Welcome to the Builder of All Things Podcast—where we go beyond the pages of the book and explore into the Author’s Cut! 🔥 Join Richie Breaux and Ray Bisnar as they break down each chapter in micro-episodes, giving you the behind-the-scenes insights, deeper wisdom, and real-life applications—just like a Director’s Cut for a book.
In this powerful episode of the Builder of All Things Podcast, we’re cutting into Chapter 7 of the book — and it’s all about snakes. But not the kind you can step on... we're talking about the enemy, the kind that creeps in subtle and silent. We break it all down with real talk, spiritual insight, and cultural flavor.
🎙️ Richie opens with a powerful metaphor: "Air Jordan on 'Em" — a reference to Michael Jordan’s iconic elevation and finesse. But this isn’t just about basketball. This is about spiritual warfare, discernment, and how to respond when you’re under attack.
🧠 Topics we cover:
* The Three S's: Storms, Snakes, and Smoke — how to recognize which one you're in.
* Why categorizing adversity matters: Is it God-allowed? Enemy-driven? Or self-inflicted?
* What it means to “Air Jordan on the enemy” — rise up, elevate your perspective, and bring it to God.
* The legendary eagle vs. snake battle: why where you fight determines whether you win.
🐍 Whether you’ve felt the sting of betrayal, the pull of temptation, or the confusion of struggle, this episode will challenge you to look at your situation with a sharper lens — and respond with elevation, not reaction.
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SPEAKER_01 (00:17):
Welcome back guys to Builder of All Things Podcast.
Authors cut Authors Cut.
Cut cut.
We're gonna we're gonna cut itup.
Cut it up.
Recently, in chapter eight,Richie.
Oh, I'm sorry, chapter seven.
Chapter seven in the property.
(00:39):
But right now, we are on snakes.
But how do they noise they make?
SPEAKER_00 (00:46):
You can't do it too much because my Filipino friends
are gonna it's like so powerfulhow Jesus is referred to as a
lamb and a lion, and then theenemy is referred to as a snake.
The snakes are they can't evenmake no noise, man.
But that's how crafty they are.
Come on, right?
Let's go.
We want to cut some heads offtoday, Ray.
(01:07):
We're gonna cut some heads off.
SPEAKER_01 (01:09):
Come on, so Snake.
The title of this uh chapter,Richie, is Air Jordan on him.
And I think for our listeners, Ithink I mean Jordan is iconic
enough to kind of have an ideaof who he is and what he's done
for the culture in terms ofbasketball and his effect on the
I mean, he's world-known, right?
Yeah, man.
Let's talk about that, bro.
SPEAKER_00 (01:30):
Yeah, so just like the snake is you know, he's he
likes to bait us.
I I baited you guys hopefullyinto this chapter by starting
off with Air Jordan on him.
No, and I'm talking aboutbasketball, and then I shift and
like talking about snakes, andit's like, what the heck is
going on?
So this is like it you mightthink this is ADD at its finest,
(01:50):
but the the reality is, man, isuh let's just start with you
know, Air Jordan on him, MichaelJordan, you know, growing up in
the era in the 90s, just youknow, there is let's yeah, there
is just something powerful aboutrecognizing what what elevation
can do and the power behind it.
(02:10):
And so as a reference of theword elevation, I really wanted
to talk about somebody whoelevated, you know, and and
really talk about you know,Michael Jordan.
I remember this commercial, likeone of I think it was one of his
first ones, a Coca-Colacommercial where there is some
kids in a clubhouse and in thetree, it's like a tree
clubhouse, and Michael's like, Idon't know, he's supposed to be
(02:32):
like the kid's buddy orsomething.
But he's a grown man, I don'tknow, something weird.
I never got that part, but thekids are like, oh man, we forgot
the drinks.
And then they're like, Michael,and then Michael Jordan grabs a
six-pack of Cokes and he justlike there's it's what's crazy,
it's not about how high hejumped, it was about when he got
(02:53):
up to the tree house, he was hegot the elevate and hang there a
long enough to smile and likestrike a pose for the with the
Coke, you know, six-pack to givethe kids and drop it off and
then come back down.
But what in reality is is weknow that was fabricated, right?
But we all understood that isactually what he did, you know,
(03:15):
as he attacked the rim and andand one of his specialties were
he would you know jump in theair, you'd watch everyone else
jump to defend him, but thenthey would start coming down, he
would still be up there and havean easy layup or do something
fun for us and entertaining.
And so, you know, I I loveJordan growing up and you know,
(03:37):
watching that.
I think everyone did just thatthat elevation, you know, him
winning the dunk contest anddoing it with such finesse, and
it was just a beauty to watch,man.
And so there is a Christianhip-hop song that that released,
you know, back in the early2000s with cross movement.
His name was K Drama.
And he came out with this songcalled Air Jordan on Him.
(04:00):
I air Jordan on him, I airedJordan on him, and then what it
did was it baited us MichaelJordan fans in the song with a
nice hook, and we're just like,yeah, this is tight.
You know, but the context of thesong was so powerful about
elevating things to God whenyou're in a in a pressured or in
a situation where you were undera challenge or a struggle, so
(04:23):
you air Jordan on them.
It doesn't mean like, hey, youfight them, you just you
elevate, you know, your faith ina situation.
So it became kind of a funmantra or term that just kind of
spread culturally throughChristian hip-hop and and
people, like, hey, if I'm goingthrough something, I'm gonna air
Jordan on them, you know, and someaning I'm gonna take my
problems to God and elevate itto him.
(04:45):
And that was where I started thechapter just to, you know, just
really to dig into elevation andtaking things up.
So that was the beginning pointof why I even talked about
basketball and aired Jordan onit.
SPEAKER_01 (04:59):
And I think in that section or that area, I mean,
I'm before we get into it, I Imean, we can talk about what the
snake is in terms of the threebig the big three, I should say.
Yeah, so big three, what you'retalking about is uh storms,
snakes, and smokes.
And that's smokes.
Smokes.
And so right now we're talkingabout snakes, and so I think one
(05:20):
thing is we have to identifywhat a snake is, and in your,
you know, this is the author'scut, so we're gonna we're
hearing from the author.
SPEAKER_00 (05:26):
We're gonna cut it in.
Yeah, so just to revisit thethree pillars or you know, of
battling adversity.
And I recognize in my life andmy business with talking with
people that we easily can catmiscategorize.
Yeah, like we'll be goingthrough a storm and say, Man,
the enemy did this, or we'll begoing, or the enemy's actually
(05:48):
attacking, and you're saying,Man, I'm going through a storm,
you know, or or vice versa.
And same with the smoke, youknow, and we'll talk about that
in in the next podcast, butthat's self-inflicted decisions.
There's there's three parts,man.
It's either God's allowing it,the enemy's attacking, or you're
self-destructing it, you know.
And so we have to be honest andready to categorize it first
(06:12):
because we cannot respond thesame to each one.
So if you think it's the enemy,but it's a storm, you're
actually attacking what God'sallowing to strengthen you.
You know, He wants you to gothrough a faith process and
you're calling it, hey, it's theenemy, you know, and you're
printing, you're just totallylike miscategorizing and
attacking like respondingincorrectly.
So I wanted to be able to, youknow, categorize these three
(06:36):
main parts, and there's a way torespond to each one.
So now that we're talking aboutthe snake, we have to that's the
first part of if we're lookingpractically.
I would say if you're having achallenge or a battle or
something, you know, goingthrough an adversity, let's just
look sit back and say, okay,which one is it?
Yes, right?
Yeah, let's just categorize itfirst.
Let's see first, like what isit?
(06:56):
Category.
All right, boom, snake.
And that's what we're gonna talkabout today.
Yeah, that's good.
SPEAKER_01 (07:02):
And so when you talk about elevation and how does
that apply to now what we'retalking about, right?
SPEAKER_00 (07:08):
Yeah, just so the snake, man, starting with you
know, Adam and Eve, that's wherewe first got introduced to the
enemy, which was in the form ofa snake and crafty, and and you
know, and that's where I Ipicked up the term because the
enemy is out there to bait us,deceive us, to to hook us and
kill us, man.
And so the snake from there,when I when I even share it with
(07:31):
people that don't even read thethe scriptures of the Bible,
when I say a snake, they theyall know like he's snakish, you
know what I'm saying?
Yeah, don't talk to that dude,he's a snake.
So I think it was a goodreference historically, but also
with commodity, you know, popculture, the snake just connects
real real easily, and soelevation, talking about
(07:54):
elevation, talking about MichaelJordan, air Jordan on him.
What does that mean?
So there is a way an Americaneagle and a snake have like
their moments of battle, yeah.
All right, and so what wasunique because when I went
researching about snakes, Ilearned a lot about snakes.
(08:14):
I learned that when you cuttheir head off, man, they still
live for a little bit longer,even but they can't see anymore,
which was very interesting.
So I was just studying likesnakes for a while because there
was a reason why God identifiedthe enemy as a snake, and so I
wanted to know a little bit moreabout them.
So in that process of studying,man, I there's this there is a
lot of stories about this eaglethat preys from high levels of
(08:36):
elevation on the snakes and kindof always always keeping on the
lookout for the snake, it canalways see it, always positions
himself high enough tounderstand the snake's moves and
watches, which I thought wasreally cool.
So the positioning of elevationto begin with, to always be in a
posture of up above to look downand know the enemy and see how
it's lurking.
(08:56):
But when it's getting in yourterritory, like it's trying to,
you know, attack or do whateverit's gonna do, the eagle comes
down, right?
Comes down.
There's two things that couldhappen.
The eagle lands on the groundand then tries to fight it on
the ground, but the snake winsthat war every time.
It catches the the eagle, itwraps it, the weight of it pulls
(09:16):
it, it can't fly, grabs itswings, chokes it, kills it.
Yeah, and the snake tries tobait it to come in on the
ground.
That's his goal.
Like get the get the eagle onthe ground, you know, and try to
bait him on the ground.
But the other part of it is ifthe eagle is able to grab the
snake from the top, yeah.
What the eagle does immediatelyis he elevates, he air Jordans
on him.
Come on, so he takes it all theway as high as he can go.
(09:39):
The eagle goes up to hisplayground up here.
The snake's powerless, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (09:44):
Come on.
SPEAKER_00 (09:44):
Powerless.
It's just like like flapping inthe wind.
Yeah.
But then guess what it does?
It just drops it.
SPEAKER_01 (09:51):
Visually, I've seen stuff like this.
SPEAKER_00 (09:53):
It's just powerless, and that really like like opened
up this whole like spiritual butpractical way of understanding.
Like when we understand,categorize what and who and how
the snake is working.
SPEAKER_01 (10:07):
That's good.
SPEAKER_00 (10:08):
How do we respond to it?
I want to be like the eagle, Idon't want to fight it on the
ground, right?
I want to elevate it.
And so that's where it allbegan.
Okay, what does that mean?
Like, how do we how can I belike the eagle?
Take the snake up in the air andelevate.
How can I air Jordan on him?
Yeah, right?
Or how do I not try to fight iton the ground?
(10:29):
What does that mean in realworld terms, like for me?
You know, and that's where itreally birthed this book or this
chapter in this book.
Welcome back guys to Builder of All Things Podcast.
Authors cut Authors Cut.
Cut cut.
We're gonna we're gonna cut itup.
Cut it up.
Recently, in chapter eight,Richie.
Oh, I'm sorry, chapter seven.
Chapter seven in the property.
(00:39):
But right now, we are on snakes.
But how do they noise they make?
SPEAKER_00 (00:46):
You can't do it too much because my Filipino friends
are gonna it's like so powerfulhow Jesus is referred to as a
lamb and a lion, and then theenemy is referred to as a snake.
The snakes are they can't evenmake no noise, man.
But that's how crafty they are.
Come on, right?
Let's go.
We want to cut some heads offtoday, Ray.
(01:07):
We're gonna cut some heads off.
SPEAKER_01 (01:09):
Come on, so Snake.
The title of this uh chapter,Richie, is Air Jordan on him.
And I think for our listeners, Ithink I mean Jordan is iconic
enough to kind of have an ideaof who he is and what he's done
for the culture in terms ofbasketball and his effect on the
I mean, he's world-known, right?
Yeah, man.
Let's talk about that, bro.
SPEAKER_00 (01:30):
Yeah, so just like the snake is you know, he's he
likes to bait us.
I I baited you guys hopefullyinto this chapter by starting
off with Air Jordan on him.
No, and I'm talking aboutbasketball, and then I shift and
like talking about snakes, andit's like, what the heck is
going on?
So this is like it you mightthink this is ADD at its finest,
(01:50):
but the the reality is, man, isuh let's just start with you
know, Air Jordan on him, MichaelJordan, you know, growing up in
the era in the 90s, just youknow, there is let's yeah, there
is just something powerful aboutrecognizing what what elevation
can do and the power behind it.
(02:10):
And so as a reference of theword elevation, I really wanted
to talk about somebody whoelevated, you know, and and
really talk about you know,Michael Jordan.
I remember this commercial, likeone of I think it was one of his
first ones, a Coca-Colacommercial where there is some
kids in a clubhouse and in thetree, it's like a tree
clubhouse, and Michael's like, Idon't know, he's supposed to be
(02:32):
like the kid's buddy orsomething.
But he's a grown man, I don'tknow, something weird.
I never got that part, but thekids are like, oh man, we forgot
the drinks.
And then they're like, Michael,and then Michael Jordan grabs a
six-pack of Cokes and he justlike there's it's what's crazy,
it's not about how high hejumped, it was about when he got
(02:53):
up to the tree house, he was hegot the elevate and hang there a
long enough to smile and likestrike a pose for the with the
Coke, you know, six-pack to givethe kids and drop it off and
then come back down.
But what in reality is is weknow that was fabricated, right?
But we all understood that isactually what he did, you know,
(03:15):
as he attacked the rim and andand one of his specialties were
he would you know jump in theair, you'd watch everyone else
jump to defend him, but thenthey would start coming down, he
would still be up there and havean easy layup or do something
fun for us and entertaining.
And so, you know, I I loveJordan growing up and you know,
(03:37):
watching that.
I think everyone did just thatthat elevation, you know, him
winning the dunk contest anddoing it with such finesse, and
it was just a beauty to watch,man.
And so there is a Christianhip-hop song that that released,
you know, back in the early2000s with cross movement.
His name was K Drama.
And he came out with this songcalled Air Jordan on Him.
(04:00):
I air Jordan on him, I airedJordan on him, and then what it
did was it baited us MichaelJordan fans in the song with a
nice hook, and we're just like,yeah, this is tight.
You know, but the context of thesong was so powerful about
elevating things to God whenyou're in a in a pressured or in
a situation where you were undera challenge or a struggle, so
(04:23):
you air Jordan on them.
It doesn't mean like, hey, youfight them, you just you
elevate, you know, your faith ina situation.
So it became kind of a funmantra or term that just kind of
spread culturally throughChristian hip-hop and and
people, like, hey, if I'm goingthrough something, I'm gonna air
Jordan on them, you know, and someaning I'm gonna take my
problems to God and elevate itto him.
(04:45):
And that was where I started thechapter just to, you know, just
really to dig into elevation andtaking things up.
So that was the beginning pointof why I even talked about
basketball and aired Jordan onit.
SPEAKER_01 (04:59):
And I think in that section or that area, I mean,
I'm before we get into it, I Imean, we can talk about what the
snake is in terms of the threebig the big three, I should say.
Yeah, so big three, what you'retalking about is uh storms,
snakes, and smokes.
And that's smokes.
Smokes.
And so right now we're talkingabout snakes, and so I think one
(05:20):
thing is we have to identifywhat a snake is, and in your,
you know, this is the author'scut, so we're gonna we're
hearing from the author.
SPEAKER_00 (05:26):
We're gonna cut it in.
Yeah, so just to revisit thethree pillars or you know, of
battling adversity.
And I recognize in my life andmy business with talking with
people that we easily can catmiscategorize.
Yeah, like we'll be goingthrough a storm and say, Man,
the enemy did this, or we'll begoing, or the enemy's actually
(05:48):
attacking, and you're saying,Man, I'm going through a storm,
you know, or or vice versa.
And same with the smoke, youknow, and we'll talk about that
in in the next podcast, butthat's self-inflicted decisions.
There's there's three parts,man.
It's either God's allowing it,the enemy's attacking, or you're
self-destructing it, you know.
And so we have to be honest andready to categorize it first
(06:12):
because we cannot respond thesame to each one.
So if you think it's the enemy,but it's a storm, you're
actually attacking what God'sallowing to strengthen you.
You know, He wants you to gothrough a faith process and
you're calling it, hey, it's theenemy, you know, and you're
printing, you're just totallylike miscategorizing and
attacking like respondingincorrectly.
So I wanted to be able to, youknow, categorize these three
(06:36):
main parts, and there's a way torespond to each one.
So now that we're talking aboutthe snake, we have to that's the
first part of if we're lookingpractically.
I would say if you're having achallenge or a battle or
something, you know, goingthrough an adversity, let's just
look sit back and say, okay,which one is it?
Yes, right?
Yeah, let's just categorize itfirst.
Let's see first, like what isit?
(06:56):
Category.
All right, boom, snake.
And that's what we're gonna talkabout today.
Yeah, that's good.
SPEAKER_01 (07:02):
And so when you talk about elevation and how does
that apply to now what we'retalking about, right?
SPEAKER_00 (07:08):
Yeah, just so the snake, man, starting with you
know, Adam and Eve, that's wherewe first got introduced to the
enemy, which was in the form ofa snake and crafty, and and you
know, and that's where I Ipicked up the term because the
enemy is out there to bait us,deceive us, to to hook us and
kill us, man.
And so the snake from there,when I when I even share it with
(07:31):
people that don't even read thethe scriptures of the Bible,
when I say a snake, they theyall know like he's snakish, you
know what I'm saying?
Yeah, don't talk to that dude,he's a snake.
So I think it was a goodreference historically, but also
with commodity, you know, popculture, the snake just connects
real real easily, and soelevation, talking about
(07:54):
elevation, talking about MichaelJordan, air Jordan on him.
What does that mean?
So there is a way an Americaneagle and a snake have like
their moments of battle, yeah.
All right, and so what wasunique because when I went
researching about snakes, Ilearned a lot about snakes.
(08:14):
I learned that when you cuttheir head off, man, they still
live for a little bit longer,even but they can't see anymore,
which was very interesting.
So I was just studying likesnakes for a while because there
was a reason why God identifiedthe enemy as a snake, and so I
wanted to know a little bit moreabout them.
So in that process of studying,man, I there's this there is a
lot of stories about this eaglethat preys from high levels of
(08:36):
elevation on the snakes and kindof always always keeping on the
lookout for the snake, it canalways see it, always positions
himself high enough tounderstand the snake's moves and
watches, which I thought wasreally cool.
So the positioning of elevationto begin with, to always be in a
posture of up above to look downand know the enemy and see how
it's lurking.
(08:56):
But when it's getting in yourterritory, like it's trying to,
you know, attack or do whateverit's gonna do, the eagle comes
down, right?
Comes down.
There's two things that couldhappen.
The eagle lands on the groundand then tries to fight it on
the ground, but the snake winsthat war every time.
It catches the the eagle, itwraps it, the weight of it pulls
(09:16):
it, it can't fly, grabs itswings, chokes it, kills it.
Yeah, and the snake tries tobait it to come in on the
ground.
That's his goal.
Like get the get the eagle onthe ground, you know, and try to
bait him on the ground.
But the other part of it is ifthe eagle is able to grab the
snake from the top, yeah.
What the eagle does immediatelyis he elevates, he air Jordans
on him.
Come on, so he takes it all theway as high as he can go.
(09:39):
The eagle goes up to hisplayground up here.
The snake's powerless, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (09:44):
Come on.
SPEAKER_00 (09:44):
Powerless.
It's just like like flapping inthe wind.
Yeah.
But then guess what it does?
It just drops it.
SPEAKER_01 (09:51):
Visually, I've seen stuff like this.
SPEAKER_00 (09:53):
It's just powerless, and that really like like opened
up this whole like spiritual butpractical way of understanding.
Like when we understand,categorize what and who and how
the snake is working.
SPEAKER_01 (10:07):
That's good.
SPEAKER_00 (10:08):
How do we respond to it?
I want to be like the eagle, Idon't want to fight it on the
ground, right?
I want to elevate it.
And so that's where it allbegan.
Okay, what does that mean?
Like, how do we how can I belike the eagle?
Take the snake up in the air andelevate.
How can I air Jordan on him?
Yeah, right?
Or how do I not try to fight iton the ground?
(10:29):
What does that mean in realworld terms, like for me?
You know, and that's where itreally birthed this book or this
chapter in this book.
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