Green Valley Radio is an audio entertainment project exploring the history of events, music, culture, and conflict in the style of vintage radio broadcasts.
This project started as an experiment in the latter half of 2020, and began producing content in 2021 based in the year 1941. We continued forward in time since sine then and currently cover the years 1941-1945. Our 1946 content will be available in Summer 2026!
By the end of this project’s development, we hope to have a listening experience that spans 60 years!
Our long term goal is to explore the Depression Era from 1935, World War II and Post War 1940s, the Atomic Age of the 1950s, Space Age of the 1960s, Analog Age of the 1970s, Digital Age of the 1980s, and the dawn of the Internet Age in the 1990s.
We have explored sharing our content in various places, including YouTube (as both videos & live streams), curated Spotify Playlists, and even as a private Discord server at one point. Due to the complicated nature of copyrights and music licensing, we transitioned to a private and team-only project as we sorted out the work necessary for this project to be public once again. We are excited to share that Green Valley Radio is public once again!
Enjoy listening to music and news year-by-year in our immersive web app called the RadioWidget. Tune between different years, adjust the volume, and take an audio trip back in time!
We continue to develop the RadioWidget, with exciting additions to come as the project grows. We encourage you to support Green Valley Radio on Patreon, our primary support service, which allows us to pay monthly and annual fees to keep this project available to the public. If you find yourself listening to this project regularly, or simply want to see this project continue to produce a full array of multi-generational content, SUPPORT US ON PATREON!
Much like the city in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the world of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, the town of Springfield in The Simpsons, and the city in Hey Arnold!, Green Valley is largely wherever you imagine it being. It could be anywhere.
The creator of this project envisions Green Valley set somewhere West of the Mississippi, East of the Cascades and Sierras, and north of the Mojave and Sonoran desert regions. But the location isn’t important, what is important is that Green Valley serves its purpose as a space all are welcome to get a glimpse of a past.
Written by Creator & Producer Nick Seider: I mostly grew up in Hemet, California, an old cattle and farm town off the beaten path on the margins of the Mojave & Colorado Deserts. Around ten years old I attempted to build a model train layout in the garage. I found the only jazz radio station available and would listen to it as my background entertainment. There was one particular day that sort of set the feeling of sentimental or nostalgic joy I eventually wanted to recreate with this project.
As a teenager, I visited Disneyland as often as I could. The Jungle Cruise is one of my favorite attractions in the park. I love the queue music they play when waiting to board the boats, which is an emulated radio station set loosely in the 1930s in an undefined location. At that age I often thought about a similar concept – an emulated radio station that explored history through music and news.
I set these ideas aside for college where I obtained a bachelor’s degree in history. Circumstances put a lot of time into my lap in 2020. With idle time came the opportunity for old ideas to reemerge. Around the late summer in 2020 I began researching and experimenting how I could emulate a vintage radio broadcast. At the outset of 2021, we began producing content while searching for a permanent home for the project. After a considerable amount of trial and error, we ultimately decided that this project is best presented as a Web App, which we call a RadioWidget.
As of June 2026, this project is once again available to the public for free – as intended! We are in the early stages of building additional RadioWidgets that further explore the 20th century outside of Green Valley (including most of our original radio dramas). The additional content will only be available to Patreon subscribers, but our core content from Green Valley will continue to be available for free to all!
In 2020, the project consisted of three cast members: Nick Seider (Catalina Jack), Garrett Fritz (Walter Klondike), and Hannah Marks (Hannah Bourbon).
As of November 2025, the team consists of dozens of friends and interested persons all providing their time, talents, and support to bring this project to life!
Take a look at the OUR TEAM page on our website to learn more about each of us!
This project is currently funded by our generous PATREON PRODUCTION TEAM, as well as from the creator’s own pocket.
We plan to pursue small-scale sponsorships from historically relevant companies and products as an additional means of revenue for our team and our growth, but the fact is this project’s monthly and annual expenses are dependent on listeners like you!
A combination of Patreon support and small-scale sponsorship revenue will allow this project to continue developing into the future.
Using historically accurate music requires that royalties be paid to publishers, artists, and songwriters. To broadcast our content in the United States, we hold a few different licenses.
SoundExchange: This is a non-profit organization that facilitates royalty payments to the copyright owners and publishers of music tracks. Their service allows us to play music. We report monthly track listenership to Sound Exchange, and make payments based on those listenership records.
Performing Rights Organizations: Also known as PROs, these organizations are the ones that facilitate royalties to the publishers, songwriters, and musicians. For now, we pay annual licenses with ASCAP and BMI.
There are many ways that we could incorporate machine learning and AI tools to develop this project. We do not take this path for multiple reasons.
First and foremost, this project is intended to be made “By People, For People”.
Second, for the purpose of curiosity and experimentation, we have explored some ways that machine learning could assist in expediting non-creative processes (namely, managing metadata and analyzing screenshots of news sources). What we have found is that A.I. is a HINDERANCE. It slows down our production process. It requires considerably more verification checks and editing work. Most important to point out – A.I. Makes Mistakes… a lot. And if it’s between human mistakes, and the mistake of machine learning data set systems, we will gladly take human mistakes and oversights.
While it is increasingly difficult to discern or trust human made work in this growing era of artificial intelligence, I and my team can assure you that everything you experience on Green Valley Radio was researched, written, performed, edited, and published by human beings.
There is ONE item that we used for a YouTube video splash screen in 2023. We used a piece of AI artwork (built by prompts we inputted) as a reference piece for an artist to draw out fully. This was a one-off experiment, and not one that we would do again. This is truly the only creative item that touches the realm of Artificial Intelligence.
Key Credits:
- Historical News Research is conducted by Nick Seider on multiple archival newspaper websites – namely, the California Digital Newspaper Collection managed by the University of California, Riverside
- Historical Music Research is conducted by Nick Seider through the Discography of American Historical Recordings, managed by the University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Historical News is edited and curated by Nick Seider.
- All Original Dialogue heard in Green Valley was written primarily by Nick Seider, with inputs, suggestions, and edits made by other team members and friends.
- All Artwork (with the exception of the one item mentioned above) is entirely by humans. Some artwork has been drawn by Clancy Bundy. Our current project artist is Aya Stone, who has designed all art elements on our RadioWidget.