Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series Real Time with Bill.

Okay, we are in overtime. I was just offering. We've already given away two of the audience.

Would you like the p-tap? Would you like the penis pump?

I got to step off stage and call my wife. Would you like the receipt for Mulani?

How about that? All right, so we're on the... Okay, here we are.

Cracker Barrow recently announced a new plant-based fake meat option. Really?

At their restaurants. As a vegan. Oh, this is for you. You're a vegan.

I'm a Paschitarian, but I know that that somewhere that we might have a little bit of...

So you just killed face. It's fine. Yeah, I think it's fine.

Yeah, I think there's...

You gotta have some trade-offs. I'll get it. I'm gonna have ethics in the vegan game.

They're motto a little murder. As a... As a Paschitarian, I'll change that too.

Do you think America will ever be ready for a meatless future?

You know, I don't like the veganism that is like evangelizing it to other people.

I don't believe in mandating it, but I do believe that with technology and also with our environmental constraints

and how much land and water and resources goes into meat and are growing population at the same time

that a shift that way organically, I think, is a healthy and probably inevitable thing.

Well...

Certainly too much meat. Yeah, definitely.

The inconvenient truth about meat, I think, is that although it's a disaster for the planet

and certainly not good for the animals who get killed,

it may not be bad for us.

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