SleepyCast 14 - [The Water People]

[@PepsiMan666]

"Like they say in Missouri, I ain't going back to Missouri."

[@SirMoFoDans4]

@Basement Bohab cool beans dude

[@collingriga1819]

Nobody knows this but Missouri’s biggest city st Lois has the most violent crime per square foot, more than Compton. They also are fist place in hammer murders 👍🏼

[@dysgeusia999]

Cory: *says something outlandish and ridiculous* Niall/Chris: *repeats exactly what Cory says* Cory: NO THAT’S NOT WHAT I’M SAYING AT ALL

[@meatmobile]

Cory is *really* bad at making a point and its easy to tell what he means in retrospect but what he ends up saying in the moment is the funniest shit

[@c.j.griffin]

I've been listening to Sleepycast for the past 2-3 years, and re-listening to them from beginning to end on a loop whenever I'm cooking or commuting or falling asleep, etc. Yet despite hearing these podcasts so many times, it never fails to surprise me how much of a fever dream Cory is. His entire life and memories are just these fractured slithers of substance that he seems to just fill in the gaps for, filled with contradictions that he denies but also gives active voice to. The man's an engima of unparalleled proportion.

[@cantwakeuppng]

Christopher Griffin This is an incredibly accurate comment.

[@finallyaleks]

Right there with you, holy shit.

[@Marci124]

That's a very generous and overly nice way of putting it... EDIT: right on cue I heard 37:52 "Yeah, that's a good point, maybe you're just a fucking idiot, Cory."

[@monos1754]

He's an scp.

[@NekoBoyOfficial]

I'm really sad it's over. I've never loved a podcast more.

[@JoeAconite]

Sometimes I think Cory lives a life filtered like the Pyro in TF2, but with nightmarish fantasies.

[@ELSTINKO.]

Hey 3 years in the future. valve ruined the fun in that game so have fun while you can

[@KirbySmasher48]

@@ELSTINKO. hey 6 years later just play it lol

[@OwainTheGreat]

heavy update coming soon

[@tylercoon1791]

Reverse Pyro-vision

[@Adrenaline0413]

@@OwainTheGreat LOL heavy update coming soon. I wish i could laugh but, this isnt funny anymore :(

[@KRABPXL]

The way corey describes his hometown just sounds like rock bottom from spongebob

[@brodem]

Cory's water people story is just Shadows over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft

[@liquidpebbles7475]

Lol yeah

[@Youg00dbr0]

He was right tho

[@worldcure7883]

Except it's actually true. Go visit the boonies of St. Louis, you won't be disappointed.

[@coulsoncrawford2456]

At 22:36 Chris says "Let Cory talk." And Nial says "Its going to be MORE nonsense!" I've always liked that bit

[@floppyj.burger5402]

Corey’s home town was the inspiration for the setting in resident evil 7

[@PlayNiceFolks]

Yep

[@TheTGOAC]

It was based in Louisiana. I'm from Louisiana I have a friend named Ethan. Based on a true story

[@toasterboi5603]

Underrated Cory quote “they must have had a Water Party”.

[@josephdiaz2182]

i squeeled laughing

[@SpaceBakerys]

i want to laugh but its really fucked up that corey’s hometown suffered from lead poisoning and the reason why corey is the way he is bc of that

[@ImmuneToKnives]

I've met a "water person" at my job before. He's a maintenance guy (Janitor) and he looks like he's in his own little world. Staring into space, and when he talks to you, he just stares at you with a blank expression, no idea what he's talking about and it's scary as hell.

[@deathhzrd]

No that would make him cool daddy ;)))

[@sjcrocker98]

Did ... We have the same maintenance guy? This is spot-the-fuck-on.

[@quietnumber2317]

Cory is literally talking about fucking lead poisoning.

[@dietcoke759]

Or drugs and his parents were trying to protect him.

[@Anonymouthful]

@@dietcoke759 Could easily be both.

[@thatsthesystem]

@@dietcoke759 You're really good at repeating theories of other people. Good job. Keep thinking for yourself.

[@dietcoke759]

@@thatsthesystem the fuck you talking about

[@victorsaltos5678]

Or the neurotoxin sodium fluorite

[@whiskeycorridor90]

do Oneyplays: Furcadia

[@ChaseFace]

KZbin would take that shit down in 3 seconds. (I wish he'd do it, though.)

[@johnathonjohnston1598]

They could do it if they censored it

[@Thebes342]

***** Why would it be taken down? There's no graphic imagery in that game as far as I know, and the worst it probably gets is dirty roleplay or something.

[@PhantomStubLoL]

Patrick Parrish Pretty sure Furcadia isn't around anymore, right?

[@Thebes342]

Comfy Spaceman Yeah, that game's still around. Charlie G I imagine it'd be a pretty pixelated dick, but even then I think worse has gotten past KZbin's guidelines.

[@Kanohoro]

It's amazing to think that the one thing that saved Chris and Corey from becoming furries were house prices

[@GayIncel]

But Cory Is a furry

[@GayIncel]

@The Final Aeon Momentary that's why he was always on furcadia

[@merucrypoison296]

Just like real life

[@Salamandra40k]

Cory literally draws furry p**n lol, tf do you mean "becoming" he already is

[@Hollow_Tim]

@@Salamandra40k You don't need to be a furry to draw that

[@BoopinSnakeBandito]

One time I was at a bar in Missouri and I mentioned how I'm an out of towner and heard jokes about the water having weird qualities. The bartender chuckled at me and in broken slurred half-english he said to me "yur funny fur uh strynjurr. yew sawnd firsty muh frend" and he poured me a glass of tap water and didn't break eye contact once. I paid my tab and swiftly got the fuck outta there. That's how they get you, folks.

[@BioticPlatypus]

That's like a scene from a fucking horror movie. They were going to turn you. Or eat you.

[@bettya.k.abetty8259]

Corey ain't joking about water people. I lived near St. Louis for a bit on a consulting job when I did an internship for Monsanto. I stayed in Belleville Illinois, I bet Corey knows exactly what place I'm referring to. The water there was so toxic I bought nothing but bottled water for the two years I was there. The smell of the water alone made me gag when I would take my showers or do dishes. Sometimes it was alright but other times it smelled like pure amoebas. I learned about a famous water person named Susan Stone Aka David Stone Aka the dance of life dancer. Water people are real they walk among us

[@rianwestling115]

Lived around that area for a few weeks for work and I can second that the water is horrible

[@thatsthesystem]

Explain to me exactly what an Amoeba smells like?

[@DBRX5]

I have lived in Belleville my whole life. I think there was something wrong with your tap. Our water has always been fine. Let Cory speak for Missouri; Illinois' water is clean. I do know about that dance of life dancer character, with their obnoxious pink van. This town has it's quirks but it's not all that bad. Definitely a lot of water people in the whole general SE Missouri/SW Illinois area, I'll tell ya that.

[@thatsthesystem]

@@DBRX5 that's not true.

[@jobdylan5782]

that was sulfur

[@hammo-og]

Chris's laughter at Niall's pants falling down is so fucking genuine and hilarious, made only funnier by his calling him a 'fucking dumpling' oh my god

[@screwthepresent9630]

Pretty sure Corey just grew up in Little Innsmouth or some shit like that

[@TheHawkbam]

I thought the same thing. He's straight up describing Innsmouth.

[@dickfaggotson5448]

+Hawkbam the most fucked up thing is that they're exactly like the those hillbillys in that fallout 3 DLC. They're fucking mutants.

[@screwthepresent9630]

Dick Faggotson You know that the subtext of Shadow Over Innsmouth was race-mixing? It's neat. Lovecraft wrote it because he discovered that, to his horror, his great-grandmother had been... Welsh!

[@Pat0p]

+screwthepresent It does sound very H. P.

[@secondandonly8032]

+Dick Faggotson that's exactly what I thought

[@AIagremm]

Cory's story seems like something straight out of Lovecraft. It's like a mix of 'Colour out of Space' and 'Shadow over Innsmouth'.

[@anewspinonthings]

Alagremm true that man

[@maxkennedy7430]

The fishmen.

[@ghostcat11]

@@maxkennedy7430 fun fact! he wrote it because he found out he was part welsh

[@naterksmr]

24:27 "Everyone's a water person, except for the people who aren't." Oh, okay. Thanks for clearing that up, Cory

[@TheJackOfAllVideos]

Does anyone remember the days when DVD's would have games in the extras?

[@night1hal1]

31:26 "I've done the XD's and the double-D's, I wanna talk about toys again" - Cory Spazkid

[@TheWyman55_]

I'm now officially the same age as these guys when this first came out. I'm glad they're just as passionate as me when it comes to the discussion of toys and other topics, it makes having the auts a little more bearable

[@magicsmoke311]

I keep forgetting Chris is Irish until he says something like "heart"

[@Jopake3]

Hært

[@krampuskardashian5890]

He swings between Burbank and Wexford without blinking an glass eye.

[@TCMurray92]

Or Cyar

[@bigbillyboombutt]

He sounds like a fuckin newfie

[@deenodino6243]

@@bigbillyboombutt god I thought the same thing too

[@winterice8492]

I had a metal detector that my dad got me. I actually wanted one and it was pretty cheap at the time, but problem was that I live in miami where all this terra forming happened so most of the time I just went to the beach with it and only find beer bottles. At one point, For some reason I decided to use it in my back yard and apparently I found something. So this ended up with me grabbing a big shovel and just digging my way through, then I found out that it was the internet/phone wire and I accidentally cut it causing all the neighboring houses to loss connection. I was charged with vandalism and had to pay $10,000 to fix it. Basically I fucking got gasoline and lit the metal detector after that.

[@JenerikEt]

I love Chris tripping over the word anthropomorphic and then Cory tripping over it trying to correct him

[@justjim8243]

Cory's life is like a terrible action/ survival movie made by M Night Shamalan.

[@jo1681]

Looking back on this and Missouri's current water issue, I'm pretty sure Cory's family was up to something

[@Abdega]

“Up to” or “on to” ? “Up to” makes me think as if they caused it somehow

[@DigitalVomitTV]

but seriously, there was a small town that was basically poisoned through their roads and water and shit, like a bunch of companies trying to cheaply dump toxic materials

[@warmedtoast]

re

[@warmedtoast]

kxo

[@warmedtoast]

it’s

[@Dylans3Tears]

The first sleepycast without Zach. Damn.

[@jaxtheloner]

I'm from Missouri. The "water people" Corey is talking about is just meth heads. He describes them perfectly. The mouth thing cuz their teeth and jaw is deteriorated, walking around like tweakers, always tryna rip you off on a deal lol

[@garfoonga1]

no, he's talking about lead poisoning from lead lined water pipes in most homes and infrastructure throughout the usa

[@capnskullkid3849]

​@@garfoonga1 nah hes talking about the meople

[@YT-zx4wr]

@@garfoonga1 its both

[@walterrising4276]

​@@garfoonga1He's talking about Missouri, not Michigan

[@TheWyman55_]

Actually he's talking about water people

[@Jesse-rw5gh]

I have family in Alabama and they have a little vacation cabin along the Alabama river and as southern as my family is, even theyre afraid of the river people that live there permanently. They avoid them like the plague when we visit

[@danielmacpherson8487]

'I Hate Yellow cause I'm Auts' send me into a laughing fit... I shouldn't watch these at 2am

[@desolatorthefailist152]

Christopher Boone up in here.

[@junkmode]

Cory's the most water people sounding person i know.

[@RetroEjit]

I've listened to this three times now and I still cant tell if Corey was talking about Meth heads, Hill Billies, Crazy Homeless people or a magical combination of all three when talking about Water People. To quote Zach "Corey you scare me when you say stuff like that!"

[@SpaceFrog999]

If you still care, most likely lead poisoning. From lead in the water.

[@monsieurlemon]

cory was talking about how mk ultra came to his hometown

[@FlyManChimera]

I grew up in California and I lived in Southern Missouri for about a year, everything he says is accurate. It really is a whole new world

[@KingsizeKini]

Holy shit, the story about Cory's dad and the tire almost killed me. That's so fucking weird.

[@zyrus9188]

Cory's parents are Preppers right?

[@sunnivamhagatun]

yea, doomsday preppers to be specific

[@ZedLeppelin1989]

This whole episode is a fucking fever dream

[@cosmopreston343]

the very limit of my darkest imaginations could not even begin to visualize the nightmare that is Cory's mind

[@aeris091]

we have water people in texas too

[@aeris091]

i think they're just crackheads

[@nis5e]

The Idiodyssey Yeah, along with Guns, right? FUCKING OMNIRACIST CISGOD STOP OPRESSING ME

[@cloudsofuncertainty]

water people that live near houston get like that because they smoke too much fake weed

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

GameBreaker its funny because thats not a joke.

[@citrusblast4372]

i think i am one :(

[@chromie6571]

Hello future me. I’m going to rewatch this again a year from now because this podcast is great while gaming. Hello other person reading this. ily mwah

[@Itgetsbetterofficial]

That day is coming up

[@SkinkySquamata]

ily too 😘

[@Mattriix]

Cory: "Everybody is water people but not everybody, they're not officially called water people but they're officially called water people" I love you Cory 😂

[@Null_And_Void]

1:03:00 "Dude I dont even know what i say half the time" That explains Corey a lot

[@aenoire]

Yeah there's a lot of people like that in southern Louisiana too actually..

[@awllypollyas8292]

aenoire those are called Cajuns

[@henrynelson9301]

“There are different kinds of them. There’s children water people, there’s animal water people”

[@Corkoth55]

38:17 "maybe he got you attire" one of Niall's underappreciated moments.

[@CoasterSn00p]

“Niall, dot your eyes and q’s” remains one of my favorite sentences ever

[@hughglass3692]

The chance that Cory is going to utter a sentence that makes sense is about 1/8. It’s actually astonishing.

[@nicksilvestri7123]

HAHAHA I fuckin lost it when Cory was talking about the water people in trance around the fire

[@WnRPlays]

Best podcast channel ever, listening since day one and I still pop them on every now and again. Crazy how I watched a movie about water people back in 2019. Corey knew long ago, 6 years ago I thought he was making it up.

[@GUNS_jk]

You guys mentioning that Johnny Johnny thing, really sent a shiver down my spine.

[@brodieknight772]

Cory lives with the family from Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[@marykatethompson3911]

Oh my god nothing much has changed, I was in college when I would listen to these episodes while working on projects in the computer lab and now I'm listening to them for nostalgia fun while working on a logo commission. anyways, I relate to Cory when he was ranting about not being able to afford lamp oil when he can barely afford groceries. 2024 economy suuuuuuuucks.

[@O_O__69420]

39:06 "When I was a little wee ba ba, a little we child with a fat tit." WTF ARE THESE GUYS ON 🤣🤣. iDK WHY THAT SO FUNNY TO ME

[@homersimpson3800]

"Chris, you have a wide selection of toys with you at the age of 24." There I am, Gary, there I am!

[@Slaptastica]

The water people of Missouri are the greatest mystery of all time

[@Mythonaut]

Cory was the original Alex Jones

[@dr.aisaitl7439]

"Stink eye for the pink guy" I don't know why I laughed at that

[@mrmeatman]

20:14 - the legend is born.

[@tuser8]

Johnny Johnny and Bionicle in a 2015 video. These guys are either creating memes or ahead of their time.

[@Zlarel]

Zach Hadel, please oh please add Water People to Smiling Friends

[@lemonxpaun]

1:10:59 this made me laugh more than it should but he combined the sayings “dot your i’s and cross your t’s” and “mind your p’s and q’s” into one thing lol love the way Cory’s brain works

[@sunnivamhagatun]

i would watch a movie about Cory’s life omg

[@molybdenumrose]

THE COOL THING ABOUT YIFFY HIGH SCHOOL...

[@dittocopys]

hearing lamp oil while animating Morshu from Zelda hits different

[@AvocadoLord]

Damn. I listened to this when it came out, but the water people story makes sense now that we know about Missouri's lead problems.

[@JimMilton-ej6zi]

Every person from missouri i've asked about water people, they replied "i have never heard that term before but i know exactly what he's talking about"

[@thistubeisraw3748]

Omg the water people are just the locals from the Fallout 3 Point Lookout DLC

[@eskeleto532]

As a BIONICLE collector whose childhood was greatly affected by the franchise, this podcast was fucking awesome! I feel it's so rare for people to mention this awesome thing outside the fandom...

[@nullifytheshark2423]

Dude, Bionicles were, and still are, the absolute HYPEST shit. I am so glad they brought them back last year. I watched all the movies, AND LIKED THEM TOO.

[@Oliver-Lewis]

Cross referencing Corys stories with actual events and statistics in missouri, it would be highly possible for him to have been in the perfect vendiagram of drug addicts (meth-amphetamine, spice aka synthetic weed, heroin), toxic landfills and chemical spills with potential for brain eating amoebas to exist within the local area water supply, as well having unusually high rate of birth defects and learning disabilities.

[@SamTheMightyMan]

Whoa youre yiffing me at yiffy high school

[@Lunaluna11000]

I can't stop listening to these guys 0.0

[@CoffinSauceSipper]

People who are like AW FUCK COREY obviously never have been in contact with water people. Don't worry the people who know know

[@pangalaxy2885]

Please, you might be my last hope. I'm surrounded by them, they're mumbling about Nascar. I'm begging you, send help.

[@truenickspivak]

@@pangalaxy2885 are you okay now a days? Did anyone send help?

[@sayosweeti5757]

@@truenickspivak uh oh

[@BeanerMan13]

Corey saying "I don't even know what the fuck I'm saying half the time, dude" 💀

[@southernfriedmedia3968]

Cory is gonna grow up to be just like his dad

[@Abdega]

The cycle continues…

[@jacobstevens8519]

14:50 to 15:21 Chris said "like" so many times I lost count

[@Snoopyrobo]

Jake S 20 times

[@deftdeltron9944]

It hurts my fuckin brain,everytime i listen to american people talk they use '' like'' so much that i start grinding my teeth and get a headache... Why?? Why did this had to become a thing?

[@jacobstevens8519]

Deft Deltron Chris isn't american

[@ieatgarbage8771]

Deft Deltron maybe that’s you’re problem and not 2/3 of English speakers’ problem

[@AnonsFunFactory]

The Water People is just that Lovecraft story 'Shadow Over Innsmouth'. Where people grow up as humans and return to the sea as fish people.

[@lmn_godie2598]

"Wow you're yiffing me"

[@josharoo22]

Why does Cory's life seem like he's living in another fucking dimension

[@coryleonard3262]

Good lord, its been a few years since i went back to these. Good time passers when you work.

[@EpicWaffleWEEGEE]

I had to research what Furcadia was. Never again.

[@markanthony4546]

7 years later and I still have no idea if the water people are the result of an infection or if they’re amoebas that evolved into sentient humans.

[@KidCop2011]

Holy shit I didn't know the Johnny Johnny shit was going on this long ago too lol

[@CreamCityEric]

As a resident of Missouri, I'm not surprised when I hear about Corey's dad or the water people. Misery indeed.

[@pyrotechnick420]

If they ever make a movie about Cory's life they need to cast Daniel Day Lewis as Cory's Dad

[@MapleBeeSticky]

It's honestly amazing Corey hasn't just.....died

[@greaniebeaniez3070]

the amount of toxins in the water he drank keeps him alive

[@patrickdbuck]

I'm going through the episodes in order, and this is the third episode I've said "This is my favorite episode" to. Oh my god. It just keeps getting funnier

[@AvalonsMessenger]

I have some oddly fond memories from my youth of the PS2 Bionicle game thank you for allowing me to tarnish those memories with the knowledge of just how shitty that game actually is

[@yellowbearanimations]

I wanna be best friends with Corey. He’s like everything I like to talk about but can never find anyone to talk about them to.

[@m.c.i.d23]

You cant stop me from re listening to these

[@pacnb]

Most underrated joke in the podcast is Nial's "tired" pun at 37:03 though.

[@ChaseFace]

I laughed WAY too fucking hard at the power rangers + dog part. I think we all have some fucked up childhood memories we aren't proud of.

[@Bebop1811]

thank you for making me remember them

[@bigdaddydons6241]

Jesus its been so long but I think Cory is the protagonist of shadow over innsmouth, this is some lovecraftian shit happening here

[@darobow]

Hahaha I want to see the second life footage of them interrupting the church or sermon or whatever the hell was going on!

[@ScaryBoiSupreme]

Oney "I'd like a Samus toy, please" Nintendo "WHAT SORRY DID YOU SAY 5 DIFFERENT MARIO FIGURES?"

[@Abdega]

Oney: No, a zero suit samus Nintendo: Zero Suit Mario? YOU GOT IT!

[@damiencrowley5039]

Dude BIONOCLES and HOTWHEELS were a big part of mine.

[@zootedandstoopid]

"Check the description" yes. I have fallen for that line more than i care to admit while watching this series

[@collingriga1819]

The biggest gathering of water people is lake of the ozarks Missouri. That place is dir-ty

[@TheHornet79]

55:08 my favorite Cori quote

[@JoshuaFishIndeed]

As a native Missourian, I can confirm that water people are real.