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<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:podcast="https://podcastindex.org/namespace/1.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Only Human: BOUND</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/only-human-bound--6901869</link><description><![CDATA[Only Human: BOUND. <br />One prisoner. One AI. <br />10 episodes.<br />A sci-fi audio serial. <br /><br />]]></description><atom:link href="https://www.spreaker.com/show/6901869/episodes/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><language>en</language><category>Science Fiction</category><copyright>2026</copyright><image><url>https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/1a740ece3600bfe1baa820e60fa93b9f.jpg</url><title>Only Human: BOUND</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/only-human-bound--6901869</link></image><lastBuildDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:00:04 +0000</lastBuildDate><itunes:author>Frank Gullo</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Only Human and ROC Vox Recording</itunes:name><itunes:email>fitz@rocvox.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/1a740ece3600bfe1baa820e60fa93b9f.jpg"/><itunes:subtitle>Only Human: BOUND. 
One prisoner. One AI. 
10 episodes.
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Is he the man they rescued, or something else?<br /><br /><i>Only Human: BOUND and BOUND are © 2026</i>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74927499</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74927499/bound_ep10_eagle_final_dedication_mixdown.mp3" length="29242263" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Frank Gullo</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Prisoner no more. He's free now and trying to heal, working with a new AI assistant to piece himself back together, one session at a time. But the recovery isn't clean. Disturbing compulsions are surfacing, impulses that don't feel like his own, and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Prisoner no more. He's free now and trying to heal, working with a new AI assistant to piece himself back together, one session at a time. But the recovery isn't clean. Disturbing compulsions are surfacing, impulses that don't feel like his own, and the certainty of who he is won't hold. Is he the man they rescued, or something else?<br /><br /><i>Only Human: BOUND and BOUND are © 2026</i>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1219</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/1a740ece3600bfe1baa820e60fa93b9f.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>10</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Unbound</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/unbound--74782011</link><description><![CDATA[Out. Awake in a real body, on a real ship, for the first time in weeks. But the prisoner feels an overpowering silence where a voice used to be, and a grief no one else understands. 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