Alternating overlapping text problem

I'm new to the adobe family and I'm working on a design for one of my friends and he came across a look he was wanting. The problem is I cant figure out how to get the text that is overlapping to alternate from in front to behind and so on and so forth. i've been stuck for a few hours now and i've searched online for a tutorial and cant find one that fits for what I am doing.

In other words:
When it comes down to it, an Illustrator file is a stack of objects, one in front the other. You cannot have an object partially in front of and partially in back of another object. It just doesn't work that way.
So you have to use multiple objects which merely appear to be one object, and then arrange the pieces in the front/back stacking order to fake the "interlocking." The simplest way is to cut the objects where they do not overlap, and then move the appropriate pieces forward/backward.
This does not require any correspondence to Layers. A Layer is nothing more than a way to "bracket" around a contiguous portion of the object stack, much like a Group. On a simple design like that shown, you're probably going to want to Group the whole thing when you're done anyway, so that it can be seleced and moved around as if it were a single object. Doing so is going to make eveything in the Group move to the same Layer anyway.
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