is likely to have this kind of
set up. It proves nothing, really, but the strange follow
the pen phrase a clear extension of cues follow the plan,
coupled with Jim's unusually detailed love of a niche hobby

(12:32):
of fountain pen enthusiasm is quite a coincidence if you
ask me, especially if you consider that the follow the
pen posts only began happening in mid If you remember,
that's around the time we think Paul Ferber had his

(12:52):
que and on account hijacked by the Watkins family. Also,
the five I is Watkins is concerned about in the
YouTube clip we just heard is also a concern of Q.
The phrase five eyes was mentioned in more than ten
different Q drops in all in March, April and July.

(13:18):
The follow the pen posts started in May. Now, don't worry,
I haven't gone mad. I'm not trying to loosely connect
random dates and meanings. And whilst it's obvious that five Eyes,
a shared spying and surveillance operation between Australia, Canada, New
Zealand and the US and the UK, would be mentioned

(13:42):
by Q and on, I think it's at least worth
showing that there are many shared interests and concerns between
Jim Watkins and Q. Let's look at another one, yoga.
The yoga connection does have a lot of examples and

(14:02):
is therefore more of a tenuous link, but it's something
people mention online when discussing this, so we'll go over
it quickly here. I want you to be fully informed
because you might hear some people say, oh yeah, the
yoga connection, it's not much of a thing. But anyway,
let's have a look. So basically, on April six two

(14:22):
posted one drop that day saying simply clear your mind,
he'll Q attached with some generic peaceful stock music on YouTube.
Some have interpreted this as a yoga esque mantra clear
your mind. Hell that makes sense, I guess. Now this

(14:43):
connects to Jim Watkins for some because he has a
whole playlist on his YouTube with thirty five videos all
dedicated to him trying to do yoga. Many of them
do have generic yoga style music, but that's pretty normal
for yoga videos. Like I said, it's not that type

(15:04):
of a connection. We don't want to lose ourselves in
the weeze here and become qun on ourselves when looking
at the connections. But it is what it is. So
let's move away from this circumstantial stuff and look at
something more solid, that being the links that Jim and
Ron's h chan and a con seemed to have with

(15:27):
large q and on websites. When we look under the
bonnet and start getting technical. So on the twenty three August,
several people on Twitter, including Frederick Brennan, began looking into
the IP addresses of some q and on related websites. Now,

(15:48):
if you don't know, an I P address is basically
a numerical identifier that shows your machine is plugged in
and connected to the Internet Protocol from wherever it is.
So use on Twitter checked the IP address of a
huge q and on website known as q map dot

(16:11):
pub and he found that it had solid connections to
h Chan and a Coon. Now this is quite a
technical thing to understand, so I sent the data to
one of my closest friends, who is a bit of
a computer wizard kind of guy. For a living, he's
paid to make sure connections are safe for big companies

(16:34):
all over the world. That and some of the technical
computer stuff I don't fully understand. Anyway, this I tammate
of mine check the IP addresses and found the same
results as what was shown on Twitter. He'll hopefully explain
it a bit clearer than I can. When you go

(16:55):
to a website on your computer is hyping Google dot com.
In the background, there is something called the main name
service working and what that's doing is it is, it's
finding out where traffic needs to go. UM. So when
you type in Google dot com in the background, d

(17:16):
NS is saying, well, what I P address do I
need to go to? In your computer will talk to
a DNS server and the DNS server will tell your
computer go to this address. And what's happening here is
where these three websites is. When you do that, all
three of these domain names website names, they point to

(17:40):
exactly the same place. So if it's still not clear enough,
let's just go over it again. What we're saying is
wherever the large q and on website q map is hosted.
So is or has been the three following websites that
my friend just mentioned eight chan dot net, h chan

(18:02):
dot mo, a con dot top. These are all the
websites previously or currently owned or connected to the Watkins family. Now,
you could argue that they've all just used the same
service to avoid being kicked off of the Internet, as
h chan once was by its hosting company. But I

(18:23):
think at the very least this suggests that the people
running h chan and eight con could have at least
spoken to the people running q map to advise them
on where to host their site. It will be a
pretty big coincidence for them all just to gather together naturally.
To Map, by the way, was a website that aimed

(18:43):
to link all of the various TUE and on conspiracy
theories under the same umbrella, with a kind of map,
a direction telling people how to understand it all and
see how it all links together. It was absolutely insane,
but it was a big focus for a while for
the Q and community. Now, as well as the three

(19:03):
websites I just mentioned, my mate in I found seven more,
all on the same server. Altogether, there are ten, but
let me just read out the ones that might sound familiar.
A con dot net, a con dot top, qulates dot net,

(19:24):
q and on bin dot com, and q map dot pub.
All of those are on the same server. Now, again,
this is not one concrete evidence, but if you listen
back to the last six episodes, combine it with everything
we've learned about the Watkins family and now the fact

(19:45):
a con is linked on the same server to Big
Q and on websites, I think we have a very
strong case here. In the next and final episode of
Q Clearance will be going know that everything we've learned
to connect the dots and put the final touches to
this cum up of our own, the one that shows

(20:07):
why this is all a hoax. D Clearance is brought
to you by Radio and Co Daytar Media. I'm Jake Handrahan.
You can find me online at Jake Underscore hand Rahan.
That's h a N A h A N. This episode

(20:28):
was produced by myself with fact checking by Sarah Hightower.
The music is by Sam Black and the sound levels
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