Back to the beach together.

Time could not give me that ski, Barry.

Yeah, did it.

And that way.

God.

Go, go, go.

Don't be nasty.

Be good.

Gracie Mae.

Bargain time.

Most 2018.

Thank you.

Punch myself in the face.

I genuinely don't know why I drink.

This stuff actually tastes like sweat.

You know what?

There's no disappointment without expectations.

I had I had high expectations for 2019 after finishing my teeth.

1000 kilometer, never ending cycle of despair was gonna kick off the year fitter than ever before.

I was gonna run at Mount Fuji backwards.

I was gonna launch my TV career once and for all.

Finally help people declutter everyday, living with my unique groundbreaking philosophy.

Jennifer, I want you to look around the house possessions in your life that don't spark joy.

Then I want you to burn.

Every condo would have loved it.

And yet none of these things happened.

Instead, I spent six months this year hunched over a laptop, editing 27 videos about bicycles.

For those of you who needs this channel and don't know what journey across Japan is basically 18 months ago, I decided I wanted to get fit by cycling 2000 kilometres across Japan and along the way on flog every single day of the journey.

The end result was a 27 part travel Siri's and to call it an adventure with the understatement against the backdrop of jaw dropping landscapes, mouthwatering dishes and eccentric characters and guests.

It was epic in scale.

It really waas on above all along the way, I also got some free biscuits.

However, off camera the entire project almost completely broken ing on from start to finish, you can quite literally watch my face crumble in real time, evolving like a broke and Pokemon.

So today I'm here to offer you four life lessons.

I learned on journey across Japan when he watched it or not, and to give you the inside scoop on what went on behind the scenes, why I cut out one of my guests entirely why it takes six months to produce and of course, how much weight I lost along the way.

And someone near the end will try and work out if it was all worth it or not.

And if I would actually go back in time and punch myself in the face last year instead of doing the obvious thing, which is, of course, to travel back 2000 years and get a selfie with Jesus.

He'd love it.

Look at his face.

How come the upload schedule seems to be so irregular?

Maybe I'm imagining, but I swear you said weekly videos or something like that.

I never said weekly videos every single day off that trip every single day of that month long journey across Japan.

I'm gonna be making a video putting it up on the channel.

It's true.

For some reason, when I came up with Journey across Japan, I thought I could cycle 50 kilometers a day, film the whole thing, upload it and somehow have daily videos.

I don't really know what I was thinking.

In retrospect, maybe I'd drunk a little bit too much Bacary sweat.

I'm lost.

I did have a small team with me to help fill metal.

Ultimately, I decided I wanted to edit them myself because I'm an absolute control freak and surprisingly, during the first week of the journey, somehow we actually succeeded.

Get up eight o'clock cycle 50 kilometres in the rain film two hours of footage finished the day of cycling.

Check into your hotel, have a quick dinner comprised of energy jelly and then edit it around until four o'clock in the morning and then repeat the process over again.

Although that was just one problem, I was very nearly dead.

In fact, at one point I did fall asleep at the wheel with a handlebar on.

Then my stubbornness in not letting other people edit the videos forming Waas ultimately by downfall, I guess against all odds, the cycle was complete in 46 days, and every single day that journey I did log it did film because they're shot in real time.

You can actually watch my facial hair grow and become more and more horrific as the episodes went on.

However, by the end of the cycle, the videos and piled up because we had two hours of footage for every single episode.

It took me six months to work my way through that I lost the last episode of the Siri's were amongst the most watched.

The sporadic release schedule cast a shadow over the whole project on DDE.

Well ruined it for a lot of people unfortunately on when the final episode in Kagoshima was released in August, I turned my back completely on journey across Japan forever and never looked a bicycle again.

In fact, the site bicycles makes me physically sick.

Looking back a little now, I realized the problem was, I just didn't know what I want to journey across Japan.

Tau Bay cycle SYRIZA weight loss, Siri's or a straight up travel series.

It's very much a jack of all trades.

Master of none.

It's a valuable lesson.

I'll be taking forward into next year's project journey across Japan to abroad on a skateboard.

Yeah, it's gonna be It's gonna be amazing.

No, I'd rather put my fingers in a blender.

This year I've felt a mixture of anger and disappointment, constantly angry at myself.

My handling of it'll when the fact I've wasted so much this year and disappointed that I left thousands of viewers down, I'll let you guys down by the way I handed ill.

So for that I am sorry.

Genuinely be bold.

Always push yourself outside of your comfort zone, but know your limits, especially if you run the risk of letting people down because is the worst feeling of all well, that falling off your bicycle.

One of the criticisms I got on Jenny across Japan was that it was too scripted, was too choreographed and preplant.

That's great.

Constructive criticism, although has got one tiny floor and that is none of it was scripted.

It didn't fall off a bicycle for fun or cycle through a flood for my own personal amusement, because cycling 2000 kilometres and filming every single day of it simply wasn't enough.

We also, through challenges in as well to add fuel to the fire off, for God's sake, interact with locals, asked three people to say journey across Japan on camera.

And there's some fantastic challenges, including pimping our bicycles out with retro videogames and dodgy pillows, speaking only Japanese for one whole day, attempting to get strangers to say the phrase journey across the panel bit with limited success journey across.

One of the more difficult challenges was to meet a stranger for the day on Get Tall around the city of Matsuyama.

Remember when it came out the capital machine and looked at it?

I kind of thought of God, I screamed.

It's really hard to do something spontaneous like that in Japan.

Usually eso hastily made some phone calls to some Japanese friends.

A realtor Oh turned out had an old school friend of Matsuyama who was willing to show us around for the day will come in a spy film anyway, We know how to me is that she's eating oranges because it's the local dishes.

What's the code word?

Oranges.

Morning.

Okay.

Enjoying some oranges?

Yeah, that went on to the one of my favorite days of the entire trip, thanks to that challenge.

And thanks to Khazar, seeing this beautiful city whilst being shown around by an eccentric Japanese woman was an obsession with oranges.

But I think the best example of creativity under desperate circumstances came from the stretch along.

The gutter was a beautiful stretch along the coastline.

Absolutely buckle there to do on while cycling through this abandoned place that time forgot Joey, the animation man and I received a capsule challenge to make a Japanese commercial and less than 24 hours at first because we were in the middle of nowhere, we had nothing to really go on or nothing to do.

We were just gonna go to a beach on.

Just sit on a beach and make it quick commercial there.

But as luck would have it, we found a train station with a bespoke wonderful train museum, complete with an old unused train carriage.

Because we saw a train carriage that's in the museum on them online, and I could see it.

They're just inside.

Oh, wow, that's sick.

And after dropping into a nearby Don Quixote store on kiting Jerry L.

In a stylish doctors outfit and turning him into Dr Jelly, we pretty much good to get really won, actually way populated the train carriage with members of our production team.

And off we go.

That was it.

Dr.

Jelly was born, not a cup.

That's ridiculous.

Thinking like you.

There's a great example of teamwork and creativity born out of desperation.

And actually, if I had one spinoff, Siri's our journey across Japan.

It would be making like a series of commercials of short films within 24 hours within one day.

I think it's quite fun.

Who knows?

Hopefully we can resurrect the great Dr Gently along the way as well.

There was still waiting for a call back from the company in question had nothing, nothing until when I think back to Gen across Japan, I don't break it down by the locations themselves.

I break it down by the guests that join me along the way.

And I think there was about 10 know, including the random strangers that popped up as well.

Admittedly, the most bizarre encounter we had on the trip was a stranger on a beach time traveling man, as I like to call him.

On the fateful morning that Reato joined the psycho, he was sitting on a beach and I filled a little intro with the camera filming him introduce himself.

And he had this horrible, smug expression, a smug expression that could break 1000.

Miller's Good morning, everyone.

Several weeks later, I found myself editing that footage, and as I played it back, I noticed in the background behind me, Altero there's a guy that dives into the sand kind of perfectly into frame, and now I'm joining the tour This'll day.

I don't know who, what, why or how, but it was so perfectly timed.

It was so intricate that I genuinely think it might be a viewer from the future who came back in time to photo bomb.

One of the episodes.

I think the funnest random encounter with a stranger there was when I was in Niigata with my good friend Roy on.

We went out for fried chicken for lunch, and we came across the eating champion of Niigata, a small local girl who could eat a seemingly never ending bucket of food.

I don't know how the science behind this works, given her size, that bowl look at the size compared.

It was absolutely mesmerizing, watching her devour all the food and then jump up and down to somehow let the food go down A digestion system.

Don't know if that worked or not.

If you're a doctor, is that Is that a thing?

I don't seem to work because she ate it'll, and at the end of it all, I was stood looking like a bit of a loser and absolutely mockery of fighting capacity, given that she was half my size way laser.

One of the most disappointing aspects of Jenna across Japan was the fact that I cut out my good friend Emma, talky, talky traveler from three days in Kyushu at the end of the cycle.

Unsurprisingly, people have been asking me all year what happened.

Why did I removed from the videos?

And the truth is she made fun of my facial hair one too many times she had to go.

If something doesn't spark joy.

School Day The reality was ever Waas a great guest.

We had a lot of fun in a few days before Emma arrived.

I came down with a nasty cold 40 days of cycling, but finally taken their toll.

And stupidly, instead of resting up, I carried on cycling.

I can't I'm going for it.

As I said earlier, if you push yourself to your limit, you have to be prepared to suffer the consequences.

And after 40 days of relentlessly pushing myself finally my body told me to fuck off on.

Just stop.

By that point, no, even Dr Jelly could have saved me from my predicament.

Good morning, everyone.

Welcome back to journey across Japan.

Never ending cycle of despair were a comb in Cuba.

Kabir Kabir to win Kimoto today I fucked that up.

Look at that hat.

Got that hat that hot.

Joining us is our final guest.

Our third and final guest even though we've had 45 But today we begin our last leg off the journey to really struggling to us.

Really.

Only thing is the first time you've been the one so excited, you might be thinking, Wait a minute.

That sounds hilariously entertaining.

Actual bottle despair on camera release it put it online, but it wasn't entertaining.

It wasn't good.

It was me struggling to speak for three or four days, looking like I wished I was dead.

Sorry, but he's really got on, say, three night full of emos.

The videos were never a bladed, and I stand by that decision.

Emma was good.

I could edit it in such a way.

It's just Emma and we've blurred out on the screen, some dodgy, something dodgy anti video.

And I apologise to Emma for not being able to feature on Journey across Japan, and I apologize to you guys.

They're looking forward to seeing her and seeing the last few videos in Qi Xi.

That is easily one of my biggest regrets off the whole trip.

I do hope Emma and I can work on some videos to get the next year because we always have a lot of fun together, and I owe her a debt as well as all the guests that joined on Jenna across Japan and the crew that made it possible.

Yeah, right.

It's a cliche, but people do make the journey, especially if they time traveled from the future to throw themselves in the sand.

Obviously, one of the main reasons I did journey across Japan Bye bye, schools to get fit as opposed to gay to the gym and run on the treadmill.

I wanted to go into a really kind of cross country adventure and, honestly, the actual cycle waas incredible.

I'd recommend it to anyone in a heartbeat.

In the 1st 3 months before I even started cycling, I got a fitness tracker.

I start doing 10,000 steps every single day.

I also cut out of carbohydrates, love, rice, noodles, bread.