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Passenger Discovers ‘You’ve Got Mail’ AOL Guy is Her Uber Driver in Ohio

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Passenger Discovers ‘You’ve Got Mail’ AOL Guy is Her Uber Driver in Ohio You never know who your Uber driver might be. Just ask Brandee Barker, a Californian out canvassing for Hillary Clinton’s campaign in Ohio over the weekend. Her Uber driver was Elwood Edwards. You won’t recognize his name or his face, but you’ve definitely heard him before — Edwards is the voice behind AOL’s “You’ve Got Mail” greeting. Barker said Elwood was taking her to Clinton’s campaign office in Shaker Heights when he told her about his AOL fame. “I completely geek freaked and asked if he would do the video,” she told CNN. She posted this video of Edwards saying the famous phrase on Twitter. “No way!” Barker squeals in the video, before asking him to say it again. Edwards, a longtime voice actor, recorded the famous famous phrase — along with others like “Welcome,” “File’s Done” and “Goodbye” — because of his wife. Back in the late 80s she worked for Quantum Computer Services, the company that would later become AOL, and she overheard the company’s CEO saying he wanted a voice to notify people when they receive email. She told them about her husband, he recorded the phrases on a cassette tape and became the internet’s voice. He was paid $200 for the voice over, he told Barker. In addition to his voice over work, Edwards worked for several years as a news editor at a TV station in Cleveland before recently retiring. Last year he was on “The Tonight Show” reading phrases for Jimmy Fallon. Turns out, he’s a pretty good Uber driver as well. Barker gave him five stars. Guy who voiced AOL’s ‘You’ve Got Mail’ could be your next Uber driver AOL’s ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Voice Is Now an Uber Driver Elwood Edwards, the man who uttered “You’ve got mail” for AOL users, is now driving for Uber and happily said his trademark phrase for a passenger out doing volunteer work for Hillary Clinton in Ohio over the weekend. Edwards told Brandee Barker about his AOL work, so she recorded him and the rest of viral history. Like so many other things in life, Edwards wound up getting the AOL gig because he knew someone. In this instance, his wife worked for the company that would eventually become AOL and she recommended him when it was looking for someone to provide a voice to accompany the software being used. All told, he made $200. After a career working an editor for a TV station in Cleveland, Edwards now passes time driving around, earning extra money with Uber and making people’s day just by uttering three simple words. He also continues to be a good sport about his contribution, not only evidence by his above interaction with Barker. Please turn on subtitles for video Thank you for watching videos Please subscribers to watch more videos : https://goo.gl/FHGejc