Ben Greenfield’s Sons React to His New Documentary Trailer! | Plus Q&A

I'm River. I'm Terran. And we are the sons of Ben Greenfield, who's in the documentary that we are watching the trailer for right now. It's going to be fun. First trailer reaction. First trailer reaction. We haven't seen it yet, so.

All right.

It's going to be dope. I love it.

So, dude, you are an interesting fucking guy. You do a lot of weird shit. Thank you, I think. Yeah. No, it's good. Yes, it's a compliment. You're almost notorious in the space for being a self-experimenter.

He's not just going to talk about biohacking, but this guy is weird. He is weird. That's very true. My guest today is Ben Greenfield, a world-class biohacker, an elite coach, a top fitness expert, an absolute icon in the fitness, wellness, and biohacking industry. Dude, I'm recognizing so many faces. He's always saying that he is— I haven't seen this in a while. Oh, oh, it's you! Crazy stuff. Oh, that's me! I knew I was a hot one. In 2008, he was voted America's Fitness Trainer of the Year. He's always going to be a driven person, I think, in every aspect of his life.

I just love to figure out how to get the most out of the body and brain. A lot of that does involve these more fringe, edgy biohacks. What made you kind of flip in terms of your, your priorities?

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world? I like that part.

And yet loses His soul.

It's from the Bible. Yeah, I do like that book.

Deep things.

It's a good book. Transformative. His work took precedence in a really kind of narcissistic kind of way. For a while, he wasn't really a part of the family.

Everything I grew up holding dear and knowing was most important—

I'm gonna just show you guys. —you remember that? Yeah, yeah.

You get put on the back burner. There you go.

Yes, I do.

You know, it did not feel right at all. It wasn't. Right at all. Eventually the body will fade, and so if there's one part of your body that you're going to prioritize above everything else, it would be the soul.

It's not provoking.

Brutally vulnerable. I like to say the one that you can depend upon. The belief that there's a greater story written for your life.

The Efron— Efron Meister.

I didn't change something, then I was going to lose. Dude, this is looking good. Everything's nice. That's sick, bro.

Yeah, that's pretty good. If I saw that on like Netflix or— dude, if you put that— yeah, if you put that like, like in a movie theater, you know, like before, like after like Timothy Jaume has his trailer or something and you put this in there. Yeah. Be so good. I liked it. I liked how it slowed down kind of at the end. I don't know, it was— yeah, like, I like how you got some of that more purposeful stuff in there at the end of it, because I feel like some movie trailers or TV show trailers kind of just like ramp up and show all the exciting stuff and then kind of end it. For me personally, this might be a little different than the average viewer because I know a lot of the stuff that happened in there. So like a lot of the pictures and videos and stuff are like memories that I have. But if I was going to look at it from like maybe like an outside view, I'd say like, oh, I wonder who this guy is. Especially if I didn't know who he is. Yeah. Like, oh, I'm kind of curious. I didn't know this stuff existed. I think the story is cool. Like, I mean, I live with him every day, but like when you see it in like the story, when you get how you guys put it together as like the documentary, it literally reads like a story, like you're at like watching an actor or like a movie or something. It's way different, but it's cool because it's a good story. I mean, he's been filming himself like his whole life, right? I mean, it's cool to see it all put together in a story format that's like epic on a large scale and it's super high quality and it's got the whole story. But you know, he's been, I guess, vlogging his whole life is kind of a movie. Yeah, I feel like I could watch any scene of his life basically. I kind of wonder like down the line with like grandkids or something, like whether or not you will be watching that like I don't know. It'd be kind of interesting, like when he's passed, if you watch that, like I would watch it in 50 years because I hope I'll be alive by then and like that would be a big throwback. Nah, he's authentic. It's the dad I know. I think it feels about— yeah, I think it feels about the same. I mean, he was directly involved with it too, and so was Caleb. So I think they really wanted to retain the authenticity of it and not like portray a version of Dad that actually doesn't exist. But like, well, it doesn't exist. Yeah, I think they actually do a good job of being and portraying him online as authentically as possible. So I don't know if there is a version out there that exists. Maybe some people watch this and realize that Dad wasn't exactly the way they thought he was. So maybe that'll kind of— I don't know. But yeah, I think you guys did a great job at retaining that authenticity. You know, we had the Bryan Johnson documentary, so I feel like a lot of people might see see him as that, where like he's just spending his entire day, or like 6 hours of his morning doing a morning routine, and then like going into tons of different biohacking stuff. And he's not doing that every day. He does like— I think he does a much more practical version of biohacking, which can fit in family, which can fit in Christianity, which can fit in all these different, I think, more important aspects of life. So like maybe I would want the world to see him as a practical biohacker. I think it's awesome. Yeah, I love it. I mean, we have like an awesome sauna and we got like a pond that we're gonna clean out, make a cold plunge. And you know, we get to eat good food every day and we get to work out and we get to have fun and play pickleball. Yeah, he's active and we get to play with him and stuff, to beat him in word games, get to outbench him. We get to beat him in pickleball, actually. I think that's in the back. All the great things. All the great things. Yeah, in 20 years I'll definitely appreciate a lot more too when like I'm getting older, I'll be like, "Oh, thank God my dad taught me about this and this and this, 'cause now my knees aren't cracking every time I wake up," or whatever. Probably the way Mom talked about him, honestly. I don't know if that makes sense. Like, the way Mom talks about him. Obviously, Mom experiences a different version of Dad than I see. So, like, some of that was a little revealing. That was probably the biggest part. Yeah, I guess other people's views of him. 'Cause, I mean, I've got my view of him. And how I interpret him. And then my mom's got a different view because she's known him longer. And Terrence obviously got his view. Yeah. So you could see like everyone's views of Ben. Yeah. Kind of collage them all together. The ultimate view. Yeah. It's just, yeah, you get different. You get to see how other people view somebody, which is interesting. He's a down-to-earth guy, I guess, that he's, you know, he's— he loves what he does and he loves helping people. And he loves being Ben Greenfield. A lot of people, I guess, live life and they don't do what they want to do or what they love to do, or they kind of forsake their dreams. And my dad didn't do that. And you get to get a good example of someone who's doing what he loves, loves doing what he's doing, and looks really jacked while he's doing it. Yeah, he does. It's pretty good. Yeah. How about I follow that up? I guess if I was gonna say what I want people to take away from the film, I'd say like enjoy life. Because I think like when I finished the film for the first time, I was like, "Oh, you know, I want to go out and really live life and do like, work hard and be productive and have something similar." And so that's what I want people to take away from that. And I think you do take that away. I'd say fathers being more present with their family, leading a little bit more, men just being there for the family. Um, that's kind of the big scope of the whole documentary at the end of the day, is just like him losing his family, realizing it's the most important thing, and getting it back. And the story behind that, and I want to see that turn to action. Yeah, I think in America, and I'm not sure about abroad, but like on social media is a lot— you see a lot of men especially getting really focused on, um, you know, gyms and getting exercise in and doing all these and, you know, getting money and all that, but they often forget. And I think my dad went down the same path about some more important things in life. And so I hope this documentary stops them from making the same mistake he did in some ways and helps them to pursue more purposeful goals before they lose them. All right, that was our blind reaction to the Boundless documentary trailer. I think it's going— I think we're going on a world tour, right? We're going on a world tour and you can check it out more by going to boundlessdoc.com. That's right. That's boundlessdoc.com. All right. Thanks for listening.