#355 - JT Harding on Meeting Keith Urban at a Urinal + Growing Up Adopted and Finding out His Biological Father Was Famous + Having Objects Thrown at him Opening for Linkin Park

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🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

JT Harding has written 7 No. 1 songs for artists like Kenny Chesney, Uncle Kracker, Keith Urban, Darius Rucker and more. He started out wanting to make it in rock which led him to working as the assistant to superstar rock band Linkin Park. He shares with Bobby what it was like to grow up adopted and finding out his dad was a famous actor and radio host. He also shares the most personal story he struggled with including in his new book, Party Like a Rockstar. He is also having a contest for adopted folks who want to be a songwriter in honor of National Adoption Month.

You can enter JT's songwriting contest at Writelikearockstar.com

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0:00.0	My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future.
0:04.5	But I want to tell you that I'm being forced by my producer to record a promo telling you about my show.
0:10.1	And I'm not trying to force you to listen to it.
0:12.6	And maybe you're not interested in internet culture and the future of life on planet Earth.
0:18.1	And why John Carpenter movies are so good.
0:20.6	You may just want to listen to a podcast about, I don't know, sports or whatever Joe Rogan talks about.
0:26.6	And that's fine, you know, no judgment.
0:28.4	But if you like what you're hearing and I know that you do, you can listen to all of what future on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:58.4	The podcast and that's what you really missed brings you back to the choir room for a gloriously gleeky rewatch of all six masterfully musical seasons of Glee.
1:19.4	Join cast members Kevin MacKale and Jenna Uschkewitz for never before heard stories from the cast, crew, celebrities and you, the fans from McKinley High to New York City, from the choir room to nationals and from the Super Bowl to a world tour.
1:32.9	Listen to and that's what you really missed on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:39.4	Hey, welcome to episode 355 JT Harding, which he was adopted and they found it his dad's famous when he found out who his dad was.
1:51.4	It's crazy.
1:52.4	Crazy.
1:53.4	Like he's written so many big songs and had so many turns in his career where he's even had, it's he just has a and so much energy.
1:59.4	This guy came in here, I walked in the room in my own studio, he was clapping for me. I was like, wow, this is about to be very exciting. He's written songs like somewhere with you by Kenny Chesney alone with you by J. Go and somewhere in my car key, Thurban, different for girls, Dorks Bentley.
2:12.9	Like he's got so many, he's got a book out called party like a rock star, the crazy coincidental hard luck and harmonious life of a songwriter.
2:20.9	It came out this year and again, he talks about he is the biological son of I'm gonna tell you who put him up for adoption in an early age and later on they reconciled and it's just a really great podcast.
2:34.9	I hope you like it.
2:35.9	JT Harding, I hope you check out his book and you know, he talks about at the end of this to something he's doing for someone else who was adopted.
2:43.9	You know, and you can be a part of that. So all that hope you enjoy episode 355 with JT Harding. All right, here you go.
2:50.9	Who you guys to be not waste time and really it's not that we don't waste time. It's that we don't want anything to go to waste.
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