James Zimmermann

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441 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 17 Jan

James Zimmermann’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I was able to leave the symphony.

And I said, I want to quit if you're not going to stand up against these freaks against me.

But management fired me before I could quit so they could...

further their story, this Jussie Smollett-like story that I was some kind of stalker racist who uses the N-word in front of black people.

It's all context.

Yeah.

I mean, the dog comment was so ridiculous that this kid made that it was at the lunch table.

One day I was waiting in line for lunch and I said to him like, yeah, man, that dog you got is huge or something to that effect.

And he's like, yeah,

And, you know, I was getting concerned after they started reporting me as a stalker that they were ready to show up at my house and do some damage.

I was just making a judgment call.

You could tell these kids were really out of their mind.

And people like that at the time are willing to do violence to get rid of white supremacy.

So I did not want it to escalate to that point.

The whole email that you just quoted from is de-escalatory and copied to HR because I wanted their help in de-escalating this situation.

It had been going on for more than a year.

I'm not sure.

Actually, it was the oboe player and another girl that he had kind of co-opted into being his henchwoman, who's now gone from the orchestra.

She joined another orchestra.

Well, they put me on probation first because my biggest ally in management, the chief operating officer, I should say, was out of town.

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