The Breakfast Club - Paul Pierce arrested for a potential DUI?? Loren breaks down the DUI test results

Episode Date: October 29, 2025

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.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's Lauren La Rosa. And this is the latest with Lauren La Rosa. This year did deli dig on all things, pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. Now, today, we're going to go behind the scenes of the grind. Back on the grind. Behind the scenes of the grind are a little checking that we do here. It's been a minute since we've done it in full, but when we check in 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 um i just came back from norfolk state university norfolk they say that i say it wrong um hampton it was my first time at hampton um university as well which is a school that mv graduated from so he took me over to hampton there like maybe 45 minutes apart if even that um and i was home in delaware you guys heard the conversation in the episode prior to this one or watch and or uh if you have not please go and find it my church 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, 23, but also a huge, not even just, 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 so much on a daily working with, in the corporate arena to make sure that businesses and corporates and brands have added. to quit mental health support because of, you know, just her life passion, some things she's been through in her life as well. Conversation was great. So I had been all over the world and back.

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, 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 today um in 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 uh my attention span but it's just better so in noticing that you know i really want to try and prioritize my sleep don't know if it'll be possible i was just saying that today uh to charlemagne 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 is like yo I feel so amazing having went to sleep so early last night but can I do that every day do I have enough time in life to do that every day if y'all have good sleep regimens and you can recommend anything of like high your balance and 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 um send the tips on over 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 uh I could have slept more like today was 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 travel was great um it's always fire 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. And we are ending, I'm ending the tour this week actually. The Halloween Eve will be, which is October 30th, Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, which is the Eagle Stadium. Delaware State University will be playing Norfolk State University. And I'm going to be there, okay?

Bringing you guys all the behind the scenes, you know, grabbing content from everywhere I can. So don't worry, I got you. If you can't make it right here, the latest with Lauren Rosa will be taking you inside. Get in the game. I always wanted to say that. But anyway, speaking of sports, real 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 that was 14 days ago 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 in 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 he'd been sitting still for some time and I don't know if you guys have ever driven in L.A., um, but you already are, especially if you're driving between a certain time, you're already sitting still for long, long periods of time, especially if you're driving through certain parts of L.A. So like the valley is always horrible right near downtown. Honestly, it's bad all over, but certain parts, it gets worse than others in, uh, certain days in

certain times. Now, he was driving at 11.35 p.m. And again, L.A. is one of them places where randomly at times, too, there can just be traffic. I used to be like, where is everybody going right now? Like, y'all don't work, like, people in LA that don't work, in my opinion. Everybody's an influencer. Everybody is just creative and floating and going to run in and figuring out life. But everybody got somewhere to drive and be when you need to get somewhere. So it was 11.35 p.m. They reopened the highway and they discovered Paul Pierce's car.

Now, again, they say that they notice signs of alcohol impairment when they encountered him or, you know, once they, they're talking to him. They're at the car and all the things. so they conducted a DUI investigation. Then he was arrested on the suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, a violation of California Vehicle Code, of course, and he was taken into a central Los Angeles area office. 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 DUI investigation were. So when he commented on the situation, Paul Pierce, he posted a photo to his Instagram and he said, imagine being stuck in standing still traffic for 45 minutes and falling asleep with the hand covering his face emoji. I took this picture that night because I'd never been in staying still traffic for this long. I'm old.

I'm tired and I fell asleep with the shrugging hands emoji. I'm good, y'all. Thanks for the love. And the photo that he posted very much. much standstill traffic very much gives you're sitting in LA in traffic but it makes even more sense if police are saying that they 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 um back on April 9th right so this week police have updated documents and

according to those documents and court records um prosecutors are charged Paul Pierce with one count of driving under the influence of alcohol and one count of driving with a 0.08 blood alcohol content. Now this is 14 days, right? So about two weeks after he was pulled over, not pulled over, but because he was already sitting still, but after he had encountered police and they had taken him in for suspicion of the DUI. Now, I looked it up. in L.A., the blood alcohol content, like that number that, you know, if you're 21 and older, you're not supposed to hit, is that 0.08. So I started thinking like, okay, and I've reached out to Paul Pierce's, 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'm going to try and find an attorney because when I look this up, I'm like, okay, if that's the number what's 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 going to 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 i didn't know if it varies state to state like the blood alcohol concentration that you will hear 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 a blood alcohol level of 0.08 or higher if you are over 21 years old, okay? It also says if you drive with an illegal blood alcohol content, a law enforcement officer can charge you with DUI, even if your BAC or 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 a legal limit, depending on how badly you are impaired, you may be arrested or convicted for DUI, even without a blood, alcohol content measurement. And 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 0.08 it's illegal at that point right but do you try and argue

anything 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 people where they test you whatever the law is the law right but i think the fact that paul pierce came out and posted that statement volunteering the state and say, hey, I was just sleep. Like, thank y'all for checking in. I was just sleep. I'm old.

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burning questions. Like, are we heading towards another financial crash like in 08? Is non-monogamy back in style? And how come there's never a gate ready for your flight when it lands like two minutes early? We've got guests like Pete Buttigieg, Stacey Abrams, Lily Singh, and Bill Nye. When you start weaponizing outer space, things can potentially go really wrong. Look, the world can seem pretty scary right now, because it is. But my goal here is for you to listen and feel a little better about the future. Listen and subscribe to here we go again with Cal Penn on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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, right? 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 class. classified as anything under the influence and making him incapable of driving because of his body mask, her body makeup and gender and all the things. Like, I don't, 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. I just, you know, I'm a drinker. I've been drunk before. Alcohol hits everybody differently. So I think sometimes, too, depending on how frequent you drink or, you know, or lack there of, 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 0.08, but he feels able to drive. 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 impaired, he's cool. But I don't know any court in the land that will be like, oh, you know what? but 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 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 too I just don't understand why Paul Pierce made the statement. The way that people don't pay about drunk driving, I get it. I lost a friend of drunk driving. My first year out of college, 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. Because I know, too, like they ask you, are you taking any medicines

actively 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 is it doesn't soften it 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 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 will of his car in traffic sitting on a highway. Can y'all, like, 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 trained them. on just different ways to cite impairment 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. So she was sharing some different, very interesting things 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 Pearce,

why would I post that statement? No one ain't going to test me. 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 blood alcohol content levels, right? But also, as mildly sexist as it sounds, women get drunker or faster.

That is just the fact. I can attest. I can attest it. I can attest it. I don't, I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't get drunker faster than try and drive. Yeah. I've been warned about that so, so, so many times, but listen, I'll be trying out drink. Like, even out with Bay or when you wit your male friends, like, you know, you'd be trying to hang until you're literally hanging over the toilet.

Yeah. Yeah, like, I don't think it's sexist. 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 it's your you know genetic makeup some people can have like um let's say eight drinks and still feel okay and with alcohol though like comes a confidence level people feel more free and loose and confident so some people think in their brain because once you're dream that hits your brain and it affects you not only like physically but mentally yeah so they're 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 fatigue and when you're stressed you also come back with higher alcohol levels because it hits you harder that's crazy because you when you are so when i'm fatigued and i'm drinking like i was just telling you

you guys I was at homecoming and um 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 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 got a 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 I'm That's the two. And again, this is all ledge. We don't know. Paul Pierce 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, you should Uber. Because the confidence level be there and you be like, no, I got it. I got it. Like, and now it's like, I mean, you got life to lose. But also like, you don't want to put nobody else's life in danger. My biggest question for celebrities, and again, this is not even just directed toward Paul Pierce because I know Justin Timberlake had a situation like this. There's been so many celebs situations like this. I always be like, why are you driving anyway? I would love to just be able to have a car service on payroll. Nothing, especially in L.A. Nothing in me wants to be the person that has to, driving is so much responsibility. I was so much rather be in the back of my car. strolling on my phone on FaceTime free 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 the prices of ubers and all that sometimes but I swear like especially more recently I'll 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. I don't understand it. You can afford to do it as well. Like I don't understand that. What 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. We don't, you know, there's so many details we do not know. But in his alleged situation, in the Adrian Peterson situation allegedly, I don't understand why. Like, why? Like, I, like, 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 sit up under you all damn day long,

but you need somebody. You can 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 no one was hurt. Like, I mean, the names involved, you know, if this is, if this, if all 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 Lauren LaRosa at the end of the day. Y'all could be anywhere with anybody having a conversation about these topics,

but y'all choose to be right here with me. Lowriders, I appreciate you guys every single time and every single episode. I'm Lauren LaRosa. This is the latest and I will catch you guys in my next episode. On the latest episode of Next Question with me, Katie Couric, I sat down with Bernie Sanders. We've talked many times over the years and today he even throws a few questions my way. Are you ready for another question? Go ahead. Hit me, Bernie. We talk about the billionaire class, the cost of living, and of course, the government shut down.

Listen to next question with me, Katie Couric on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Cal Penn, and on my new podcast, here we go again, we'll take today's trends and headlines and ask, why does history keep repeating itself? Each week, I'm calling up my friends like Bill Nye, Lily Singh, and Pete Buttigieg. to talk about everything from the space race to movie remakes to psychedelics. Put another way, are you high? Look, the world can seem pretty scary right now.

But my goal here is for you to listen and feel a little better about the future. Listen and subscribe to Here We Go Again with Cal Penn on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Big Take podcast from Bloomberg News keeps you on top of the biggest stories of the day. My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day. Stories that move markets. Chair Powell opened the door to this first interest rate cut. Impact politics, change businesses. This is a really stunning development for the AI world

and how you think about your bottom line. Listen to the big take from Bloomberg News every weekday afternoon on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, everybody? It's snacks from the trap nerds and all October long. We're bringing you the horror. We're kicking off this month with some of my best horror games to keep you terrified. Then we'll be talking about our favorite horror in Halloween movies and figuring out why black people always die further.

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