Here's some more info:
 
"I listened to that message so many times, and I played it for almost  
everybody. We were in the studio one night, and that's where I played it on the  
speaker phone, and Caleb's like, "oh, let's record that." So he records it, and  
then we had hours of jams that we'd been doing, so we just put 30 seconds of 
our  best moment on there." - Ben Folds

"Ben's in LA, and his dad calls him up and leaves him this message on his  
voicemail. His dad's just waking up, too early in the morning for him to know  
even what he's talking about. And I think he's still, like caught in a dream,  
and he's thinking about John Glenn, and he's probably worrying about his son's 
 health at the same time. Wondering if Ben's going crazy, you know. So he 
just  kind of drops this funny idea in about being in space and losing your body 
mass  and your most valuable possession becomes your mind." - Robert Sledge


In a message dated 1/31/2007 2:14:15 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
rob@splitsville.com writes:

For  once, I'm thrilled to be wrong. And laying the message on top of a 
smoky,  Barry White style groove is nothing less than genius