Ed Helms

Yeah, that's with care and a bit more mindful.

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When segregation was the law, one mysterious Black club owner had his own rules.

Inside Charlie's Place, Black and white people danced together.

But not everyone was happy about it.

A homicide captain saying, detective, do not find out if this guy's guilty or innocent.

Who does that?

I wouldn't do it alone.

Congress said no to Jefferson, but he didn't give up.

He had friends in high places.

And as the former ambassador to France, he noticed that their system really seemed to be clicking along pretty well.

So by 1793, the history gets a little fuzzy.

It's unclear whether Jefferson officially placed the order or if France was simply eager to export their own shiny new system abroad.

But what is clear is that

France sent one of their brightest minds, physician and botanist and overall badass explorer, Joseph Dombey, carrying two precious artifacts to the United States.

A metal rod measuring exactly one meter.

This was like a standard that could then be used as a sort of master standard.

And a small copper cylinder weighing precisely one kilogram, also to be a standard.

But as Dombey will soon learn, nothing invites disaster quite like crossing the Atlantic with priceless objects and a calm sense of optimism.

Well, this comes to the pirates.