The Instagram account zanlivesmatters in this episode is a real account with the same posts.
About four minutes into this episode, there is a billboard shown with the website, freeHIVtests.org. At the time of this airing, that was not an actual website. FreeHIVtest.net does exist, with the purpose of providing an HIV testing center finder for any zip code in North America.
LaKeith Stanfield's character walks around with a samurai sword. In Yasuke (2021) he voiced a samurai.