that he is absent from the broadcast?

Or is he comforting widows?

I bet this is going to be quite scripted. I wonder how many takes were used for the video appearance.

Monsons speech is slurred. He is heavily medicated- or maybe just drunk.

OD'd on Pepsi.

Notice the breaks when they change camera angles. Those are probably times he messed up, so they started over in his script from that point. Why else would you change camera angles on a recording, or have multiple cameras on a recording?

There was just a jump toward the end in the straight-ahead camera angle where they cut something-- another mess up by Monson. His head jumped about 2 inches instaneously where they cut something.

That was not good editing of the multiple takes.

Maybe they should have the branch president in Canada find a good video editor in the yellow pages!

Haha, yes! +100

Flashed back to young Monson when he actually looked and sounded a whole lot better.

He doesn't look good, just like BKP. Those 2 are on their way out.

Slurry speech, doped up look. The Alzheimer's meds aren't working.

Just a laymans guess, but I would give Packer weeks and Monson months.

Their personal priesthood interviews are about to get very personal.

So if neither makes it to 2014, who is 3rd in line?

next in line is L. Tom Perry. And I am not too sure that his health is that great either.

Perry is nearly as hard core as Packer, in some ways. Both Packer and Perry are/were opposed to the writing of "honest" answers to issues, such as JS poly, multiple versions of the 1st vision, etc. Better to just leave it alone.

They are all really in a bind here. Nowhere to go. Answer the questions with a lie, they will be called on it. Answer truthfully and open a can of worms by allowing that there really are issue, do nothing and it festers. Screwed no matter what!