Someone's Gotta Do It - Making Phlegm

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There are many health-related problems that stem tobacco use. To encourage tobacco users to quit the habit, the First District Health Unit in Minot has come up with some unique props. In this week's Someone's Gotta Do It, Clayton Clark learns the recipe for an appetizing jar of phlegm... (Clayton Clark, KX News) Today I'm at the First District Health Unit in Minot and I'm about to go behind these doors, and I'm going to make some phlegm. (Terilynn Hoff, First District Health Unit) My job is to make tar and phlegm jars. We use Cocoa butter lotion, some yellow and green hair gel, some coffee and a little bit of oatmeal. (Clayton Clark, Kx News) See this sounds like a morning for me oateal with a cup of coffee, fix my hair, get my hands nice and moist and go to work, but you guys use it to show people why they shouldn't use tobacco. (Terilynn Hoff, First District Health Unit) Right, so if you want to add one and a fourth cup of yellow hair gel in to the bowl there. (Squirting noise) That's the bottle. (Terilynn Hoff, First District Health Unit) Then a half of cup of green. Then we need a fourth of cup of cocoa butter lotion. Then we need you to add all of it in to here. (Clayton Clark, KX News) Is this stuff more for texture or for looks. (Terilynn Hoff, First District Health Unit) Color. (Clayton Clark, KX News) We're going for tobacco Phlegm color? (Terilynn Hoff, First District Health Unit) Yep (Clayton CLark, KX News) When did you discover that several colors of hair gel, cocoa butter and breakfast would make a good phlegm? (Terilynn Hoff, First District Health Unit) I didn't come up with the recipe (Clayton Clark, KX News) There was your chance to take credit for it and you ruined it. I've never seen so much hair gel in one place. Except for Vanilla Ice that one time. (Terilynn Hoff, First District Health Unit) Then we'll have you add the lotion. Then the coffee. (Clayton Clark, KX News) This is warm, this is fresh coffee isn't it. (Terilynn Hoff, First District Health Unit) Freshly brewed. And then you can actually start mixing it all together. (Clayton Clark, KX News) This looks like the remains of that one time I had the stomach flu. (Terilynn Hoff, First District Health Unit) It looks good I think you can add the oatmeal now. Perfect. (Clayton Clark, KX News) Thank You. So what does the oatmeal do? (Terilynn Hoff, First District Health Unit) It adds a little more gunk in your phlegm. (Clayton Clark, KX News) Enough Said. (Terilynn Hoff, First District Health Unit) That looks pretty good. (Clayton Clark, KX News) Thank you, I'm mildly proud of it. You tell me when. (Terilynn Hoff, First District Health Unit) Then we're going to add it to one of these. I'll let you hold the bag. (Clayton Clark, KX News) Ya, I wouldn't trust me with the scissors. My first grade teacher didn't, you shouldn't either. Genius plan (Terilynn Hoff, First District Health Unit) So that's it, that's phlegm. (Clayton Clark, KX News) Alright Terilynn Thanks for bringing me here today to make phlegm which you get to do for a living. I'm glad I cold help out. If you have any great ideas for something nasty like this that I can do, you can send me an email at cclark@kxnet.com. From the first district health unit I'm Clayton Clark, KX News.  « Less