{"id":807,"date":"2019-12-14T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T17:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/festivusweb.com\/blog\/?p=807"},"modified":"2020-04-20T17:26:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T22:26:39","slug":"the-festivus-podcast-episode-5-an-interview-with-dan-okeefe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/festivusweb.com\/blog\/the-festivus-podcast-episode-5-an-interview-with-dan-okeefe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Festivus Podcast Episode 5 &#8211; An Interview with Dan O&#8217;Keefe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/festivus-podcast\/embed\/episodes\/Episode-5---An-Interview-with-Dan-OKeefe-ed1onj\/a-a202n4h\" width=\"800px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/festivus-podcast\/episodes\/Episode-5---An-Interview-with-Dan-OKeefe-ed1onj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Listen on Anchor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this podcast we go to Los Angeles, California and speak with television writer and producer Dan O&#8217;Keefe, the person who brought Festivus to our television screens by including it in the Seinfeld episode &#8220;The Strike&#8221;.\u00a0 Festivus was originally conceived by Dan&#8217;s father, Daniel O&#8217;Keefe Senior, who was an editor at Reader&#8217;s Digest. 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