Penn Street and Moses Street welcome guest Gable Mead for a Facebook Live “podcast time travel” conversation recorded in July 2025 but airing during the holidays. They open with a story about a blind child interviewing her parents and use it as a springboard into how fear and misconceptions fade when people learn blindness skills firsthand.

Gable shares his vision-loss story (bilateral retinoblastoma, gradual loss of remaining vision, and later choosing a prosthetic for comfort), plus what it’s like living with vivid “phantom vision” effects and how that can impact sleep. From there, the conversation shifts into blind gaming—how Gable transitioned into fighting games, competes in-person, and helped build a strong community of blind gamers.

Gable explains the Cento Showdown (a Mortal Kombat tournament for blind/low-vision players) and his extensive accessibility work: long-form visual/cosmetic guides created with AI image descriptions, then carefully verified and rewritten to reduce errors and hallucinations. He also shares his day job as an educational braillist, how he found it after a discouraging job search, and why the work is unexpectedly fulfilling. The episode closes with encouragement around kindness (especially toward yourself), plus where to follow Gable and find his work.

Contact Info

Guest / Project

Cento Showdown: @CentoShowdown (Twitter/X), thecentoshowdown.com

Gable Mead: @BlindsightBlue (social), Twitch: BlindsightBlue

Aftersight

Email: [email protected]

Phone: (720) 712-8856

Produced by: Jonathan Price (Aftersight)

Show Credits

Show: The Blind Chick (An Aftersight Original Podcast)

Hosts: Penn Street, Moses Street

Guest: Gable Mead

Producer: Jonathan Price

Chapter Markers

00:00 — Cold open + “podcast time travel” (Facebook Live)

02:22 — NPR story: fear fades when you learn the skills

04:35 — “X-Men” analogy + trauma, adaptation, and senses

07:02 — Gable’s story: retinoblastoma, vision loss timeline

11:40 — Phantom vision and sleep disruption

16:26 — Prosthetics as art (custom colors, identity, and fit)

22:10 — Imagining people + building mental pictures

24:33 — Blind gaming: why fighting games work (audio + mind games)

29:13 — “Real job?” + why gaming stays a hobby

31:35 — The massive MK1 cosmetics guide (scope + structure)

36:28 — AI limits: verification process and rewriting for accuracy

43:30 — Becoming a braillist + barriers in job searching

47:56 — Why the braillist role is fulfilling (and surprising)

54:41 — Last words: kindness, self-compassion, perseverance

57:07 — Creating a new game? Writing dreams (Spider-Man aspiration)

59:19 — Wrap + where to find Cento Showdown and BlindsightBlue