Anyway, the album starts with a happy little ditty telling all about Steve and his "hobby". Then it tells all about how Steve went to a political rally to see this invisible suit guy lie about all the great things he'll do when he gets elected. Specifically, the guy wants to free the ancient Greek god Prometheus. No one seems to notice how completely stupid this whole idea is, but that's not surprising, considering lots of people seem to think that "Titanic" was a really good movie and not the most expensive piece of schlock that I've ever had the misfortune of viewing. (That was three hours of my life that I'll never get back)

So... did I mention that the politician was invisible? Oh yeah, I did. So Steve was the only person to realize that the Invisible Politician didn't actually exist at all, but was made up by his lawyers, in much the same way as most of today's top 40 musical acts are. Only these guys don't even have to pay people to stand there and look cool. Brilliant! But when Steve points out that they're being had, the crowd turns against him and chases him. Steve runs for his life, hoping against hope to get away from the enraged mob. Just when it looks like the end is near, a UFO shows up out of nowhere and beams him up.

While on board the UFO, Steve meets a strange fellow named The Public Transit Philosopher. Mr. Philosopher likes to spend his days riding his city's lovely Public Transit system and talking to the other passengers, going on ad infinitum about all manner of crap that no one really wants to hear about. You've probably met this guy in real life.

Also on the UFO are The Space Vikings with Big-Ass Hands and Really Wide Ties. They are just what their name implies. When Steve sees their hands, he grows incredibly jealous and his feelings of insecurity regarding the size of his own hands grow exponentially.

The UFO is wholly owned and operated by The Space Brains. They're up to no good and they keep the Space Vikings as slaves.

The Space Brains have this plan to infiltrate The Ministry of Daunting, and thus take over the world. "What is The Ministry of Daunting?" I hear you ask. Well, every government in the world has a secret division called The Ministry of Daunting. Different governments may have different names for it, but it's always the same flavour. The thing is, you see, they don't have one central office like most divisions of the government. They're spread all over the place. They work in all of the other governmental divisions as the people who answer the telephones and work at the front desk. The front line, as it were. Their mission is to prevent you from getting anything done. That way, you see, you end up spending vast amounts of time doing what should be stupidly easy, and you don't notice the big picture. And since you don't notice the big picture, they can totally do whatever they want, and not only are you powerless to stop them, but you don't even know about it. And if you did, you wouldn't care. Sounds like a good job, huh? Well you can get hired by remaining undaunted. If you ever actually get done whatever it is you set out to do, they will offer you a nice Ministry of Daunting job. And you'd damn well better take it. There are stories of people who didn't accept the job offered by The Ministry. A special train comes in the night to pick these people up and take them away, and nobody ever hears from them again.

So anyway, The Space Brains tell Steve that it if he helps them to infiltrate the Ministry of Daunting, they will reward him by giving him a shot of Viking DNA so that his hands will grow real big and gargantuan-like. They also tell the Public Transit Philosopher that if he helps, they will give him a lifetime worldwide bus pass, so that he can ride all he wants, wherever he wants. They of course agree, and are beamed back down to Earth to do some serious action-movie-guy stuff.