3 SHORT ITEMS OF VALUE IN 60 SECONDS A WEEK

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THE PANGEA APP just acquired Overlap and Nomadigo, merging all 3 to form the largest free community of travelers and digital nomads where you can now share travel plans with friends, track the places you’ve been, and get notified when your plans overlap. Download the Pangea App on Apple or Android for free! (and send me a friend request 🙂

BLACK TRAVEL SUMMIT is one of my favorite travel conferences of the year.  I just attended the 2025 event in Rio and it was EPIC!  At least 12 Maverick Show guests pulled up–some helped organize the event, some hosted the event, some were speakers, some won awards, and some just attended like me. The community that showed up was amazing and the event was truly spectacular. The 2026 Black Travel Summit is going down October 15-18 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Earlybird pricing is only available until January 9th and if you get your tickets by then you are also entered to win a free hotel stay giveaway. Just use code MAVERICK.  Learn More and Get Your Ticket Here.

THE SECRET AGENT is a powerful neo-noir political thriller set in 1977 Brazil during the brutal final years of the U.S.-backed military dictatorship. The film follows a former professor-turned-dissident named Marcelo as he is hunted by the state while trying to flee persecution and reconnect with his son amid systemic corruption and repression. It was the most awarded title at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and is Brazil’s official submission for the 2026 Academy Awards. Its vivid portrayal of political terror, moral ambiguity, and the human cost of authoritarianism resonates sharply in today’s climate, making it not just a gripping thriller but a timely meditation on memory, accountability, and state violence. Watch the Trailer.

Everything We Thought Was Beautiful is a new collection of interviews with radical Palestinian women from across historic Palestine and the diaspora, with a foreword by my friend Huwaida Arraf.  It amplifies the voices or organizers, journalists, doctors and activists all speaking in their own words about politics, struggle, community, and hope amid intersecting oppressions of colonialism, patriarchy, white supremacy, and state control. These interviews offer essential insight into the lived realities and resistance strategies of Palestinian women, all grounded in firsthand experience, making it a valuable and urgent contribution to conversations on justice, solidarity, and feminist anti-colonial activism today. Buy the book.

Mexican-American motorcycle adventurer Alex Chacon traces the roots of his life on the road back to his upbringing on the U.S.–Mexico border in El Paso and his first solo cross-country motorcycle journey at age 17. He then recounts leaving medical school to ride from Alaska to Argentina with paper maps and shares stories of landing in a Honduran jail, getting lost in Bolivia’s salt flats, life-or-death moments in Patagonia and the Darien Gap, and how it all culminated in self-discovery, cultural reconnection, and a deeper understanding of both inequality and human resilience. Listen here on your favorite platform.

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