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October 31, 2017 (YouTube)|writer=[[Kris Straub]] | October 31, 2017 (YouTube)|writer=[[Kris Straub]] | ||
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'''You Are On The Fastest Available Route''' is the third uploaded entry in the [[Local 58]] video series and the first uploaded on YouTube. The episode takes the form of dashcam footage that shows an [[Unnamed Driver|unnamed driver]] being given increasingly strange instructions by their GPS system. | '''You Are On The Fastest Available Route''' is the third uploaded entry in the [[Local 58]] video series and the first uploaded on YouTube. The episode takes the form of dashcam footage that shows an [[Unnamed Driver|unnamed driver]] being given increasingly strange instructions by their GPS system. | ||
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| Episode | 3 | ||||
| Air date | June 19, 2016 (local58.info) October 31, 2017 (YouTube) | ||||
| Writer | Kris Straub Mikey Neumann | ||||
| Director | Kris Straub | ||||
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You Are On The Fastest Available Route is the third uploaded entry in the Local 58 video series and the first uploaded on YouTube. The episode takes the form of dashcam footage that shows an unnamed driver being given increasingly strange instructions by their GPS system.
Synopsis
The episode begins with Local 58's early morning schedule, displaying a Midnight Movie at 12:05 AM and the Paid Programming slot at 1:55 AM. However, the Paid Programming text gets deleted, and dashcam footage begins instead, with the time shown on the footage at its start being 1:57 AM on November 21, 2014.
The video starts out as a long nighttime drive through a city, during which the driver is being guided by their GPS system on November 21, 2014. The GPS says that the journey will take over two hours to reach the destination. Throughout the journey, it repeats the phrase, “You are on the fastest available route."
As the footage progresses, the navigation systems instructions become increasingly bizarre, instructing the driver to drive down a quarry utility road, a service causeway, and eventually to make a U-turn and head down a road that has been sealed off. By this point, the driver has been travelling for well over four hours and has entered an unpaved road.
After proceeding down an "unnamed road" in the middle of a forest, the navigation system instructs the driver to come to a stop and turn off their headlights in 300 ft. The driver does so and sits in the darkness for some time. Suddenly, a monstrous roar can be heard. The driver quickly flashes the headlights, briefly illuminating a strange humanoid creature in the distance. The footage then cuts to the driver driving quickly through the forest and trying to escape as the navigation first tells them their destination is behind them before telling them they are rapidly approaching it. Another roar can be heard, and the camera cuts to show the car has crashed. Flames can be seen, and a coughing sound can be heard. The camera is on the ground with the date and time blurred out. The navigation system speaks: "You have arrived." A final roar is heard.
Trivia
- The dash cam footage that makes up the episode begins at 1:57 AM, implying that it replaced the Paid Programming slot.
- The crash and the camera being upside down suggests that the creature flipped the car over.
- The creature's head looks similar to the second creature from Show For Children.
- The creature that stalks the driver can be seen briefly when they turn their headlights back on, the first time it roars, standing directly ahead in the trees.
- It is implied that the creature itself is the destination. In the penultimate section as the driver is escaping from the creature, the destination continuously updates and becomes closer despite the driver heading in what is presumably the opposite direction.
- This is supported and all but confirmed by A Look Back, in which we are given a new rendition of the dashcam footage from You Are On The Fastest Available Route in which the Satnav system is given a new line of dialog - "Your destination has moved."
- There is a Merritt Parkway and North 38th Street in Connecticut, but they are four hours away from each other. Furthermore, both are forty minutes away from Route CN 114 N mentioned in the video (nine hours if the video is referring to West Virginia’s Route 114, the state where Local 58 is broadcasted).
