"The shirt that launched a thousand fists."

“Maybe”, he says, “it has something to do with my bumper-sticker”. The sticker that Talbott is referring to reads “RACISTS HAVE MORE FUN” and is a tribute to a local club that he belongs to; The Boink-Town Racists’ Association, or the BTRA.

The BTRA was started ten years ago by Boink-Town native Jeremy Spiegel who felt that the area needed a club that encouraged amateur racing of all kinds and allowed racing enthusiasts to gather together and share in the joy that is hobby-based racing.

The club’s members meet one Saturday a month and race everything from radio controlled boats and planes to go-carts, all in an effort to bind the loosely knit community together and foster an atmosphere of acceptance for people often considered “square” or “creepy” by the non-racist majority.

Talbott claims that the BTRA is the greatest thing he’s ever been a part of, even though he was the chairman of his high school’s Antiquing Club.

“I’ll tell you what…you won’t find a better bunch of people than the BTRA. We’ve got a membership that runs the gamete from lawyers to pool cleaners and everything in between. We don’t discriminate to any degree and also, provide a valuable service to the community. You should see the looks on people’s faces when they see a model plane swooping through the sky; we’re like free entertainment.”

Unfortunately for Talbott and other members of the BTRA, not everyone in the area is familiar with their innocent hijinks and many become blinded with rage when they see any of the club’s monikers displayed around town (Talbott isn’t the only BTRA member to have damage done to a vehicle or other property bearing the club’s name, some have even met with physical harm).

Last fall, BTRA member Matt Lundquist was beaten to within an inch of his life because he was wearing a shirt that read “RACISTS GET IT DONE FASTER”, a nod to his prowess as an accountant.

Although some members of the BTRA see why some people may jump to the wrong conclusion about their glorified geek club, they are reluctant to change the name because they have invested so much money and energy into the printing of apparel and other products that bear the BTRA name and let everybody know that they are either members of a proud fringe group, or ignorant agitators with an axe to grind.