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Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

E376. Our Current Media Ecosystem is Trash - Darvio Morrow

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Media maven Darvio Morrow shares his story—from launching a record label at 16 and sleeping on studio floors to keep his dream alive, to growing up amid Cleveland’s economic decline, gunshots next door, and a family legacy tied to a great-grandfather raised by a former slave. He and Bridget discuss his nuanced take on reparations, why today’s media ecosystem is trash, white paternalism as a cousin to white supremacy, and our desensitization to global atrocities like the ongoing crisis in Iran...

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0:00.0

All right. I'm with Darby O'Morrow, everybody. Welcome to Walkins. Welcome. So good to have you.

0:05.7

Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it.

0:08.8

Yeah, I'm excited about just getting to know you a little bit more. I've been following you for quite some time on Twitter, X, whatever anyone wants to call it.

0:17.2

And you seem to be, I love this description of you as like a maven of culture and media

0:24.9

this is um my I true maven of entertainment radio music and politics I love the word maven

0:33.7

because it means you're kind of like a you understand what's, what's hot and cool.

0:39.5

And you've been doing this for a long time.

0:42.4

So before we get into any kind of topical stuff, I would love for my audience to get to

0:48.1

know a little bit about you and just how you ended up as a, you know, on your Twitter bio, ex-bio, it's media personality.

0:57.5

Yeah.

0:58.1

But there's so much more than that.

0:59.9

I appreciate that.

1:01.6

And once again, thank you for having me.

1:03.3

And yeah, I didn't really set out to be a media personality.

1:09.0

I always had an interest in the business on the entertainment side and the

1:14.2

media side. I had started in this space when I was 16 years old. I had started my first

1:22.2

company, a record company that I still have to this day. And then after I got out of high school,

1:30.4

I went to, we have here a media school in town.

1:36.5

And I went there.

1:38.4

And after that, I spent a little bit of time at,

1:41.5

I was at Urban One for a little bit.

1:43.3

I did some stuff with Salem. And I was at ESPN, Cleveland also.

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