Neil T. AndersonFreedom in Christ Ministries · Pastor

I'm sure it had nothing to do with my inexperience

16 Feb 2026 · 2 min

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In this informal, diarized interview, speaker A recounts how, at 19, he responded to a newspaper ad seeking male lifters for a basketball cheerleading squad. He and his friend Jeff attended tryouts, where only six spots were available, and A secured a position simply because he was male. The role granted him free access to basketball games and the opportunity to meet girls. Over the next two months, two of the cheerleading girls were injured, a circumstance A jokes was unrelated to his inexperience. Throughout the exchange, host Mandy interjects with teasing questions, highlighting the humorous and self‑deprecating tone of the anecdote.

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I saw an ad in the newspaper for male lifters needed for the basketball cheering squad.
Okay, I want to again. Smart boy. I feel like a lot of your story surrounds how smart you are. I don't know if you came here to talk about how awesome you were and how smart you were or.
Hey, I knew, hey, I can get into basketball games for free and meet girls like as a. As a 19 year old. Like, free ticket to.
Check. Check.
Yeah. Now, so I showed up to tryouts and I, you know, Jeff and I decided to go try out together, which he now says he saw the ad in the paper and was just.
You.
Know, let me think that I talked him into it. So anyway, we show up for tryouts, and there were only six spots, you know, and so, you know, I was one of six guys who showed up, so I got a spot, you know, because I'm male.
If 10 guys had shown up, would there have been 10 spots? Next question.
I don't know. Good question. I never thought of it that way. That is a very fair question. Some.
Of these questions are just better unasked. Come on, Mandy. Yeah, because.
There were like 10 or 12 girls, so. I got a spot. And somehow, somehow during the course of the next two months, two of the girls got injured. I'm sure it had nothing to do with my inexperience.
Were they the girls you were spotting?
I'd rather not say.
Punches, teachers, drops, cheerleaders. Keep going, keep going. I'm writing a list. Good thing we do know that it's not for condemnation, right? That's right. That is therefore now no condemnation.
I'm free from that guilt and shame.