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What's an ee-zed pee-zed?
As @ralf knows, most of the world calls the letter Z, "zed". For some reason, the letter Z is called "zee" in the US. This article explains it as well as any. It was the first hit from my web search:
https://www.rd.com/article/americans-british-pronounce-zee/
Describing an "ee-zed pee-zed" is left as an exercise to the reader. To me, it sounds like a knock-off of a kid's toy dispenser that pushes out awful, chalky "candy".
That seems like an abuse of statistics.
There are twice as many Americans as Brits, Australians, Canadians, and New Zealanders combined.
So one could say that by a factor of 2-to-1, native English speakers pronounce the letter as "zee" while there is a small faction that pronounces it as "zed".