In episode 18 of The Devil’s in the Details, Pedro Lima and Dan Parrella are joined by magician and filmmaker Darren Rockwell and Dan tells them all about the history of piracy on the high seas. He discusses how they come from all over, the Golden Age of Piracy in the 1600s, the differences between Buccaneers, Corsairs and Barbary pirates, the Letter of Marque, the difference between a black Jolly Roger and a red Jolly Roger, the different types of Jolly Roger flag designs, walking the plank, Captain Morgan, Captain Avery the Pirate King, Calico Jack, Captain Kidd and his buried treasure and the overly cultivated image and legend of Blackbeard.
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In episode 17 of The Devil’s in the Details, Dan Parrella tells Pedro Lima (and Chris Crespo) all about the Chicago World’s Fair of the mid 1890s, and how this one event impacted American culture and business in such a huge way.
In episode 16 on The Devil’s in the Details, Dan Parrella and Pedro Lima welcome back to the show stand up comic Ken Miller and Dan talks to Pedro and Ken about Black History in America, which includes Jim Crow and Sambo cartoons, Thomas Rice, the Civil Rights Movement, W. E. B. Du Bois, the all black newspaper called The Crisis, MLK, JFK, and LBJ, segregation, the importance of the 1960s and the four iterations of the Ku Klux Klan.
In episode 15 of The Devil’s in the Details, Dan Parrella and Pedro Lima are joined by first time guest and stand up comedian Ken Miller, and Dan tells Pedro and Ken about the history of Africa, which includes their reliance on oral history, the Kingdom of Aksum, Ethiopia’s continued dominance against Italy and other wanna be European invaders, Liberia, South Africa and apartheid, donations to African-centric charities, Cecil Rhodes and the De Beer corporation, Africans selling other Africans in the slave trade, and history’s wealthiest person Mansa Musa, ruler of Mali. 
