From Good and Let, this is Reply Off.

I'm PJ Vote.

If you're a regular listener to the show, you may have heard of Matt Farley.

Matt's a musician, but not a typical musician.

Rather than being a guy who sits down every day and tries to write one big hit song that

everybody in the world is going to love, Matt sits down every day and writes between 20 and

100 songs.

His idea is rather than trying to write a hit song, he just writes so many songs that people

will just end up listening to each one, maybe like once or twice, and he'll make a few

cents off of each of them.

And in that way, he will find a way to make a living as a songwriter.

Matt has written over 18,000 songs.

He's got happy birthday songs for pretty much every name you can come up with.

He's written songs praising every city in a state.

He's done seven albums that were all basically just about cleaning his toilet.

But recently, I've been thinking about Matt because of this other unusual thing that Matt

does, which is that in a lot of these 18,000 songs scattered across the internet, Matt

puts his actual cell phone number in them.

So if someone hears it and they call that number, they will call him, and Matt picks up those

calls.

Matt says that for the last four years, he's gotten at least a call a day.

He estimates in total he's gotten about 1,500 calls.

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