How did Captain Cook, the so-called founding father of White Australia and a boring map dweeb with an ugly wife, end up getting cancelled as the symbol of colonialism?

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 Australia is Marbella 

06:59 Not Spending Any More Time On It

13:52 Pastry Chasers 

18:43 Cook King

22:46 The Seven Years' War

27:17 The Hydrographer

30:41 A Real Plant Botherer

37:36 Landfall in Tahiti 

44:41 Wifebeating Ground Zero

47:50 Raisins, all of them

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