The calm before the carnage: On the set at Rooster Teeth Studios the night before their annual streaming fundraiser for children's medical charity Extra Life. Over the last decade, the studio has raised over $7 million from the event and hopes to raise another $500,000 this weekend. What's the worst thing that Jack Pattillo has eaten for charity? The Rooster Teeth mainstay and organizer of the annual RT Extra Life stream-a-thon ponders for a second.
“I had a pickled ball last year,” he concludes. So what's the worst thing anyone's ever eaten during Extra Life? Chelsea Atkinson, RT's director of community and Pattillo's fellow showrunner, has her suggestion. “Your beard sandwich.” “I had a beard,” Pattillo said, “and it was super-long, and I shaved it off, and made a sandwich with it.” But, hey, it’s all for a good cause. In the break room at Rooster Teeth's Austin studio, it’s the calm before the storm. In a screen in the corner, the preshow is already running, with the LA-based Funhaus team having already raised over $5,000 for charity in under two hour