Ed Helms

You're right that my idea is predicated on the assumption that we can locate the best minds.

These days, that seems extremely hard.

It's impossible.

I feel like in science, it shouldn't be that tricky, but-

Whatever.

So whatever happened to Dombey's mysterious kilo and meter rod?

What a find.

Yeah, we know where it is.

It landed in the lap of an American surveyor, Andrew Ellicott, who became famous for his work on the street plan for Washington, D.C.,

Around 1952, the Ellicott family eventually realized that they had something special, the descendants of Andrew Ellicott, and they turned the pieces of plundered treasure over to the agency that would become the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

That's cool.

Which is a really kind of a cool-sounding institute.

I don't know.

It's like people who really care about precise things.

Ed, do you really care about precision?

I think I do, almost involuntarily.

You like it.

I'm not a tidy, fastidious person, but I'm crafty with hobby stuff, and I am very meticulous about—

about sort of like things fitting and measuring properly.

I'm also weirdly, and this is to my own detriment, I am weirdly obsessed with like clarity when people are speaking or trying to make a point with me.