Advice No One Asked For

"Welcome To Advice No One Asked For, the feature at A Dose of Buckley where I take time out of my very busy schedule to help those who clearly need help, even though they asked someone else for it. They probably just got confused and sent it to the wrong email address. Yeah, that's it."  –Buckley
Advice No One Asked For is an advice column segment created by Buckley as one of his supplement series to A Dose of Buckley. The premise of every episode centers around Buckley responding to a letter sent to an advice columnist. His responses are generally more negative and often challenge the writer's question instead of simply answering it.
Buckley has said numerous times that Advice No One Asked For is his favourite supplement.
==History==
The first episode of Advice No One Asked For was uploaded to Buckley's website on the "Supplements" page, on 23 December 2009. This makes it one of the earliest pieces of content Buckley has made for A Dose of Buckley. The first six episodes were originally not uploaded to YouTube; episode seven was the first Advice No One Asked For episode on YouTube.
On October 8, 2012, Buckley uploaded episode two of the series to YouTube with video. The episode was originally put on Buckley's website on 12 January 2010, as an audio file. On 10 November 2013, the first episode was put on YouTube, and later the third and fifth episodes became available on YouTube on 5 January and 13 August 2014, respectively. Episodes four and six remain the only ones not on YouTube; they can be purchased on Buckley's Bandcamp account in the Early Years album.
As of 20 May 2019, thirty-eight episodes of Advice No One Asked For have been made, thirty-six of which are on YouTube. The most recent episode was released 16 June 2018. The most viewed episode is Number Sixteen, which has 574,000 views on YouTube and is Buckley's 54th most viewed video.''
==Format==
In every episode, Buckley reads an actual letter submitted to an advice columnist. He changes only the greeting (to things like "Dear someone much less vulgar" and "Dear someone more qualified and less of a dick") and the signature. Buckley then answers the question, but more for the comedic purpose and less intended for the sender to read himself. His answer is typically much less positive than how an actual advice columnist would give it, often openly insulting or criticizing the writer. Oftentimes, instead of answering the actual question he will propose a different solution to the writer's problem entirely. He does this when he feels what they originally wanted is unreasonable or unrealistic, and he has a better suggested course of action.
All episodes are accompanied by the playing of a cheerful ensemble of flutes. After sardonically answering the question of an episode, Buckley concludes by saying, "I'm Buckley, and you're welcome," and the music plays to the end.
==Episodes==
The following are all of the episodes of Advice No One Asked For as of August 4, 2013, both the ones on YouTube and the A Dose of Buckley website (on the Supplements page).
Episode 	Available on 	Release date(s) 	Summary
Number One 	ADoB website, YouTube	December 23, 2009	In this first episode, Buckley tells a woman who is against her friend having a baby she is a terrible friend for preferring to have the mother give up the baby instead of being the baby's godparent.
Number Two 	ADoB website, YouTube	
January 12, 2010 (ADoB website)
October 8, 2012 (YouTube)	Buckley criticizes a person who writes in complaining about a nosy coworker who does not approve of using working hours to make personal phone calls. He goes on to say that if "Going Crazy In My Cubicle" gets fired, it will be good in that they get more time to waste time.
Number Three 	ADoB website, YouTube	January 26, 2010 	In classic angry man versus teenager style, Buckley informs a homeschooled girl who complains her parents "don't never give her no freedom" that this is because her limited intelligence might cause her to wander into someone else's house if she ever goes anywhere.
Number Four 	ADoB website 	March 2, 2010 	Addressing who he thinks to be a teenage boy, Buckley tells a virgin he is being completely unreasonable in all of his doubts preventing him from having sex with his girlfriend.
Number Five 	ADoB website, YouTube	April 21, 2010 	Buckley reads a letter from a woman who caught a friend cheating on her husband, and is disappointed she isn't blackmailing her as much as absolutely possible.
Number Six 	ADoB website 	June 8, 2010 	Buckley's response to a parent wondering how much financial support they should give their grown-up children is to just say no.
Number Seven 	ADoB website, YouTube	February 17, 2011	A man writing for advice on being more masculine and avoiding being mistaken as gay is advised by Buckley to allow himself to continue how he is and invite a woman to try to "convert" him to straight...by inviting her over on a Friday night.
Number Eight 	ADoB website, YouTube	July 4, 2011 	A white woman in an interracial relationship turns to an advice columnist to ask how she can tell her parents, whose likely reaction she is unsure of. Buckley's answer is to simply have her black boyfriend prove he did not steal the engagement ring, and all racist assumptions can be set aside. His alternative is to not tell the parents at all.
Number Nine 	ADoB website, YouTube	
August 24, 2011 (YouTube)
August 25, 2011 (ADoB website)	A 16-year-old girl who got pregnant with her stepbrother blames herself, but Buckley tells her they're equally to blame. He then gives her two options to cope with the pregnancy: an abortion (or "womb vacuum" as Buckley calls it), or support from a pediatrician to make sure the baby is raised in the right environment.
Number Ten 	ADoB website, YouTube	December 29, 2011	Buckley is not pleased with a 20-going-on-21-year old who bought an expensive car instead of traveling and is unsure if they made the right choice. He tells them they should not be writing to an advice column about this, because they are more important problems in the real world.
Number Eleven 	ADoB website, YouTube	
February 27, 2012 (YouTube)
February 28, 2012 (ADoB website)	Responding to someone who revealed his will to their family and now feels exposed and paranoid, Buckley assures them their family probably won't try to plot anything. However, he adds that they have little reason to leave their family a lot of money in the first place.
Number Twelve 	ADoB website, YouTube	April 25, 2012 	
A married man writes he is attracted to a younger woman at work, and he wonders is she feels the same about him. Buckley's terse answer is no. He informs the man being attracted to a younger woman is not a deeper sign of anything, but he should handle his mid-life crisis another way
Number Thirteen 	ADoB website, YouTube	
June 19, 2012 	Buckley addresses a fit woman whose boyfriend indulges in unhealthy foods. He believes she has no business trying to control his lifestyle, even if it contrasts with hers, but suggests she explain to her boyfriend why she wants him to follow her lead on the issue.
Number Fourteen 	ADoB website, YouTube	August 17, 2012 	Buckley addresses a question from a "fuckin' idiot", whose ex-boyfriend is addicted to crack and whose teenage son was being estranged from her because of this. Buckley's response is that she is an awful parent for having her son around a drug addict and an imbecile for loving who he believes to be no more than human garbage.
Number Fifteen 	ADoB website, YouTube	
December 30, 2012	A married woman whose stepmother is insisting she name her unborn son Benny, a name she hates, is revealed by Buckley that she must be the man in place of her weak-minded husband if he is too scared to say no to his mother.
Number Sixteen 	ADoB website, YouTube	March 3, 2013 	Once again giving dating advice to a teenage boy, Buckley warns the 13-year-old he does not want a girlfriend at his age. He suggests instead to wait for a few years, then date a very nerdy girl since she'll be less of a drama queen.
Number Seventeen 	YouTube 	April 28, 2013 	Buckley answers a "grieving mom" who is offended that after her cat died of disease, and she offered some family its things, they called the vet to make sure the disease wasn't contagious. He tells her she is being insanely unreasonable, and her family was perfectly justified in doing further research on the disease in question.
Number Eighteen 	YouTube 	July 14, 2013 	A woman with two children is about to divorce her husband. However, her eighteen-year-old daughter was fathered by another man than the husband, which the daughter does not know. The mother wants to know how to approach this, but Buckley advises her that getting divorced is enough, and the daughter doesn't need to know her father isn't really her father.
Number Nineteen 	YouTube 	August 18, 2013 	A man who has gotten a job at a consulting company is uncomfortable with the office environment, where his coworkers say profane and suggestive things. Buckley, however, tells him he should not be offended by these types of jokes to the point that he wants to quit, and should rise above it. He also states in a mid-advice rant that "consultant" should not be a real job.
Number Twenty 	YouTube 	October 13, 2013 	Buckley answers two separate relationship questions in one episode: one from a man who thinks he doesn't have sex with his wife enough, and another from a woman who has been in an on-off relationship with the same person since her teens, and wants to get back together with him again.
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==External links==
Advice No One Asked For YouTube playlist (includes ANOAF episodes 2, 7-18 in video format)
Supplements page on Buckley's website (includes ANOAF episodes 1-16 in audio format)
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