How does Parkes know that he was really speaking with Q, or a Q team member? How was this authenticated to him? We have the trip codes on 8kun. How could this person be authenticated to Parkes over the phone? So its possible that Parkes is being deceived. I have always had reservations about Pence, and similarly I've always had reservations about Robert David Steele, who is former CIA. You know the expression, once CIA always CIA. Q has really trashed the CIA. So this has always made me skeptical about Steele. And it seemed to me that Steele has been very envious of Q's following, and wanted people to follow him instead. This is a gut feeling. Now Parkes is saying Steele will be part of the "chosen group" to have a round table discussion be recorded to help enlighten more people about what is going on. That makes me a little nervous. On the other hand, Parkes is good friends with Charlie Ward, and Charlie Ward is a long time personal friend of Trump's, so that could be the connection. Charlie Ward is under an NDA with Trump (NonDisclosure Agreement) he is that close to Trump, so he has to be extremely careful about what he divulges. But he would be in a position to know that Trump wants people to be informed, and this information we have received from Q to date, needs to reach a larger audience to bring more people up to speed. Not everyone is into "decoding" cryptic messages. At some point, someone is going to have to speak in plain English to reach this larger audience to wake up more people. I have only been following Parkes for a couple weeks. Although I have seen his name pop up a lot. A while back I tried to listen to one of his videos, and realized he was British, and I thought why in the world would anyone want to listen to a foreigner to find out what is actually happening here in the USA? It didn't make sense. But clearly he is a Q follower, and his past is UK Military, so he could have connections that way, which provide him with intel that most people don't have access to. I know our military people here in the USA are very avid Q followers. So the jury is still out for me, but I will continue to listen to him and take with a grain of salt. With regard to yesterday's video with Charlie Ward that he did, it was actually that Danielle gal who had the breaking news that all of lame stream media was going to be shut down in 5 hours (from when they did that video). 5 hours has passed and I see no evidence that all of lame stream media has been brought down yet. It doesn't mean that won't happen in the future, but that that 5 hour deadline was wrong, or it got changed. So don't blame that 5 hour thing on Parkes or Charlie Ward. I guess it is Charlie Ward's link with Trump that gives me some measure of comfort, that Parkes might have actually been speaking with a Q Team member yesterday. No doubt immediately after that phone call, Parkes probably called Charlie Ward (who is under an NDA with Trump), to discuss this Q phone call. IF Parkes was being deceived, Charlie Ward would be in a position to expose that pretty quickly. So I am inclined to believe Parkes testimony about Q....for now, and give him the benefit of the doubt.