Hi and welcome back to straight talk with Inna today on the podcast. We've got rain a butler WFC girls director WFC fitness instructor front row apparel entrepreneur. Reina Butler is an all-around awesome beautiful strong woman and she loves pizza. So today on the podcast we talk Pizza. We talked the history of pizza how to properly eat pizza why she loves pizza AA all pizza coming your way stay tuned. Yeah, there we go. All right, we're recording. Okay, well first things first, so I mean obviously what else is there in life? Hmm for people who can't can't see us right now. Where are recording this episode lunchtime and for eating probably going to go through a pie of pizza. It's really good. It's like Saucy and tangy and good crust at the back cheesy. And what are we drinking diet coke what else is there? That's right. Nice cold can of Diet Coke and comes from our mini fridge at work. So this podcast is with Raina Butler, huh? Hi, and but mostly we're focused on the pizza eating because that's really what we sent our life around true. That's why we live in New York doughy that's a hundred percent the best part of New York. I don't even want to hear it. Like I don't want to hear people tell me it's the Museum's no way. If you really live in New York, you do not go to museums and right if your goal for that. Last time you read Museum only when my husband makes me hey guys, he gets like really into it, but I don't have the patience in the traffic and everything. But um, I'm really excited to do this podcast with Rino and I felt like we should open with pizza because Pizza is the center of our Lives now, I know that might seem strange to some people because to them it seems like it's all about the pizza but food is comfort and food is tradition. Food has history behind it. And I thought what better way to start this podcast of Raina for you to get to know her then to talk about pizza and the two of us have such a strong relationship to it and we just want to explain ourselves because I think we're always posting it. So tell our listeners why Pizza? Okay, so I'll tell you a little bit about pizza and feel free to eat. Okay. Well, we got it. So they tell this like story about My mother was pregnant. She was working on Wall Street at the time and a very fancy office. I don't know which one it is and obviously like she could go anywhere for lunch or have anything because at the time of the 80s the stock market's high of bull market. So she get anything. What did she choose to eat every single day Pizza which was pregnant with you. She was pregnant with me and they tell this fun story amazing every single day A different kind of pizza Square plane. No cheese white cheese. Every single day what's your mom's favorite pizza? My mom doesn't even like pizza. How about that? She doesn't like pizza. But when she was pregnant with me, it's all she ate. So you've been eating pizza for a long time. Yeah. I've always loved me. It's about You're Made Of I made a pizza so she went but now that's it. She doesn't eat it. My mom never accuse us doesn't really even like pizza. What about you when you were a kid? Okay. So as a kid, I know every single in Brooklyn Thursday night because obviously my parents Cannot afford to go to like fancy restaurants or anything like that. We're just regular nice family for Brooklyn every single Thursday night that we got to treat it was to go out for pizza. Yeah. Really? Yeah, we got in the car. We went to this little pizza shop. I believe it was on Avenue J called pizzatime. It's still there. It's the best kosher pizza. You can get in Brooklyn. I'll give you them a shout out. Should I still have my husband bring home pizza for me from there to this day some really good things of pizza from her. And we used to go there every single Thursday night and I have this memory reads to get his special. What was the pizza special of high and pizza a bottle of soda at the time it was regular coke diet back then and Order of large fries and I even remember how much it was and he's got this big like flashing red side. I think it was like 1498 something like yeah. Yeah 1498. I don't know what 98 I was trying to figure out. You said to me what a pizza cause back then and I'm just like wait you're back then is different than my back then true. Yeah 1498. How much was a Coke ABS? I saw a bottle of soda. Do you remember Holly like a dumb time about the to leader? This is the beginning body language. This is a dinner special, you know, Somalia dollar amazing. That's amazing. And you always go out with your brother. It was me my mom my dad and my two brothers we would all go in this tiny little fold Carl remote kind of Carlos. The car was it I do not remember but I know it always smelled like gas. And now I didn't understand why at the time probably something was wrong with you. Yeah, you got to use the only the rescue teams. I'm lucky. I'm not a brain damaged. Yeah, by the way, nobody had a car seat. No, I don't even think I were seat belt holding on don't know if you sat in the back. My parents never made us wear a seatbelt Tommy. Yeah. They also never worse. He must know this about you know, that like when the card jerked forward your dad. Put his arm out. Yeah. That was the signal what I feel safer with your dad put his arm out than I do in my seat belt on the old car. That's not like you ever like Boo Boo Boo all the way from Seagate to all the way down to like 40 minutes Avenue J God. How long did you live in Brooklyn? How long does American from until what age it's like I married until I moved out to Five Towns, which was held I got married and I was funny which is a crazy story. It's fine for another pod. Test yeah, definitely. So you lived there for 20 years and then like when you moved was it hard to find good pizza locally? Okay. So this is the only thing I do not like about Long Island. Yeah, the pizza here is just not the same. So I decided to do a little research. Why because you sir as I was just going to go from store to store. Maybe it was a sauce or cheese. No, no. No, there's actually real science. The reason why the pizza in the borough's is the best is because of the Water so interesting. Yep, the fluoride in the water activates these see I know this kind of weird submarine and Assyria don't taste better has nothing to do with the cheese and the sauce. Yeah. Hmm. Man, maybe we should move back to Brooklyn. Yeah, I mean, I'm from Queens. So definitely I mean considering I don't think we have to move move. You know, I now have your yeah, that's true. But thanks bring back to us. Yeah. Yeah, that's absolutely right. Yeah, I think people don't realize you know, I mean obviously people are attached to their foods that their grandmother's used to make their moms used to make and I don't know for some reason they thought pizza was so outrageous. So when I when I moved to this town and I started Give me the damn Fitness industry. I couldn't believe how surprised people were that we frickin pizza and I realized it isn't Just Pizza although piece of represents carbs to them and represents like the No No foods, but it represents food period any kind of food that they might enjoy having that excluded from their diets and the hopes that they would lose weight or reach some sort of goal that they set for themselves. The whole mindset was screwed up around food. So pizzas become like vilified and I'll be damned if peace is going to be built. If I'd in my life, I would give a probably everything and I sing but keep my pizza. Yeah, see Pizza means so much more to us than just, you know, yummy food. I mean, it means so many things for me. So when I thought about it because people ask me though, they should be eating I think about it. I'm always harassing Rena to eat. So I know like on the podcast for the recording sake you're supposed to like have the mic quality sound great and you know, you can't be certainly chewing into the mic. So I Say we should chew into the mic. Okay, we're eating we're here. This is a real get used to it. We're probably gonna be chewing into the mic most of the to be jealous. You're not here eating with us. Yeah, they're all invited by the way who a pizza party. I love it a podcast pizza party just going to be every time you're on podcast will do it while we're having lunch. So when I was a kid, I grew up in Queens we immigrated in the 70s and landed in Queens at a A time when there weren't a lot of Russian immigrants so we kind of settled the area. Okay. Now we were latchkey kids and they just sort of let us out onto the street and our parents went to find jobs and we were hungry. I mean it's a it's not quite a sensation most people are familiar with but the feeling of actually being hungry and having to wait for food or having to steal food, which is something that we did do all of the little kids who are neighborhood used to and what year was this 76 of I've reached the To well biomes now that I've heard that name in a hundred years. I love all those small bombs and it was still an overwhelming experience to just see a supermarket, but we would help ourselves to food because we were hungry and we would eat it and we bring it to the other kids in the neighborhood. So the same thing was kind of with pizza we couldn't afford it and I remember being like shorter than the pizza counter or first of all I didn't go to school because when we moved here in the 70s I was supposed to go to like first grade but it was such bad conditions at the time that it was dangerous to go to school. So I would try to skip as much as possible and my parents had no idea. So I just was out on the street for the day. Sometimes I went to school. I guess I remember my first grade teacher. Mrs. Mass. Sorry Miss Mass. Right anyways, so it was just bad scene public school. So we would wait till the pizza store open and the counter was very high. I guess it isn't really but to little kid it was and I would Like just not have any money to buy the pizza and it would smell so good and I just wanted it so bad and it would be like you said like a special treat for the family, but I would collect change. I find on the street. I was always looking down and like, you know, trying to find pennies and nickels, but eventually I think that the it was Joe's Pizzeria on 108th Street and Joe and his crew probably was his family at the time. It was an old-fashioned Italian family and they'd had that Pizzeria for years. I'm sure they Saw the Russian immigrants coming in and they were I think if I imagine looking back and seeing this whole slew of hungry kids, they were very kind to us and in between like the lunch rush they would give us you know, whatever was left over but he would see me I was like Relentless. I was like that puppy that sat in the window kind of all day staring into the window and I would keep coming to the pizza shop at like 10:45 in the morning waiting for him to open and I would look over that counter and just like You know I had quarter I was like I can afford like a little wax paper cup of soda, you know, or maybe the Italian ices, but I was always trying to get a pizza meal and he was so good to me. I remember that one day. He said to me. Okay, you want to eat pizza you come back here you wash your hands. We're going to put an apron on you and you're going to help me in the counter and he taught me how I don't be proud if he probably just entertain me, but I remember like washing my hands at this huge slop sink putting on his little white apron and the Beast and next day my God. On a crate on a milk crate and he would say to me like okay punch in that's they spent 65 cents punch that in you know, and he would give me pizza now turn my food. I probably didn't learn anything but he fed me, but they fed me for free and not only was a delicious pizza and I've never been able to get another slice like Joe's Pizzeria, but I think I walked away with a feeling of comfort and security and that someone during the day was You know taking care of me and the feeling of having a full belly with warm pizza was like so reinforcing I imagined for like a little kid. It was just so comforting that I attached to that feeling and that pizza. That was my comfort zone and I knew that if I went to Joe's Pizzeria, he would take care of me and take me in and that way, you know, it's a long day out on the street your parents. Come home seven eight o'clock, you know schools over it three. Yeah if he went so what are you doing all day and the piece of shop was my place to go? And he let me you know mess around behind the counter to earn my pizza and eventually I would just sit in that little booth all day. So pizza for me was way more than just. Oh, I love pizza. It was I love the experience and the meaning behind what that experience was and to this day when I eat pizza, you know, it's like this happy feeling but it probably comes from like childhood, you know, most people think that's something you and I have in common is that we grew up when we didn't have enough and we're so thankful. Alright and I always talk about the fact of how thankful we are to you know, be living in a life or we have everything we need in our children have everything we need and that they need and we are so thankful that we want to give it to everyone else and I know by watching you teach kids classes and the way you take those children into your heart that that's your way of giving back like you the things that were important to you growing up you really give to these kids and we're so happy to be where we are. We're so grateful. All we want to do is give Whether it's to the members of our gym to the children in our program to the community abroad, you know and pizzas a big part of that pizza means, you know happiness to us and it's like something that's very precious. Yeah. I love pizza its the best actually when I was in high school. I had my first job. Well guys, I was dancing for about Mitzvahs. It was a really big deal back in the day. I worked for bulk entertainment. She was amazing at 16 years old. She let me come dance at her butt. That's us. She trains me taught me everything but my several baby, but she really putting a lot of work and everything. I think I really carried it over. I think that's why I fell into fitness. It was so easy. Yeah, I know why and at the time she was paying me to Desert about with $75. Wow. Now for a Katie, I never had anything. Yeah, $75 was like you. Oh, yeah. And what did I spend my money on every day what I ate for lunch every single day in this whole pizza. Day two Avenue M across the street from so Alvin High School. I've been um a nice 14 every single day one slice or two one size because it was a special now. Here's a question very important. Very important question to our Fellow Pizza eaters out there. Here it is. Do you fold the slice when you eat it? Of course, you're from New York. Thank God. Yeah because a lot of people don't fold their slice if you don't fold your size. You're not from New York. There's you know why I realized I don't folder slice because they're not used to eating pizza while they stand out on the street. That is true. Yeah, and then here's here's something you never do. Here's what I can't stand that people do and I don't know what they think they're winning. They dab the oil off the pizza. Okay this size for the dabbing with the napkin that's not even like the ultimate Pizza sin ever watch people eat a plane slice with a fork and knife. Yes. I was gone. You could evolve it. Yeah. Why is that happening if your pizzas crispy all you have to do is just break it in that little that little wedge or along the crest hold it in your hands put it in your mouth and bite it knife and fork. Yeah, they ruined it. I don't get it. Yeah, you do get it. It's called tourists their daughter granddaughter. Your altar has derailed rice. We see you. We know you don't belong in our yeah. Yeah. Well, I might be it's his job. Yeah, we'll take pictures somewhere else and then and then I would almost I always knew when somebody was not a pizza eater coming with me and doing me the favor of eating a slice when they folded the slice to eat it and they didn't notice step back as the oil drip down right off the crust and they have down there first. Oh, that's that's like that's really like you guys got a really get with a plan. You got to expect that loyal be dripping down its the best part. By the way, if you have good cheese and good sauce. The best thing you can do is accumulate that. Little bundle of oil on top. That's the flavor. Oh my God. I'm drooling while I'm saying it's probably good for you. I bet in like, yeah olive oil honey olive oil. Uh-huh. They're going to come out with the setting of me. Like if you ate pizza you're going to like live forever instead of like what is it now kale or genomic chia seeds? Yeah. So I think that it's really important for people to understand that just like Our grandmother's favorite recipe that you carried over into your kitchen brings back good memories and makes you feel good about food pizzas the same thing now, we're not pizza snobs because somebody called me a pizza sub because I want yeah because they said like somebody brought me pizza and I was like, oh man, this is gross and the like as a tribute to sound like listen, the dough is not cooked. I can't fold it in half of the hold. It is drooping cheese tastes like crap. The crisp crust isn't crispy. I mean this isn't Pizza snob. This is just what it is. This is how the food should be and it's not but I wanted to know where it was from. I'm sure it wasn't from the borough's. No definitely not but I really encourage more people to eat pizza and you know create a fitness style lifestyle for themselves so that they can have all their favorite foods in moderation. And you know, I do understand where they're coming from. They're like, I can't eat pizza. I'm going to blow up. I was like image in my mind of someone taking a bite of a slice and another huge boat like oh my god. What happened? I took a bite like you like cartoon where the belt buckle goes in the button flies across the room. Yeah. That's Leo. Yeah, my baby's pretty chunky but that's okay. I like weight will sneeze then pop the button. We were getting ready for an event and I had him all dressed ready to rock and roll sneezes and you pot here like you finally get your toddler all rustled in and ready to rock and roll them. Nope sneeze new shirt. I'm just sorry I wasn't there for that. But you know, I try to tell people like someone's like, you know, how can I eat pizza? You don't really eat pizza. Do you like God really? You know, how do I Pizza? I feel like I say things all day. And nobody really listens to me. So here it is guys when you start to get older 35 and older 4045. Your metabolism is going to slow down. What does that mean? You're losing muscle mass. Stop ignoring the fact that you have to weight train if you weight train if you get a little stronger and you boost your metabolism, you'll be able to metabolize more calories. You'll be able to eat your favorite food again. I'm not saying all day every day. I'm just Saying as you get older that's going to be a little harder for you. Add a little muscle mass restore your youth eat your favorite foods together. How do you continue eating pizza for the rest of your life get a little stronger? It's a whole other episode. But anyway, I mean, that's the only reason why I just ran straight. I'll be honest. Yeah, sorry. So I'm really excited about this podcast that we started recording now because I feel like you know life is so busy for a lot of our customers. Oh, yeah, they don't have time to stop and read they don't have stopped. Time to stop and watch a video helped some people don't even have time to come into the gym and work out. Like that's really that's quality of life changes. You need to make you know, but I'm hoping that we can reach more people with this podcast. Yeah, you guys can listen while you carpool I carpooled all day. Yes. Yeah. I would love to listen to something like this. Yeah. There's some moms. There are some moms who are who are carpooling nine carpals and they told me that they have a Google Drive sheet just to keep track of all their kids activities. I totally believe it so you can listen to the podcast while you eat a piece of pizza in your lap while yeah kids to come out of their activity. I love eating in the car. Yeah. I love eating in the car. Here's what I how I really like my slice of pizza. There's really two ways but one is when they just put it into that paper bag. Oh, yeah paper bag gets stained with oil. And then the smell of the paper bag plus the pizza. I mean God, it's so perfect. Then your car like sometimes will smell for an extra day. Yeah, that's air freshener ever. That's so ghetto Brooklyn and I'm proud I'm totally cool with that. I'm so happy to be here at this point. So we're going to bring you a podcast or rainy night chat about the things we usually chat for probably gonna be chewing because we're always eating. Yeah if you want. To leave us some voice messages on this podcast or wherever I release it. You want to shoot us some messages some requests what you want us to chat about what information you want to hear. It doesn't just have to be fitness-related. We know a lot of stuff rain has a candy fanatic. So yeah, I know a lot about handy, you know what let's make that our next podcast. We're is I read yeah eventually get to the fitness part like who cares? I know everyone knows that were Fitness. Usually that's all they don't realize all the other stuff that we do. So let's talk candy next time. So old-school candy. Okay, I'm gonna enjoy this research and you're in charge of getting it here so we could taste it and talk about it. Okay. I know exactly what I'm talking good now, if you're listening to this podcast and you want us to sample some of your favorite candies leave a message here, wherever you're seeing this podcast tell us what you guys like to eat and we will all your secrets. We want to know we'll get the candy here. We'll eat it and we'll talk about it on the podcast. Cast and you can eat it while you listen. How's that? Sounds good to me. Okay, good. Well, so stay tuned next podcast today pizza tomorrow can be very excited. Okay, great. All right everyone. Thanks for listening and we will talk to you next time. Hi guys. Thanks for listening to the podcast if you want to get in touch with Rayna, you can follow her on Instagram at Brina JB and check out her brand front row apparel for fitness clothing that you can afford and move comfortably in you can also check us out on Instagram at Woodmere Fitness club and Facebook and YouTube. We've got tons of content on our website at Woodmere Fitness club.com. Check out our Blog Page join us for some Fitness classes and come eat pizza with us.
In this episode, we chat with Raina Butler, she’s the WFC Girls director, WFC fitness instructor, and Front Row Apparel entrepreneur, but aside from all that she loves pizza. I do too, and that's the reason we live in New York. While obviously having some amazing, saucy, tangy, cheesy pizza, we'll discuss everything you need to know about pizza and our childhood stories. Could you imagine that all Raina's mom ate while pregnant with her was pizza? Listen in for more juicy stories about us and our love for pizza. THINGS YOU'LL LEARN   -Why pizza is the center of our lives. -The best pizza joint in Brooklyn. -The real reason why pizza in the boroughs is the best. -How Joe's Pizzeria fed me free pizza as a kid. -Do you fold your pizza slice? -Ultimate pizza sins. -Why I encourage people to eat pizza. -Reason to weight train as you get older. - MENTIONED LINKS You can find Raina and her fitness apparel clothing line at: https://www.instagram.com/front_row_apparel/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/rainajb/?hl=en To find out more about how you can get started on the road to health and strength, call us at (516)881-7371 or email info@woodmerefitnessclub.com Check out our gym at https://www.woodmerefitnessclub.com/ Follow us and reach out to Inna at: https://www.facebook.com/woodmerefitnessclub/ https://www.instagram.com/woodmerefitnessclub/ https://www.youtube.com/user/studioinna https://www.linkedin.com/in/inna-koppel-843a3b196/ Articles and videos from Inna: https://www.woodmerefitnessclub.com/inna-koppel https://startingstrength.com/author/inna-koppel-ssc  ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/inna-koppel/message 