Gretchen Whitmer
speaker
389 appearances
16 recordings
10 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 17 Apr
Gretchen Whitmer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It might be a familiar pain, but it hurts all the same.
Every time.
We cannot keep living our lives like this.
It might be a familiar pain, but it hurts all the same.
Every time.
We cannot keep living our lives like this.
You're just basically a polyurethane core.
So I'm named after both my grandmothers, Gretchen and Esther. And Grandma Gretchen always said, never let anyone call you Gretch. Your name is Gretchen. Gretch sounds like wretch. It's not pretty. So I've always had this aversion to being called Gretch. And I don't know many women that want big in front of their nickname.
So Big Gretch, when it first came to be during the pandemic, I was not sure what to make of it. And a woman who worked with me, Shaquilla Myers, who's from Detroit, said, you don't understand. This is a compliment. This is like the people of Detroit just gave you the key to the city. They love you. This is a nice thing. So now it's my favorite nickname, Big Gretch.
So he made it into a song. It started in the city of Detroit, but he made Big Gretch into a song, and that's really what blew it up.
Yes.
Well, I'm a very accident-prone person. I'm a klutz. I run into things. I fall down. I mean, I was practicing in my state of the state last year, and I ran into one of the podiums. I had a huge bruise. It just happens all the time, but when I was in middle school, I went to church camp, and for some reason, it was out in Virginia or West Virginia of all places, and I was running to a base, and the
Other girl tagged me but pushed me really hard. And I went right into the cement and knocked out my front teeth. And so I came back from church camp in a wheelchair because I got 30 stitches in my knee. Both my hands were cut up. My face was cut up. And I was missing my teeth. And my father just looked at me and said, Gravity Gretchen.
It's a good question. I felt most bad about my dad because he just paid for braces to fix the gap between those front teeth. But now I think I've got to figure out how I anger God.
Well, I'll just say this. No dogs were shot in my book. That's true. Yeah, so when I was in high school, I ran with a fast crowd. It was the 80s. There was not a whole lot of parental oversight and a lot of access to alcohol. I drank a lot before a football game, and I... passed out between two cars, and my principal found me.
And I tell this story because that was really when I kind of got it together. And became the best, you know, the most improved student that year. And went to Michigan State and, you know, ended up... Thank you, go Green. Ended up, you know, on the dean's list. And then I went to law school and graduated magna cum laude. But I think it was...
I think it was that moment that really, it was devastating and I was punished. But it really inspired me to get my act together. Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, we'll see. We'll see how it goes. I'm going to, you know, see how it goes.
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