Lithuanian Out Loud

Hi there, this is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud.  Well, we made it, here we are at episode 100!  Did you ever think it would happen?  We certainly had our doubts.  It’s been so difficult for us to keep these programs coming that many times during the series we almost stopped.  As a matter of fact, twice, I’d decided it was too much and I thought we were finished.  It’s just such a big job, creating episodes on paper, writing them out, typing them up, rewriting them, retyping them, then finding time to record the episodes, tossing out entire recordings that were too poor to air, editing the recordings, cleaning up audio, moving sound bites around so it all makes sense, adding music, loading it up onto the internet with text and photos.  It’s such a big time consumer. So, wonder why we do it all for free?  Two major reasons, one, we started the series as a tool for me to learn Lithuanian – and I still need to learn it.  The second reason is our community of listeners and all of your comments, plu