They immediately went on hiatus for a year, with Proctor and Bergman recording as a duo while Phil Austin and David Ossman worked on solo albums.

[1] On March 30, the Martian Space Party was performed before an audience, broadcast live on KPFK FM, filmed in 35mm, and recorded on 16-track tape by CBS engineers outside in a mobile bus.

On May 9, they wrote the first drafts of "Torment of Young Guy in Radio Prison" and "Mark Time's return from Planet X"; and also conceived WALTER, the Watching-And-Listening-To-Everything Robot, to tie things together.

They had another photo shoot June 1 at Austin's home for the album cover art, using the Monster Island miniatures used for the Martian Space Party.

[4] Proctor and Bergman gave interviews discussing the "Papoon candidacy" to Steve Marshal of KNX radio, Los Angeles, both before and after the 1972 presidential election.

This is a compilation of 34 tracks taken from their Dear Friends radio program which were previously released on the 2010 album Duke of Madness Motors.

The album begins with two and a half minutes of studio chatter before a live performance, in which the background noise of the venue's air conditioning system is discussed.

Over this is layered the lilting vocalization of Annalee Austin or Tiny Ossman (wives of Phil and David, who performed with the group in The Martian Space Party).

At the end of this scene, Bergman interrupts as continuity announcer Rocky Rokomoto for a commercial break in his Million-dollar Monster Classic "Anything You Want To".

The next scene is a newly recorded commercial by Austin and Bergman for "La Bomba Shelter", a dive where drug-laced foods are served.

Bergman is an African American jazz singer, who taunts WALTER (the Watch-And-Listen-To-Everything Robot, voiced by Ossman) into trying to find him.

The show returns with the Martian Space Party scene where Young Guy goes home to his girlfriend Nikki (Proctor) and butler Rotonoto (Ossman).

The butler introduces Lieutenant "Brad Shaw" (Bergman), who accuses Young Guy of being all the monsters plaguing the island.

This segues into the Natural Surrealist Light People's Party convention which is in the process of nominating George Papoon as its candidate for US president.