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HokieBird Reveal '24 Behind the Scenes

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If you're a Hokie, you know the HokieBird keeps their true identity a secret until graduation, where they wear the costume's feet and are featured in a video on the jumbotron. Today, we're taking you behind the scenes of one of our favorite traditions.
Hey, Hokies, it's Meghan. Today. We're here behind the scenes of a top secret mission the Hokey Bird Reveal. The Hokey Bird Reveal video is an awesome video that we get to produce every single year to say thank you to the graduating Hokey Bird seniors, and it gets played at the Druma Tron during commencement. It's amazing. Do you have any embarrassing moments while in the suit? We were doing a campus crawl, and I started running in the library, and it was silent, and I tripped and fell so hard and it echoed Well, smacked on the ground. Absolutely. Yeah. Oh. Oh. On Hokey bird, pants down. And then in like, a funw transition through the floor thing, it's gonna come up and be you guys. D. One time an ODU fan took my hand right off of me, and I had to fight food back. It was a whole thing. A brawl for the hand. What No. He's getting his solo shot. When's my solo shot? This is kind of like Loki stop motion, what we're doing, so it'll be interesting. What is your go to sandwich order? You know, unfortunately, it is turkey. Wh cheese, you know, lettuce tomato. Do you feel the light? Is it doing something? I don't know. I can't really tell. Three, two, one. Action. This is so anticlimactic. Go. Hokey. Tell me your craziest story. Asked. Oh, yeah, yeah. Right. Oh, that was crazy. So much jumping. You feel it? Oh, yeah. I feel it. I'm back. We just wrapped Hokey birds 2024. Oh.