Jeremy Cmiel, Something Deeply Human

Midwest Flyways Podcast

Midwest Flyways

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Midwest Flyways Podcast, we sit down with our buddy Jeremy Cmiel after his very first duck hunting trip — a South Dakota waterfowl adventure that ended up becoming much more than just a hunt. What starts as a conversation about first-time hunters, migration, and getting humbled by educated mallards slowly turns into something deeper: why experiences like this affect people so profoundly in the first place. We talk about waking up before sunrise, laying under massive migrations of birds, hearing snow geese cut the cold air overhead, earning meals from the land, and the strange way hunting makes you notice nature everywhere you go afterward. Jeremy shares what surprised him most about waterfowl hunting — not just the shooting, but the reverence for wildlife, the connection to the outdoors, and the camaraderie that comes from chasing birds with good friends. Along the way, we get into: • South Dakota duck camp stories• Permission hunting and meeting local farmers• Duck stroganoff that changed Jeremy’s life• Liar’s Dice marathons until 2am• And why waterfowl hunting feels different than almost anything else At its core, this episode is about more than hunting. It’s about reconnecting with something honest, ancestral, and deeply human — the kind of experience modern life rarely gives us anymore. Whether you’re a lifelong waterfowler or someone who’s never stepped foot in a blind, this conversation will probably make you understand why people keep coming back to the flyway year after year. Thanks so much for listening and be sure to subscribe and review! Join Flyways Hunt Club and get 1 month free! Flyways Hunt Club New Waterfowl Film out now! Out West | Waterfowl Hunting in Montana Stay comfortable, dry and warm: First Lite (Code MWF20) Go to OnXHunt to be better prepared for your hunt: OnX Learn more about better ammo: Migra Ammunitions Weatherby Sorix: Weatherby Support Conservation: DU (Code: Flyways) Stop saying "Huh?" with better hearing protection: Soundgear Live Free: Turtlebox Add motion to your spread: Flashback Better Merch: /SHOP

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0:00.0	Yay.
0:01.8	Badios,
0:02.1	Salamis Flavis podcast.
0:03.7	I am your host.
0:05.3	Joy, Baciro. And we have a Cal Nass here is my other host. You went Asian this week, kind of, a little bit with it? I don't know, man. I'm just, kind of went into oil. I'm so excited to be back. Yeah. You know, and then we've got, the Quabby guinea
0:21.7	cauda in the
0:23.7	closet
0:24.0	guineo cauda in the closet. Cunino. Gugino. Gugino. And then we also have a very special guest. His name is Jeremy Samil. Thank you so much for coming on the podcast, buddy. Yeah, absolutely. I thought I was going to introduce myself as, you know, crooked neck of the
0:37.9	mewomen. Crickens. We can get to that. We can get to that story later. He were crooked neck.
0:44.2	I was, man. That was brutal. You were, you were whining about it a lot. It was the worst.
0:49.9	We'll get to it. Anyway. No, uh, Jeremy, this podcast is brought to you by the Midwest Flyways Hunt Club.
0:57.0	It is a subscription-based platform that we started to do extra stuff on our podcast channel, on our YouTube channel, all that for all the people that are like the true supporters of Midwest Flyways.
1:08.1	And they give us ideas and what videos they want to see that we feel
1:11.7	like we can't share with the rest of the internet to help people become better hunters,
1:15.6	even though we are not that great ourselves, all that jazz.
1:19.9	And so we've got our own merch line for that, blah, blah, blah.
1:23.0	There's a bunch of stuff that goes into it.
1:24.4	So if you guys are not already subscribed to that, go and check out the Midwest Flyways Hunt Club on Wamp. It's just called Flyways Hunt Club, by the way. In case you'd search it, I don't know if they'll show up with that. Yeah. I just love our name, Midwest Flyways. Me too. It's pretty awesome. Cal keeps drawing new merch, by the way. Check out this hat. It's kind of like, designing would be a better way to say. Designing, drawing. You do draw a lot of it, though. I do draw a lot of it. A lot of it. Like, you drew that duck on your hat. Yes. Yeah. It's beautiful. Thanks, pro. Don't you hate it when people try to be like too humble, you know, too modest? Too, too modest. I didn't do anything. Oh, I did nothing.
2:02.5	I mean, I didn't draw the font. Just admit it was AI. Yeah, there you go. Perfect. Times New Roman.
2:09.5	Chad, Chbitty is killer these days. Right. There is too much AI on social media right now.
2:14.6	Well, people, the other problem with AI, though, is people just don't know how to use it.
2:18.2	Yeah.
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