The Country is Open

Ben and Gareth kick off with travel talk about the world's most beautiful places — including Mauritius — before Ben gets hilariously specific about saving South Africa's baboons, sparking a comments section pile-on. Anine and Hanna join the conversation to challenge Gareth and the comments section on baboon conservation, landing…

Part 1 Ben and Gareth kick off with travel talk about the world's most beautiful places — including Mauritius — before Ben gets hilariously specific about saving South Africa's baboons, sparking a comments section pile-on. Anine and Hanna join the conversation to challenge Gareth and the comments section on baboon…

Part 2 South African travel broadcasting legend Kate Turkington joins the show to celebrate her 92nd birthday — sharing a lifetime of stories about travel, men, dogs, and everything in between.

Gareth tells Gord about the time he did ayahuasca, which naturally spirals into a full swap-meet of near-death experiences and "was that God or just my brain running out of oxygen" moments. Somewhere in there, Gord casually mentions he's sitting on a voting system that could fix democracy, as one…

Gareth live from Malta with the incredible Team from Tourvest. We talk to a few of the Tourvest Team and all their exciting plans and what they have been doing in Malta And of course the comments section is on fire.