Kalliope's Korner
Kalliope's Korner
Joyful Finale: The Heartwarming Conclusion of the Diaper Drive
Foxx & Annie in the morning were elated to dance in the joy of their final day on the Diaper Drive, an initiative that started as a seed of hope to collect 25,000 diapers and bloomed into an overwhelming response from their incredible listeners. I hope I can show you that the most profound losses can pave the way for the most profound acts of kindness.
We don't often ponder the expense of diapers, and this conversation reveals the significant impact of the Diaper Drive, a mission that has united us all.
One on one point one, cbs FM. Good morning, it is Fox and Annie. It is Thursday, november second, and today marks the date of the day we picked to wrap up our diaper drive. We kicked it off two weeks ago on a mission to collect 25,000 diapers and we'll have the new, updated count coming at you just after eight o'clock here, around eight o'clock five. But we have so many thank yous to get to, and one of them is a very special thank you to Kaliope, who is in the studio with us right now. And Kaliope, welcome first of all. And thank you so much for your generosity and donating to our diaper drive. We spent days and days, of course, opening boxes, but almost every day in there we opened a box or boxes with a note from you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was definitely nice to see. I mean, you're we. The day we met you months ago and I think you played the 30 second song challenge and we've grown a friendship since then. We always said, wow, what a beautiful name. And now I feel like we know you, and so to see your name on all those receipts was beautiful, and what drove you to to be a part of this?
Speaker 3:Well, let me just start by saying good morning, thank you for having me. But walking up here and seeing the studio full of boxes it's got me in a place and a little emotional. But, um, just, I mean it's, it's for the kids, it's for the babies. Um, you know you're pregnant, you're ready to have your baby. You know, as mom, you can relate, you hear about kids in need, you want to do it and you know, being a mom and I was having a conversation with John about you know, I, I did lose a daughter and I'd much rather give this than you know, being the other side.
Speaker 2:Then we're so sorry for your loss and the fact that you're turning all that pain into good and, and you know, her memory is just, it's beyond. I mean, it's a, it's a. It's a pain I couldn't even fathom. But you're turning it into good and, like you, you kept saying you're like, look at all these diapers to help the babies. Like you're thinking of everyone.
Speaker 3:It's it's unbelievable. I mean, if obviously not everybody can be here, but if there's pictures, you, if you could see this, you would just they, anybody seeing this would feel like I'm feeling them right now. You know, and you guys are parents, and the energy that you put out there just to get people to donate, that's what really motivated me. You guys were so excited and that excited me. And then my excitement went to people that I know and it just you know, we everybody came together and that's, I don't know, one of the day.
Speaker 2:One of the more powerful things you did as well that we talked about from the very beginning is would you share the message? You shared the message on social media with the link to really just get it out there and it's just is it okay for me to ask you have also have a foundation, or we? I do, I do you okay?
Speaker 3:mentioning it or um, yeah, it's, uh, it's the Juliana Hope Foundation. It's um. What we do is we, uh, we provide services to families that unfortunately aren't needed diapers. They need final arrangements for their newborn or baby under a year. We also connect people for, uh, you know, emotional assistance for the kids, the family, the grandmother. It's a tragedy, it really is. But, um, it's not about us, it's about this and this is so much good. I mean, I have nine kids. You guys know this, you guys have kids. It's not easy. Diapers are. Diapers were expensive when I had kids, your reaction in your video to the price.
Speaker 2:You were like I'm sorry, what, how much was?
Speaker 3:that I could. I never in my life, never in my life, that I ever think diapers would be like a, like a mortgage or a car or something. Yeah, why'd? You kid, put your kid wheels on the kid, because that's how much the diapers was yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2:I went to Target last night to get newborn I don't have clothes for the baby, which is terrible, but it's gonna get a bunch of newborn onesies and all stuff and then I threw the box of diapers in and it was like how did I go from this to an extra $50? All right the diapers like yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it's funny because when my kids were little you know the bigger kids get into the diapers and you never thought anything of it. You let them put it on the, on the dolls and stuff.
Speaker 2:Now I would be like no, they go in the safe. Yeah, you're absolutely right, the diapers go in the safe, don't?
Speaker 1:touch them so true, right and think about how many times I think about how my daughter or something would just take it off right, it's like no no, no, no, that's going back on yeah oh man well. Coliope, you are just an example of inspiration and positivity and hope and what is good in this world so thank you.
Speaker 3:Thank you, guys.
Speaker 2:Welcome welcome, thank you oh, coliope, we love you so much. I can't believe we're here. We are here, and thank you, coliope.
Speaker 1:Thank you to everybody listening. You have got us in all the fields today and the pile just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Man, wow, I don't know what to say. I love you. Thank you so much, you guys. Well, I got.