Josh Dezern

Joshua Stanley Dezern (born Joshua Morris Bradley; 6 July 2001) also known as The Arcade Addict, Peter Holmes, P.H., Edacra Tcidda, and Dez, is an American filmmaker, vinyl enthusiast, musician, and founder of Holmesfilm. He is the first of two chairmen of Holmesfilm, and is best known for his webshows, Mini-Mizer (2012-2015) and Behind The Grooves. His channel has over 100,000 views on all of his videos total. His partner was Norm Henson from 2012 to 2015. (see Purpleparatroopa.) Both formerly considered themselves as Minifigures built on Mini-Mizer, until the revelation of their faces in late 2014, and mid-2015.

Early life and education (2001-2011)
Dezern was born on 6 July 2001 at Largo Medical Hospital at 11:46pm. Dezern was very sensitive around certain words when he was young because he hated it when people said "Yay, hooray" to him or sing him "Happy Birthday." "I always seemed to have a meltdown whenever someone sang the happy birthday song or said 'Yay' or 'hooray' to me." he once wrote. In 2005-2006, Dezern attended the Write Start Learning Center in Seminole, Florida, where he was shy and intentionally left himself out of activities. In 2006, shortly after his brother, Christopher Dezern's birth, Dezern, now a die-hard fan of Disney Pixar's Cars , began to attend Sutherland Elementary . "I was still sensitive about my things at that time until my Kindergarten teacher shaped me up in about a month." he wrote in an unknown source.

Mini-Mizer and "crazed part of life" (2012-14)
After his 5th grade graduation, Dezern's "good friend," yet real identity Josh Bradley opened up a YouTube channel that lasted for only one week. He called it "Bradley's Bricks," his LEGO building company. "I wanted to change the name, but I couldn't change the channel name. Either I just can't or even at 100 videos, I don't know how." "Bradley" said on 31 January 2013. The channel was closed on 13 July 2012. On 15 July 2012, he opened up a new channel and changed his screen name to "The Arcade Addict," just 3 days before his close friend, and future partner, Norm Henson's 12th birthday. On 6 August 2012, Dezern's first episode of Mini-Mizer and first video was uploaded at about 9:30 in the morning. The first words heard on the channel were, "Hello everybody and welcome to reasonablyclever.com" At the time, he still referred to himself as his birth name, which is "Josh Bradley," up until a few episodes later as he referred to himself as "The Arcade Addict." "I thought that my real name would be forgotten, which is how I started going by 'Arcade Addict.'" Dezern stated.

In November of 2012, Dezern's announced that his close friend, Norm Henson, would pair up to do a show called "Miis with Mii," which only lasted 2 episodes. After Miis with Mii's final episode aired, Dezern, still going by his birth name at the time, announced that he'd be retiring from Holmesfilm, due to the fact that he was not getting enough views, and that he was working on a film to celebrate his first anniversary on YouTube.

In December 2012, he took a LEGO Minifigure, whom he had named Walter, and his camera and formed the stop-motion show, The Walter Entries. The series lasted only three episodes, but Dezern continued to make stop-motions until 2014's

A short while after the 2 episodes it already had, it was announced Brick to Brick would return and replace Miis with Mii. "For once, this show is one that I do that Norm will NOT be allowed to do. This and the Walter Entries are MY personal shows. He has three: The George Adventures, Colonel Bradford, and Miis with Mii." Dezern, playing Bradley stated. In March 2013, Dezern posing as Bradley announced that an anniversary special was in the works for August. (switched to July.) In April 2013, he claimed that the special would be called Three Men and an Addict and it would star him, Henson, JakK, and JoshXD. Part one premiered on 15 July 2013 and part two is in the works as of July 2015. On 7 May 2013, "Bradley" officially retired, by saying that production of the anniversary special was forcing him to. The channel was "given to Holmes", who "changed everything." "I did stop-motions, dog tricks, a gaming show, it was insane at first." Dezern stated. In August 2013, Dezern announced the Josh Bradley truth, later stating that his real name would be revealed in a Christmas special entitled "The Arcade Addict's Name," which was never released. In September 2013, Dezern's first fake name, Edacra Tcidda, was revealed, but on 12 January 2014, he announced that "Edacra Tcidda" was a name that only Henson called him and his real name was Josh Bradley. However, on 26 July 2015, Dezern posted a confession to Facebook. "Peter Holmes is just my screenname, and Josh Bradley is my real one." Bradley did not, in fact move to India, he still is "alive," and has been admitted to be the same exact man as Dezern.

Personal life
Dezern graduated Tarpon Springs High School in 2019, and is openly bisexual. He lives in Palm Harbor, Florida with his brother and parents.

Dezern has three screws and a growth plate holding together his left ankle, caused by surgery done on it. On 14 March 2016, Dezern fell off of a skateboard, causing three breaks in the ankle. He spent nearly two months recovering, and was revealed to have made a full recovery on 16 May 2016.

Dezern works as a sous pastry chef for a restaurant in his town. He plans to retire from the culinary industry in 2021, upon getting a position relating to music journalism or photography.

Dezern, like his former partner, Norm Henson, plays piano and guitar. "I'm a musician, but I'm not necessarily good" he stated. In spite of this, he provided vocals for a rock duo, Dok Zither, for the bulk of 2018.

Face revelation
Since his first YouTube channel opened, Dezern has stated that he was not a human being, claiming to be living life as a LEGO Minifigure. "I was never allowed to show my face on the Internet." Dezern revealed in 2014. In 2015, without warning, a music page was created on Facebook for his piano music, and the profile picture was a selfie that Dezern had taken. His face was officially confirmed a month later with the first release of the pilot episode of webshow Behind The Grooves, which involved his entire face.

Partnership with Norm Henson
On 24 November 2012, after releasing "his own take on Mini-Mizer," Dezern announced that him and his friend, Norm Henson, would pair up to make Mini-Mizer a much larger series than it had been. The idea did not last long, as a year long hiatus began on 24 December 2013, followed by the series fully ending in December of 2015. While Mini-Mizer would no longer run, the duo still did videos together, such as the short-lived "Pixelation Gaming" series, and an attempted collaboration to cover John Lennon's "Imagine." In 2016, Henson deleted most of his episodes of Mini-Mizer from his YouTube channel, and made his channel's purpose for his a cappella music, original works, and covers. This triggered the end of the YouTube partnership, as Henson's last credit that was not a special thanks was for clean-up in the 2016 documentary film, The Beatles: Here Come The Sons. Though he stayed away from Holmesfilm until the announcement that it would defunct in 2016, Dezern has confirmed that the two "remain incredibly close."

Documentaries and Behind The Grooves (2015-present)
In January of 2015, it was announced that Dezern would be releasing a documentary of Walt Disney, which originally was intended to be a school project. He thought that the film turned out so well, it should be uploaded to YouTube. On 20 January 2015, "Of Mice and Monorails" was released to YouTube, scoring 88 views as of December 2015. The video accomplished moving on to the "National History Day" county competition, where Dezern completely redid the film, "sound-wise." The new and improved film did not move on to a higher leveled competition, but Dezern remains "proud of his first masterpiece."

Dezern has announced three times in his career that he'd be retiring from YouTube, and has come back each time. However, on 2 July 2015, Dezern announced on the Holmesfilm Facebook that he'd be officially retiring from all Holmesfilm productions on 15 July 2015, to begin his own webshow revolving around vinyl record reviews, similar to his "Two Minute Vinyl Reviews" series. The series, called Behind The Grooves, was originally released under the name of Mockingbird Studios, but later released temporarily as "A Josh Dezern Film." The first episode of Behind The Grooves aired in July of 2015, and ran on its own individual channel until August of that year, when Dezern (unsurprisingly) returned to Holmesfilm. He decided to bring Behind The Grooves over to Holmesfilm to continue running. It was a Holmesfilm production until its fourth season, which occurred after Holmesfilm became defunct in July of 2016. It is now released under Mockingbird Productions.

In May of 2015, Dezern announced that a documentary of The Beatles was to be released that Christmas. It had been an idea given to Dezern by his friend, Bailey Meinik, a viewer of the Disney documentary. The first trailer released in June of 2015, with the working title of "The Beatles: Never Too Much," but the title was "pitched" only days later, and was later turned into "Untitled Beatles documentary." In September of 2015, Dezern stated that he needed a good name for his film, and of four people who submitted name ideas, people would vote for which was the most clever one. In the end, Peggy Healy's "Here Come The Sons" made the final cut, and production began, and spanned until December of 2015. The film released on 15 January 2016 to the Holmesfilm YouTube channel.

On 15 March 2016, it was announced by Dezern that due to a recently broken leg, Behind The Grooves would be placed on hiatus. For an unknown reason, no hiatus happened, and as he recovered, reviews continued to be released. The final episode of season 3 released on 11 June 2016. A fourth season was confirmed on 30 April 2016, and it was originally given a release date of "this fall." The season began officially on 17 September 2016, but the first episode was re-uploaded the next day due to a typing error.

On 16 May 2016, the first birthday of Two Minute Vinyl Reviews, Dezern announced on his Twitter via script photo that a documentary on David Bowie would release on 8 January 2017, Bowie's 70th birthday. The film's working title was "Major Tom to Blackstar: The David Bowie Story." Dezern ended up scrapping the project shortly after, and a review of Bowie's A Reality Tour on vinyl was released on his birthday instead.

On 6 July 2016, Dezern's 5-track album "Diamond" was released on his official SoundCloud page. It was announced in November of the same year that he would release a fourteen-track album entitled Mental Therapy. Rather than a studio album, it was set to be a compilation of both new studio recordings and outtakes from 2014 and onward. There is no release date for the album, but it has presumptuously been scrapped.

In August of 2017, Dezern claimed that he'd "be a liar if I didn't think that this [fifth] season [of Behind The Grooves] may as well be the last," potentially due to a full schedule between his job, school, and the show.

On 16 September 2017, the night before the second opener for season 5 was scheduled to release, Dezern announced on his Twitter that his laptop was dead due to motherboard failure. This immediately put off all projects of any kind until a new computer could be bought. On 4 December of the same year, the rescheduled dates and reviews were released for a "spring season." A season has not started this late in the year since 2015's season 2, which started in November. The fifth season was scheduled to begin on December 16. Instead, the fifth season was never produced, and Dezern went on and off the YouTube grid between late 2017 and 2019.

In 2020, Dezern marked his return to YouTube by reviewing his copy of Bob Dylan's Rough And Rowdy Ways. In 2021, he surprise-released a review of his Disney-related vinyl, as well as one covering a copy of Bruce Springsteen's Letter To You. Along with the latter release came the announcement that Behind The Grooves would return on 12 June 2021 for a reconstructed fifth season. Dezern said that he will be shifting away from the subject of used albums, and will mainly cover albums that can be found sealed online or in stores. The fifth season is being written right now.