You said men “choose to do these types of incredibly dangerous , not fun, dirty jobs” , but it’s important to note that men choose these jobs (in majority) not because it’s entertaining or fulfilling, but because it pays enough to provide for their family. Props to these men for keeping our country running. As a man myself, I would be hard pressed to last even a week at a job like this. Props to the men and women out there that keep our critical infrastructure running!🎉🎉🎉
@JG-lo1vb8 ай бұрын
As a Welder my problem most times is who I work with, not the job it self. Lots of assholes to deal with but the pay is good enough to take care of my wife and kids on my income.
@HorganBlatt8 ай бұрын
Kind of in the way that women don’t necessarily want to be working typically female jobs (I.e. home care, homemaking, administrative positions), but they do so cuz that’s what available to them.
@xxxSHyZAxxx8 ай бұрын
@user-bl9rc1po2f except that's not all they'd available to women so you make a moot point
@DIM0ND12w8 ай бұрын
@@HorganBlattwhat else is there to do?? What's left?? By your logic these women do Onlyfans because it's what left for them to do ?? 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ Where's accountability??
@onlyamir4ge8 ай бұрын
@@HorganBlattuniversities have more women than men now
@friskydingo90248 ай бұрын
As a guy who's been working in the oil and gas industry for 15 years, it's crazy to see the huge push by oil companies to bring women into the industry. It's so frustrating showing up to a job and having one or more women on the crew that can't easily lift 50 lbs. I work in -45 degree weather in the winter and +35 in the summer and the guys are expected to go all out but the women hang out in warm up shacks or the truck all winter and complain most of the summer.
@kimmogensen48887 ай бұрын
Hopefully people are payed based on the amount of work they do or I would make a official complaint about gender discrimination if that is not allowed in your country, which it isn’t in most. Having to do the work for satisfying a pr stunt is fine if the company compensates those who are doing most of the work.
@Jaster8327 ай бұрын
Plus they have to have special bathroom access where guys can just whip it out and go anywhere. Men are expected to be able to take a shit zero times a day or only during lunch when they can go to the facilities. Putting a woman on any kind of male-dominated job like construction, roughnecking, or truck driving just makes all the guys have to work harder and costs the company money for facilities, fucks up group cohesion and keeps guys from being able to just turn their back and piss anywhere.
@englishatheart7 ай бұрын
Companies*
@friskydingo90247 ай бұрын
@englishatheart haha edited the comment, thanks.
@friskydingo90247 ай бұрын
@Jaster832 yeah it's getting pretty bad in my industry. One of the reason why I used to like construction was because it was just you and your friends talking shit and having a good time together but now I've seen so many dudes get written up for joking with a woman when she would start cracking jokes but would get hurt feelings if a guy said the wrong thing. I personally had to do sensitivity training because a woman apprentice was non-stop fucking up on a very easy task and after talking with just her and informing her of the issue she still continued to fuck up so I did what every journeyman before me has done when someone keeps fucking up and creating more work for others, and that was yell at her in front of the whole crew. She cried and then refused to work for the rest of the day so I sent her back to the lunch trailer where she cried more and then the superintendent called me in and said I could talk that way to everyone on the crew but her. I then had to waste a weekend on my days off after working 21 days straight doing training about how to use positive reinforcement and not negative.
@TreyM16098 ай бұрын
It’s a very VERY TOUGH job. I worked for 15 years at an aluminum recycling plant. Which is nowhere near what these guys do but hard in itself. We had 1 female that worked there in the 15 years I was there and she was and still is the toughest woman I ever met. She’s probably retired now cause she was in her 50’s 20 years ago. So they’re are outliers but…. No ladies don’t go out on an oil rig unless you’re bringing a camera and a producer
@xbabu142x8 ай бұрын
Yep I've only met one woman myself on the rigs, and she was literally just one of the dudes. Butch old school lesbian, like I mean she got the cat calling started when hot women went by, and would always do the American pie milf chant when she saw a hot mom. Aside from that for an offshore crew I remember her saying "it's not about anything but respect and trust, not on some social justice sh*t, on some we don't wanna die in a petrol fire, or any other preventable issue." She even took over the screening of all women applicants when one said one of the guys were mean, and it was almost an issue. Offshore rig work is like military operations from what I've gathered, either you do it right or you die. Made sense to me.
@TheSulross8 ай бұрын
I worked as an oil field rough neck during summers and winter breaks during college years. Actually started when was still in high school. Worked both land rigs and offshore. Loved the pay, but it's tough and can be dangerous work. A lot of hours spent in misery depending on weather conditions. Offshore we worked 12 hour shifts so tripping pipe in or out of the hole for that long is grueling. I also worked the derick position (90 ft above the rig floor) for 12 hour shifts - handling the drill collars is tricky and they are very heavy pipe, so if they start to go in wrong direction they can get away. Couple of times I had to get out of safety harness, crawl across the rig structure at that height to retrieve a stand - and not goof up and fall to a very likely, unpleasant death. I do have a permanent scar on a cheek from being struck by the spinning chain (knocked out briefly and taken to emergency room to be stiched up), and when working on offshore, a co-worker that was also 19 died due to a crane sling breaking and drill pipe falling on him (I generally found offshore more dangerous than land rigs - but I enjoyed the helicopter rides and the cooking was decent - the cook was Cajun). It's one of the tougher kind of jobs one can do in civilian life short of going to war. But it tends to pay pretty well. I liked doing it and so kept going back again and again. Mom never liked it - she worked in a hospital and saw the rig accidents that would come in, so can't much blame her.
@Adrienople8 ай бұрын
In our defense, I never knew these jobs existed. I weld and am an audio engineer (sadly still a male dominated field) but i didnt learn about these jobs until my early 20s because no male figures in my life ever even told me about this stuff. I learned about welding in a college class and next thing you know I'm the best welder in the class and i do it on the side professionally now. Not saying basic welds are anywhere near as tough as underwater welding, just sayin these kind of roles arent even told to us so how would women ever grow up learning these trades if we dont know they exist *shrugs* 😕 By the time we learn about this stuff we are already out of highschool and have chosen a major in college so we are pretty committed to a path in life by then.
@dragonsman47338 ай бұрын
@@Adrienople yeah that's a good point, I only learned about jobs like being a builder, or engineer, from books. I wouldn't have known much about the fire department or police other than their numbers, if my homeschool group hadn't went to both stations to learn. I wouldn't have known about the RSPCA either, if we didn't have a pigeon crash into our garden with a broken wing. it doesn't exactly help that when you bring this up to any dudes they discourage you from doing any by talking about "gender roles" and mentioning their reasoning for why women don't do most jobs. The last part is personal experience, and probably hasn't happened to many, but judging by this comment section, many seem to hold the same mentality as those men.
@JonathanScarlet8 ай бұрын
@@Adrienople I think that partially hints at how women might need to be shown jobs like this. Firstly, not just as some offhand "ohey, there are jobs like offshore drill rigging out there" but that they actually exist and can actually be lucrative if incredibly dangerous. And secondly (which might be the more controversial part), women might need to have jobs like that mentioned and discussed very early in life, like in those take-your-parents-to-school days kind of thing (if, yknow, they still do that). Plus, they might need to be given a lot more focused training and mentorship not just for the technical skill but maybe even physical prowess to make up for the lack of natural strength and natural muscle growth men have to do those jobs in the first place. I'm not super-versed in those jobs, either, so anything like welding (such as underwater welding) might not need that kind of focus and merely just letting girls know they exist and proposing them as viable ideas. That will have it's own set of hurdles in today's world, certainly, but it'd be possible. And I could be overstating that wildly due to my lack of knowledge. But i think that bringing them up early in life will be super-important. (that isn't even touching any stigmas of women in those jobs/fields in the first place.)
@AlphaRomeoOneFive8 ай бұрын
Roughnecking is about the toughest job you could possibly have imo. We had some guys come out and set up a rig on our farm drilling for oil. Those guys worked around the clock for about two weeks drilling. I went over a few times to chat with them, and everyone of them were missing most of their teeth from getting hit with the equipment. I asked them if they all used the same dentist which brought a good chuckle. Needless to say, these are the hardest working men there are, and they make each and every one of our lives better due to their hard work. Hats off to all the roughnecks out there
@Suzuki_Hiakura8 ай бұрын
Legit curious if they get false teeth after getting home, as I can't imagine losing a ton of teeth and then going back home and being unable to bite into a steak or porkchop tbh.
@watermia8 ай бұрын
@Suzuki_Hiakura, yeah, it seems kind of dumb, if its so common, why not wear some kind of helmet or at least a mouthpiece
@Suzuki_Hiakura8 ай бұрын
@@watermia I figure because the kinetic force from accidents would cause more damage than a mouthpiece could protect against... a good enough helmet would likely limit visibility in some way, or send protective bits at the worker in a similar fashion as the mouthpiece. I imagine the mouthpiece would either fracture teeth instead of knocking them out, or disperse the force to multiple teeth beyond the point of impact, taking out more. I could be wrong though, that is just my theory.
@someAholeComment8 ай бұрын
Yeeeah, that's not why they're missing their teeth.
My husband works for a construction company as a project manager. Only men working at this company, other than a couple women in the office. Fixing sewer pipes, water pipes, bridges, plowing, land design and dirt work on mountains in our area, etc. I am often overwhelmingly impressed by his strength. The physical labor and lack of sleep himself and the men at this company deal with to get the jobs done throughout all seasons, blows my mind. I think so often how thankful I am for men who do these jobs. ❤
@michaelversace4567 ай бұрын
Then how about making it more well known so feminist thunder bitches stop pushing the wage gap myth.
@shadowpigglet8 ай бұрын
In law school I was able to use my “oil rigging “ experience to tell the professor and the class what a “Roughneck” was and did. They all said, “oh. Is that an actual job title?” I said ever see a movie of an oil rig where two guys are shoving a drill into the ground? The guy wrapping the chain around the auger is the roughneck. The other guy is the Roustabout. They die a lot. The lucky ones just loose an arm.
@phillipcoiner42328 ай бұрын
Both employees are rough necks. A roustabout is some that does maintenance and installation on gas or oil well equipment.
@GordonTurnerr8 ай бұрын
oh calm down its not 1954 anymore
@phillipcoiner42328 ай бұрын
@@GordonTurnerr what is that supposed to mean?
@DmarshMan928 ай бұрын
wish it was! i could afford a house! lol@@GordonTurnerr
@TheSulross8 ай бұрын
I roughnecked both land rigs and offshore during summer breaks during college years too. Got a permanent scar on cheek from when the spinning chain looped in an unusual way - knocked me on my butt and went briefly unconscious. On the offshore rig I was 19 - a new guy also 19 got killed due a crane sling breaking (drill pipe fell on him). Very sad. After a summer of offshore, I went back to land rigs as there were just a lot more things going on in offshore environment (just as a sampler of my personal close calls - I nearly plunged 50 ft into the ocean because of a stupid service hatch on a walk way coming off the rig floor being left open - I reflexively extended my arms out and caught myself as I was plunging through it) When I worked in the derrick position (90 ft above drilling floor) there were two or three times I had to come out of the safety harness and crawl across the rig structure to retrieve a stand - no room for any mistake there as would mean falling to a nasty death. It's dicy work for sure.
@account-12398 ай бұрын
Hey Brett, I’m 14 and I look up to you so much. By watching your videos, I’ve pulled myself from the brainwashing happening in my school. You helped me find truth and now hope that I am not alone in the world. I am so truly grateful for your work and effort. We need more people like you. ❤
@AhleaWinger8 ай бұрын
Girl same I love this so much we basically did the same thing I’m so happy that someone else here is like me as well and as young as me ❤❤❤
@M_and_M-y5k8 ай бұрын
I'm not Brett Cooper, but I'm 15. I've been homeschooled all my life, was raised by conservative parents, am an active member in my church and STILL was nearly indoctrinated into thinking that boys could be girls, that there's no such thing as gender, etc. It means the world to me to see other commenters that are around my age, because it tells me that the sane people in this world aren't just adults you see on TV. They're kids, like me. This is the second time today I've seen a person who's nearly my age comment under one of Brett Cooper's videos and I am *very* thankful for it. The hopelessness of seeing the world crumbling around you and watching all your peers say their pronouns or be constantly talking about their sexualities is hard on me. I'm sorry for rambling, but comments from my peers make me feel like there's hope for this world and tells me that being sane isn't a lost art, yet. Thank you so much for commenting. I don't know if you have any idea how isolated I've felt by the insanity of the world around us, but your comment and comments like it have made some of that loneliness fade.
@account-12398 ай бұрын
It makes me so happy as well to see other like me! Especially when I see the kids my age and younger at school being brainwashed into this ideology. They will bring up gender ideology and it makes me worry. We’ll debate and they shrug off the facts. I’m so glad there are younger people waking up from the indoctrination! ♥♥@@M_and_M-y5k
@a.me.n.8 ай бұрын
we’re the same age! glad ur getting enlightened too.
@moonsigil8 ай бұрын
As a 34 year old, this comment thread made me smile. The kids are going to be alright.
@daniellefrank25728 ай бұрын
I did this to my husband and his response is "you are terrified of the ocean." I forgot about that😂
@The_1995_8 ай бұрын
He got you there 😂
@necrobabe61908 ай бұрын
XD
@firstlast82588 ай бұрын
No fear 🤓🖕
@Xardion558 ай бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@JuniorJunison8 ай бұрын
Husband knows you better than you know yourself lol
@riverthompson24758 ай бұрын
My mom was a game warden for the state of Louisiana. She was the first female officer to retire in the state, went to assist during hurricane Katrina and recovery of the Columbus space shuttle. (She was pregnant with me but didn’t know it yet). Working day and night out in the wilderness, hours away from any help. She’s definitely someone I look up too and is the reason why I push myself to be better every day. I’m blessed to have someone like her in my life.
@Jaster8327 ай бұрын
She should push you to know the difference between "too" and "to."
@_Tony.Montana4 ай бұрын
Your mother is one of the rare female out there. 95% of women refuse to do labour intensive work or dangerous jobs. most of them they simply don't have the physical strength or mental strength. And the Feminist wants easy money usually with a marriage scam, Janet Jackson managed to get $500 million, not bad for 1 year work.
@azul291568 ай бұрын
Brett's brother: "you're clearly a professional" Brett: (sweetly&innocently misses the sarcasm completely) Lol 😂
@janet64217 ай бұрын
I guess her brother assumed she would be filming on an oil rig not doing what the men in the video were doing
@jasonbelt89547 ай бұрын
She caught the sarcasm, did you miss that?
@azul291567 ай бұрын
@@jasonbelt8954 yes apparently I missed it. Lol this isn't unusual for me....
@quastHockey8 ай бұрын
I love how all the men just know it’s bullcrap and they would never take an oil rig job
@pudlmaker8 ай бұрын
Hell, I am a 6'2" 210 pound man in oil country and I stayed away from the rigs like the plague. Saw many friends try it, but I went with distribution. Seemed a tad bit more relaxed than extraction.
@Redact63Lluks8 ай бұрын
@@pudlmakeronly riggers I've known just do it for the financials, it's like a fisher's season for them
@zerocalvin8 ай бұрын
i could go work on a fishing boat, but oil rig... i dont think i even have the basic skill require to work on those places...
@necrobabe61908 ай бұрын
I've only seen women on oil rigs in movies and most times they have the less intensive jobs like HR or some kind of management. Also I don't think having a female among a lot of men who are away from shore for months at a time is a good idea. A lot of bad things could happen being isolated like that.
@aaronburdon2218 ай бұрын
@@necrobabe6190 You do that, you'd better give her a side arm.
@AutumnBaxter8 ай бұрын
Husband works in construction, he always offers for me to come to the job and help out. I’m like..no thanks, I’d rather just make you a sandwich…would you like provolone or Swiss on your roast beef? Cause I’m flexible like that.
@scottmichael37458 ай бұрын
😂 you are a keeper! I totally lol'd!! 😂
@TrudeauNeedsToGo8 ай бұрын
Husband is a lucky man
@erikz54028 ай бұрын
The wife we all want
@PetCactusA_HarmlessLittlePrick8 ай бұрын
You're letting the sisterhood down! A century and a half of Suffrage down the drain! 😭 😭
@PetCactusA_HarmlessLittlePrick8 ай бұрын
PS: Your husband is fortunate to have you as his wife.
@asdisskagen64878 ай бұрын
As a prior military female, who has female welders, crew chiefs, and electricians in my family, this was ... cringe to watch. Doing incredibly dangerous, hard work should come down to whether the person has the physical capacity as well as the skills to perform ANY job. This trend of forcing everyone to pretend that women can do any job a man can do without addressing the physical requirements of physical jobs is beyond absurd and will eventually end in tragedy for everyone involved.
@salvo72888 ай бұрын
glad to know logical women live in this world. we appreciate your service
@asdisskagen64878 ай бұрын
@@salvo7288 ❤
@TfuckyoutubeC8 ай бұрын
seemed like you were gonna zig there, but then ya zagged. you're right.
@jacobharris9548 ай бұрын
Nah you wrong. You all strong and independent
@jacksparrow92278 ай бұрын
Imminent Monkey Paw
@treelinehugger8 ай бұрын
I served four years in the U.S. Navy, but I always feel awkward when people find out and robotically say, "Thanks for your service." But, when people learned I spent four years as a U.S. Navy Deep Sea Salvage Diver and another four years as a commercial diver, they were always surprised, impressed, and interested. Just like Brett, they commended me for the work. I enjoy sharing stories about my insane underwater experiences. I've done and seen it all, and I am so glad that I did. In my eight years as a professional deep sea diver, I never saw a female near the diving station. Back in the 70s, it would have been bad luck to let a woman on station. I laughed when the girl said she would spend six weeks doing underwater welding. You can't even get your feet wet in six weeks.
@Jaster8327 ай бұрын
Thank you for your service! Couldn't resist =) My brother's the same way about his time in the Marines. He was never deployed so he doesn't talk about being a Marine at all or even ask for military discounts, generally. We've talked about it quite a bit, so whenever I hear someone was in the military I say, "Cool! What'd they have you doing?"
@treelinehugger7 ай бұрын
@@Jaster832 I should have seen that coming. Good one.
@Jaster8327 ай бұрын
@@treelinehugger It's the internet, someone's going to troll you, figured I'd try and be nice about it at least =)
@TC4loveandlife7 ай бұрын
Awesome job sir
@Darth.Fluffy6 ай бұрын
@@Jaster832. That's actually a nice way to handle it. I was air wing and was sent to the Philippines during the Gulf War, so feel a little weird about the 'Thank you for your service' thing too.
@KDAlaska8 ай бұрын
My husband works on an oil rig. There are women on the rig, but on all the rigs his worked on they did office work, gally work, laundry, cleaning rooms, etc.
@briandaniel63548 ай бұрын
As soon as someone said to me "underwater welding" I would call BS. It is a very hard job to get in to and extremely dangerous. My welding instructor in college used to be an under water welder and he got his job because there was an accident underwater and the welding crew was all killed. People are silly.
@PappyGunn8 ай бұрын
Absolutely. Getting to be a good enough welder AND diver to get that job takes years. But guys get that call from their GF and they know they are full of it and giving them a shit test and they just go along, because women have been doing this shit for centuries.
@sewerrat76128 ай бұрын
Knew it's a difficult/dangerous job but didn't know it was difficult to get into have couple underwater welders InThe family.
@PappyGunn8 ай бұрын
@@sewerrat7612 I know a few retired military clearence divers that went to work in the oill industry. They make insane cash, but deserve it.
@vetbro_actual48868 ай бұрын
It’s not hard to get into, in fact we have more positions that we can possibly ever fill. The hard part is staying in it, because we will wash you out in as little as one shift if you don’t cut it. I graduated from ocean corps in 2017, currently work as a sat diver, also underwater welding is kind of misleading we mostly do burning not welding.
@briandaniel63548 ай бұрын
@@vetbro_actual4886 Yeah I am speaking from a Canadian perspective (from what I have learned here). The actual certification isn't that bad and as a woman you are more likely to be hired so the company can fill some form of quota. It still takes a certain type of person to be interested in going through all of the work to be able to do it here, and there are relatively few jobs up north (that I am aware of) unless of course you are willing to travel (which most people probably do anyways. It is a neiche career in anycase.
@Mila_Nelson8 ай бұрын
My husband has been in the oilfield for 14 years now. I am so incredibly grateful for him and what he does. He works away from home for two weeks at a time, has missed so much of his daughter’s life to give us a better life. I, for one, am thankful for this trend and how it is showing what a hard job these men do to keep our world running!
@roboteen8 ай бұрын
User, because they can’t. And because the very very few that can don’t want a job that uncomfortable and hard.
@frankzed76848 ай бұрын
Bless you for showing gratitude. My wife left after 14 years of being in the oil field. Stating I didn’t spend enough time with her. Never complained about the money though. It’s encouraging to see a woman stand by her man. Thank you
@Snarge228 ай бұрын
What you just said is so rare for men to hear anymore. It's like a desert out there with demands, expectations, very little gratitude, and threats of not being a man for not doing what others want men to do for them. It's like men are human-"doings" and not human beings.
@peggypalmacho91028 ай бұрын
I actually think it would be awesome if Brett hosted a “dirty jobs” series where she does go on an oil rig. Obv she would not be working the oil rig, but she could interview the men who work there and really make us all more aware of these kids of jobs and industries.
@softeyesworld8 ай бұрын
Great idea!!!
@TheTuftyOne8 ай бұрын
A youth focused version of Mike Rowe's dirty jobs. This is an excellent idea!
@TagiukGold8 ай бұрын
Mentored by Matt Walsh.
@fredfredburger51508 ай бұрын
I would watch this.
@ArielaParker8 ай бұрын
It would be awesome! She could bring Ben Shapiro along for jokes and extra commentary 😂 I really hope she does it. I would watch it for sure
@SimplyArjay8 ай бұрын
I am a woman and I work on an oil rig (not offshore). Primarily West Texas. Been doing it for 6 years. Actually perform better in my field due to the attention to detail. First female my company had ever hired. Still the only one. BUT will admit not a normal woman. Have had female friends reach out for a job due to the money and just based on their personality I shut it down. My dad also thought I was insane when I went out for the first time. But it’s been an amazing ride, very grateful and I love it!
@shanekeenaNYC8 ай бұрын
Just wondering, there have been some fires up in the panhandle, how have you and your colleagues handled those blazes?
@SimplyArjay8 ай бұрын
@@shanekeenaNYC as of right now it hasn’t hit Midland area which is where I am stationed but been thinking of everyone more north quite a bit. Luckily not a ton of rigs up there but if it shifts south with the high winds could be very bad. Oklahoma can get hit pretty hard as well.
@moonday55218 ай бұрын
Women discovering the work that keeps society running is honestly one of the few blessings of being interconnected. Thankful to all blue collar workers who keep us running!
@marchosch38768 ай бұрын
"It's like playing mermaids, but really really scary." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@thelukesternater8 ай бұрын
It’s like playing mermaids, but with a revolver and one bullet…
@FrostfireComic8 ай бұрын
I was half expecting Ben Shapiro to pick up the phone 😂😂😂
@chrystiafreelandscankles5488 ай бұрын
Ahahahaha!
@violetnorwen84918 ай бұрын
That would have been hilarious!!!
@EndertheWeek8 ай бұрын
I think Brett is such a cutie but I worry I have never seen Ben and her in the same room.
@Brittanysplittany8 ай бұрын
LOL her real brother
@jcdentoid8 ай бұрын
@@EndertheWeek If you ask me Ben would have made a much better Snow White.
@Justkelseyagain8 ай бұрын
I wouldn’t let my husband, who’s an actual welder, work on an oil rig. It’s insanely dangerous.
@jkbrown54968 ай бұрын
Forty years ago, a friend got his commercial diver quals and went to the GOMEX to work. He came back and became an accountant. His mother told me a friend had been killed by being sucked into a 6" pipe after he penetrated the larger intake and that was likely why he abandoned that career.
@PhileasFogg-qj5te8 ай бұрын
@@jkbrown5496 damn
@AldrickExGladius8 ай бұрын
It's really not that dangerous if you know what you're doing and all safety precautions are in place.
@beauregardrippey55088 ай бұрын
In front of every unfulfilled man, is a woman who swears she knows better.
@grbenway8 ай бұрын
ANd underwater welding is its own special slice of hell
@Jarvitalize8 ай бұрын
The video of guys you shared is from a fracking operation, which is land-based. Probably similar intensity to an offshore rig tho. And fun fact, those pipes sometimes get bound up and when they release they take heads off without a warning. Brutal work. Dads and brothers are right to scoff at the idea of girls doing that job.
@Hiraghm8 ай бұрын
During WWII, the American Volunteer Group("Flying Tigers") were a group of mercenary American pilots who volunteered to fight for China against Japan. Using obsolete P-40 pursuit planes, they had a 25:1 kill ratio against the enemy, although always out-numbered and under-supplied. One night they had a "bull session" and discussed what they were fighting for. They all agreed... "The American Girl". For me... that's Brett Cooper. PS - you can read about these amazing men in Colonel Robert Lee Scott's book, "God is my Co-Pilot".
@NG-VQ37VHR8 ай бұрын
Most women can't even grasp the kind of work men do. I've mentioned on several occasions to the women in my life, when a guy at work looses a finger, or most recently, and eye. They just assume I'm exaggerating. The missing finger, in their minds, becomes "somebody smashed their finger". The missing eye becomes a scratched lense, when I ask them about it at a later time. They have no idea.
@godpilled90778 ай бұрын
Men cannot grasp the concept of pregnancy and labor either.
@PappyGunn8 ай бұрын
Women do not even see these men. The guy in the hydro pole, the guy working in trenches or sewers or the roofer. Invisible. All this stuff comes for free to them. They don't need men...
@godpilled90778 ай бұрын
@@PappyGunn You are doing it right now, you aren't understanding how traumatic giving birth is. Thank you for providing my point.
@PappyGunn8 ай бұрын
I was there both time my kids were born. I can assure you the male doctor had a good idea what the concept of giving birth is all about. So how does this relate to Oil rigs? Are men pranking women on tik tock about giving birth? Has any man claimed he knew personally what giving birth is like. Go set up your stamen somewhere else
@bugstomper1238 ай бұрын
@@godpilled9077 Honey, pregnancy wasn't even mentioned in the original post. You were the one that brought it up. Of course men won't fully get it since they don't go through it, and at the same time, women who have never been pregnant or gone into labor can't understand it either. The point of the post was that women don't typically take jobs that have high risk of loosing body parts, so they wouldn't fully comprehend the risk of taking such a job. I personally know women like the on in OPs comment (my best friend is one of these ladies)--they want to see the world in rose tinted glasses, but that's the kind of world we're living in at the moment. And don't accuse me of being a dude and not understanding. I'm a woman saying this.
@Fujhipngff8 ай бұрын
Brother went to the rigs when he was 18 and messed his back up, however he made bankkkk. If you have the body for it and are smart with ur lifestyle, it’s an amazing option.
@jackieruso64938 ай бұрын
Your brother is a classic example of why we shouldn't diminish those who want to persue a college education (we shouldn't diminish the trades either) which now seems to be the norm. The trades are something to respect if someone wants to pursue that however, with the high likelihood of injuring yourself on the job that is why I don't think the trades are all that they're made out to be.
@joshua31138 ай бұрын
I have to tip my hat to the rough necks. I couldn't do it, maybe when I was younger but probably not even then.
@Lethal_Bite8 ай бұрын
@@jackieruso6493oil rig work isn't considered "the trades". It's manual labor, sure, but most of these positions don't have education requirements. Trades require certifications and apprenticeship. Like plumber, electrician, machinist, etc. Trades are still educated occupations, they just don't come from expensive universities. Trades aren't really too much more dangerous than many occupations you get from degrees.
@samu-chan8 ай бұрын
Not a flex
@nonmagicmike7238 ай бұрын
@@jackieruso6493 Not every type of college education is diminshed; the serious ones aren't. As to trades, most are nowhere as physically demanding as oil rigging.
@baileybrian95608 ай бұрын
my mom worked at the Exxon power plant as a fire fighter and she drove some kind of equipment there at the docks. she had to work during every hurricane because the plant never closed. my dad also used to work on the oil rigs and he used to have to work Offshore so i wouldn't get to see him for long periods of time because he would be traveling around the world
@FrogsofAristophones8 ай бұрын
that's wild
@ExpensivePizza8 ай бұрын
The day dad regrets saying "You can do anything you want princess" 😂
@takemeseriouslyplx21248 ай бұрын
I work as an electrician and the male/female ratio is around 30/1 and talking to my colleagues about it, they all say that it would be awesome if more women would consider our workplace, but it's just not even on a woman's list of last resort jobs, and it really sucks because it's the one thing I miss in this line of work is someone other than a bunch of men to talk to.
@austinmakinstuff66788 ай бұрын
They’d probably fit better in attics and crawl spaces too.
@Noah_E7 ай бұрын
@austinmakinstuff6678 my grandfather was a master electrician and my brother and I would spend summers in crawl spaces running wire for his crew. When we weren't around he would pick up a local drunk who would go anywhere for a handle. I remember opening a trap door in a pulpit of an abandoned church being converted to a house. A sweep of a flash light showed dozens of eyes reflecting back. Time to get old Petey under there.
@Aidames8 ай бұрын
During the communism in Hungary in the 50s and 60s, one of the biggest symbols of the workers was the female tractor driver. Women replaced almost all men when it came to driving tractors on the fields for sowing, harvesting, transporting, etc. After a while the farm owners ("alliances") noticed that the work was falling behind due to large numbers of women having to take medical leave. After investigating this a bit, it turned out that the constant jumping in-out of the tractor from warm to cold temperatures and vice versa, paired with the constant vibration, caused UTIs and other ailments of the lower body for women on a disproportionate scale. So they began hiring men again, and that was the end of the female tractor driver, at least en masse.
@EmeraldsFire8 ай бұрын
Never heard that but not surprised
@gigglingchicken84448 ай бұрын
Lol vibrations and jumping in and out of hot and cold. Well that is not how you get a uti. More likely it was holding their urine too long and maybe poor hygiene as e coli is a common cause for utis. If this was remotely true I would of had so many utis being an operator working 50+ hours a week or my female friends in the agriculture industry during the harvest season. Luckily I haven't had one since I was a small child.
@fredfredburger51508 ай бұрын
@@gigglingchicken8444 Assuming your male that's not true. Simply put the length of the urethra is a large factor in wether or not one develops a UTI. Mens urethras are longer than females. Assuming you're female you're just arguing against historical fact because it conflicts with your ideology.
@gigglingchicken84448 ай бұрын
@fredfredburger5150 I am not arguing that it is easier for a women to get a uti but those are not causes of one. It is a weakened immune system, poor hygiene, being sexually active, or waiting too long to use the restroom. Vibrations from a tractor wouldn't and jumping in an out of a warm vehicle in a cold environment won't do that. My guess is that they held it and bacteria built up in their bladder because women just can't urinate wherever they desire.
@fredfredburger51508 ай бұрын
@@gigglingchicken8444 and the reason the bacteria was able to build up in the bladder was due to the shortness of a the female urethra making it easier for the bacteria to reach the bladder in the first place
@greenmanalishi99198 ай бұрын
I think her brother knew it wasn't going to happen so he might as well be supportive.
@FastGunner78 ай бұрын
I've known riggers. Their motto was " If you want a safe job go to war" lol.
@therandomgirl34628 ай бұрын
Brett's "prank" on her brother made my day. That, and the editors' edits. Thank you.
@Samantharichie19868 ай бұрын
As a woman, I am incredibly grateful for the men who do the work that we aren't created to do. Men and women have different capabilities and skills, and this is why we balance each other so well.
@mrfilmer24238 ай бұрын
Taking Brett Cooper fan attendance. Who’s here?
@terrythe1st8 ай бұрын
Me
@FIatts8 ай бұрын
Cringe
@Retributorinfinite8 ай бұрын
Me
@xploration14378 ай бұрын
12 year old girls
@-Static8 ай бұрын
Your mother
@dchawk818 ай бұрын
We do need to be fair and acknowledge that most men couldn't do this work either.
@Ghostisback244447 ай бұрын
Ehh true
@filthyweeb90737 ай бұрын
The men who are doing those jobs don't want to do it either, they're doing it because no one else would.
@jonathanbair5236 ай бұрын
@@filthyweeb9073 Or for the big payout.....
@VueiyVisarelli8 ай бұрын
This is particularly funny to me b/c my parents _both_ used to work in the oil industry. I was really young at the time, so I didn't know the details, but I know part of it was physical labor, b/c I remember my mom saying something about her having to get under some machinery to fix it, and all the guys on the job were freaking out, trying to do it _for_ her, but she did it just fine. My dad also said several guys had a crush on her, lol...which I suspect is the _main_ reason guys aren't wanting their 20-something-year-old daughters/sisters to go out to an oil rig for 3 weeks.
@mujdawood78928 ай бұрын
Fantastic Brett , love your work and appreciation of men.
@elizabeththompson95708 ай бұрын
My husband works in fiber optics (a physically demanding career) for the first 6months he was there, it was him and a women in certain area. She had special tools and a special ladder (one that wasn’t as heavy but 2xs the price ) this woman spent more time and energy getting out of work than she ever put into her job. Everyone at his work was very happy when she put her two weeks notice in. There are some women that can pull their own in the “manly jobs” along side of the men but it’s rare and a very specific type of woman.
@katieshantz35178 ай бұрын
My dad is a retired CO, at the prison he worked at, they had a library and an opening for a librarian. I joked with my dad that I could work with him and he was like, hell no, they dont even give you a taser, just a little button to push to call up a guard. Hard pass. 😂 Leave that to the strong men folk.
@tb66647 ай бұрын
Cool two of my cousins did 10 years in Louisiana state prison 😂😂
@ryanreese84578 ай бұрын
Depending on year, timber falling and deep sea fishing compete for most deaths per capita at work in the United States. Being a cop is somewhere around 23rd on the list when I checked. As a former sawyer on a hotshot crew, I have known a decent number of people who really want to fell trees. Not many women in that category to say the least. Now I work in healthcare surrounded by female nurses, and whenever anything feels dangerous… they generally call for me. Even if it’s just a spider (true story). Equality is great apparently. As long as it isn’t dying in a traumatic, painful way covered in filth far away from home, in which case it appears a little less equality is A-okay.
@SweboySMM28 ай бұрын
lol, her brother was sarcastic AF. He was almost the worst, making is sounds like it was a good idea because she didn't get he was making fun or her😂
@jonathanbair5236 ай бұрын
The fact Brett had welded something puts her leaps and bounds ahead of most females.... Her brother couldn't stop laughing as I am sure most females would hear the lack of comfort they would have while living on the work site would drive most away... I know there is some females who do work construction jobs but it is very rare, then working in the oil fields is way more risk to one safety and physically demanding so that makes that kind of work even more rare for a woman to want to do it......
@EmeraldsFire8 ай бұрын
I think your brothers support is more from the offer sounding more like an advertising deal and knowing you are not likely to take on more than you can handle. Very good compliment 😊
@stratosfire19438 ай бұрын
I have 1 friend in my whole life who I think could possibly work on an oil rig. I would still call him a moron if he actually did it. It's a whole different breed to do that work and the people who deserve all the credit for taking that kind of job
@mrsandman53078 ай бұрын
I got into commercial diving after the marines. The welding isn't dangerous, just have to make sure you don't have something above you that'll catch methane bubbles. Its a common misconception that its one the most dangerous things you can do as a diver but its really not. And just to clarify "underwater welder" isn't an actual job, its something pretty much any good commercial diver can do. Great video though
@sadikgolden88528 ай бұрын
I was talking to my sister and she was telling me that there are things that men have and women don’t have so I asked her to name a single thing and i sware I could see tears forming up. The response was starting a company is easier for men because the field favours us more. regardless seeing her struggle to find 1 thing made laugh
@Mist3rEM8 ай бұрын
If the progress of the human species depended on women, right now we'd still be dancing around the fire in some cave in Madagascar with an average life expectancy of 24.
@TruckerWife8 ай бұрын
I mean, as a woman, I agree... you aren't wrong. And I have almost always worked in male dominated careers that required heavy physical labor like logging, septic pumping... etc.
@RogerStern-dg1pc8 ай бұрын
This reason men know everything about these jobs is because men know they have provide. Women live a pampered existence where maybe they work, maybe they won't.
@merieem888 ай бұрын
This is what you and all the misogynists want to convince yourself of 😂Agriculture was invented by women and even the tools that men used to hunt Women are the builders of the world while men only steal the glory 😂
@merieem888 ай бұрын
@@RogerStern-dg1pc There is nothing more valuable than freedom. A woman who does not work is a woman subject to a talking traitor called man 😂
@williambenner7018 ай бұрын
@@TruckerWifeyou go girl! Women working in logging is extremely rare! What exactly did you do?
@benburgess94287 ай бұрын
Oil & Gas contractor here. Longest hitch I’ve done was 3 months straight. I’ve worked through blizzards in Utah & Sandstorms in West Texas. I’ve worked in -26° and 121° I’ve met a few women in the field, but not many. If I remember correctly that number currently stands at 8. Any women wanting to do this for a career, go for it, but this life isn’t for everyone & you will be expected to pull your weight.
@PfalzD38 ай бұрын
I really love how you 'seamlessly' segue sponsor plugs in your videos.
@SWags-ly7dp8 ай бұрын
I had the amazing opportunity to tour a drilling rig in Kuwait in 2008. I was pursuing a career in petroleum engineering and my dad's coworker took me out to get a first hand view and appreciation for the dirty work. My interest was in extraction processes My grandfather and dad worked for Chevron. My dad went out on the rigs periodically. I knew early on about ExxonMobil. Lol. I also took welding in my early 20s. At one time, my family would have legitimately believed I'd research this job. My dad would have discouraged me knowing the dangers but could see me researching it. 😄
@daniellucas29688 ай бұрын
That first girl's dad was BASED. Perfect reaction.
@iCortex17 ай бұрын
your brother is super supportive, he's just like 'oh hell yea that would be cool' wholesome
@SylvainDenhez8 ай бұрын
I work as a welder at a naval shipyard, somebody died last week and we all took a minute of silence for him knowing it could be one of us. I would actually try to discourage any woman from doing that work, it's really hard sometimes and only attracts a specific type of people. It might not be oil rig work, but the constant fear of the plywood under my feet being misplaced and falling (it happened this year, guy landed on some wires and got extremely lucky) There's almost no women on the yard..... for a reason.... they aren't crazy and it's fine!
@kyleurbanik18798 ай бұрын
The underwater welding is insane. The compression decompression aspect would freak me out.
@jesshallock53468 ай бұрын
I was listening to your video without headphones and my husband (who works in the Oil Field) heard your joke and went “Exon wants what??????” 😂 But seriously, something he often says is that it isn’t dangerous because equipment breaks, but because people make mistakes, and that could cost your life.
@johanneshoogenboom8 ай бұрын
I’ve worked with alot of women offshore, but I’ve never seen one work as a rig hand (the actual labour jobs) And as far as it being dangerous, honestly it isn’t anymore. Safety is HUGE especially for a multinational like Exxon.
@sophielouise34602 ай бұрын
Funnily enough, I did actually apply for an apprenticeship on an oil rig when I was 18… I didn’t have the correct amount of hours underwater for me to qualify for the job and in all honesty, I am grateful for failing that interview. I’ve settled down now with my partner and I love my life the way it has turned out. Telling my family I applied for it was like Brett’s prank but in real life and it was nice to see my family concerned for my safety but confident in my abilities 😊
@mtronics8 ай бұрын
Not a single one of them discussed the EXTREMELY high probability of death.
@XashA12Musk8 ай бұрын
as a brother of 5 sisters myself, from the tone of your brother's voice I can sag that he was just wanted to see you fail on that oil rig 😂😂
@lillycroc1528 ай бұрын
North east France here. Last November we got hit with a terrible storm. I'd never seen like it. Trees were ripped off the ground everywhere in town. A few days later I saw a group of about 5 city workers (all men) clearing off the fallen trees opposite my house. They were muddy and wet and lifting these huge trunks. I left the warmth of my living room to cross the street and ask if one of them could remove a big rat that died just near the entrance of my building. The main dude made a friendly joke and he went retrieve it straight away. I thanked him and his crew and told them they were doing a great job - one that I definitely couldn't do. It put a smile on their faces. Not that they seemed miserable before I complimented them - unlike the bored 20 somethings who work in high street stores or fast food joints and clearly hate their jobs and treat customers with contempt.
@eriksutterlin39478 ай бұрын
As a pipe welder myself that works at a plant i can tell you that it can be a very hard and dangerous job. I work in Illinois and the weather really gets to you in the winter. Aint no cubicles where im at. Much respect to the guys off shore working two weeks or more at a time away from home.
@scenesaucers19038 ай бұрын
Thank you for having our backs..men work is hard, even for most men.
@TheCowPeep4 ай бұрын
I’m 17 years old and I work for an organic dairy farm milking cows, and I’m literally working my ass off so that I can afford the entire fee to become a Crain operator. As a girl I’ve been faced with lots of people, particularly at school, who say that I cannot do it. That just fuels the fire to let me keep going to be someone that they thought I never could.
@kaidgorringe1208 ай бұрын
"Ladies and gentlemen...we got em!" I died😂😂😂
@doxin_lover12788 ай бұрын
Your brother being so supportive, gotta love it
@ryanebrecht56518 ай бұрын
0:49 Who ever edits her videos is so good 🤣
@michaelnagel22058 ай бұрын
I always enjoy the ad-read segues. Nicely done.
@brendawilson31178 ай бұрын
You should watch "The Red Pill" directed by Cassie Jaye! It talks a TON about how feminism isn't nearly as present in today's society as it once was, and specifically has a whole section on how the careers left to men are often times more hazardous than the jobs women have. There are a ton of other eye-opening things in that movie too, but this is what reminded me of it because put simply - women aren't willing to put themselves at risk in the day-to-day for their family in the same manner men are willing to do to provide for them. (not saying women don't care - we do, just differently)
@sparrowt40825 ай бұрын
2:25 Literally her boyfriend is operating heavy machinery and talking on speaker. 😂
@Joya_Day8 ай бұрын
My father is a mechanic. Firetrucks, semis, car, snowplows, lawnmowers. He does it all. Ive helped him my entire life. He taught me so much, but always made it clear that i should NEVER want to or have to do that type of work. I will say there are some idiots in the world. Men and women. 😂 i went to walmart and it was a mess. It took two men and a girl looking at my car for a hour because THEY COULDNT FIGURE OUT MY WINDSHIELD WIPERS. I went out there asking what was going on and just took them from them and put them on myself. WINDSHIELD WIPERS.
@d.k.barker94658 ай бұрын
A good friend used to be a mud engineer in international off-shore. His schedule was 28 days on/28 days off. MEs are some if the highest paid jobs so the men are on call 24/7. When there's a big completion problem it wasn't unusal to work 48 hours only getting maybe an hour or two nap now and then. He hardly ever got more than 6 hours continuous sleep. One time he came onshore to catch a plane home. This was Madagascar. While on the rig there had been a political coup and revolution. All plane traffic was shut down. Everywhere they went there were panicked teenage soldiers with machine guns and scared to death. Very dangerous. The company finally got them out in about 2 weeks. He told his boss, "If you ever want to fire me just schedule me for that place again". For life insurance purposes International Offshore Rig work is considered a greater risk than a soldier being deployed in an active combat zone.
@jordanneal5768 ай бұрын
If I called my dad and said I was going to be working as a welder on an off-shore oil rig, I'm pretty sure he'd laugh at me too.
@jimbarrington72188 ай бұрын
Roughnecking, not "oil rigging", is a physically demanding, filthy, and dangerous job. That being said, it also gives a feeling of accomplishment. The video is "old school" and most rigs now don't do it that way. The biggest issue with a female doing the job is the physicality of it. More times than I care to remember I spent 12 hours throwing hundred pound sacks of chemicals. I don't know many women that can do that. I, however, cannot make a whole person inside of my body. Men and women are different, but neither is superior.
@Gali80f3 ай бұрын
You made me laugh so hard when you described the process of extending the pipe on the rig as "fun" 😂😂😂 You can easily lose an arm or couple of fingers there. Their actions must be super fast and super precise. Not only women, 99% of men should not even think of working on a rig. Love your show ❤❤❤
@yungifez8 ай бұрын
As a dude, I respect these real men
@barbiecox9848 ай бұрын
The scariest thing with underwater welding... to me... is that as the welder you have no control of •your air supply •your gas supply •you flame supply All these things are in another person's hand. Witch, most of the time is in a trainees hands.... again, TRINEES HANDS... plus all this equipment is so heavy reason why God gave men uper body strength and women lower body strength.
@HRHBeatrix8 ай бұрын
Brett has the best segways to ads of anyone that I've ever watched.
@Sad_VoBo8 ай бұрын
Another great video. You never dissopoint. Also I think this is the my 6th comment asking where she got that mug. After the tragic loss of my favourite mug 😂 I am looking for a new one.
@arizonahascactus96978 ай бұрын
As a former Navy Deep Sea diver and underwater welder, I can confirm its not for everybody. Unless you're comfortable with being cold, wet, uncomfortable, in the dark all the time, physically demanding and painful work, and not to mention in claustrophobic conditions at all times, then I say go for it girls. Make it through the same training without any considerations like any other male, then go for it. Just know what you're in for. There are no safe places at 300 ft of depth.
@Sammy505998 ай бұрын
“If I ain’t doing it, then neither are you. You outta your goddamn mind? 🤣💀” my response to any woman in my life.
@hurricanevolf71657 ай бұрын
My family on my father's side work on oil rigs. My Grandfather almost died on one. It scarry, and these Men are very brave to do this.
@drbjr82237 ай бұрын
Brett Cooper... more like BASED Cooper. The way you speak about supporting men is refreshing, thank you.
@elizabethshittu32757 ай бұрын
Omg Brett describing what they were doing on the rig. 😂😂😂
@TheNativeTwo8 ай бұрын
Her brother totally didn’t believe she was going to be “oil rigging.” He thought maybe she was just going to do a movie shoot there. 😂
@mariashopova90298 ай бұрын
I called my incredibly supportive boyfriend and asked him if he thinks will be a good idea for me to work at an oil rig. His response was "Of course, they're a company and would have job opportunities for your current role. Is there something wrong at work?" I then told him i want to learn underwater welding and found an apprenticeship online. I heard him spit out his coffee and I bursted in laughter. 😂 We talked some more and every time i mentioned underwater welding and oil rig, he'd chuckle and talk about safety at work. I can do home renovation stuff, plaster, etc. but I'm terrified of big machinery, even some smaller power tools, can't swim at all and I have terrible eyesight. Hats off to the people, who are able and willing to work those physically demanding and dangerous jobs.
@smj4175Ай бұрын
So right at the end Brett said "under water oil rigging, firefighting..." listing examples. But somehow the words kinda got jumbled in my mind and I heard "underwater firefighting"...LOL
@Techreux6 ай бұрын
Love the term, "going oil rigging".. didn't know that had become a thang..
@Tapunks8 ай бұрын
Men just know a lot about the Roman empire and oil rigging. And a vast amount of other subjects. Men over 40 are a wealth of practical knowledge. We may not know much on important life saving subjects like who each of the Kardashians dated in 2008, but we can give extensive speeches on less useful things like creating homes, farms, transportation, laws, order, protection, and the like. Women are not to be left out either. Women over 40 can give seminars on how to repair a tear in a babies onesie using only a blade of grass or how to cook a meal for six using a 1/4 pound of noodles and a cupboard full of spices. They can also let you know how to backstab their friends constantly and still have an almost civilized gathering with them every weekend. We each have our expertise.
@drewid89097 ай бұрын
I can now feel the Rev up for the add read. 9/10
@doh347 ай бұрын
As a former welder I can confirm that underwater welding is one of the most dangerous jobs you can have. An old co worker of mine said that he and his buddy both were attending school for it and you have to go through many tests and body strain tests. Well they both passed those tests went through the school and completed it. Well the first dive my co workers friend went on he ended up dying. It was ruled his body couldnt handle it, even though he passed all the tests and have dove and welded in school. When it came time to do the job his body failed.
@kennethhodge79538 ай бұрын
If you don't care about having less than 10 fingers, I say "go for it."
@weed05097 ай бұрын
Hahah, I love the 'nope' engineer meme from TF2
@rayok_zed8 ай бұрын
Tbh Brett, you are probably more capable than most so I'm not surprised your bro supported you
@chloemusico70698 ай бұрын
I grew up in Texas and was practically oilfield royalty 😂 I thought about slinging chains for a few years then realized I would probably get thrown off the damn rig
@ashleyhanks96088 ай бұрын
The show "Dirty Jobs" was a perfect example. He went through all kinds of crap doing those jobs. It also opens your eyes to how hard people actually work.
@mediokritet8 ай бұрын
Your brother is so supportive. Aww
@firstlast82588 ай бұрын
They are probably banging eachother
@larrysheppard428 ай бұрын
Thank You Brett, You make YT fun to watch.
@gowlerphoto8 ай бұрын
Your brother is so sweet and supportive. 😂
@brandonbrenchley43998 ай бұрын
Pretty sure you're brother was so supportive because you framed it like you would be flying out, take a few pictures for their ads and fly home. You didn't make it sound like you'd be working for several 12 hour days