Dupont lighters; and 12 of the world’s most exclusive and important watches. We also hear some of Charlie’s thoughts on being a man’s man, and how he’s changed over the last year. Bob Maron provides some additional insights into the reality of working and hanging with Charlie. Here is our conversation as it happened: Jon Shakill: Before Charlie gets on the line I’d like to ask you Bob, tell me about your background and how you and Charlie became friends. Bob Maron: I’ve been a watch dealer for 25 years. I was doing an online advertising campaign, and Charlie responded to a watch that I was advertising. He left a message about a watch that he was interested in buying. I actually didn’t get back to him, because I was just leaving for Europe and then had been in Europe when he was calling me. So when I got back I had another message on my machine, which was a typical Charlie Sheen, raving message. So I decided to call him back and our first conversation was about why I didn’t return his call, as well as about the watch he wanted. So that led to me selling him that one watch, and then many others after that. That was probably 7 or 8 years ago. We became best friends after that pretty quickly, going on vacations together all over the world.
was sit back and wait, and watch the new followers roll in. It was crazy, we were up to a quarter of a million followers without making a single tweet! When we finally tweeted, it was all over the news an hour later and just went viral, that’s when it really took off. In the first 24 hours we got a million followers, and the growth has just been exponential. That’s when the Guinness Book of World Records got ahold of Charlie, and let him know that he had just set a new world record for the fastest to reach 1 million followers on Twitter. The next fastest before us was Howard Stern, who had gotten to 1 million followers in 30 days. Charlie Sheen: This is Charlie here. I might add that we also beat the fastest guy to get to 100,000 followers- he did it in a day, and we did it in less than an hour. Lincoln Salazar: Hi Charlie, I’m the Chairman and Publisher of Cigar & Spirits Magazine, and we have the Editor-in-Chief, Jon Shakill, with us as well. Cigar & Spirits is very much of a man’s man publication, and we thank you for your time today. Jon will be conducting most of the interview, so let’s get on with it. Charlie Sheen: Sounds good, nice to meet you gentlemen.
Jon Shakill: So what about Twitter and Facebook, I understand you’re heavily involved with Charlie’s accounts?
Jon Shakill: Charlie, nice to meet you. Let’s jump right into it with discussing your love for cigars. How big is your cigar collection, and what are your favorite cigars?
Bob Maron: One year ago, Charlie called me up and said he just finished doing the Good Morning America show, it’s a crazy time, I’ve done the all the TV shows and radio shows, but there’s more I want to say to my fans- can you help me? I know that you’re on Twitter and on Facebook. I had been trying to get Charlie on the social networking sites for the full year prior to that and he wasn’t really receptive to it, but that morning we decided it was the perfect time to go ahead with it. Twitter really gave Charlie a new platform to be able to talk to his fans. When we first signed up for the account, there was so much hype surrounding it. All we did
Charlie Sheen: Hey Jon how are you. So as for cigars, I don’t claim to be an expert but I know what I like and what I don’t like. I can read a thousand different reviews and see some cigars rated 99 that I hate, and some rated 75 that I love. As far as brands, I really love Cohiba, Romeo y Julieta, vintage Davidoff, vintage Bolivar, Dunhill- I like to mix it up. Every once in a while I’ll smoke a Montecristo A, if I have 7 hours to burn! It’s a commitment. I like a lot of the regional, double banded, cigars as well. You know, the other thing- I personally love a lot of Cuban cigars, all the really great stuff comes from the Vintage Cubans and even some of the
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