Music in this episode includes:
The Hall Brothers: The Wrong Road
Cab Calloway: Six or Seven Times
Annett Hanshaw: You Wouldn't Fool Me, Would You?
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra ft. Adelaide Hall: Creole Love Call (edit)

Samson: Let's shake some ass! (edit) Brother Justin: Eleanor, I see you at my sermons and you pray so hard it breaks my heart. But my words.. they wash over you like water over a stone.
Eleanor: No. No.
Brother Justin: We all each of us carry within us the seeds of our own salvation and our own damnation. You do believe that, don’t you?
(Eleanor nods then puts a hand to her mouth and coughs up coins similar to the confessional bowl out on to the carpet)
Brother Justin: Kneel. Now. Pray with me, sister. Pray. Kneel and pray!
(After a pause, Eleanor joins him on bended knee)
Brother Justin: Please, dear Lord. I have sinned.
(Eleanor tries to repeat, but coughs up more coins)
Brother Justin: I have sinned!
Eleanor: (falteringly) I have sinned.
Brother Justin: Merciful Father, forgive me. (after more coins come, he rushes over and holds a quivering Eleanor) Enough! Enough! (edit) Samson: Before the beginning, after the great war between heaven and hell, God created the Earth and gave dominion over it to the crafty ape he called Man. And to each generation was born a creature of light and a creature of darkness, and great armies would clash by night in the ancient war between good and evil. There was magic then. Nobility. And unimaginable cruelty. And so it was, until the day that a false sun exploded over Trinity, and man forever traded away wonder for reason. (edit)

Although Ben's mother's farm is supposed to be in Oklahoma, in some of the long shots mountains can be seen in the distance. (edit) Brother Justin is shown listening to Orson Welles as The Shadow on the radio. Although The Shadow premiered in 1930, Orson Welles didn't play the part until 1937 - three years after the 1934 setting of the show. James La Curto and Frank Readick Jr. alternated performing the role in '34. (edit)

Samson: I met Caruso and Dempsey. I made eyes with Theda Bara.

Samson mentions three celebrities who were all extremely popular in the 1920s. Enrico Caruso, 1873-1921, was an Italian opera singer, who performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York for 16 years. Jack Dempsey, 1895-1983, was a heavyweight boxing champion. Theda Bara, 1885-1955, was a silent film actress and a sex symbol in her time. (edit) This episode features an excerpt of "The Shadow," a radio show about a crimefighting hero. The program in question is The Silent Avenger, which originally aired on 3/13/1938. (edit) Roustie: Slang for roustabout. This is a term given to workers on the Carnivale, handymen who maintain it. (edit) Rube: e.g. "He's a rube". A rube is someone who is considered to be easily fooled, or susceptible. Someone like this is easy prey in the Carnivale. (edit)