Zima

How'd you pay them? They took wampum.

No, ours was just a bunch of Zima's.

We're taking

over this town.

A

little Fresca.

Zima.

Yeah.

All right, this next one I'm going to play for you is apparently from 1994, if you're to believe the internet.

And what I think is interesting about this is just that it reminds us, every now and then, we need a reminder on this show, that there is a whole Zima campaign.

in the 90s that had this weird guy who would dress in a black sport coat and a white shirt buttoned up to the top, no tie, and like a black fedora style hat.

And he would talk directly to us, but he would replace all of the S's in his sentences with Z's.

And it was very 90s.

I mean...

Is there anything more 90s than a Zima commercial? Like, honestly,

it is.

Zuma.

Not Zima.

Zuma.

It was Zuma.

It was not.

Zima is a malt beverage of the 1980s.

That is bringing me back in time.

But I loved it, Sri.

Does that

ring a bell to anyone? Zima was a thing back in my day.

Oh, my high school was ruled by Zima.

Well, my

high school was Bartles and James.

So I'm not really dating myself.

So

the Zima of mine, the Bartles and James is the truly in all the whatever stuff they're drinking nowadays.

even ask.

Do you remember Zima?

Of course.

I want to

cry when I think about Zima.

I used

to not be able to have tequila, but I've slowly worked it back in.

No, no harm, no foul kind of thing.

I think when I first had a drink, you know, for the reason to have a drink, I was 13 or 14 and went to a concert with some relatives and got a six pack of Zima, me and my cousin.

And we sat in the back of a van and drank the Zima and went and listened to music and It was fun.

And that was kind of the start of it.

And there was no consistency at all at that point, but probably about sophomore, junior year of high school, me and my buddies really, really got into drinking and smoking weed.

You've got your caffeine.

I've got a Zima in the cooler.

viewers don't know I've secretly from my Sprite Zero with Crystal

1987 from from about say 89 from 1989 about what was that when you saw the uh Grateful Dead did you have the Zima in the parking lot of course there's something about this Zima

yes you remember boku Richard Lewis did the commercials for it

Oh my gosh, yes, I do remember

this now.

That was right around the same time as Zima.

It was clear Pepsi.

It was my beloved Zima.

I miss the clear trend.

Yep.

Actually, it's all Max's fault.

He's the one that started it.

He was the one that first created the Zima Fizz song, and I finally got on board.

It is amazing the quality of tunes that they are able to pump out.

And that was a thing in the early '90s, and it went away very-

Really? Do you like Zima too? You always liked Zima?

I was talk-

You guys talking Coke and Crystal.

What's going on over here? [laughs]

I was too young, I was too young to even drink.

By the time Zima was gone, I was, I wasn't even drinking yet.

That's, yeah, so.