{"podcast":{"title":"Aaron’s Opinion","slug":"aaron-s-opinion-2998888","podcast_index_feed_id":2998888,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5920599/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/aaron-s-opinion_1","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/9b801cb639b9f35b6dd73973659f037e.jpg","author":"Aaron’s Opinion TV","episode_count":361,"summary":"This is the podcast where we speak about critical issues in the blindness community. Help 1 person today help 1 million people tomorrow! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/aaron-s-opinion--5920599/support .","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/aaron-s-opinion-2998888"},"episode":{"title":"Blindness is not the problem with Clint V Aiken","slug":"blindness-is-not-the-problem-with-clint-v-aiken","published_at":"2026-02-12T19:01:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/aaron-s-opinion-2998888/blindness-is-not-the-problem-with-clint-v-aiken","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/aaron-s-opinion-2998888","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/blindness-is-not-the-problem-with-clint-v-aiken--69983157","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69983157/imported_775193de_ef3c_4bde_9b41_a75a9eb948bd.mp3","summary":"My name is Clinton Aiken, I am 41 years old from Miami Florida. I have been blind now 13 years due to diabetic retinopathy, and God has humbled me, a little bit about me. I do work for FedEx Ground as a package handler come, I’ll call myself, Mr. blind boss because everything I have been through the past 13 years I have bossed up about it while being blind, I have had a kidney and pancreas transplant on February 7. It will be 11 years. I went totally blind in 2013, I am big on family. I love to have fun, help people, write short stories, enjoy life, live life, and just try to be the best version of myself I can be. I live my life by a model I have 99 problems being blind. It’s not one, that is my model because if I worried about me being blind, I would not be able to handle every other problem that I deal with along with me being blind. In this journey of my past 13 years, I have defeated diabetes, high blood pressure, dialysis, kidney failure, and I am in a boxing ring with blindness, being blind it may look hard, but if you put your mind to it, it’s actually easy, I prefer to be blind rather than inside it because I learned every day. I have to use my brain 24 hours a day to do everything that I want to do and I love it, it strengthens my brain. It makes me a smarter person. It’s called muscle memory. But for the most part, I am just looking to let my story be told so one day my story can’t actually inspire someone to do better about their health, if I could touch anyone with my story or about my story, I would love to touch the rapper Lil Boosie because he is a diabetic and he has a voice with that being said I would not want him to go through what I have been through and I would just like to tell him stay healthy, keep doing what you doing and you motivate more peo…","meta_description":"My name is Clinton Aiken, I am 41 years old from Miami Florida. I have been blind now 13 years due to diabetic retinopathy, and God has humbled me, a litt…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6296,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/aaron-s-opinion-2998888/episodes/blindness-is-not-the-problem-with-clint-v-aiken/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/aaron-s-opinion-2998888/blindness-is-not-the-problem-with-clint-v-aiken.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}