General Conference Predictions

[grapevine]

Saturday Morning Tom will give a warm welcome, Talk about the temples he dedicated since last conference, Work on other temples in progress and announce my predictions temples for Paris France, San Juan Puerto Rico, Virginia Beach Virginia, Pocatello Idaho and somewere in Australia of the pacific. On to more talks. Afternoon several people released including presiding bishopric more talks.

Priesthood someone will tell bsu fans how Alabama is doing before there is a rush for there fans to get out of there to see Alabama hopefully lose. Someone will write how worthless there husband is maybe and some tear jerkers. Sunday morning a few talks and Tom will give benediction. Some of my predictions.

[Tim]

Saturday Morning Tom will give a warm welcome, Talk about the temples he dedicated since last conference, Work on other temples in progress and announce my predictions temples for Paris France, San Juan Puerto Rico, Virginia Beach Virginia, Pocatello Idaho and somewere in Australia of the pacific. On to more talks. Afternoon several people released including presiding bishopric more talks.

Priesthood someone will tell bsu fans how Alabama is doing before there is a rush for there fans to get out of there to see Alabama hopefully lose. Someone will write how worthless there husband is maybe and some tear jerkers. Sunday morning a few talks and Tom will give benediction. Some of my predictions.

What? There are temples in DC and Raleigh.

[UtahDan]

What? There are temples in DC and Raleigh.

The one in DC is not very busy, or so I hear all the time.

[grapevine]

When they opened the Orlando Temple had a hard time getting people there. Now there will be a temple in Fort Lauderdale which surprised me unless people started going to Orlando now.

[woot]

Saturday Morning Tom will give a warm welcome, Talk about the temples he dedicated since last conference, Work on other temples in progress and announce my predictions temples for Paris France, San Juan Puerto Rico, Virginia Beach Virginia, Pocatello Idaho and somewere in Australia of the pacific. On to more talks. Afternoon several people released including presiding bishopric more talks.

Priesthood someone will tell bsu fans how Alabama is doing before there is a rush for there fans to get out of there to see Alabama hopefully lose. Someone will write how worthless there husband is maybe and some tear jerkers. Sunday morning a few talks and Tom will give benediction. Some of my predictions.

Is "Saturday Morning Tom" what you call TSM?

[scottie]

Who here would be in favor of a woman saying at least one of the eight prayers?

[BigFatMeanie]

Sounds so inspirational and heartfelt.

We certainly give up something for the privilege of having conference broadcast live throughout the world.

Personally, I think the positives that live TV broadcasts provide, with their associated time constraints, outweigh the negatives.

[BigFatMeanie]

Does the Time Czar where a red sleeve, stand on the podium sideline, and wave his arm and run off when the prayer has reached the allotted length?

Is it just me or does anyone else think the hunter orange elbow length oven mitts that the TV official wears this year are the stupidest looking things ever?

[scottie]

If that rains on your parade then I will refrain from telling you about the makeup artists and the guys that run the teleprompter.

I would love to hear about both the makeup artists and the teleprompter guys.

[Portland Ute]

I would love to hear about both the makeup artists and the teleprompter guys.

I once saw the studio in the Great and Spacious where "stake conferences" were broadcast.

The entire set is modular. To a person, our entire group, many of them "true believers" were a little uncomfortable with the reality of those "meetings".

[BigFatMeanie]

Next your going to tell me that they're up there "lip syncing" their talks that they recorded beforehand.

Please tell me now that Elder Wirthlin didn't let that makeup guy touch his face.

This is like finding out that Professional Wrestling is faked. You still enjoy it, but you never watch it the same way.

If a speaker is multilingual, he or she has the option to pre-record their talk in a non-English language. The pre-recording is then simulcast to foreign language listeners. If he or she is not multilingual, then the talk is simulcast live in other languages but the interpreters are basically reading from a script because the talk has already been translated.

Because of the various translation and time requirements, the only GAs allowed to vary from their pre-submitted, pre-translated, and sometimes pre-recorded talks are members of the Q12 and the First Presidency. Seventies are supposed to stay on script. Q12 and FP have the latitude to change things up a bit at the pulpit.

[BigFatMeanie]

I would love to hear about both the makeup artists and the teleprompter guys.

Make up artist is no big deal - mainly to prevent "bald shine" from the lights. They may cover up a big festering zit or something like that but they're obviously not intending to make the speakers look like movie stars. You can see on TV that the GAs suffer the same frailties and ailments of aging as everyone else.

Teleprompter guy is responsible for controlling the pacing of talks. If you get emotional in your talk and have to pause, then teleprompter guy will gradually speed up the pace of the subsequent part of your talk so that you finish relatively on time. If you get nervous and start going too fast, teleprompter guy will slow it down so you don't rush it. Inexperienced Conference speakers practice with the teleprompter guy a few times in the week(s) ahead of conference. Experienced Conference speakers don't need to practice.

[scottie]

Make up artist is no big deal - mainly to prevent "bald shine" from the lights. They may cover up a big festering zit or something like that but they're obviously not intending to make the speakers look like movie stars. You can see on TV that the GAs suffer the same frailties and ailments of aging as everyone else.

Teleprompter guy is responsible for controlling the pacing of talks. If you get emotional in your talk and have to pause, then teleprompter guy will gradually speed up the pace of the subsequent part of your talk so that you finish relatively on time. If you get nervous and start going too fast, teleprompter guy will slow it down so you don't rush it. Inexperienced Conference speakers practice with the teleprompter guy a few times in the week(s) ahead of conference. Experienced Conference speakers don't need to practice.

It's impressive how close to exactly two hours they always end up.

[Katy Lied]

Is it true at least one member of the Q12 is NOT in attendance?



Number of airplane analogies made by DFU | 1
Number of chastisements directed toward the sisters | 2
Level of chastisement, from 1 to 10 | 3
Wait for a table in any restaurant in the SL Valley around 8pm Saturday night | 45 minutes

[Clark Addison]

Teleprompter guy is responsible for controlling the pacing of talks. If you get emotional in your talk and have to pause, then teleprompter guy will gradually speed up the pace of the subsequent part of your talk so that you finish relatively on time. If you get nervous and start going too fast, teleprompter guy will slow it down so you don't rush it. Inexperienced Conference speakers practice with the teleprompter guy a few times in the week(s) ahead of conference. Experienced Conference speakers don't need to practice.

I talked to a guy on Sunday who used to be in the Mormon Youth Choir, (or whatever it's called), and so used to occasionally sing in conference and have a view of the teleprompter. He said that during Elder Haight's last years, his eyes were so bad that he couldn't read the teleprompter, so he just spoke on his own. Two minutes before his time was up, the teleprompter would flash a big message saying "2 Minutes", and he would then start his testimony.