Hey everybody. You may remember that back in the fall we kicked off a

flamingo campaign. The basic premise was that flamingos are terrifying monsters

who don't get the respect that they deserve because they're pink. H-tag Yes Womingo still tweeting about it. Anyway I wanted to let you know that

the campaign is not over, not by a long shot.

We are taking it to the top Flamingo influencers. Good afternoon, Cato. Hi, I'm looking for Claude. Hold on one second please. Thanks.

Hello? Hi is this Claude? Yes it is.

This is Flora Lichtman from the podcast Every Little Thing.

Oh, good afternoon.

Good afternoon to you.

Thanks for being up for chatting with us.

It beats working.

Claude Chaptelaine is one of the most powerful figures in the flamingo world. My parents started the business in 1957 and I

started working with my father after school at the age of 13 years old. And I've been doing it ever since making plastic products.

Claude's business, Cato Products, makes the plastic pink flamingo.

That's correct. Are you the only company that makes them? No. But you're

the original. We are the original. Yeah. It's known as the Dawn Featherstone

pink flamingo and that is the original pink plastic

flamingo. It was created by Dawn Featherstone.

Yes, the person who invented the plastic pink flamingo had the name

Featherstone. He was an artist that worked for a plastic company. He was a

colorful character. Him and his wife always dressed the same.

Every day they wore something that had pink flamingos on it.

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