Bothered

Get ready to be BOTHERED. This week, Julie Kim is flying solo with a travel story that starts with one simple rule: the middle seat gets both armrests. What should have been a normal flight turned into a full airplane etiquette showdown when an entitled passenger took the armrest, dismissed Julie's point as "garbage," grabbed her phone to read the proof, and later let his knee creep into her seat...

Get ready to be BOTHERED. This week, Julie Kim is joined by bestselling author Jen Sookfong Lee for a funny, honest, and painfully relatable conversation about beauty standards, aging, Asian family comments, motherhood, social media perfection, and why women are expected to keep fixing themselves while also pretending everything is fine. From Botox, fillers, cottage cheese, looksmaxing, and everyo...

Get ready to be BOTHERED. This week Julie Kim sits down with legendary Canadian comedian, actor, writer, and Corner Gas creator Brent Butt for a smart, funny, and surprisingly timely conversation about road rage, why the bad guys seem to be winning, how comedians survive brutal gigs, and what actually keeps him bothered these days. Brent talks about his famously dry version of road rage, old schoo...

Get ready to be BOTHERED. This week Julie Kim is back with a solo episode about a heckler at her Whitehorse comedy show who somehow convinced himself she was into him. Julie breaks down the full story, what actually happened on stage, why this kind of behavior is so absurdly familiar to women, and how the internet reacted after she posted the clip. From late show chaos to male delusion to the comm...

Get ready to be BOTHERED. In this powerful live episode, Julie Kim sits down with Esther Hwang to unpack what it really means to speak out against a major institution. Esther shares her experience navigating a deeply personal and difficult situation, the moment she decided to go public, and what happened after the story hit the news. From institutional response to public pressure, this conversatio...

Get ready to be BOTHERED Julie Kim is joined by Tamara Taggart for a powerful LIVE conversation that begins with a deeply personal story about being dismissed and not taken seriously, and quickly unfolds into a gripping journey through health, advocacy, and trust. What starts as feeling "off" turns into a life altering discovery, as Tamara shares how being told "all women feel like this" nearly co...

Get ready to be BOTHERED. Julie Kim is joined by Olivia Cheng (Warrior, Marco Polo) for a conversation that starts with a shocking real-life body check in Vancouver and spirals into stories about public aggression, social tension, and the subtle ways people cross the line. From sidewalk confrontations to drive-thru chaos, Olivia breaks down how these moments build—and when to stand your ground ver...

Get ready to be BOTHERED. Julie Kim is back with a brutally honest and hilarious breakdown of the most ridiculous, clueless, and straight up annoying hater comments from season one. From being told she "overthinks everything" to people denying racism exists, Julie claps back at the internet with sharp insight, comedy, and zero patience. This episode dives into everyday microaggressions, the mental...

Get ready to be BOTHERED. Julie Kim dives into a parenting debate that is blowing up online: are sleepovers actually safe anymore? From cautious boundaries to full on bans, Julie unpacks why more parents are saying no to overnight stays and shares a truly unhinged story of receiving a text from a complete stranger claiming "I'm with your child." What follows is a chaotic breakdown of modern parent...

Get ready to be BOTHERED. Julie Kim is wearing a Vancouver Canucks jersey and talking about body checking, but not the kind that happens on the ice. This episode dives into shocking viral clips of adults elbowing and knocking over children in public spaces and why random acts of aggression seem to be everywhere online right now. Julie also shares two personal stories of being violently shoved by s...

Get ready to be BOTHERED. International Women's Day is Julie's favorite holiday, and this year she is revisiting one of the most outrageous Women's Day gaffes in British Columbia history. From corporations flipping logos upside down to a resort CEO telling women to "go clean some rooms and do some dishes," this episode unpacks cringe worthy apologies, public downfalls, and why some leaders still d...

Get ready to be BOTHERED. Julie Kim may or may not have turned herself into human carry on luggage to avoid excess baggage fees at the airport. From bending airline rules to strapping belongings onto her own body, this episode is a chaotic travel confession about airport anxiety, budget hacks, and how far we will go to avoid paying extra. If you have ever played Tetris with a suitcase at the check...

Get ready to be BOTHERED. Summer camp registration is basically the Olympics for moms and this year Julie signed her kid up from a hot yoga class in Moncton while 900 parents sat ahead of her in a digital queue. From melting phones and downward dog stress to coordinating with other families, overnight camp FOMO and the invisible mental load that somehow always lands on women, Julie unpacks why mom...

Get ready to be BOTHERED. With Lunar New Year around the corner Julie Kim revisits a moment that still annoys her years later when a local politician showed up at her door and confidently wished her a Happy Chinese New Year in the wrong language. From being constantly mistaken for something she is not to schools politicians and even Google blurring the lines between Lunar New Year and Chinese New...

Get ready to be BOTHERED. Fresh off a comedy festival and reflecting on more than a decade in stand up Julie Kim opens up about confidence earned the hard way the ugly moments that stick with you and what it really means to belong in comedy. From early career insecurity to a passive aggressive comment that changed how she saw herself on a national stage Julie unpacks race gender scarcity and resil...

Get ready to be BOTHERED as Julie Kim breaks down one of those airplane moments that makes absolutely no sense. While seated in an emergency exit row, Julie realizes the responsibility for opening the exit door has been assigned to a woman who looks about 100 years old and barely holding on meanwhile a fully jacked capable guy sits comfortably in the aisle seat with zero responsibility at all. Jul...

Get ready to be BOTHERED as Julie Kim breaks down a playdate moment that felt way too pointed to ignore when a mom and her daughter suddenly started speaking French to each other right in front of her. Julie spirals through the awkwardness of being left out in real time the weird social power plays adults swear are not happening and the question every parent has asked at least once am I overthinki...

Get ready to be BOTHERED as Julie Kim loses it over the daycare parent who knowingly brings in a sick kid and sparks a full blown household germ apocalypse. Julie breaks down the parenting etiquette that should be obvious, the selfish logic that makes no sense, and the rage of watching your week get wiped out because someone else decided their child's cough was everyone's problem. It is chaotic, p...

Get ready to be BOTHERED as Julie Kim heads to Toronto to visit family and immediately runs into airport chaos when someone cuts her off in the security line like rules are merely a suggestion. What should have been a simple travel day turns into a slow burn spiral as Julie breaks down the entitlement energy of airport line cutters and the quiet rage that bubbles up when you are already tired stre...

Get ready to be BOTHERED as Julie Kim calls out a racist gesture that should not still be happening but somehow keeps resurfacing. Julie breaks down a moment where someone pulled their eyes back to mock Asians and why this kind of behavior is not harmless not funny and not something people get to excuse away as ignorance. She connects it to the recent Miss Universe winner from Finland who did the...

Get ready to be BOTHERED as Julie Kim cracks open the empty stocking epidemic a holiday tradition where moms do everything and somehow wake up to absolutely nothing. While everyone else is unwrapping surprises Julie and women everywhere are left staring into a sad hollow stocking wondering how this became acceptable behavior. Julie tells the brutally honest story of her husband back when he simply...

Get ready to be BOTHERED as Julie Kim unpacks the chaotic art of the regift, a realm where social etiquette goes to die and people apparently assume no one can recognize a bag of random leftovers. Fresh off her daughters birthday party, Julie is handed a so called thoughtful present that is actually a grab bag of mismatched toys with the energy of someone cleaning out their car before the party st...

Get ready to be BOTHERED as Julie Kim dives into the wild world of Facebook Marketplace, where logic goes to die and lowballers thrive. She shares the tale of meeting a buyer who tried to change the price on the spot, as if haggling in person suddenly rewrites the listing. And just when you think it cant get worse, another shopper demands she deliver an item for free even though the post clearly s...

Get ready to be BOTHERED as Julie Kim shares the tale of inviting a handyman over — while her perfectly capable husband watches from the sidelines and doesn't feel the slightest bit emasculated. Things get even more awkward when the handyman's son, fresh off dropping out of school, confidently declares that education is overrated… right in front of Julie's school-aged daughter on her day off. It's...

Get ready to be BOTHERED by the recent happenings at the Ms. Universe pageant, in which after one of the male organizers publicly berated a contestant. The ladies were not having it, and comedian Julie Kim shares similar stories that women will find relatable. 🎧 New episodes every Wednesday. 🔗 Listen & Follow Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/2I8ebbGrfwnl2tv8hHpb9F?si=s_pH4svdQauND2uPztW-rA...