October 29, 2025 • 20 mins
Loren is back with an update after returning from a trip to Norfolk University and back home in Delaware. One lesson learned, prioritize your sleep! + Paul Pierce was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. His comment - he was in standstill traffic and fell asleep. So Loren digs into the new blood test results police have released and comes up with one conclusion - get an uber.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm a homegrowd that knows a little bit about everything,
and everybody don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
If you don't lie about that, right, Lauren came in, Hey, y'all,
what's up.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's Laura l Rosa and this is the latest with
Laura l Rosa. This did DELI dig on all things
pop culture, entertainment, news and all of the conversations that
shake the room.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Baby. Now today we're gonna go behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Of the Grind, Behind the scenes of the Grind, our
little checking that we do here. It's been a minute
since we've done it in full. But when we check
it behind the scenes of the Grind, it's really just
a time to like sit still and be like, how
am I really feeling today, this week, this month? What's
really going on with me? I just came back from
(00:49):
Norfolk State University Norfolk.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
They say that I say it wrong. Hampton.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It was my first time at Hampton University as well,
which is a school that Envy graduated from. So he
took me over to here and there like maybe forty
five minutes apart if even that, and I was home
in Delaware. You guys heard the conversation in the episode
prior to this one or watch and or if you
have not, please go and find it with my church
(01:15):
sees the greatness. I was in conversation with Tim Ross,
who is an amazing spiritual leader, podcaster, thought provoker, and
Noah Mills former Miss Delaware twenty twenty three, but also
a huge not even just would I would say like advocate,
but not even just an advocate, but a huge action
based professional in the mental health space because she does
(01:37):
so much on a daily working with in the corporate
arena to make sure that businesses and corporates and brands
have adequate mental health support because of you know, just
her life passion somethings she's been through in her life
as well.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Conversation was great. So I've been all over the world
and back.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I think last night was the first night I actually
got some real sleep, and boy does going to sleep
early change your whole perspective on the world, life everything.
I woke up this morning still was like a little
bit like ugh, I don't want to get up. But
once I got up and got going and got the
day started, I felt the difference in my body between
(02:14):
today and Monday morning. I think I'm just at that
age where when I don't get a lot of sleep.
I feel it like in the way I think, the
way I'm able to communicate, the way I think through
my attention span, which is already horrible my attention span,
but it's just better. So in noticing that, you know,
I really want to try and prioritize more sleep. Don't
know if it'll be possible. I was just saying that
(02:36):
today to Charlot Mane. Actually, like it's no way in
this industry for what I do you get good sleep. Like,
it's just not possible. There's not enough hours in the day.
So that's what's been kind of, you know, back and forth,
ping pong in my mind. It's like, Yo, I feel
so amazing having went to sleep so early last night,
But can I do that every day? Do have enough
(02:57):
time in life to do that every day? If y'all
I have good sleep regimens and you can recommend anything
of like how you're balancing a very demanding work life
and all the things. I know, parents y'all probably have
the best advice here. I'm not a parent yet, but
I don't know, man, I'll be feeling like I'm I'm
juggling a lot.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Send the tips on over.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I am more than open for them because I want
to feel like this every single day. And mind y'all,
today wasn't even like a fully I could have slept
more like today was like today was great, but I
still felt like today, like all right, girl, you could
have did a couple more hours or whatever. But anyway,
so we're here, We're well rested, I'm feeling good.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Travel was great, It's always fired.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Every October is like that month where I'm at different schools,
have so many different things going on because the HBCU
Alumni Tour that I do every year. This is my
second year doing it. Just God is good. I get
to go to all these schools and see different people
and experience different things.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And we are ending. I'm ending the tour this week.
Actually the high Halloween Eve will be.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Which is October thirtieth, Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, which
is the Eagle Stadium. Delaware State University will be playing
Norfolk State University, and I'm bun be there, Okay, bringing
you guys all behind the scenes, you know, grabbing content
from everywhere I can.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So don't worry. I got you off.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You can't make it right here. The latest to Lorna
Rosa will be taking you inside.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Get in the game. I always wanted to say that.
But anyway, speaking of sports.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Segue, but an important segue speaking of sports. Okay, So,
for those of you guys who do not know, Paul
Pierce was recently taken into custody by police for suspicion
of driving under the influence.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That was fourteen days ago.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
They say that when they arrested him that there was
signs that he was impaired, and this was following him
falling asleep behind the wheel and his range Rover. He
was sitting in traffic on a highway in LA and
he fell asleep behind the wheel of the car. Now
cops say that he had been on the highway this
was during the time of like a crash investigation, so.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
He'd been sitting still for some time.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
And I don't know if you guys have ever driven
in LA, but you already are city, especially if you're
driving between a certain time, You're already sitting.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Still for long, long periods of.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Time, especially if you're driving through certain parts of LA. So,
like the Valley is always horrible right near downtown. Honestly,
it's bad all over, but certain parts is it gets
worse than others in certain days, in certain times. Now
he was driving at eleven thirty five pm. And again
LA is one of them places where randomly at times
too there can just be traffic. I used to be like,
where's everybody going right now? Like y'all don't work, Like
(05:40):
people in LA don't work. In my opinion, everybody's an
influence to everybody. It's just creative and floating and going
and run in and figuring out life. But everybody got
somewhere to drive and be when you need to get somewhere.
So it's eleven thirty five pm. They reopened the highway
and they discovered Paul Pierce's car. Now again they say
that they know the signs of alcohol impairment when they
(06:03):
encountered him, or you know, once they down they're talking
to him, they're at the car and all the things.
So they conducted a duy investigation. Then he was arrested
on the suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol,
a violation of California vehicle cold of course, and he
was taken into a central Central Los Angeles area.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Office.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Now he did comment on this situation. They have blood
test results. So I'm going to tell you guys first
what he commented before I give you what his blood
test results from the dy investigation were. So when he
commented on this situation, Paul Piers, he posted a photo
to his Instagram and he said, imagine being stuck in
(06:48):
stand still traffic for forty five minutes and falling asleep
with the hand covering his face emoji. I took this
picture that night because I'd never been a stand still
traffic for this long. I'm old, and I fell asleep
with the shrugging hands emoji.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I'm good, y'all. Thanks for the love and the photo
that he posted. Very much.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Standstill traffic very much gives. You're sitting in LA traffic.
But it makes even more sense if police are saying
that they had shut down the highway for a car
crash investigation, right, because that's even more traffic. You're sitting
still for even longer all of the things. So he
denied it. Now, this was back on April ninth, right,
So this week police have updated documents, and according to
(07:32):
those documents and court records, prosecutors are charging Paul Pierce
with one count of driving under the influence of alcohol
and one count of driving with a point zero eight
blood alcohol content. And now this is fourteen days, right,
so about two weeks after he was pulled over, not
pulled over but because he was already sitting still, but
(07:54):
after he had encountered police and they had taken him
in for a suspicion of the DUI Now, I looked
it up in LA the blood alcohol content like that
that number that you know, if you're twenty one and
older you're not supposed to hit. Is that point zero eight?
So I started thinking, like, okay, and I've reached out
(08:15):
to Paul Pierces everybody I could find. I reached out
to his agents, and I believe it was a manager.
I'll verify that in a second, but I believe it
was a manager. No one has responded yet. I want
to try and find an attorney because when I look
this up, I'm like, Okay, if that's the number, what's
(08:35):
the scale of you hit. I mean, once you hit
that number, it becomes illegal. But is there Because there
was a note under the law that I read that
said that it kind of depends on your impairment, I'm
gonna actually bring it up. So this is from the
California DMV. When I was researching for the story, I
just wanted to know, like what all legal limits were.
(08:56):
I didn't know if it veris stayed to say, like
the blood alcohol concentration that you will here keep people
mentioning when they talk about the story, is that number
when you consume alcohol and traces of it into your bloodstream.
Your blood alcohol content measures how much alcohol is present
in your bloodstream. It is illegal for you to drive
if you've had if you have a blood alcohol level
of point zero eight or higher if you are over
(09:18):
twenty one years old.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
It also says if you drive with an illegal blood
alcohol content, and law enforcement officer can charge you with DY.
Even if your BAC your blood alcohol content is below
legal limits, that does not mean it is safe for
you to drive. Almost everyone feels negative effects of alcohol,
even at levels lower than illegal limit. Depending on how
badly you are impaired, you may be arrested or convicted
for DUY even without a blood alcohol content measurement. And
(09:43):
there's a table of how many drinks you've consumed, your gender,
your body weight, the reason why, Like when I was
looking at this, I was like, okay, so I'm trying
to think what is his argument here? Like, if I'm
Paul Pierce, what is your argument here? How do you
argue because your blood says point oh eight, it's illegal
(10:04):
at that point?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Right? But do you try and argue anything.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
To try and like Lessen, I guess like legally, how
this hits you in court or even if not, how
it hits you in court, because I feel like, even
with a justin Timberlake, it doesn't matter how many drinks
you have and where are people where they test you.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Whatever, the law is the law, right.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
But I think the fact that Paul Pierce came out
and posted that statement, volunteering the statement and said, hey,
I was just sleep, Like, thank y'all for checking in.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I was just sleep. I'm old, like, are they gonna
try and argue this? And what do they say if so?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So I started reading more and I'm like, okay, you
have to admit that there were drinks involved because it
was in your bloodstream.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
So with that statement, I'm thinking, Okay, they lean in
and they say, Okay, here's what he drank, here's evidence
of it from where he was, and here's why we're
saying this shouldn't have been classified as anything under the
influence and making him incapable of driving because of his
body masks or body makeup and gender and all the things, like,
(11:15):
I don't know, none of that makes sense to me.
But it also doesn't make sense that you would make
that statement knowing that you had a couple drinks. And
maybe he didn't because another thing too, I didn't have
to read this to understand it.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I just you know, I'm a drinker. I've been drunk before.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Alcohol hits everybody differently, so I think sometimes too, depending
on how frequent you drink or lack thereof, Not only
does it hit people differently, but I think people always
think they're less than what they are. So maybe he
is at point eight, but he feels able to dry
(11:48):
and because of all those things, the factors of you know,
his gender, his height, his weight, and all these things.
He's thinking because he doesn't actively feel.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Impaired, he's cool.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
But I don't know any core in the land that
will be like, oh you know what, Yeah, people die
behind drunk driving, you know what I'm saying. So I
really just don't understand why he volunteered that statement. I
know the same thing just recently happened to Adrian Peterson,
the football star. He hasn't said anything. I think that
that's the best bet is to not say anything. Adrian
(12:22):
Peterson was found behind the will of his car sleep
in a gas station and when police interacted with him,
there was signs of impairment as well, they alleged to
I just don't understand why Paul Pierce made the statement
the way that people don't pay about drunk driving.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I get it. I lost a front of drunk driving
my first year out of college.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
It's a horrible thing to have to experience, so I
understand it, and I think maybe this was him trying
to like say face publicly. But I don't care about
any of these factors that you read on these DMV
websites or whatever. And I know all these things are
taken into account as you're when you're an officer and
you're talking to someone in your because I know too,
like they asked you or you taking any medicines actively,
(13:01):
and like they're trying to figure out what level of
impairment and just where you are and just see signs
of anything so they know what to do from there
on out. I don't think I would have volunteered that
at all. I don't think it makes any better public
appearance wise, And if it's to say face like brand
wise or whatever the reasoning.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Is, it doesn't soften it.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Like it is what it is at this point, and
you just deal with the consequences of it and just
be happy that he fell asleep allegedly sitting behind the
will of his car, not even allegedly because he said
he was tired. He said he fell asleep, but he
says it was because of traffic behind the wheel of
his car in traffic sitting on a highway. Can you
(13:38):
imagine how dangerous that is for the oncoming cars but
also for himself. Like, you're lucky to be alive at
this point. Now, I did want to talk a bit
about just so we have Sophie here. Sophie works on
the team here with the podcast, and when we were
talking about this story, as I was getting prepared for it,
she was telling me that she works at a spot nearby.
They train them on just different ways to cite and
(14:00):
pyramid when it comes to drinking and things like, because
you know, you out at the bars, they got to
cut you off at a certain point.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So she was sharing some different, very interesting things.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
To me, just about how alcohol hits people in different ways,
and I'm like, well, maybe again, because I'm just trying
to think, why, if I'm Paul Pierce, why would.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I post that statement? No one, They're gonna test me.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
If you're training to do stuff behind the bar, you
have to do this very lengthy. It can even be
like six hours of tips training where you look at
people's ideas to see whether they're fake or they're real.
But on top of that, you also get these videos
that you have to respond to answers with and you
have to check their back, which is their alcohol content levels. Right,
(14:42):
but also, as mildly sexist as it sounds, women get
drunker faster.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That is just the fact I can attest. I can
attest it. I don't. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I don't get drunker faster and then try and drive.
I've been warned about that so and so so many times.
But listen, I'd be trying to outdrink, like even like
even out with Bay or when you with your male friends,
like you, you know, you'd be trying to hang until
you're literally hanging over the toilet.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, yeah, Like I don't think it's sexist.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, I was like, you know, I was talking to
somebody too when I was taking the test, because you know,
we all have to take it at the same time.
It's like a yearly thing and it's like your enzyme
breakdown like in your body and stuff like that. But
it's also your genetics. If you come from a family,
people are always like, oh, like Irish people, like they
can drink. They got the stomach. Believe it or not,
(15:39):
it's your you know, genetic makeups. Some people can have like,
let's say, eight drinks and still feel okay. And with
alcohol though, like comes a confidence level. People feel more
free and lose and confident. So some people think in
their brain because once you're drink, that hits your brain
and fect you not only like physically, but mentally. Yeah,
(16:03):
so they are like, oh, I could drive, I could drive.
It's like, but no, you can't. But then it's also
like when you are fatigued and when you're stressed, you
also come back with higher alcohol levels because it hits
you harder.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
That's crazy because you when you are So when I'm
fatigued and I'm drinking, Like I was just telling you guys,
I was at homecoming and or a bunch of different
homecomings this past weekend for hostings, and oh yeah, like
I was so tired because we were literally coming right
from the show. It takes me longer in my opinion,
(16:39):
to fill the alcohol when I'm tired, but when it hits,
it's like I'm tired, like I need to go lay down,
I'm done. I'm lit, Like I gotta like you know
what I mean, and I know that, and I'm like
a very well well, I'm very well aware of that
about myself. And that's too And again, this is all ledge.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Paul Pearce is saying he wasn't under the influence. Police
are saying that they've tested and other things, and they don't.
They're not saying the same thing that he is. But
one of the things that I've had to learn in
my adult life is like I got to know about myself, like, girl.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
You should uber because the confidence.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Level be there and you be like, nah, I got it,
I got it, Like and now was like, I mean,
you got life to lose, but also like you don't
want put nobody else's life in danger. My biggest question
for celebrities and it's again, this is not even just
directedtor Paul Pierce, because I know justin Timberlake had a
situation like this. There's been so many celeb situations like this.
I always be like, why are y'all driving anyway? I
(17:35):
would love to just be able to have a car
service on payroll. Nothing, especially in LA, nothing in me
wants to be the person that has to driving is
so much responsibility. I would so much rather be in
the back of my car, scrolling on my phone on FaceTime, free,
(17:55):
young Wilder, Free, Like I literally don't understand that. And
then a lot of times people say, well, it's because
they want to feel regular, like they want to drive themselves,
they want to I get all that, but I promise you,
especially when I'm going out, like when I'm oh my god,
I hate.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
The prices of ubers and all that.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Sometimes, but I swear, like, especially more recently, I'd be like,
all right, you want to be able to go there
and have a good time, or you want to go
there and think about everything you can't do and how
much you can't do it because you can't afford none
of this, like at all.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
You can afford to do it as well, Like I
don't understand that with celebrities. I've never understood why they
just want to drive themselves in general, but especially not
why you're drinking or out socially or whatever and then
choose to drive, you know. And in Paul Pierce's situation,
it's alleged and we don't know where he was coming from,
and we don't, you know, there's so many details we
(18:50):
do not know. But in his alleged situation, in the
Adrian Peterson situation, allegedly, I don't understand why, like why,
like I, why not just get somebody to drive you,
even if it's your fly ass car? Why not pay somebody?
Like most of the time too, I feel like you
have assistance. And these are not people that might not
(19:10):
sit up under you all damned day long, but you
need somebody you could figure it out. I just don't
get it. There's a lot about this I don't get.
I'm trying to put some you know, answers. I think
more answers will come out as time goes by. But again,
you know, I think all in all, the biggest thing
here is we're just all lucky.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
No one was hurt, Like I mean the names involved.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
You know, if this is if all of the if
the allegations and accusations are true, they are lucky they
didn't hurt themselves and that no one else was hurt
as well. That's the biggest takeaway from here. And also
why not just call it uber? This is the latest
with Laura La Rosa. At the end of the day,
y'all could be anywhere with anybody having a conversation about
(19:51):
these topics, but y'all choose to be right here with
the me Lowriders. I appreciate you guys every single time
in every single episode. I'm Laura la Rosa. This is
the latest, and I will catch you guys in my
next episode.
I'm a homegrowd that knows a little bit about everything,
and everybody don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
If you don't lie about that, right, Lauren came in, Hey, y'all,
what's up.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's Laura l Rosa and this is the latest with
Laura l Rosa. This did DELI dig on all things
pop culture, entertainment, news and all of the conversations that
shake the room.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Baby. Now today we're gonna go behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Of the Grind, Behind the scenes of the Grind, our
little checking that we do here. It's been a minute
since we've done it in full. But when we check
it behind the scenes of the Grind, it's really just
a time to like sit still and be like, how
am I really feeling today, this week, this month? What's
really going on with me? I just came back from
(00:49):
Norfolk State University Norfolk.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
They say that I say it wrong. Hampton.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It was my first time at Hampton University as well,
which is a school that Envy graduated from. So he
took me over to here and there like maybe forty
five minutes apart if even that, and I was home
in Delaware. You guys heard the conversation in the episode
prior to this one or watch and or if you
have not, please go and find it with my church
(01:15):
sees the greatness. I was in conversation with Tim Ross,
who is an amazing spiritual leader, podcaster, thought provoker, and
Noah Mills former Miss Delaware twenty twenty three, but also
a huge not even just would I would say like advocate,
but not even just an advocate, but a huge action
based professional in the mental health space because she does
(01:37):
so much on a daily working with in the corporate
arena to make sure that businesses and corporates and brands
have adequate mental health support because of you know, just
her life passion somethings she's been through in her life
as well.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Conversation was great. So I've been all over the world
and back.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I think last night was the first night I actually
got some real sleep, and boy does going to sleep
early change your whole perspective on the world, life everything.
I woke up this morning still was like a little
bit like ugh, I don't want to get up. But
once I got up and got going and got the
day started, I felt the difference in my body between
(02:14):
today and Monday morning. I think I'm just at that
age where when I don't get a lot of sleep.
I feel it like in the way I think, the
way I'm able to communicate, the way I think through
my attention span, which is already horrible my attention span,
but it's just better. So in noticing that, you know,
I really want to try and prioritize more sleep. Don't
know if it'll be possible. I was just saying that
(02:36):
today to Charlot Mane. Actually, like it's no way in
this industry for what I do you get good sleep. Like,
it's just not possible. There's not enough hours in the day.
So that's what's been kind of, you know, back and forth,
ping pong in my mind. It's like, Yo, I feel
so amazing having went to sleep so early last night,
But can I do that every day? Do have enough
(02:57):
time in life to do that every day? If y'all
I have good sleep regimens and you can recommend anything
of like how you're balancing a very demanding work life
and all the things. I know, parents y'all probably have
the best advice here. I'm not a parent yet, but
I don't know, man, I'll be feeling like I'm I'm
juggling a lot.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Send the tips on over.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I am more than open for them because I want
to feel like this every single day. And mind y'all,
today wasn't even like a fully I could have slept
more like today was like today was great, but I
still felt like today, like all right, girl, you could
have did a couple more hours or whatever. But anyway,
so we're here, We're well rested, I'm feeling good.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Travel was great, It's always fired.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Every October is like that month where I'm at different schools,
have so many different things going on because the HBCU
Alumni Tour that I do every year. This is my
second year doing it. Just God is good. I get
to go to all these schools and see different people
and experience different things.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And we are ending. I'm ending the tour this week.
Actually the high Halloween Eve will be.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Which is October thirtieth, Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, which
is the Eagle Stadium. Delaware State University will be playing
Norfolk State University, and I'm bun be there, Okay, bringing
you guys all behind the scenes, you know, grabbing content
from everywhere I can.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So don't worry. I got you off.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You can't make it right here. The latest to Lorna
Rosa will be taking you inside.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Get in the game. I always wanted to say that.
But anyway, speaking of sports.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Segue, but an important segue speaking of sports. Okay, So,
for those of you guys who do not know, Paul
Pierce was recently taken into custody by police for suspicion
of driving under the influence.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That was fourteen days ago.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
They say that when they arrested him that there was
signs that he was impaired, and this was following him
falling asleep behind the wheel and his range Rover. He
was sitting in traffic on a highway in LA and
he fell asleep behind the wheel of the car. Now
cops say that he had been on the highway this
was during the time of like a crash investigation, so.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
He'd been sitting still for some time.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
And I don't know if you guys have ever driven
in LA, but you already are city, especially if you're
driving between a certain time, You're already sitting.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Still for long, long periods of.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Time, especially if you're driving through certain parts of LA. So,
like the Valley is always horrible right near downtown. Honestly,
it's bad all over, but certain parts is it gets
worse than others in certain days, in certain times. Now
he was driving at eleven thirty five pm. And again
LA is one of them places where randomly at times
too there can just be traffic. I used to be like,
where's everybody going right now? Like y'all don't work, Like
(05:40):
people in LA don't work. In my opinion, everybody's an
influence to everybody. It's just creative and floating and going
and run in and figuring out life. But everybody got
somewhere to drive and be when you need to get somewhere.
So it's eleven thirty five pm. They reopened the highway
and they discovered Paul Pierce's car. Now again they say
that they know the signs of alcohol impairment when they
(06:03):
encountered him, or you know, once they down they're talking
to him, they're at the car and all the things.
So they conducted a duy investigation. Then he was arrested
on the suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol,
a violation of California vehicle cold of course, and he
was taken into a central Central Los Angeles area.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Office.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Now he did comment on this situation. They have blood
test results. So I'm going to tell you guys first
what he commented before I give you what his blood
test results from the dy investigation were. So when he
commented on this situation, Paul Piers, he posted a photo
to his Instagram and he said, imagine being stuck in
(06:48):
stand still traffic for forty five minutes and falling asleep
with the hand covering his face emoji. I took this
picture that night because I'd never been a stand still
traffic for this long. I'm old, and I fell asleep
with the shrugging hands emoji.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I'm good, y'all. Thanks for the love and the photo
that he posted. Very much.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Standstill traffic very much gives. You're sitting in LA traffic.
But it makes even more sense if police are saying
that they had shut down the highway for a car
crash investigation, right, because that's even more traffic. You're sitting
still for even longer all of the things. So he
denied it. Now, this was back on April ninth, right,
So this week police have updated documents, and according to
(07:32):
those documents and court records, prosecutors are charging Paul Pierce
with one count of driving under the influence of alcohol
and one count of driving with a point zero eight
blood alcohol content. And now this is fourteen days, right,
so about two weeks after he was pulled over, not
pulled over but because he was already sitting still, but
(07:54):
after he had encountered police and they had taken him
in for a suspicion of the DUI Now, I looked
it up in LA the blood alcohol content like that
that number that you know, if you're twenty one and
older you're not supposed to hit. Is that point zero eight?
So I started thinking, like, okay, and I've reached out
(08:15):
to Paul Pierces everybody I could find. I reached out
to his agents, and I believe it was a manager.
I'll verify that in a second, but I believe it
was a manager. No one has responded yet. I want
to try and find an attorney because when I look
this up, I'm like, Okay, if that's the number, what's
(08:35):
the scale of you hit. I mean, once you hit
that number, it becomes illegal. But is there Because there
was a note under the law that I read that
said that it kind of depends on your impairment, I'm
gonna actually bring it up. So this is from the
California DMV. When I was researching for the story, I
just wanted to know, like what all legal limits were.
(08:56):
I didn't know if it veris stayed to say, like
the blood alcohol concentration that you will here keep people
mentioning when they talk about the story, is that number
when you consume alcohol and traces of it into your bloodstream.
Your blood alcohol content measures how much alcohol is present
in your bloodstream. It is illegal for you to drive
if you've had if you have a blood alcohol level
of point zero eight or higher if you are over
(09:18):
twenty one years old.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
It also says if you drive with an illegal blood
alcohol content, and law enforcement officer can charge you with DY.
Even if your BAC your blood alcohol content is below
legal limits, that does not mean it is safe for
you to drive. Almost everyone feels negative effects of alcohol,
even at levels lower than illegal limit. Depending on how
badly you are impaired, you may be arrested or convicted
for DUY even without a blood alcohol content measurement. And
(09:43):
there's a table of how many drinks you've consumed, your gender,
your body weight, the reason why, Like when I was
looking at this, I was like, okay, so I'm trying
to think what is his argument here? Like, if I'm
Paul Pierce, what is your argument here? How do you
argue because your blood says point oh eight, it's illegal
(10:04):
at that point?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Right? But do you try and argue anything.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
To try and like Lessen, I guess like legally, how
this hits you in court or even if not, how
it hits you in court, because I feel like, even
with a justin Timberlake, it doesn't matter how many drinks
you have and where are people where they test you.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Whatever, the law is the law, right.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
But I think the fact that Paul Pierce came out
and posted that statement, volunteering the statement and said, hey,
I was just sleep, Like, thank y'all for checking in.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I was just sleep. I'm old, like, are they gonna
try and argue this? And what do they say if so?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So I started reading more and I'm like, okay, you
have to admit that there were drinks involved because it
was in your bloodstream.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
So with that statement, I'm thinking, Okay, they lean in
and they say, Okay, here's what he drank, here's evidence
of it from where he was, and here's why we're
saying this shouldn't have been classified as anything under the
influence and making him incapable of driving because of his
body masks or body makeup and gender and all the things, like,
(11:15):
I don't know, none of that makes sense to me.
But it also doesn't make sense that you would make
that statement knowing that you had a couple drinks. And
maybe he didn't because another thing too, I didn't have
to read this to understand it.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I just you know, I'm a drinker. I've been drunk before.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Alcohol hits everybody differently, so I think sometimes too, depending
on how frequent you drink or lack thereof, Not only
does it hit people differently, but I think people always
think they're less than what they are. So maybe he
is at point eight, but he feels able to dry
(11:48):
and because of all those things, the factors of you know,
his gender, his height, his weight, and all these things.
He's thinking because he doesn't actively feel.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Impaired, he's cool.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
But I don't know any core in the land that
will be like, oh you know what, Yeah, people die
behind drunk driving, you know what I'm saying. So I
really just don't understand why he volunteered that statement. I
know the same thing just recently happened to Adrian Peterson,
the football star. He hasn't said anything. I think that
that's the best bet is to not say anything. Adrian
(12:22):
Peterson was found behind the will of his car sleep
in a gas station and when police interacted with him,
there was signs of impairment as well, they alleged to
I just don't understand why Paul Pierce made the statement
the way that people don't pay about drunk driving.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I get it. I lost a front of drunk driving
my first year out of college.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
It's a horrible thing to have to experience, so I
understand it, and I think maybe this was him trying
to like say face publicly. But I don't care about
any of these factors that you read on these DMV
websites or whatever. And I know all these things are
taken into account as you're when you're an officer and
you're talking to someone in your because I know too,
like they asked you or you taking any medicines actively,
(13:01):
and like they're trying to figure out what level of
impairment and just where you are and just see signs
of anything so they know what to do from there
on out. I don't think I would have volunteered that
at all. I don't think it makes any better public
appearance wise, And if it's to say face like brand
wise or whatever the reasoning.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Is, it doesn't soften it.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Like it is what it is at this point, and
you just deal with the consequences of it and just
be happy that he fell asleep allegedly sitting behind the
will of his car, not even allegedly because he said
he was tired. He said he fell asleep, but he
says it was because of traffic behind the wheel of
his car in traffic sitting on a highway. Can you
(13:38):
imagine how dangerous that is for the oncoming cars but
also for himself. Like, you're lucky to be alive at
this point. Now, I did want to talk a bit
about just so we have Sophie here. Sophie works on
the team here with the podcast, and when we were
talking about this story, as I was getting prepared for it,
she was telling me that she works at a spot nearby.
They train them on just different ways to cite and
(14:00):
pyramid when it comes to drinking and things like, because
you know, you out at the bars, they got to
cut you off at a certain point.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So she was sharing some different, very interesting things.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
To me, just about how alcohol hits people in different ways,
and I'm like, well, maybe again, because I'm just trying
to think, why, if I'm Paul Pierce, why would.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I post that statement? No one, They're gonna test me.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
If you're training to do stuff behind the bar, you
have to do this very lengthy. It can even be
like six hours of tips training where you look at
people's ideas to see whether they're fake or they're real.
But on top of that, you also get these videos
that you have to respond to answers with and you
have to check their back, which is their alcohol content levels. Right,
(14:42):
but also, as mildly sexist as it sounds, women get
drunker faster.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That is just the fact I can attest. I can
attest it. I don't. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I don't get drunker faster and then try and drive.
I've been warned about that so and so so many times.
But listen, I'd be trying to outdrink, like even like
even out with Bay or when you with your male friends,
like you, you know, you'd be trying to hang until
you're literally hanging over the toilet.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, yeah, Like I don't think it's sexist.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, I was like, you know, I was talking to
somebody too when I was taking the test, because you know,
we all have to take it at the same time.
It's like a yearly thing and it's like your enzyme
breakdown like in your body and stuff like that. But
it's also your genetics. If you come from a family,
people are always like, oh, like Irish people, like they
can drink. They got the stomach. Believe it or not,
(15:39):
it's your you know, genetic makeups. Some people can have like,
let's say, eight drinks and still feel okay. And with
alcohol though, like comes a confidence level. People feel more
free and lose and confident. So some people think in
their brain because once you're drink, that hits your brain
and fect you not only like physically, but mentally. Yeah,
(16:03):
so they are like, oh, I could drive, I could drive.
It's like, but no, you can't. But then it's also
like when you are fatigued and when you're stressed, you
also come back with higher alcohol levels because it hits
you harder.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
That's crazy because you when you are So when I'm
fatigued and I'm drinking, Like I was just telling you guys,
I was at homecoming and or a bunch of different
homecomings this past weekend for hostings, and oh yeah, like
I was so tired because we were literally coming right
from the show. It takes me longer in my opinion,
(16:39):
to fill the alcohol when I'm tired, but when it hits,
it's like I'm tired, like I need to go lay down,
I'm done. I'm lit, Like I gotta like you know
what I mean, and I know that, and I'm like
a very well well, I'm very well aware of that
about myself. And that's too And again, this is all ledge.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Paul Pearce is saying he wasn't under the influence. Police
are saying that they've tested and other things, and they don't.
They're not saying the same thing that he is. But
one of the things that I've had to learn in
my adult life is like I got to know about myself, like, girl.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
You should uber because the confidence.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Level be there and you be like, nah, I got it,
I got it, Like and now was like, I mean,
you got life to lose, but also like you don't
want put nobody else's life in danger. My biggest question
for celebrities and it's again, this is not even just
directedtor Paul Pierce, because I know justin Timberlake had a
situation like this. There's been so many celeb situations like this.
I always be like, why are y'all driving anyway? I
(17:35):
would love to just be able to have a car
service on payroll. Nothing, especially in LA, nothing in me
wants to be the person that has to driving is
so much responsibility. I would so much rather be in
the back of my car, scrolling on my phone on FaceTime, free,
(17:55):
young Wilder, Free, Like I literally don't understand that. And
then a lot of times people say, well, it's because
they want to feel regular, like they want to drive themselves,
they want to I get all that, but I promise you,
especially when I'm going out, like when I'm oh my god,
I hate.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
The prices of ubers and all that.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Sometimes, but I swear, like, especially more recently, I'd be like,
all right, you want to be able to go there
and have a good time, or you want to go
there and think about everything you can't do and how
much you can't do it because you can't afford none
of this, like at all.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
You can afford to do it as well, Like I
don't understand that with celebrities. I've never understood why they
just want to drive themselves in general, but especially not
why you're drinking or out socially or whatever and then
choose to drive, you know. And in Paul Pierce's situation,
it's alleged and we don't know where he was coming from,
and we don't, you know, there's so many details we
(18:50):
do not know. But in his alleged situation, in the
Adrian Peterson situation, allegedly, I don't understand why, like why,
like I, why not just get somebody to drive you,
even if it's your fly ass car? Why not pay somebody?
Like most of the time too, I feel like you
have assistance. And these are not people that might not
(19:10):
sit up under you all damned day long, but you
need somebody you could figure it out. I just don't
get it. There's a lot about this I don't get.
I'm trying to put some you know, answers. I think
more answers will come out as time goes by. But again,
you know, I think all in all, the biggest thing
here is we're just all lucky.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
No one was hurt, Like I mean the names involved.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
You know, if this is if all of the if
the allegations and accusations are true, they are lucky they
didn't hurt themselves and that no one else was hurt
as well. That's the biggest takeaway from here. And also
why not just call it uber? This is the latest
with Laura La Rosa. At the end of the day,
y'all could be anywhere with anybody having a conversation about
(19:51):
these topics, but y'all choose to be right here with
the me Lowriders. I appreciate you guys every single time
in every single episode. I'm Laura la Rosa. This is
the latest, and I will catch you guys in my
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