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The Feast is Life is a podcast dedicated to NBC’s short-lived but much-beloved television series Hannibal, starring Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy. The show is not another episode analysis series. Instead, your hosts — hardcore Fannibals Dream and D.B. Mars — deep dive into references made in the show, investigating everything from the mythology behind Botticelli’s Primavera to the appeal of torture museums. Featuring special guests who bring something exceptional to the fandom, this podcast is for the fannibal ready to fall down the rabbit hole and peel back the layers of one of the best shows to grace the small screen. Each episode will also have fanfic recommendations, fanart shoutouts, and lots of thirst for Hugh and Mads. Hope you’re hungry, fannibals, because it’s time to eat the rude and come back for seconds. The feast is life – eat it and live.
The Feast is Life is a podcast dedicated to NBC’s short-lived but much-beloved television series Hannibal, starring Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy. This show is not another episode analysis series. Instead, your hosts — fanfiction writers Dream and D.B. Mars — deep dive into references made in the show, investigating everything from the mythology behind Botticelli’s Primavera to the appeal of torture museums.
Featuring special guests who bring something exceptional to the fandom, this podcast is for the fannibal ready to fall down the rabbit hole and peel back the layers of one of the best shows to grace the small screen. Each episode will also have fanfic recommendations, fanart shoutouts, and lots of thirst for Hugh and Mads. Hope you’re hungry, fannibals, because it’s time to eat the rude and come back for seconds.
The feast is life – eat it and live.
Episodes
Sep 28, 2025
Sep 28, 2025
1hr 21 min
Update -- FIXED AUDIO I SWEAR
BONUS! Please enjoy the full podfic of the Jones BBQ and Foot Massage AU, a twisted -- but delishitable -- brainchild birthed during RDC7.
Sep 25, 2025
Sep 25, 2025
1hr 19 min
EXCLUSIVE! Special guest!!! (ALSO FIXED AUDIO AND ADDED SOUND EFFECTS!) Fannibal celebrity Winston/Winston's Dad is on the Feast is Life for a raw, in-depth interview! That's right, folks -- the legend, the ICON, the WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER of RDC7's costume contest, cardboard ladder engineer and poet WINSTON bares it all at the Feast is Life studios, giving us exclusive access to juicy behind-the-scenes cosplay contest content. Gather 'round, fannibals, and hear the story of how a man with a cardboard ladder, a poem, and a heart of gold full of big dick energy conquered the stage at RDC7 and called Will Graham a whore in front of HUGH DANCY.
Aug 15, 2025
Aug 15, 2025
1hr 8 min
The delishitable second installment of Dream and DB's Red Dragon Con 7 special coverage! Hear all about how otherworldly powers influenced their photo op pose, the radical thriving of trans fannibals, and the origin story of the most epic and audacious Hannigram AU fic ever written.
Jul 24, 2025
Jul 24, 2025
1hr 2 min
Come one, come all to our table, where the Feast is Life is pouring cups of steaming hot Red Dragon Con 7 tea! In part 1 of our 2-part exclusive Red Dragon Con Coverage, we have audio recorded in London detailing our adventures, including a face-to-face meeting with Hugh Dancy, where Dream was doing shots with her tits hanging out. If that doesn't get you to listen, I don't know what will!
Jun 23, 2025
Jun 23, 2025
40 min
DB and Dream wind themselves up about Red Dragon Con 7 July 4th-6th in London! Watch them go! Special RDC survival tips from Mercedes, and the story of how DB met a real Lithuanian person.
Jun 14, 2025
Jun 14, 2025
1hr 10 min
Welcome to tonight's debate. Now, I want a bad, dirty fight! DB and Dream stage their presidential campaign-style discussion on the age-old fandom question: Who's on top in the ship? Special guest Seren will moderate this shitshow since everyone knows Americans don't know how to debate real issues without mudslinging and talking over each other. **(disclaimer)** This is satire, so listen to the whole episode before you go ballistic and cancel us!
Feb 4, 2025
Feb 4, 2025
1hr 18 min
Serial killer names: Charlie. Ed. Ed. Ted. Richard...
BORING! Y'know what's a kickass name? HANNIBAL. Why did Thomas Harris name our beloved Hanni as he did? And what other famous people and places share this demonically graceful name? Explore the origins of the name with DB and Dream as they travel back in time to the Carthaginian empire and end up in Hannibal, Missouri, at a creepy-ass wax museum. Or perhaps... the simplest explanation is the most likely...
it fucking rhymes...
Jan 29, 2025
Jan 29, 2025
1hr 48 min
Kate Bridal of the hit TikTok series "Living with Lecter" and DB Mars hosted a January 20th live stream in honor of Hannibal Lecter's recorded birthday to read his birth star chart according to the "high quality" free website Cafe Astrology. It's the Age of Cannibal Aquarius, baby! How accurate could this Cafe Astrology star chart be? Well... let's just say it warns against love at first sight! This bonus episode is the cleaned-up audio from the livestream and guaranteed to make you want to read your own Hannibal Horoscope and learn all about this cannibalistic cusper!

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Thank you! We love you more than Hannibal loves centerpieces.
-D.B. Mars and Dream
