"Air Jordan On 'Em" | Episode #90 | Builder of All Things | Author’s Cut: Chapter Seven w/ Richie Breaux

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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Chapters

• 0:17 Setting Up “Air Jordan on Him”
• 1:10 From Snakes to Elevation
• 2:20 Jordan’s Hang Time as Metaphor
• 3:47 The K-Drama Hook and Meaning
• 4:59 The Big Three: Storms, Snakes, Smoke
• 6:07 Categorize Before You Respond
• 7:08 Why “Snake” Resonates Culturally
• 7:58 Eagle vs. Snake: Change the Altitude
• 9:04 Practical Elevation: Don’t Fight on Ground

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:17

Welcome back guys to Builder of All Things Podcast. Authors cut Authors Cut. Cut cut. We're gonna we're gonna cut it up. Cut it up. Recently, in chapter eight, Richie. Oh, I'm sorry, chapter seven. Chapter seven in the property. But right now, we are on snakes. But how do they noise they make?

SPEAKER_00: 0:46

You can't do it too much because my Filipino friends are gonna it's like so powerful how Jesus is referred to as a lamb and a lion, and then the enemy is referred to as a snake. The snakes are they can't even make no noise, man. But that's how crafty they are. Come on, right? Let's go. We want to cut some heads off today, Ray. We're gonna cut some heads off.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09

Come on, so Snake. The title of this uh chapter, Richie, is Air Jordan on him. And I think for our listeners, I think I mean Jordan is iconic enough to kind of have an idea of who he is and what he's done for the culture in terms of basketball and his effect on the I mean, he's world-known, right? Yeah, man. Let's talk about that, bro.

SPEAKER_00: 1:30

Yeah, so just like the snake is you know, he's he likes to bait us. I I baited you guys hopefully into this chapter by starting off with Air Jordan on him. No, and I'm talking about basketball, and then I shift and like talking about snakes, and it's like, what the heck is going on? So this is like it you might think this is ADD at its finest, but the the reality is, man, is uh let's just start with you know, Air Jordan on him, Michael Jordan, you know, growing up in the era in the 90s, just you know, there is let's yeah, there is just something powerful about recognizing what what elevation can do and the power behind it. And so as a reference of the word elevation, I really wanted to talk about somebody who elevated, you know, and and really talk about you know, Michael Jordan. I remember this commercial, like one of I think it was one of his first ones, a Coca-Cola commercial where there is some kids in a clubhouse and in the tree, it's like a tree clubhouse, and Michael's like, I don't know, he's supposed to be like the kid's buddy or something. But he's a grown man, I don't know, something weird. I never got that part, but the kids 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 just like there's it's what's crazy, it's not about how high he jumped, it was about when he got up to the tree house, he was he got the elevate and hang there a long enough to smile and like strike a pose for the with the Coke, you know, six-pack to give the kids and drop it off and then come back down. But what in reality is is we know that was fabricated, right? But we all understood that is actually what he did, you know, as he attacked the rim and and and one of his specialties were he would you know jump in the air, you'd watch everyone else jump to defend him, but then they would start coming down, he would still be up there and have an easy layup or do something fun for us and entertaining. And so, you know, I I love Jordan growing up and you know, watching that. I think everyone did just that that elevation, you know, him winning the dunk contest and doing it with such finesse, and it was just a beauty to watch, man. And so there is a Christian hip-hop song that that released, you know, back in the early 2000s with cross movement. His name was K Drama. And he came out with this song called Air Jordan on Him. I air Jordan on him, I aired Jordan on him, and then what it did was it baited us Michael Jordan fans in the song with a nice hook, and we're just like, yeah, this is tight. You know, but the context of the song was so powerful about elevating things to God when you're in a in a pressured or in a situation where you were under a challenge or a struggle, so you air Jordan on them. It doesn't mean like, hey, you fight them, you just you elevate, you know, your faith in a situation. So it became kind of a fun mantra or term that just kind of spread culturally through Christian hip-hop and and people, like, hey, if I'm going through something, I'm gonna air Jordan on them, you know, and so meaning I'm gonna take my problems to God and elevate it to him. And that was where I started the chapter just to, you know, just really to dig into elevation and taking things up. So that was the beginning point of why I even talked about basketball and aired Jordan on it.

SPEAKER_01: 4:59

And I think in that section or that area, I mean, I'm before we get into it, I I mean, we can talk about what the snake is in terms of the three big the big three, I should say. Yeah, so big three, what you're talking about is uh storms, snakes, and smokes. And that's smokes. Smokes. And so right now we're talking about snakes, and so I think one thing is we have to identify what a snake is, and in your, you know, this is the author's cut, so we're gonna we're hearing from the author.

SPEAKER_00: 5:26

We're gonna cut it in. Yeah, so just to revisit the three pillars or you know, of battling adversity. And I recognize in my life and my business with talking with people that we easily can cat miscategorize. Yeah, like we'll be going through a storm and say, Man, the enemy did this, or we'll be going, or the enemy's actually attacking, and you're saying, Man, I'm going through a storm, you know, or or vice versa. And same with the smoke, you know, and we'll talk about that in in the next podcast, but that'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 and ready to categorize it first because we cannot respond the same to each one. So if you think it's the enemy, but it's a storm, you're actually attacking what God's allowing to strengthen you. You know, He wants you to go through a faith process and you're calling it, hey, it's the enemy, you know, and you're printing, you're just totally like miscategorizing and attacking like responding incorrectly. So I wanted to be able to, you know, categorize these three main parts, and there's a way to respond to each one. So now that we're talking about the snake, we have to that's the first part of if we're looking practically. I would say if you're having a challenge or a battle or something, you know, going through an adversity, let's just look sit back and say, okay, which one is it? Yes, right? Yeah, let's just categorize it first. Let's see first, like what is it? Category. All right, boom, snake. And that's what we're gonna talk about today. Yeah, that's good.

SPEAKER_01: 7:02

And so when you talk about elevation and how does that apply to now what we're talking about, right?

SPEAKER_00: 7:08

Yeah, just so the snake, man, starting with you know, Adam and Eve, that's where we first got introduced to the enemy, which was in the form of a snake and crafty, and and you know, and that's where I I picked 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 people that don't even read the the scriptures of the Bible, when I say a snake, they they all 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 good reference historically, but also with commodity, you know, pop culture, the snake just connects real real easily, and so elevation, talking about elevation, talking about Michael Jordan, air Jordan on him. What does that mean? So there is a way an American eagle and a snake have like their moments of battle, yeah. All right, and so what was unique because when I went researching about snakes, I learned a lot about snakes. I learned that when you cut their 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 like snakes for a while because there was a reason why God identified the enemy as a snake, and so I wanted to know a little bit more about them. So in that process of studying, man, I there's this there is a lot of stories about this eagle that preys from high levels of elevation on the snakes and kind of always always keeping on the lookout for the snake, it can always see it, always positions himself high enough to understand the snake's moves and watches, which I thought was really cool. So the positioning of elevation to begin with, to always be in a posture of up above to look down and know the enemy and see how it's lurking. But when it's getting in your territory, like it's trying to, you know, attack or do whatever it's gonna do, the eagle comes down, right? Comes down. There's two things that could happen. The eagle lands on the ground and then tries to fight it on the ground, but the snake wins that war every time. It catches the the eagle, it wraps it, the weight of it pulls it, it can't fly, grabs its wings, chokes it, kills it. Yeah, and the snake tries to bait it to come in on the ground. That's his goal. Like get the get the eagle on the ground, you know, and try to bait him on the ground. But the other part of it is if the eagle is able to grab the snake from the top, yeah. What the eagle does immediately is he elevates, he air Jordans on him. Come on, so he takes it all the way as high as he can go. The eagle goes up to his playground up here. The snake's powerless, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 9:44

Come on.

SPEAKER_00: 9:44

Powerless. It's just like like flapping in the wind. Yeah. But then guess what it does? It just drops it.

SPEAKER_01: 9:51

Visually, I've seen stuff like this.

SPEAKER_00: 9:53

It's just powerless, and that really like like opened up this whole like spiritual but practical 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, I don't want to fight it on the ground, right? I want to elevate it. And so that's where it all began. Okay, what does that mean? Like, how do we how can I be like the eagle? Take the snake up in the air and elevate. How can I air Jordan on him? Yeah, right? Or how do I not try to fight it on the ground? What does that mean in real world terms, like for me? You know, and that's where it really birthed this book or this chapter in this book.