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Millennial Tia Chelsea Rendon

July 15, 2024
Actress and producer Chelsea Rendon shares how to embrace her "freak," what it's like being an aunt in 2024, and her experiences getting back into the dating world.
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Kicking it with me today is actress Chelsea Rendon.
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Mere Chelsea. I know we talked about it before the show
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the dating scene.
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So it's rough. I'm going to say this with as much
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respect but like guys,
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y'all damn lame a couple of weeks ago.
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I was like one,
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it's like single summer trying to be out there.
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I'm also like a serial monogamist and I like relationships.
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So I was trying to like,
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let me be casual.
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Let me just date and like be chill.
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I had three dates flake on me within like 2.5 weeks.
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Really? Yeah. And they were like dates,
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hangouts, not like even an official or anything but like it
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was just like, let's go have a drink like,
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yeah, cool meet at my place and walk to the bar
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nearby all like last minute.
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And so I'm like,
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I'm going back in the house,
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I'm going back in the house because it's like this is it
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show up bare minimum,
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just show up. It's not that hard.
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Yes. But you know,
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I agree. I'm with you.
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I had a better weekend and that's all I'm gonna say about
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this. You're like that's it.
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No details. I had a better weekend,
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dude. I, that's the thing too with dating.
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Like I don't OK.
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I don't judge when other girls do this because do you book
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whatever makes you happy?
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But on me II I can't hook up like hook up culture
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for me. It's not,
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it's not for me.
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Like because you also de la seno Morada.
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Like if something happen,
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I love you now.
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No. like yo,
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that's, that's real.
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And again, I'm a hopeless romantic.
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So like, it's funny because in my early twenties I hooked
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up and it was no big deal but like,
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I got single like six months ago and like had my first
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hook up and it was awkward.
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But then it was like,
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am I able to do this casually or not?
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Like it's hard. It's hard right now for a serious question
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Is somebody gonna match my free?
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So Chelsea, what's your free?
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So the funny thing is naturally you think dirty stuff,
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right? But I think it's more along the terms of match
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my energy because of the song.
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It's like, you know what I mean?
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Like, but for me,
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it's match the energy.
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Like again, like I had to grow up very quickly,
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like acting at five,
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like I had to be mature for my age and all that
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stuff. But like,
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naturally I'm a kid inside.
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So like, I'm very silly and playful and joking around and
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just being like, dumb.
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I'm not gonna slash your tires crazy.
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You know what I mean?
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I'm not that type of chick but I'm the crazy.
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That's like, let's go over here at two o'clock in the
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morning and just see what happens.
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Spontaneous. No, I get you too.
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And what's your, what's your,
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no? What the like,
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silliness? Like, I,
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I can't be with someone that's super,
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super serious that like if I'm being silly being myself,
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tell me like, hey,
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hey, tone it down like like don't act like that like
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no, I know motherfuckers have told me like,
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well, yeah, sometimes you can be too immature.
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I am joking. I am played now when shit needs to
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get done. I step the fuck up and I do what
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I gotta do. But if I'm at home,
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I'm going to be like come home,
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it's play time. OK?
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So I know you're a tia too.
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You're a millennial tia.
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I'm a millennial tia.
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So what would you say are the perks of being like a
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cool tia? So I technically helped raise my niece at 15
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So I feel like I was a parent from 15 to
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25 and then that's when I moved out,
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I'm like, yo,
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I gotta be on my own in my life and stop being
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a dad. But so like for me it's be like again
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being able to play with the little baby.
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Mm You're so cute.
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Oh Wait, it's crying.
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Here you go. Oh,
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wait and poop. Here you go.
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Or like, now you're being a little dumb now.
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Go away. You know what I mean?
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Like, so it's like,
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that's the perks. Like,
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truthfully I actually don't want kids.
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I might be the,
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the randomest or like the only Latina that does not want kids
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But I'm like,
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I already did. They're like,
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sickick coming into my bed or the late night this and the
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taking to school and the homework.
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Like, so I had that experience.
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So I'm like, I don't want no kids and like,
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especially people are like,
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wait, what you cannot,
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you don't want kids,
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leave them up. And I'm like,
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no, I'm good.
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Like I also again,
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love my career. I wanna be able to go and do
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whatever I want, be working 10 months out of the year
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and not feel guilty about it.
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So like when you go out with guys,
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like, do you tell them like straightforward?
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Like, look, I'm being straightforward.
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I don't want kids is not necessarily no,
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but I think it's something that you bring up at the beginning
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Like I know in my last relationship,
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like within like a few weeks,
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it was like when we were first just talking,
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it was like, Fy,
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I don't, I want kids in Fy,
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I, I'm never moving out of where I live.
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So you're gonna have to move to me.
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I'm like, I'm not,
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this is where I live for work for everything so well,
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mind you also, I'm open to the fact that that could
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change like you. But I just felt so much power in
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making the decision that I had a choice about or I hate
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I hate when they're like,
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oh well who's gonna take care of you when you're older?
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It's like like bitch,
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like that's not me.
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I'm gonna take part modality like don't put that on your kids
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you know, don't put it on them.
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But they also like,
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I'm gonna be balling that I can hire people to take,
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I'm gonna be good.
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I'm gonna take care of myself.
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There you go. Oh well,
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thank you so much Chelsea.
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This is fun and where can we tune in and keep,
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you know, keep up with you online.
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I am a basic bitch and my handles are literally just at
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Chelsea Rendon on Instagram and Twitter.
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I did a short like two months ago.
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I'm doing another short next week actually.
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And then I'm producing a short.
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So I'm like excited to at least be doing something.
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I'm trying to like get a producer hat,
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like talking to some people right now about producing a feature.
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And I'm like, yes,
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we were talented. We're cooking,
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we're cooking, even if things are slow,
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we cooking, it's all good.
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It's going to get busy.
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But thank you so much Chelsea