November 26, 2025 • 8 mins
Inspired by the Bureau of Meteorology’s $96 million website, Lisa & Russell opened the phones and text lines to ask: What’s the most expensive mistake you’ve made at work?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can I just say it's partly cloudy today and a
top of twenty two degrees. I've managed to find that
out on the.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Beg you all right.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
It's made your.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Point on the on the Bureau of Meteorology website, the
one that costs nearly one hundred million dollars that nobody likes.
Everybody hates it.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
It's a mistake at work ever made.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Oh my god, ninety six and a half million dollars.
Now they're having parliamentary inquiries into it. How do you
mess things up? Have you ever made a costly mistake?
Because maybe there's a place for you in this sex
another record incredible world.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Records Aroum Russell's book of records.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
We've never seen anything like.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
We are looking for Perth's most Expensive work mistake called
thirteen ten sixty five or tech zero four seven six
ninety six ninety six ninety six.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
We were reminded when we were.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Talking about this of an incident that happened some years
ago at another person radio station.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
The man who was the.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Former promotions manager at unnamed other radio station is a
friend of ours. Paul Visualty.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Hello, Paul, thanks for name dropping my full name.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
So I could be cracked. Appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
We want to talk about a competition that was called
cow pat BINGO.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I still have nightmare. Didn't go to about that cow.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Pat tingo us through tell us what it was about.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Okay. So the program director, our lovely program directors love
to have these great ideas, right.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
The theory was, we get two hundred listeners in, we
get a venue, We put down some AstroTurf. We do
sometimes put the squares down and number the squares. Everyone
walks in gets their own little square. We bring in
a cow and the cow bring in a cow to
the venue. Yep, in the middle of the venue. We're
just going to bring a cow in and where the
cow poops is the person who wins the prize money.
(02:01):
Right it seems simple, right s Yes, me know me
being a young excited radio guy. Yes, I'll do that.
Let me help you sing zingsing for me, talking to
every farmer in Perth, finding you know, the best cows,
finding all the information about how cows poop. That's a
fun fact I still know. And cowpoop every fifteen to
thirty minutes, right, this is what I've been told, Right,
(02:23):
every thirty minutes that cow's pooping, right, So this farmer
goes and I've got the best heifer for you. She
got she poops every ten minutes. I'm like, great, So
we plan the event with the program director and all
the staff that will have an hour function. We'll bring
in the cow. The cow will poop in our next
fifteen minutes. Event's done, right, good, high five, everyone's got
the winner. Everything's great. So in their wisdom as well,
(02:46):
they decided, hey, let's not worry about food and catering.
They can just have any drink or food they want
at this venue for the events. Remember this part, this
is the exciting part where I ruined live. We bring
in the cow. The cow doesn't poop on so suddenly
(03:07):
it's a five and a half our way for a cow.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Every ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Every ten to fifteen to twenty minutes, the cow poop,
and my cow decides no, no, she doesn't want to poop.
So we're like, what do we do? So yeah, she
was his stage fright. So at this stage we've got
two hundred guests plus two of their friends, so six
hundred people at venue at an open bar. To the
(03:40):
point where I also mentioned we were going live on airs.
We had an ob truck out the front like an
outside broadcast. Every song we'd come back has the cow
poops for this time because we thought it was just
going to be a sneaky out. The bar ran out
of alcohol to the point where our walking through Northbridge
going to other venues dearly their alcohol so that we
(04:01):
could keep our guests well lubricated. This is at the
end of the event. We had to pay for an
extra high thingk because they couldn't open the venue, because
they couldn't let you know, the rest of perth in
while I've got a cow in the middle of the venue.
It was. It was a seventy thousand dollars food and
drink bill.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Oh my god, this.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Is this is the best part. The cow guy goes, oh,
we'll just do it for two thousand, five hundred dollars
an hour. He then sends us a bill for fifteen
thousand dollars to have a cow that didn't poop. What
I go back Monday morning to you guys. Yeah, he's here,
(04:45):
are eighty five thousand dollar billoo.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Come did and eventually it did poop on just one square.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It eventually did booph on one square and it was
very exciting, and everyone's cheering and applauding, said Cow for
pooping Paul times on the way to the truck.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You took three times, So Paul, how how how quickly
did your career change happen after that?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I don't work in radio anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
And we missed you too. What a great promotion? That
all good?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
All good here, thanks mate, getting.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Cow into the lift. Paul, that's just the greatest story
of all time. Thank you so much for telling it.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Thanks for having means.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
The former promotions director, unnamed radio stage.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
All right, we are looking for Perth's most expensive work
mistake today, Diane in two rocks, Good morning, What did
you do?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Diane?
Speaker 6 (05:52):
And I used to work for the company called kind
Of where made product for the body shop and lash. Yes,
and we had a lovely new machine delivered and I
forgot that we have melted the waxed ingredients the night before.
Went in at six o'clock and went to open the
machine with the solid wax and it spent these turning
(06:14):
paddles with forty thousand pounds worth of damage.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
What's that in our money?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
That's eighty one?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yeah, we could.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
We had the machine less than a month, so yes.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Ma, that's that's going to be hard to top.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
It's not lush, that's good stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Sorry. I used to get stuff from there a lot.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Yeah, it was good fun. And I used we used
to make you know all the products and things and
it was Yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Was good fun until that happened.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
And Nelly took an eye out. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Than wow.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
All right, that's eighty one grand and import Kennedy, what
have you got.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
For us the top?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah. I was working a place in naval base. It
was a iron or smoulder and all the slag that
comes out of the big kilm would be spilt out
onto the floor and we'd actually go in there with
a big excavator with a what's called a oil or
a rock breaker smash up all the slag. Yes, And
I was smashing some slag away one day and accidentally
(07:25):
lets a tip and snap the tip on the oil
and it cussed the company one hundred and twenty thousand
dollars to replace it.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That's good because in that business nothing's cheap, is it.
Nothing's one mistake and it's it's a big bill's big. Yeah,
twenty did you cover it Darren, that.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Was the sport.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, pocket money.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Did you stay with the much longer Tarn?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Probably about six months shut down
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Alright, bank Star
Can I just say it's partly cloudy today and a
top of twenty two degrees. I've managed to find that
out on the.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Beg you all right.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
It's made your.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Point on the on the Bureau of Meteorology website, the
one that costs nearly one hundred million dollars that nobody likes.
Everybody hates it.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
It's a mistake at work ever made.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Oh my god, ninety six and a half million dollars.
Now they're having parliamentary inquiries into it. How do you
mess things up? Have you ever made a costly mistake?
Because maybe there's a place for you in this sex
another record incredible world.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Records Aroum Russell's book of records.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
We've never seen anything like.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
We are looking for Perth's most Expensive work mistake called
thirteen ten sixty five or tech zero four seven six
ninety six ninety six ninety six.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
We were reminded when we were.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Talking about this of an incident that happened some years
ago at another person radio station.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
The man who was the.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Former promotions manager at unnamed other radio station is a
friend of ours. Paul Visualty.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Hello, Paul, thanks for name dropping my full name.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
So I could be cracked. Appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
We want to talk about a competition that was called
cow pat BINGO.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I still have nightmare. Didn't go to about that cow.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Pat tingo us through tell us what it was about.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Okay. So the program director, our lovely program directors love
to have these great ideas, right.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
The theory was, we get two hundred listeners in, we
get a venue, We put down some AstroTurf. We do
sometimes put the squares down and number the squares. Everyone
walks in gets their own little square. We bring in
a cow and the cow bring in a cow to
the venue. Yep, in the middle of the venue. We're
just going to bring a cow in and where the
cow poops is the person who wins the prize money.
(02:01):
Right it seems simple, right s Yes, me know me
being a young excited radio guy. Yes, I'll do that.
Let me help you sing zingsing for me, talking to
every farmer in Perth, finding you know, the best cows,
finding all the information about how cows poop. That's a
fun fact I still know. And cowpoop every fifteen to
thirty minutes, right, this is what I've been told, Right,
(02:23):
every thirty minutes that cow's pooping, right, So this farmer
goes and I've got the best heifer for you. She
got she poops every ten minutes. I'm like, great, So
we plan the event with the program director and all
the staff that will have an hour function. We'll bring
in the cow. The cow will poop in our next
fifteen minutes. Event's done, right, good, high five, everyone's got
the winner. Everything's great. So in their wisdom as well,
(02:46):
they decided, hey, let's not worry about food and catering.
They can just have any drink or food they want
at this venue for the events. Remember this part, this
is the exciting part where I ruined live. We bring
in the cow. The cow doesn't poop on so suddenly
(03:07):
it's a five and a half our way for a cow.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Every ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Every ten to fifteen to twenty minutes, the cow poop,
and my cow decides no, no, she doesn't want to poop.
So we're like, what do we do? So yeah, she
was his stage fright. So at this stage we've got
two hundred guests plus two of their friends, so six
hundred people at venue at an open bar. To the
(03:40):
point where I also mentioned we were going live on airs.
We had an ob truck out the front like an
outside broadcast. Every song we'd come back has the cow
poops for this time because we thought it was just
going to be a sneaky out. The bar ran out
of alcohol to the point where our walking through Northbridge
going to other venues dearly their alcohol so that we
(04:01):
could keep our guests well lubricated. This is at the
end of the event. We had to pay for an
extra high thingk because they couldn't open the venue, because
they couldn't let you know, the rest of perth in
while I've got a cow in the middle of the venue.
It was. It was a seventy thousand dollars food and
drink bill.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Oh my god, this.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Is this is the best part. The cow guy goes, oh,
we'll just do it for two thousand, five hundred dollars
an hour. He then sends us a bill for fifteen
thousand dollars to have a cow that didn't poop. What
I go back Monday morning to you guys. Yeah, he's here,
(04:45):
are eighty five thousand dollar billoo.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Come did and eventually it did poop on just one square.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It eventually did booph on one square and it was
very exciting, and everyone's cheering and applauding, said Cow for
pooping Paul times on the way to the truck.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You took three times, So Paul, how how how quickly
did your career change happen after that?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I don't work in radio anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
And we missed you too. What a great promotion? That
all good?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
All good here, thanks mate, getting.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Cow into the lift. Paul, that's just the greatest story
of all time. Thank you so much for telling it.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Thanks for having means.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
The former promotions director, unnamed radio stage.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
All right, we are looking for Perth's most expensive work
mistake today, Diane in two rocks, Good morning, What did
you do?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Diane?
Speaker 6 (05:52):
And I used to work for the company called kind
Of where made product for the body shop and lash. Yes,
and we had a lovely new machine delivered and I
forgot that we have melted the waxed ingredients the night before.
Went in at six o'clock and went to open the
machine with the solid wax and it spent these turning
(06:14):
paddles with forty thousand pounds worth of damage.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
What's that in our money?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
That's eighty one?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yeah, we could.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
We had the machine less than a month, so yes.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Ma, that's that's going to be hard to top.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
It's not lush, that's good stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Sorry. I used to get stuff from there a lot.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Yeah, it was good fun. And I used we used
to make you know all the products and things and
it was Yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Was good fun until that happened.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
And Nelly took an eye out. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Than wow.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
All right, that's eighty one grand and import Kennedy, what
have you got.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
For us the top?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah. I was working a place in naval base. It
was a iron or smoulder and all the slag that
comes out of the big kilm would be spilt out
onto the floor and we'd actually go in there with
a big excavator with a what's called a oil or
a rock breaker smash up all the slag. Yes, And
I was smashing some slag away one day and accidentally
(07:25):
lets a tip and snap the tip on the oil
and it cussed the company one hundred and twenty thousand
dollars to replace it.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That's good because in that business nothing's cheap, is it.
Nothing's one mistake and it's it's a big bill's big. Yeah,
twenty did you cover it Darren, that.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Was the sport.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, pocket money.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Did you stay with the much longer Tarn?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Probably about six months shut down
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Alright, bank Star
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