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Disrespectfully

Capoeira and BLM with Alfred Kendrick

Disrespectfully

Envy Media

Society & Culture

4.44.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week Katie sits down with her friend Alfred Kendrick who is a capoeira pro, creator of Fit Arts and her former trainer. Alfred talks about getting into capoeira and building Fit Arts 20 years ago and how impactful it has been. They discuss BLM and Alfred shares his perspective as a black man, his childhood in Florida and having to learn from a young age what it means to be black.

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a deer media production.

0:07.9

Welcome to What You're Gonna Love Me.

0:10.1

The podcast where we open the eyes, the ears, and the hearts of anyone who has judged or been judged.

0:17.4

Well, hopefully. I'm your host, Katie Maloney.

0:30.0

Hello, everyone. Welcome. I'm very excited for my guest today.

0:35.8

He's one of the coolest people I know. And he's also definitely kicks my butt,

0:40.7

working out before. His name is Alfred Kendrick. And he is the founder and creator of

0:47.9

Fidart Studio here in Los Angeles. Welcome.

0:51.6

What's up with you? Thank you for having me. Glad to be here.

0:54.6

Yay. Okay. So Alfred went to college with my husband Tom Schwartz.

1:00.0

Yeah. Good times. Do you have any embarrassing stories by him?

1:03.7

Do I have any embarrassing stories? I don't know if I have any embarrassing stories to drop.

1:08.6

But definitely we used to do something kind of strange where we would sit out on the porch

1:15.2

steps in college and play music. But we didn't go to church. So we just called it the church of

1:20.8

funk. So we just sit out on the steps and like play music all Sunday morning. So it's a little

1:27.0

college story. It's church of funk. The church of funk. I believe that. Well, he asked me,

1:31.6

as soon as you know, it's confusing and embarrassing stories about me. He's like, well,

1:34.3

he'd probably just call me a lush. Yeah, maybe a little. Yeah, definitely. Yeah.

1:39.8

I know. Well, because it was Florida State. Yeah, it was Florida State, but everybody was.

1:44.1

So except for you. Yeah, yeah, except for me. You're good. I actually made it through

1:48.8

life. I've never had a drink in my entire life. What do you think is amazing? I mean,

1:52.0

do you get frustrated in people are like, what? Yeah, I'm amazing. Yeah, some people definitely get

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