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Learn about the world one country at a time with mad travel Dave Seminara and his guests, who are natives of the countries discussed in each episode. Dave is an author, former diplomat and self-diagnosed pathological traveler who has visited 81 countries (and counting). He likes nothing more than speaking with people from countries all over the world in order to better understand the planet we live on. While the main focus of the show is travel, Dave and his guests will also touch on local cultures, food, and politics in each country.

At 23, William Simon Baekeland was well on his way to becoming the world’s best traveled person. The “billionaire” heir to a great plastics fortune had already visited 163 countries, but his real passion was finding ways to visit the world’s most challenging destinations. He earned rock-star status in the world of extreme travel. But when his story began to unravel, an eccentric group of hyper-well-traveled country collectors were left wondering how they had allowed their obsession to blind them to the warning signs that William Baekeland wasn’t who they thought he was.

Roger Federer could live anywhere in the world, but he always returns to the place he loves most: Switzerland. Dave Seminara is a mad traveler and tennis lifer who has written about Federer for the New York Times and other publications. A pair of autoimmune diseases and a knee surgery kept Dave from playing tennis for years, but as he inched toward recovery, he had a bright idea: why not start his tennis comeback on hallowed ground - courts that his hero Roger Federer graced in Switzerland.