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The Hunting Collective

Ep. 67: What the Last Subsistence Whale Hunters Can Teach Us

The Hunting Collective

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s show we're talking about the amazing story of the Lamalerans, a subsistence whale hunting culture on a small island off the coast of Indonesia. It's a story of the struggle to balance tradition with modernity told vividly in guest Doug Bock Clark's book, "The Last Whalers." Clark joins the show to discuss the three years he spent with the Lamalerans and the amazing lessons he learned along the way. Enjoy.

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0:00.0

If you got kids like me, you know summer break is coming up. School's almost out.

0:07.0

It's time for that perennial question. How do you keep your kids occupied off the couch

0:12.0

when you're busy on long summer days? You sick of yelling at them, get out of the house and go,

0:18.6

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0:25.1

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0:32.4

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0:38.7

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0:47.3

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0:53.0

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0:58.9

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1:04.6

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1:11.6

And one, I've been wanting to write my whole career. I was just waiting until I had kids long

1:15.3

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1:20.8

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1:26.6

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1:33.5

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1:40.2

some serious know how. Get the book now. Oh, hey, it's the hunting collective. Another episode,

1:47.0

episode number 67 to be precise. We're getting along in June. Excited about that because it means

1:52.6

we're close to September. It feels like everybody likes to talk about thinking about September in June.

1:58.6

I like June though. It's pretty cool. On today's show, we've got Miles Nolte, the director of

2:04.1

fishing. We're talking about all things. Lama Laren's. Lama Laren's is a tribe of subsistence

2:09.8

whale hunters and a small island in Indonesia. So you can learn about those guys. And then we're

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