Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2369 - Ed Calderon
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2369 - Ed Calderon' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-08-22. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2369 - Ed Calderon

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Art Bell was the best, driving home from the comedy store at like 1 o'clock in
the morning
and hearing some dude who claimed you as a time traveler.
Remember when there was a dude that claimed to work at Area 51 and then the
radio show cut out?
Yeah, that was a good one.
Art was the man.
That's why we put that photo up there.
Because he was, you know, a lot of the subjects that we covered, he was the
original guy talking about these things on the radio.
Yeah, and the fact that he just kept the open lines.
If you're a time traveler, just call in and tell us what's going to happen in
the future.
People that were kidnapped by Bigfoot.
No matter what, Art was like, interesting, tell me more.
Yeah, yeah.
Like he was open to just talking to anyone.
He never called bullshit.
No.
Oh, no.
So, Ed, the last time I saw you, you gave me an Aztec death whistle and Brian
Callen blew it on the air and it caused the pandemic.
He was very good at it out of nowhere.
He just like grabbed it and...
We have another one.
Oh, no.
Don't.
Look at this.
Luke Caverns gave us this one.
Yeah.
That's a good one, right?
That is a beautiful one.
Probably, let's not repeat it again.
I'm not blowing it.
I don't know if it's true or not true, but it's an odd coincidence.
It definitely was.
I got a lot of messages about it like, hey, this was kind of coincidentally at
the start of this pandemic.
Like, don't put this on me.
Listen, man, people have been blowing them whistles all over the world.
Yeah.
There's a bunch of those whistles out there.
There's no way.
There's no way.
No.
The only thing is I don't think anybody ever blew one on a podcast that was
seen by millions of people.
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.
Well, I don't know.
They are weird.
The sound is creepy.
Yeah.
You know?
Definitely weird.
Ghostly.
Yeah, if you heard dudes in the distance making that noise and you knew the
people were after you and you heard that, you'd be like, oh, fuck.
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.
You know, people running around.
What is the origin of that?
Like, Aztec death whistles, like, when did they start using them?
Does anybody know?
People keep finding them.
I mean, Aztec is a modern word for Mexica, which were a bunch of tribes that
moved from northern, you know, 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 view themselves with
the spirit of an animal.
So, a lot of them, you know, have jaguar sounds coming out.
Mm-hmm.
But some of the ones that, with the scream, apparently, they're more about the
screeching owls that live down there.
Oh.
But they've been, like, people have told me, Native people down there have told
me that they were very much specifically kind of utilized for psychological
effect.
Just to fuck with people.
Yeah.
You know, make them not sleep.
During these flower wars where they would have with, I think, the classical Tekkens,
they had this agreement where they would go and try and capture people to bring
back to the pyramid to sacrifice.
And the way they would, you know, tire them is to, you know, blow those at
night where they were encamped or the places where they were about to attack.
So, you know, lose sleep with those.
Like, a few hundred of those just...
Yeah, people can be really devious.
Yeah.
When they know how to mess with your head.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, the Mexica, people glorify a lot of people from Mexico, like,
everybody's Aztec.
You're probably not Aztec.
You're probably some other tribe that didn't lose that initial conquest.
Yeah.
A lot of badass dudes have, like, Aztec tattoos on their back and stuff like
that.
But that's the losing side, though.
The Spanish came and allied themselves with everybody that hated the Aztecs.
Oh.
Including, like, the Tlaxcultecans, who were apparently, like, badasses.
The Aztecs used to send tax collectors out to them, and apparently one of them
didn't come back, according to one story.
And the soldiers came over, like, hey, where's our tax collector?
Let's feed you before we talk about anything.
So they fed them pozole.
And at the end of the meal, they were like, well, you can take your people back
with you.
Where are they?
You just ate them.
They were in the stew.
And those are the guys that the Spanish allied with fight against the Mexica.
Jesus.
The history of Mexico is so strange.
I mean, it's so long and storied, and there's so many chapters of it that are
very confusing.
Because, like, where'd the Mayans go?
Like, when they found the Aztec pyramids, people weren't even living in them
when the people eventually wound up living in them.
They found them.
Teotihuacan.
Yeah.
Which they call, it's basically the city of the gods, is what the Aztecs called
them because they didn't, it was abandoned when they went through.
Which is nuts.
Yeah.
They were, the Aztecs, in essence, were violent immigrants coming from the
north into the south, which is pretty interesting foresight.
But, you know, but, yeah, the city was abandoned completely.
And when they passed through, it was the city of the gods.
They called the pyramid of the sun and the moon.
But, realistically, nobody knows what those pyramids are for.
And when they made their way into the Valley of Mexico, there were already a
bunch of tribes already there.
And peoples, older peoples.
So, Mexico has an ancient history.
People that want to assume that the Aztecs are ancient history don't know
anything about history.
They're pretty new on the scene as far as history when it comes to Mexico.
Which is really crazy.
Yeah, yeah.
And it's really crazy that most modern people don't even, I mean, especially in
America, don't even understand that the reason why everybody speaks Spanish is
because of the Spaniards.
Yeah.
It's not that the Mexican native language was Spanish.
No.
No, it was the language they assumed once they were conquered.
Yeah.
And there's a bunch of lost languages.
Yeah.
Something interesting happened with them and Hernán Cortes and the conquista
and the Spanish are all perfect villains in history, I guess.
People, it's perfect, man.
If you kind of look at it from the outside perspective.
Colonial invasion.
But when you look at it, I mean, they were just getting off their own conquest.
They were conquested by the Moors.
So, they were getting free from that.
So, they were already mixed in there.
They're brown people on that boat.
It's not blonde-haired white people coming on that boat.
There's already brown people on that boat coming.
Hernán Cortes is very much painted as a villain in this story.
But when you kind of look at the ways that the conquest took place in Mexico
versus other parts of the world, there was a lot of brutality.
There was a lot of ignorance, a lot of religious nonsense on both sides because
the Aztecs also did a lot of horrible things.
But in the end, I think Mexico went the route of mestizaje.
We decided to mix.
Like, the Spanish decided to take wives among the natives.
They decided to give honorary titles to the people that helped fight the Aztecs
to help with the conquest of what wasn't Mexico.
It was just this valley at that time.
And gave birth to this culture, this mixed culture that very much hates parts
of itself, which is a weird part of Mexican culture.
Because you ask anybody in Mexico, a lot of people, and I went to Mexican
school, so I got a lot of this education of how the evil Spanish came in and
wiped out all of the natives, you know, or most of the natives.
When, in reality, a lot of us in Mexico have mixed blood.
Most of us have mixed blood.
There's a lot of Spanish blood in us.
So, we were very much taught to hate ourselves in a way.
And I think that has something to do with a lot of the psychology and the
culture in Mexico.
There's a whole part of our history and ourselves that we hate, but it's
essential.
Like, we say, like, the president of Mexico, the past president, the current
president, are all about sending the king of Spain letters to have him
apologize for the conquista.
And it's funny, like, some of the bloggers from Spain will respond, like, you're
asking that in Spanish.
Yeah, right?
And you're probably an ancestor of those very people.
So, it's kind of you more than us.
Yeah.
Because we didn't even go over there.
We're still here.
Yes.
And people ask where the Mayas went.
They're there.
You go down there, you meet people.
They look exactly like the paintings.
If you've ever been to the Anthropological Museum in Mexico, which I highly ask
people to go and visit, it's beautiful.
They have a whole Mayan exhibit there.
And it's, like, startling how their culture was so advanced, so detailed, so
detail-orientated.
And they, you know, the whole feeling of them just being gone or, like,
disappearing as a mystery.
But then, you go down there, but then you go down there and you see these
people there.
They look Mayan.
Yeah.
They look very different.
It's interesting.
You know, I went to Chichen Itza.
And first of all, you just, I mean, I know that the pyramids of Egypt dwarf
even that.
But when you go there, you're like, what happened?
Like, how did you guys do this?
Like, how are you building these immense stone structures in the jungle way
before Europeans ever settled into America?
Like, way before there was anything like this anywhere else.
A lot of strong backs, a lot of work ethic, you know, there's no doubt.
There's no doubt.
There was a lot of that.
But there was also a lot of, like, incredibly sophisticated engineering.
Yeah.
Like, this isn't just, like, a one-time project.
You got it right the first time.
Like, how were you guys so good at, like, when you look at the Chichen Itza
pyramids, where you can't walk up them anymore, unfortunately.
But when I was...
Yeah, you'll get lynched.
Yeah, you get in big trouble.
But when I was there back in the day, you could climb up them.
This is, like, I guess, early 2000.
And you were allowed to walk up that.
But they'll fuck you up now.
There's just been videos of people doing things and then the locals...
They'll get lynched in the bottom if you manage to climb that thing right now.
Yeah, people are like...
There's a watch guy all the way on the top and a bunch of dogs always on...
That's a weird thing about old pyramids.
I don't know why dogs, like, hang out up there.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Like, the one in the Sun Pyramid in Mexico, there's always dogs on top of it.
And this one, there's also always dogs on top of it.
Like, feral dogs or domestic dogs?
Yeah, just wild dogs just hang out out there.
But, I mean, when you see these things, like, give us some of the images of...
And when you see some of these...
There's some dogs.
When you see some of these pyramids like that, like, that's so different.
I mean, that is so sophisticated.
It's so bizarre.
Yeah.
We had a really good guide there when I went.
And the guide was showing us this one area where they would take whatever
psychedelic plants.
They had, like, some ceremonial room where they would take psychedelic plants.
And he was telling me that it's not totally understood what they were doing or
why they were doing.
But it is widely accepted that some of what they were into had to do with
psychedelic rituals.
And he thinks that had a lot to do with why they were able to make these kind
of insanely complex structures.
And a weird thing that I've also kind of, like, realized after just talking to
people and going down there and kind of seeing some of the art