This is Justin from the Generation Y, and we're doing a four-part series on rambling the story of

Khalif Browder, a young boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held at Rikers Island for three

years without trial. This story is about a young life caught in the middle of the Justice System.

Listen to Generation Y on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hi everybody, my name is Catherine Samson, and I met both of the errands in graduate school

at the University of Illinois. I'm currently an AP Biology teacher down in Texas where I'm from.

They asked me to share my story about my lactose intolerance throughout my life, and of course I

jumped at the opportunity to be on the podcast and share my poop stories with basically the entire

universe. There was one part of my life that I think was one of the most formative

defecation experiences I've ever had, and it goes a little something like this. My mom and I,

hi mom, we were sitting in a restaurant eating lunch one day, and I just ordered something off the

menu that appealed to me. And maybe about 30 minutes later when my mom and I were shopping at the

store that is very famous for selling containers of all varieties, we were walking down the

gift wrapping aisle, and I felt something kind of odd in my bowels. And so I thought to myself,

that's not normal, but it'll be okay, just shake it off, just keep walking, everything's going

to be fine. And I remember thinking back about this moment, and I went, maybe that's why they

called it a bowel movement, you know, because I physically felt my bowels moving inside my body.

So, you know, I continue walking, and I start feeling like a buildup of gas inside my body.

And so for all of the people out there who have ever felt that, you know what I'm talking about,

and so you think for a moment, well maybe if I let it out, and I relieve that pressure inside my

body that everything will be okay. But for me in that moment, if I can give you all one piece of advice,

is to never really trust a fart. I unfortunately did trust this fart, and it ended up being very bad

...