Matt Josephs

Matt Josephs

Creator and founding partner of GettysBike Tours, Matt's love of Civil War history starts as a toddler while visiting his family in Northern Virginia. Between his uncle's relic collection dug from local properties and the proximity to the Manassas, Fredericksburg, Wilderness, etc., battlefields, Matt was immediately swept up in the romanticism and pageantry of the war. As he grew older and was able to fully understand the gravity of warfare, he quickly became awed by the bravery and "brass ones" it took to fight a war. 
   
 In high school, his military history teacher, Mr. Foreso, took the class on a day tip to Gettysburg and Matt never looked back. Annual trips with his father would lead to Matt moving there to open his first business. 
   
It was during this time when Matt did his first podcast. That lasted almost two years before he took a break.
   
After moving to New Jersey in 2010, Matt immediately missed Gettysburg and teamed up with fellow budding-filmmaker, Eric Koval, to make a documentary about the history of the town since the battle and the peculiar tourist attractions that have come and gone. Naturally, they ran into the typical obstacles one meet when trying to produce a film and the project faded away.
   
Eventually, in 2015, Matt would start a new podcast called "Checked Out with Matt and Pete", which was later shortened to simply "Checked Out".
   
It was around this time that Matt noticed the Facebook page for his film "Addressing Gettysburg" kept gaining followers despite the fact that no one had been working the page since the project ended. This told him that there is a hunger out there for all things Gettysburg. 
 
​  Bringing this to the attention of his podcast co-host, Peter, they decided that they should change the scope of the project from a film to a podcast. The time just needed to be right. Somehow, the time suddenly became right in the last months of 2017 when Matt determined to figure out a way to make the podcast come to life. It just so happened that he was burning out on the show he was doing at the time and his passion for Gettysburg was reignited. So, he got Peter on board and recruited his old pal, author and Licensed Battlefield Guide,  Eric Lindblade, to come aboard as the resident expert. Thus, Addressing Gettysburg Podcast was born. ​

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Peter Cornell

Peter Cornell

  Peter Cornell

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