Solution to The Word

by Joel Corbo, Chris Luhrs, and Allen Rabinovich
featuring Chris Luhrs

This puzzle consists of a video parodying a "The Word" segment from a version of The Colbert Report set in Hyrule. There are three extraction mechanisms:

1. The dialog contains words from actual "The Word" segments. Take the days of the month that those segments aired to spell the answer: MIKE SCIOSCIA.

symbol-minded (2009-10-13)	M
safety (2006-10-09)		I
whatever (2006-01-11)		K
change (2008-11-05)		E
R-E-S-P-E-C-T (2006-07-19)	S
stay the course (2006-04-03)	C
superegomaniac (2006-05-09)	I
victory (2007-01-15)		O
risky business (2006-06-19)	S
share the wealth (2009-03-03)	C
safety (2006-10-09)		I
you're welcome (2006-02-01)	A

2. The dialog also contains sentences that include state nicknames and clues to numbers. The combination of state plus number clues a Congressional distract that has been part of a "Better Know a District" segment. Take the number of the part in the series that featured that districs and convert to letters to spell the answer: GOALIES.

old dominion, legs of a rock-spitting octopus	Virginia's 8th		7  (G)
golden, spyring in a Hitchcock film		California's 39th	15 (O)
peach, ring of power				Georgia's 1st		1  (A)
empire, members of the Ivy League		New York's 8th		12 (L)
garden, justices of the supreme court		New Jersey's 9th	9  (I)
centennial, sides of a coin			Colorado's 2nd		5  (E)
old lines, directions on the compass		Maryland's 4th		19 (S)

3. The initials of each bullet point spell out a word associated with bears plus one additional letter. Those additional letters spell out SHIRER BOOK which clues the answer: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH.

Yea of Ganon is sufficient				S + YOGI
Colbert has amazing representational expertise		H + CARE	
Performs a Nightly Dialog about Idioms			I + PANDA
Princess obsessed regarding lockets and rumors		R + POLAR
Green ugly monsters making Empire invulnerable		E + GUMMI
Hylian Rock-bowlers's Union grows			R + HUG
Besides bad ocarina bugling, obviously			B + BOBO
Produces overly environmentalist decisions often	O + PEDO
Cranium use obviously bad				O + CUB			
Cod's a terrifying kink					K + CAT