[Rain Man]

So there's talk about "it's only six bucks". Well, okay, but the goal is that they'll get people to forget to cancel and that stuff. The goal of peacock is to make more than six bucks.

But that's not where I'm drawing the line in the sand.

I hate comcast. I hate them worse than I hate terrorists. They're the most unethical, sleazy company on the planet. Two weeks ago - two weeks! - I was on the phone with one of their "corporate escalation" people about a 30 percent increase in my bill. I won't go into detail about that, but at the end of the conversation she said, "Oh, and you get a free subscription to peacock premium". She said it two or three times, and I was all, "screw that. It'll be some kind of stupid unethical trick because it's comcast and they're criminals."

So today I sigh and think, okay, I'll try to get on their stupid free peacock thing even though I know beyond any shadow of a doubt that it'll be a comcast thing where they try to steal money from me.

So I got to the email, which says this:

As a reminder, you currently have access to Peacock Premium at no extra cost, and we’re happy to share that we recently made some enhancements to our activation experience.

(Some instructions here.)

Enter an email address and password to set up your Peacock account.
That’s it! With Peacock Premium (currently $5.99/mo value), you can stream hit movies, live sports – like an NFL game only available on Peacock on December 23* – exclusive Originals, and so much more.

I follow the instructions and I set up this stupid peacock account and I check it out, and nothing works. Why does nothing work? Everything says, "subscribe to watch" and sends me to a paywall. After futzing around with the stupid peacock account I eventually find a screen that says, "You have a 'free sample' account. You have to have a real account to watch anything other than a couple of crappy previews." Then I do the stupid comcast "help" thing, which causes some rural villager in northern India to rise from the fire outside their mudhut and type in, "Hello and pleasant morning. My name is Andrew. How do I help you this day?" So comcast lied to me yet again.

So that's the world these days. The NFL is terrible. Comcast is terrible. Peacock is terrible. There are no ethics in the world, there's no attempt to treat people ethically or honestly. And this playoff game is the intersection of evil, the crossroads where all of the corporate hyenas gather to attack.

It's not about six bucks. It's about corporate greed and evil and a complete desire to screw people over to make six bucks.