James Zimmermann
speaker
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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And they fired me because they can't find tickets in their own system.
It sounds like I'm making this up, but this is how...
ridiculous these people are they're totally incompetent and i got hung out to dry i lost tens of thousands of dollars over this and my entire career and all future prospects because these jackasses can't use their own ticket system it sounds like i'm making this up but it's all out there i have all the receipts from all of this
So three weeks after this whole thing culminated, the pandemic hit.
So everyone was fired, essentially.
And this whole scenario with me got swept to the back burner.
And the orchestra spent the entire pandemic trotting out the Black oboist as a hero.
He got all kinds of social justice money.
He went on all kinds of programs.
and got all kinds of appointments at universities and boards of directors at conservatories.
And he became a superstar on this.
I, on the other hand, spent the entire pandemic in this basement learning to write computer software.
I learned to code.
I went out and did the meme.
And now I work in big tech where I've been for the last five years.
And when things opened up after the pandemic, I went back to playing sessions.
There's quite a few session contractors who wouldn't hire me for a while, but I have one really loyal contractor who believes in me and knows I'm the best player.
So on the side of my tech job, I teach a little bit and I play sessions all the time, which is...
how I've been able to get my playing into the movies and onto Netflix and at Barack Obama's second inauguration.
That's my recorded playing everywhere.
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