[Updated to demonstrate we know how to spell despite autocorrect’s assistance].
If you tell us you are a magician we will immediately like you.
We may find reasons to change that initial feeling but, right off the bat, you’re on our Bestie List. (We don’t actually have a written list — it is just a metaphor. We tried to do a Bestie List awhile back but we have terrible handwriting and, instead, created a “Beasty List”).
Now, if you say you are a magician and you can reconstruct a house so that it has instant equity, we don’t have a list for that but we give you a check mark on our metaphorical list because of the power tools you probably own.
The Property Brothers, Jonathan and Drew Scott, are famous for fixing up homes and making owners of said houses cry on television. But it wasn’t always that way. According to People Magazine (where the word “Bestie” is used freely and without irony), the two almost went bankrupt after building illusions, props, a new trailer and leased a truck in their hope of being “the next David Copperfield.”
While we are a huge Charles Dickens fan, we’re pretty sure they wanted to be like the incredible magician David Copperfield and not the poor but gallant David Copperfield from the eponymous novel who matures with each turn of the page and befriends the allegedly “humble” but really just crooked and “jerkish” Uriah Heep — but not at all like the Uriah Heep of 1970s progressive rock. If you go to the official website for Uriah Heep, you’ll be treated to details about their upcoming tour titled, “The Magician’s Farewell.” Coincidence? We think neigh.
Jonathan told People that he was “dead set on making it as a success.”
Unfortunately it wasn’t and like the novel David Copperfield they fell into heavy debt and it looked like their dreams of success were fading.
Thus something needed to be done and it was done. The twin brothers started their now beloved line of home fixer-up television series.
Here is the weird part. The People article about the twins was written in 1997. No lie. But we found references to it on a click-bait page. It proclaimed to tell the “tragic details” surrounding the brothers’ life. We’re not using the click-bait URL, you’ll find that easily enough.
But we do have a link to a story about how much Charles Dickens loved magic and even performed for parties.  Check out the very Charles Dickens-centric website, A Tale of Two Hittys or the book Charles Dickens Magician: Conjuring in Life, Letters and Literature.
Finally, the random facts about so many real and fictional characters spanning more than a century is demonstrable proof that this article is not AI generated or anything close to click-bait. It is however proof that we love magic and have a special affinity for anyone who has tried to be a magician.
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