Chuck Renslow

And today's topic is Chuck Fleck, F-L-E-C-K, who... is one of the founders and, of course, the eventual owner of Flex with an X, Spas, Flex Spas.

The reason I want to hone in on Chuck Fleck is because his name came up just a few episodes back when we talked about Chuck Renslow.

Chuck Renslow, of course, was the founder of many businesses in and around Chicago.

He was a bar owner.

He owned Man's Country.

He started his career in the bathhouse industry.

He opened up his first man's country bathhouse in 1972 in New York City.

So Chuck Renslow was very famous for man's country in Chicago.

Now, they're not the only city that you can say that about, but...

With Chuck Renslow and all of the businesses that he had in the community that he and everybody there developed, Chicago has got a decades-long lineage of being the LGBTQ plus hotspot as it relates to a building of community and strength.

New York, of course, is there and some of the other big cities, too.

So this is just a city that not only has the history, it has the receipts.