The name of Ralph Garman's character, Frank Garmin, is a call back to an episode of the Hollywood Babble-On podcast where a listener e-mail referred to Ralph by the wrong name.
Ponder rock, where Howard Howe gets stranded, is a reference to the podcast "Smodcast #224: Ponder Rockin' with Emo-Kev", posted September 16, 2012. Kevin and Scott talked about a cassette tape Kevin found in which he dictated his banal thoughts when he was 19 years old.
He is surgically modified to resemble a walrus.---He doesn't go full walrus since you can see him cry at the end and his girlfriend's grandfather said that it's good to cry, it separates us from the animals and it shows you have a soul.