Mike August
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361 appearances
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 19 Dec
Mike August’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Their first thing was, okay, you guys give us $3.5 million.
This is like in the spring of 2013.
$3.5 million, we walk away.
Like, hold it, it costs $1.5 million to litigate.
We don't have the money, but it costs $1.5 million to litigate and you want $3.5 million.
You've now committed us to litigating.
So now we've got to go out and raise the money because obviously you're not going to be reasonable about this.
And that's what essentially lit the fuse on crowdsourcing.
And I think that what was created in that Fund Anything campaign that we got behind was an amazing amount of...
Of support for everybody who's got investment in this medium.
I think it shows how much, you know, passion there is out there among the listeners, among the podcasters, you know, to make sure that this we don't get because now the next company that comes down the pike is going to think twice about coming after us.
Deal was cut.
It's capitulation when we've gone out and crowdsourced the defense saying we're going to take these guys on and take it as far as we can take it.
So, yeah, that was very...
Because what happened was we did not settle.
What happened was they dismissed the case.
The deal essentially came down to you guys got to stop talking because you're killing our jury pool for Texas.
We've got to put trials on against CBS and NBC.
And those guys, that's where the big money is.
And you guys are essentially become a thorn in our side.
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