S9E4 (Ep 101) How Humans Used To Sleep / The Best Horror Comedies Ranked

Humans didn't always sleep 8 hours. And ranking horror comedies is somehow harder than ranking either genre on its own. This week we cover both. Christina takes the science chair for the history of sleep. She walks through how humans actually slept before electricity (spoiler: not in one long stretch), the "first sleep" and "second sleep" pattern that dominated for centuries, why the Industrial Revolution rewrote our sleep schedules almost overnight, and what the research says about whether the way we sleep now is even good for us. Turns out the 8-straight-hours rule might be a modern invention we all just accepted. Then Caleb rolls into a full ranking of horror comedies. The genre nobody takes seriously and everybody secretly loves. He breaks down the movies that nailed both the scares and the laughs, the ones that whiffed on one and coasted on the other, and the surprise picks that shouldn't work but absolutely do. If you've been looking for a Halloween-season watchlist that doesn't take itself too seriously, this is the segment. Two hosts. Two unrelated topics. One episode that somehow makes sense by the end. Contact us at stuffthatwelikepodcast@gmail.com with any questions, corrections, or your own horror comedy ranking hot takes!