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I think there's been a fair bit of variation over the last couple of years.

But I mean traditionally, I don't think we saw President Monson at all during the first two Saturday sessions, right?

No.

And that's not normal.

I don't think.

I think Jamie's right. It's normal for recently, but not normal, you know, traditionally. I mean, traditionally, even when I came in the church in 2011, there always be the introduction. Hi, everybody. Welcome to General Conference.

We're going to start. We'll start like mentioning some temples or the big announcement, whatever it would be.

I think the big announcement one year was the missionary age being a little word.

And then we would move into the rest of the conference. So yeah, I think you're right. It's it's it's in the church. I actually had a statement, you know, that is, you know, is it.

So suffering the effects of advanced age, right?

Yeah. Yeah.

Who wants to describe the actual talk that's getting a lot of press? Did anybody kind of see that firsthand?

I did. I watched it live.

All right. Tell us what you saw, Jamie.

You know, he started out very strong. I'm standing at the podium, you know, head held high, speaking clearly, slowly, articulately.

You know, I know that there's I believe three or two of the read along these.

That's a technical term, by the way.

Tell us right. Tell us right.

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