Ed Calderon

I got a lot of messages about it, like, hey.

This was kind of coincidentally at the start of this pandemic.

Don't put this on me.

I mean, you were directly responsible for those to become this viral popular thing.

Like few people knew about them, but they became this international thing now.

Like everybody talks about death whistles now.

Because of it.

Yeah.

I mean, it definitely keeps you up at night.

Seeing people do pranks with them, just screaming them randomly in the middle of the night in the street.

Yeah.

People running around.

People keep finding them.

I mean, Aztec is a modern word for Mexica, which were a bunch of tribes that moved from northern America down there.

And they brought with them a lot of customs, but I think those were around before them.

You know, a lot of them emulated animals.

So a lot of it was, like, shamanistic, people trying to imbue themselves with the spirit of an animal.

So a lot of them, you know, have jaguar sounds coming out.

But some of the ones with the scream, apparently, they're more about the screeching owls that live down there.

But they've been, like, people have told me, native people down there have told me that...