Robert Smith
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Remember the one where you could sit in it and it would go around you?
Yeah.
It was rad.
So Ross sends the Warner jet out to California to pick up Bushnell and Valentine to discuss a possible acquisition.
On the way to New York, the jet stops in Sun Valley, Idaho, to pick up Clint Eastwood, who was starring in a Warner Brothers movie at the time.
And they get to New York, and Ross puts him up in this beautiful suite at the Waldorf Astoria, invites him over to his, you know, penthouse on Fifth Avenue for a screening of the Clint Eastwood movie that's not out yet.
Yes.
And Bushnell loves it.
Here's what he said later, looking back on this experience.
Were we impressed?
Yeah.
Were we smitten?
Yeah.
Did he warm us up and, you know, ready for the kill?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, when I think about it, you just have to really hand it to somebody that's a bigger con artist than you are.
I love this guy, Bushnell.
He's so good.
Yeah, he knows.