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Brian Johnson vs. Everybody

WILL “THE MECCA’S” VICTIM COMPLEX DESTROY HIM OR MAKE HIM CHAMPION?

ZOOM INTERVIEWS HAVE become the standard over the past 18 months. More intimate than a phone call and less formal than an in-person meeting, the subject is likely to be more at ease, perhaps with children playing in the next room or the family cat sitting on the desk swishing its tail.

Not in this case. No friendly distractions exist in the world of Brian Johnson.

“My passion, or, as you people call it, anger, is the result of 14 years of busting my ass and never getting credit for it, just because I’m not some indie darling prostituting myself

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