James Zimmermann

The conductor didn't like him.

None of us liked him.

But management liked him.

The CEO liked him because he was his golden child, his DEI ticket to success.

He's like, look, we're going to parade this guy around everywhere and show everybody how righteous we are.

He's a human virtue signal, which, by the way, is quite racist to tokenize somebody and do this, parade them around for their skin color.

Yeah, I mean, that was stupid of me.

We were both hip hop fans.

He's the only other orchestral musician I've ever met that grew up listening to people like Snoop Dogg and the Notorious B.I.G.

He knew I liked them.

He knew I had at a party a couple of days before that had like...

wrapped along with some Biggie.

And he was like, I wish I'd been there to hear that.

And I had told him, dude, I'm not going to say the N word in front of you.

But then we were just like listening to some music after concert one night.

And I was, I said, yeah, remember when you said you wanted to hear that?

Let's go wrap it in my car.

And he's like, yeah, sure.

Say the N word.

It's no big deal.