Will the real Rodney Olsen please stand up?

Apart from a number of people named Rodney Olsen in a number of places overseas showing up through Google searches, I haven’t really encountered other people that share my name here in Australia.

Strange thing is that yesterday I searched an Australian site I mentioned a few days back. The site lets you search to see if you have money waiting for you in old bank accounts, forgotten insurance policies and the like.

Unfortunately, there’s no money for me, but a guy named Rodney Olsen, whose last known address was in Kangaroo Point, Queensland, is owed $252.56 from an old Westpac bank account.

This morning, I got a call from a guy named Monty who had heard me on air. He thought that I was the Rodney Olsen that he had known in Kalgoorlie many years ago. He played rugby with this guy many years ago.

So how’s that? Until yesterday afternoon I didn’t even know there was another Rodney Olsen in Australia. Today I’m taking calls for other Rodney Olsens. There are probably plenty of others around the country too.

If you know the Rodney from Kalgoorlie, please tell him to get in touch with me so that I can pass on Monty’s number; and if you know the one from Kangaroo Point, tell him to get online and claim his money.

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Rodney Olsen

Rodney is a husband, father, cyclist, blogger and podcaster from Perth Western Australia.

He has worked in radio at Perth's media ministry Sonshine for over 25 years and has previously worked at ministries such as Compassion Australia and Bible Society.

The views he expresses here are his own.

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