Lies My Vagina Told Me
Host Brigitte Bako has starred in movies, written hit TV shows, and survived Hollywood with only minor emotional scarring—but there’s one saboteur who’s been with her the whole time: her vagina. In this fearless, funny, and sometimes frisky podcast, Brigitte revisits the wildest misadventures of her career, relationships, and sex life—guided (and misled) by her most unreliable co-pilot, her vagina.
Lies My Vagina Told Me
Drag Racing with Kelly “Full Throttle” Anderson
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Living life in the fast lane is more than just a motto for Kelly "Full Throttle" Anderson! She's a mother of 4, a grandmother of 12, and a world-class, wheelie-popping drag racer. Behind the wheel of her iconic 2000 Camaro Z28 — affectionately named Stacy — Kelly has built a legacy that goes far beyond the quarter mile. She's also the founder of Mavix Community Outreach, an organization that connects foster kids to the motorsports world to help spark connection and purpose. Whether Stacy's front wheels are leaving the ground or Kelly is changing young lives off the track, one thing is clear: this grandmother isn't slowing down anytime soon!
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to yet another episode of Lies My Vagina Told Me. Today you are in for a treat. Because from my next guest, living life in the fast lane is more than just a motto, it's a way of life. She is a mother of four and a grandmother of 12 and a badass world-class drag racer known around the tracks as Full Throttle Fabulous. Please welcome the one and only Kelly Full Throttle Anderson. Yahoo! We did it! What an introduction. Did you like it? Oh my god. What a smoke show. My God. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, I just want to preface this to you, Kelly. You are being interviewed by a woman who doesn't even drive on the freeway. So I hope that's not a deficit. I am meant to be driven very slowly. How the heck did this come to be? I know you are a younger woman than I, but you did not start this at 18. How did you enter the world of race car driving?
SPEAKER_03So, um, being an alcoholic in recovery, 10 years of sobriety, I found a new life. I became a health coach uh for an optimal health program. And during that time, my mentor coaches poured so much goodness into me that I could public speak, which I never could before. I'd be in a meeting with like five people. I'd be like, no, I can't talk. And so they poured so much goodness into me that I started having goals and dreams. And my husband was going um out spectating at Irwindale Drag Strip when it was around. So I would go spectate with them. And then one day I was at a coach's breakfast with the mentor coaches, and they had us napkin dream. So I was writing down my dreams on a napkin and I said, I want a drag race, which I honestly didn't even know how that came about. Like I didn't even know that was gonna come out of me. So I come home and I go, Babe, I want a drag race. And he's like, Okay, my husband. Just like that.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_03Wow. Yep. I mean, that's how it's been with him. He's like, whatever I want, okay. Supportive. So supportive. Thank God for that.
SPEAKER_02So wait, you wrote this down on a napkin and it came true. So if I say one weekend with Bruno Mars and Harry Styles at the same time on a napkin, this is a possibility. Dreams do come true. They do indeed.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so you write this down, he's supportive, and then what? And then we take my six-cylinder daily driver Camaro to the drag strip because it's it's uh uh run what you brung. So whatever car you come with, you can run it. And super slow, 74 miles an hour in the eighth mile, like 12 seconds or 14 seconds or whatever. So, but I mean the the first pass down, I I just fell in love. And then they had a return road where all the fans are lined up and you drive by it, and all the fans are yelling and cheering, and it was such a beautiful thing. You were hooked. Yeah, I was.
SPEAKER_02Um, I drive an electric Mini Cooper, which means that I can escape the zombie apocalypse 110 miles at a time. So this is crazy. So that was not a fast race in the world of fast racing, but you push that car as far as you could, and you were like, and it didn't scare you.
SPEAKER_03It doesn't scare you, the speed. No, this doesn't scare me. No, I get nervous before it passes now, but I'm a lot faster now. How fast do you get up now? Oh, uh my personal best was like a 5'7, 5.7 seconds in the eighth mile, a hundred and I think like 19 miles an hour. Oh my god. It's gonna be so much faster, but I mean, you know, it is what it is. It just costs more money to go faster.
SPEAKER_02Oh, okay. I have a question because I am a layman and I don't really know the difference. What is you are primarily a drag racer, correct? And that is different than a race. What's the difference between the guys that go around in the circle?
SPEAKER_03Uh, that's like NASCAR, circle track, dirt track, totally different. I have drag race, it's just straight. It's straight. Oh, I like that.
SPEAKER_02I like that. Okay. So you mentioned that, and if you are if you are willing to talk about this, you mentioned that you were under the throes of addiction for a while. Yes. And that for a long while. Okay. And congratulations on your sobriety. It's an amazing thing. Um, and you found this. This somehow helped you stay sober, get sober, or was it a love that you found once sober? How did how did it happen?
SPEAKER_03So I had already been sober. Uh 2015 was when I got sober, and then I found this in 2008, 19. So I was sober for a few years, but I really wasn't doing a lot yet until I became the health coach. And then I lost a bunch of weight and felt like a million bucks, and like everything just changed. I got confidence, boundaries, like all these things that I had never had in my life, you know? Yeah. Yeah. So it was a game changer. And then fall finding drag racing is just unbelievable. Like just the love of my life, really.
SPEAKER_02I read somewhere where you you have a car and she has a name. I name everything. I name my cars. Yeah. But they don't do anything. Um, but you have a car that you have named. Um do I have this correct? Stacy? Yes. Do you know the song?
SPEAKER_03Which song is this? Stacy's mom. Stacy's mom's got it going on. So I named her Stacy because I'm Stacy's mom and I got it going on.
SPEAKER_02You got it going on, lady. You got it going on. And you have like this intimate relationship with this car. Like I read somewhere where you said, I've spent so many special moments behind the wheel of this car. I have too. I've sworn it. Everyone get in. Okay, so you've just you had a real sort of spiritual connection to, and is this the only car you drive?
SPEAKER_03Uh, we're building a 62C10. I did some land speed racing in a friend's little uh, I don't remember what it's called. It was called the peanut, a little car that wasn't land speed racing is out in the desert in like flatland. Oh. Mile point three, where I was running at El Mirage. But the car wasn't very fast, but it was a stick shift, and I had I never knew how to drive stick shift with a clutch. Right. So I got to learn, which was awesome. But that car went uh, I think 101 miles an hour in the mile point three. So that was like not very fast. It was an awesome experience, though.
SPEAKER_02I would you're so fucking badass. I mean, first of all, look, I ain't giving anything away. You are younger than me, but I don't think so. I think you're like a year younger than me. I don't know. I've got I've got a I've got a ring light on and but anyway, listen. You are you are a mother, not only a mother of four doing this, but it is was my intro correct? You are about to be a grandmother of 12. Yes. How does that math even happen? And so you were already a grandmother, which I like to call glamma. You were already a glamma on on the race on the race field, like you were already racing cars as a grandmother. Yes, yep, yep.
SPEAKER_03So that was really cool. I I I like that name, like I like the title. I feel like it's a badge of honor, honestly.
SPEAKER_02Fuck yes, it's a total badge of honor. Everything you've done with your life, because you not only got yourself sober and changed your life, but you give back because I know that you you have an organization that you're very proud of. Can you tell us about that?
SPEAKER_03Yes. So during um, during COVID, uh my grandson and his two uh sisters, my step-granddaughters, went into foster care. And it was just such a dark time in our lives. And and the sad thing is they were stuck in foster care for 13 months because of COVID. COVID, yeah. It locked everything down, slowed it way down, and it was just ugly and dark. And so during that time, my girlfriend, my my one of my business partners, Maria Link, she was hosting a foster event. And she's like, I really want you to come out, bring the race car. And so we went out there, and I was just like, I fell in love with the kids. I was like, oh my gosh, what sweet angels these kids are. And it's really not their fault. They're going through what they're going through. And uh, so then I became a mentor at boys' homes. So I worked at two boys' homes. When I we'd go walking, like me and the boys would go walking and just spend some time together. It was amazing. It was, and then it ripped my heart out too, because you watch staff come and go. The group homes are like a house with a you know, like five rooms or whatever, and then a couple kids have one room, another, and then they have staff, no parents. Oh my god. You watch sometimes the kids are gone, like you're like, oh, where's Joseph? Oh, he's gone. He went back home to his mom. You're like, oh, and you lose contact with these kids. And then staff, they come and go. So then they can't really bond. Yeah. It's always up in the air, and and it just broke my heart. So I decided I wanted to do something. We became uh legal to foster, but I decided I really didn't want to go that route because it, you know, then I'm gonna give all my bad habits and all these things to one child. I'd rather have an organization where I could spread love and joy and little bits to a lot of different kids and make a bigger impact than taking one child into my home. Okay. You know, so amazing. So we we founded Mavix Community Outreach and it's Mavix Community.org. If anybody wants to look us up, look it up. Yeah, we will flash it across the screen. Right. Thank you. You're welcome. Introduce foster children and underprivileged youth to the world of motorsports, hoping to connect them with scholarship, trade school scholarships, so we could give them a hope, a passion, you know, an interest. Because, like for me, having an interest of drag racing was a game changer in my life. Right.
SPEAKER_02This is incredible. And they don't all have to get into actual racing. There's so many components around this sport, correct? That that could pull their interest.
SPEAKER_03Yes. I mean, photography, videography, announcing, writing, reporting, uh, working on the car, tuning the car with the computer. There's so many areas, like it's just endless.
SPEAKER_02This is incredible. Like a woman with so many of her own children and grandchildren in her life, and yet you have time to reach out to a whole fucking community of kids. It's like you're amazing. Uh, I gotta, I gotta get off eBay and start doing something. All right, you have been married, and I know your wonderful husband for 40 years, which is amazing. You became the health coach in 2018. You started drag racing in 2019, and you founded the gorgeous Irwind Dell Racing Ladies in 2020. What was that?
SPEAKER_03That was it kind of started out like a racing team. Okay. That was before Mavix was founded. Uh, and it was like six of us girls that were always at the track, and it kind of became a team, but then it kind of became a lot of drama. My one rule was no drama. And what was it? All drama. So that that group quickly disbanded, but we still have the organization, the gorgeous Owen Dale Racing Ladies. And uh it's now we just encourage each other. So it's like, you know, we encourage other women that want to race, girls, because girls at like five years old can do junior dragsters. What do you have a five-year-old girl that got her license? What does that mean? What are they driving at five? It's a junior dragster. So the dragster is like the long skinny, uh, the motorcycle engine. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02First of all, I I was looking at the history of this, like it does go back a while that there have been women in this sport, but you you know, you hear about one or two. I mean, I just never really knew that this was something that women were fucking getting into because I am such a terrible driver. I guess I paid no attention to it, but that's absolutely fucking inspiring and amazing. It's incredible. It's absolutely incredible. And then this Irwindale place, I I think I know where it is. It doesn't exist anymore. That that what happened?
SPEAKER_03Did it close in COVID too? No, it was open during COVID, which is funny because no one knew it during COVID and they did private rentals all the time. You could have 10 cars there, so we were there every week. So I got a seat time with a lot without distractions of fans. So I got I had a lot of seat time. So it was kind of a me and Paul said, my husband said that COVID was like the best time of our lives because we just had so much seat time and so much racing. And we were like, Oh, it's open. We're like, yeah, it's open. It's been a best, it was the best kept secret.
SPEAKER_02The worst and the best all at the same time.
SPEAKER_01Exactly.
SPEAKER_02But there's so many things on your resume, like all of the stuff you worked on Kevin Hart's Plastic Cup Boys Car Club TV show. What was that?
SPEAKER_03That was a show they did actually during COVID. And uh we got to go out and Kim Huddleston, the owner of Irwindale, who's now the uh he runs uh Bakersfield uh famoso now. Okay. He invited us out. And uh we got to film with Kevin Hart and his crew, and we filmed on that show three times, which was pretty cool. So is Kevin Hart a big car guy? Does he love right now? They all started building cars during that time, so they started getting into it. Now they're really into cars, I heard.
SPEAKER_02That's fucking nuts. Yeah, that's crazy. Most people were just making sourdough bread. This is much more interesting, right?
SPEAKER_03And you know what's really cute at the end of the first show when they had they were at Irwindale, the track, and we all raced and stuff. Yeah, they said there was a snippet there, and one of the friends said, you know what surprised me is how the community of the racers all came together. And I'm like, that's what sold us on it. Like we fell so in love with the community out there that it was a no-brainer to get involved in the car scene.
SPEAKER_02And it's an inclusive community, men, women, gay, straight, anybody who wants to come and get behind the wheel. But that's amazing.
SPEAKER_03It helps everybody.
SPEAKER_02And what is Calrod's? It's a a club that you joined in 2023. What is the CalRub? And you're a board member.
SPEAKER_03Calrods Car Club. Okay, oh my gosh, these people, they are so busy. They're nonstop. They always are at car shows, hosting car shows. We actually have a show coming up, the big one of the year, May 16th at Santa Anita Racetrack. So we race the horses. Oh, yes, I've been there. Yeah, I've been there. And then cars come and we all park in the infield and have a big car show on May 16th, day after my birthday.
SPEAKER_02Oh, that's my dad's birthday, May 15th. I'm May 15th. Who's May 15th? My dad. My dad, it's such a good birthday. I will be eating French fries and my yearly martini in New York City. But I will be praying for you guys. I will be praying for you. You became a Hoosier Hero in 2025. What the fuck is that, lady? What the fuck is that?
SPEAKER_03Who's your hero? How do I become one? Yeah, right? I know. Huge honor, huge honor. So who's your is the tires that we run? Oh, they have a program that they started about three years, four years ago now. Yeah. And they picked 12 people, 12 racers that have made an impact in the community. So first I got like, you know, and they said you're top 25. So now people have to vote. The the car community, like um, you know, organizate like uh businesses, yeah, they voted on it. And then the regular people, like my friends and everybody, they can vote too. So then you start posting the link and you're like, vote for me, vote for me. You send it to everybody, vote for me. I do this with the podcast. Vote for me. Okay, so everybody went out and everybody voted. Yeah, they voted. And then we're at my daughter's in Arizona, and I get the email, and they're like, You are a who's your hero. And I was like, Oh my gosh, like I never's so extraordinary.
SPEAKER_02Like, I have to tell you, I first heard about you um through your son. He was over at my house doing some work on my house, and he his dad wasn't there, who he usually works with, your husband, who I totally adore. And he said, My dad's with my mom. She's a race car driver and and or drag racer, and she's at you were at some fucking race out of town. And I was like, like, I was like, did I hear what? Your mother? Did I hear this fucking correctly? Like, this whole show is about female empowerment. And it's all about, you know, I joked that my little Virgin made some interesting choices in life, and it led me down some interesting pathways, all leading and culminating to the fabulousness that we are today. But it's like everything, every wrong turn you might have thought you took or detour, look where it led you and talk about empowerment, starting a career that you're being just absolutely loved for later in life. Like, were you in your 50s? Yeah, I started racing at 51.
SPEAKER_01So yeah, I mean 51.
SPEAKER_02Never too late, right? Never too late. And have you ever fucking felt better? You look amazing. Have you ever felt better? I felt better before about last year. 27.
SPEAKER_03I know. What'd you say? No, 50 from 50 to about 56. Yeah. Amazing. Sometimes six to 57, I'm not feeling as good.
SPEAKER_02Well, I'm 58 and a half, so I am a little bit ahead of you. I'm actually feeling okay. I mean, if you don't need sleep or sanity or anything like that or sex, it's awesome. Um, but I do think I'm watching all my friends because they're a little bit ahead of me, turning 60, 60. And it doesn't scare me anymore. 50 was a mind fuck because it's a it's a thing for women. Yeah. And most women, either their careers are slowing down or they're reinventing themselves. So doing something. I don't know what you did before this. If you had a profession before being a rape, you were a mama, an alcoholic, which is very time consuming. Yeah. What I hear. Yeah. Yes. If I had to do a 12-step program for French fries, I don't fucking think I could survive. But I just think it's amazing. I mean, you're like why I wanted to have you on the show is like you're the embodiment of you can do anything at any fucking time, you can reinvent at any time, you can make a difference at any time, which you're doing with your platform and with your work. Um, so you're my hero. Oh, you're so sweet. I don't have a tire company, but you're my hero. You're so sweet. When it's just you and Stacy and you're about to start a race, and I know the car, and we're gonna show this.
SPEAKER_01Your car fucking takes flight. I don't understand. What? How does it not flip?
SPEAKER_03What the fuck?
SPEAKER_01How what is that?
SPEAKER_03Honestly, uh it was gosh, it was like about six weeks ago or so. She almost did flip. It went up, and then I felt it invert. And so usually, so I shift, but there's no clutch. So it's a it's a ratchet ship. So I shift it. So I usually go, it goes up, I shift into second, and then she usually comes down, but she wasn't coming down. So I shift second, third, and I'm like inverted. And so I have to lift off the gas. And you don't want to lift off the gas because it comes down really hard.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03She came down hard and said did some damage, which was crazy because it felt like the softest landing of a wheelie that I've ever had. And I was didn't hear any thump or anything. And and I broke the oil pan, I broke the flex plate. But you were fine. I was fine. You're strapped in, you're in so much safety gear, you're really not gonna really get hurt.
SPEAKER_02Um, oh, there's good clothes in this profession, like a cool little outfit. I don't know if you're gonna be a bit padded.
SPEAKER_03Mine's not a fitted suit or anything, but it's a racing suit. It's a it's a five-layer zip up. I I have the jacket and the pants.
SPEAKER_02Five layer. They're not fucking around. Five layer.
SPEAKER_03Some are like, you know, 20 layer. What makes the car is it just the acceleration? What makes the car go up? I feel like F-bodies, my car is an F-body Camaro, and those are a lot of them do wheelies. But it's like the torque. It's like the power and like the the takeoff, it's just like so much, and then it just I don't know why it goes up. But you just stayed calm. You did not panic, or did you have a moment of oh fuck? Sometimes I panic, some and usually I don't. It's like the more wheelies I do, the less I panic. When you don't do them all the time, it's a little more nerve wracking.
SPEAKER_02But I'm so honored that you want to do the podcast of a super fucking wimp because all I was Is terrifying to me, but like wow, it's just incredible. But honestly, like everything that you do, and everything, and I mean, do you have goals in the racing world that you are yet to conquer? I mean, is there something that you want out of it even more? Is it a speed? Is it a title?
SPEAKER_03Well, I mean, so I would love a WALL-E, which is the trophy that all racers want. Yeah. You're gonna get one. But I don't really do a I do more exhibition runs where I like just do wheelies for people. Yeah. I love wheelies and I'm I've I'm so competitive that I don't like to really be in competitions because I'm like, you know, I get angry or whatever. So I'm more of an exhibition, an exhibitionist. But that's our common ground. Okay, I get that. So I really like, you know, I just like making passes and making the crowd happy, and it's just so much fun. And it's it we love having the people in our pit. This weekend we were at Bakersfield, uh Famoso, and they brought out the Yes program. And the Yes program is run through the NHRA, and the NHRA is the national hot rod association where the big wigs are, you know, the big Jack Beckman, John Ford, all the big guys go. Yeah. And uh 600 kids were out there. And they so they asked me to come up and speak. So I went up and spoke on the microphone with Tim Huddleston. I said, I'm Kelly Barr Anderson and I'm a drag racing grandma. And then all day all the kids are like, Grandma, grandma. And I was just like, Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_02How is it that you're so fucking badass? You are a drag racing grandma. I mean, taught that. Taught that. So to that point, with everything you've done and you are doing, it's gotta be the craziest high when your fucking grandchildren show up and watch their grandmother race. Has I what I mean, one's about to be born. So what ages are they and have they all come, or some of them too young, or who's seen you race?
SPEAKER_03I think they've all seen me race. Not that often, but they've still all I'm pretty sure they all have come at different times. Because my one daughter, she lived in Phoenix for a while, so we did go out there and got to race out there. That might be where me and Paul were the time that Nick's was. I think so. I think so. Yeah. And so that's the best. Like I get teary-eyed when the grandkids are there.
SPEAKER_02That's like just like just their minds, they've got a rock star grandmother. Yeah, that's sweet. And so sweet.
SPEAKER_03They must go crazy. I'm a favorite of the car scene, so you know. Some of them are like, eh, I guess we'll both watch grandma, but some of them love it.
SPEAKER_02Eh, I guess we go, my grandmother gave me chocolate like most grandmothers. And you know, you're not like a grandmother that I ever met before. That's fucking for sure. Um, I just think you're amazing. I think what you you give back to the community is amazing. How are there ways that people can help and get involved? And if they have kids that need a little guidance, uh, where do they go? What do they do? And what's the best way to follow up?
SPEAKER_03Uh, well, there's a couple ways. Uh, you could go onto our website for our nonprofit, mavixcommunity.org, and you can message me there, send you send an email over, and we can be in touch and figure out where to go from there. Um, you can follow our Mavix Community Outreach on Instagram, on Facebook. Great. Or my personal Kelly Barr Anderson on Facebook or Full Throttle Fabulous on Instagram. Full throttle fabulous. Yeah, I had to think back when I started racing, I posted. I'm like, I need a I need an Instagram name. And my girlfriend Sally picked it. And I was like, that's genius.
SPEAKER_02It's perfect because we did this line of of rings that was for cancer, a research for fuck cancer, and we came up with fucking um fabulous rings for the middle finger, female empowerment campaigns, but you are fucking full of fabulous. Your legacy to me, I mean, obviously, you you you such a Shiro, a Shiro to the sport, a Shiro to your family. I hope that women listening to this are just fucking badass inspired because so many people are reinventing. The world is changing, our careers are changing, and so many women at 50 and fuck at 60 are like, Do I still want to do this? Does it give me joy? What do I want to do? And some of them are afraid to go for it, right? Because they've been doing something for so long. So, what is the kind of advice you would give to somebody who's like, I had a dream, but I don't think I can do it. How do I even start? What do you like? I wanted to do this, I didn't know how to do it. So I just pushed myself into it, not ready, not prepared, and went, fuck it, I'm doing it. That's my technique. I don't know if that's everybody's. What would you say to women out there that that are holding on to something and they think they're too fucking old to start it?
SPEAKER_03You gotta go for it because the regret of not doing it, like it's never as scary as you think. You're like, I'm gonna be so nervous, I'm gonna feel like an idiot, I'm gonna look stupid. No. You know, you go out there and you have fun, and first of all, people are gonna judge you no matter what you do. Glad people have a good damn time.
SPEAKER_02Honestly, be doing something that brings you joy. I think you're a complete inspiration for a sport that I, you know, I wouldn't know much about because I'm afraid of cars. Yeah. Um maybe if they had a sport where I could be driven in the back, very calmly, but I I think they're mostly two-seaters, right? You don't have a lot of room for a dog and a woman in the back. They're a one-seater, nobody's next to you. You and Stacey, tutto solo. My girl, just like that. It was such a pleasure to get to know you, meet you, have you talk to my audience. I know you have a huge fan base, but I am so one of them. I am so blown away by what you do, how you do it, and how you share it. And you're just a fabulous fucking inspiration. And I wish you all the awards and acclamades and anything you could wish for in your in your profession. And uh keep racing, you sexy glamma.
SPEAKER_03You're so sweet. Thank you so much. It was truly an honor being on today. Thank you for thank you for inspiring us all.
SPEAKER_02You are rad and have a gorgeous day. Woo! You too. Thanks.
SPEAKER_00Lives My Vagina Told Me is hosted by Moi Bridget Bacon, produced by Jacques Telemac and Leia Sherman. Artwork by Leia Sherman, theme and original music at Jack Moore of Galligitar.com. See you next time on Lives My Vagina Told Me.