Cleveland, Ohio’s squad of Uber drivers includes a minor celebrity for those of us who grew up using AOL: Elwood Edwards, the voice behind “you’ve got mail!”
This weekend, former Facebook PR head and The Pramana Collective co-founder Brandee Barker took a $6.21 UberX ride with Edwards. She posted this video of him giving a repeat performance:
OMG OMG my @Uber driver in Ohio was the You've Got Mail voice Elwood Edwards!!! I made him say it in this video #GOTVforHRC
Barker told The Verge that she was in town from San Francisco to visit Hillary Clinton’s office in Shaker Square.
“We didn't discuss how long he had been driving, but I assumed it was a side job and one he enjoyed to meet and talk with people,” she said. “He told me he was a news editor at the NBC affiliate in Cleveland. And then he offered up that I may recognize his voice as the “You've Got Mail” — he said he was paid $200 for the voiceover. I completely geek freaked and asked if he would do the video.
“Needless to say Elwood got a five-star Uber rating from me.”
We’ve reached out to Edwards for comment and will update accordingly. He currently works at a news station in Ohio, WKYC-TV, though he’s been profiled as news himself many times before. As the story goes, his wife was a customer service rep in 1989 at the soon-to-be America Online; she volunteered him for the job.
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