#2369 - Ed Calderon
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The Joe Rogan Experience.
Showing by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Art Bell was the best. Driving home from the comic store at like 1 o'clock in the morning and hearing some dude who claimed he was 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.
He was open to just talking to anyone.
He never called bullshit.
No. 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. Probably. That's... 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. 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. 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 that 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. Yeah. People running around.
What is the origin of that? Like... Aztec death whistles, 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 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... They were very much specifically kind of utilized for psychological effect.
Just to fuck with people. Yeah, make them not sleep. During these flower wars where they would have with, I think, the classical Tecans, they had this agreement where they would go and try and capture people to bring back to the pyramid to sacrifice. Um, and the way they would, they would, uh, you know, tire them is to blow those at night where they were in camp or where the, where the places where they were about to attack. So, you know, lose sleep with those, like a few hundred of those just people can be really devious. Yeah. When they know how to mess with your head. Yeah. The Mexica, people glorify a lot of people from Mexico. 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 Aztec tattoos on their back and stuff like that.
But that's the losing side, though.
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