the haiku hour

the haiku hour

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
H m.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
M too much kill kill going on on? Pray pray
mysa city? How many many more wan more morning pray
pray must city find babbaisings and go goons pray pray
my city? How how many emergency for it wouldn't do

(00:32):
pray pray my city too much street streets, can't can
trust for the eye idem come to too much dangangagers, streetreets,
drust gangs, gods will will We have to compete. Our
ancestors die died for tell tell them where will live?

Speaker 1 (00:47):
The thing? What does the future has at the store
literally light light My mind has come to come to
get things.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Look look god doctor in my city and kind of
how heart thing things about bout land Land It wasn't
my man.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
City can't can't find mine get ahead too much to
my death dad.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Mundy city were little living, can't can't walk brings in
much money city can't can't do that at home. He peace,
need you to pray pray with my money city. We
need to really release he kill key here in my city.
My mother more horn in law off not that you
can't he sid and and this is the cause bring
down the church ches cock kill killing man God, child,

(01:25):
I'm not dying, and that that cat caused saying me,
we can't can't trust the problem might didn't get buy
bound that bear man's but God, God get gills into
a living here. Head man in law law felt out
the people might a pray range changed, which were ducked up.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
With the pussie icle ran range. I need a pray
pray with my little day and the duct gods of
dead days. We want want to ride out for fall
literally like light for dead days.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
I'm for my money literally hair hair, bloodlood than the
streets by box ten here.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
He's green ringing is that's.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
A green ringing, but nine is please please pray pray
more fil good because cause we news in five to
two ships here over.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Pray pray how I'm.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Going over we're wre prey PRAI my fife shoot ship
by back.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Pray pray which is chid everything, pray pray with pray,
pray with my feet pray pray.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Hey hey, hey, hey, hey, Welcome everyone, Welcome every one
that's my son's side. Welcome everyone to the Haigh coup Hour.
I am your boy cast Moe and I am.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Your queen v queen.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
How we doing everyone all right, all right, and we
got a beautiful guest with us tonight now, and and
it's been so so long since I've seen you. So
what I want to do is I just want to
look up here first and tell y'all, beautiful you look,
it's been been a lad. Yeah, you know, I would
saying it's been a been.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
You know what, I ain't saying nothing. I ain't saying nothing.
This beautiful woman on here every day. I'm quite sure
of it. So first of all, Ben, let everybody know
who you are, and and and then we go get
into some questions. But first of all, sweetheart, and Mike,
is yours, welcome home, talk to us, Thank you, thank you. Well.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
A lot of people, uh in the arts know me
as Denny Scatt, but my government name is Danye Duncan's.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
So a lot of people accept my friend request and
probably like, who is Danny R. Duncan.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
I'm like, it's Danny Scott, the same person. Just in
the arts, I'm still Danny Scott. But then outside of that,
you know, like speaking in life coaching, I got to
use Daniel Duncan because I can't go on stage and
be like Danny Scott or like coach Danny Scott. You know,
I'm all like, no, we gotta, you know, separate the two.

(04:28):
So it's so if you accept your friend request and
said Daniel Duncan is Denny Scott.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
It's the same person, all right, all right, I mean
you you you you decided to pick up and do
some different things. And and one let me go on
there and do this. I commend you. I commend you
one or on not being afraid to take that step,
you know, because a lot of people are afraid to

(04:54):
move out of their comfort zone and try something different.
And and and I'm so proud of you, honey, to
see that you went on off and successfully did the
things that you wanted to do. I remember all the
all the great things that you did here in Saint
Louis with your poetry and all of that, the shows
that you put on. You were a great ambassador to
the poetry scene. And so tell us, tell us some

(05:17):
of the things that you've encountered. First of all, let
everybody know where you then relocated to.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Dud Okay, Yeah, yeah, relocated Columbia, South Carolina where school
down here like twenty some years ago. So I left
like March of twenty twenty two. So yeah, I've been

(05:43):
going by like two years now, right.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Okay, Right, So then when you went back down I
heard you say you went to school down there, or
you went back and went went back to school.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, I had regally went to school down here, like
lut I was twenty years ago. And then I end
up moving back because uh, I don't want to move
someplace where I don't know where nothing that.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
So it's like I'm very familiar with the city and.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Like a lot has changed because last time I was here,
I didn't have a car because I was in college.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
But now, like driving around, I see stuff that I
don't even listen, you know.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
I'm like.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
I didn't know they had like a lot of stuff
they have in Saint Louis they have here.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
And I was just like old snap, like.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
I forgot what them chips was like the the now
they got the voodoo chips like zaps, Yeah, they had those.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
I was like, oh, I got like two bags of those, and.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Now they're starting to set up white Castle burgers at Kroger,
and I was just like, I need y'all to have
a white Castle. The Frozen, the frozen is not the same,
you know, it's just not the same. Like you gotta
be right off the grill and it's hot, and it's.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Like, but that's why I got to do now. And
then the Chinese food. Here is one place.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
It's called China Kicked in and it's the only restaurant
that comes close to Lamb's Garden.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
And I told my mom that, I was like, this
is just like Lamb's starting.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Oh my gosh, they don't know what the Saint Paul
sandwich is. I didn't know that where they have it.
So no one in the world knows what the Saint
Paul sandwich is. So now I gotta figure.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Wait a minute, now, you know what you could You
could easily do the same, Paul. You just go in
there and just say give me a plank, plan Paul,
a plane, egg for young a plane and taking home, push,
push some bread.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Right?

Speaker 5 (08:00):
Adjusted or have you adjusted to South Carolina despite how
long you've been away from Saint Louis or however that
looks more?

Speaker 6 (08:07):
What is your vision down there now?

Speaker 4 (08:13):
It's just.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
It's pretty much the same, Like the the adjustment, it's
different from what it was when I first came in
like two thousand and two.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
You know, like when I went to school down here,
and then when I came back, it was like the environment.
It's like they say, you.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Know, people in the South are nice, and it's like
not in Columbia, Like it kind of depends on where
you go at like some people. When I first came here,
it was like people will smile and say hi.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
And back at home and somebody smile and.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Speak to you, they know your kid folk and You're like,
I don't think I have no people in South Carolina.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
I was like it was minute to get used to.
But then when I came back, I was like, well,
what does this other hospitality?

Speaker 3 (09:05):
It's like people don't like to have conversations and they
just like on the move and people can't drive and
you know they about to like knock people over and suffer.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Like what happened.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
But if I go to Greenville, South Carolina, or Atlanta, Charlotte,
everybody's like super friendly, like they have conversations with you.
Especially Greenville it's like Mayberry, Like the minute that you
come in there, no one cuts you off in traffic.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
It's like, no, you're gonna here, you gonna hear no
you're gonna here you go.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
I was like, right, you.

Speaker 7 (09:50):
Like somebody right.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
That was the first.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
I was like, okay, you're gonna go ahead.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
And the nigga throw I'm like, okay, that's fine.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
But every Ober Nice you read.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
To Nice, he let me go out there and tail
gate you. You did the move. So tell us some
of the things, some of the things that you've gotten
into and down there in South Carolina Carolina.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Yeah, it's a South Carolina.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Some of the things that you know that you've done
down there that that was different from here, and and
a little bit about your journey since you left us.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
Well, I had when I came here, I did try to.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
See if there's a poetry scene, because like anywhere I
traveled to, I'm all like, let me where the open
MIC's at, you know, And.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
Surprisingly there was the poetry scene was non existent.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
And I was like what.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
And like every person I ran into I was telling
them like, you know, well, yeah, I used to do
spoken word, and I told them about all my events
I talked about, especially when I talked about Smoke the
mic and Rodica Avenue, they got really excited, like, oh,
you need to.

Speaker 6 (11:05):
Bring that here.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
We need something like that here and I was just like, okay,
but I thought about it.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
I was like, I don't think y'all ready, you know,
cause because I kind of feel like my events, I
felt like they were like ahead of their time, and
it's like people just weren't ready, like especially like with
Erodica Avenue.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
It was like.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
I think some people came thinking that, oh, it's gonna
be like burlesque and stripping and da da da da da,
And I was like, no, I want to take Arika
to a different level where it's like I wanted to
people to be aroused without.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
Me showing any skin exactly.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
And it's like Ski and it started with it starts
with mental stimulation and people kind of missing when they
seen the flyer. I was like mental stimulation, like we
can talk dirty, we can talk about sex, saying and
so forth, and it's like but when you talk about it,
you make people feel it, and then when they feel it,

(12:08):
then it's like everything else flow. And I have to
say I made a couple people had babies like off
of that show, like my guy sister she had her son.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
She said, when they like.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
You inspired us, we went homemade baby. And I was
like okay, look out.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
I was like that.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Show.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
I like what you said when you talk about the
misperception of smoking the Mic, because I was with you
when I first heard about it. It was about mental stimulation.
But I guess sex still sometimes you have to put
that out there in the atmosphere, But what if you're
on a whole different plane you want the mental aspect
to show? Like, how do you do you think you

(13:03):
had any conflict with the content you put out with
Smoking the Mic.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
I mean you know Erodica Avenue. Yeah, I think I
remember the first one that I did. I had posted
a picture of my book because like it got inspired
by the book because it was it was a poetry
book first, and then I was writing Erotica Avenue number two,

(13:29):
the book, so it was like to promote the second book.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
As soon as people seen that fire and Erotica was
like oh oh, then everybody was like trying to jump
on it, and it was like a part of me.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
I know, people they came, they enjoyed the show, but
I feel like some people might have been disappointed because,
like you know, they was expecting like a strip tease and.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
I'm all, like, I didn't say nothing in the description
about strip tease, we gonna be butt buttery naked, you know,
like as on and stuff. I was like, we ain't
doing nothing.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
I say nothing about it, nudity or nothing. So I'm like,
where are you getting it from? But I feel like
people are kind of one track with Rodica. They think
it's always nudity, it's always you gotta show skin, and
It's like, no, you don't have to always do that.
I wanted to be tasteful with it. Even with my outfits.

(14:32):
A lot of my outfits that I wore were sequenced,
you know, very almost kind of like Mariah Carey, like
how she dresses on stage like that, you know. I
wanted to be tasteful, Like I showed one body part
on each show, a little bit of clean get on
one show, maybe a little bit back on the next show,

(14:54):
a little bit of a fiun on the other show.

Speaker 4 (14:56):
We don't show it all, you know, just just a
little bit. But I left so imaginate to the eye.
And then some of the outfits I had to have
my mom.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
So extra fabric one because one it was sheer at
the front and the bottom.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
I'm like, hold on, everything's gonna be shown.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
I was like I said, I was like, we need
some extra fabric soon in here. And then my mom
she she pretty much like my Tina. No, She's like, okay,
we'll go to the fabric store.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
Let me know where you put because I like, I
ain't trying to show that.

Speaker 5 (15:27):
Much now, Like we got Danny's s Guy and we
got Danielle Duncan.

Speaker 6 (15:33):
Of course they're one and the same, but what separates.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Them, Well, Danny's Guy is the artist, the poet, you know,
the event promoter that you see sometimes comedian.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
And then then Ye Duncan.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
She is the motivational speaker, the life coach, the now
fourteen times self published author. You're black by yourself who you.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
Don't eat it?

Speaker 3 (16:12):
So?

Speaker 6 (16:12):
Who are your inspirations? Who aspire you?

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (16:15):
You could throw my name if you want. I mean
I just want to.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
Yes, Vallery inspired me. She's one of my inspirations. I'll
have to say.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
As far as poetry goes, it started with the late
great doctor Maya Angelou, Like, ye know, that's that's how
I got it.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
I started writing in general at ten, like short stories, plays, scripts,
and then the poetry came. When I was thirteen, I
saw the movie poetic justice. I love Jenny Jackson, I
saw I was looking at because I love a Janet fan,
and I thought that and wrote all those poems.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
But fun fact, Jenny Jackson actually does write poetry. She's
just like a climbed poet. But her Janet album, all
the interludes, all those were like poems. Like a lot
of people that catched it. But I didn't know that
Maya Angelou was in the movie and I had to
look back and I was like, wait a minute, she
was in there.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
And then when I saw that, I was like, Okay,
let me see who this my Angelou is, So I'll
go to UC library read it out all her books
and I just read up on her, like her biography
and her style and so forth. The first poem that
I had wrote, I forgot what it was about, but
I know it was horrible.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
That's all I can remember. It was horrible.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
But I didn't understand, like what poetry really was. I
thought poems had to rhyme like rosa red violens of blue,
and then come to find out, it doesn't have to
be a certain way. Because then I looked her up.
Then I started getting into Langston Hughes and then a
lot of people will be surprised and a lot of

(18:10):
people are gonna be shocked that this one. I'm really
into Edgar Allan Powell.

Speaker 7 (18:16):
He's let's get it.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
Let's I got there. I got the really thick book.
They look like a bible.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
They got like all his works in there, like short
stories and poems. When I my teacher had us read
The Raven and when I read that, I was just like,
oh snap.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
So like I learned like different poets and how they're versatile,
like and Nikki Giovanni his way, I threw her up
into the show.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yeah. So once I learned all their different styles, I
was like, Okay, now I got to find my style.
And it took a couple of years to develop. I
was in a creating and write club in high school,
where we like, you know, we recite poetry. You know
that that's white people do recite. I didn't know about
spoken word until i'ment the HBCU. So there's a difference

(19:24):
between reciting poetry and spoken word. And then when you
go to black college you go find out what spoken
word is. When I got into a spoken word group
at school, it was a completely different environment. I was like, Wow,
I'm around people that's just like me. I'm like, you
had all these like dope poets, and they gave me

(19:49):
my first stage name.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
It was it was dope. It was one poem that
I can't remember what the poem was that I read,
but one of the guys there, he's like, you know what,
I'm gonna call you girl Uninterrupted, And I was like, okay,
all right, all right, I like that. After that, did you.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
See the movie?

Speaker 6 (20:12):
Because yeah, it's a story behind that.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
Yeah, that's what he said.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
He got it off of like the Girl Interrupted movie,
but he had that's where he gave me the girl
under Interrupted, you know.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
And I was like okay, cool, cool, And I started
performing all around campus.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
The brothers at Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity Incorporated. They had
an open mic every semester and somehow it got out
that I do spoken word and I was like, how
you know that? Like I was reading it was this
one point my head read. It was called Secrets of

(20:52):
a Desperate Housewife and it was about a woman in
an abusive relationship and I was just describing how, you know,
her husband treated her so badly that she had to
sleep with a knife on her pillow just in case
if like that was.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
Gonna be the night that she died, and I just
I was like really descriptive with it.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
So when I write, I'm a storyteller, like I write
my poems.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
And anything I do like it's a movie, like I
want you to see it.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
And this particular person was like, hey, what that one
poem a desperate housewife that you ever raised?

Speaker 4 (21:29):
Like, yeah, I want to I want you to read
that one.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
And I was like okay, And then every semester they
kept inviting me, and when I did, I did a
couple of pageants as well. I'm not really a pageant girl,
but I did it just to meet people. I didn't
even care about winning because I was just like there's
people who like and for the girls that don't win,

(21:54):
they really be like but hurt, Like oh.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
My god, lay in the corner.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Crying like I.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
Was just mad all these people.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
I got to dress nice and where makeup and a
cute dress, Like that's all I care about.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
I was like I knew I wasn't gonna win.

Speaker 5 (22:11):
I was like, just to Tierra's baby, they're serious about that.
They be putting up their house. Yeah, my father lose
my house invested in this little girl exactly.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
She gets got a little deep. But I to go.
I want to go back on one thing before before
we go any further, And I want to go back
to you. You was talking about you had promoted did
how many shows did you put on and how that
they did they accept it? Or are you are you
planning on doing some more because if they're not ready
for them, they need to get ready.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
I haven't done any shows since I've been here, and
that's because, like when I found out that there was
no poetry here, I'm like, there's no point of me
even bringing any of my shows here because I don't
feel like they're gonna be open to receiving. Like I
just didn't feel like I don't feel like they're mature

(23:13):
enough crowd, you know, for them type of shows. Like
the events that's down here, most of them are like
you know, trap trapping paint, you know, or some type
of like erodica stuff or you know, smoking here and
there and stuff.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
So it's just like they not with the grown and
sexy down here.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
You know. And if it is, it's they put some
ratchet in it, and it's like you can't put ratchet
in everything.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
You know, you fringing up a set.

Speaker 5 (23:45):
Way actually a good topic. We have to know who
our audience is. And I feel like she get out
there and put something out there. It's like either it's immature,
they don't understand, or they're nai eat. That's no disrespect
to any audience. It's just it shouldn't be on one
person to educate the whole crowd. Then she'll somehow be

(24:07):
the uh you know, talk against negative or something like that.

Speaker 7 (24:12):
And who she thinks she is coming down?

Speaker 5 (24:14):
It's our car, Like she ain't even from it, you know,
Like I'm just trying to bring a platform, like you're
trying to educate.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Like, but you're one person, right and my advice to
you is put on the show. I do it anyway.
I do the reason I want to read the reason
why I say that, The reason why I say that
if they if they're not, if they're not ready for it,
maybe you need to introduce them to it. It might

(24:43):
be something that they just need to be introduced to
it because it seems like it might be a market
for it. They just haven't been introduced to it yet.
You know, I'm not saying I'm not saying, go all
out guy. You know, I'm not saying it. Go for Monty,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (25:02):
I'm just saying.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
I'm just saying, you know, like like you said, don't
put too much butter on it.

Speaker 5 (25:11):
Get together, you know your little hair right, don't show
them no more manti as he's saying.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
You know, just do something smart to introduce them and
see if it's something that they might be interesting. Because
if the market is open like that, I think you could,
you know, put put a chokehol on that market. You know,
just just you know, stick your foot in the water
and see what happened.

Speaker 5 (25:35):
I mean, she stuck her big toe in the water
first of all. Okay, she been observing. She felt like
they're not ready. I mean you have been observing.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
I mean, I'm just trying to me when I'm just saying,
you said butter and I would have came to the
damn show. So I'm just saying, girl stuff, you got
your pactic stupid.

Speaker 7 (26:00):
You told him you was a pageants and everything.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
I just can I just can't.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah, I already know you got a playthrough of them though,
but you've been you've been like just grinding hard on
this new one that you got. So honey, let her
let us know, talk to us about this new book.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah, so, dear black girl, this is why you're so dope.
It's fourteenth book. I had to look back at all
my other books and count because I don't even keep
track of all my books.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
Last time I checked, I had like eight books and
then like I just care writing. And then when I looked,
I'm like, wait, manute, wait man.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
This fourteen I'm like, oh my gosh, you know, and
the last one I wrote. All the other books are
poetry books. This is the first non poetry book. So
it made it like extra special, Like I feel like
I'm a real writer.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
Man.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
I commend you for taking that that that that extra
leap into doing uh nonfiction. Yeah, nonfictional fictional, non fictional book.

Speaker 7 (27:20):
It's pretty I just want to let you know.

Speaker 5 (27:22):
Okay, I read the majority of your book, and what
I like about this book, seriously, if you haven't read it,
is it's engaging. You know, you have a slot where
you can, you know, express yourself, and I love poetry.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
Gorge is a form of therapy to me.

Speaker 5 (27:39):
So in her book, you know, she she has a
little you know, will say a dialogue, if you will
monologue about different situations, and then it leads it open.
She might as well just put so what you think,
what you think right there, and that you do that

(27:59):
next time. You got to give me a shout out,
now what you think the interpretation, you know, and it
just give it that perspective of bringing back journalism.

Speaker 6 (28:10):
And I really liked your book. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
And it's funny that you mentioned it because I did
go to school for journalism, so right, it's like always
been a part of me. In this book.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
I wanted to put every aspect of me in there
with from the of course, I had to put the
poetry in there. You notice I got to come out
with my poetry bag. I can't completely abandon it. And
then with the prayers and affirmations, I just started getting
in the affirmations and then I had to go back

(28:45):
to basis with the short stories. And there's like a
theme and like everything falls in with the theme, Like
the first one is empowering your dreams, and then it
starts with the introduction and then there's a prayer and.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Yes you know what, hold on, let me look, okay,
Yes this is dear black Girl this is so get
it and it starts to cover huh, to cover. No, Actually,
this is a just another female that uh yeah, that

(29:25):
I got from Uh. I know she kind of does
look like me a little bit.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Hairs. I just assumed, I just I.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
Don't know, don't have me talking, but uh but yeah,
like I put like a little bit of me in there,
and I wanted to make it more personable, where like
you see yourself, and I have pictures of like different
maleanated women. You got light skinned, chocolate caremele, you got

(29:54):
thick girls, small women, women with like hair like mine,
women that dress something that's like strip.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
Fains, balg head. You know.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
I'm like, I want, like, you know, every type of
person in there. When you open it the book, you're
gonna see somebody that looks just like you. Like the
podcast I did last week, it was thank you Podcasts
I did last week. One of my friends, her and
her girlfriend talked about my book and I had a

(30:27):
picture where one of the characters had the rainbow flag
and I was like, you know, I got to put
the LGBT people in there.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
I don't want to exclude nobody. And she got excited.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
She's like, see I'm like, everybody's gonna be in there.
I was like, I don't want to leave nobody out.
I was like, I'm like, black women are black women.
I'm like, it doesn't matter about your sexuality whether you
full black, half black, if you got two percent of black,

(31:02):
you black, okay black, but.

Speaker 5 (31:10):
A valid point because different shapes, different sizes. You know,
the brown bag experiment, colorism, racism.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
You're you're touching every audience.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
Like when you went to go write that this particular
Dear Black Girl book, what did you think, Like did you.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Have that vision?

Speaker 5 (31:29):
Like you said, I'm not trying to school anybody, because
you know, somebody's gonna always have something to say, right right.

Speaker 4 (31:35):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
And I had got inspired by I see a video
post from her name is Caleb Nicole Brown. She used
to date Travis Kelsey from the Kansas City Chiefs. She's
a social media influencer and and I saw her, I
was like, oh my gosh, she is so pretty.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
And I was like, he messed with black girls.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
I was like, all right, you know you know how,
you know how we do like a white dude.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
You see.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
And you just like okay, all right, like you like
something I was like, okay.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
But but I had but she had a video that
she did called Dear Black Girl, and she talked about, oh,
she's pretty much just affirming like that we are unique
and we're special and like we don't need validation from anyone.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
And they came just in time because.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
I was going through a period where I was battling depression,
like really bad, and I didn't feel like myself, you know.
I was like I was going through a phase where
I was like who am I? And I think it
was me not doing poetry anymore. I felt like that

(33:01):
was most of my life, like people put me in
a box, and I felt like once I became a
speaker and a coach that I couldn't do that anymore.
But then I realized, like I could still do that,
and that's always gonna be a part of me. And
so but when she everything that I doubted about myself

(33:22):
when I had seen that video, I started balling and
she was like you you are beautiful, you are amazing,
You're this and this and this, and I was like,
oh my gosh, these are all things that I need
to I need it hear that, and then me and
I felt and sometimes I kind of felt like I

(33:43):
had an imposter syndrome, because you know, I'm all about
women's empowerment. I speak life into women and tell them
to love themselves, and you're you're all these great, amazing things.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
But then when you don't feel that you're off, you
kind of feel like you're a hypocrite.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
Like I'm gonna pretend everybody to love themselves and be empowered,
and yet I'm not feeling like that today. And so
I had to once I had stepped away from the arts,
I had stepped away from speaking and like everything.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
So I went into complete solitude. And I'm like it
ordered for me to be the best version.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
Of myself and empower these women, I have to empower
and love and feel good about myself again.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
I gotta feel good about Danny.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
So yeah, you, Cole you.

Speaker 5 (34:45):
I'm not gonna say Cole you, okay, but you know
what what I like about what you said. One, let's
let's make sure we focus on self care. That's the
utmost respect thing we need to do. And I love
how you address the mental health peace. But what I
also heard in that is you can let Danny Scott

(35:06):
and Danielle the world's clash in a good way. So
when you are on your life coaching and your Arthur
and that portrag is line up in there, you know,
because you're you're teaching, reaching your passionate and some.

Speaker 6 (35:20):
May flow out of there, some may flow out of
there roses.

Speaker 7 (35:27):
I think they clash because it's all you.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
It is all the one of you.

Speaker 5 (35:31):
It's like you don't have to put a cap on it.
But don't get me wrong, I get what you're saying.
It's a time and a place for everything. However, comment you.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Also said something that I want to go back to
about you being the life coach thing and plus you
yourself was balanced depression. Was that difficult when you found
yourself trying to give advice as a life coach and
you battling certain elements yourself.

Speaker 4 (36:02):
Yeah, it is because it's like I would just have
days where I didn't feel like getting out of bed,
like because I remember, like I but I think what
had caused it. It was twenty twenty two was like

(36:26):
not a good year. It was the minute that I
had moved.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
It was like the following month I was driving to
I was driving from Atlanta going home and this drunk
driver came and like completely hit me total my car
and when that had happened. Before that happened, I was

(36:53):
already like dealing with depression and like I felt and I'm.

Speaker 4 (36:57):
Gonna keep it one hundred. I always keep it one hundred.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
I felt suicidal around that time, and I was like
I didn't feel like I had any purpose. And when
I got into that accident that car hit me, it's
spend like my car. My car spent like six times
before it hit the wall, and the whole time that
it's spending, all I kept thinking is I got to

(37:20):
get home with my son, like I can't leave him,
Like if I wouldn't go be here for me, I
got to be here for him. And then through the
grace of God, like I thought I was gonna die,
like I felt like when people say your life flashed
before your eyes, Like literally, my life did flash before
my eyes.

Speaker 4 (37:38):
I just started thinking about everything.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
And when it hit the wall and it bounced back,
the whole front was total, and all I kept thinking
is like, oh my gosh, like.

Speaker 4 (37:54):
I'm still here, you know. And when that happened, the
remaining of the year.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
I spent in physical therapy because I didn't have anything broken,
but I had a lot of cuts and bruises, so
I was kind of limping, so I kind of had
to learn how to walk again, and then like my
body was like in pain. And then three months after
that happened my brother on my dad's side. I haven't

(38:30):
talked to him in years. He had moved to Atlanta
and come to find out, he was involved in a
murdered suicide.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
He had a domestic dispute with his wife, killed her.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Turned a gun on himself, and I was distraught because
I'm like, I wish I would have had been able
to like talk to him, because maybe if I would
have had talked to him, maybe that when it had happened.
So it was like deal on my accident, having being
forced to sit out, can't do nothing. And then that happened,

(39:02):
and then I couldn't go to his funeral because you know,
I mean rehab, I can't travel, and I found myself
like the press and then angry all at once, and
I'm like, why is this happening? And then that's where
I started getting into meditation and start using that time

(39:25):
to really heal and focus on, you know, myself. And
then gradually that's when I started writing again, Like I
wrote my first poem called Rediscovered that year and then
the following year that's when I started writing the EP
like I Never left, and the EP that was all

(39:49):
my healing journey. Like the first poem on the album
I talked about I touched on my car accident, my
brother committing suicide, me being sexually abused when I was young,
like that first poem, like all.

Speaker 4 (40:06):
That is in there. So it's like the album start
off kind of heavy, but then I was like when
you listen to you like, oh, it's got heavy, but it's.

Speaker 3 (40:15):
Like these were things that I was in a place
where I'm like now I can talk about it, where
before I couldn't talk about my accident when I'm break
down and crying, like, but now today like I can
talk about it and I could be like I think there.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
Was a wake up call.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
Even though I was ready to leave this earth. Guy
was like, it ain't time for you to go, Like
you still got more to do.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
So you're saying you got.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Yeah, probably got more coming, come on, let's go, right.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
I was just like after that happened, I started to
find my purpose again, and I was like when that
when I got through that accident.

Speaker 4 (40:52):
I was like, I'm going to use this and I'm going.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
To dedicate the rest of my life to and firing
people and uplifting people. And then that's when I became
a mental health advocate as well, because I'm like, mental health, depression,
all that shit is, that's real. That's real, you know,
and we need to talk about it. And so when
I do my speaking, Yeah, I implemented in my speaking,

(41:19):
like talking about mental health that Actually I just recorded
a video today. I put it on my YouTube channel
to talk about it's okay not to be okay, and
and it is and it's like and I thank God for.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
Keeping me.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
I thank him for bringing my gift to poetry back
because when I wrote that, when I wrote that second poem,
do Not Disturb, which I got on my Facebook, that's
what started sparked.

Speaker 4 (41:48):
The EP was do not Disturb.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
And when I wrote that, the first two lines I
read it back, I started tearing up because it was
like a bittersweet.

Speaker 4 (42:02):
It was like I still have it. I thought I
lost it.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
I thought I lost my gift of writing because I
had so many people make me doubt that I wasn't
good and I believed it and I stopped, and it's like,
but when I wrote this poem, it was like I
still had it, and then the emotion behind it, like
the storytelling, like all that is still there, and like

(42:28):
you can quit, like whatever you do, you can quit poetry, oh, comedy, singing,
and if it's meant it's it never leaves you. And
I realized me writing and being a storyteller, I'm like,
that never leave. That never leaves you. I used to
tell people I used to be a poet. I used

(42:49):
to be a spoken bird artist. And I was like,
you know what, I still am. So this album it
was a saving grace. It really was, and and I
was like, at first I was debating on if I
wanted to put it out when it was done, but
then I was like, you.

Speaker 4 (43:06):
Know what, people need to hear this story. They need
to hear my story, and my story is their story.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
And I'm all, like what I did when I did
Smoking a Mic and all my other shows and at
the end, I always closed with an inspirational speech that
was not playing. It just happened by accident. I'm like,
there is a reason that I'm still doing this. So
I'm like, this album need to come out people need

(43:32):
to I need to be able to tell my story
and my narrative because too many people have tried to
tell my story and I'm all, like, you don't know
my story.

Speaker 4 (43:42):
I am going to tell my story.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
And it was so therapeutic writing that album, and the
following month, Deer Black Girl came out, and it's like
my creative juices have just been flowing.

Speaker 4 (43:55):
I went from being inspired to fire again.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
And I'm like, now I'm starting to feel like the
old Danny, but like a two point zero verse.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
But look, look, look, look Danny. For one, I commend
you on on everything that you've accomplished, what you've done.
I am so glad that you didn't let nobody take
your your gift away from you. Thank you my book,
my book that I wrote. I said every time, that
book saved my life. So your words, even if they're

(44:33):
not reaching the people that you think they are, they
reaching the ones that they should and and and the
most most important person that your words raped reached was you.
So don't never, don't don't never stop putting pen the paper,
because your gift is needed not only for people outside

(44:56):
the poetry well, but for yourself as well. So keep
healing love. Please keep here.

Speaker 7 (45:01):
You dont do this clap for yourself?

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Yes, I am.

Speaker 4 (45:10):
You love that clap, but.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
That you had a passion and.

Speaker 4 (45:22):
I feel like I feel like I'm getting my flowers.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
So I.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
Make you clap saying no that that have to come
in right? Will was that?

Speaker 6 (45:37):
You know what, Daddy? This is a high cool hour
and I do have a high cool all the time.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
You right, no, no, no, this is this is I'm
the clap man.

Speaker 6 (45:48):
Don't don't say that on er again.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
Never mind.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
I want to know.

Speaker 5 (46:10):
You can't take things back. But uh, you know what, Danny, Uh,
I have been a supporter of yours for years. I've
been to your shows. I've readen about your shows. I
know you're wonderful mother to your son. I mean I
didn't hear about that portion with the car accident, and
you know, obviously I could read on it, but it's
nothing like hearing something from a mother's mouth. And the

(46:33):
fact that you are a testimony here today. You know,
and I know certain things affected you are broken your
heart and you just got back on that horse and
you continued on and I just want to just give
you your flowers.

Speaker 7 (46:45):
This is when you clap.

Speaker 4 (46:47):
Yeah, let me let me.

Speaker 7 (46:59):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (47:00):
Uh, Dear black girl, empowering Black Girls, Queen Shine, Danny
sky Shine.

Speaker 7 (47:11):
You ain't gonna snap it, so we gotta get him
some snaps. Okay.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
The other one is motivational.

Speaker 5 (47:33):
Okay, all right, motivational inspirational life coach transformation, Queen. I
have seen I've seen your journey, and it's a beautiful
thing when you see a person from where they used
to be to where they are. One of the biggest
misconceptions is someone trying to remind you who you used

(47:55):
to be, so hypothetic speaking if you was a rat,
if you was a hormonger, if you were anything negative.
Sometimes people try to remind you of that little space
you used to be in. And I'm just letting you
know I've seen your transformation and I'm just extremely proud.

Speaker 6 (48:14):
Of you from the bottom of my heart.

Speaker 4 (48:15):
Yes, yes, thank you so much, thank you. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
And with that being said, this is what this is
what I want you to do, because we got ten minutes.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
One.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
Let everybody know how they can get all your books,
and especially the last one that you did, because I
think that's the one that you are most proud of
at this moment because it's your first novel novel and
not you know, just straight poetry. So let everybody know
how to get in touch with both of your personalities.

(48:53):
I don't know, knowing no knowing you. You got two
different emails and pages one for one for Danny's guy.
So just let everybody know how to get your.

Speaker 4 (49:07):
Well for both of the personalities.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
I started, I started YouTube channel, so you gonna see
both of Denny's gott and Daniel Duncan on the YouTube.

Speaker 4 (49:18):
So it's gonna be.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
H uh, poetry on there. Like I have like visual
videos that I made in my poetry, so that some
life coach and stuff, a couple of speaker reels, uh,
and then I'm gonna do something this is new new
for me. I'm going to start a book recommendation. I

(49:43):
got like hell of books, but like I didn't. I'll
read a book and then I'll stop and I'll reading
another book. So I was like, I'm gonna do like
a book review, like that would be something different. So
it's a lot of books that I just started reading.
One actually.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
It's yeah, it was called.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
I Choose Myself Year. It's by deep te Vampty. She
was a contestant on Love Is Blind and she talks
about she's from India and her family moved to Chicago,
and she talked about her self love journey, like from
the time when she was a child all the way

(50:28):
up to now not feeling beautiful in her skin because
she was a woman of color. And all I kept
thinking about is Dear Black Girl, but she ain't black,
but it was kind of like, you know, I resonated
with it. And so I'm currently reading that book and
I'm gonna do, like probably do the book review every

(50:49):
two months because I'm like super busy and I can't
sit down and read a whole book because I got
like a million things, like every week, I got like
about five six zooe neetings and and our writing content
and then coming up with content for the next book,
you know, one of two years from now, and.

Speaker 4 (51:09):
It's a lot. So I was like, yeah, we go
do these book reviews every two months, you know. And
then on my website, Queens Inspired Agency ll C.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
That's where if you go there and you go under
the author, all my books are there, so links to
all my poetry books plus Dear Black Girl, that's the easiest.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
Way to like get access to all my books.

Speaker 6 (51:35):
Okay, Okay, you know before we end the show.

Speaker 5 (51:38):
Today is Memorial Day, Okay, and yeah, we we couldn't
do anything without paying homage to the falling. I have
to say this old Air. Memorial Day is not Veterans Day.
We are veterans, we fortunately are still here.

Speaker 6 (51:59):
Memorial Day.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Get it confused.

Speaker 6 (52:01):
It's to honor the falling, and.

Speaker 5 (52:04):
It's it's a very emotional day for me because I'm
sure we know someone or even if you've seen something
on TV or whatever, someone who did not make it today.
And I just if we can have a two second
moment of silence for those who we lost along the.

Speaker 6 (52:22):
Way, I would definitely appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (52:23):
From whatever war zone era, Gulf War, Korean War, Civil War,
oh if, oh yes, Iraqi.

Speaker 6 (52:30):
War, Gaveistan War. I just if we can have two
seconds of silence.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Just going yeah, I too said that I was going
to say something today, and I was talking to you
about it earlier when I was in Iraq. I lost

(52:57):
a soldier down there. Me and him was pretty tight.
H Sergeant Melvin More. He's from Saint Louis and and
and then The thing that got me about that about
him was I had came home because my son was ill,
and they had let me come home and rode out
the bed, turned the news on and there his face was,
and they said that he had got killed. And man,

(53:21):
that was that was that was something. And if you
don't you know know what, know what it's like on
on a day like this, you know, we really do
go back and think about those. And there's another soldier
that I really need to bring up. Her name is
Sergeant Johnson.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
She didn't die over there. She came home and uh,
those burn pits took her out, Uh messed her lungs
up and took her out. So I just want to
just just want to say, you know that they're always
in my thoughts, Sergeant Melvin Moray and Sergia Johnson. So
that's that's that's out for all the all all the
soldiers that uh paid the ultimate price, you know, and

(54:02):
went over over to a foreign land and and and
lost their lives.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
One of the one of the main reasons why I
was glad my first sergeant went through the paperwork and
stuff to make sure that I got there was because
we took a lot of reservists and National Guards soldiers
over there that wasn't actually trained to be there, you know,
and and they rushed them through training, and it was

(54:29):
it was just a big clusterfuck. But I was so
glad to see a majority of them made it home.
And like I say, for those that didn't make it,
you know, they paid the ultimate price. So dig that.
I dig that.

Speaker 5 (54:40):
And I'm a commander of a VFW, which is veteran
for foreign wars, and UH all around the world or states,
if you will, we all hold Memorial Day programs at
the same time at eleven am.

Speaker 6 (54:54):
It's usually an hour long program. But you know, the
day prior, what I.

Speaker 5 (54:58):
Did do was we went to Jeffson Beer that's a
national cemetery for our falling, and we put flags on
their cemeteries. Now that can't be accomplished in one day, unfortunately,
because I keep expanding, so you know, you kind of
have to do it in sections or just have a
whole pallethoral organizations go out there.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
So I had.

Speaker 5 (55:18):
It was a very honorable thing to lay flags on
the on their headstone, if you will.

Speaker 6 (55:26):
Just to honor them. And baby, it was raining out there.
I was drenched, but to do it and to honor people.

Speaker 5 (55:33):
And you know, if you look at those headstones, and
I do encourage everybody to do that. You know, they're
from different war eras. Unfortunately some of them are not
marked or you know, they rank however that looks. But
to do that, it really honors them, whether people know
it or not. And what we do, we do that
on one day and then prior to the next day
or the day after, we removed the flags from the

(55:55):
headstone because it takes.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
A lot of doing. And you know, you just you
know what our mottol is, come on, if it ain't raining,
we ain't raining. So you already you already do Danny, honey,
we got we got two minutes, and I wanted to
make sure that I told you first of all, it's

(56:17):
it's just so good seeing you again. I'm like again,
I say again, I'm so proud of the move that
you made and and and that you took that that
chance and went out and did something that you thought
was right for Danny's guy. And I can't, I can't.
I can't wait till for you to come home, even

(56:38):
the for a visit, you know, come come, come see us.
Come say hello and.

Speaker 4 (56:52):
Price what you tell me when you're coming.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
Dead, Yeah, you tell me when you coming. And just
like the show for me up there with the sign
holding by the car, I'm be standing up with red
hot ripplets. You'll notice me. I'll be holding up the side. So, Dan,
is it anything you want to say? Anybody? You want
to say hello to? Honey the last few minutes of yours? Yeah,

(57:24):
I want to.

Speaker 4 (57:25):
Give a shout out to my bestie. Did that?

Speaker 3 (57:30):
Men with me through my worst? See me in my
worst and my best Chris Bow, comedian.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
Chris all right, all right, Chris, that's my boy, right on,
right on, Danny, thank you so much for taking the
time out to sit up with us and and and
thank you for for saying yes to come on the show.

(57:58):
I'm going to get a copy of your book because
now I'm intrigued. I want to read it. She already
got her, so I ain't she ain't nobody watching. I'm
gonna make sure that I'm gonna make sure that I
get a copy. Or we could do one another thing.
You could tell me how much it is. I could
send you the money and you could autograph me a

(58:19):
copy and mail it to me.

Speaker 3 (58:21):
Okay, yeah, actually I do have some copies, still proof
copies that's still available.

Speaker 4 (58:27):
I believe I think it's fifteen.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
Okay, well, well, don't worry. I'll round it up.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
Up.

Speaker 4 (58:40):
It's like I'll round it all round it.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
But I need you, I need you to do me
a favor and inbox me your cash up so I
can send you that and I'll send you my address
and you make sure that you send me a copy
for everybody watching and the big audience here the udio.
But y'all give it up for the one and only
Damny s Guy. Yes, yes, all right, y'all we need

(59:10):
to get ready to get on up out of here.
Thank you again, Danny's Guy for blessing us with your beauty,
with your book, with your time. We ain't got nothing
but love for you, honey, and please come see us soon.
You'll be good. We're gonna get out of here, will God.

Speaker 4 (59:30):
That was great that I am.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
To kill killer on on on pray pray for my city?
How how many more we want more? One? Pray, pray,
find find babasings and good gods. Pray pray? How many
money for pray? Praise too?

Speaker 2 (59:53):
Streets can't trustro Car too too much, dang dangerous,