Get Krack!n’s Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney set their sights on Antarctica and climate change in comedy podcast Slushy

Kate McCartney applied to be the artist-in-residence at an Australian Antarctic base in 2012. Or at least she thinks it was 2012.

She didn’t get it.

She doesn’t remember why she applied, beyond a vague memory of studying biology in school.

“At that point I was doing comedy and I’m like, ‘What am I…