At 2:11, Arin (played by John F. Thomas) says, "it looks like we have less than five minutes before total annihilation", which is a reference to 1997's Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
The reporter (played by Ryan Turner) who interviews Ben Kage (played by Nick Theurer) is named Aaron Brand, after the fictional main character in Neil Breen's Double Down (2005).
