00:00 In this episode, the hosts discuss the crew and conditions on the Endeavour ship, as well as the role of Joseph Banks in collecting specimens during the voyage.

04:25 The crew of the Endeavour ship, including Joseph Banks, collected specimens and classified them during the trip, with Banks often fishing on the back of the ship, while Sidney Parkinson, a young Scotsman, recorded notes and created beautiful botanical paintings. Crossing the equator was a big deal for the crew, involving a ceremonial moment and a subversion of authority, with commissioned officers having to buy themselves off or be ducked by the ordinary seamen. The relationship between Banks and the cook was crucial to the success of the voyage.

08:17 Captain Cook, a common man with no status or hereditary honor, was in charge of the Endeavour ship, and his power dynamics with Joseph Banks, who was used to getting his way, were interesting to observe throughout the voyage.

12:10 The first encounters with the people of Tahiti were described as vivid and beautiful, with the sailors being struck by the colors of the water and the mountains, although their perception may have been distorted by scurvy.

16:13 The Tahitians found the British sailors to be dirty and observed that they had different attitudes towards property, while the British sailors initially thought the Tahitians were thieves but later realized they were not that impressed with their ship, considering it to be just a big canoe.

20:19 In Turanga Nui, an encounter between Cook's crew and the Maori resulted in a shooting, a hongi greeting, and eventually violence, leading to Cook being seen as a murdering bastard in New Zealand.

24:46 Captain Cook had high standards for how people should treat indigenous people and indigenous knowledge, and he disliked Cook's habit of renaming places, seeing it as cultural vandalism; Cook admitted to making a mistake in the Pacific episode and was accused of being incompetent and a murderer, but he never accepted that he had done anything wrong; Cook and his crew were unsure of what they were looking for in Australia and had a lot of uncertainty about the land they were exploring.

28:55 Captain Cook and his crew encountered a sense of apathy from the Aboriginal people in Australia, which they found unsettling and couldn't understand, leading to a disastrous and negative impact on the Polynesian heritage.

33:16 Captain Cook and his crew encounter the Great Barrier Reef, which poses a significant threat to their ship and could have resulted in the end of their journey and a different history for Australia.

37:01 The ship, renamed the Lord Sandwich, was later used as a troop carrier during the American War of Independence and eventually scuttled in Narragansett Bay in 1778.