The Killing of Captain Cook | MeatEater Podcast Ep. 540
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Steven Rinella talks with Hampton Sides, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.
Topics discussed: Hampton's new book, The Wide, Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook is now out; Hampton's oeuvre; Ep. 298: Cooking Captain Cook; where Captain Cook got killed in Hawaii; get our last "fresh set of eyes finds new beans" t-shirt before they're gone; the scientific paper from our Bison Butchery with Clovis Points video has been published--read it HERE; book your spot with MeatEater Experiences to join Steve and the crew on a fishing trip in Louisiana and a waterfowl hunting trip in Kansas; confusing Captain Cook with Captain Hook, Captain Kirk, and Captain Crunch; a skilled map maker; avoiding scurvy on the exploration by eating hunted and foraged foods; the Earl of Sandwich; the first written account of massage; an obsession with iron; eating cockroach excrement and a ton of turtle; body parts; and more.
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I've always loved history. I've enjoyed this podcast very much. The MeatEater podcast is always a great listen, and I could listen to Steve all day long.
Happy Monday Meateaters!
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I’m halfway through this book. It’s amazing. 10/10 recommend. What id call a page turner. I don’t want to put it down.
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I found myself wandering through Barnes and nobles today. Then I remembered this episode and this man’s book. I found it and bought it! Looking forward to a captivating read 😊
I’m back again. I read The Wide Wide Sea. An amazing, IMMERSIVE, book that I desperately recommend to everyone I know and no matter how I describe it I feel I can’t do it justice. I’ve now bought Blood and Thunder and can’t wait to read it.
My wife went to Captain Cook Bay in Hawaii. That’s where she saw beauty and tragedy collide. I guess that’s many other places though. Great podcast!
What like someone get eaten by a shark during a picturesque sunset or something? Please elaborate
I am from Captain Cooks home town, we did learn about him in school. Which was great
No you’re not. The earth is flat. Big Round made Captain Cook (and Hawaii) up in 1800 to hide the failure to find a Northwest passage due to flatness. Look it up.
Btw, just in case you actually see this, I am totally joking around. I’d hate for you to see this and live your life thinking this was a serious comment😂.
If anyone is interested in Captain Cook in general check out The Explorer's Podcast, he did 10 episodes (6+hr) earlier this year on the Captains exploits.
Thank you! I'll go there to hear what Hampton has to say...Clearly, the host just wants to hear himself talk. Hampton just sat there for the 1st several minutes...It's RUDE to invite a guest and not get to them!!!!!
You clearly have never listened to the legend who calls himself Steve before.@@alisonsattler6396
1976, as a serving member of the Royal Australian Navy, we performed a ceremony at Captain Cooks Memorial Monument.
The Honour Guard was taken ashore on our ships launch. Our Gunnery Officer Lt V was the guard commander. Dressed in his crisp summer whites and as he stepped ashore he was met by a man and woman. They were very obviously living an 'alternative lifestyle'.
From memory this was the first honouring of Captain Cook onsite, since his demise.
I have a b&w photo of the ceremony still.
I tried buying one of those shirts, but they only had mediums left, and I ain't no medium. 😊
Same here.
Hoss
Same same
I'm 5' 8" 170lbs and I can't wear a medium 😂😂😂😂
Everyone’s a medium who tries hard enough.
They get to the book/topic at about 28:30
Love the interruptions from all sides
Out of all the fan-made outros so far, I like this one the best!
The man is smitten with his phrase. I can’t wait to pick up the shirt myself, a philosopher - up there with Socrates and Aristotle
Just bought the book. Fascinated with Cooke. Live in alaska and hawaii, giving boat tours and bring him up all the time
I’ve been waiting to start my work day until y’all dropped the episode today! 😂 happy meateater Monday!!
That was a 🦬💩story about taking a bite out of custers heart because after the battle of little bighorn when the Sioux won the ripped apart Custer down to his pee-hole,shoved an arrow thru that evan,but they were part of folk lore but my grandmother was there in pine ridge and she used to tell us another of the stories 🎉😁
Was just spearfishing and surfing on Maui 2 weeks ago. This episode is most welcome
Not for nothing but "patient role models" are what helps keep humans alive in the long run.
I love meateater. That said they missed out on the opportunity to close out the episode with Rolling Down to Old Maui
Shout out from Cape Town 🙏💪 love the pod more meateater hunting episodes please!! 2x a week
Anyone interested in the life, death and animals of James Cook should read “Cooks Ark” by New Zealander Alison Sutherland. It’s a fascinating story, esp regarding Cooks demise. Sutherland’s premise is that Cook was killed by Tahitians because they refused to sell him more pigs, those population he’d already depleted.
Wow! Hosers? take off hoser.. I vividly remember that movie...that's awesome my man!
There's no link to the paper. It says "HERE" in the notes but it's not a hyperlink. Also tried to buy one of the bean shirts but nothing my size left.
Always appreciate Steve saying Boise correctly
Another great episode. Can’t to see you in Sacramento.
to boldly go where no man has gone before ...! great story
Buying the book!
I notice yall never come to Yazoo, MS. WTF! It’s the Jewel of the Delta!
"Not a God nor Devil but only a man!" from "The Man Who Would be King", Rudyard Kipling.
Preordered the book.
1600s? A Greek (I forget which one) figured out the Earth was a sphere more than 2000 years ago. He even calculated the size and came very close.
Funny I was taught quite unambiguously that Columbus figured it out in 1492
Good job Phil
Where’d the suck it Brody sticker go?
fyi this podcast isn't listed under the podcast playlist.
Steve, have you gone out and shot a big grizzly yet? Any plans on going out for one in the future?
What was the name of the book on the highlands papua new guinea not sure if it's the same book that comes up on Google
Tasman had already found Australia as had the Dutch and French....and prehaps many others
I am surprise Steve did not make note that this is where the term "Nailed them" came from.
Source?
We all thought of it.
Pardon my Plate Walrus, I'd watch that
What those wolf cost numbers don't talk about is all the farmers the state wouldn't pay out losses to.
Thought for sure when wolf came up it was going to be a knock down drag out about Wyoming wolf debacle 😅
There ya go Steve eyes for the world _______ 🌎 ________?
Yea maybe in at first glance cook wasnt a bad guy and had good intentions but as a few others have pointed out, thats not all of the story. 500,000 hawaiians to 50,000. The fact that he knew about the venerial disease risks and came back anyways just makes it worse.
Nobody- We found 10,000 year old gnawed human bones.
Steve- Hey Doctor scientists, just to let you know, I'll gnaw on some human bones if ya want.
Always found the hot take of attacking NIMBY's over not wanting a high speed rail through their yard, fracking next to their porch, a quarry across from their driveway, or in this case a monkey farm next to their in-home daycare to be pretty funny, and ultimately out of touch with basic reality coupled with a complete lack of intellectual honesty and emotional maturity.
It's somehow a dig at or a knock on someone who literally doesn't care about the existence of such things, but doesn't want the negative health impacts of having such an activity occuring on, or adjacent to, their property because it'll directly impact their ability to do basic things like sleep, eat outside, or even watch their own TV in peace? Anybody offering criticism to someone over this needs to grow up and learn basic self accountability.
The vast majority of people levying the label of NIMBYism against other are obviously not YIMBY's, or they would have heard of YIMBYism and support it themselves thus eliminating the entire practice of accusing others of NIMBYism while pretending they're morally superior.
So instead of the underdeveloped, ignorant, delusional take that someone shouldn't be able to experience peace and security on their own property, offer your own first.
Until you have a nuclear waste dump, fracking facility, quarry, high speed rail, or monkey farm directly on or adjacent to your own property kindly get off your high horse because your laughable take on basic reality is more obnoxious than a vegan rally protesting an animal shelter.
IRON MAIDEN not Led Zeppelin .
That would be iron maiden...not Zeppelin that did the song
costal brown bear not so good like the walrus 🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮
The people that migrated from Taiwan are called the Austronesian people.
Eclipse Today!
I hate when authors withhold details. Makes me less likely to buy the book. I remember a Karen did that on Rogan a couple years ago.
So captain Cook was no trump! He stayed with his wife! What a great man!
That's a weird benchmark. Also completely outta left field. Get your TDS checked out before to festers into a mental disorder.
No you had it right the first time Steve the trade wars are gonna get worse. Just because you like Trump doesn’t mean the consequences of his policies are no longer bad
TRUMP SHOULD NEVER BE IN OFFICE AGAIN ,ITS NOT A POPULARITY CONTEST , YOU ACTUALLY NEED TO KNOW HOW TO RUN A POLITICAL OFFICE- IE BE ELECTED A GOVERNOR ,SENATER BECAUSE EVAN THOUGH HE WAS POTUS ON CE BEFORE, HEWAS GUILTY OF 34FELONIES AND HAS NO IDEA HOW TO BE A POLITICIAN 😮STEVE SHOULD RUN❤
WIERDO THING TO COMMENT.... TDS is real.
Steve 'the interrupter' Rinella
yeah it’s a bit insufferable
Wow! Listen to a two hour podcast only to be told to read the book! Lmao shame on me.
I previewed the audio book and wow the narrator was so horrible no way I was buying it
Iron Maiden…
It’s Iron Maiden not Led Zeppelin
The god lono not lano 🤦🏾♂️ … being Hawaiian we have a very different outlook and story of captain cook
Can confirm, based on the name and picture he is hawaiian. And yea I've only heard the hawaiian side of the story and it's very interesting to here this side
Cook wasn’t getting any poon tang so that’s why he went blue ball crazy.
25 minutes in and the guest has barely gotten to speak. Come on, Steve.
Might want to fact check the sandwich thing.......
It is a fact. The Earl of Sandwich was where the Sandwich islands came from, gladly the Hawai’ian endured!
This episode has soooooo many fucking commercial it’s ridiculous. I was 26 minutes into the podcast and was on the 8th commercial ugh wtf
😂of course it’s about captain cook
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The idea that one can “discover” regions of the world that have been inhabited for thousands of years is ridiculous.
The false premise that just because he went to these places and documented them does not make this the Genesis of history as most surmise.
These places have their own history, culture and past. We should begin with their history first not what he “ discovered”.
This serves to give a distorted worldview as to the beginning of mans history.
These expeditions were precursors to invasion, persecution and the destruction of culture. The focus was for procurement of natural resources which also included the people as a resource to be used.
The saying is ok but you badgering it in every episode is not
Super boring intro....get to the interview! The host needs to get off of himself!