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